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I wasn't aware of all the *bloody* restrictions!!!

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(thefaxmachine black country fodder, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:49, archived)

thanks

your point?

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jimis completed the '90s, now attempting the next level, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:51, archived)

edit:oops wrong reply button.

moved

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Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:59, archived)

Edit: I'm starting a GAY BLOOD BANK!

We will only accept blood that's contaminated!

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Grampa, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:01, archived)

should have spent less time giving

out other bodily fluids.

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Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:06, archived)

Opps:Replied correctly to the wrong reply

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jimis completed the '90s, now attempting the next level, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:03, archived)

Even worse in Australia

They won't accept blood from anyone who's lived in the UK. Mad Cow disease, ya know.

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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:51, archived)

What exactly is wrong with those things?

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Grampa, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:52, archived)

If I ever need blood, I hope it would be contaminated

with SEXY bits

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mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:52, archived)

...but...but...but

....you're already full of sexy ^bits

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bilbobarneybobs I'll be 14 in b3ta years soon., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:57, archived)

i like black pudding

they use blood for that

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op op op op op I stink therfore I spam, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:54, archived)

does it have the aids?

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Grampa, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:55, archived)

mmmm deep fried aids

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prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:59, archived)

Mmm black pudding

Yum!

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Tribs 🦇 ↓ dn ʎɐʍ sᴉɥʇ ↓🦇, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:55, archived)

"He's lost 4 pints of blood, GET THIS MAN SOME BLACK PUDDING!"

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theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:56, archived)

STAT!

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barryheadwound Mul-ti-pass? Multipass!, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:09, archived)

What about straight guys who have had sex with men, who themselves have had sex with a woman who once shagged a guy who was a practicing gay?

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:54, archived)

~~practicing~~ practising :p

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:55, archived)

I don't get it

is it a pun?

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:00, archived)

no, sorry

just pedantry :)

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:01, archived)

Pedants generally know how to spell though

ZING!

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:02, archived)

huh?

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:04, archived)

Practicing

1. To do or perform habitually or customarily; make a habit of: practices courtesy in social situations.

Practising
1. A made up word.

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:07, archived)

Online dictionaries aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Practise - verb
Practice - noun

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:09, archived)

well I like my American style spelling better

if it's wrong I don't wan't to be right.

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:14, archived)

it's very wrong, especially on b3ta ;)

I bet you do the same thing for licence too don't you :p

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:17, archived)

Nope that's one word my dyslexic brain recognises in the correct spelling

it looks wrong with the 's'
But now that you are questioning it both spellings look wrong to me.
Bugger, now I have to re-learn how to spell.

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:21, archived)

haha sorry :)

actually licence/license bugs me a whole lot more than practice/practise, which is still nowhere near as bad as the American pronunciation of harassment.

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:28, archived)

hehe.

two men trying to get gay sex right before the finals!

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Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:11, archived)

Phwoar!

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:13, archived)

You have brought shame upon the House of Pedant

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Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:09, archived)

I think not :p

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:10, archived)

I thought the blood transfusion after 1980 thing was anti-cjd

and that it was because it had to cover the previous 20 years, but the cut-off hasn't changed.

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:54, archived)

They tell you all this when you go to donate

They also tell you that you might develop a bruise. What they don't tell you is that you might have a big red mark for weeks, in a place that makes it look like you're on smack.

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:56, archived)

I get confused by this every time I see it

There has to be a good reason why it's considered necessary but I just can't get my head around how it is justified and not considered discrimination.

I am almost as likely to be a risk as any other sexually active person, even gay, I thought we'd got rid of the 'Aids is a gay disease' nonsense many years ago?!

Edit: Ah, just followed the link, it's raising the same confusion.

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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:57, archived)

The list of restrictions on giving blood is huge

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:00, archived)

I know, I used to donate regularly

Never stopped wondering though

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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:04, archived)

I only started recently

It wasn't a very good experience but I'm going again

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:07, archived)

^This. Hard.

I don't understand why they don't just get all the blood they can, and then test it all, rejecting the bad blood.

They say they test it all for HIV and hepatitis anyway before they use it, so what's the problem?

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Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 15:58, archived)

the tests aren't 100%

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:00, archived)

aren't

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:02, archived)

hehe

[edit] glad we agree :)

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:02, archived)

Damn Ninja Edits

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:04, archived)

HIV tests aren't very accurate

And it can take months to show anything even though you may be HIV positive.

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:02, archived)

yeah

that's how they got my auntie.
Most of the south west Porn business was put on hold for months!

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:03, archived)

You'd think that they could easily just not allow

anyone who has had unprotected sex during the previous x months (however long it takes to have an accurate result) from donating, regardless of sexuality.

I'm sure if they phrased their rules better then they could still block people who are high-risk without appearing homophobic.

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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:46, archived)

I'm pretty sure you could, I'd agree

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Jessie © needs pirate name suggestions, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:49, archived)

I'm pretty lazy and should have given blood

didn't realise I wouldn't be allowed to.

However, there are people who have donated so much blood that when they need a transfusion, they get their own blood back. That would mean that all those excluded would not be afforded such a service.
Can I give blood just in case I need it later?

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Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:03, archived)

It only lasts a few days.

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jimis completed the '90s, now attempting the next level, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:05, archived)

The swine flu?

Thankfully.
Is it transmittable through seminal fluid?

edit:oh the blood. They have like special gold members card or something. I know people who worked in blood, and were. You never know when a lot of your own blood could come in handy.

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Holly Would long wheel based tranny, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:08, archived)

Not true

Plus, unused blood gets frozen or split down into other useable parts

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My point, I just seriously didn't realise all the restrictions. Even though they say they screen all blood, their tests aren't 100%, whats to stop someone donating blood (even though they are gay but do not disclose this)? What are the consequences? Do the blood service just rely on honesty of the donor???

(thefaxmachine black country fodder, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:04, archived)

It's a crime for one

But yes, it relies on honesty for the most part

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Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:06, archived)

yes

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jimis completed the '90s, now attempting the next level, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:06, archived)

Pretty much, yeah

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Barbarossa is not my real name, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:07, archived)

I still give blood* even though I technically break one of those restrictions

I simply don't believe it legitimately discounts me and I have very rare blood.

*though I haven't managed to get around to it in a while

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Kerry told me he'd never tell anyone about our rondezvous,

I feel cheated!

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:10, archived)

I even saw the photos

You don't have to deal with the tears each evening you don't call though, SHAME on you

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you should have seen the tears during

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:18, archived)

The lesbian / gay / bi society got the blood donation service banned from Fresher's week at Birmingham uni because they claimed they were discriminating against homosexuals.

This is pretty selfish really. The people who need transfusions are generally in a pretty bad way already and the last thing they need or deserve is a transfusion-aquired infection.
I know the rules seem strict but then we have a duty to ensure that everything possible has been done to make transfusions as safe as possible for the recipient. After all, if you needed a transfusion wouldn't you want this to be so?

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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:30, archived)

Also I got my 10 units badge the other day. Woo!

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2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:31, archived)

shit, you gave blood after 5 pints?

for shame!

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:33, archived)

I usually have that by noon

then again there are more and more units in a pint of lager these days.

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Laird Dave Draws Now charges to take off his clothes., Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:35, archived)

I don't think it's selfish

If you want to take the risk out of it then you just don't accept blood, the rules are suggesting that a sexuality has some bearing on associated risk- it certainly CAN, but that swings both ways...so to speak.

A heterosexual person who has a risky sexual lifestyle is much more of a risk than a homosexual one who is in a safe and consistant relationship, to suggest otherwise on no other information than their sexuality IS discrimination.

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there is no such rule for bone marrow

i think the logic there is that the need for it is SO high that it cancels out the percieved risk.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:44, archived)

i'm not allowed either...

as i'm too skinny.

although i'm not THAT skinny, its just that they rely on your bmi, which isn't that accurate a measurement.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:34, archived)

they dont want mine either

but I got one in before they made the rule, so it's a moral victory for me. I have a blood donor card even though I'm not allowed to give blood.

(gtfomh, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:37, archived)

My blood was refused on the grounds that I had been in Africa south of the Sahara

Whether I'd had sex or not was not even asked.

Maybe they thought as AIDS is so rife, the drinking water might have been contaminated.

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Flowerpot No longer has the vapours thanks to DTH, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:42, archived)

i should hope not

seeing as aids doesn't work that way.

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ms morbo lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 16:46, archived)

I bet you breathed the same air as one of those sickos at some point

You'll be infected for sure.

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i agree

this is total crap - so my blood is no good as i've had sex with another man - but if i were a woman that would be fine - bloody stupid.

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Rev. Jesse. broke his ankle, Tue 27 Oct 2009, 18:27, archived)