So I gave blood today for the second time in my life (our school host an annual blood drive twice a year, and you need to be 17 or older to participate). It was a good time, you get to sit around and stuff and you get tons of free animal crackers (quite obviously the best food ever made). And free drinks, did I mention that?

Well anyway, I got to help out for the rest of the day and I ended up only going to 15 minutes of my English class and then all of clayworks.

Anyone else here ever give blood? Discuss some blood giving stories and maybe in my next post I'll tell you some of my puking/ passing out stories, in the mean time I'm off to work.

I give blood whenever I can, it feels good to help someone out.

I gave blood once. Its kinda scary when you see it coming out along the tube and you feel kinda weakened after. But its for a good cause so I didn't mind doing it

I've given blood a few times, but when they couldn't get a full bag out of me, they sent me to the doctor and told me I was anemic. Apparently I need to eat more meat.

I gave blood once but that was a long time ago.

I just had a blood test today..... i hate needles. so i wont donate blood anytime soon/ever

At 11/5/04 03:13 PM, itsrashady wrote: I give blood whenever I can.

At 11/5/04 03:13 PM, -Diddy- wrote: I gave blood once.

Not to rain on your parades... but you must be 17 to give blood for the Red Cross. Unless you two live in different countries and/or are getting this mixed up with getting blood drawn for medical purposes, then I'm pretty sure you haven't given blood.

At 11/5/04 03:14 PM, Professor_Rhythm wrote: NO INCENTIVE AT ALL

sorry you think that way. The reward for me is that I'm helping people out, but for some of my friends it means they can be the cheap drunk on friday night. Anyway, you can give direct donations to people, that would allow you to meet the person who's life you save, but on average one pint of blood saves about 2 or so lives. That gives me a good feeling and helps me make up for being an asshole.

At 11/5/04 03:14 PM, Jen_the_Great wrote: I've given blood a few times, but when they couldn't get a full bag out of me

I know what you mean, someone who was giving blood today couldn't get a full bag for some reason or another. And then another person had veins that were too small for them to be able to do it well enough.

At 11/5/04 03:15 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: I'll never give blood, here are a few reasons why

I'm sorry to hear you can't forgo a small amount of pain and get over your fear to get blood drawn. I'm afraid of needles and that sort of stuff too, you should see me on the table, I'm practically shaking before they give it. It didn't help that the lady missed my vein the first time, so she had to adjust the needle to find it. I usually try not to let my fears dictate what I do, and for the most part I've been able to triumph over them, just work at it, eventually I'm sure you'll be able to give blood at least once. As for the whole Hitler thing, I don't care. Just because the life you save is evil doesn't make you any less of a good person for giving the blood to save it, in fact, I would say giving blood to save someone even if they were an abomination to the human race makes you a much better person than 99% of humans.

At 11/5/04 03:23 PM, mastershaked wrote: I respect your decision not to give blood, but this is the excuse is totally ignorant.

but he's right.

His blood COULD save the next Hitler.

You have opened my eyes. I won't do anything to help out ANYONE from now on 8-)
In fact I think I'm going to find Zeroaslimit and kill him, just in case.

At 11/5/04 03:26 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: I am a Nihilist

you're an idiot :o

sorry

At 11/5/04 03:15 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: I'll never give blood, here are a few reasons why:

Man is there anything you aren't afraid of?

I know I should give blood, I really should. And the only excuse that I have not to is that I really don't like being stabbed with pointy things and bleeding into a bag. Not the best of reasons to not do something, but it's all I've got.

As to the anemic thing...yeah. Eat more red meat. I was anemic a while back (like...14 years or something), and my mom fed me red meat for a month. Best month of my life.

At 11/5/04 03:27 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: 10) It would be totally selfish, I would only be motivated by my own need to feel good for helping someone. (This is only a biggie if you agree with Kant. I don't, but I still see selfles desire as a selfish thing).

the more you talk, the more a moron you sound :o

Excuse me for sounding a little dumb here, but how do they actually test whether people's blood is safe or not; i.e. whether it is HIV infected, etc.?

Do they check the individual and then withdraw the blood, or do they take the blood and test it at the lab?

It seems puzzling to me - at contraceptive clinics, they only test for HIV a certain amount of weeks after you have engaged in unprotected sexual activity, because it takes about that long to propogate itself and be detectable. Does this mean they incubate the blood they withdraw for a number of weeks after they extract it, to test for this?

Sounds like a very complicated procedure to me if they do...

The only reason ive ever given blood is for tests.. And everytime ive done it i hated it. Its not fun having a needle stuck in your arm and watching your red red krovvy seep into a tiny vial..

I'd give blood if they'd let me. I'm too young, I think.

At 11/5/04 03:31 PM, mastershaked wrote: I see where you are coming from and I actually think we hashed this out a few months ago (to lazy to find the thread). I'm just saying that ALL of our decisions can cause the future to have a drasticly different outcome. If I decide to take my car or my motorcycle to work, if I eat a pizza instead of a steak, if I study hard for an exan exam or blow it off; all of these things could drasticly change the future in ways that we cannot predict. My question is why do you make a distinction between giving blood and every other critical decision in your life?

he's beyond help, don't talk to him :o
He'll live his life thinking his actions have some sort of real importance, when in truth he's just a slimy little tard like the rest of us. Just the fact that he brought this up as an argument for anything should tell you enough about him so you don't want to touch him.
Let him be a "philosopher" if he wants :o

I'm A Rh+ but my blood doesn't carry sugar correctly so I can't donate.

I'd encourage everyone who can give blood to give blood. Hey, it's a free cookie right?

I know people who give blood and needed blood and I wish that I could give. Both of my parents have given more than a gallon of blood and my father has given more than two. It's so important.

At 11/5/04 03:15 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote: The blood could save the life of the next Stalin or Hitler

So, you just go out, get yourself AIDs, and somehow trick them into taking your blood. That way, it's totally a win-win situation.

At 11/5/04 03:44 PM, mastershaked wrote:

Yeah, I'm just trying to make this place better, one post at a time. You probally know much better than I that you cant change people around here.. Well, not without an adinistrate button anyhow.

believe me, mods are the LAST people who can change someone around here :o
some people are nutjobs.

At 11/5/04 03:45 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

For the man who wondered why I don't do this with everything. I do, I always choose which option I preffer at that time due to my lack of moral code.

-.-
in short: ZeroAsALimit, like 100% of the people on earth, does whatever he thinks his right, but in the limit of his own laziness.

at least don't act like you're different or better, just flat-out admit that you're lazy.

see, not difficult.

At 11/5/04 03:59 PM, ZeroAsALimit wrote:

I fail to see what makes me a "nutjob" though.

you know very well that I was refering to your dumbass comment on saying you don't give blood because you could save the next Hilter. For all you know, you could also save the man who would save the world from a Hitler.
seriously, never bring that up again to justify not doing or doing something, because you deserve to be smacked, and you'll see that getting smacked isn't fun :o

everything is "meaningless" as far as "the world will end eventualy, we don't have a purpose blalbla" but let me tell you that everything is meaningful when YOU benefit from it, I'm sure.
It means you get what you want >:o

Chocolate is tasty.

furthermor, you're still living EXACTLY like everyone else, doing what you think is right for YOU, not for everyone else but simple YOU. You're as egotistical as all of us, and you act exactly the same, the only way people benefit from your actions is when you decide that giving out to charity will make you feel good enough so you do it, but in truth you don't give a shit and you KNOW that you'd have to be much more into the whole charity thing if you wanted people to really believe you actively fight selflessly for it.
but you don't.

you suck, sorry :o

At 11/5/04 04:12 PM, poxskoo wrote: For all you know, you could also save the man who would save the world from a Hitler.

.......... Pfffft you.

Everyone knows Alec Baldwin would never need a blood transfusion.

i cant give blood im only 13

I gave blood a few months ago, but since then I've been taking loads of hard drugs, having sex with diseased skank whores, having butsecks with loads of people I don't even know often while blacked out on whatever I'd just injected my arm with, stabbing myself with rusty nails just for fun, and a bunch of other stuff I can't bring myself to mention.

At 11/5/04 03:11 PM, Evark wrote: Anyone else here ever give blood? Discuss some blood giving stories and maybe in my next post I'll tell you some of my puking/ passing out stories, in the mean time I'm off to work.

Can you tell us some puke passing out stories?

At 11/5/04 04:38 PM, Edric_the_Navigator wrote: Can you tell us some puke passing out stories?

Glad you asked, now that I'm back from work, The Incredibles (awesome movie, I recommend it to everyone), and off-roading in my friends Bronco, I'm good to let loose with some stories.

The first one is from last year when I first gave. This kid was sitting there and he told us that he was fine after we told him he looked pale. Then he leaned over and rested his face on the girl next to him. (Dialogue mode... go!)
"Cut it out Ben."
"I mean it, stop."
"BEN!"
"C'mon, people are starting to stare."
"Ok, I'm going to get up now..."
so she starts to get up and he keeps leaning on her and then just falls over. Everybody thought he was joking about the whole thing while he was really unconscious. The girl of course felt really bad, because she was volunteering and should have noticed that and helped.

And then today another girl (funnily enough the sister of the girl in the last story) looked over to the people on the other side of the table and just randomly said "I'm sorry guys" and then leaned over and threw up all over the place. If I hadn't been light-headed still from just giving blood I probably would have moved away or something, but at the time I just sat there wondering why that didn't bother me in the slightest.

There's another passing out story, but its not all that interesting (I didn't get to see it close up and first-hand). Hmm, I think I might ask peoples' opinions on off-roading, because doing it in a completely stock 80's bronco is absolutely awesome. We stalled out after going through this huge puddle and almost got stuck about 2 miles from the nearest road and about 8 miles from our other cars. As it is we think he fucked up his pistons.

At 11/5/04 11:59 PM, Evark wrote: As it is we think he fucked up his pistons.

Dual update:
-We do not know what happened to the Bronco. It is yet to be fully fixed. He is going to put it back together and bring it to a mechanic, as this is beyond his level of automotive knowledge

-I got my blood donor card (it looks cool and having my name spelled right on the card is a huge plus).

http://www.redcross.org/ for more info on all this sort of stuff.

At 11/5/04 03:29 PM, BazzMann wrote: Excuse me for sounding a little dumb here, but how do they actually test whether people's blood is safe or not; i.e. whether it is HIV infected, etc.?

Do they check the individual and then withdraw the blood, or do they take the blood and test it at the lab?

They test the blook at the lab... It's by law...

Bumped because I will be giving blood tomorrow for the third time in my eligible life... making me better than about... 99.999 % of the population.

All of you are misers when it comes to draining out some fluids. Anybody else have any blood giving stories or experiences?

I don't need to give blood. Im ab positive.