Poll: Donating Blood
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They don't let you give blood if you've had cancer? Well there goes my responsibilities...Lionsfan said:
Anyway, yeah you should definitely give blood, although you aren't "killing 3 people" if you don't. I get stuck about twice a week to check blood counts, it's gotten me over my fear of needles, so if you donate often it'll help you too =) But giving blood causes some people to pass out, so if that's that case you probably shouldn't...
Also, it's unfortunate that gays can't donate, I know they are paranoid about letting AIDS and stuff like that into the blood supply (as they should be), but they really should just test them like everyone else and then let them give if they wanna give.
I can't explain it but I just don't feel comfortable with giving someone my blood. If it were a case of they would die if I (and by that I mean I was the only person who could) didn't donate then I would but apart from that no but I congratulate those who do.
As for the slogan, that's just stupid. You're not actually killing them, just because you aren't donating that doesn't mean there's no chance of them getting blood. It seems wrong to me that people are trying to use guilt trips to make people donate.
As for the slogan, that's just stupid. You're not actually killing them, just because you aren't donating that doesn't mean there's no chance of them getting blood. It seems wrong to me that people are trying to use guilt trips to make people donate.
I tried to donate blood but they wouldn't let me because i lived in Germany for 6 years and were worried about "cross-contamination," I was in Germany for fuck sakes! I wasn't spending the summer in the rainforest!
If only you knew this areacrudus said:
Either they're a catholic anti-gay extremest
a pothead wanna-be anarchist (drink, cut-school, smoke pot, think they're "cool" and rebelling in an original way)
muscle-headed jock that ONLY talks about parties and sex
a wanna-be gangster
or a well minded "nerd" (even though I don't like that term) that's generally depressed
and that's most of the people here
sure there's some that break the flow (like me) but it's so few and so rare that it's actually annoying...
Yep, you were right. Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Kai, episode 13, for this gif.Trivun said:
I believe the subs for this particular series are far better than the dubs, unless they actually got some good voice actors to redo it >.>
Oh, and try using aliceblue, it is even harder to notice. Except in quotes, of course.
Unfortunately, that doesn't quite seem to be the case over here. They do thorough checks of all the blood that is donated. So it does seem quite homophobic, at least in the male partnership field.Gudrests said:
I'll have to ask them next time I go to donate blood, maybe they can clear up this little exclusion of a group that could donate...
Funnily enough, they allow female homosexuals to donate blood, just not male ones.Pirate Kitty said:
And of course, they also bar you from donating for 12 months if "You have had oral or anal sex with a man who has had anal sex with another man".
12 months. Not forever. If it was an STD, I'm sure it wouldn't just feth off in 12 months >.>
Sounds like male homophobia, with a tacked on excuse for females ¬.¬
I don't go out of my way to give blood, but if I see they have a station set up in a church hall(or whatever)whilst I'm out and about, I go in to see if they're interested in what I've got.
I think it's a nice(and not too difficult) thing to do.
I think it's a nice(and not too difficult) thing to do.
I would give blood, but if you get tattooed or pierced I think they won't let you donate for a while, 6-12 months, maybe more.
I can understand why, but I think it's kinda similar to the fact that they won't let you donate blood if you're gay, as if any practise that deviates from the norm makes your blood into poison..
I can understand why, but I think it's kinda similar to the fact that they won't let you donate blood if you're gay, as if any practise that deviates from the norm makes your blood into poison..
I wouldn't donate because the last time i've had blood taken i almost fainted. And it was just two SMALL vials (i'm sure it about 100 ml in total, or less than that.) When the second vial was half full, the blood stoped dripping in and i almost fainted. So, no i don't think i would donate. Also, that slogan sucks. Trying to built trip people into doing this is not the right approach.
