I'm in, but only because Spackerman assures me that my small upfront contribution will help him retrieve a very large and valuable spleen from his home country.
I'm in because I feel bad about the 911 joke.
You know, if it weren't for this country's backwards gun insurance policy, this never would have happened. In every other industrialized country, guns are treated as a public good, not a private expense.
On preview, I may have misread Becks' post, but I'm posting anyway.
I owe the world a couple of pints of blood anyway. My best wishes to poor Brian.
2: Honestly, some people.
(Of course in the context of that thread, that comment was an 11 on the aptness scale.)
You can always chop it up, toss it with olive oil, season with salt and pepper, and roast it. It's also a good vegetable to toss into mixed vegetable curries. (Drat! Wish I'd thought of that with my green curry.)
Oh boy! Wrong thread. I'm a genius.
Not at all, RFTS. My spleen is now delicious.
8 donates the blood of funny, public spiritedly.
I just counted and I have 22 bloodbank t-shirts. These things add up as you get old. Now I suppose I could start refusing the free t-shirts, but there does seem to be some value in the symbolic reciprocity of caritas, it would feel as churlish as refusing to accept a drink after you have bought one for somebody else, and it is advertising.
Because I wear them everywhere. I long stopped asking myself exactly why I should get "all dressed up" to go to buy some celery or get the oil changed. Weddings & funerals are exceedingly rare, and I have enough shirts to cover jury duty.
I suppose there is some kind of pridefulness involved, which I will have to overcome with consistency, by wearing my white sleeveless pocketless t-shirts with cheap red lettering to whatever weddings and funerals might improbably arise.
Incidentally, damn the oppressive capitalist state that demands by law that I look "nice" to condemn a person to trial, prison or death.
I've never gotten a shirt in exchange for my blood. Only fig newtons.
I feel guilty that I don't donate blood. I'm squeamish and don't like being light-headed. But still, I could suck it up and do it anyway. "Suck it up". Heh.
You don't have to donate your own blood, heebie.
You're awesome, bob. I actually really enjoyed the sensation of donating blood the one time I did it, but it turns out I can't do it anymore because of my Condition.
I feel guilty for not lying about not having had sex with men since 1970 or whateverthefuck. I'm not really kidding, either; the bigger thing to do would be to lie but every time I read the little form, the smaller cerebrocrat takes hold and says, fine, I'll just keep my fag blood then, fuckiz. Victimhood: more delicious than fig newtons!
I'm sure Brian would appreciate it if more men had sex with each other on his behalf.
but it turns out I can't do it anymore because of my Condition.
You're pregnant!
I can't give blood either. Too bad. I'm still trying to parse 'bro's double negative in 16, in other news.
Sell blood and donate the proceeds to bootstrapping a class action suit against attempted muggers.
Fuck that. Give the muggers job training! And, you know, stern talking tos! And arguably jail sentences, but trying to obey the prohibitions against any & all in the post there.
I'm kinda there with 16, but I didn't want to whine about my second class citizenship when, you know, a guy got shot.
Give the muggers job training
i would say, first find him and treat him as he did to BB, i mean shoot him twice with spleen removal and a complete recovery
that would teach him, the mugger
if BB would have died, knock-knock-knock on wood, request his life, i'd say, the mugger's
i'm curious too what Condition it might be
condolescences anyway
i had a condition of coffee deprivation today and slept all day intermittently
24: read if you (yourself) between the lines you can get there. It's a common condition.
Stras has an Anal-Cranial Inversion.
Stras has Ebola, people. EBOLA, PEOPLE.
"Ebola People": might be a slightly trite band name.
i think i wrote here sometime ago that people were recruiting at our uni during that ebola outbreak
just to think about it, i could be long dead if were recruited then
coz i really thought about it like i'll see Africa! etc
strasmangelo jones: setting up your easy punchlines since 2007.
Heebie, go give blood. You don't have to watch, and you can tell them you'll get lightheaded before they start and they'll lie you all the way back and make a fuss over you. It's sort of nice.
I can't give blood any more either, unless I lie. Sigh.
30: setting up easy punchlines is a Condition? Oh, fuck.
Best wishes to Brian. I'll make a contribution.
Re: blood, I refused to give for a few years in Solidarity With My Queer Brothers. I started back up eventually because people need blood despite homophobia, and I'm O neg and apparently have magical super clean blood they give to babies and cancer patients. There's some extremely common virus or antibody or something that I don't have.
The irony is that I have to lie to get them to accept my blood. Yes, I spent 6 months in England, but I don't have BSE, you idiots, because I'm a vegetarian. Yes, I've slept with men who've slept with men, but they got tested and I got tested, and I've been tested since. Genius system you've got, Red Cross.
Yeah, last time I checked, I too would have to lie in order to give blood.
On Saturday, I worked a benefit show for the widow of a local musician who got stabbed recently at a gig out of state. It was very heartening, lots of stalwarts of the punk community came out, plus lots of kids. And plenty of people went above and beyond the $5 cover to donate extra. There was a great turnout even though the venue it was booked at had been forced to change 8 hours before showtime.
May Mr. Beutler's benefit appeal be similarly successful.
I just dropped in to see what condition Stras' Condition was in.
Is it any 6 months in England that prevents you from giving blood or a particular time frame?
A friend of mien couldn't give blood, because she'd been to China before 93. This was a temporary thing though I guess she had to take certain drugs while there, and it takes a couple of years to get them out of your system.
I love the "Have you ever exchanged sex for drugs?" question. Does alcohol count?
Sometimes I wish I had to lie. I try not to answer too quickly. I guess my boring self will be bleeding for all you degenerates forever.
Yeah, last time I checked, I too would have to lie in order to give blood.
Same here. Having had jaundice eight years ago does not mean I have viral hepatitis now. Especially since it was a side effect of mononucleosis.
My veins collaps upon needle insertion, so I can't give blood (you should see the bruise I got last time). I keep thinking I should sign up to be a bone marrow donor as karmic penance, but it's supposed to hurt a lot and I'm a coward.