Do you give blood?

[RedinSweden]

Having dished out a pint of premium strength 98 octane RiS blood yesterday, i wondered how many on here are regular donors. I get a nice drink of juice, a reindeer sandwich and a scratchcard for my troubles. last time i won a tenner.

[Paulie Dangerously]

I did once because an ex girlfriend hen pecked me into doing it. I haven't since

[JohnnyH]

I used to give blood in Pelican House in Dublin back in around 1991 as they'd give you free glasses of Guinness once you were done. It was two half pints you’d get, and the nurses used to take turns serving, so you could just keep going up saying you’d like your second glass please to the new nurse on shift as they rotated it every 20 mins or so. Great days and a free way for a student to get pissed as having lost a pint of blood it didn’t take very long for the head to start spinning. Haven’t done it in years though.

[Lurtz]

I cried blood last night if that helps.

[odris]

I don't but i feel i should.

[She Knows It]

I'm not allowed to give blood because I've received blood products that might have been infected with CJD. It's comforting that the NHS didn't have to much of a problem giving me the bloody stuff in the first place, but I'm not allowed to pass it on.

[odris]

Just did the online test and i am good to give blood, go me.

[Lucky Pierre]

If I got a reindeer butty every time, I would give blood.

[Duncan Clench]

I'm not allowed to give blood because I've received blood products that might have been infected with CJD. It's comforting that the NHS didn't have to much of a problem giving me the bloody stuff in the first place, but I'm not allowed to pass it on.

 

Same here. Would love to donate but they won't let me. I had a blood transfusion in 1982.

 

Maybe I've got the aids.

[RedinSweden]

I'm not allowed to give blood because I've received blood products that might have been infected with CJD. It's comforting that the NHS didn't have to much of a problem giving me the bloody stuff in the first place, but I'm not allowed to pass it on.

 

SKI? A mad cow? No shit.

[Juniper]

Yeah, I give blood me. It leaves me with the feeling of awesomeness...aswell as dizzyness.

 

Free biscuits and tea rule, I'd give a pint up anytime for the yummy freebies

[melons]

Yep, well in the winter, i always seem to be on holiday in the summer.

[Count Morfeo]

No, the Count doesn't give blood....

[rb14]

Not allowed.

[She Knows It]

Not allowed.

 

That gets my back up like you wouldn't believe. We've still got a long way to go.

[RedinSweden]

Not allowed.

 

It's the same over here, although they are now finally discussing lifting this ban.

[rb14]

They've a six-page document detailing why it's not a ban on gay men, just on men who gobble other men or do each other up the poop-chute.

 

So that's ok then.

[Red Dawn]

I'm O Neg and treated like a God by the nurses every time I go. Afterwards we have our choice of a small bottle of Guinness, minerals, crisps, biccies along with the usual freebies of pens, stickers and most recently sun visors for your car.

 

Giving blood rules.

[Strontium]

Not gay myself, but I wouldn't even consider donating until the ban on gay men donating blood was lifted.

 

That said, if they're that desperate for blood, they can pay me for it: £65 a litre is fair, I figure.

[odris]

Not gay myself, but I wouldn't even consider donating until the ban on gay men donating blood was lifted.

 

That said, if they're that desperate for blood, they can pay me for it: £65 a litre is fair, I figure.

 

A quarter of your blood for £65? Sounds reasonable to me.

[RedinSweden]

They've a six-page document detailing why it's not a ban on gay men, just on men who gobble other men or do each other up the poop-chute.

 

So that's ok then.

 

I just had a look at the swedish site for an explanationand it says exactly the same thing. But it isn't just against you gayers rog, druggies, stedheads and prossies can't either.

[Strontium]

A quarter of your blood for £65? Sounds reasonable to me.

 

 

Haha whoops. Here was me forgetting that we still use Imperial measurements here.

 

Of course, that should be £65 a pint.

[Lurtz]

Haha whoops. Here was me forgetting that we still use Imperial measurements here.

 

Of course, that should be £65 a pint.

 

That's very nearly an armful, I hear.

[Ezekiel 25:17]

I used to when I was young but then I started sleeping with copious amounts of women and am now too scared of being told Ive got the Aids. My blood is ab positive aswell which is quite rare (apperently) I only know that from the previous blood givings. Worked my way up from red,blue and some other colour card aswell.

[Unrighteous]

Im too selfish, and I don't know my bloodtype...