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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:I have never heard before that marrow donations were race specific. How does that even work? How can the body decode marrow from a person who is 1/8 asian, 1/4 asian, 1/2 asian, or full asian? How do multi-racial or significantly mixed people receive marrow transplants? I'm not super well-informed but AFAIK the idea is that it's not exactly race-specific, but it's based on genetic similarity. So relatives or people of your own race are going to be much more likely to be compatible.
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Ah, I figured it was something like that. Thanks everyone!
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Platystemon posted:I’m cool with donating blood or, in the event of my untimely demise, donating organs, but donating bone marrow involves serious surgery. My friend has a medical condition that makes it very likely that she'll need a transplant at some point, so he younger sister is very pro donation etc. Her sister got called for the bone marrow transfer, went through it and then the recipient declined the procedure. I'm not say that to deter people, I'm registered, it's just not as cut and dry as you might expect.
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http://variety.com/2016/film/news/amc-texting-theaters-phones-1201752978/ New AMC CEO says that gosh darnit, you can't ask 22-year olds just to turn off their phones and not text anyone for a couple of hours, so maybe they'll start having some shows or areas of the theater where texting is allowed. Then they walk that way, way back: https://twitter.com/AMCTheatres/status/720972338699702272
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I love the people who are like "what's wrong with texting", not realizing a bright phone in a dark room kinda stands out.
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Avenging_Mikon posted:I love the people who are like "what's wrong with texting", not realizing a bright phone in a dark room kinda stands out. They're the people spending so much time looking at their own phones that they legitimately don't notice other people's, and therefore don't understand how anyone else could have aproblem with it since surely they are on their phones too.
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I know its a bit classically cynical, but you might think AMC knew everyone would hate this texting in cinemas idea and had plans to immediately walk it back all along...
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Mr. Flunchy posted:I know its a bit classically cynical, but you might think AMC knew everyone would hate this texting in cinemas idea and had plans to immediately walk it back all along... Maybe they're wising up to the fact that they can get completely free publicity and market research just by having a CEO casually mention a new idea and seeing how the internet/media reacts.
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This makes it sound like AMC hasn't allowed texting in the past. I don't think I've ever been at a movie where someone actually got told by a theater worker to knock that poo poo off.
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artsy fartsy posted:This makes it sound like AMC hasn't allowed texting in the past. I don't think I've ever been at a movie where someone actually got told by a theater worker to knock that poo poo off. Well they still have videos before the previews that say "turn off your goddamn phones people". They might not enforce it but they at least request it.
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:Well they still have videos before the previews that say "turn off your goddamn phones people". They might not enforce it but they at least request it. Those preview are almost worse than the texting itself.
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No matter whether this was a whole swerve by AMC or not I figure it would take just one jackass to either grab a phone and throw it or straight up attack the person to get the "texting allowed" shut down loving quick.
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I wonder how many of the people who refuse to donate organs are also against pepple receiving welfare.
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"I worked for my organs, nobody just gave them to me!"
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I'm thinking maybe there's a thing in pepple's brains where they see how unfair life is towards others and instead of going 'man, all things told I'm kinda lucky!' they go 'gently caress those pepple, they deserve it!' and I just don't get that.
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AtomD posted:I'm thinking maybe there's a thing in pepple's brains where they see how unfair life is towards others and instead of going 'man, all things told I'm kinda lucky!' they go 'gently caress those pepple, they deserve it!' and I just don't get that. The Just World Fallacy. Good things happen to good people who earned them or are inherently virtuous, bad things happen to bad people who deserve punishment and are inherently bad. Unless a bad thing happens to me, then that's just a coincidence.
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Boaty McBoatface won in a landslide, but it also lost because it's not getting chosen as the name: http://www.avclub.com/article/democracy-dead-name-boaty-mcboatface-235539 quote:USA Today reports that British Science Minister Jo Johnson told the BBC: “There is a process now for us to review all of the public’s choices.” Yeah, you know what that’s called? Counting the votes. Johnson continues about the suggested nautical monikers: “Many of them were imaginative, some were more suitable than others,” expediting the lie that there are names somehow better than Boaty McBoatface. Johnson has even dragged the Queen into this mess, maintaining that he would be “embarrassed” to ask her for an official warrant. As the U.K. Mirror reports: “We do need a warrant from the Queen for what will be a Royal Research Vessel, and I wouldn’t want to be in the position of asking her to give a warrant for something that was completely frivolous.” Like a monarch who has held the throne since 1952 would be tumbled by the paperwork involved in a Royal Research warrant for Boaty McBoatface. How do people still not understand that if you ask the Internet for something it will give you something you don't want? The USAF is currently accepting suggestions for a name for its new bomber, but at least they're you need to actually be in the Air Force, and it's not a vote. They're not just telling the general public "We'll pick your favorite name!" Phanatic has a new favorite as of 21:33 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Publicity probably and some fairly benevolent PR I would guess. How many people that saw an article about it, or voted, are even gonna care what they choose down the line? They just think it's funny and hit Like on their facebook timeline once then forget about it, but it probably drummed up a lot of publicity. It's Free Memes
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The public has spoken, they want Boaty McBoatface. I hope there are massive riots if they choose a different name
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I hope the queen hears about this and asks for Boaty McBoatface
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I Am Crake posted:Is this a joke or do doctors in the US do bone marrow transplants for a disease which isn't even recognized as a disease outside the US? It's certainly regarded as a disease in the UK, and at least one of the causes of the symptoms was found in 2013.
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about fibromyalgia, someone I know seems to suffer pretty badly and she says that's what causing it. But over here doctors don't really do anything about it because officially, it's not a disease but just psychosomatic symptoms caused by something which is as of yet unknown.
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Taeke posted:They're loving lucky it's something as benign and funny as Boaty McBoatface and not something like Weedlord BonerHitler or whatever the gently caress. Yeah my favorite thing is that people are assuming no boat has had a stupid but amusing name before Boaty McBoatface. Humans have always been humans and we've always given things ridiculous names.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Yeah my favorite thing is that people are assuming no boat has had a stupid but amusing name before Boaty McBoatface. Humans have always been humans and we've always given things ridiculous names. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Gay_Viking
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At the very least, if they're not willing to call it such professionally, they could at least put Boaty McBoatface on the side of the ship. Or just call it the RRS BMcBF.
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Breaking news from England following the Boaty McBoatface announcement:
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One Eye Open posted:It's certainly regarded as a disease in the UK, and at least one of the causes of the symptoms was found in 2013. It's definitely real, probably immune related which makes things a ball ache to pin down a definitive cause for. Currently being tested for everything under the sun to figure out wtf is wrong with my stupid immune system.
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jojoinnit posted:Nah I probably just forgot what exactly it was but it was some type of blood cancer. You might be thinking of myelofibrosis, not fibromyalgia
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Similarly, the MBTA refused to name a police dog "Mr. Spaghetti" as the result of an online contest
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The Boaty McBoatface vote as always just a suggestion from the public IIRC, bit of rear end-covering in case the public named it something stupid like Boaty McBoatface.
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ElwoodCuse posted:Similarly, the MBTA refused to name a police dog "Mr. Spaghetti" as the result of an online contest What's wrong with a name like Mr. Spaghetti?  Walton Simons posted:The Boaty McBoatface vote as always just a suggestion from the public IIRC, bit of rear end-covering in case the public named it something stupid like Boaty McBoatface. What's wrong with Boaty McBoatface?
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I mean, one of the ships at the battle of Trafalgar was HMS Pickle. We don't really have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to dignified boat names.
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NLJP posted:I mean, one of the ships at the battle of Trafalgar was HMS Pickle. We don't really have much of a leg to stand on when it comes to dignified boat names. Ah yes, the infamous Pickle Incident.
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Yvonmukluk posted:What's wrong with a name like Mr. Spaghetti? Nothing, IMO. Mr.Shpaghetti is a great name for a dog. Fun, whimsical, and the "Mr" on the front adds a nice air of fake-formality to nicely juxtapose to the silliness of the spaghetti. And if you read the link below you can see the origin of the name does have (very loose) ties to the MBTA. The police department were just being a bunch of unfunny pricks, though, and clearly wanted a "cool" name. I think they went with Hunter? http://www.metro.us/boston/mbta-police-announce-name-for-new-k-9-recruit-after-asking-twitter-for-help/zsJpdg---4WBKiHw77eis/ Yvonmukluk posted:What's wrong with Boaty McBoatface? Boaty McBoatface, on the other hand, is a poo poo name. It's the epitome of lazy ,"money cheese lol" style humor, and a bad example at that. Using the previous example, that would be like calling the dog Doggy McDogface. It's dumb, there's no sincerity, no heart. Hell, even something like Boaty McScience, or Science McBoatface would be better, since it's a scientific research vessel. Make it somehow appropriate? Like...any drat boat could be Boaty McBoatface, so why this one?
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Missed a golden opportunity by passing up Floaty McShipfaced IMHO
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DrBouvenstein posted:Boaty McBoatface, on the other hand, is a poo poo name. It's the epitome of lazy ,"money cheese lol" style humor, and a bad example at that. Using the previous example, that would be like calling the dog Doggy McDogface. It's dumb, there's no sincerity, no heart.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:Missed a golden opportunity by passing up Floaty McShipfaced IMHO +1 this name.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Nothing, IMO. Mr.Shpaghetti is a great name for a dog. Fun, whimsical, and the "Mr" on the front adds a nice air of fake-formality to nicely juxtapose to the silliness of the spaghetti. And if you read the link below you can see the origin of the name does have (very loose) ties to the MBTA. Making it more appropriate really diminishes the juxtaposition though. Aside from the childish silliness it's precisely the generic nature of the name that adds to the humour. The lack of originality is part of it for me. An important, expensive science vessel having a name that a 13 year old would choose for their rowing boat contrasts nicely with the seriousness of its purpose and the people involved, especially now that all the 'serious people' have been so outspoken in their opposition of it.
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