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Steve2911 posted:I don't know much about blood, but can't they just check the gently caress out of your blood to make sure it's alright, then allow you to donate? Blood tests are not perfect, and, well, some people got real hosed up as a result of more lax donation regs in the 80's. They test all blood as a matter of course but they also request you not donate if you're in one of a number of groups, the recently added an expiry to men-who-have-sex-with-men which used to be a lifetime prohibition also. Other classes that I can remember off my head is people who receive drugs or money for sex, and I think 1 degree of separation from that and MSM (people who have sex with men who have had sex with men/for money) Broadly, the notion I think is that the blood service actually has plenty of blood, so they can afford to be restrictive to improve the quality of the supply. 1941, in one of the most depraved and horrifying atrocities of the second world war, Adolf Hitler personally requires all Blackletter typefaces in Germany to be replaced with Antiqua. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:32 on May 31, 2016 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:If you have an Irish granny apply for Irish citizenship and claim the freedom of movement rights. This covers approximately 2/3rds of the UK last I checked this has got more difficult I've checked recently. Steve2911 posted:That's an odd thing to do. Is he interested in their cultural significance/rarity or does is he just a ball of hate? his nan started him off and now it's a rarity thing. He's a lovely guy.
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Steve2911 posted:I don't know much about blood, but can't they just check the gently caress out of your blood to make sure it's alright, then allow you to donate? No, as no test is perfect and increasing the number of risky donors will inevitably increase the number of false negatives, which are potentially catastrophic (in a lethal kind of way).
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Steve2911 posted:I don't know much about blood, but can't they just check the gently caress out of your blood to make sure it's alright, then allow you to donate? I don't think there is a quick, cheap test for prions in blood yet. Unless things have changed recently, vCJD can only be diagnosed definitively post-mortem. Hopefully an actual medic is reading...
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Spangly A posted:last I checked this has got more difficult You just need a ridiculous amount of documents but you can still get entered in the Foreign Births Registry if one of your grandparents was born in Ireland - need to scrounge up copies of their birth/death certificate, marriage certificate and the same for your parents as well. There's been in a big spike in British born applicants in the last few months coincidentally...
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keep punching joe posted:Vote Leave broadcast is pretty hosed up. OH WHAT YOU MEAN JUST LIKE WESTMINSTER DOES GARY Jesus loving christ  are they literally trying to bribe people to join Leave? This is how out of touch the campaign are with both the people and their own issues, it's not a loving lottery you jackasses.JFairfax posted:None of us would be eligible to donate blood in America, British people alive in the UK in the 1990s are barred because of mad cow disease  see I can pull poo poo out of my rear end too, pay me 50million thankyou.
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kustomkarkommando posted:You just need a ridiculous amount of documents but you can still get entered in the Foreign Births Registry if one of your grandparents was born in Ireland - need to scrounge up copies of their birth/death certificate, marriage certificate and the same for your parents as well. I can't imagine why. If you've got a source compiling what I'd need that'd be fantastic.
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FinalGamer posted:"Ere Bloke-Mate, did you 'ear about 'ow much a European Minister gets paid just for turning up?" The right have hit on "People getting paid for going to work!" as their latest brilliant propaganda wheeze
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OwlFancier posted:1941, in one of the most depraved and horrifying atrocities of the second world war, Adolf Hitler personally requires all Blackletter typefaces in Germany to be replaced with Antiqua. Fraktur was illegible rubbish  Even Petrarca hated the uselessly calligraphic Gothic type I mean compare this:  to this: 
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Freezer posted:There's a dark part of me that is hoping Leave wins, just to see what happens. Trump! Seriously that urge? It's the same one telling you to put your hand in the fire. 'How bad can it get really?' is not a reason to do anything.
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OwlFancier posted:Because it's kind of hard to present a general case where people are going to be at particular risk of contracting HIV. OwlFancier posted:It would be like, erm, giving people anticonvulsants to stop them getting epilepsy in the event of a head injury or something, you could conceivably prescribe them to the entire country because everyone is at risk of head injuries. in case anyone's interested, even though Dean St is an NHS sexual health service, they also operate a private PrEP clinic. £400 for a month's supply of 30 pills which is them selling at cost price. plus they'll do the regular blood tests to monitor you or you can take your chances online and pay about an eighth of that. obviously seek medical advice first
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/31/john-mcdonnell-sharing-eu-platform-with-tories-discredits-labourquote:John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor, has said it discredits Labour to share a platform with Tories arguing to stay in the EU – the day after the London mayor, Sadiq Khan, appeared on stage with David Cameron. So naturally Guardian retards are commenting how childish this is despite not remembering what happened to Scottish Labour back one year ago. Also from that same poll posted eariler quote:Support for Brexit is also split along class and geographical lines, according to ICM. Among skilled manual workers, known by pollsters as C2s, support for Brexit is running as high as 62%. Scotland is for remain, while voters in England and Wales would back Brexit. Please end up with Scotland narrowly saving the in-EU vote somehow so we can see a meltdown of epic proportions.
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OwlFancier posted:They test all blood as a matter of course but they also request you not donate if you're in one of a number of groups, the recently added an expiry to men-who-have-sex-with-men which used to be a lifetime prohibition also. Other classes that I can remember off my head is people who receive drugs or money for sex, and I think 1 degree of separation from that and MSM (people who have sex with men who have had sex with men/for money) The other main category that is banned for life is any interjecting drug user. Any. So those tanning injections that were all the rage a few years ago and came with sterile saline and hypos, banned for life. You can share all the straws and crackpipes you like though.
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namesake posted:Trump! Oh I agree with you. I'm not in the UK any longer, and not eligible to vote in the first place. I'm just watching this from the outside with a sense of bewilderment and morbid curiosity.
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Extreme0 posted:http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/31/john-mcdonnell-sharing-eu-platform-with-tories-discredits-labour
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JFairfax posted:I think banning injecting drug users is fair enough really.
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Guavanaut posted:I bet none of the people buying self-tan thought they'd be put in the same category as communal heroin users though. Anyone injecting a tan deserves it imo
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One of the weirdest blood donation deferrals is that women who sleep with MSM who aren't deferred are automatically deferred themselves. So my bisexual friend can give blood, but his girlfriend can't.
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Nonsense posted:Immigration seems to be the only real issue. voters are incredibly dumb, as your av shows
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:I'm a big fan of McDonnell, but he's being a bit petty here. Securing a remain vote is more important than party politics, and if senior Labour figures appearing on stage with Cameron gets the point across that this poo poo is important and people need to vote, then I want the entire Shadow Cabinet up there applauding him. SCOTTISH loving LABOUR
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Guavanaut posted:I bet none of the people buying self-tan thought they'd be put in the same category as communal heroin users though. they're loving idiots though, who the hell would inject something to give themselves a tan. I am glad their blood is not allowed in the system, you might catch a dose of their stupid. at least you get high when you inject heroin. how much of an idiot do you have to be to want to inject something to give yourself a tan, just go outside fool or get on a loving sun bed. what the hell. seriously. gently caress them and they should also be banned from having children.
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Having reviewed the evidence I'm now strongly in favour of injectable tan.
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Because they inject peptides to increase their tan response to a given amount of UV, either increasing the degree of tanning or reducing the UV exposure, either of which might be desirable?
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TinTower posted:One of the weirdest blood donation deferrals is that women who sleep with MSM who aren't deferred are automatically deferred themselves. Did they not change the wording? I'm sure it used to be something like "if you have had sex with a man who has had sex with a man in the last year you cannot give blood" or something which made sense when MSM was permanent deferral but obviously doesn't work when MSM itself has a timeout. Otherwise yeah you can keep deferring yourself by repeatedly having sex with a dude who once had sex with another dude. E: also who the gently caress wants their loving veins to turn the colour of david dickinson? How the gently caress does injectable tan work?
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Guavanaut posted:Because they inject peptides to increase their tan response to a given amount of UV, either increasing the degree of tanning or reducing the UV exposure, either of which might be desirable? this is really loving stupid. if you want to have a tan, move somewhere sunnier, use that tan in a bottle or go to a tanning salon. I mean seriously, they're injecting some mysterious substance into their bodies - and these idiots are obviously somewhat retarded so I wouldn't put it past them to share needles.
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mmm yes I am going to give myself a loving fence paint enema to make myself have a healthy glow.
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OwlFancier posted:Otherwise yeah you can keep deferring yourself by repeatedly having sex with a dude who once had sex with another dude. OwlFancier posted:E: also who the gently caress wants their loving veins to turn the colour of david dickinson? How the gently caress does injectable tan work?
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OwlFancier posted:mmm yes I am going to give myself a loving fence paint enema to make myself have a healthy glow. thats nothing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8420252
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Jose posted:thats nothing lol loving hell
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JFairfax posted:lol loving hell i'm not sure snorting any amount of coke makes that a good idea frankly
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Guavanaut posted:"I don't want to give blood" is my exact excuse for doing that. I did realise when I was writing it that it sounded like I was listing it as a feature. Actually there is probably a particular brand of crazy that worries the gubmint is going to microchip their blood or something so if I could convince them to all sign up to grindr that would be funny if possibly a hate crime. Guavanaut posted:It's injected into fatty tissue, same as an epi-pen. The peptides then diffuse into the bloodstream and increase the melanin response to UV light. They're advised against because medicines act and all that, but iirc there's a nose spray version of the exact same stuff that doesn't exclude you from giving blood. I think I'd probably rather go with just covering myself in balsamic glaze. Jose posted:thats nothing WHAT THE gently caress
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Namtab posted:I've never seen anyone as mad as goons re: injecting tan it's just one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of, it's not quite as bad as injecting industrial silicone sealant into your arse cheeks but it's up there.
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Jose posted:its not the best way to kill yourself Well, I mean, I suppose in theory if you gave yourself a big enough hydrofluoric acid enema you would quite effectively kill and subsequently dissolve yourself. Certainly an interesting one for the police.
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Jose posted:thats nothing I suspect the clinical language "left lower quadrant direct and rebound tenderness" hides an entire universe of pain.
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I've heard things far stupider: the leave campaign, Nigel far age, your opinions regarding Catholicism
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