yngwies Cat 7:35 Wed Oct 12
UK Blood Stocks running low
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63229980.amp
Piece of piss. Lie on the bed, roll your sleeve up, ( keep your nob in though) and stare at the ceiling for a bit. Nice bit of time out and you've potentially saved a life. :-)
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Mike Oxsaw
7:50 Wed Oct 12
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I'd tend to agree. You'll not even miss it - your body will replace it within a day.
Do they still give you a small can of Guinness as a post-donation option?
Got a metal lapel badge somewhere for whatever number of pints were needed to qualify - I do know that when I was working in Burnt Oak, most of us on the team made more than the average number of donations simply because the Edgware blood bank was literally just up the road - I used to take the 20 minutes "off line" to try and work some problems we had through (not that they cared). Win-win, and no money changed hands.
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Sven Roeder
8:31 Wed Oct 12
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I have a high level of red blood cells so have to be called in regularly to have a pint taken out to prevent my blood pressure rising. Unfortunately I am not allowed to donate it as obviously such high powered blood would kill a normal man who couldnt handle running on such fuel.
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Side of Ham
8:36 Wed Oct 12
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Fee-Fi-Fo-Sven, That is the blood, Of an ENGLISHMAN......
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Mike Oxsaw
8:37 Wed Oct 12
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Don't tell us sven, they dilute it with 90% strength hydrochloric acid and sell it as Cillit Bang.
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Lily Hammer
8:41 Wed Oct 12
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Biding my time.
Being unjabbed, I’ll soon be able to sell my blood and sperm for a fortune.
My pension plan.
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slinger
8:46 Wed Oct 12
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my next time is my 38th
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Gary Strodders shank
8:46 Wed Oct 12
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There is a place in Poplar that pay for blood donations They are then sold to research establishments.
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Mike Oxsaw
8:46 Wed Oct 12
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Make sure that the donations are clearly labelled.
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Eastside surge
8:52 Wed Oct 12
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I'm donating Fri night, 58th time for me
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Gary Strodders shank
8:53 Wed Oct 12
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Mike Oxlow 7.50
With regard to the Edgware blood bank i worked in Merit house just up from Burnt oak and we would reguarly be booked in for donations, i think they even sent a minibus down at one point. I still have a certificate somewhere in a green wallet.
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Mike Oxsaw
9:13 Wed Oct 12
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Gary Strodders shank 8:53 Wed Oct 12
Is Merit House the old Green Shield Stamps (showing my age now) offices?
We never got offered a minibus but had a table tennis team (real Forrest Gump stuff) and played in the same league as a team from Edgware hospital, so there was less of a barrier to them phoning us up if they were running low on donors for the day.
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mashed in maryland
9:14 Wed Oct 12
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Mike Oxsaw 7:50 Wed Oct 12
There's research out there that suggests regular blood loss is beneficial. Not saying our forebears had it right with leaching, but there's stuff about iron imbalances etc being behind a lot of chronic issues.
Never given me a can of beer, usually Penguin bars and cheese & onion crisps, which is nice
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billywhitehorse
9:49 Wed Oct 12
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Mike,
Whereabouts did you work in Burnt Oak? That's where my family are all from.
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Gary Strodders shank
10:22 Wed Oct 12
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Mike Oxsaw 9.13
Merit House is on the Edgware road just past Burnt oak broadway it was occupied by BT & Kyle Stewart (who i worked for) it is now residential.
The Green shield stamps buiding was in station road Edgware just down from the station although they also had s place on the opposite side of the road to the hospital which was like a showroom too.
Further up from the blood bank was the old Boosey & Hawkes instrument factory.
I went to school and grew up around Burnt oak and Edgware and it was a vibrant and lively place Happy days but it is now a total fking dump which saddens me when passing through.
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Al Wood
10:28 Wed Oct 12
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I donate regularly but that is still once every 3 months as per guidelines. I would donate more if I could.
I started donating after the birth of my son who was 10 weeks premature. The wife required a blood transfusion after her emergency Caesarian and I realised that had there not been donated blood available she would have died!
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simon.s
11:07 Wed Oct 12
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Haven’t done this for a while, and I know I should as I’m O negative. There’s a donation centre over Westfield (or at least there was) for anyone interested in donating whilst over the bowl.
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Zammo
1:13 Thu Oct 13
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Just don’t….
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_8:_The_Arkansas_Prison_Blood_Scandal
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easthammer
2:13 Thu Oct 13
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I used to donate on a regular basis being O neg. Did so for about 40 years on and off. Never bothered to keep count of how many times. They used to come to my places of work first at Ford then in the Colleges where I worked. But when that stopped I went a few times to local collection points. That wasn't quite so convenient and I sometimes felt they were not so welcoming or well organised.
Too old now but I would encourage you to do so if you can.
Having said that I don't think it will particularly help with the problem being experienced at the present, which from what I have read is being caused by a lack of staff in the Blood Donor Service to collect donations rather than a lack of donors. I believe workplace donations were scaled down for similar reasons
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gph
2:13 Thu Oct 13
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Love to see Thermite's take on this.
Is it: "at last, white patriots have seen through this underhand race-mixing experiment", or "Jewish vampires are sabotaging this national social benefit by drinking the stocks"?
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GoalLazio
5:42 Thu Oct 13
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I reckon your medicine is to drink a pint of cum more like Sven you cunt
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