2010 Karma: ilXors and their good deeds.

Unless you are a passer-outer, or gay, or had a tattoo in the past year, or were in Europe at a certain time, or have a cardiac issue that would allow you to give blood but is anomalous enough to make phlebotomists nervous, or are on certain medications...then, nevermind.

i gave blood recently for the first time and only been able to give again for last couple of weeks, definitely doing it soon. I didn't feel any adverse effects afterwards and it didn't hurt. Only drawback was that I have exceptionally small veins, apparently, and it took me an inordinately long time to give my donation. The blood was coming out so slowly it fooled the machine into thinking nothing was coming out, it started beeping, because it wasn't sensitive enough to detect the small, super-slow trickle of blood issuing from me.

i remember feeling really bad once because i was talking with a girl who i worked with and after work she was going to teach refugees english. I'm the son of a refugee and have never done shit for them. I've worked 26 days out of the last 30 though and at the moment can't even really think about volunteer work. Just an excuse I guess, i'm seldom so busy!

Yeah I'm currently unsure about giving blood w/ all the pills I'm on. When they rolled through town last time I'd just got a bunch of jabs and couldn't do it. I should ask, I <3 getting it done. Nothing like a good excuse for wooziness.

jim- highfive that coworker.

unless ur a passer-outer :(
never doing that again

― harbl, Sunday, April 4, 2010 9:16 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^^^^^

:(

Happened at the doctor though, wasn't giving blood. Two wimpy little vials. Zonk.

Still got my juice though motherfuckers.

guessing rabies you are unable to give blood also due to rabies

I should give blood again sometime soon, despite my intense dislike of Red Cross Australia's policy of no gay blood donors allowed. Apparently that's how you catch the gay.

^^^100% het hero

Does it have a cutoff date like the US guidelines do? It's 1977 here.

Help The Reverend pay rent, get crunk, and bribe strippers...2010 rolling HELP A FELLOW ILX0R thread....

hey fyi ilxors are awesome.

i'm not allowed to give blood ever thanks to ENGLAND and yr yen for cow brains

wow, i just double-checked and i really AM not allowed to ever give blood: i had thought the vCJD policy was "if you'd been in the UK w/in the last three years" which for me is practically a given. apparently it's actually "you are not eligible to donate if: From January 1, 1980, through December 31, 1996, you spent (visited or lived) a cumulative time of 3 months or more, in the United Kingdom (UK)"

that span pretty neatly covers the time of my life (born jan 81) when i was going to the UK for a month+ nearly every summer

sorry A-neg ppl, looks like i won't be sharing

lol you have bse

got a sponge for a brain now u_u

most of my fundraisers this year have been for theatrical companies but in years past i have done volunteer calltaking for red cross donation hotlines.

think I'm not allowed to give blood because I spent two summers in Peru. forget for how long I am barred though. I would like a big snickerdoodle.

ok I got a doozy here

after the football match I saw tonight finished in a Charlton victory, I went to the train station and walked to the front of the platform

there I noticed a not unattractive young lady wielding a book and talking on her phone

however, there was to be a twist

while gesticulating, or reaching for her bag...the book spilt from her hand, and fell...over the platform edge!

her phone conversation became a lament for the book

"and now I've just dropped my book next to the tracks! I guess I won't be reading it then...'Stupid White Men' by Michael Moore..."

"it's not very good" quips your favourite half-cypriot cardiacs fanboy. "read the Al Franken book instead"

"someone's saying it's not very good!" she says. nonetheless, it would be a shame for her to be deprived brash left-wing rhetoric.

it is realised that nobody will have long enough arms, and the train is imminent. mooted suggestions include lowering her by her legs. someone else is all "I could swear she had a head when she went down there" and lols are had

suddenly, yours truly has a brainwave, and removes his shoes

he gets on his front and leans over the platform edge

there is general astonishment and consternation

the train we were waiting for was already late, and the book-dropper, still on the phone, designates herself train-watcher

then, our hero, holding his shoes by the toecaps, can just about reach the fallen tome with the heels

he manoeuvres it into an upright position, and then clamps a few pages

then, swinging his body around, he flips away from danger as the book falls to the platform

he picks it up and hands it to the lass, before nonchalantly re-shoeing

her thanks are met with a curt "no problem". her offer of the book is met with a firm (and true) "I already have a copy". she is still on the phone. "some gentleman has rescued my book!" she sounds awfully excited

one merely observes that it is a good thing one possesses size 13s

godspeed, ditzy one. jagger won't be there to save you every day

lol

omg

um i threaded a needle for a lady at work

i also hung a coat hook for her because she was not tall enough to reach

so u risked (to a v small degree) death/dismemberment/electrocution to retrieve a terrible book?

part of my reasoning for going ahead was that it would have been a deliciously ironic death given the book-title

plus there were like 20 gawping onlookers primed to yell TRAIN if it appeared...as it turned out, it arrived like 2 minutes later

as for electrocution, the third rail is always on the far side from the platform in stations

so u risked (to a v small degree) death/dismemberment/electrocution to retrieve a terrible book impress a hot chick?

and remind her that he was a size 13 shoe, let's not forget

lol it wasn't even to impress her so much, it was more out of a genuine desire to see if I could reverse the bizarre and unfortunate situation of a book fallen to irretrievable ground

plus there was a BIG audience, always helps

oh you, dmac

spent all evening baking 36 x double choc chip & orange cookies & 1 x apple pie for charity bake morning at work tomorrow.

then ran 5k as part of training for 1/2 marathon i'm running for local hospice in july.

well you know what they say about boys with big shoes...

they are prone to talking like they are from an 18th century dictionary with all the words with 2 syllables or less removed. also they support charlton.

....they're commonly frustrated with the range of footwear available to choose from during the sales?

I like that part of LJ's good deed involves correcting a stranger's taste.

her thanks are met with a curt "no problem". her offer of the book is met with a firm (and true) "I already have a copy". she is still on the phone. "some gentleman has rescued my book!" she sounds awfully excited

one merely observes that it is a good thing one possesses size 13s

godspeed, ditzy one. big sam won't be there to save you every day

looooooooool ok zung

images of lj going around tasting strangers now, thanks abbott

godspeed, ditzy one. jagger won't be there to save you every day

defeatist attitude, btw

don't taste me, bro!

"some gentleman has rescued my book!" she sounds awfully excited

jane austen slashfic

i hope you had clean soles.

angel with filthy soles

i did nothing to help people in 2010, in fact I took many things from ppl

Ive been covering a brother whose long term disability got stopped two months before Christmas, finally got word today that hes back on some other payment.

No other way around it but im not going to see any of it back and its just the wrong time for it to have come up what with deposits and costs, but its not his fault and hes in a fragile state often enough and yknow what are you gonna do.

as someone who has received help from family for a while, by doing that you've absolutely allowed him to see brighter days than he otherwise would have in the future, and you should feel very good about it.

Thanks thats honestly a lovely thing to hear

Very true indeed. You did what needs doing.