Random stupid things on your mind. Post them.

[Camazotz Automat]

this is why i don't donate anything to any form of organized charity organization.  it's always inefficient or a scam at some level.  saint jude children's hospital is the only exception to this that i can think of.

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My associates believe me heartless for having the same view. Also, I would sell my plasma before ever donating blood. The guilt induction involved in collecting blood at your expense for their profit is reprehensible mind control.

[MV/Liberace!]

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My associates believe me heartless for having the same view. Also, I would sell my plasma before ever donating blood. The guilt induction involved in collecting blood at your expense for their profit is reprehensible mind control.

blood donation has been a scam ever since the red cross got its tentacles wrapped around the whole industry.  try donating blood to someone other than the red cross.  depending, of course, on where you live, it's probably impossible.  doubly impossible to get paid for it.

[Mind Flayer Monk]

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My associates believe me heartless for having the same view. Also, I would sell my plasma before ever donating blood. The guilt induction involved in collecting blood at your expense for their profit is reprehensible mind control.

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My associates believe me heartless for having the same view. Also, I would sell my plasma before ever donating blood. The guilt induction involved in collecting blood at your expense for their profit is reprehensible mind control.

Ivy league MBAs are now starting "nonprofits" and "not-for-profits" at record levels.

[Juan]

Remember that "non-profit" means only that the directors do not get income from dividends.  The corporation can make as much as it wants and pay the officers and employees lavish salaries.  Non-profit does not mean non-money.

[pate]

Yes, after a few days they'd and sort of dry up and turn white and either crumble into the ground or blow away.

My theory is that there is so much more preservative being used now - even in dog food - that the turds just sit there forever, preserved as fresh as the day they were laid..

Thank yew, I'll be here all week

I figured it was because THEY took the preservatives (saltpeter?) out of the dogfood so we couldn't find easy sources for homemade gunpowder...  Can you buy sulfa powder for 1st aid anymore?

There is always a Grand Unified Conspiracy Theory angle...

[HAL 9000]

blood donation has been a scam ever since the red cross got its tentacles wrapped around the whole industry.  try donating blood to someone other than the red cross.  depending, of course, on where you live, it's probably impossible.  doubly impossible to get paid for it.

I wouldn't expect you to know this; I wouldn't expect almost anyone outside of a hospital setting to know, as blood donations/services have become as synonymous with the Red Cross as tissues have become with Kleenex - except that the concept is entirely untrue.

At my institution, none of our blood products come from the Red Cross. Our blood products come from a non-profit organization that supplies the entire central portion of my state. This organization is a member of a larger consortium of blood product providers known as America's Blood Centers http://www.americasblood.org/.

FACT: The independent community blood centers who are members of the ABC consortium provide one-half of the nation's blood supply. I would hardly describe this relationship as the, "red cross got its tentacles wrapped around the whole industry." As 50% of America's blood supply is handled by organizations other than the Red Cross, I'd be confident in saying that finding a donation center other than the Red Cross should not be difficult.

Also, I would sell my plasma before ever donating blood. The guilt induction involved in collecting blood at your expense for their profit is reprehensible mind control. (emphasis added)

There is only one independent company (and very small at that) which sells blood for-profit; all others are non-profit organizations.

As for paid donors, here are the facts: Blood from paid donors cannot be used in the United States for transfusion purposes. Plasma is the only component for which donors are sometimes paid, and it’s generally treated and processed by pharmaceutical companies into drugs, or used for certain diseases/disorders. It cannot be transfused in the form of cryoprecipitate or fresh frozen plasma.

Addendum: curiously, after my unceremonious recent return, my first and only post of a few days ago (and its resultant replies) has been deleted. That didn't take long.

      

[b_dubb]

When I was a kid dog turds used to be white. I never see white dog turds anymore. What's up with that?

http://youtu.be/u5l-9jQ5gsw

[jazmunda]

Meanwhile... down at the finger popping juke joint.

Is she drying or pleasuring herself or both?

[jazmunda]

Yes, after a few days they'd and sort of dry up and turn white and either crumble into the ground or blow away.

My theory is that there is so much more preservative being used now - even in dog food - that the turds just sit there forever, preserved as fresh as the day they were laid..

Thank yew, I'll be here all week

https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070223015907AAT974X

[PB the Deplorable]

https://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070223015907AAT974X

Heh, the great White Dog Turd mystery solved.

[jazmunda]

Heh, the great White Dog Turd mystery solved.

And we would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for those meddling kids.

[Grov505th]

Is she drying or pleasuring herself or both?

Yes..........

[b_dubb]

Is she drying or pleasuring herself or both?

Trying to imagine how having a hot hair dryer on your junk would be pleasurable.  Nothing ventured.  Nothing gained.

I'll see you guys in the ER.

[Grov505th]

Trying to imagine how having a hot hair dryer on your junk would be pleasurable.  Nothing ventured.  Nothing gained.

I'll see you guys in the ER.

Hey what's a little 2nd degree burns between friends?

[MV/Liberace!]

Addendum: curiously, after my unceremonious recent return, my first and only post of a few days ago (and its resultant replies) has been deleted. That didn't take long.

It wasn't "your post" that was deleted. It was the "where is Jackstar" thread. I wouldn't expect you to know that, though.

Addendum: don't stalk the other members of this forum and/or reveal their personal information if you intend on staying. I would have expected you to perhaps address this upon your first post, but nope.

[West of the Rockies]

Has JackStar been banned again?

[MV/Liberace!]

Has JackStar been banned again?

yeah.

[West of the Rockies]

Thank you for the rapid response.  You have an excellent forum here, MV, and I don't envy you for what work it must take to deal with so many personalities, egos and fee-fees (feelings).

Still, absolutely fantastic choice.

[MV/Liberace!]

Thank you for the rapid response.  You have an excellent forum here, MV, and I don't envy you for what work it must take to deal with so many personalities, egos and fee-fees (feelings).

Still, absolutely fantastic choice.

he can go back to feeling like a victim, which is clearly what he wants anyway.

[Ms. C]

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yeah.

from an Avid reader here .. and an occasional poster ... I sincerely say Thank Yew!!!!!            

[b_dubb]

THe Internet is full of cats and schadenfreude

[wr250]

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from an Avid reader here .. and an occasional poster ... I sincerely say Thank Yew!!!!!          

i concur.
and for jackstar, here is a prize :
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[Yorkshire pud]

i concur.
and for jackstar, here is a prize :
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How can you dislike Noory that much? He hasn't been unkind to animals and especially loves kitten videos.

[McPhallus]

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from an Avid reader here .. and an occasional poster ... I sincerely say Thank Yew!!!!!          

I agree.  I think we all knew he'd be the first recidivist in the Great Unbanning of 2014.

[Camazotz Automat]

There is only one independent company (and very small at that) which sells blood for-profit; all others are non-profit organizations(.

HAL, ol' PAL, my old Godlike Productions friend, who, even before GNS was created, was squeezing binary blood from a Pentium II turnip (though perhaps over-clocked/cycled)... (I could have that chip wrong.  That was a long time ago.)

I do get what you are saying.  I should have been more specific, but I'm trying like bloody hell to make my posts shorter and less bloated.

I was referring to everyone who benefits in the chain.  It can be the power companies that supply the electricity to keep the blood refrigerated.  It can be the salary earned by the person drawing blood 45 hours a week.  The manufacturer of the equipment used to draw, store, test, store, test some more, the blood. 

As well, and to steal a word from MV, all the tentacles involved in just transporting that blood... fuel, tires, salaries....  airplane peanuts to the guy flying with a special shipment....

It reminds me of trying to grasp the infinite correlation of a human body's activities/systems.

Just trying to ~account~ for all the people and entities working together to get a piece of my blood seems like an endless task.

The one crucial component, not receiving ANYTHING is the donor.  He's not even getting paid for the gasoline to get to the center, let alone his time, and definitely nothing for his tissue.

Unless a warm and fuzzy glow is the goal, or if the goal is to "lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt," then the general donor is getting zip. 

I'm simply saying, that philosophically or capitalistically, I want that donor to get some reasonable amount of payment and for that to be worked into the chain. The donor's expenses are huge.  Food, water, shelter, anything and everything tied to his blood even existing.

If a person wants to give their blood as a philanthropic act or charity or whatever, I still think they should be PAID, and then they can give THAT money to St. Jude's, or bellgab.com, figuratively speaking.

(This reminds me of donating a heart.  A cardiac surgeon is going to bill the insurance company a truckload of money for his services, no matter what permutations of "non-profit" gates the donated heart passes.  Everyone profits.  The nurses getting paid during the heart transplant, the manufacturer of all the medical supplies.....  I know this can be viewed differently, since the donor is dead.)

Even if somehow NO ONE benefited, in ANY WAY,  from the blood other than the patient, even if the hospital ITSELF didn't charge the patient a penny for the blood, that patient still "owes" the donor something, and the patient's insurance should cover it in that theoretical scenario.   

I know I sound heartless, but this incessant pseudo religious technique the media uses to increase blood donations rubs me the wrong way....  A disaster happens thousands of miles away, and I am gravely advised Red Cross needs my help because their supplies are running low.

I'm not fucking doing it. I don't want a mug. I don't want a T shirt. I don't want a warm fuzzy glow.  And heaven does not giveth a shit what my plans are treasure-wise.

I want compensation to be a part of the equation.  I just don't see why that is wrong. 

Perhaps most of all, I don't like to be manipulated (though we all are, in one way or countless others.)

If they want my blood that badly, and they want it for FREE, my hand to God, they are going to have to come collect it in a hail of bullets.

Which, ironically, would spill blood, somewhat canceling out the benefit of taking mine.  Creating a deficit even!

Juan's post above and MFM's comment apply to how I'm viewing this. So many people/businesses ride the non-profit train.  But it's still a train filled with money.

But I do understand your specific point. I am not trying to argue you out of your position. Merely clarifying my own, at everyone's expense.

Also, I'm just afraid of 16 to 17 gauge needles. (j/k)

The last thing I want to do is bait the Recently Unbanned. I feel somewhat complicit in Jackstar's most recent exit.  While I was kidding about his mother and LASERBLAST, and he definitely understood that, it might have primed the pump for his subsequent postings on the solar roads thread, because of another poster's comment on Roddy McDowall and Jackstar's metaphorical meltdown.  Difficult to say.

[wr250]

How can you dislike Noory that much? He hasn't been unkind to animals and especially loves kitten videos.

he promotes mean babies and dead children. also he cost MV $50 .

[Marc.Knight]

he promotes mean babies and dead children. also he cost MV $50 .

Classic Noory quote from a few days ago in reference to Sandyhook:  "He killed all those children, then committed suicide and then killed his mother."  I almost spit my coffee all over my windshield.

[The General]

Hal and Cam are volleying verbs. 
I feel like I wormholed back to a better time.
Now, where's Eddie Coyle?

[Yorkshire pud]

Classic Noory quote from a few days ago in reference to Sandyhook:  "He killed all those children, then committed suicide and then killed his mother."  I almost spit my coffee all over my windshield.

He had the script upside down, easy mistake to make.

[ItsOver]

 

Classic Noory quote from a few days ago in reference to Sandyhook:  "He killed all those children, then committed suicide and then killed his mother."  I almost spit my coffee all over my windshield.

How Jorch has managed to avoid being accidently run down after all these years is beyond me.