Why I'm never giving blood again. By popa.

who?

If you’re O+ you can’t give blood to anyone with Rh- blood.

PBA – They think you’re controvesial?!? I think noone should donate blood!

E/o -“What -are you crazy?”

If there was no blood -the Gov. & Pharm. companies would finally make a suitable substitute. All the fake blood so far has always been rejected by the FDA. Now I smell a rat. It is possible every single one was dangerous, but it’s also possible that the FDA is playing politics. If you don’t know already, the blood business is a big business. Blood Banks sell blood products for a lot of money. These blood banks have tremendous clout with the Gov.

E/o -“So what’s the difference? Who cares whether it’s real or fake?”

Using fake blood will save much more lives. It can be readily available, like in pre-hospital or battlefield settings. Storing it should be much easier than real blood. There is no chance of anyone getting a infectious disease from it, as opposed to real blood. Real blood even though much safer than it used to be, still poses a slight risk. And it would reduce medical costs. That means less medical insurance premiums. And no, I don’t own any stock in these Pharm. companies.

Well, I beg pardon for not taking this as a joke. You certainly did not indicate as such when you posted. And one never knows what one may post here!

If you donate as bein adam l’makom that is a level above bein adam l’chaveiro.

Keep giving. Hatzlocha Rabbah.

Sounds like more than one person is having a bad day. I just went back and read all of popa’s posts again to see if I could read it in a way that comes across as serious. I couldn’t. It was even funnier the second time around. Especially the high pitched sanctimonious voice.

Sometimes the hecklers take over the show. You can throw your beers at the performer if you like, but not me.

yeah! now Popa is worried about side effects.

THIS got be rolling!

can we add bloodsucker to PBA’s subtitle?

I havent really read anyones posts besides popa’s, but popa is making a sound argument that you guys ARE bloodsucking jews and I dont know why he should take that back. (unless maybe he loses some advertisers because of it.)

“A close friend of mine has a brother with Aspergers and some mental health issues. He loves to post his opinions on message boards, but unfortunately people don’t realize his situation and get into arguments with him all the time. If they met him in person they wouldn’t have the same response. It frustrates my friend to see these useless arguments. I’m going to take a lesson from her experience and assume that if you still haven’t let the “joke” go, this is not about your sense of humor and not respond again. Good luck!

So what you are saying is that if someone disagree with you, you assume that they are retarded. How wonderfully open minded of you. “

Popa: from Barshaatya’s post, it sounds that if you dont get responses in person or if you do get responses on a forum, then you may have problems in the mental capacity. I’m quite confused…I may just not donate blood so as not to pass on whatever it is i’m missing…;)

popa_bar_abba,

Thank you so much for your donations of blood. B”H I have never needed to receive a blood transfusion, but if I ever did, I know my life would have been saved thanks to generous people like you, who took the time and felt the discomfort to donate.

I don’t think very many people in this thread are “getting” it.

All,

Let’s deconstruct this thread a little bit.

First, popa_bar_abba signed his OP as “the little red hen.” In that story, the little red hen asked some other barnyard critters for help planting wheat, then tending to it, reaping it, threshing it, milling it, baking, etc. At each stage, the other critters refused to help. When it came time to eat the bread, however, all of the critters jumped up to “help”, but the little red hen refused them, and ate the whole loaf herself.

In the blood donation case, the “little red hen” (the OP) can bake the bread but cannot eat it, while the “barnyard critters” (the other posters) can eat or bake the bread but cannot bake any for the little red hen. So, the hen is asking (in popa_bar_abba’s classically inflammatory way), “why should I go through the trouble to bake bread for all you critters???”

I cannot guess what popa_bar_abba wanted as a response. We could thank him for his baking, or mock him for his blood type I suppose:-) I think he was expecting to be attacked for his anti-Semitic tone, but I don’t think he was expecting a wave of “who cares whether you can eat our bread or not… keep baking bread for us anyway because we’re hungry!”

Unlike popa, however, I don’t interpret those responses as a sign of “entitlement.” To be in a position of need is difficult emotionally, so for a giver to act scornfully towards the receiver is cruel. People are responding negatively to this cruelty, but are missing the mark on what exactly about popa’s post is bothering them.

“So what you are saying is that if someone disagree with you, you assume that they are retarded.”

well we know that popa is mildly retarded…

PBA – Not fair! E/o is just cursing you out. Not one commented on me that I’m totally against anyone giving blood.

firstly giving blood is healthy thats why some people give blood as often as possible it helps circulation and secondly so what if you dont get blood back you gave and thats a good thing to do

tb -“as opposed to the rest of this thread”

Excuse me. There is nothing Non-serious about my post.

What blood type did the Korban Pesach in Mitzrayim have?

YW Moderator-42:- Going in order of events:- What Blood Group was Makas Dom? The 1st of the 10 plagues.

Here is the percentages breakdown I found online:

O+ 37%

A+ 34

B+ 10

AB+ 4

There was a time when “O” was over 50% of the population,if not 60%, and “A” & “B” were both aproximately just over 10% of the population {“AB” always having been very few}, so popa_bar_abba:- Consider yourself lucky, that nowadays there are more people whom you can receive from, and fewer people who have to turn away from their blood group to come unto you for “O”.

Just had the zchus of giving for a local baby pre op (O-)!

Just had the zchus of giving for a local baby pre op (O-)!

Thats amazing.

Nice to see you around. 🙂

*kapusta*

Joke or not.. Giving blood is such a mitzvah we should all be so lucky to give. I’m due to give its been too long. Has anyone ever given platelets? A friend of mine z’l was in need of blood and platelets, I was so scared because I ha never even heard of platelets at the time. ( in my defense I was in college) I went, I gave, I cringed, and bH didn’t even hurt me. Also I am o+ so I try to give blood when I can. We all should!