Quick way of finding out if your date has any STIs.
And/or is a rapist
Or is gay
Gay people can donate blood now.
Also @[email protected]
Sort of. Still can’t donate if you’re taking prep (hiv preventative) or if you’ve had sex with multiple people.
Need to be off prep for 3 months and not have sex with new or multiple partners.
The no prep part is a tough ask. Especially with how healthcare is
Much better than it was but it still excludes a huge portion of the community
Ahh, bummer :(
In my country, men are asked the same questions and no one is allowed to give blood if they changed partners in the last 3 months. I imagine it is the same for women.
Unfortunately it applies to gay men only. Our straight counterparts can switch up partners as much as they want.
Well, it’d apply to bisexual men who’ve had male partners as well.
I should also point out it doesn’t have to be new partners. Just if you’ve had more than one partner you can’t donate even if it’s an exclusive polygamous relationship.
Oh, I didn’t know the American Red Cross made the rules for everybody in the world! Gee, thanks!
I was only offering what I knew to be true for my area locally, I didn’t want to speak on things I hadn’t researched. Looking it up, I guess it seems like it’s possible (with varying degrees of waiting period), in a pretty significant chunk of the world, so that’s even better than I thought, if still not ideal. ^^
Not everyone lives in America.
On the internet, everyone is American.
Possibly an American canine, at that
Are sex offenders forbidden from donating in the US?
Not really how this works. Tests take time and they don’t test immediately, also they do pool tests, so multiple samples are mixed and tested. So even if they’d find something they couldn’t tell you right there, and then again even if they could they would tell you it would be handled so that nobody else could notice.
At least last time I donated blood in my country (Canada), you could discretely indicate “do not use” by applying a different sticker to the bag. This was done in case someone got peer pressured into donating but didn’t want to reveal something private that would have disqualified them otherwise.
…getting black out is cute?
I mean… dunno about you, but I look my best with that sweet patina of sweat glistening on my forehead, a drop of drool meandering towards my chin, and hot load in my drawers.
I may not remember some nights, but I rest easy knowing that I’m a damn fine lookin drunk. Too much booze also makes me smell amazing.
Oh, and I’m a great drunk cook too. You can absolutely trust me with that knife.
Is that how you got the nickname Half-Pinky-Shit-Pants-Low-Blood-Drunk-Ass-Sally? I always wondered what the subtle inside joke was
Nah, I got that nickname from my preacher one Sunday after church.
Getting black out together
God yeah lemme hold her hair while she yaks up dinner
I actually did this in my early 20s. Girlfriend at the time got super drunk super fast so I had to stay sober to drive us home.
You’re not supposed to get drunk at the donations facility.
If I want to mix vodka into the orange juice afterwards that’s my business.
They didn’t have a sign posted, so I figured I was safe.
Staring in the face of late-stage capitalism, the human race tries to find a glimmer of optimism. Can’t afford a real date, find it too hard to connect while sober.
I’m O- so I give two units of red cells and get saline and the plasma/antibodies back. The guy at the donation site says “make sure you don’t drink any alcoholic beverages for 24 hours…but you can have one if you want.” He looks back to see if his manager is around and then whispers “you can have two but don’t leave the house.”
Saving lives is pretty hot, but its a shame they don’t let you do this if you’re gay or use cannabis.
If you’re talking about the American Red Cross, they have removed most of the explicitly queerphobic rules. They still ask about high risk activities, but in a non gendered way.
It was kind of insane, though, that 20 years ago I was banned for life for having sucked cock. Turns out I was just boymoding, and as soon as I transitioned cocksucking became just fine for blood donation.
Nope, the world isn’t the US.
WHAT? I’ve donated blood while high on cannabis.
Same. Hit the vape right before going in. Whoever gets that blood is probably going to fail a drug test.
Cool single idea: donate twice as much blood. Drink all the wine coolers yourself.
This is how Uni kids get drunk on $4 in 1995.
It’s how we did it for $10 in 2012 as well
This is how we do it for $40 in 2024
But yet an eighth of weed now is still somehow the price of an eighth of weed then.
I was in a fraternity (Lambda Chi) and we would donate plasma for kegs. Worked well.
People are so weird in their obsession with alcohol and getting drunk…
It’s a joke. It starts off cute and altruistic and then it finishes silly and kind of bad.
I mean I get the structure of the joke, but in this case it’s just kind of sad. I think it’s because it is not SO exaggerated of a thing to do that I could actually envision some people doing this straight up… which is not as cool as they think it is.
Tbf, could be kinda fun if you don’t drink too much and get drunk drunk… So, not exactly what the post is saying but still
I felt this way at one time when I was younger. Now I don’t give a shit what people want to do with their own bodies.
if you’re going this far to get wrecked, just do heroin
