I really hope this is an edgy kid and not racist parents.
But even then, the parents had to accept that.
A school wouldn't have let that kid in the front door with that getup. I'm thinking the student walked in that day wearing the suit and quickly put on the armband and Chaplin mustache and got a quick pic when the teacher wasn't looking.
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i had literally all semester to do it but I'm an IDIOT so I did it in 6 hours last night like some kind of chump
So you're a college student.
(hey, if it helps, and don't let my advice contradict anything @spool32 or @Belasco32 says, but I graduated college with a 2.2 GPA. I was one step away from being an extra in Animal House, and I have a nice career. I was a prison guard before I "fell into" IT. You're talented, you'll do fine )
I really hope this is an edgy kid and not racist parents.
But even then, the parents had to accept that.
A school wouldn't have let that kid in the front door with that getup. I'm thinking the student walked in that day wearing the suit and quickly put on the armband and Chaplin mustache and got a quick pic when the teacher wasn't looking.
especially since nobody else in the pic is dressed like an "-er" of any kind.
Not even a Helen Keller.
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Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
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bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
Screening batches is a standard practice. And really there should be a screening of all blood. I agree the effect ends of being discriminatory. It comes down to cost, screening isn't free. And usually because you do a batch, one bad donation means a batch is gone.
Though this banning of blood donations gets pretty complicated. Currently folks in zika areas are banned. People who lived in England during Mad Cow are banned. People who recently traveled to certain parts of the world are banned for a specific number of years due to increased risks.
Sadly because of how transmission can occur in specific groups or locations you get these practices out of an abundance of caution.
I really hope this is an edgy kid and not racist parents.
But even then, the parents had to accept that.
A school wouldn't have let that kid in the front door with that getup. I'm thinking the student walked in that day wearing the suit and quickly put on the armband and Chaplin mustache and got a quick pic when the teacher wasn't looking.
especially since nobody else in the pic is dressed like an "-er" of any kind.
Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
What they kinda do is take a random assortment of vials, mix a bit into a batch, test the batch as a whole, then if it comes back with "oh holy shit this is some vile blood bro" they toss all the blood that was in the batch. Then they notify everyone in the batch to get tested I think.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
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Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
oh wait, yeah
The American Red Cross performs laboratory tests for multiple infectious disease markers on every unit of donated blood. Tests are upgraded or replaced with more sensitive technologies as these become available. These tests include:
Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV 3.0)
Human Immunodeficiency viruses, Types 1 and 2 (HIV 1,2)
Human T-Lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I/II)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
West Nile virus (WNV)
So why the hell do we not let gay folks with active sex lives donate?
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i had literally all semester to do it but I'm an IDIOT so I did it in 6 hours last night like some kind of chump
So you're a college student.
(hey, if it helps, and don't let my advice contradict anything @spool32 or @Belasco32 says, but I graduated college with a 2.2 GPA. I was one step away from being an extra in Animal House, and I have a nice career. I was a prison guard before I "fell into" IT. You're talented, you'll do fine )
I'm glad we don't have GPA's where I go (though I don't miss assignments so I'd probably be fine?) but yeah final projects man
there never seems to be enough time, not when there are lots of other smaller assignments to do
i had literally all semester to do it but I'm an IDIOT so I did it in 6 hours last night like some kind of chump
So you're a college student.
(hey, if it helps, and don't let my advice contradict anything @spool32 or @Belasco32 says, but I graduated college with a 2.2 GPA. I was one step away from being an extra in Animal House, and I have a nice career. I was a prison guard before I "fell into" IT. You're talented, you'll do fine )
I'm glad we don't have GPA's where I go (though I don't miss assignments so I'd probably be fine?) but yeah final projects man
there never seems to be enough time, not when there are lots of other smaller assignments to do
What worked for me (and still does) is an excel spreadsheet, color coded, from 5:00 AM to 10:00 PM, that covers everything from waking up, coffee, and a shower, to everything I need to do during the day, mapped out weekly.
Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
oh wait, yeah
The American Red Cross performs laboratory tests for multiple infectious disease markers on every unit of donated blood. Tests are upgraded or replaced with more sensitive technologies as these become available. These tests include:
Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV 3.0)
Human Immunodeficiency viruses, Types 1 and 2 (HIV 1,2)
Human T-Lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I/II)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
West Nile virus (WNV)
So why the hell do we not let gay folks with active sex lives donate?
The idea is that HTLV and HIV spread more quickly depending on how risky the sex is (unprotected anal in this case). But that same logic should apply to couples who engage in anal sex regardless of orientation.
But I think the assumption is that it's not as frequent in non-gay couples, and thus a rounding error?
It's a policy that is a result of blood transfusions in the 80s where a whole bunch of people got HIV from infected blood before they figured out what was going on, and it was mostly a good idea, if not a kneejerk reaction.
I suspect the rule is still in place to reduce testing costs.
not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
Like, have we as a country gotten less dumb about rejecting blood donors due to having a case of the gay?
very slightly. now they ask if you've had gay sex recently rather than ever.
facepalm.jpg
Its dumb as we should just be running general screens on all the blood.
But the logic is not just homophobic. MSM still have the highest rate of new HIV infections in the US.
And it seems mostly among younger MSM now. Those who grew up during the bad years of HIV tend to still have the "wrap it up always" mentality still beat into them.
I agree the logic is not just homophobic.
But the end result is.
When we could just do smaller batches and run batch screenings on everything.
I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
oh wait, yeah
The American Red Cross performs laboratory tests for multiple infectious disease markers on every unit of donated blood. Tests are upgraded or replaced with more sensitive technologies as these become available. These tests include:
Chagas disease (T. cruzi)
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
Hepatitis C virus (HCV 3.0)
Human Immunodeficiency viruses, Types 1 and 2 (HIV 1,2)
Human T-Lymphotropic virus (HTLV-I/II)
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum)
West Nile virus (WNV)
So why the hell do we not let gay folks with active sex lives donate?
Numbers game.
I see two they test for that you will have a higher incidence rate for in MSM populations. Hep C and HIV.
And say you let MSM donate. You gain an increase in donations of maybe 3-5%. But you are throwing out 1% more of your batches you might just break even depending on the size of the test batch.
What probably should happen is say open a limited geographic area. See the amount lost verse gained and if it is feasible to spread the new guidelines.
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SOME GUY: Can we agree, President-elect Trump, that at this stage it would be better for you to stop watching SNL as opposed to watching it and then complaining about it?
SURFPOSSUM: haha yeah good point whatever comedy guy you are
DONALD TRUMP: Well,
SURF: wait what
TRUMP: I hosted SNL when it was a good show but it's not a good show anymore. First of all, nothing to do with me, there's nothing funny about it, the skits are terrible.
SURF: omg
MATT LAUER: So why do you keep watching?
TRUMP: I like Alec, but his imitation of me is really mean-spirited and not very good. [...] And I don't like it.
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A school wouldn't have let that kid in the front door with that getup. I'm thinking the student walked in that day wearing the suit and quickly put on the armband and Chaplin mustache and got a quick pic when the teacher wasn't looking.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
So you're a college student.
(hey, if it helps, and don't let my advice contradict anything @spool32 or @Belasco32 says, but I graduated college with a 2.2 GPA. I was one step away from being an extra in Animal House, and I have a nice career. I was a prison guard before I "fell into" IT. You're talented, you'll do fine
...huh
especially since nobody else in the pic is dressed like an "-er" of any kind.
Not even a Helen Keller.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
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I thought they did screen everything?
That's why they take those extra vials.
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Screening batches is a standard practice. And really there should be a screening of all blood. I agree the effect ends of being discriminatory. It comes down to cost, screening isn't free. And usually because you do a batch, one bad donation means a batch is gone.
Though this banning of blood donations gets pretty complicated. Currently folks in zika areas are banned. People who lived in England during Mad Cow are banned. People who recently traveled to certain parts of the world are banned for a specific number of years due to increased risks.
Sadly because of how transmission can occur in specific groups or locations you get these practices out of an abundance of caution.
also the school had to let him in
what the fuck, adults
you had one job
Ooooh that's a good one
What they kinda do is take a random assortment of vials, mix a bit into a batch, test the batch as a whole, then if it comes back with "oh holy shit this is some vile blood bro" they toss all the blood that was in the batch. Then they notify everyone in the batch to get tested I think.
oh wait, yeah
So why the hell do we not let gay folks with active sex lives donate?
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Quicktime
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Silverlight
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
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Fuck Joe Manchin
I'm glad we don't have GPA's where I go (though I don't miss assignments so I'd probably be fine?) but yeah final projects man
there never seems to be enough time, not when there are lots of other smaller assignments to do
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The idea is that HTLV and HIV spread more quickly depending on how risky the sex is (unprotected anal in this case). But that same logic should apply to couples who engage in anal sex regardless of orientation.
But I think the assumption is that it's not as frequent in non-gay couples, and thus a rounding error?
It's a policy that is a result of blood transfusions in the 80s where a whole bunch of people got HIV from infected blood before they figured out what was going on, and it was mostly a good idea, if not a kneejerk reaction.
I suspect the rule is still in place to reduce testing costs.
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Thank god I thought it was just me.
I ate so much of that and I was just
Pooping so much
I didn't know I could poop that much
Numbers game.
I see two they test for that you will have a higher incidence rate for in MSM populations. Hep C and HIV.
And say you let MSM donate. You gain an increase in donations of maybe 3-5%. But you are throwing out 1% more of your batches you might just break even depending on the size of the test batch.
What probably should happen is say open a limited geographic area. See the amount lost verse gained and if it is feasible to spread the new guidelines.
I don't know why I'm still surprised.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...