No more free Guinness after donating blood

recylingbin

sunday times wrote:

A pint of plain may be your only man — just don’t expect one after you donate a pint of blood. Guinness, whose best-known advertising campaign proclaimed that its stout “was good for you”, has scrapped the long-standing tradition of providing free drink to blood donors.

Diageo, its parent company, has decided to abandon the tradition of providing complimentary bottles of Guinness to the Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS). “We felt this style and type of donation was not best suited to us now,” said Grainne Mackin, for Diageo. “Guinness has long stopped promoting the product as medicinal and we want to be in full alignment with our voluntary marketing code. It wasn’t driven by any commercial agenda.”

Paddy Bowler, the director of operations at the IBTS, said it considered offering a free Guinness to every donor by buying the drink itself, but decided against it. “The government is going to lower the blood alcohol limits for drivers,” he said. “So we didn’t feel it was appropriate to supply alcohol at the clinics any more, particularly those down the country.”
Instead, blood donors will be offered a cup of tea and a biscuit, or a non-alcoholic drink, along with small tokens such as a pens, key-rings or balloons for their children.

David Fitzpatrick, 37, a postman from Gorey, Co Wexford, who has been giving blood for 20 years was surprised when he did not receive a Guinness after a recent donation. “I thought they’d decided I was getting too old or they’d given me enough black stuff after 20 donations,” he said. “This won’t deter me. My main reason for giving blood is to help people.”

Fitzpatrick said he had always enjoyed his post-donation Guinness: “I was always informed that Guinness is good for replacing your iron levels and when is a better time to do that than after relieving yourself of a pint of blood?”

The IBTS, which needs to collect 3,000 units of blood a week to maintain supplies, said few donors had been accepting the offer of a Guinness by the time Diageo stopped providing it.

Bad form.

DrumSteve

its a bleedin disgrace.

gurramok

Bloody hell, i'm red with rage over this

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

This was posted back when this was news op :P

I love their adverts around the world. Funny tripe Guinness makes you strong, guinness makes you fertile etc etc...

JONJO THE MISER

Very bad form, its all these new fangled marketing people they have got in the last few years trying to appeal to a new market, they should leave things as they are.

Fago!

And god also hates ni**ers

nucking futs

What does the thread title have to do with anything?

NothingMan

As long as I still get my lollipop after I donate semen i'm happy.

Pherekydes

Me, shortly after donating: I've just given you a pint of blood, and you are offering me that vile crap?

Her: So that's tea then, is it?

DrumSteve

Fago! wrote: »

And god also hates ni**ers

And dont forget the fags.

Hank_Jones

NothingMan wrote: »

As long as I still get my lollipop after I donate semen i'm happy.

As long as that semem doesn't get used to produce a child, I'm happy.

NothingMan

Hank_Jones wrote: »

As long as that semem doesn't get used to produce a child, I'm happy.

Don't worry, it's sent to Holland and bottled as a face creme.

recylingbin

nucking futs wrote: »

What does the thread title have to do with anything?

I bet you pay mensa money to tell you that you're super clever.

nucking futs

recylingbin wrote: »

I bet you pay mensa money to tell you that you're super clever.

The fact that you can't give me an answer tells me everything I need to know about you

Bazzy

DrumSteve wrote: »

And dont forget the fags.

And the brits

Mint Sauce

and this has to do with white people because...

DrumSteve

Bazzy wrote: »

And the brits

And he particularly hates the *insert ethnic minority here*

lizardfudge

Pfft... it's only thing that ever made me possibly think about considering maybe giving blood.

Rented Mule

NothingMan wrote: »

As long as I still get my lollipop after I donate semen i'm happy.

Fr. Murphy ......is that you ?

rainbowdrop

Fago! wrote: »

And god also hates ni**ers

DrumSteve wrote: »

And dont forget the fags.

Bazzy wrote: »

And the brits

And don't forget the headshops and the civil servants......

orourkeda

I blame the romanians

DrumSteve

rainbowdrop wrote: »

And don't forget the headshops and the civil servants......

you know i dont mind the headshops.

cant get head in them though.:(

stovelid

“This won’t deter me. My main reason for giving blood is to help people.”

Anybody else get the feeling he was flogging blood for free beer?

Dudess

A cup of tea and a biscuit - ace.

lizardfudge

I dunno... any time I lost a large quantity of blood I've always had a craving for Guinness... not tea and a biscuit...

m@cc@

A: Arthur Guinness has been dead of a couple of centuries

B: What does blood donations have to do with ethnicity?

raah!

irish-stew wrote: »

and this has to do with white people because...

Perhaps it's refering to people being pale after having given blood. Either way it's a very irritating and unfunny thread title.

OutlawPete

WTF HAS THIS GOT TO DO WITH WHITE PEOPLE???

Hello!!!

McFLy .. anyone home?

Min

There were alcoholics on the radio complaining about this, no more blood if they didn't get their free drink of Guinness.

bazmaiden

Dudess wrote: »

A cup of tea and a biscuit - ace.

If its a mother*uckin' digestive i'd be demanding my blood back intravenously.

The Master

Thread title edited

ejmaztec

Guinness is run by a bunch of complete clots.