Jan and Klodi's Party Bus - part II **off topic discussion**

robyntmorton

Chuchote wrote: »

Eight litres buzzing around an adult male, I think, but am open to correction.

Average adult body, 150-180 pounds, has 4.7-5.5 litres of blood, or so the google machine tells me.

Scientists estimate the volume of blood in a human body to be approximately 7 percent of body weight. An average adult body with a weight of 150 to 180 pounds will contain approximately 4.7 to 5.5 liters (1.2 to 1.5 gallons) of blood. An average child with a body weight of 80 pounds will have approximately half the amount of blood as an adult.

Src: http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-much-blood-is-in-your-body/

koutoubia

Chuchote wrote: »

I think you give a litre. I'd do it, but they won't take my nasty asthmatic blood; not sure if this is because of medication or because asthmatics need all the blood they have to rush the oxygen to their giant brains.

Its 470ml I believe.
I am Asthmatic (and have no Team Sky kit) and they still took my armful!

bp_me

magicbastarder wrote: »

i have to get checked soon for haemochromatosis.
if diagnosed, i would have to give blood on a periodic basis (sounds very victorian, a bit like bloodletting); but as far as i know, even though the blood is useful, due to high iron content, it can't be used, as the BTSB have in their constitution that blood donations must be altruistic, and haemochromatosis patients are not giving blood altruistically. though i suspect if i am diagnosed, i'll find out if there's any truth in that.

I have been told that once your first donation is before your diagnosis they will continue to accept it afterwards.

Fighting Tao

bp_me wrote: »

I have been told that once your first donation is before your diagnosis they will continue to accept it afterwards.

Not true. My father has it and since diagnosed can't give it again. He goes to the blood clinic in St. James's to get blood taken every now and again. It was originally every week or two. The blood taken now is either destroyed or used for research.

Chuchote

robyntmorton wrote: »

Average adult body, 150-180 pounds, has 4.7-5.5 litres of blood, or so the google machine tells me.

Src: http://wonderopolis.org/wonder/how-much-blood-is-in-your-body/

Ah, I realise now I was thinking in old money. Eight pints in a man, I think.

Wishbone Ash

....weight of 150 to 180 pounds will contain approximately 4.7 to 5.5 liters.....

My head hurts. I can cope with imperial and metric mixed together.

Like lads saying they are going to do 25 miles in 1 hour averaging 40km/h. WTF?

robyntmorton

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

My head hurts. I can cope with imperial and metric mixed together.

Like lads saying they are going to do 25 miles in 1 hour averaging 40km/h. WTF?

So I can't go 100,000 cubits at 100 rods per minute?

(I completely agree that it is daft to mix units like that)

Chuchote

I've never found fixmystreet to have any use whatsoever. Dublin City Council also, apparently, has a Service Requests portal, http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-your-council/isupport - you can report broken street surfaces, abandoned bicycles, dumping, etc.

Wishbone Ash

Chuchote wrote: »

I've never found fixmystreet to have any use whatsoever. Dublin City Council also, apparently, has a Service Requests portal, http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-your-council/isupport - you can report broken street surfaces, abandoned bicycles, dumping, etc.

It works well for street lights for me anyway. I have one at the front of my house and another at the side. Whenever a bulb goes, I report it and it usually sorted within a day or two.(I'm in the Fingal CC area).

Chuchote

Wishbone Ash wrote: »

It works well for street lights for me anyway. I have one at the front of my house and another at the side. Whenever a bulb goes, I report it and it usually sorted within a day or two.(I'm in the Fingal CC area).

I've reported broken road surfaces in Rathmines/Rathgar for several years; nothing has been done. I've reported graffiti; nothing has been done.

Today's indignant letter in The Irish Times calls for massive fines for cycling on footpaths

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/cyclists-and-footpaths-1.2800107

with this jewel of thinking:

This law should be enforced because cyclists do not have third-party insurance. If knocked down and injured by a cyclist, a pedestrian would be unlikely to obtain compensation.

manafana

Chuchote wrote: »

I've reported broken road surfaces in Rathmines/Rathgar for several years; nothing has been done. I've reported graffiti; nothing has been done.

Today's indignant letter in The Irish Times calls for massive fines for cycling on footpaths

http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/cyclists-and-footpaths-1.2800107

with this jewel of thinking:

compensation Joe.

Crocked

The blood clinic really have a terrible website. I've tried setting up notifications a half dozens times for them to contact me when there's next a clinic in the area.

Not once has a reminder come through. Inevitably then when I remember to check the website I have missed it by a week or two. Haven't bothered in the last 18 months to check.

I just checked their site out of curiosity. Despite having setup up notifications for two locations near me, I didn't hear anything from them about two dates in the last month when they were there. They aren't there again now in either location for the rest of the year according to their calendar.

Also they go to the bother of putting the clinics on a google map so you can see where it is, but none of the clinics near me are shown in the correct place. Why bother putting it on the map and putting it in the wrong place.

Absolute cluster**** of a site

Chuchote

Sounds drastic. Maybe you could do what my sister does - she's a kind of reverse vampire - she puts the date of next donation in her calendar.

Harrybelafonte

Crocked wrote: »

The blood clinic really have a terrible website. I've tried setting up notifications a half dozens times for them to contact me when there's next a clinic in the area.

Not once has a reminder come through. Inevitably then when I remember to check the website I have missed it by a week or two. Haven't bothered in the last 18 months to check.

I just checked their site out of curiosity. Despite having setup up notifications for two locations near me, I didn't hear anything from them about two dates in the last month when they were there. They aren't there again now in either location for the rest of the year according to their calendar.

Also they go to the bother of putting the clinics on a google map so you can see where it is, but none of the clinics near me are shown in the correct place. Why bother putting it on the map and putting it in the wrong place.

Absolute cluster**** of a site

Send them an email pointing out that you're very forgetful and need to be spoon-fed information and maybe they'll send someone to the house to take the blood for you. Good knows we all have so many things going on in our modern lives.

Chuchote

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Send them an email pointing out that you're very forgetful and need to be spoon-fed information and maybe they'll send someone to the house to take the blood for you. Good knows we all have so many things going on in our modern lives.

Oooh, saucer of milk for Table 13 #mrkgnao

ThisRegard

Crocked wrote: »

notifications a half dozens times for them to contact me when there's next a clinic in the area.

Chuchote wrote: »

Sounds drastic. Maybe you could do what my sister does - she's a kind of reverse vampire - she puts the date of next donation in her calendar.

I'm O negative so my blood is the liquid gold of the blood industry. I used to work in the city centre so would drop in at lunch or after work to donate. When visiting a client I'd drop into the one out in Stillorgan.

We moved office so I'm rarely in the city centre anymore. They'd often call me and I'd explain this but it appears the facility is not there to note this and chase you up when there's a mobile clinic local to you (most of us need the push). Last time I went to the mobile one there was a massive wait, which can be an issue if you've kids to get back to.

But thanks to this thread it made me check their calendar again, and I see there was one near me last week, and on a Sunday which I was never aware they did. Balls I missed that, and there's no more scheduled until November, and it's midweek.

daragh_

Shout-out to the awesome cycling hero on the Merrion Road this morning.

Your impressive display of bike handling skills is sure to win the hearts and minds of the commuting public. That bit where you rode at speed along the path, bunny hopped back onto the road in front of your fellow cyclists and then back onto the path again (because we were all too slow getting out of your way - sorry) really demonstrated your innate superiority to us mere mortals.

Stay classy brother.

tomasrojo

I had an "On your right!" merchant today on the cycle track. I thought it was just something that happened to bikesnobnyc (adjust for road chirality).

Crocked

Harrybelafonte wrote: »

Send them an email pointing out that you're very forgetful and need to be spoon-fed information and maybe they'll send someone to the house to take the blood for you. Good knows we all have so many things going on in our modern lives.

Nah, if they are pretending to offer a service they can provide it. If not then don't offer it.

Crocked

Chuchote wrote: »

Sounds drastic. Maybe you could do what my sister does - she's a kind of reverse vampire - she puts the date of next donation in her calendar.

As of today their calendar for the next 4 months show no dates at those locations

Dermot Illogical

tomasrojo wrote: »

I had an "On your right!" merchant today on the cycle track. I thought it was just something that happened to bikesnobnyc (adjust for road chirality).

You need to go faster.

Rogue-Trooper

tomasrojo wrote: »

I thought it was just something that happened to bikesnobnyc .

Nice road rage video at the bottom of that article (Note: colourful language used throughout! NSFW so put your headphones on)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC7eFj88X6c

He 'sort of' apologises here (as in he says he's sorry for the 'words he used' which to me is not an apology)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=virjGCSzkUk

shaka

RobFowl wrote: »

Lads and lasses on a serious note if you can please do follow Koutobias lead and give blood, you will not have any ill effects and will have replaced it naturally within a month.

You could save a life and more often than not the live of a premature baby.

Go for it ......

Not eligible I'm afraid, won't take it from me as I've Crohns..

Think they take it in other countries but not here.

CramCycle

In my OHs old job she used to ring them up and organise a mobile collection site to come round to her building and collect. Once they know there is a reasonable number of feet on the ground, they may do the same elsewhere. I think it was the Stillorgan clinic she got.

Her old job was in the South County business park.

tomasrojo

Dermot Illogical wrote: »

You need to go faster.

Bakfiets with two kids. I am but flesh and blood.

Chuchote

tomasrojo wrote: »

Bakfiets with two kids. I am but flesh and blood.

Get a three-person tandem and put the little sprogs to work

Though otoh, didn't George Hook's parents ride a tandem… hmm…

Beasty

Used to donate platelets every 2-4 weeks in Manchester. Have over 200 blood, plasma and platelet donations credited in total. Not been able to donate anything since moving to Ireland

ednwireland

Beasty wrote: »

Used to donate platelets every 2-4 weeks in Manchester. Have over 200 blood, plasma and platelet donations credited in total. Not been able to donate anything since moving to Ireland

always gave blood when i lived in england, havent been able to since i moved here but very grateful to everyone who donatessince needing 5 units when in hospital a couple of years ago.

magicbastarder

i see the blanch wheelies made it onto the opening of the GCN show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcRe3HqpQf0

clog

I don't know the area but is that a campagnolo sign above the toilet roll.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/youd-swear-a-horse-did-it-dublin-shop-owner-hunts-for-man-who-repeatedly-defecates-outside-his-shop-35072932.html