Chuchote wrote: » Eight litres buzzing around an adult male, I think, but am open to correction.
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.
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.
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.
bp_me wrote: » I have been told that once your first donation is before your diagnosis they will continue to accept it afterwards.
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/
....weight of 150 to 180 pounds will contain approximately 4.7 to 5.5 liters.....
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?
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.
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).
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.
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 footpathshttp://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/cyclists-and-footpaths-1.2800107 with this jewel of thinking:
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
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.
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.
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).
tomasrojo wrote: » I thought it was just something that happened to bikesnobnyc .
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 ......
Dermot Illogical wrote: » You need to go faster.
tomasrojo wrote: » Bakfiets with two kids. I am but flesh and blood.
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
