Well it's either die, or have a slight chance of dying.

You choose.

How many partners have you had in the last 6 monts?

lol damn straight. though there was nothing subtle about it

I've been trying to give blood for a while. When I last went, the machine broke and prevented the stealing of my life fluids.

That, and I probably have a low iron count, which would mean I'm no good.

Don't worry about feeling tired after giving blood. Unless you're a tiny guy, you'll feel fine. After I donated for the first time, I drove up to D.C. for a concert (Minus the Bear!), and I never felt dizzy at all that night.

I gave several times in highschool, we had a blood clinic twice a year.

Since I finished HS I haven't donated, but I think my university has clinics, so if I can fit it in I plan on donating. I'm too lazy to make appointments.

We don't get paid to donate blood or plasma in Canada (not sure about bone marrow or platelets), which sucks. I'd donate as often as possible if I were getting paid (maybe that makes me a bad person).

The Canadian Blood Services website says something about making an appointment, and then "You'll get a hero's welcome, free smiles, and a cookie!" with the italics and everything :p

I donated in high school and a couple of times in college. Never been a big deal. They always told me to take it easy for the rest of the day and to make sure I ate and drank plenty. I didn't feel bad, but I wouldn;t have gone and done anything strenuous afterwards.

I would donate myself, if it weren't for fear of needles.


Oh... how I loathe needles...

No, but free cookies and juice, usually.

[QUOTE=Vincent Valentine]Haha.

Question #27: Are you a slut? _______[/QUOTE]

They have questions very similar to that one, actually. More specific, though.

Edit: Yeah. What Elana said.

I donated for the first time Thursday and passed out... too thin and hadn't eaten much that day, so it was a bad idea. It was my first time though so I wasn't too embarassed... just gotta wait for my metabolism to slow down and my weight to go up. :p

For what it's worth on the gay thing, they had a questionaire beforehand and one of them was "if you are male, have you ever had sex with another man?" (paraphrasing, but I remember the word "ever" because a lot of the questions were time specific... such as 1977+, 1988(?)+). They did have separate questions for AIDS and being a gay male though, which is sad... unless there's another STD I don't know about that they're at higher risk for? I dunno. It was with Bonfils.

Also if you lie on any questions and the blood test reveals that, they report you to the federal government (at least in US and ban you from donating any organs/tissues/etc. afterwards).