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Do you know what hospital you were born in?

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John Connor said:
It's on the birth certificate, OP. I even know the time I was born!
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I know that, I don't have an issue with how to find it. Anybody could find out. The question is if you know from memory. It seems to be "common knowledge" but I don't know why.
 
gorcorps said:
I know that, I don't have an issue with how to find it. Anybody could find out. The question is if you know from memory. It seems to be "common knowledge" but I don't know why.
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Well, I don't think I would call it common knowledge. I guess it comes down to if memory serves me right I recall being born at such & such hospital according to my certificate.

Now that being said. My thinking, based on watching Watters World on FoxNews's O'reilly Factor. People don't even hardly know who the current secretary of state is let along their own damn birth hospital.

So, I wouldn't expect a lot of people to know really.

And to those that don't know. You know who you are. John Kerry.
 
I know it since it is a semi-common security question.

And with that said and on a side note: why are security questions usually easy to find questions? Seriously stupid
 
If you can manage it, never use a real answer to a security question. Like if the question is: What is your favorite color? Answer "dirt." If the question is what was the street you lived on in the sixth grade. Answer "traffic cone."

My mind works like that and I have my own way of remembering very long passwords. In fact, my computers are encrypted with Truecrypt and have a password that is over twenty characters long committed to memory. I use the song method. Where is you take the fisrt letter of a song lyrics to make the password and add numbers and symbols.

All The Leaves Are Brown And The Sky IS Grey becomes. atlabatsig. Add numbers. atlabatsig7765. Add symbols. atlabatsig7765%$). Make it even better: atlabatsig2+2=4, etc, etc.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
 
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John Connor said:
If you can manage it, never use a real answer to a security question. Like if the question is: What is your favorite color? Answer "dirt." If the question is what was the street you lived on in the sixth grade. Answer "traffic cone."

My mind works like that and I have my own way of remembering very long passwords. In fact, my computers are encrypted with Truecrypt and have a password that is over twenty characters long committed to memory. I use the song method. Where is you take the fisrt letter of a song lyrics to make the password and add numbers and symbols.

All The Leaves Are Brown And The Sky IS Grey becomes. atlabatsig. Add numbers. atlabatsig7765. Add symbols. atlabatsig7765%$). Make it even better: atlabatsig2+2=4, etc, etc.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
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That's because MargaretThatcheris110%sexy it easy to remember
 
I grew up across the street from the hospital that I was born in, so I know exactly where it is.
 
John Connor said:
I was delivered by a bald eagle.
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That was the 2nd drop off. The stork delivered the 1st time and Daddy eagle said, "Oh, fucking hell no." To this day, Mama eagle protests her innocence and Daddy eagle still gives the potoo neighbors the evil eye.


I live 1100ft, as the crow flies, from the hospital I was born in.
 
Alaska Regional Hospital, Anchorage Alaska.

Why wouldn't someone know this? It's on birth certs too? I know all three of my kids as well, all three different.
 
Ackmed said:
Why wouldn't someone know this?
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How many people know their blood type? I don't. Always wanted to know. And now that I think of it. I had a full blown blood test and I might have been able to find out when I had that done. This summer I suppose I'll have another blood test. I'll have to ask my Doc if he can tell me my blood type.
 
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John Connor said:
How many people now their blood type? I don't. Always wanted to know. And now that I think of it. I had a full blown blood test and I might have been able to find out when I had that done. This summer I suppose I'll have another blood test. I'll have to ask my Doc if he can tell me my blood type.
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It's on your blood donor card....duh.


You do donate blood, right?
 
Yeah mine is on my donor card, I'm A-. Donated about 17 times so far. Sometimes I can't go due to work or other reasons so I'm not really a full time but I try to go when I can, when they're in town.

My first time I started to see stars and feel a bit feint, but all the other times after I was fine.
 
John Connor said:
I thought about donating, but after my Bro told me how much the vampires drain from you I said hell no.
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1 pint...so what. Before I got old, I'd give a pint in the AM and still ride the bike for an hour in the evening. And you get a free t-shirt to ruin doing dirty jobs around the house.
 
John Connor said:
I thought about donating, but after my Bro told me how much the vampires drain from you I said hell no.
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It is just a pint and you're mostly fine afterwards. At most, you're a bit tired for the day. However, the Red Cross calls you once a month after you donate. I don't know if it is because I'm O+ or they do that to all people who donate. So annoying! But I'll do it anyways.

highland145 said:
1 pint...so what. Before I got old, I'd give a pint in the AM and still ride the bike for an hour in the evening. And you get a free t-shirt to ruin doing dirty jobs around the house.
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Depends who the sponsor is. Dunkin gives you a free 12oz bag of coffee 🙂
 
gorcorps said:
Just curious. This came up talking to some friends. They all seem to know what hospital they were born in, but all I know is the city. Is this a common thing to know and I've just never bothered, or is this a regional thing here?
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Yes, but possibly only because it had a well-known history/backstory and closed down as a general-purpose hospital not long after I was born, so I heard about it in that context even as a kid. Its semi-official/popular name was also a bit unusual as hospital names go ("Flower/Fifth Avenue"), so that probably helped, too...

ETA: I don't recall it ever really coming up much in general conversation, so I have no idea if most of the people I know do/don't know where they were born... In my own family, my mother was born at home, my brother was born in a (presumably "the") Army hospital in Augusta, GA, whatever that was in the mid-50s, and my father's memory for historical information like that is.. frankly, I honestly can't think of a simile for anything near as bad as that😉 so I have no idea if he has any real memory of it, or even if he thinks he does, whether it's accurate. Based on where he lived, it was likely whatever Columbia-Presbyterian was called back in the 1930s... And last, but not least, (being an adult at the time) I know where my brother's kids were born, but off the top of my head, I'm not sure they do, though I'm sure they were told at some point(s) or another...
 
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