What is your BLOOD type?

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ltk007

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I'm A, B, or O, I don't know which. I just know I'm not AB. How I know this, I don't know. I guess I should find out what I am :p
 

Fathom4

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I used to have the following on the back of my motorcycle helmet:


"In Case of Emergency Blood Type A Positive"
 

Zorba

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Fathom: LMAO :)

ChrichtonsGirl: O- is the universal donor type. AB+ is the universal reciever (They can get blood from any other blood type).

Okay: I am A+, and my genes are O A and + +. :)
 

reitz

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O pos, and yes I know harrassment from the bloodbanks quite well :)

<< I have never donated blood (not even for extra credit point in my college calc class) and unless its a family emergency, I never will.

I HATE the idea.
>>

That's pretty fscking sad. I really should flame your ass, but you aren't worth it.

Asshole.
 

Dameon

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AB +

= Universal Receiver. I accept any and all blood (assuming no Hepatitis or HIV). Less than 3% of the population could accept my blood without dying. How nice. Let's just say the local blood bank doesn't pound down my door like you O negative people... and I'm quite thankful for it.
 

Ranger X

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Is it O- that is the universal donor? What about O+? Actually I'm not sure if I'm positive or negative but all I know is they want my blood!
 

Topher

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B-positive.

Two easy ways of getting out of donating blood:

  1. be under 100 pounds, my wife has never been able to donate.
  1. tell them you just got back from the tropics and had to take anti-malarial medication (I forget the name) - that should hold them for 3 years.
 

Fardringle

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Mine's O+. Cracks me up how often blood banks try to get me to donate. (I have Narcolepsy and can't give blood...)
 

Balt

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<<AB +

= Universal Receiver. I accept any and all blood (assuming no Hepatitis or HIV). Less than 3% of the population could accept my blood without dying. How nice. Let's just say the local blood bank doesn't pound down my door like you O negative people... and I'm quite thankful for it.>>


Well, Dameon, at least if you die young they will definitely be fighting over your organs (assuming you are an organ donor). ;)

I'm sure there since there aren't many AB's out there, they grab their organs whenever they can. They generally try to get the closest match possible with organs since the body likes to reject them (even sometimes with the drugs receivers have to go on).
 

DesignDawg

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Actually, Noriaki...

<< I'm going to go for red when oxygenated, and blue when not. >>

Well, then, you're gonna go for WRONG. Your blood is NEVER blue, oxygenated or not. Common mistake, but quite wrong nonetheless.

Ricky
DesignDawg
 

Frenchie

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O Neg. here.

And DesignDawg is right...no such thing as blue blood. Merely the way it appears through our skin.
 

reitz

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Ranger X,

O neg is the universal donor, but your blood type is the most common in the US (I believe it's something like 65% of caucasians have that blood type). It's only high in demand because so many other people O pos.