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And Then There are the Cold Hearted Snakes
Read the whole thing, then come back and accuse me of being a reactionary right-wing Republican reprobate (ha!) It gives me such a "warm-and-fuzzy" when you do that.
Maybe if any of the blood donation places would hire people with experience finding veins to take blood, instead of first year med students who barely know which end of the needle to use, I'd be inclined to start donating again. Every time I, or in fact any of my friends or family, has tried to donate at any blood donation center in town for the last two years, they've torn the hell out of both our arms before giving up and sending us home. My little brother's fiance ended up with a life-threatening embolism thanks to the clueless "professional" who tried to take blood from her.
And it's nothing to do with "hard-to-find" veins. I gave blood every three months and plasma every week for four years straight, with no problems at all, and I was even fatter and more out of shape then than I am now.
Maybe if any of the blood donation places would hire people with experience finding veins to take blood, instead of first year med students who barely know which end of the needle to use, I'd be inclined to start donating again. Every time I, or in fact any of my friends or family, has tried to donate at any blood donation center in town for the last two years, they've torn the hell out of both our arms before giving up and sending us home. My little brother's fiance ended up with a life-threatening embolism thanks to the clueless "professional" who tried to take blood from her.
And it's nothing to do with "hard-to-find" veins. I gave blood every three months and plasma every week for four years straight, with no problems at all, and I was even fatter and more out of shape then than I am now.
I would also like to add that in no way did I click any button on this submission form more than once.
Posted by: Tatterdemalian on November 30, 2006 05:44 PMIt's a quirk of the site. Always has been. If the thing sits and twirls for more than about two minutes, hit STOP, open a new tab*, and check it. Most of the time, your comment will have been posted.
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* Oh don't worry, I know you're using The Right browser, but there are a lot of Eloi who are only now being blessed with tabbed browsing. This is for them.
Bah, I wish Opera was "the right" browser. Tabs are nice, but being on dialup right now, it pisses me off that I can't turn off image loading and then load specific individual images from the page. IE made it easy to load all the photos on the site without having to wait 30 minutes for every single icon on the page to download.
Plus, Opera's cache system is ridiculously hard to raid. It renames all the files, so you can't just do a filename search if you want to save a specific picture. Text and HTML files aren't even stored in their hative form, but encrypted and compressed in ways I can't begin to decipher.
The only reason I even use Opera Mobile is because it can decode Javascript well enough to properly render web pages that like to screw around with hidden divs, and because it lets me stick the cache on my 2GB storage card, instead of demanding it be located in my 17 remaining MB of main memory.