Beefy's Corner - The Off-Topic Chat Thread

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Relentless Saint Supertramp said:
Left work early to go give blood today. Got home, dropped my bag off, walked to the blood giving place. Got turned away because they were fully booked and I didn't have an appointment. Well...I suppose that's a good thing. Lots of people donating. But it's annoying for me, I've never needed an appointment in all the years I've been donating, and can't book one due to the nature of my job. I have good veins, am a quick bleeder and can just get up and walk straight out after whereas some people take ages to bleed out and have wait ages sitting their because they get dizzy. I'm sure they could have squeezed me in. Anyway. Rant over.
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And there's the ones who faint at the sight of a needle.

No wonder they're always asking for blood donations if they're turning away perfectly healthy donors for no reason...
 
Relentless Saint Supertramp said:
Left work early to go give blood today. Got home, dropped my bag off, walked to the blood giving place. Got turned away because they were fully booked and I didn't have an appointment. Well...I suppose that's a good thing. Lots of people donating. But it's annoying for me, I've never needed an appointment in all the years I've been donating, and can't book one due to the nature of my job. I have good veins, am a quick bleeder and can just get up and walk straight out after whereas some people take ages to bleed out and have wait ages sitting their because they get dizzy. I'm sure they could have squeezed me in. Anyway. Rant over.
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I am giving blood on the 8th. I am also like you and can go in, give blood and be out in 20 minutes.
 
Downthe36 said:
Elizabeth Fry is on the back of our current £5 notes.
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She is? Well, if that is so, then I don't see why having Jane Austen as a bank note figure is a gender issue as it's not like there's no female representation but more of a "she deserves to be on due to her contribution to British literature" issue. Saying that, I'd go for Florence Nightingale or someone. I can't think of many famous British female figures tbh.... Plenty of non-British female figures though.
 
PompeyLapras said:
She is? Well, if that is so, then I don't see why having Jane Austen as a bank note figure is a gender issue as it's not like there's no female representation but more of a "she deserves to be on due to her contribution to British literature" issue. Saying that, I'd go for Florence Nightingale or someone. I can't think of many famous British female figures tbh.... Plenty of non-British female figures though.
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If you read up on Florence Nightingale, she wasn't quite as great as she's been made out to be. Much like Mother Theresa.....
 
PompeyLapras said:
She is? Well, if that is so, then I don't see why having Jane Austen as a bank note figure is a gender issue as it's not like there's no female representation but more of a "she deserves to be on due to her contribution to British literature" issue. Saying that, I'd go for Florence Nightingale or someone. I can't think of many famous British female figures tbh.... Plenty of non-British female figures though.
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Don't tell the feminists that, they think they have won against their oppressive male leaders.
 
PompeyLapras said:
She is? Well, if that is so, then I don't see why having Jane Austen as a bank note figure is a gender issue as it's not like there's no female representation but more of a "she deserves to be on due to her contribution to British literature" issue. Saying that, I'd go for Florence Nightingale or someone. I can't think of many famous British female figures tbh.... Plenty of non-British female figures though.
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I just don't think Jane Austen nor Florence Nightingale can hold a candle to Charles Darwin, who is the one being replaced. It's no secret that historically there are far more culturally significant men than women, because historically women didn't really get out of the house much. It seems like they're trying to force gender equality a little too hard, and it actually seems the opposite of progressive to me.
 
PompeyLapras said:
She is? Well, if that is so, then I don't see why having Jane Austen as a bank note figure is a gender issue as it's not like there's no female representation but more of a "she deserves to be on due to her contribution to British literature" issue. Saying that, I'd go for Florence Nightingale or someone. I can't think of many famous British female figures tbh.... Plenty of non-British female figures though.
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Maybe feminists were concerned by the low denomination of the note involved! ;)
 
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