h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

because those who indulge in hetro sexual anal sex are not banned from donating, or those who regularly employ sex workers

Exactly. The ban was a knee-jerk reaction to the idea that AIDS and HIV affected only gay men and I'm glad to see the back of such institutionalised homophobia

So, do homosexual men think it is reasonable that they refrain from gay sex for a year before giving blood?

The logic is that all donated blood should be tested
for all the potentially nazti germs and not just
presume that some people will have them and others
will not.

A friend of mine died last week from hepatitis C
contracted from tainted blood. We had quite a
scandal here in Canada a decade or so ago.

And people are still dying from Hep-C and HIV they
got from infected blood, yes by the thousands, because
the Red Cross didn't check for everything if there
was no apparent reason to suspect a donor.


~jwf~

Arsenal force Spanish woman to change name of her hat shop

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/article/66828/

This post has been removed.

Since I am unable to reply to ad hominems I shall now leave this forum.

I will try again with words removed to prevent the yikeing(?) SWL: Having not replied to my last comment: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=502685&skip=12106&show=1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=502685&skip=12119&show=1 I take the opportunity to explain to you the objection I had of your post 12086 SWL: You posted @@@@@@ material on this thread and dedicated it to me [@@@@@@: one needs to click on the link within post 1208] http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=502685&skip=12085&show=1 After my objection you claimed your motivation for the post was for my benefit and claimed it supported some posts I made on another thread. Yet you didn't withdraw the post after I objected and you then revealed you posted it from a sense of grievance: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=502685&skip=12103&show=1 then http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=502685&skip=12105&show=1 It therefore would seem your post was not for my "benefit". If this is indeed the case what then can one conclude regarding the motivation and meaning of your post with its @@@@@@ content? What is slightly more troubling is that the post came from someone with an intimate knowledge of the @@@ @@@ @@@@@@@@@@ @@@: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F19585?thread=8270234&skip=0&show=2 I shall now [attempt to] address Orcus' comments on the other thread

Maybe we should also have a light news thread?

Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14842999

Now that's really very funny!

It doesn't even need the link.
The very idea in your description is enuff!

Oh OK, I'll look.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14842999


Damn! It's my Auntie Thel.


~jwf~

Five arrests in 'slavery' raid at Greenacre travellers' site

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-14871318

What caught my eye was - "since 2008 we were aware of 28 people who had made similar accusations."


What the The police were told 28 times that people were being held against their will and forced into some kind of slave labour? 28 times before they did something? Am I missing something here?

Yes, these people have special dispensation for some reason...

Maybe it's 'cultural'?

Not only caught my eye, I was in this story

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-14870889

Not fresh news, but only just found out. Sorry if this has been posted before:

43 die in Russian hockey team plane crash

http://www.examiner.com/airlines-airport-in-national/43-die-russian-hockey-team-plane-crash

And a 44th victim today:

Lokomotiv Crash Survivor Galimov Dies

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/lokomotiv-crash-survivor-galimov-dies/443595.html

'Leak risk after explosion at French nuclear plant'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14883521


Stock up on cheese now I should think.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/13/olympics-pay-deal-tube-drivers

"Tube passengers are set to escape the threat of strike action during next year's Olympics after London Underground (LU) bosses reached a deal with train drivers.

Under the terms of the deal, negotiated with unions led by Aslef and the RMT, all tube drivers will receive a one-off payment of £500 and will be paid more during the Games if they work shifts that finish after 1.30am or last more than eight hours."

Once again the Tube drivers get thier way...the amount of money these people earn is obscene for simply pressing accelerate and brake...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYVJSOFZxDE

its been said before

This one seems to have been hushed up by the rest of media...serious stuff...

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/09/09/homeopathic-leak-threatens-catastrophe/

"An accidental release of highly dilute homeopathic waste from a research institute in Swindon has led to calls for the centre to be shut down. Plant operators have admitted responsibility for massive safety blunders after a spilled drop of an enormously dilute test product was cleaned by a caretaker, and in complete disregard of all safety procedures, allowed to enter the water system after he emptied his mop bucket down the drain."

These homeopaths are playing fast and loose...

"the amount of money these people earn is obscene for simply pressing accelerate and brake..."

Alone, underground, with no natural light, poor ventilation, in a position where 'accident' pretty much means 'death', in London.

Just a bit of extra context for you.