Afternoon
I went for a jolly jog to Greenwich Park it was rather good. Lots of dog walkers walking their dogs and people with children on little bikes and that kind of thing. Very wholesome, sunny and pleasant.

Makes me want to do a big pile of massive drugs... it's been a long time.

Are you a grown up now?
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:03, archived)

I'm giving blood.
Annoyed by how long I have to wait, and the insistence on playing Radio 2 loud on a bad sound system.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:05, archived)

You know, I'm growing to hate giving blood.
It wipes me out for a couple of weeks or a month, and the venues are always loud, chaotic, and alienating.
Maybe I'm not healthy enough to be doing this so often.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:15, archived)

I would like to give blood
But I'm anaemic and on blood thinners, so I can't
( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:31, archived)

I find it very weird that there's a question on the questionnaire you have to fill in
saying "Have you ever had sex while on drugs?", with the idea being that you can't donate if the answer is yes.

I mean, the honest answer would be yes, loads, but only with my wife, or a previous long-term girlfriend. It's not like fucking while high is going to spontaneously generate the bad-Aids virus in your bloodstream, is it?
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Sun 2 Mar 2025, 13:58, archived)

Actually, there are some fuckwits out there who think it will.
The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services, for example.
( Invisible Wizard - 10th Level Nerf-herder, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 14:28, archived)

I think the people who wrote the questionnaire probably think the way 'drugs' work
is that a previously normal person does a line of coke or half a pill and then immediately gets the urge to rush out and find a prostitute to have unprotected anal sex with.

When by the worst thing for making people take stupid risks is booze, but they can't very well say "no blood from anyone who's had sex while shitfaced", because that would rule out anyone who isn't either a virgin or an observant Muslim.
( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Sun 2 Mar 2025, 16:43, archived)

The correct answer is
"You mean you can have sex without drugs?"
( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 17:54, archived)

Ha, I'll try that next time.

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Sun 2 Mar 2025, 20:10, archived)

I'm going to donate tomorrow
so if any of you have a nasty accident you could end up with a some of Garold in you hur hur hur!!!
( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 15:33, archived)

MAMA MIA that's a spicy meatball

( brb natural fistic, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 23:58, archived)

I am currently suffering with painful haemorrhoids
So yes, I'm squarely in middle age territory
( Smash Monkey 2 Anyone know a good therapist in South Africa?, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:12, archived)

:(

( Mr. Tea 'ulmmm'/'mmneurgh', Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:52, archived)

Yeah. I get this from time to time.

( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 15:34, archived)

What an absurd question to ask on /talk.

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:16, archived)

And this is normally such an anti-absurdist place, too.

( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:31, archived)

b3ta.com/talk/8439568
( Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 12:30, archived)

I don't know, garold

( mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 13:08, archived)

Well. That's alright.

( garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 15:34, archived)

WE'RE THE YOUNGEST MEN ALIVE

( brb natural fistic, Sun 2 Mar 2025, 16:57, archived)