Comments | pucette: Cool factoid for the amateur-geekishly inclined #239487029384 and 5

pucette

Cool factoid for the amateur-geekishly inclined #239487029384 and 5

Mar 08, 2005 09:00

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gingy March 8 2005, 14:35:09 UTC

I have an appointment for apherisis this month.

pucette March 8 2005, 14:47:36 UTC

Platelets? Cool! What made you decide?

beavertails March 8 2005, 15:00:03 UTC

Because she knows that as I work for the blood agency, if she didnt volunteer, she would BE volunteered.

It is part of the new marketing campaign: "Give now or we send the thugs to extract what we need."

gingy March 8 2005, 15:03:44 UTC

No, you bumface. I've been donating since 1992.

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vespered March 8 2005, 14:35:19 UTC

My hairdresser told me that about perms when I got my first one at age 14 to cure the Afro.

Hey, it's been more than 3 years since I had a perm and my hair STILL DOES THE RINGLETS. I think I may have a world record there. ;)

pucette March 8 2005, 14:48:39 UTC

That's pretty intense. My hair wouldn't do ringlets if you paid it. Razzin' frazzin' weak-assed disulfide bonds.

I think you have become one with the afro, though. May drive you bonkers, but totally suits you.

agillious March 8 2005, 16:52:16 UTC

Did not know that it was copper that caused the bluish blood color... good to know. Thanks! :D

davew0071 March 8 2005, 17:52:26 UTC

I was always under the assumption that oxygenated blood was red because it was oxygen mixed with iron; in other words, iron oxide, or rust, in everyday parlance.

But then, I don't nuthin'.

pucette March 9 2005, 01:05:00 UTC

You're totally right on the oxygenation bit, and that still fits in with the copper versions - what oxygen does to iron, it does to copper, except in the case of copper, you end up with blue instead of red.

Maybe you were also thinking about how blood that is oxygenated is brighter red than blood that isn't so oxygenated?

pricciar March 10 2005, 21:12:58 UTC

Giving blood is fun! I will try to do it next week, but I might be too unironed, I try to Popeye it up, but it doesn't always work. I couldn't give for ages because they didn't have a non iodine version of the little pad. They still called and mocked me for iodine allergies. But, now they have it again. So next week! Cookies! And blood.

Is there any medicine I can take to make my blood green? That would be cool to get a cut and see some green ooze coming out. Not like booger green, but like grass green. nice!

pat