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2019-03-09, 04:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
As a programmer, I consider this very bad practice in a markup language. Not only does it introduce inconsistency, as you have to know which tags can't be interleaved (like quotes and spoiler boxes), but it also makes it a lot harder to delete a tag and all content within it, because you'll first have to search the content for any interleaved tags which may not be deleted. Point in case, see my unedited quote of your post.
I'm not sure if this was a worse-than-average spelling of "Mittwoch", or some kind of obscure joke...
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I'm about to add another bullet to my list of life experiences. I've been called to court to witness in a trial one month from now. It's not the most dramatic offense, but still one which could lead to a prison sentence...Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2019-03-09, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-09, 11:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
I will then grow what you do not. I hope that is fair. I am the hairy one.
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Has any one seen my jar of anti-protons or my cyclotron of positrons?
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2019-03-10, 07:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Clouddreamer Teddy by me, high above the world, far beyond its matters...
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2019-03-11, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Well, I just started a binge-catch-up on years worth of missed OoTS comics. What could go wrong?
Also hi folks, I've been away for, uh, a while. How're we doing?Awesome avatar by Shades Of Gray!
I really need to find some new quotes to put here.
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2019-03-11, 09:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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2019-03-11, 09:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Court stuff is the least fun stuff of them all.
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2019-03-11, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Non caerulea sum, Caerulea nomen meum est.
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I'm not not a humanoid. Come not not be one too.
Answer trivial questions in the OOTS trivia thread!
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2019-03-11, 11:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
How many views do you consider to be viral on a Youtube video?
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2019-03-11, 11:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 01:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
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2019-03-11, 02:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
Number of times Roland St. Jude has sworn revenge upon me: 2
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2019-03-11, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 04:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 05:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 05:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
What are the relative values of orange juice compared to human blood, by volume? I want to be sure I'm getting a fair trade{.}
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2019-03-11, 05:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Are you looking for chemical composition? Or the free/black market value? If the later, a pint of blood is typically sold for between $100 and $300, depending on where in the chain the transaction occurs. However, a pint of blood not in a human body requires a significant amount of handling by skilled professionals.
If you are looking to make money off your blood and have veins that are easy to pierce and are willing to go near needles twice a week, you can donate plasma. There are 3 or 4 plasma donation centers near my university. You don't make great money, but it takes about an hour and you can make $15 - $30, making it better per hour than most student jobs.
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2019-03-11, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
I was asking about the free/black market value, but only as a joke. I was also asking for it relative to an equal volume of orange juice, rather than in absolute terms.
I googled the price of orange-juice, and it said about $3 for a gallon, so (going by your estimate of $300 for a pint for blood) the conversion rate is about 800.
In other words, if I wanted to profit by donating blood, it would require some very expensive cookies.Last edited by enderlord99; 2019-03-11 at 06:01 PM.
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2019-03-11, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
What I was trying to say was that what it costs to give blood (some elements, amino acids, time, and pain) is not the only reason that hospitals charge $300 to patients who need a pint of blood. There are also the phlebotomists who drew the blood, the costs of beds for people to lie on as their bodily fluids are removed through a drinking straw, the refrigerated transport to move blood from donation to use, the various levels of bureaucracy involved in all this, and so on and so forth. I suspect that if blood donation could be compensated, that the price paid to a donor would be in the $30 - $80 range.
All this makes me wish that artificial blood were easier to gain approval for clinical trial.
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2019-03-11, 09:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 10:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 10:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-11, 11:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-12, 12:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Well, the Red Cross sells blood to hospitals for about $100 - $180 (based on a very cursory google search). And hospitals in the US charge between $250 and $350 to give a patient a pint of blood. Presumably you could buy blood from the Red Cross if you could convince them you were a medical type person. And if you figure out a way to have a false vein to put the pint of blood in, you could buy from a hospital.
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2019-03-12, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
Impersonating a doctor is illegal.
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2019-03-12, 10:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-03-12, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Roland's Merciful Modly Mash-up Random Banter Thread #221
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2019-03-12, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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