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Mr. Nice! posted:You still use tp to dry afterward. People aren't just walking around with a soggy rear end. Another reason to shave, less hair for the sweat to cling to, keeps you feeling fresh, makes for easy cleanin.
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Steezo posted:Another reason to shave, less hair for the sweat to cling to, keeps you feeling fresh, makes for easy cleanin. Look, buddy. If I shave a bit of it, the whole thing's got to go. While it is slightly annoying to have a whole 'nother set of clippers, and the trimmings get loving everywhere, the result is... slightly better than not doing it.
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madeintaipei posted:Look, buddy. If I shave a bit of it, the whole thing's got to go. I refuse to sit on my balls again, or have anyone I know sit on theirs, if nominated for SecDef I will do away with backside no shave chits. Both sets of cheeks will be clean shaven.
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Steezo posted:I refuse to sit on my balls again, or have anyone I know sit on theirs, if nominated for SecDef I will do away with backside no shave chits. Both sets of cheeks will be clean shaven. I will personally inspect all military personnel for standard. By picture if I have to. -Pete Hegseth
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Steezo posted:That reminds me, I forgot to mention one of the real benefits of trimming your man taint. After an incident in summer roughly 18 years ago between playing Oblivion and browsing these very forums, not long after my first enlistment, I had managed to in the heat of summer, when all hangs low, with the full force and weight of an artillerymans body, to sit on my balls. It was a bruising and excruciating experience and ever since then I've been keeping the low hanging fruit trimmed as in the heat of summer the hair no longer acts as sweaty furry glue keeping them stuck to my leg and instead any sweat only acts as lubrication making them slide merrily out of the way as I sit down. I, too, have sat on my own balls and it was truly a uniquely agonizing experience that I would not wish on anyone.
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As a dumb teenager I was doing butt stuff with my girlfriend and ended up with epididymitis, which is a bacterial infection of the vas tubes around your balls. Felt like I'd constantly been whacked in the nuts a few minutes ago, the one time I was dumb enough to jack off with it I spent about 5 min in absolute agony afterwards. Wash your bits people. As an aside, and keeping it in with the thread, the Dr I went to listened to my symptoms and identified it straight away, said he used to see it all the time in the military.
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One time in barracks I was throwing out some old personal field kit I didn't want but was still functional. A buddy saw me taking it to the trash and asked if he could have a couple things and I was like yeah sure. Earlier that day I had tended to my undercarriage but totally forgot because hair blends on well on a bunch of camo poo poo. So when buddy grabs stuff from the bin it starts raining pubes everywhere and he's all yo what the gently caress in front of everybody. People thought it was deliberate which somehow boosted my street cred because we're all godaamned degenerates. That's my ball trimming story.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Instructions unclear, america suffers new outbreak of bubonic plague Those drat armadillos.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Those drat armadillos. You’re thinking of leprosy. The primary reservoir of plague in the United States is rodents.
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fun fact - Bubonic plague has killed off a bunch of prairie dogs in Badlands National Grassland. They even have a bunch of signs warning about it. Thread content - I'm a dumb idiot who is still in and currently in an undisclosed location with sand. One of our great scribes etched "Wiping is for prey, and I am a predator" in to one of the shitters.
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carrionman posted:As a dumb teenager I was doing butt stuff with my girlfriend and ended up with epididymitis, which is a bacterial infection of the vas tubes around your balls. Felt like I'd constantly been whacked in the nuts a few minutes ago, the one time I was dumb enough to jack off with it I spent about 5 min in absolute agony afterwards. Wash your bits people. Poo is stored in the balls?
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Behotti posted:fun fact - Bubonic plague has killed off a bunch of prairie dogs in Badlands National Grassland. They even have a bunch of signs warning about it. Tricky to be a predator when the prey can smell you coming.
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You poo poo your pants because you are weak. I poo poo my pants because I am strong. We are not the same.
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The Lion does not concern himself with dingleberries.
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Are flies really categorised as predators? I thought it was pests since they hunt through pestilence
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Are flies really categorised as predators? I thought it was pests since they hunt through pestilence These are the same people who think apex predators are always on the hunt, not napping or staying with their family 90% of the time. They've already conflated apex mammals and social insects. Its not a big leap for them to go from an ant mentality to a fly one.
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Anybody every donate bone marrow? 30 years ago in basic training they made all of us give blood to go into the database and I just got a call that I'm a match for some young person.
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It’s not a risky or major procedure but you do go under for about an hour. They take the bone marrow from the back of your hip, so the procedure has you lie on your stomach. As a result they intubate you to make sure you keep breathing the whole time, and you wake up feeling like you deep-throated a horse. Your hip will be sore for a bit. In some states, your workplace may be obligated to give you PTO for the procedure. Depending on how rare your type is, the recipients’ reaction will either be “oh thank god” or “holy poo poo, I should buy a lottery ticket”. They have the harder time of it too—receiving a donation is way less fun than giving. Way more info than you’d ever need: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/bone-marrow-transplantation
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spacetoaster posted:Anybody every donate bone marrow? I did. Giving actual bone marrow is pretty rare but I did just that. Theres gonna be about a million blood draws in your future if you go through with it, and you should. That call from Be The Match or whoever means that person has no other living donors available, depending on your ethnic history, and since most marrow diseases are 100% for sure long term suffering and then death, you are their only hope. Not that I think you wouldn't do the right thing, I just want to impress upon you the level of desperation needing a non related marrow donor is. My story is that I registered on Be The Match in 2018, and was told that my odds of ever matching with someone were dramatically low. Lo and behold, six months go by and I got a phone call. My recipient was an mid 50s man suffering from severe aplastic anemia (bone marrow just stops working pmuch). I agreed to donate. There were...jesus, six or seven venous blood draws in the months leading up to the donation, and those fuckers huuuuuurt. After getting tested for a huge variety of diseases, I came back clean and the recipient started chemo. Yeah, in order for a donation to work, the OG bone marrow has to be essentially wiped out and that requires a lovely round of chemo. At this point, they impressed upon me that backing out now would mean this dude would be dead very soon. Anyhow, the donation date came up and I and the girl I was seeing took a flight to Kansas City, MO, and went to their massive goddamn hospital. Everything was comped, hotel room, food, etc. I met the surgeon a day before, who explained how the surgery would go: essentially they insert a horse needle gauge directly into the top of your hip bone and suck up a modest chunk of your liquid marrow. The entire surgery would take about twenty minutes for them to complete. The morning of, I walked into the ICU, stripped to my birthday suit, got put in a gown, and then hit with a body melting good dose of muscle relaxant and oxytocin. At this point, they rolled my gelatinified high as gently caress rear end into the OR, hit me with a mask and I sincerely doubt I even made it to one. An hour or two later, I woke up, and then got rolled out of the hospital. After getting back to the hotel, I crashed out for about 8 hours and then wandered around their really cool art museum, still high off my balls on pain meds. I flew back to my home state the next day. There were some changes - eg, I can't tolerate soft beds anymore, and for a week or two my lower back modestly ached. Some fatigue, but nothing crazy. That was the sum total of my experience. I never met my recipient(he offered a few times but my choice not too), and from time to time he sends me letters(through BTM)updating me on his life. He got married. Theres some guy in the upper Midwest that could conceivably frame me for murder, since he has my literal DNA coursing through his veins. Its a weird thought sometimes. For him, after receiving my marrow, it takes about 6 months for it to take hold and regrow an entire immune system(mine). In his case, aplastic anemia is like a 95% long term survivability rate provided you get a donation. This is not the case for every bone marrow disease, but the donation to someone who has like, leukemia dramatically improves their long term outcomes. Mentally, I occassionally remember on my worst days that I very literally saved someone's life. Its uh, fucky. A few months afterward, BTM asked me to speak to a group of kids at a school and I found that it caused me to choke up, and I had to take a moment before I could actually deliver the speech. I don't regret it, and for what it cost ( a few days off work) and what it did, I'm proud, deeply, to have done something like that, without ever once considering not doing it. A Festivus Miracle fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Nov 7, 2025 |
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I've gotten called up twice before about it without it going further than getting a second blood draw, I think that's the extent of the average experience. Very worth it to try still, for reasons others have made clearer than I could
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A Festivus Miracle posted:A Literal Festivus Miracle 
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I don't regret it, and for what it cost ( a few days off work) and what it did, I'm proud, deeply, to have done something like that, without ever once considering not doing it. You have every right to be proud and thank you for sharing this. It brightened my day considerably.
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pygmy tyrant posted:I've gotten called up twice before about it without it going further than getting a second blood draw, I think that's the extent of the average experience. Very worth it to try still, for reasons others have made clearer than I could Yeah, usually there's a familial donor available and they'll search the family tree before turning to the registry. If you're white, very goods are theres another donor somewhere, but the odds drop preciptously as you go from Hispanic, to black, asian, and then you're talking extremely low odds with native American or pacific islander. Theres just not many people of those ethnic backgrounds registered. Usually, most donations are in the form of stem cells. Actual bone marrow donation is like 9% of life saving bone marrow disease donations. The blood donation process is basically they hit with some pills that make your stem cell count jump dramatically and then you sit in a chair getting your blood filtered for lile 9 hours til they have enough stem cells. Vastly less invasive than what I did, and what I did left a very minimal scar.
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A Festivus Miracle posted:I did. Giving actual bone marrow is pretty rare but I did just that. Wow, that awesome. I said yes. They're flying a blood test kit to the hospital at the base near me. 30 year old woman with leukemia.
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I've known a couple people who did it. One's experience was the stem cell way that was essentially a weeks long battery of immunosuppressants before what was more or less a long, single source blood transfusion. The other one was actually marrow, and they had a rougher go - it was mechanically as described above, but they had a more painful experience with a longer recovery. That was pre-opioid crisis though so swimming in a pool of oxy wasn't an option to manage pain.
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We had a sailor on the Fitzgerald that was a bone marrow match for someone. He found out because we had another sailor with the same last name and the wrong one was contacted first. I think he was excited to get a free flight back to the States for a bit and some covalence leave. I can't remember if he did the full bone marrow transplant or if it was only stem cells, but I do recall he seemed happy that he was able to help someone like that. I've been signed up for a while, but never called. I had a family member need a full bone marrow transplant a few years ago, and the importance of having that network established cannot be understated.
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I signed up a long time ago but never have been called. Someone told me way back that if you were in Germany during their mad cow outbreak you couldn't donate, but maybe that was an urban legend. I brought it up when registering but they just shrugged.
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Punished Ape posted:I signed up a long time ago but never have been called. Someone told me way back that if you were in Germany during their mad cow outbreak you couldn't donate, but maybe that was an urban legend. I brought it up when registering but they just shrugged. They specifically asked me if I had ever been to Europe and during what time frames.
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Mad Cow risk was a no-go for blood donation. Probably still is. We had a guy who went through the donation registration every drill there was blood donation even though he knew they weren’t going to take it because he was in Germany during the period they considered a risk. He’d come back around 45 minutes later with his Fig Newtons and Apple juice and tell everyone “The vampires don’t want my blood”
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Casimir Radon posted:Mad Cow risk was a no-go for blood donation. Probably still is. We had a guy who went through the donation registration every drill there was blood donation even though he knew they weren’t going to take it because he was in Germany during the period they considered a risk. He’d come back around 45 minutes later with his Fig Newtons and Apple juice and tell everyone “The vampires don’t want my blood” It is, yes.
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Mad cow contamination in the beef supply was extremely widespread. The average Brit ate meat from infected cows in fifty separate meals. The disease has an incubation period that can be many years. There was the potential for millions of cases, but very fortunately the oral route of transmission turns out to be rather inefficient. Variant CJD diagnoses peaked at around thirty per year circa the year 2000, with total cases in the low hundreds to date.
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The FDA actually lifted the ban on anyone who spent more than three months in the UK between 1980-1996 about three years ago. If vCJD really was going to be a problem, we’d have seen it by now. Instead it’s just the usual UK idiocy, they’re not all dying in vegetable wards.
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What about the ban if you have ever touched the butt of another man, or had your butt touched by one Last I heard that dumbass one was still in effect
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Malachite_Dragon posted:What about the ban if you have ever touched the butt of another man, or had your butt touched by one If you've touched a butt, they still won't let you donate.
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Malachite_Dragon posted:What about the ban if you have ever touched the butt of another man, or had your butt touched by one Also a ban if you are a woman who has ever had sex with a man who ever had sex with a man. How are we supposed to know?!?
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Facebook Aunt posted:Also a ban if you are a woman who has ever had sex with a man who ever had sex with a man. Ogma posted:If you've touched a butt, they still won't let you donate. Malachite_Dragon posted:What about the ban if you have ever touched the butt of another man, or had your butt touched by one From what I understand this is no longer true in the US, the msm and wmsm deferral guidelines are now 3 months same as the new tattoo guidelines.
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