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sexobon · 05-14-2019, 07:37 PM

There's a critical blood shortage and there isn't even a government shutdown in progress!

Gift cards anyone?

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Type O blood supply low, Red Cross offering gift cards for donations

The American Red Cross announced Tuesday that the shortage in Type O blood is so critical nationwide that the organization is offering $5 Amazon gift cards to donors as an incentive to boost supply.

Currently, there are only six units of Type O blood available for every 100,000 people, but at least two times that amount is needed every day. …

… Last month, approximately 11,500 fewer Type O donations were collected due to spring break, and schools reducing the number of blood drives organized at the end of the year.

Donors are encouraged to schedule a blood donation appointment today by using the Blood Donor App, by visiting redcrossblood.org, or calling 1-800-RED CROSS. Individuals can also open the Red Cross Blood skill on an Alexa-enabled device. ...

She's a vampire!

henry quirk · 05-15-2019, 09:43 AM

Gift cards?

Don't they pay cash any more?

Gravdigr · 05-15-2019, 10:40 AM

'S gonna cost more than $5...

sexobon · 09-14-2019, 09:42 AM

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Solid gold toilet stolen from Winston Churchill's birthplace

LONDON (AP) — Thieves have stolen a solid gold toilet worth up to 1 million pounds ($1.25 million) from the birthplace of British wartime leader Winston Churchill.

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© Provided by The Associated Press FILE - This Sept. 16, 2016 file image made from a video shows the 18-karat toilet, titled "America," by Maurizio Cattelan in the restroom of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Thieves have stolen the solid gold toilet worth up to 1 million pounds from Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. The toilet, the work of Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, had been installed only two days earlier at Blenheim Palace, west of London, after previously being on show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. (AP Photo, File)

… Prior to the theft, visitors to the Cattelan exhibition could book a three-minute appointment to use the toilet. ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures.

xoxoxoBruce · 09-14-2019, 10:17 AM

How many selfies could you send in 3 minutes?

sexobon · 09-14-2019, 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

How many selfies could you send in 3 minutes?

I'd like to see a picture of a dog drinking out of it (maybe a Golden Retriever).

Clodfobble · 09-14-2019, 11:37 AM

Standard size of a toilet is 72.4 cm tall, 49.4 cm wide, and 71 cm deep. That's roughly 253,936 cubic centimeters.

Now of course it's not a solid rectangular prism, those measurements are the extremities, so let's say as little as 1/3 of that volume is actual gold. That's 84,645 cubic centimeters (again with rounding.)

Solid gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. Meaning this thing weighs about 1,635,346 grams = 1,635 kilograms = 3,605 pounds = 1.64 tons.

The article mentions they used "at least two vehicles" to get away, which makes sense, but that's a hell of a thing to dolly out the door in the first place.

Carruthers · 09-14-2019, 03:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Standard size of a toilet is 72.4 cm tall, 49.4 cm wide, and 71 cm deep. That's roughly 253,936 cubic centimeters.

Now of course it's not a solid rectangular prism, those measurements are the extremities, so let's say as little as 1/3 of that volume is actual gold. That's 84,645 cubic centimeters (again with rounding.)

Solid gold weighs 19.32 grams per cubic centimeter. Meaning this thing weighs about 1,635,346 grams = 1,635 kilograms = 3,605 pounds = 1.64 tons.

The article mentions they used "at least two vehicles" to get away, which makes sense, but that's a hell of a thing to dolly out the door in the first place.

The weight of the contraption also crossed my mind.
The photo in my post mentioned above shows the throne installed on wooden floorboards which I assume are at Blenheim Palace on the ground floor and hopefully well supported.
I can't imagine that anyone would risk installing it on an upper floor!

tw · 09-15-2019, 07:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

I can't imagine that anyone would risk installing it on an upper floor!

Three 2x10s spaced so that all share that load in a room maybe 6 feet wide. That would support (ballpark) maybe 3000 pounds.

monster · 11-08-2019, 07:45 PM

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50354918

Undertoad · 09-14-2019, 12:08 PM

i would produce a nugget of gold for this thing.

i would do it by first eating 24 carrots

lumberjim · 09-14-2019, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

i would produce a nugget of gold for this thing.

i would do it by first eating 24 carrots

Wizard! Alchemist!

sexobon · 09-14-2019, 02:50 PM

It would give new meaning to the term "Going for the gold."

Carruthers · 09-14-2019, 03:24 PM

Meanwhile, over in Weird News...

https://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?...postcount=4110

sexobon · 09-14-2019, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Carruthers

Meanwhile, over in Weird News...

https://www.cellar.org/showpost.php?...postcount=4110

Your post followed shortly after mine...great minds and all that.

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