Blood Type Love Affair

[yanpa]

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

"Red"

[Coligny]

Ugh, one of my most recent lemurs keeps going on and on about this shit. I tried my best to esssplain why this shit even became popular here, it's Nazi source, and how there is no scientific basis for it but all that got dismissed as "being too komakai!" This one also seems to love those horoscope/fortune tellers...she doesn't make a good case for the "appreciate me for my mind, not my body! crowd. Good thing she has a nice pair of something to appreciate.

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

You have to stop putting your dick in lower than room temp IQ'ed gurls...


(maybeeee....)

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

Menstrual...

[matsuki]

Ugh, one of my most recent lemurs keeps going on and on about this shit. I tried my best to esssplain why this shit even became popular here, it's Nazi source, and how there is no scientific basis for it but all that got dismissed as "being too komakai!" This one also seems to love those horoscope/fortune tellers...she doesn't make a good case for the "appreciate me for my mind, not my body! crowd. Good thing she has a nice pair of something to appreciate.

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

You have to stop putting your dick in lower than room temp IQ'ed gurls...


(maybeeee....)

It it were only that simple but this blood type shit comes up everywhere...not just with customers to the choko bone roller coaster.

[BigInJapan]

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

I actually didn't know when my blood type when I came to Japan (many North Americans don't AFAIK) as I had never had a medical emergency. I found after a few years here when I gave blood (O+), but up until then I would just tell them I didn't have a clue.
After I found out I was "O", I would just say 大型 (ō-gata = jumbo ) which sounds very similar to O型 (o-gata = O-type)

[yanpa]

A timely BBC article: Japan and blood types: Does it determine personality?

I think I'll go for "Langereis" from now on.

[matsuki]

A timely BBC article: Japan and blood types: Does it determine personality?

I think I'll go for "Langereis" from now on.

A+++ or O---??

it seems that in Japan, no amount of scientific debunking can kill the widely held notion that blood tells all.

hahahahahaha

[cstaylor]

You have to stop putting your dick in lower than room temp IQ'ed gurls...

What? And deprive mini-choko of a half-brother?

[Mike Oxlong]

Meanwhile in Amurika...

[Samurai_Jerk]

Anyhow, I zombied this thread to ask how you guys deal with this blood type myth bullshit. Since it comes up everywhere, what is your usual response when a J-robot asks you your blood type?

I actually didn't know when my blood type when I came to Japan (many North Americans don't AFAIK) as I had never had a medical emergency. I found after a few years here when I gave blood (O+), but up until then I would just tell them I didn't have a clue.
After I found out I was "O", I would just say 大型 (ō-gata = jumbo ) which sounds very similar to O型 (o-gata = O-type)

I say I don't know because I really don't know. That usually ends the discussion. I'll have to steal that 大型 line though.

[canman]

I usually tell people I have green blood, I then tell them I'm an alien, or least used to, as I had the card to prove it.
Didn't know my blood type until I needed knee surgery, went in for pre-op, the nurse asks me my blood, type, I answered I didn't know, she proceeds to pull out this big ass needle, to take a small amount so they can check to see what type I have. Found out I have O+. Kind of ruined the surprise.

[Samurai_Jerk]

I usually tell people I have green blood, I then tell them I'm an alien, or least used to, as I had the card to prove it.
Didn't know my blood type until I needed knee surgery, went in for pre-op, the nurse asks me my blood, type, I answered I didn't know, she proceeds to pull out this big ass needle, to take a small amount so they can check to see what type I have. Found out I have O+. Kind of ruined the surprise.

They're supposed to check anyway because if you make a mistake they'll be fucked.

[cstaylor]

They're supposed to check anyway because if you make a mistake they'll be fucked.

Well, in an emergency, they'll just give you O-, since that's the universal donor blood type, but O- is never in large supply, so if they can give you a closer match, they can save the O- for those poor souls who can't accept anything else (like Canman).

BTW: there are more than 8 blood groups (A,B,AB,O cross product with rh factor).

If we're talking pseudoscience, when will Haplotypes become the new way of making sweeping statements about a person?

[yanpa]

If we're talking pseudoscience, when will Haplotypes become the new way of making sweeping statements about a person?

Just as soon as simple, cheap tests become widely available.

[Samurai_Jerk]

They're supposed to check anyway because if you make a mistake they'll be fucked.

Well, in an emergency, they'll just give you O-, since that's the universal donor blood type, but O- is never in large supply, so if they can give you a closer match, they can save the O- for those poor souls who can't accept anything else (like Canman).

A hospital should NEVER give you a transfusion of anything other than O- based on a verbal confirmation. Although it wouldn't surprise me if they do in Japan. An emergency situation where they don't have time to test is when a patient is most likely to make a mistake.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I thought if you were Merkin you could just pray?

[Mock Cockpit]

I just hope my blood type never meets my horoscope cos one says I'm generous and the other says I'm a tight-arse and therefore in danger of spontaneously combusting at any moment.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

I just hope my blood type never meets my horoscope cos one says I'm generous and the other says I'm a tight-arse and therefore in danger of spontaneously combusting at any moment.

It might be setting you up to become a highly successful bottom, who are often valued for being generous with a tight arse.

[Russell]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

[Coligny]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

When I clicked that link I somehow expected to fall on another thread by Choko and his medical adventures...

[GomiGirl]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

My kid sometimes has green poo... is that related?

[Coligny]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

My kid sometimes has green poo... is that related?

Hide the crayons...

trust me...

Hide the crayons...

[GomiGirl]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

My kid sometimes has green poo... is that related?

Hide the crayons...

trust me...

Hide the crayons...

Nah - Dr Wikipedia just tells me that it is from the food passing quickly through the system. All the crayons are accounted for.

[Russell]

I usually tell people I have green blood, ...

That sometimes happens.

My kid sometimes has green poo... is that related?

Hide the crayons...

trust me...

Hide the crayons...

Nah - Dr Wikipedia just tells me that it is from the food passing quickly through the system. All the crayons are accounted for.

You sure it ain't them cocktails?

Just trying to help out...

[kagemusha]

My kid sometimes has green poo... is that related?

Stop feeding them with cheap Fuckushima rice

[matsuki]

So I'm just going to go with the "What are you? A Nazi?" response to being asked my blood type and plead ignorance. Nothing seems better than enlightening them on the nazi roots of this shit and calling them out on being retarded for focusing on it while the rest of the modern world could care less.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Choko,
Hate to tell you this, but the Nazi eugenics programs originated from similar programs being carried out in another cuntry. Wanna guess which one?

[Taro Toporific]

Hate to tell you this, but the Nazi eugenics programs originated from similar programs being carried out in another cuntry. Wanna guess which one?

Hey, no fair picking on the Pommies again. Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, and even those damn "Anglos" in America had eugenics programs.

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Hate to tell you this, but the Nazi eugenics programs originated from similar programs being carried out in another cuntry. Wanna guess which one?

Hey, no fair picking on the Pommies again. Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Sweden, and even those damn "Anglos" in America had eugenics programs.

OK, OK, I'm sorry....Still, interesting reading can be found here, regarding those damn "Anglos" in America.

[Taro Toporific]

Statistical study shows no relationship between blood type & personality (Only the abstract is in English)

The Japanese Journal of Psychology | J-STAGE Advanced published date: June 1, 2014
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jj ... 13016/_pdf
心理学研究 2014 年 doi.org/10.4992/jjpsy.85.13016
原著論文 Original Article 血液型と性格の無関連性 ― 日本と米国の大規模社会調査を用いた実証的論拠 ― 縄田 健悟 1 京都文教大学
No relationship between blood type and personality: Evidence from large-scale surveys in Japan and the US
Kengo Nawata (Kyoto Bunkyo University)
Despite the widespread popular belief in Japan about a relationship between personality and ABO blood type, this association has not been empirically substantiated. This study provides more robust evidence that there is no relationship between blood type and personality, through a secondary analysis of large-scale survey data. Recent data (after 2000) were collected using large-scale random sampling from over 10,000 people in total from both Japan and the US. Effect sizes were calculated. Japanese datasets from 2004 (N = 2,878–2,938), and 2,005 (N = 3,618–3,692) as well as one dataset from the US in 2004 (N = 3,037–3,092) were used. In all the datasets, 65 of 68 items yielded non-significant differences between blood groups. Effect sizes (η2) were less than .003. This means that blood type explained less than 0.3% of the total variance in personality. These results show the non-relevance of blood type for personality.
Key words: blood-typing, blood type stereotypes, blood group, personality, pseudoscience.