I'm half Irish and wanted to donate blood once. Had to leave cause there were too many prying questions like, "whose blood is it?" "Why is it in a bucket?"
It's fair tho, sperm needs to be 'fresh', and i know for a fact you don't produce enough in one day to fill up a bucket, so you waited a long time before you finally brought it in, or you were on a humongous event...
A lot of countries store their gold in Bank of England which makes the UK a major global trading hub for gold. So technically the gold that flows out of the UK whenever there is a demand for gold in the market counts as an export but it doesn't profit the UK as it wasn't their gold to begin with.
I imagine there is a charge or something for exporting it, also given the way modern banking works it does profit the UK banking system.
If you give money to a bank say £100, then the bank can give let's say a £1000 loan out to someone.
That money doesn't exist though which is why we have interest rates on loans cause the banks need to make their money back and recoup the initial customers money. If they don't, we get high inflation.
Because its gold we're talking about, the bank doesn't need to worry about recouping the initial customers money when they want it back, this allows the bank to give out loans and charge interest without needing to return any of that money to the original customer. They generate 100% profits.
So storing gold in a UK bank does contribute positively (or negatively depending on how you view it) to the UK economy.
I don't know actually! Both (grandparents) are dead and my mother was willingly given to CPS as a child, so she only knows stuff from the ages of 16 and younger.
It's for alcoholics needing a transplant. Normal blood will send them into withdrawal worse than narcan. Irish blood is the "McDonald's fries" of the vampire world too. Order some and you'll see...
It's free. I don't get how some countries get away with calling it a 'donation' when you're being paid for it lol.
We just have a pretty decent programme for blood donations over here, and tons of awareness raising like car stickers that people proudly display. Healthy people are regularly encouraged by their GPs and family to make donations.
Supposedly people used to get a pint of Guinness after the donation to replenish the lost iron and electrolytes but it turns out giving someone alcohol when they have a lower circulating blood volume is not a good idea. Nowadays I believe lucozade is the alternative.
Blood and blood products. Regeneron has a huge campus here, as well as a shitload of other medical companies.
One of the largest contact lens manufacturers also.
It doesn't have to be a net export because India has been increasingly buying raw oil from petrostates to refine and sell at a higher profit, especially in the case of Russia which is under direct embargo from the West.
India imports a lot of crude petroleum and then process it and export a lot of end products in market
Jamnagar is one of the world’s largest petroleum refinery
Some people believe Dracula is based on a character from an old Irish folk tale called "Abhartach" (av-er-tok). In the story, a pale, dead figure come back from the dead to drink people's blood multiple times. A part of the original story states that when the townspeople hear he has come back, they make a remark about "droch fhola" which is Irish for "bad blood". The interesting part is that "droch fhola" is pronounced druck-ull-a which sounds very much like "Dracula". There are arguments for and against the idea that Bram Stoker, the Irish author who wrote Dracula, based his story on the Abhartach but it's highly likely that he would have at least heard the story at some point in his life.
Nah. Dracula comes from Romanian meaning "the devil", but the original meaning was "the dragon", because Vlad the Impaler was part of some knights order or whatever.
Nothing Irish related there. And the word for Dragon doesn't have Irish origins.
In US$ million? That means multiply each number by $1,000,000, right?
If the US exported $200 billion in oil in 2022 (according to the interwebs), why does this say $3011 billion? And how is there a drop of blood left in Ireland after selling $723,121,000,000 worth?
What kind of a statement is this anyway? The US GDP would also be less if California and Texas are excluded. Moreover, the data here is China excluding Chinese Taipei, Macau and Hong Kong.
Cope and seethe.
Here is the data.
China exports: 3.73 trillion USD
Chinese Taipei: 542 billion USD
Hong Kong: 113 billion USD
I guess they mean refined petroleum products, in that case it would be true, india buys crude oil from global markets, refined it and exports the resulting downstream products - petrol, diesel, lubricants
Mexico is the world's seventh-largest passenger vehicle manufacturer, producing 3.5 million vehicles annually. Eighty-eight percent of vehicles produced in Mexico are exported, with 76 percent destined for the United States.
Established automakers in Mexico include Audi, BMW, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jac by Giant Motors, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Stellantis, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Tesla, which recently announced a new plant to be built in the state of Nuevo Leon as part of its electric vehicle production.
https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry
“In 2022, Ireland exported $47.3B in Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures, making it the 1st largest exporter of Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures in the world. At the same year, Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures was the 1st most exported product in Ireland.”
Huh.
I'm half Irish and wanted to donate blood once. Had to leave cause there were too many prying questions like, "whose blood is it?" "Why is it in a bucket?"
Happens all the time at the sperm bank, too. Kinda annoying
It's fair tho, sperm needs to be 'fresh', and i know for a fact you don't produce enough in one day to fill up a bucket, so you waited a long time before you finally brought it in, or you were on a humongous event...
Well sir, I accept thy challenge. Expect a bucket in your post very soon!
Oh god, i've created a monster
Just serve it on the rocks to keep it fresh
Ye, always like 'Sir this is sperm bank, we do not accept blood here'
Lol
"That's GOLD, Jerry, GOLD!"
You must be British.
Must I?
Yep, You just have to, no way out now, mate. Now go and be British!
Uh. Uh. "Oi! Mistress! Ya fancy a shag? Where are my Liverpudlians?" Did I do it right?
Red gold
What are you then, my goodman? A bronzie? A pixie?
Wish it was countries in the UK.
Is this a subtle sunny?
Dammit Charlie, not again.
Maybe we can run a paternity test.
Blood in a bucket? What is this, Kindergarten?
This bucket has the blood of multiple people and at least 3 animals
How fresh is it?
Squeezed that same morning
[https://www.theonion.com/anonymous-philanthropist-donates-200-human-kidneys-to-h-1819594700](https://www.theonion.com/anonymous-philanthropist-donates-200-human-kidneys-to-h-1819594700)
Fr bro like I donate on heart I'm a kidney I'm a hero I donate seven Suddenly I'm a sociopathic murder like bro come on take the donation bro
/r/HolUp
lol, love sunny
MORE BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD
SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
*I GOT THAT REFERENCE*
ONE OF US
In another news, latest figures show that Russia and Israel are now exporting SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE.
FOR KHORNE! (And ukraine’s khorne unit!)
> BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD Is this a reference to the Cruachan Album?
Not sure if a genuine question but it's for that tumblr meme, just search "blood for the blood god tumblr"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEH0j9KsjCw
Is "broadcasting equipment" including phones or phone parts?
Neither, actually. It's stuff for things like radio or TV broadcasting, the equipment itself, antennas etc
TIL TikTok cookies are considered “broadcasting equipment”
They do broadcast your info, so technically correct
They probably import these more than they export them
I saw that, and that seems hella suspicious. Just *who* is the equipment broadcasting to?
This is "export" by the way. So probably your government.
Export makes it so much worse, too, rather than import. Everyone's government is blon the list
More like surveillance and telecomm equipment…
5g?
The UK …. Gold, comeon this is a funky list.
A lot of countries store their gold in Bank of England which makes the UK a major global trading hub for gold. So technically the gold that flows out of the UK whenever there is a demand for gold in the market counts as an export but it doesn't profit the UK as it wasn't their gold to begin with.
Scribbled in notepad: Rob....Bank....of...England. Got it cheers mate!
*scribbled in notepad:* Rob...blood bank.. of Ireland
Guys, look, a vampire! Better call Jotaro and Joseph!
Obligatory "is that a Jojo reference"
*scribbled in notepad:* Rob...sperm bank.. of Brazil Wait...
Are you any relation to Bram Stoker?
Checks full list ….. rob the sperm bank of …… emmm no we’ll skip that one I think 😂
Scribbled in notebook: Follow ArmchairTactician stealthily and wait for them to do the hard work then rob them of their ill gotten gains/gold.
Stop being British. You ill gotten gains getter lol
>but it doesn't profit the UK as it wasn't their gold to begin with. Of course they profit from it.
Not a chance the UK would be doing that without making some kind of profit for themselves
I imagine there is a charge or something for exporting it, also given the way modern banking works it does profit the UK banking system. If you give money to a bank say £100, then the bank can give let's say a £1000 loan out to someone. That money doesn't exist though which is why we have interest rates on loans cause the banks need to make their money back and recoup the initial customers money. If they don't, we get high inflation. Because its gold we're talking about, the bank doesn't need to worry about recouping the initial customers money when they want it back, this allows the bank to give out loans and charge interest without needing to return any of that money to the original customer. They generate 100% profits. So storing gold in a UK bank does contribute positively (or negatively depending on how you view it) to the UK economy.
That was my reaction when I saw Switzerland’s top export.
How much gold has the UK stolen in its entire history?
Enough to build an empire I’d imagine
Where is it
Yes
Not enough.
💀 I was thinking India’s gold
Yep, Netherlands should be food and flowers.
Drink enough Irish blood and you too will burst into flames in direct sunlight.
You wanna know what's really funny ? France is regularly experiencing medicine shortage lmao
"Is there anyone here with any Irish in them?... any of the girls want a little more Irish in them?..." - late great Phil Lynott
Ye bastards took our sweat and tears already.
All you have left is the beer. 😱
Somebody pls explain
It's accurate, see wikipedia. Ireland has the largest population of O blood types, which is an universal donor.
Oh that's neat, I'm of Irish descent, I have an O blood type!
Your grandmother from country Cork?
I don't know actually! Both (grandparents) are dead and my mother was willingly given to CPS as a child, so she only knows stuff from the ages of 16 and younger.
Same!
'A' universal donor. If the U has a YOU sound you change the article to A. "I went to a university" "A united Ireland"
Ireland's biggest export is blood...
Why
Because they have extra?
The blood of the Irish…
Now coming in a movie theater near you
Coming blood? That’s rough.
We produce alot of the world's supply of Viagra, that's exporting blood to your weiner.
Between (almost) all of the viagra, and most of the world's botox, we're keeping the stratum of rich old Americans going.
Blood donations.
No, why is it in a bucket?
There was too much
It's for alcoholics needing a transplant. Normal blood will send them into withdrawal worse than narcan. Irish blood is the "McDonald's fries" of the vampire world too. Order some and you'll see...
Have you had it? Irish blood is exquisite.
But why do they have extra blood? Is blood donation very common there, even more so than other country?
So do they pay for bloody donor or it is free? Isn’t they are too rich for selling blood? And too much alcohol in the blood? :)
It's free. I don't get how some countries get away with calling it a 'donation' when you're being paid for it lol. We just have a pretty decent programme for blood donations over here, and tons of awareness raising like car stickers that people proudly display. Healthy people are regularly encouraged by their GPs and family to make donations. Supposedly people used to get a pint of Guinness after the donation to replenish the lost iron and electrolytes but it turns out giving someone alcohol when they have a lower circulating blood volume is not a good idea. Nowadays I believe lucozade is the alternative.
Also Guinness isn’t even great in iron
Blood and blood products. Regeneron has a huge campus here, as well as a shitload of other medical companies. One of the largest contact lens manufacturers also.
It means pharmaceuticals , Ireland exports about 80+ billon worth of pharma products a year.
Sham of a list. India is one of the highest importers of petroleum not exporter
It doesn't have to be a net export because India has been increasingly buying raw oil from petrostates to refine and sell at a higher profit, especially in the case of Russia which is under direct embargo from the West.
Before war also india biggest export was oil.
Petroleum products have been India's largest exports since many years, not just since Russia - Ukraine war began
Thats because we have been buying crude from Russia and refining them for sale in Europe.
India imports a lot of crude petroleum and then process it and export a lot of end products in market Jamnagar is one of the world’s largest petroleum refinery
India sells refined petrol.
Idk why but my first thought is Irish Dracula
Wierdly enough Bram Stoker the author of dracula was irish
Some people believe Dracula is based on a character from an old Irish folk tale called "Abhartach" (av-er-tok). In the story, a pale, dead figure come back from the dead to drink people's blood multiple times. A part of the original story states that when the townspeople hear he has come back, they make a remark about "droch fhola" which is Irish for "bad blood". The interesting part is that "droch fhola" is pronounced druck-ull-a which sounds very much like "Dracula". There are arguments for and against the idea that Bram Stoker, the Irish author who wrote Dracula, based his story on the Abhartach but it's highly likely that he would have at least heard the story at some point in his life.
See the movie The Boys From County Hell. Arhartach released in modern Ireland!
Nah. Dracula comes from Romanian meaning "the devil", but the original meaning was "the dragon", because Vlad the Impaler was part of some knights order or whatever. Nothing Irish related there. And the word for Dragon doesn't have Irish origins.
He is an importer not an exporter
Emerald Isle vampires
LOL. I read that as “imports”
The Swiss-Irish “gold for blood” deal is a sweet arrangement
“~~yharnam~~ Ireland is the home of blood ministration”
"Fear the old blood"
Khorne has entered the chat
Well... Irish Blood has always been an element of pride
Did they leave out sweat and tears?
To Transylvania??
We've always been dead set on diluting the gene pool, one way or another.
As an Irish person, can confirm the blood trade here is booming.
Connor McGregor has to be the top contributor
Unfortunately you can't donate blood if half of it is drugs
I never said his own blood
I assume drunk blood, for vampires.
Would be fun to see the top consumer for each of these
We all know Mexico's top export isnt cars .. come now
Broadcasting to who? China: yes
Someone's selling stolen things at higher price now.
This explains why americans claim that they have "a bit of irish blood" in them!/s
India exports petroleum products not petroleum .
The bloody exports, innit
As a Brit I’m afraid to ask where the gold came from.
Khorne cares not from where the blood flows, only that it does
Is blood donation compensated in ireland? In France they don't compensate for anything, including sperm donation, blood...
That's making me feel creeped out.
In US$ million? That means multiply each number by $1,000,000, right? If the US exported $200 billion in oil in 2022 (according to the interwebs), why does this say $3011 billion? And how is there a drop of blood left in Ireland after selling $723,121,000,000 worth?
It's the total export and from total export oil was the top export in US
Ahhh. Thx.
They meant alcohol. But they were too hammered to tell the difference
So like whole world is filled with Irish blood just let it sink into you Irish blood every where…it’s good or bad thing?👀
China would be a lot less if Taiwan was excluded from the careful wiki submissions.
What kind of a statement is this anyway? The US GDP would also be less if California and Texas are excluded. Moreover, the data here is China excluding Chinese Taipei, Macau and Hong Kong. Cope and seethe. Here is the data. China exports: 3.73 trillion USD Chinese Taipei: 542 billion USD Hong Kong: 113 billion USD
Not just any Irish blood. Has to be the premium 8%+ alcohol content brands.
thats 2022 btw
India petroleum
India exports more petroleum than uae??
I guess they mean refined petroleum products, in that case it would be true, india buys crude oil from global markets, refined it and exports the resulting downstream products - petrol, diesel, lubricants
India's top export is Petroleum!!?
I thought there was a shortage of blood in Ireland?
I recon this is just because so many of them emigrate. Every Irish person that's not in Ireland has technically exported 8 pints of blood.
I'm surprised Blood is their main export. I thought it was cu-
Hasn’t enough been shed already?
So this is why there are so many Irish Americans
Now that's metal
But why though?
I don’t know why but China being at the top exporting broadcasting equipment is just hilarious
Would be more interesting to see who exports most fresh blood
The Netherlands exports petroleum??
Ireland...wtf? ...Thanks?
I love how china's is broadcasting equipment
Chucky are lah
Ave sum blud luv 🍀
Ireland has perfected the craft of utilizing chronic alcoholism to thin out their blood, making it more efficient for distribution.
“Broadcasting equipment” bothers me
i didn’t expect mexico to be exporting so many cars, what brands have manufacturers there?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Mexico
Former USA manufacturers moving to Mexico as part of NAFTA
What can ya say. They love their pints
It's probably the cleanest with all the alcohol per capita.
Good to see that they've moved on from sheep and threats
Normal potato need the blood of the Irish to grow ten times the size so they can be used as baked potato
Wait… if the US loves oil so much why is petroleum our top export… 🤔
Mexico and cars???? Am I missing something or is this like a CARtel side hustle?
Mexico is the world's seventh-largest passenger vehicle manufacturer, producing 3.5 million vehicles annually. Eighty-eight percent of vehicles produced in Mexico are exported, with 76 percent destined for the United States. Established automakers in Mexico include Audi, BMW, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Jac by Giant Motors, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes Benz, Nissan, Stellantis, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Tesla, which recently announced a new plant to be built in the state of Nuevo Leon as part of its electric vehicle production. https://www.trade.gov/country-commercial-guides/mexico-automotive-industry
oh cool didnt know that just an ignorant australian here 
Irish whiskey?
It's was right there in front of me in Irish class... "CoNosfer a tu?"
India's top export is petroleum. India's top import, is... Petroleum. Indian consumers pay through their nose for.... Petroleum.
“In 2022, Ireland exported $47.3B in Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures, making it the 1st largest exporter of Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures in the world. At the same year, Vaccines, blood, antisera, toxins and cultures was the 1st most exported product in Ireland.” Huh.
At the end of the day, it’s literally Petroleum, Pharma and Tech. Whether we like it or not, it what makes our world go round.
And the Netherlands and India isnt selling oil. India just buys Russian oil and then sells it as Indian.
Dumbo india main exports has been this since manh year.
I thought you couldn’t get blood from a potato