Why, do you want to sell your kidneys too?

^^ but notice that he's NOT cranky about it.


getting a new organ is a gamble. this seems creepy, but if it could increase the number of organ donors (also known as motorcyclists) then maybe it will be a good thing.

yeah.. i'm more ambivalent than indicated above.

the spectacle is grotesque. bread and circuses.. or in this case.. kidneys and sideshows. it seems worthwhile, but not in the least bit entertaining.

i've worked in transplant units, and kidney recipients are about the only people who often get the organ of someone who is living. the donor has a MUCH rougher time, surgically. the recipient's surgery.. getting a new kidney implanted in their abdomen.. is almost minor. the donor has significant pain and a substantial recovery time.

yeah, people die all the time while waiting for an organ. if the donor dies before they're "supposed" to, their body will be kept funtioning on life support for a short time until the organs can be harvested. it's hard to keep a body going more than a few days, though.


final thought.. the contestants are desperate, and taking advantage of that desperation is despicable. if any profits (monies over and above wages and expenses) were to be donated to the Netherland's transplant program, that'd be different.

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if no one has won, and the donor is dead, no one gets a kidney. cadaver transplants are VERY short term and not usually worth it. at that point, i wonder if there's a small print clause in the producer's contract that will be invoked.


people have 2 kidneys, so there really should be a first and second prize (one kidney is always larger than the other).

that intrigue is a bit worrying...!

it was a hoax! look here
damn fuckers! playing with us viewers
I understand their point.

"He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6739159.stm

My Xbox 360 died.

After 17 months it has finally passed away.

The ring of death. 3 red lights. Outside warranty period. £86 for Microshaft to service it, even though they are aware of the problem with the first batch of the consoles.

I'm tempted to get a PS3 now, just out of spite!

i was buying a house, had an offer accepted early last week. been getting everything running - mortgage, solicitors etc. just had a call from the agents, they have "changed their minds".

yeah, i realise this. they aren't getting it from me now.

easier to support yur local craftsmen skwop - stop importing cheap shoddy goods from 3rd world sweatshops

Driving a decommissioned 737 on a low loader through the streets of Mumbai was always going to be fraught, even if the wings have already been chopped off.

The journey got much worse for the driver when he realised he was lost. And that he probably couldn’t reverse the thing. And that the road led inexorably under a bridge which was much lower than the carcase of a giant Boeing aircraft.

So he uncoupled the cab and just abandoned the whole lot, to sit in the street and generally get in the way.
Sheesh!

A blast from the past. Sheeesh!

looks like someone being bummed - or that might just be my state of mind

no thanks.

"A teenager is due in the High Court to accuse her school of discriminating against Christians by banning the wearing of "purity rings"."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6229098.stm

there's the DESIGN, and then there's the IMPLEMENTATION.

i took this out of the window looking down at the visitors car park here. march of this year. see if you can spot spot the mistake

Scirocco:# 78 is for a hummer....

HEH!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6236142.stm

sheesh

heh.. sheesh! that it's newsworthy.

What a fool !

urbansurgeon:^ my point

ah.. sowwy urban. i could have guessed that you're not a "celeb gossip" kind of gal. i'm not either, but.. *embarrassed*, the other night.. someone said "Paris" (not the city), and i knew who he was talking about.

edit: mis-spelled embarrass pfft!

Yes, sheesh.