O+
Canadian Blood Services is quite happy my boy is 6 months old now - the reminder calls have started already.
AB-
I like it that there’s so few of us.
By-the-by, I give blood on a somewhat regular basis. I’ve been meaning to try to remember to go for the past few weeks. So with this handy reminder it will be in the morning. . . . . if Idon’t forget.
ABneg
Be amazed
AB+.
Universal acceptor, bitches.
Yet another A+ checking in. I used to donate pretty regularly, but for some reason they don’t want your blood when you’re taking warfarin. 
Now that I’m off the meds, I need to see if I’m permanently blacklisted or not.
Future reference: I don’t know about where you live, but here in Milwaukee, if you get your tattoo from a place that’s on an approved list, there’s no year-long waiting period. If you plan on getting more ink and want to keep donating, ask your local blood center.
I was actually going to comment that it’s a good thing the board’s not based in Japan, or we’d have people posting all kinds of theories about what the typing statistics say about the board’s members.
:smack: Clearly the most intelligent and sensitive teacher ever.
Yup. But then again, this particular incident fueled one of my current passions: genealogy. So some good came out of the insensitivity.
B-
Every blood relative I have ever known about was A+. We are all Ashkenazy Jews if that makes a difference. My daughter-in-law is B- and she had some treatment after her child was born to avoid Rh problems in any future pregnancy.
B+; wish I’d heard that ‘Be Positive!’ joke when I was young and found out, cause the only reason I remember <up til today!> is that my mom is B-. I knew that she had sorta-rare blood, and I knew that I had the same, but the common one. I actually had to look up blood rarities just now to see which one I was. 
What’s funny is that my mom has ALWAYS been the pessimist, and I have ALWAYS been the optimist.
I can’t wait to tell her that joke.
I have absolutely no idea what my blood type is.
I was introduced to a woman at a social gathering in Tokyo a number of years ago who asked me what my blood type was. I thought that had to be the strangest question to have been asked by someone I’d just met but, according to my friend anyway, Japanese people are really into blood types, and don’t feel it’s inappropriate to inquire, even of strangers. I was going to liken it to someone asking what your astrological sign is, but who even does that?
No idea what mine is. The doctors find out if they need to. I will never donate blood, so I don’t care about it otherwise.
Since it’s come up a few times, here’s the Wikipedia article on blood types as related to personality in Japanese culture:
It turns out that my blood type is the most common in the United States, O+. I feel like I’m not unique any more.