But I am mighty!!
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Every English tourist in Australia.
Australia is a different beast though. I went out for like 10 minutes without a hat or sunscreen on a particularly hot december noon and my nose damn near fell off the day after
Not because I thought I'm too tough to get sunburnt but if you live your entire life in Europe you just can't imagine the sunshine being this potent. Never happened again after that incident 
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If you spend 8 hours in the sun, the sunscreen doesn't seem like it helps entirely.
Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don't think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
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Reapply q2 hours and every time you use a towel. I don't think most sunscreen is advertising all day Protection.
I mean of course, I'm saying even adding more periodically. Just feels like always some gets through
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My excuse is that the weather was predicted as "cloudy" when we left in the morning. When we were on the trip, though, the sun was burning down to extinct humanity instead.
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"ball of fire"
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
Hypothetically speaking, will you get sunburnt if you sit near a fire all day?
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One day I'll win, you all will see!
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mate it's £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I'd hardly call that cheap
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Hypothetically speaking, will you get sunburnt if you sit near a fire all day?
The heat could dry out your skin, which, if I'm not mistaken, is essentially what a burn is. However, as the other person noted, a sunburn is damage from radiation, not heat. So I think you could stretch the common definition of a burn to call heat induced dry skin a burn but calling it a sunburn would not be accurate.
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mate it's £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I'd hardly call that cheap
WTF are those prices. I'd start looking into importing from abroad ...
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@bees Actually the UV creams have shown to be themselves carcinogenic, so it's not about to have cancer or not, but how to get it. All things in moderation, including sun, your body does need vitamin d3 which it produces in the presence of UV.
Can you actually avoid vitamin d production if you stay long enough in the sun that you need sunscreen to avoid sunburns?
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WTF are those prices. I'd start looking into importing from abroad ...
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Cost of living in the UK is up 25% since Brexit happened in 2021.
"We've become the first country in the history of the world to have placed economic sanctions upon itself" -James O'Brien
We're a population of morons who will still blame anything but ourselves for the position we're in.
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"ball of fire"
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
There's no fire in the sun. Fire is some material oxidizing, and that's not what's happening (or at least not in relevant amounts). What creates the radiation is nuclear fusion.
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Can you actually avoid vitamin d production if you stay long enough in the sun that you need sunscreen to avoid sunburns?
@rumschlumpel I live close to Seattle. If we're lucky here there might be three days in the year where you can get sunburn. -
...and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.
*Me in Vitoria, Spain: "You guys get sun?"
Large parts of the north of Spain are basically UK in terms of weather.
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Every English tourist in Australia.
In New Zealand the sun feels like it's stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn't take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere
there's a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza..
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Mate. I'm a ginger living in New Zealand. Sunburn is an inevitability.
You choose new Zeeland over Australia due to the lack of venomous animals, but forgot to check for unprotected astronomical nuclear reactor in the sky
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Ok Bo Burnham
Went out to look for a reason to hide again
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Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
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mate it's £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I'd hardly call that cheap
wrote on last edited by [email protected]In the city of Utrecht NL they have free sunblock stations spread around the city. It shows the temp and UV rating. But buying it in store is crazy expensive and often the quality is poor. Some fancy tiny spray bottles go up to 12 euros, only good for 3 to 4 uses. wtf. Imagine being ginger, there's a ginger tax called sunblock.
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"ball of fire"
Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.
Why exactly do you think there is UV radiation coming from the sun?
