SUNBURN!!!

**Fragony** · 02-07-2009, 14:36

People forget that a sunburn is actually a burn. I don't get burned so easily but the english especially should really be more careful they burn up like candles, when I am in Spain you can always pick them from the crowd (for more then then their burned up bodies gawd english tourists are annoying)

**Sigurd** · 02-07-2009, 18:43

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Shall I tell you about my first visit to an Australian beach?

**Megas Methuselah** · 02-07-2009, 18:58

I never use sunscreen except on the back of my neck. When the sun shines, my skin just becomes a light shade of brown. Poor English...

**Zim** · 02-08-2009, 09:17

Same with me. I'm pretty pale if I haven't been outside much in a while but I virtually never burn, just get a light tan...

And I'm completely English, Irish, and German in my background.

Originally Posted by Megas Methuselah

I never use sunscreen except on the back of my neck. When the sun shines, my skin just becomes a light shade of brown. Poor English...

**||Lz3||** · 02-08-2009, 21:33

That's why I hate the beach... (despite living 1 hour away from it <.<)

**Sigurd** · 02-09-2009, 09:30

Compared to the Australian sun, the European one (Northern) is a 60w bulb.

I only burn on my shoulders and on the back of my neck here in the North and put therefore only sun screen on those areas. This is based on experience (I am becoming an old geezer).

Taking this trial and error, fined tuned method of putting sun screen just on the right places to maximize tanning to the Australian sun was a bad mistake.
Yes, I didn't get burned on my shoulders nor on my neck, but the rest of my exposed skin got a purple tint which resulted in fever and immobility for several days.

I am wondering if Australia does have an ozone layer at all

**naut** · 02-09-2009, 12:10

Originally Posted by Sigurd

I am wondering if Australia does have an ozone layer at all

We do, the hole only recently closed up, it's still quite a thin layer though.

**CountArach** · 02-07-2009, 22:27

Originally Posted by Sigurd

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Shall I tell you about my first visit to an Australian beach?

A Northern European on our beaches, there is a sight I would like to see! I know that the British often have a bit of trouble adapting to our climate when they come for a visit. Silly poms

**Sigurd** · 02-07-2009, 22:37

Originally Posted by CountArach

A Northern European on our beaches, there is a sight I would like to see!

When in Rome, do as the Romans.
This is a remarkable proverb. If I had only listened to my wife.
Never bring your barbaric ways to foreign soil. They might be directly harmful.

**Fragony** · 02-08-2009, 08:26

Originally Posted by CountArach

A Northern European on our beaches, there is a sight I would like to see! I know that the British often have a bit of trouble adapting to our climate when they come for a visit. Silly poms

They burn up even in northen europe, our sun isn't that strong but if you are as white as snow and just expose yourself to it you still can get burned pretty nasty. Doing the same in Spain is just begging for skin-cancer.