Clearly you’ve never met someone like my wife.
mate it’s £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I’d hardly call that cheap
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.
I buy the store brand from the local supermarket. €2,99 for a 250 ml bottle of SPF 30 and it works great. I never get sunburn, even during multi hour bike rides in the blazing sun.
WTF are those prices. I’d start looking into importing from abroad …
Here in the Netherlands it’s expensive as well. Like a small bottle of name-brand sunscreen is €30.
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.
Baking in the sun risks skin cancer. But people like to be tanned, so cancer is worth it for a good look.
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.
You should be putting sunscreen on regardless, and reapplying every 3 hours.
I’m just stayin inside
Ok Bo Burnham
Went out to look for a reason to hide again
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.
I mean of course, I’m saying even adding more periodically. Just feels like always some gets through
“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?
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.
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.
@xavier666@lemm.ee If you sit at a magnesium fire, it burns at 3300K, which is hot enough to produce sizeable ultraviolet rays. So you can get your sunburn from that, damaging the DNA in whatever of your remaining cells have not been melted away by heat.
Cheap is not the case everywhere. In Germany it’s cheap, in the Netherlands it’s much more expensive and in Croatia a bottle is like 25 Euro
In the US it’s cheap but unregulated and full of shit that’s terrible for you. Or you can pay an arm and a leg for stuff that’s better but still not up to the standards of most other countries. I learned this by getting a chemical burn in my eye from sunscreen… meant for my face.
The USA is the Wild West when it comes to safety standards of any product.
Oh, that’s bad. Made me think of this sunscreen and in Robocop 2.
as a man I have the primal urge to pick a fight with the giant ball of fire in the sky, I lost this time but one day.
Let me let you in on a little secret…you gotta attack at night.
Unfortunately I’ve already committed to it happening one DAY.
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…
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 😄
…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.
If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍
One day I’ll win, you all will see!
But it’s gross :C
(summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though)
Cancer or disgust, we all have to choose our preferred consequences.
Or just don’t go into the sun if you can help it …
I don’t remember it being cheap
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
