The joys of being a pasty white chick....

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by ShadyLady on 09 July 2011 - 15:07

Ah, I grew up on the beach as a sun worshipper and had a great tan, but as you get elder, you pay a price with sun damage. Best to enjoy your undamaged skin and stick with 30 min of sunshine per day for Vit D and to brighten your mood.

by Myracle on 09 July 2011 - 18:07

When I was in the Army, I had a guy in my unit who received an Article 15 for being sunburnt.
The poor guy had third degree burns, his face was swollen so badly he could hardly open his eyes.

How did it happen? "I didn't know black people could sunburn. It's never happened to me before."

The poor guy labored under the [very common] delusion that black people don't sunburn. He paid a heavy price.

by brynjulf on 10 July 2011 - 15:07

O my gosh! That poor fellow!!! the sun sure can be dangerous.

by Mystere on 11 July 2011 - 19:07

Been there, done that! AFAIK, NOBODY in my family ever got a sunburn, until I got one. It ws not fun. It hurt, it kept me awake, and I thought, because it was the left arm, that I was having a heart attack, or a stroke. Seriously--sunburn never entered my mind, until my secretary told me that it as a sunburn. My arm was quite literally black, rather than its usual cinnamon-brown. And, did I mention that it HURT?

As a result, at any given time, there are always at least two containers of sunscreen in my vehicle. I have always found it odd that in a sport in which there are so few blacks, I am almost always the only person at the training field or at a trial with sunscreen!

by Mystere on 11 July 2011 - 19:07

Mudwick,

You DO know why it is that even black folks are unaware that we can sunburn, aren't you? When is the last time ANY of you have ever seen a black person sunbathing? Ever? I have never, ever seen it in my life. Not even in Minnesota, where folks start sunbathing on the grass as soon as it hits 40 degrees.

by Kalibeck on 12 July 2011 - 03:07

I wonder if Google earth can see THAT! I'll be looking! LOL! jackie harris

by Myracle on 12 July 2011 - 05:07

True. I don't think I've ever seen a person of color sun-bathing.
Except for a sprinkling of half-latina women.

My girlfriend was fine in the sun as a kid. Spent her summers in Florida and never burned, while the white half of her family got cooked to a crisp. It was assumed that she took after her [black] dad.

Nope. Sometime in her mid-twenties, her skin decided to switch things up on her, and she sizzled her shoulders.
She's like you now, Nia. Copious amounts of sun-screen anytime she is outside.

She's also on my case, so I dutifully carry my sunscreen in my training bag, lest I anger the boss.

by Ruger1 on 12 July 2011 - 06:07

          I feel sorry for all you pasty white chicks...lol...
         With an Italian father and a Greek mother....I tan to perfection...: )

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