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[–] 95 points 1 year ago (4 children)

mate it's £5-10 for a 200ml bottle I'd hardly call that cheap

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    WTF are those prices. I'd start looking into importing from abroad ...

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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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    [–] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    In the US it's cheap but unregulated

    It’s the exact opposite actually.

    US sunscreen is way worse than sunscreen in other parts of the world like the EU. It doesn’t block the harmful radiation as well. The reason is that it’s more strictly regulated in the US. IIRC it’s not considered a cosmetic product but instead it’s a medical product.

    As such it’s subject to much stricter regulation and requires much more (expensive) testing before being allowed on the market. Due to this it’s considered too expensive to introduce the newer, more advanced sunscreen products in the US so you’re stuck with the older, crappier sunscreen.

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    [+] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
    [–] 43 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    "ball of fire"

    Haha, no no. You threw down with a gigantic source of cell destroying radiation. The fire did no harm.

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    [+] 37 points 1 year ago (11 children)
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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Every English tourist in Australia.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    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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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    [–] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    On the other hand, what bullshit is it that my stupid human body can't survive being outdoors without medicinal cream. My ancestors would be ashamed.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your ancestors had melanin production to fit their sun exposure and seldom lived past 40

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Maybe tens of thousands of years ago, but 2000ish years ago 60ish was old age. The main reason life expectancy has gone up isn't that old people didn't make it to 50, it's that young people didn't make it to 2. If a couple has 5 kids, 3 of them die as toddlers and the other two make it to 70 the average life expectancy is about 30, but that doesn't mean living past 30 is unusual.

    Also, tens of thousands of years ago there was an ice age, but for the last 10k years light-skinned Europeans still had normal summers and worked in the fields.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Not wearing sunscreen and getting a sunburn is a psyop to get men to buy more aloe vera.

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I would wear suncream more often, but:

    1. I'm allergic to something in most brands of suncream so if I run out I'm having to deal with rashes all over where I used it.
    2. I hate how it makes me feel slimy after using it

    There's this Loreal suncream spray I like that I can't seem to find that feels like water and when it's dry, it doesn't feel like you have suncream on. It's perfect for me! I'm not allergic to it either so I can actually go in the sun without turning red and blotchy!

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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    If the cream wasn't such a goddamn sensory nightmare...
    UPF clothes FTW

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It's actually irritating to me that the sun is bombarding us with ionizing radiation

    (I know, not the same intensity) but think about the amount of precautions we take before turning on a UV lamp. Or before turning on a very bright LED which you are not supposed to look directly at. Well, neither you should look directly at the sun, but you get the idea

    In a perspective, sun is so radioactive it can even decay paint and plastic! It can literally cook you alive and make your skin fall in pieces. This just seems usual to us because we were born with it, people would freak the hell out if a medical procedure had the same side effects

    Look, I can make a right wing campaign out of this! BAN THE SUN SAVE YOUR KIDS FROM 800T (Terahertz) RADIATION

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    [+] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you spend 8 hours in the sun, the sunscreen doesn't seem like it helps entirely.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago* (14 children)

    >be me
    >white as everliving fuck
    >put on 60 spf sun screen, as you should, and set a timer for an hour and a half to reapply, earlier than the recommended 2 hours
    >alarm goes off, reapply
    >STILL GET SUNBURNED

    mfw

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    [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    If you hate the feel of sunscreen like I do, check out UPF clothing 👍

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    But it's gross :C

    (summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though)

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    [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The worst is when is a cloudy Summer day and you're like there's no sun mf, no need to sunscreen! But you still get burned the fuck out.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My wife can spend all day in the sun and turn a nice shade of brown.

    Not me. There is no "tan" for me. It's either pasty white or lobster with no middle ground whatsoever.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Pour one out for the back of my calves. Every summer I forget.

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    I put on sun screen every morning to ward off basal cell skin cancer. It sucks but it's cheaper than going to the dermatologist to have basal cell skin cancer removed. The worst part is getting it in my eyes. On the plus side, the splotchy age spots on my temples have disappeared

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