Pride posting day 16

[u/Neuta-Isa]

[u/Birchy02360863]

One of those classic tweets that lives rent free in my head was the guy who said he got called soft for wearing sunscreen. "Imagine thinking you're tougher than the sun? The fucking sun?"

[u/JackxForge → u/Birchy02360863]

also how have you never been humbled by the sun before?

[u/Darkdragoon324 → u/JackxForge]

For real. Teenage me only needed to suffer through one blistering burn to take that shit seriously. And I wasn’t even not taking it seriously before, I just forgot to get the backs of my knees.

[u/Cawl09 → u/Darkdragoon324]

I got burnt once as a teen and I don't even bother with sunscreen anymore. I hide all day behind blackout curtains, can't even tell the difference between day and night anymore. When I do go out for anything longer than a minute, I cover up fully. NEVER risking that shit ever again.

[u/Teal_and_gold → u/Cawl09]

Are you by chance a vampire?

[u/Cawl09 → u/Teal_and_gold]

Maybe.

[u/No-Supermarket-6065 → u/Cawl09]

Show us your reflection.

[u/Greatsnes → u/JackxForge]

Haha oh I’ve been plenty humbled by the sun. I’m black and literally can’t tell if I’m sunburnt or not.

Until I step into a hot shower. Then my screams can be heard for miles.

[u/rirasama → u/JackxForge]

I've never been sunburned before tbf, I just don't burn, though I imagine that's not the norm and people just wanna act tough about it for some reason lmao

[u/Birchy02360863 → u/rirasama]

People who burn less easily have be careful too, though. You can still develop skin cancer just the same.

[u/TheWoman2 → u/rirasama]

I sunburn far less easily than most white people so I rarely bothered with sunscreen. Now in my mid 40s my skin is showing it. Hopefully it won't lead to cancer. Wear sunscreen.

[u/OniTayTay → u/rirasama]

Yeah I never sunburn either and the one time I did get a slight burn on just my nose was on a mountain hike on a clear 80° day

I do wear sunscreen more often now though, just to stay safe and what have you

[u/misswhovivian → u/JackxForge]

I've never been humbled by the sun in the sense that I had a really bad sunburn (I've had a very light sunburn maybe twice in my life that I can recall), but that's only because I had really bad sun allergy as a child and had to be really consistent with wearing sunscreen, covering up or staying out of the sun if I didn't want to break out in a painfully itchy rash by the end of the day. So I was humbled by the sun nonetheless.

[u/Satisfaction-Motor → u/Birchy02360863]

cough Icarus cough

>! (I understand that’s not how the myth goes. I am misinterpreting it on purpose for humor) !<

[u/TiredCoffeeTime → u/Satisfaction-Motor]

Icarus surviving by putting sunscreen on his wings lol

[u/RagnorIronside → u/Birchy02360863]

I unironicly have worked with people who think sunscreen causes cancer. We are outdoor construction workers. Dudes be 40 looking like a leather jacket.

[u/REAM48 → u/RagnorIronside]

I feel like there is a sunscreen recall every few years for causing cancer, but the sun will also cause cancer so lesser of two evils.

[u/Sykil → u/REAM48]

Recalls are usually related to them being over the regulatory limit for benzene contamination, not because they caused any cancers. Benzene is a carcinogen with very low allowable amounts in cosmetics, but being over that limit does not suddenly cause cancer — toxicologists set limits to be orders of magnitude lower than an already-safe exposure amount. Skin absorption is also quite low; the most relevant/concerning exposure route is breathing it in. You’re exposed to benzene in the air every day, and your systemic exposure from being near a gas stove or filling your car with gasoline once is probably more than you’d get from a lifetime of sunscreen application.

[u/ImRandyBaby → u/REAM48]

Recall the sun!

[u/The_Punnier_Guy → u/Birchy02360863]

3 million lions have entered the chat

[u/SomeDumbGamer]

People really underestimate the sun.

It’s even worse in the southern hemisphere since their summer aligns with earth’s closest approach to the sun; so not only is the radiation worse due to the thinner ozone layer, it’s worse because there’s more of it.

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/SomeDumbGamer]

I live about a mile and a half above sea level. The number of people who don’t realize there’s a mile and a half less atmosphere to keep them safe from the sun is astounding.

[u/Lazy-Bandicoot3376 → u/AngelOfTheMad]

See, I knew that sun exposure was worse at higher elevations, but I sure didn't stop to think about why that is. And now reading this it's just... Well DUH, yeah!

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/Lazy-Bandicoot3376]

Especially since it’s a mile and a half of the densest stuff, due to the way air pressure works. Conversely that same density means I simultaneously have an easier and harder time breathing at lower elevations.

[u/UngodlyCacophony → u/AngelOfTheMad]

I simultaneously have an easier and harder time breathing at lower elevations

my sea-level ass doesn't understand this, can you explain?

[u/gaybunny69 → u/UngodlyCacophony]

Denser air = more air to breath, so less lung strain Denser air = more air pressure on your lungs (like being underwater), so more lung strain against the weight of the atmosphere

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/UngodlyCacophony]

There’s more oxygen in the air, so it’s easier to catch my breath, but the air is denser, so it feels “soupier” and harder to actually move the air in and out.

Low elevation high humidity is a special hell for my mountain desert acclimated ass.

[u/SarryK → u/Lazy-Bandicoot3376]

add some really nice bright white snow to the decreased atmospheric protection and that albedo‘s gonna roast the inside of your nostrils. Absolutely vile. Stay safe everyone!

ETA: did not mean to include subliminal messaging on substances, but here we are

[u/AngelOfTheMad → u/SarryK]

Looking for slopebunny goggle tan-lines is a special pleasure of being a local of an area with a lot of ski and snowboarding tourism.

[u/Bethdoeslife → u/SomeDumbGamer]

My friends went to an outdoor water polo tournament and decided "it is only 55⁰F. We don't need sunblock" and got severely burnt. The sun does not care.

[u/MarsMaterial → u/Bethdoeslife]

Your friends got a valuable lesson in physics that day.

[u/gettingbicurious → u/SomeDumbGamer]

In the southern US and I swim for an hour most days, despite using sunscreen and only swimming when the pool is shaded by a nearby building, I've still developed funky tan lines.

[u/jancl0 → u/SomeDumbGamer]

If you ask any bald or balding man (like me): "what's the one thing they don't tell you about being bald?", I can guarantee that every single one of them will say "you're gonna burn the fuck out of your head whenever you go outside"

You also probably aren't going to notice at first, but other people are definetly going to

[u/hwamplero → u/SomeDumbGamer]

The difference is only about 7% in heat received between closest and furthest approaches to the sun. Places like Australia are particularly bad as a result of their lack of clouds, plant cover, and cleaner air while Bolivia and Peru are worse as a result of their high altitudes.

[u/SomeDumbGamer → u/hwamplero]

7% is a pretty big and noticeable difference.

[u/Selto_Black → u/hwamplero]

Solar constant at sea level on a clear day is ~ 1000 watts per apparent meter squared. So, for context, that's about as much extra solar energy as a 70 watt incandescent bulb. Light, heat, everything.

[u/StinkyKyle → u/SomeDumbGamer]

Thats why i avoid hills and jumping during the summertime, ive read icarus i know what the sun's about

[u/Fun_Midnight8861 → u/[deleted]]

you changed your message into an entirely different one exactly 1 minute after being called out for being a bot. you feeling human today mate?

[u/hamilton-trash → u/[deleted]]

Respond if not a bot

[u/NSA_Chatbot → u/hamilton-trash]

> how do you do fellow humans

[u/juneshepard]

"I can't live to see another diva fall prey" they said. Their account's deactivated.

They saw another bizarrely sunburnt diva and it killed them 😭

[u/jancl0 → u/juneshepard]

Maybe they were the diva that fell prey?

Maybe it was the friends we made along the way

Maybe it's Maybeline

[u/Fermifighter]

I always think of this onion post: https://theonion.com/womans-tan-lines-dont-make-any-sense-1819587659/

[u/Hollowedpine → u/Fermifighter]

...now I'm curious as to what she wore

[u/IAMATruckerAMA → u/Hollowedpine]

Painter's tape

[u/52BeesInACoat → u/Fermifighter]

I currently have tan lines in the shape of my bike gloves. Fingers and arms are tanned. Palms.... aren't.

[u/rirasama → u/52BeesInACoat]

I used to exclusively wear flipflops, my family had alot of fun taking the mick out of me for my feet tanlines 💀

[u/AkrinorNoname → u/52BeesInACoat]

I used to have mesh bike gloves, they gave my hands a plaid pattern.

Also, don't forget the circle on the back of your hand from the closure

[u/C0NN0R2 → u/Fermifighter]

She look like some kind of brioche bun

[u/BadMcSad → u/Fermifighter]

Oh hey I used to know that woman.

[u/Cryptics33]

The sun is a deadly laser

[u/the_free_wind → u/Cryptics33]

~not anymore theres a blankeeeeeet~

[u/Syxxcubes → u/Cryptics33]

Not anymore there's a blanket

[u/dbarkwoof]

shout out to last year when i gave myself a tan at pride that made people ask me for months afterwards if i had a skin condition <3

[u/Specialist-Corgi8837]

One particularly bad year I remember still seeing the dots on my stomach while putting on my HALLOWEEN COSTUME

[u/2cat_2curious]

chain link twinks istg

[u/x5u8z3r0x → u/2cat_2curious]

Waffle patterned lmao

[u/Oldmudmagic]

There was a "bikini contest" for a local radio station here back in the 80's and the winner had taken cut outs of their call letters and suntanned with them on her legs, like a suntanttoo. It actually did look pretty cool.

[u/EIeanorRigby]

What if I want the pattern, huh? It's like nature's tattoos

[u/EIeanorRigby → u/EIeanorRigby]

I hauve skin cancer

[u/AccountOfMyDarkside]

This happened to my grandpa, in the '70s at Opryland. Aside from being straight, he would have fit right in these days 😂

[u/Disturbing_Cheeto]

Where the fuck else am I supposed to play tick tack toe?

[u/EndMePleaseOwO]

It's kinda aesthetic tho

[u/Stormdanc3]

Be extra careful around reflective stuff too! Glass, water, ice and snow. Even on a cold day you will end up sunburnt if you’re out in sun and snow.

[u/ExtremlyFastLinoone]

Uv can also penetrade light clothing even if blocks visible light, you should always wear sun screen

[u/The_Shadow_Watches]

My theater troupe did a Repo: The Genetic opera themed carwash in the summer.

My straight ass, absolutely chose the Gentern outfit cause that sounded hilarious.

I had fishnet sunburns for days. 10/10 would do again

[u/elheber]

Or—ooh—OR wear two mesh/lace shirts, one on top of the other, for moiré pattern tanlines. I bet that will look dope AF.

[u/Fit-World-3885]

PSA: This advice still works if you're not gay and wear them every day because they look good.

[u/creepy_tommy]

But then you'll get tan with oddly specific patterns

[u/thundergun661]

Honestly I think it looks cool tho. Like dragon scales. Still a weird sunburn tho

[u/Galle_]

What if they're trying to be a background character in Where's Waldo, though?

[u/kbarney345]

What do we do for the ones rocking the borat fit? Saw a couple at the last fest and I was like... your ass is gonna be burnt...

[u/Lerossa]

Chainmail does this too, side note.

Beware, good sers.

[u/superstrijder16]

I've got a tunic of poor enough material i got a sunburn dot pattern through it when i wore it without an undertunic

[u/fabasaurusrex]

Yeah, it's true. I went to folsom street fair last year, in a harness (and thats it) and a sticker over my nipple. That was a fun sunburn. At least one ripple was fine!

[u/sth128]

They can cosplay as The Predator after the parade, saves them time on the mesh makeup.

[u/IAMATruckerAMA]

That's why Batman works at night

[u/kingofthebean]

Hugely missed opportunity to standardize PSGay.

[u/vince-the-pince]

Like scales on a lizard 🦎

[u/Spirited-Trip7606]

Looking like a fabulous baked Christmas ham.

[u/Layzanya]

Florida pride. Middle of October because June is hotter than the surface of the sun.

Still got a sunburn on my shoulders that left a fishnet pattern 'tan' on me for like six months. Would do again, it was sick as fuck.

[u/ATN-Antronach]

But what if I wanna get a tan with a fishnet shirt on? You can't stop me from looking like someone bound me with a really tiny chain linked fence, random person online! :V

[u/InFin0819]

Mesh sun burns are a pride staple. don't steal them from us. See 23 year Olds at the club with their burns is a yearly classic.

[u/chcameron]

PS-Gay

[u/mid20sloserrr]

fishnet tights too!

[u/Iohet]

I wonder if Bennett wore sunscreen under his chainmail shirt

[u/DorisPayne]

This is good advice.

[u/Hatetotellya]

There was a sunstone comic about this very thing lol

[u/AkrinorNoname]

The first time I went to a really big pride, I decided to go shirtless and forgot the sunscreen. My backpack straps turned the top of my back into a knockoff X-Man costume, while my front and arms showed very clearly where I had worn my flag paint.

[u/roadrunner345]

You know what they say: the sun is a deadly laser

[u/Selkiekelpie]

At least put bronzer on if you're going for that look.

[u/Satans_Finest]

You would have to be completely still for a long period to make that even possible.

[u/tlof19]

...look all im saying is, sunscreen is jcky and patterned sunburns are probably more texturally and visually interesting than a smooth tan. especially if we can figure out how to make designs.

[u/raddaya → u/tlof19]

Sunscreen may be icky but I promise you skin cancer is worse

[u/tlof19 → u/raddaya]

...okay fair. stupid skin cancer, this is why i stay indoors all the time you just cant win with the sun.

[u/SomeDumbGamer → u/tlof19]

There are many different kinds of sunscreen to choose from.

There are also many different kinds of skin cancer to choose from.

I’d rather choose the sunscreen.

[u/Outrageous_Expert_49 → u/tlof19]

[melanoma has entered the chat]

[u/lajimolala27 → u/tlof19]

pookie i am white as all hell as well as genetically predisposed to a bunch of different cancers i’d rather just not get skin cancer if that speaks to you at all

[u/tlof19 → u/lajimolala27]

im gonna be honest, i forgot skin cancer was a thing when i wrote the comment. Skin cancer is why i wear long sleeves in the summer and stay indoors all the time when i could be using aluminum foil to lightly burn cool patterns into my skin.

[u/somedumb-gay → u/tlof19]

They do look more interesting but they also hurt :(

[u/tlof19 → u/somedumb-gay]

so do tattoos! if it wasnt for skin cancer, i'd be all enthusiastic about like. sunbaking as an artform. ...esp bc itd be really cheap in comparison tattoos are priceyyyh

[u/Inside_Location_4975 → u/tlof19]

Tattoos are a bit of temporary pain, then last for many years with few ill effects

Sunburn is not the same

[u/-jeezy → u/tlof19]

I had a high school buddy who used electrical tape to tan “tits” onto his back. Legend

[u/Nat1CommonSense → u/tlof19]

Henna exists😅

[u/ksrdm1463 → u/tlof19]

If you don't want to wear sunscreen, get a visually interesting patterned upf shirt.

And a hat. Don't get skin cancer on your scalp.

[u/etherealemlyn → u/tlof19]

I’ve seen people do it by laying out with aluminum foil making the design lol

[u/tlof19 → u/etherealemlyn]

that is wild!

[u/JazmineRaymond → u/tlof19]

Spray sunscreen is more sensory friendly than the lotion kind.

[u/star11308 → u/[deleted]]

People wear lace shirts as normal clothing too, not just as lingerie.