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Now I know what white people feel like

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madeupfacts

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OMG this freakin sun burn hurts. Hurts when I touch it, hurts when I make contact with anything including going to bed, and it freakin burns when my skin gets hit by sunlight now. I'm stayin in total darkness for the next 365 days.
 
I get burned very quickly. Unfortunately here in New Zealand we pay for the mistakes of larger nations as the Ozone hole sits right above us. Most foreigners I talk to comment on how strong the sunlight is here. A mate of mine went to Africa and said that even though the temperature is much higher, you don't get that "burning feeling" when you're out in the sun like you do here.

So moral of the story, wear sunblock in NZ and CFCs are bad.
 
lol 🙂 I found out about this in middle school when our coach came back from vacation fried. Now, I'm not saying this with any racist intent behind it, so don't flame me to death. But it never even occured to me that a black person could *get* a sunburn. I guess I just assumed that since a white person's skin turns dark with exposure (assuming you're not out long enough to get burned), that someone with naturally dark skin would be immune to it.

Nate
 
I get fried every summer. Still have the farmers tan from last summer when I was wearing dark tshirt rollerblading.
 
I went out to Lake Michigan today and my back got burned pretty bad. That's what I get for trying to apply sunscreen to my own back.
 
Was just in Galveston, TX at the ocean and I'm like Aryan Nation white, needless to say my shoulders are fried as are various parts of my body, hurts like a bitch, but the itching that comes as it heals is much worse.

I put on SPF 35 adn reapplied twice, still lobster-red, what's worse is, I have so little melanin that I won't even tan. In a week I'll have a few more freckels and still be white as a sheet.
 
You can help the burn move towards healing quickly by taking a long, very hot shower. It makes the skin shed the burnt parts faster and you feel much better after.
 
Originally posted by: ThaGrandCow
You can help the burn move towards healing quickly by taking a long, very hot shower. It makes the skin shed the burnt parts faster and you feel much better after.
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I dunno, this sounds rather painful.
 
I never burn. Only time I did get burned was when I spent 10 days in the Moab desert without any shelter (besides tents) and without any sunscreen. Got burned on the last day rafting.
 
Originally posted by: iamaelephant
I get burned very quickly. Unfortunately here in New Zealand we pay for the mistakes of larger nations as the Ozone hole sits right above us. Most foreigners I talk to comment on how strong the sunlight is here. A mate of mine went to Africa and said that even though the temperature is much higher, you don't get that "burning feeling" when you're out in the sun like you do here.

So moral of the story, wear sunblock in NZ and CFCs are bad.
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elephants get sunburned?!?
 
Black cars get hotter than white cars in the sun. Do you not think that applies to people, as well? They just can't see the sunburn as readily as a white person can, on themselves. Maybe they don't have the same pain factor as white people either????
 
Originally posted by: technophile82
eh, its not that bad. getting a decent dose of poison oak on the skin is hell though, and lasts much much longer.
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Originally posted by: jadinolf
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
How did you get burned through that bag?
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:laugh::thumbsup:
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lol, double ownage!

appreciate the good times and forget about whining because you didn't ask how to avoid the extremes of getting burned by that big ball of fire that helps power our "homeworld."

p.s. if you have ever listened to the trance song, Melt to the Ocean by Cosmic Gate, you'll probably call it a peice of art.
the melody, beats, level of both bass and treble are so perfectly crafted that it will make you listen to the song over and over again.
 
much of anandtech knows how white people feel. affirmative action is working against asians for higher education😛
 
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