Mmmmmm cancer....

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Originally posted by squirrelly haha, no no, I think it's beautiful on OTHER people. you, for instance, look great pale. You'd look awkward tan. I meant fuck paleness in reference to ME.

Good recovery

Dammit someone else just said I look like Carrie (Sissy Spacek). Gonna go gouge out my eyes in protest!

i like freckles.

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Originally posted by Theresa When I was with my ex, everytime we would go swimming in their pool, his parents would yell "AHHH WE'RE BEING BLINDED... CASPERS GIRLFRIEND IS COMING... RUNN!!!"

What a bunch of cunts. Seriously.

And there is sort of a natural process where people seem to associate tan with healthy and pale with unhealthy. There are definite benefits to sunlight (I think UV rays have something to do with helping your body process vitamin D better?) but in essence, 'sun tans' are just your skin's way of reacting to radiation exposure. Apparently the severity of the burn dictates whether it is considered 'beautiful' or not but I dunno...pale is hot as far as I'm concerned.

Good 'ol Aryan hegemony, eh?

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I used to get a tonne of abuse at school if I ever dare get my legs out. Wouldn't wear a skirt for years after as a result. Its shite when people drum that kind of opinion into your head from an early age. I've heard every stupid little pale chick dig under the sun and last summer some random guy saw fit to tell me I had the whitest legs he had ever seen.

Why would anyone think it is ok to say shit lik ethat?

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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On What a bunch of cunts. Seriously. And there is sort of a natural process where people seem to associate tan with healthy and pale with unhealthy. There are definite benefits to sunlight (I think UV rays have something to do with helping your body process vitamin D better?) but in essence, 'sun tans' are just your skin's way of reacting to radiation exposure. Apparently the severity of the burn dictates whether it is considered 'beautiful' or not but I dunno...pale is hot as far as I'm concerned. Good 'ol Aryan hegemony, eh?

Yep. I think I read that 20 minutes of sunlight is what you need per day for your skin to produce (?) a good amount of vitamin D.

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Originally posted by stace I used to get a tonne of abuse at school if I ever dare get my legs out. Wouldn't wear a skirt for years after as a result. Its shite when people drum that kind of opinion into your head from an early age. I've heard every stupid little pale chick dig under the sun and last summer some random guy saw fit to tell me I had the whitest legs he had ever seen. Why would anyone think it is ok to say shit lik ethat?

Yea, you wouldn't go up to a black guy and say "dude, you are the blackest black guy I have ever seen. If you stood against a chalk board, I wouldn't be able to see you."

I dunno, for some reason it is ok to make pale people feel abnormal.

People would tell me that I looked like I had cancer...

Halcyon, it really didn't fare well on my self-esteem. I knew they were joking, but I became very self concious of my colour. Even to this day I feel a little apprehensive to go to the beach in a bikini, simply because I am afraid I will "blind" someone.

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Originally posted by Theresa Yea, you wouldn't go up to a black guy and say "dude, you are the blackest black guy I have ever seen. If you stood against a chalk board, I wouldn't be able to see you."

It is commonplace in my school to make fun of how dark skinned or light skinned a black person is. So yea, they do get treated the same as the pales.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail It is commonplace in my school to make fun of how dark skinned or light skinned a black person is. So yea, they do get treated the same as the pales.

In your school maybe, its not so common place here or in most places I would guess.

And Theresa I so know your pain. Like I've said before my granddad was an actual albino so my pale genes come straight from him, no colour at all really and no sun bed would touch me.

I quite often feel like people are looking at me if I show off my legs in the summer. Even though this country gets barely any sun in all fairness. And in Ibiza I just feel like a flat out freak!

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Originally posted by Theresa Yea, you wouldn't go up to a black guy and say "dude, you are the blackest black guy I have ever seen. If you stood against a chalk board, I wouldn't be able to see you." I dunno, for some reason it is ok to make pale people feel abnormal. People would tell me that I looked like I had cancer... Halcyon, it really didn't fare well on my self-esteem. I knew they were joking, but I became very self concious of my colour. Even to this day I feel a little apprehensive to go to the beach in a bikini, simply because I am afraid I will "blind" someone.

EVERY fucking time during the summer when i get sunburned, at least one person asks me if i'm getting cancer or something along those lines
fucking annoying

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Originally posted by stace I used to get a tonne of abuse at school if I ever dare get my legs out. Wouldn't wear a skirt for years after as a result. Its shite when people drum that kind of opinion into your head from an early age. I've heard every stupid little pale chick dig under the sun

I'm the opposite. I have permanently red cheeks so i used to get bitched at for that. I went the opposite way though, I tan lots, mainly through natural exposure to the sun as i do a lot of things outside. I think i look a bit better, even if my cheeks shine a bit too much when im hot

End of the day, we can't change things that we may like to. Sucks but what can we do about it.

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Originally posted by Ian I'm the opposite. I have permanently red cheeks so i used to get bitched at for that. I went the opposite way though, I tan lots, mainly through natural exposure to the sun as i do a lot of things outside. I think i look a bit better, even if my cheeks shine a bit too much when im hot End of the day, we can't change things that we may like to. Sucks but what can we do about it.

I just hate the way people hone in on something like that, something that is a part of you and that you have not got a chance in hell of changing.

Grrrrrrr boils my blood.......a little bit

(PS will give you a nudge on MSN tomo probably )