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dletter [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 04:18:26 PM
Our ESPN stations plays a lot of PSAs in their commercial breaks, and one of them is from the American College of Dermatology about indoor tanning. I've always thought about going outside of a tanning salon and just sit out there with the PSA running full blast.
 
Mugato [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 04:52:47 PM
went so far as to pretending they were pale teenage girls.

But what if you think pale teenage girls are awesome?
 
Splish [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 05:31:41 PM
"Hello, Ultra Tan? Yes, I'm a fair skinned teenage girl..."
 
theorellior [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 05:46:06 PM
Pale teenage girls? Where?
 
Calm Down You Spaz
2012-02-01 05:46:49 PM
And drinking alcohol PREVENTS alcoholism. So drink up.
 
dbaggins
2012-02-01 05:49:15 PM
Now now, no need for the government to get involved. The Invisible Hand will solve this problem.
 
Summoner101
2012-02-01 05:50:12 PM
Is playing outside really that anathema to kids these days?
 
T.rex
2012-02-01 05:50:35 PM
Calm Down You Spaz: And drinking alcohol PREVENTS alcoholism. So drink up.

And taking vaccines prevents illness, so get shot up.
 
Oldiron_79
2012-02-01 05:50:43 PM
I don't know how cancer rates go for pale vs natural sun tanned vs tanning bed tanned, but women who tan a lot whether bed or sun end up like the tan lady from Something about Mary when they turn 40, pale women don't.
 
rubi_con_man
2012-02-01 05:51:03 PM
See here's the thing ;

I know a lot of women like the way having less-pale skin makes them look - a fair-skinned friend of mine once said "It makes my eyes, hair and even my nails look better!"

Of course, the best way to get a tan is to actually do sports outdoor - not lying on a beach or in a tanning bed. Being tanned while standing up and moving around will do something that neither of those do : It will accentuate your bone structure.

And on behalf of all men , a perfectly even tan is creepy and unnatural.
 
thelordofcheese
2012-02-01 05:51:07 PM
And it's never lupus.
 
strapp3r
2012-02-01 05:51:40 PM
theorellior: Pale teenage girls? Where?

with pubic hair?
 
USAF06
2012-02-01 05:52:02 PM
i0.kym-cdn.com

/Oblig
 
zez
2012-02-01 05:52:10 PM
Someone mention pale skinned girls?

img2.timeinc.net

/I'd tan her hide
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 05:53:51 PM
Mugato: went so far as to pretending they were pale teenage girls.

But what if you think pale teenage girls are awesome?

For some reason, that line prompted a weird mental image of Darrell Issa wearing a flowery blouse and capri pants.
 
cherrydog
2012-02-01 05:55:18 PM
actually very likely. in moderation, boosting vitD levels.
 
hobodojo
2012-02-01 05:55:21 PM
I can't quite wrap my head around the idea that using a tanning bed for your vitamin D is a good thing, especially for folks with chronic pain and inflammation like with lupus and fibro. Just being in pain uses up vitamin D at an astonishing rate. The amount of tanning you'd have to do would turn your skin to cancerous leather in no time. I'd rather just take a supplement and call it good.
 
New Farkin User Name
2012-02-01 05:55:26 PM
"the folks who inspired this report have been detractors of the industry for a long, long time."

Yep, congressional investigators really have it in with tanning salons. It is a millenia-long blood feud that has lasted for countless generations. I believe it all started with the Greek god of safety and bureaucracy and the Egyptian god for tanning.
 
joyride75
2012-02-01 05:55:36 PM
Oldiron_79: I don't know how cancer rates go for pale vs natural sun tanned vs tanning bed tanned, but women who tan a lot whether bed or sun end up like the tan lady from Something about Mary when they turn 40, pale women don't.

I'm a 36 year old recently single guy, and I've noticed that women in my age range just look old, and I'm guessing it's mostly due to tanning. Every time I see a younger girl that's unnaturally tan, I want to shake them and say "See this? This is what you're going to look like!" while showing them a picture of a 35 year old woman. But, they always scream and I have to run away.

Not that they'd believe me, though.
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 05:55:43 PM
Summoner101: Is playing outside really that anathema to kids these days?

I hate being outside. How do you stand being in the sun? Isn't that uncomfortable? I also don't get the whole tanning thing, either.
 
Baryogenesis
2012-02-01 05:56:28 PM
strapp3r: theorellior: Pale teenage girls? Where?

with pubic hair?

We haven't evolved past that yet?

/kidding
//what else am I going to use my machete for?
 
Jack Kerouac
2012-02-01 05:57:08 PM
Quite likely, actually... vitamin D is your friend. Supplementing can only get you so far.
 
joyride75
2012-02-01 05:58:35 PM
RexTalionis: I hate being outside. How do you stand being in the sun? Isn't that uncomfortable? I also don't get the whole tanning thing, either.

I used to love being in the sun(and being tan, until the whole skin cancer thing ruined that), but the older I get, the more shade suits me. I sweat my ass off in the summer enough as is, even in the shade. The sun just makes my balls melt that much quicker.
 
Baryogenesis
2012-02-01 06:01:11 PM
New Farkin User Name: "the folks who inspired this report have been detractors of the industry for a long, long time."

Yep, congressional investigators really have it in with tanning salons. It is a millenia-long blood feud that has lasted for countless generations. I believe it all started with the Greek god of safety and bureaucracy and the Egyptian god for tanning.

Panacea and Ra?
 
RexTalionis [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:01:19 PM
joyride75: RexTalionis: I hate being outside. How do you stand being in the sun? Isn't that uncomfortable? I also don't get the whole tanning thing, either.

I used to love being in the sun(and being tan, until the whole skin cancer thing ruined that), but the older I get, the more shade suits me. I sweat my ass off in the summer enough as is, even in the shade. The sun just makes my balls melt that much quicker.

I've never liked being in the sun. It just doesn't feel good. For me, it feels like pins and needles on my skin, and headache that lasts for a while behind my eyes. In fact, I remember the last time I got a sunburn. It would be about 20 years ago this year.
 
Orgasmatron138
2012-02-01 06:04:09 PM
I find tanning in a bed to be really, really relaxing.

However, I'm smart enough not to do it all the time. I reserve it for a few times when winter has really gotten to me, and if I am going to go on vacation to some beach type area - I like to get a warm up tan so I don't fry on the first day.
 
Oldiron_79
2012-02-01 06:06:52 PM
joyride75: Oldiron_79: I don't know how cancer rates go for pale vs natural sun tanned vs tanning bed tanned, but women who tan a lot whether bed or sun end up like the tan lady from Something about Mary when they turn 40, pale women don't.

I'm a 36 year old recently single guy, and I've noticed that women in my age range just look old, and I'm guessing it's mostly due to tanning. Every time I see a younger girl that's unnaturally tan, I want to shake them and say "See this? This is what you're going to look like!" while showing them a picture of a 35 year old woman. But, they always scream and I have to run away.

Not that they'd believe me, though.

Yeah, My mom's friends her age that are tanned look old enough to be my grandma, my mom's friends her age that are pale look like they are MY age
 
meow said the dog [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:08:41 PM
Confound. The issue is being fat. Most fat people cannot get into the sunlamp room but these are those that get the diseases. Thus this is the least common denominator of the equation and it is the show of causation to not decease with correlation.
 
homeschooled [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:09:30 PM
I worked at a tanning salon for a year when I was 18. I'm one of those "provide way too much information and potentially scare someone off" people, but other sales girls would say pretty much anything to get a sale. A red headed person could come in, and they'd be like "Oh if your times are short you won't get burnt" which...... is ridiculous. Some eople just literally CAN NOT tan. I've never heard them say it helps diseases though. I've heard them say it helps acne. Some doctors actually tell their patients to go tanning to clear up body acne.

And I do think it can help depression. Vitamin D is helpful, y'all. And the self-esteem thing... EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A TAN. In moderation, of course.
 
ecor1
2012-02-01 06:13:56 PM
DNRTFA but I am 37, am one of those people that never tan, always burn, so I stayed out of the sun. When I was a kid the sunscreen really didn't do much, so usually just avoided the sun whever I could. I still get carded. I guess I am reaching the age when people my age start looking old, and it scares me.
 
utah dude
2012-02-01 06:15:10 PM
hobodojo: I can't quite wrap my head around the idea that using a tanning bed for your vitamin D is a good thing, especially for folks with chronic pain and inflammation like with lupus and fibro. Just being in pain uses up vitamin D at an astonishing rate. The amount of tanning you'd have to do would turn your skin to cancerous leather in no time. I'd rather just take a supplement and call it good.

natural sunlight works a bit better, i'm told, since it produces chemically different forms of vit-d than the single- or few- wavelengths the tubes of a bed do-.

but it is a pain. i mean, really, who can find 20 minutes in the middle of a work day to 'lay out' ?
 
Sticky Hands
2012-02-01 06:17:51 PM
homeschooled: I worked at a tanning salon for a year when I was 18. I'm one of those "provide way too much information and potentially scare someone off" people, but other sales girls would say pretty much anything to get a sale. A red headed person could come in, and they'd be like "Oh if your times are short you won't get burnt" which...... is ridiculous. Some eople just literally CAN NOT tan. I've never heard them say it helps diseases though. I've heard them say it helps acne. Some doctors actually tell their patients to go tanning to clear up body acne.

And I do think it can help depression. Vitamin D is helpful, y'all. And the self-esteem thing... EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A TAN. In moderation, of course.

There is this really pale, dark haired girl at the local Carl's Jr that looks great.
She would definitely not look better with a bit of a tan, and I typically prefers my ladies dark.

Also, there are those of us that turn into oopma loompas when exposed to just a moderate amount of regular old sunlight. I look silly enough as it is, I don't need that.
 
sovietski
2012-02-01 06:18:11 PM
Eh..my genetic makeup renders me a fair-skinned, dark-eyed, dark-haired gal. I BATHE in 50 SPF during outdoor activities in the summer, only because I get blistered and lobster-esque so fast. I used a tanning bed once, hated it and never went back.

Of course, when I do get blistered, I skip "tan" and go back to fair. I've noticed that a lot of girls in my age group (late 20s) are often starting to look...older. I know a girl who will skip going to the lake to tan, swim, etc and go to the tanning salon instead. Oh well.
 
homeschooled [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:19:51 PM
Sticky Hands: homeschooled: I worked at a tanning salon for a year when I was 18. I'm one of those "provide way too much information and potentially scare someone off" people, but other sales girls would say pretty much anything to get a sale. A red headed person could come in, and they'd be like "Oh if your times are short you won't get burnt" which...... is ridiculous. Some eople just literally CAN NOT tan. I've never heard them say it helps diseases though. I've heard them say it helps acne. Some doctors actually tell their patients to go tanning to clear up body acne.

And I do think it can help depression. Vitamin D is helpful, y'all. And the self-esteem thing... EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A TAN. In moderation, of course.

There is this really pale, dark haired girl at the local Carl's Jr that looks great.
She would definitely not look better with a bit of a tan, and I typically prefers my ladies dark.

Also, there are those of us that turn into oopma loompas when exposed to just a moderate amount of regular old sunlight. I look silly enough as it is, I don't need that.

Yeah, I suppose there's an exception to every rule. But sunkissed generally makes people look great, your muscles are more defined, and you loko thinner.
 
StanTheMan
2012-02-01 06:20:42 PM
dbaggins: Now now, no need for the government to get involved. The Invisible Hand will solve this problem.

Ah, the predictable deep-thinking "libertarians and free-marketers = anarchists" comment, only 5 posts in.

Right, you libs* want to regulate teens going to tanning salons, getting piercings and tattoos, junk food at public schools, and every other human endeavor, but feel they should be able to go to a school nurse and get an abortion without parental consent. You're the reasonable ones, got it.

* Go ahead and whine about your politics being misrepresented after throwing that bomb.
 
meow said the dog [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:26:37 PM
StanTheMan: dbaggins: Now now, no need for the government to get involved. The Invisible Hand will solve this problem.

Ah, the predictable deep-thinking "libertarians and free-marketers = anarchists" comment, only 5 posts in.

Right, you libs* want to regulate teens going to tanning salons, getting piercings and tattoos, junk food at public schools, and every other human endeavor, but feel they should be able to go to a school nurse and get an abortion without parental consent. You're the reasonable ones, got it.

* Go ahead and whine about your politics being misrepresented after throwing that bomb.

LAUGHTER OL. I GIVE THIS THE 8/10! WOULD READ THE TROLLING OF YOU AGAIN!
 
jagec
2012-02-01 06:26:46 PM
homeschooled: Sticky Hands: homeschooled: I worked at a tanning salon for a year when I was 18. I'm one of those "provide way too much information and potentially scare someone off" people, but other sales girls would say pretty much anything to get a sale. A red headed person could come in, and they'd be like "Oh if your times are short you won't get burnt" which...... is ridiculous. Some eople just literally CAN NOT tan. I've never heard them say it helps diseases though. I've heard them say it helps acne. Some doctors actually tell their patients to go tanning to clear up body acne.

And I do think it can help depression. Vitamin D is helpful, y'all. And the self-esteem thing... EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A TAN. In moderation, of course.

There is this really pale, dark haired girl at the local Carl's Jr that looks great.
She would definitely not look better with a bit of a tan, and I typically prefers my ladies dark.

Also, there are those of us that turn into oopma loompas when exposed to just a moderate amount of regular old sunlight. I look silly enough as it is, I don't need that.

Yeah, I suppose there's an exception to every rule. But sunkissed generally makes people look great, your muscles are more defined, and you loko thinner.

Yeah, sure, THIS decade. Give it another few years and the tanned look will be the mark of poor trashy people again.
 
Fizzy_Pop
2012-02-01 06:27:55 PM
Thymine dimers... how do they work??

Personally, I don't have an issue with tanning salons... makes it a lot easier to identify idiots.

/I like my pale skin
 
ib_thinkin [TotalFark]
2012-02-01 06:35:35 PM
FTA: A new congressional report out today found that tanning salons say anything to get customers into their beds, but in order to get this valuable information congressional investigators even went so far as to pretending they were pale teenage girls.

theniteranter.com

Oh, he's good.
 
ecor1
2012-02-01 06:36:14 PM
sovietski: Of course, when I do get blistered, I skip "tan" and go back to fair.

Pretty much this. Also, the lightest makeup is still too dark (although this is less of a probem as I get older).
 
The_Homeless_Guy
2012-02-01 06:36:53 PM
The good news is that we'll be able to artificially stimulate melanocytes within the next decade. At first it will be for people with various skin ailments but after that it'll be a very expensive cosmetic procedure.
 
ontariolightning
2012-02-01 06:42:18 PM
our society is so ignorant of anything that we believe whatever we're told
 
Sticky Hands
2012-02-01 06:43:31 PM
The_Homeless_Guy: The good news is that we'll be able to artificially stimulate melanocytes within the next decade. At first it will be for people with various skin ailments but after that it'll be a very expensive cosmetic procedure.

fine, as long as it don't make my brown eyes blue.
 
zez
2012-02-01 06:44:59 PM
ecor1: I still get carded. I guess I am reaching the age when people my age start looking old, and it scares me.

Yeah, I'm the same but I was a pool lifeguard for 8 years and didn't hardly use any sunscreen. I'm 41 and I'll see some decrepit old guy at the grocery store and then realize I went to highschool with him.
 
sovietski
2012-02-01 06:45:55 PM
ecor1: sovietski: Of course, when I do get blistered, I skip "tan" and go back to fair.

Pretty much this. Also, the lightest makeup is still too dark (although this is less of a probem as I get older).

I'm at the point where I fall between the lighter shades. I use bare minerals (ja, it's a bit expensive but it lasts a long time), and have found lots of luck with the 2nd to lightest shade. It blends well and covers well, so I'm happy.

I saw a early 20s girl leaving a spray-tan salon here in town a few days ago, and she looked....dark orange?! (Picture an Oompa-Loompa who went to the Bahamas.) Did she over-do it, or do you wash off the excess later?
 
TheMysticS
2012-02-01 06:45:56 PM
meow said the dog: StanTheMan: dbaggins: Now now, no need for the government to get involved. The Invisible Hand will solve this problem.

Ah, the predictable deep-thinking "libertarians and free-marketers = anarchists" comment, only 5 posts in.

Right, you libs* want to regulate teens going to tanning salons, getting piercings and tattoos, junk food at public schools, and every other human endeavor, but feel they should be able to go to a school nurse and get an abortion without parental consent. You're the reasonable ones, got it.

* Go ahead and whine about your politics being misrepresented after throwing that bomb.

LAUGHTER OL. I GIVE THIS THE 8/10! WOULD READ THE TROLLING OF YOU AGAIN!

Missed you, meow. Just too much order in my day, I suppose.
 
ecor1
2012-02-01 06:52:10 PM
zez: ecor1: I still get carded. I guess I am reaching the age when people my age start looking old, and it scares me.

Yeah, I'm the same but I was a pool lifeguard for 8 years and didn't hardly use any sunscreen. I'm 41 and I'll see some decrepit old guy at the grocery store and then realize I went to highschool with him.

Scary.

I guess some people just age faster...or something. I once worked with someone who I thought for sure was in her late 50s and at some point she mentioned that she was in her mid-40s. Kinda blew me away.

Random hilarity - reading this thread and Gang of Four - Damaged Goods comes on itunes.
 
flyinghouse99
2012-02-01 06:56:15 PM
It burnt my morgellons clear off as well.
 
Gonad the Ballbarian
2012-02-01 06:59:54 PM
Come on babe, i'll just rub the tip on it...

JACKPOT!
 
TheMysticS
2012-02-01 07:00:32 PM
jagec: homeschooled: Sticky Hands: homeschooled: I worked at a tanning salon for a year when I was 18. I'm one of those "provide way too much information and potentially scare someone off" people, but other sales girls would say pretty much anything to get a sale. A red headed person could come in, and they'd be like "Oh if your times are short you won't get burnt" which...... is ridiculous. Some eople just literally CAN NOT tan. I've never heard them say it helps diseases though. I've heard them say it helps acne. Some doctors actually tell their patients to go tanning to clear up body acne.

And I do think it can help depression. Vitamin D is helpful, y'all. And the self-esteem thing... EVERYONE LOOKS BETTER WITH A LITTLE BIT OF A TAN. In moderation, of course.

There is this really pale, dark haired girl at the local Carl's Jr that looks great.
She would definitely not look better with a bit of a tan, and I typically prefers my ladies dark.

Also, there are those of us that turn into oopma loompas when exposed to just a moderate amount of regular old sunlight. I look silly enough as it is, I don't need that.

Yeah, I suppose there's an exception to every rule. But sunkissed generally makes people look great, your muscles are more defined, and you loko thinner.

Yeah, sure, THIS decade. Give it another few years and the tanned look will be the mark of poor trashy people again.

No matter how bad you think something looks, give it a few years and people will be wearing that style again. I hadn't realized that tanning or not followed a trend that was similar. Guess I haven't paid enough attention.

And no matter how bad you think you tan, you don't look like an oompa-loompa. You look like that when you use fake tanning products. No matter what you may have heard about Orange-Americans, that is not a natural skin color.
You also don't pronounce Boehner
Bay-nor. But that's what most people call him.

He's good, all right.
Too good.
 
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