But I am mighty!!

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  But it’s gross :C

  (summer sunshine is also gross even without sunburns, though, so I never get sunburns anyway)

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• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Every English tourist in Australia.

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  • alchemist2023@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In New Zealand the sun feels like it’s stabbing you after 10min in summer. I can feel my skin prickling like tiny fire ants.It doesn’t take long to burn here. serious respect for the sun and upper atmosphere

    there’s a hole in my ozone dear lyza, dear lyza…

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    • MadPsyentist@lemmy.nz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Its not the ozon hole (well its a little bit the fault of the ozon hole) but its because due to the eleptical orbit of the earth around the sun the southern hemisphere is closer to the sun in summer than the north hemisphere.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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  • wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    …and Florida, and Jamaica, and Mexico, and (I presume) Spain. There is no corner of the earth in which the English will not challenge the mighty Helios until they are as red as the cross of St. George.

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    • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      *Me in Vitoria, Spain: “You guys get sun?”

      Large parts of the north of Spain are basically UK in terms of weather.

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• affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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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  • sCrUM_MASTER@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was in Berlin last month and spent €16.50 for a 50ml bottle

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    • Flubo@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I guess you went to the wrong shop then. In pharmacies or shops open at crazy hours this might be true. We usually buy all products for Hygiene and beauty in shops we call “Drogerie”. The most common two chains are Rossmann and DM. There you get sun screen for 3-15€ from various Brands.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Weird. In NRW you can get them at DM for less than 10 Euro.

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  • BlueLineBae@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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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    • BorgDrone@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 as the sunscreen 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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    • WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The USA is the Wild West when it comes to safety standards of any product.

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    • affenlehrer@feddit.org ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, that’s bad. Made me think of this sunscreen and in Robocop 2.

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