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Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 07:55 AM

I was doing some lawn mowing yesterday and got a bit burnt by the sun. I'm not a 'sun tan' kind of guy. I guess people with British, Irish, Anglo Saxon, Northern European blood are not really designed for the sun !

What about you ? Are you a person who tans easily or are you a burner ??

P.S. Nihilist, I know the answer for you already !

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Aug 10 2012, 08:45 AM

I go on gypsy mode whenever I stay naked in the sun for more than a few hours This is a very useful thing, as when I am at the seaside I don't have to worry about going all red and stingy

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Aug 10 2012, 09:11 AM

It really doesn't depends what kind of "blood" you are to get burnt by sun , the sun tan depends on pigment melanin !!

Btw, BEN Congrats- it's your 7500 post !!




Gypsy Mode ??? You mean Phrygian Dominant?

Posted by: snackajacks Aug 10 2012, 09:31 AM

Luckily I have a darker skin color than most people in the netherllands, Still dont know why, I think it has something to
do with the milkman or something. If I get burned, I only get my nose burned

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 09:37 AM

I didn't mean it literally, Slav !

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Aug 10 2012, 09:48 AM

Ok, i just woke up when i have read that

Posted by: Yash Aug 10 2012, 10:42 AM

And I have a lighter skin color than most people in India But, I've gotten darker over they years, playing cricket in the sun in the old days, all day long, nostalgia Plus all the tanning as a bonus And now, I am much darker than I was earlier. But, I've hated the sun, and heat, since the dawn of time

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 10:51 AM

I'm always longing for the summer... and then I remember why I don't like the heat. I can't do anything !!

If it's too heat I don't even want to play the guitar...

Posted by: Yash Aug 10 2012, 11:14 AM

Me too !!! I get sweating bullets Plus, the heat in India You know

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 10 2012, 11:54 AM

I naturally have an olive complexion and tan rather then burn.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 12:10 PM

That's pretty handy considering where you now reside

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 10 2012, 12:41 PM

My wife has a more N European complexion

My daughter takes after me though. We struggle to get her to put on protection as she thinks it doesn't matter.

Posted by: Jesse Aug 10 2012, 01:24 PM

Ive got some horrostory about my sunburns.... its bad, im that white, haha!

Posted by: WeePee Aug 10 2012, 01:47 PM

I'm easily tanned person also but I always have so called "T-shirt tan". My legs, arms and face is tanned but my body is white
I like sun but I don't like hanging at the beach for hours.

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 02:42 PM

Haha, yeah.. the trucker's tan ! Brown arms but that's it

Posted by: gregc1 Aug 10 2012, 03:05 PM

Luckily I tan and don't burn unless I really over do it. Where I live water activities are extremely popular and also my grass has to be cut weekly for around 6-7 months of the year so I get a lot of outside time.

Posted by: Gitarrero Aug 10 2012, 03:46 PM

I get red easily (in the sun, that is) but don't really get burned badly. After 2 days, the red vanishes into a nice tan.

Who would have guessed you're not the "sun tan" kind of guy?

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 04:09 PM

I'm an English milk bottle !

Posted by: Mudbone Aug 10 2012, 04:10 PM

Like Tony, I have an olive complexion, so I tan pretty easily. I love the heat though I enjoy the sensation of walking out into the warm air. But not too hot though, I think somewhere between 85-95F (30-35C) is perfect

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 04:13 PM

Somewhere near having your skin melted off in the fires of Hell then.. ?

Posted by: Mudbone Aug 10 2012, 04:23 PM

Something like that Is 30-35C really considered blazing hot in the UK? I've been there in the summer, it was around 30C, and I think I was the only one that was enjoying it The hotel didn't have AC, so sleeping was a bit unpleasant.

Posted by: Slavenko Erazer Aug 10 2012, 04:56 PM

Luckily you that you don't live in some hotter countries like Greece or Turkey? What would you do then, withotu guitar playing?




30 In UK!??? Is that possible?
I have friends in Ireland, and they consider blazing hot when temperature is 25 !!!

Btw. I don't like SUmmer too much, it makes me drink beer whole day and sleep in the afternoon!!

Posted by: Cosmin Lupu Aug 10 2012, 05:05 PM

Don't you guys ever get the impression of being a big bug under a huge looking glass, when the sun is scorching at the seaside? I hate sitting in the sun 'to get a tan'. I only go swimming and then the sun gets me

Posted by: Nihilist1 Aug 10 2012, 05:10 PM

Posted by: Mudbone Aug 10 2012, 05:16 PM

I spent my teenage years living in a desert where during the summer the temperature was frequently between 45-50C (115-125F). I think thats part of the reason why I think 30-35C is pleasant

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 10 2012, 05:20 PM

An English Summer is usually in the low 20s so anything between 20-25 is hot there. When it goes above 25C it becomes a national news story

We usually go see my mum for a few weeks in the Summer. She lives up in the North East of England and this year my daughter spent the entire time complainng about the cold even though she was wearing her winter clothes. At the same the Brits were complaining about the heat - it was 17-22C. Oh and it rained and rained and rained...

Posted by: Yash Aug 10 2012, 05:22 PM

Even though I face 45 C every year, but I am still not used to it And, I almost always to get a fever at the peak of the summer, not this time though I love winters much more. It gets as low as 2 C here Freezing

Posted by: Ben Higgins Aug 10 2012, 06:07 PM

Yep ! To me, that would be like getting cooked alive



But Slav, you do that all the time anyway