# Curse the sun, curse my family's skin **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 12, 2012, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566 "2012-03-12T17:48:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/41 "2012-03-15T04:52:21Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Sheep that’s a New Zealand thing!\ Dammit, you beat me to it! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![armedmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@armedmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/armedmonkey)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2012, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/42 "2012-03-15T04:54:43Z")
Is this thread some kind or weird viral campaign for _Always Sunny in Philadelphia_? ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/43 "2012-03-16T02:44:50Z")
I tan well. Reeeeeealy well. As in, when I lived in the Middle East as a child it took two years for the tan lines to fade. As in, I tan in hot air. It’s too late for the damage from the past, but now I use sun block on exposed skin. Both of my children are beyond white, they are definitely “persons of pallor” (don’t remember who posted that but thanks!) anyway, I persuaded them that tanning was futile and to embrace their fairness. both my mom and my sister have had skin cancer, and I won’t be surprised when the dermatologist announces it to me someday. OP, it my not be fun to wear sunscreen and long sleeves, but them’s the breaks in life. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/44 "2012-03-16T03:01:26Z")
You got tan lines as a child in the Middle East? Did Liam Neeson have to rescue you? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/45 "2012-03-16T17:20:50Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I used to be pale. Then I got vitiligo. And I kayak. Sig line! ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2012, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566/46 "2012-03-16T22:47:59Z")
> [@gamerunknown](#): > > You got tan lines as a child in the Middle East? > > Did Liam Neeson have to rescue you? The clothing rules weren’t quite so strict in Saudi Arabia then, I think. The rules didn’t apply so much to prepubescent girls, either. We lived in a walled compound of only Americans (and a smattering of British people.) I wore a two piece bathing suit when we went to the Red Sea on weekends. So yeah, I had tan lines! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/curse-the-sun-curse-my-familys-skin/615566.md?page=2)