# I'm peeling!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 11, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401 "2006-05-11T18:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Improv\_Geek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b3f665/32.png) [@Improv\_Geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improv_Geek)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/1 "2006-05-11T18:10:25Z")
It’s Mundane! It’s Pointless! I’m Peeling!!! Got sunburned last weekend after forgetting to cover my neck and shoulders with sunblock. And the sunburn has begun to peel today. Ugh how I hate to peel. Let me count the ways. Evil Day Star! It burns! It burnssssss us. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/2 "2006-05-11T18:45:34Z")
I can certainly share your hatred of being sunburned (because it hurts), but I _cannot_ share your hatred of peeling (because it feels good). Peeling is the reward that makes sunburn tolerable. You are obviously some sort of mutant. ---
**Author:** ![Absolute](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b2d939/32.png) [@Absolute](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Absolute)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/3 "2006-05-11T18:52:27Z")
You’re weird. The peeling makes the sunburn almost worthwhile. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/4 "2006-05-11T18:54:23Z")
I was pretty burnt about two weeks ago while fishing, and I was ecstatic over the long sheets of dead skin I could peel off my arms. I’m a “picker”, and sunburn is like a gift. ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/5 "2006-05-11T19:17:02Z")
Peeling is so much fun it almost makes getting burned with it. Not quite, but almost. ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/6 "2006-05-11T19:28:04Z")
See? I was right. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/7 "2006-05-11T20:14:34Z")
Bah. Peeling sucks. It’s like being even MORE of a walking buffet for dust mintes and the like. ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/8 "2006-05-11T21:04:16Z")
Lemme just pack up my tweezers and I’ll be over at your place in a few hours. I don’t burn (seriously, I’ve only had one very mild sunburn in my life) so I have to content myself with peeling my husband, who does burn. Plus he’s fairly bald on top, so I get to peel scalp skin as well. His scalp turns kind of leathery, which is very easy to peel off in great swathes. Yes, I tell him to wear sunscreen, but he forgets to re-apply it after a few hours, and then after a couple of days I attack him with the tweezers. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/9 "2006-05-12T00:05:51Z")
> [@ronincyberpunk](#): > > It’s Mundane! It’s Pointless! I’m Peeling!!! > > Got sunburned last weekend after forgetting to cover my neck and shoulders with sunblock. And the sunburn has begun to peel today. > > Ugh how I hate to peel. Let me count the ways. > > Evil Day Star! It burns! It burnssssss us. I read the title as “I’m peeing”. Why I opened the thread, based on that, god only knows. Glad I did though… Hope your neck and shoulders feel better! ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/10 "2006-05-12T02:10:21Z")
Head over to [\*\*Dijon Warlock’\*\*s](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=371206). You guys can have a gross picky-peely party. ---
**Author:** ![MissMossie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@MissMossie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMossie)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-peeling/356401/11 "2006-05-12T02:19:34Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > I read the title as “I’m peeing”. > > Why I opened the thread, based on that, god only knows. > > Glad I did though… > Hope your neck and shoulders feel better! I’m glad I’m not the only one who thought that.