# Three Weeks in Florida and I'm Still Not Tan!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 2, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866 "2001-02-02T14:47:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/1 "2001-02-02T14:47:12Z")
Fucking work. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/2 "2001-02-02T14:58:32Z")
You will bless that work when you are in your 40s and 50s and have no wrinkles, sun spots or skin cancer because you didn’t get that tan. Use sunscreen! Always! 12 months a year, every day! —This has been a public service announcement . . . ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/3 "2001-02-02T15:04:22Z")
**SOME** people think pale is sexy. 🆒 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/4 "2001-02-02T15:22:32Z")
Sua is a pasty, fishbellied white boy. Nanny, nanny boo boo. ---
**Author:** ![magdalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@magdalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magdalene)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/5 "2001-02-02T15:34:31Z")
Play that funky music, white boy. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/6 "2001-02-02T15:44:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Lansing, MI (48910) > National Weather Service Local Forecast > Issued at 4:04 AM EST - Friday, February 2, 2001 > Today: Mostly cloudy with snow showers likely. An inch or less of > snow accumulation. Cold with a high 15 to 20. West wind 10 to 20 > mph. Chance of snow 60 percent. > > ``` > Tonight: Becoming partly cloudy scattered flurries early with a > low 5 to 10 above. Southwest wind 5 to 10 mph. > > Saturday: Mostly cloudy with light snow likely. Breezy with a high > near 20. Chance of snow 70 percent. > > Saturday night: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers. > temperatures steady...Near 20. Chance of snow 40 percent. > > ``` Ooh, poor baby. Yeah, I sure am cryin’ for ya! 2 more months of the above for me. ---
**Author:** ![Eohippus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Eohippus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eohippus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/7 "2001-02-02T15:52:34Z")
If you want to tan, you’ve got to make time for it outside of your work schedule. Maybe if you get up really early, before the sun comes u… Uh, never mind. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/8 "2001-02-02T15:58:11Z")
Cool! Tans are gross and creepy. Why would you want to look like toast? ---
**Author:** ![Stella\_Fantasia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/74df32/32.png) [@Stella\_Fantasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stella_Fantasia)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/9 "2001-02-02T16:34:18Z")
Eeeww, tans. They turn your skin into shoeleather & tumors!! Chicks dig scrawny pale guys. Trust me. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/10 "2001-02-02T16:45:19Z")
I live in Florida. I got tan. Really tan. I got skin cancers. Many skin cancers. I got surgery. Many surgeries. More than twenty surgeries. I got scars. Many scars. I got radiation treatments on my right ear. I got hair loss from radiation treatments. I got smart. (okay, it took a while) I wear long sleeve shirts, long pants and a hat when I go outside. I buy sunscreen in jobber lots. I WILL have more skin cancers and more surgeries. Don’t fucking tan yourself cause it ain’t fucking worth it. ---
**Author:** ![Eohippus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b487fb/32.png) [@Eohippus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eohippus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/11 "2001-02-02T16:51:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LouisB \* > **Timor mortis conturbat me** And now I understand why! ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/12 "2001-02-02T17:07:00Z")
Copied from AOL weather for Minneapolis, MN for Friday, Feb 2nd: > [@](#): > > Variably cloudy with a few snow showers. High 8. Winds SE 5 to 10 mph. 30% chance of precipitation. No significant accumulation. > Friday Night: Mostly cloudy. Low 5. Light S to SE winds. > Saturday Daytime: Mostly cloudy with a few snow showers. High 31. Winds SW 15 to 20 mph. 40% chance of precipitation. No significant accumulation. > Saturday Night: Mostly cloudy with scattered snow showers and flurries. Wind chills of -10 to -15. Low 18. Winds W 10 to 15 mph. 30% chance of precipitation. No significant accumulation. Speak to me _not_ of warm, sunny weather. ---
**Author:** ![Nacho4Sara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Nacho4Sara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nacho4Sara)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/13 "2001-02-02T18:27:58Z")
Want me to come down there and slather you with some oil, baby? Count me in as another anti-tanner. I wear moisturizor with sunscreen every day. I use Neutrogena self-tanner when I’m showing my legs. It’s just not worth it, and I don’t think orange people look that nice anyway. But the offer still stands for the oil, sweetcheeks. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/14 "2001-02-02T19:33:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nacho4Sara \* > \*\* It’s just not worth it, and I don’t think orange people look that nice anyway. \*\* Oh behalf of **NACOOL** ( North American Cadre Of Ommpah-Loompahs), I stand short yet firm in my denouncement of the narrowminded previous statement !! Remember our motto !! " We Orange fuckers, we wanna be treated just like everyone else". :eek: Cartooniverse ``` The Preceeding announcement was paid for by the HyperMelatonics Of America. We're Orange As We Wanna Be. :D ``` ---
**Author:** ![SuaSponte](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@SuaSponte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuaSponte)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2001, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/three-weeks-in-florida-and-im-still-not-tan/52866/15 "2001-02-02T23:52:14Z")
Understand about skin cancer, but I’m quite sure the lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver will get me first anyway. **Sara** , right back atcha. 'Though I suggest Crisco :eek: Work update - Might get 2 daylight hours off tomorrow. Of course, it’s going to be cloudy tomorrow. Sigh Sua