 Poster: A snowHead
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Manda, Sunlight is necessary. It is well known that lack of sunlight causes rickets. There was a whole generation of children who suffered skeletal deformaties because of the great smogs in London - directly caused by lack of sunlight.
There was recently on the BBC (can't find it right now) a report that parents need to get their children out in the sunlight more because things are heading this way again. Multivitamins etc... are not good enough.
Yes, one incidence of sunburn can cause cancer, but what are the chances? Life is full of risks. Sensible people try to minimise them. Rational people do not get hung up on them.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Thanks. That explains everything.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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All I will say is that avoiding all risk carries risk in itself.
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rob@rar.org.uk, about you?
Paul Holland, yes. But I didn't anywhere say people needs to stay out of sunlight altogether, did I, so there's no need to get sarky about this.
Just to set the record straight, people living in temperate nations get adequate sunlight levels just from living a standard temperate nations life.
However everyone should become obsessive about protecting their skin from excessive sun exposure. Ski slopes are inherantly excessive sun exposure places (except in a snowstorm  ) and therefore somewhere where you should be obsessive about taking adqueate care to reduce exsposure.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Manda, have you experienced the dermatological benefits of jumping into a lightly frozen pond?
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Manda, I was in no way being 'Sarky' about it. You made a statement saying that human beings do not need sunshine. I just tried to counter that.
OK, I did write it quickly because I was running out of time.
I agree that we all have to take care in the sun, but in my opinion your attitude towards people who have made a mistake once or twice and got themselves sunburned is over the top.
I got sunburned. It hurt, I don't have skin cancer.
If I develop it later in life due to this, you have permission to come say I told you so 
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David Goldsmith, yep. "Brrrrrr" doesn't do it justice. Apparently it's wasn't fatal, tho....
Paul Holland, Hmmm. Perhaps I was hasty in stating that humans don't need sunlight per se... (let's not go there, tho).
Re: getting sunburnt and not getting skin cancer as a result -well, yes. But it's a tricky beam you're balancing on there. Casual sex may not necessarily lead to AIDs. But it can do. Wanna play russian roulette?
One person's "over the top" is another culture's normality. I'd love to see the UK develop a similar over-the-topness towards sun exposure. It's getting there but it takes time - and a bit of paternalistic shoving never went amiss.
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Manda, you play russian roulette all the time by living. There is no such thing as no risk.
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