Suncream Gives You Cancer
Posted by Merk
July 18th, 2006
or something.
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I like the fact that they give the temperature in Farenheight. This shows exactally what sort of readership they’re aiming for. The sort who don’t understand the 24 hour clock, and still convert money to £-s-d in their heads as this new fangled decimalisation is too confusing.
Still ignoring the crisis in the Middle East, if that really kicks off it could be a lot hotter than 102F.
The gutter press always do that – show hot temperatures in Fahrenheit and cold temperatures in Celsius. It’s just to make it look as if it’s hotter/colder than it actually is.
Clones, these two papers today. Same picture of the same kid eating the same ice cream while wearing the same daft hat. Presumably supplied by a press agency specialising in such things.
That underlining of DON’T is a bit shouty, isn’t it? Fair made me jump, it did.
The Mail still thinks the Middle East crisis is a source of hilarity, there’s another cartoon taking the piss on p2 today.
No-one in their right fucking minds would wear visible suncream, why cause people needless anxiety over something they’d never do anyway. If anything this only has relevance for children.
Oh, and hypocritically theres a full page article critisizing the ‘nannnies’ who try to spoilt people’s fun in the sun.
They can’t even get Fahrenheit right. They’ve omitted the ‘degrees’ symbol, and they’ve used a lower-case ‘f’ rather than the correct upper-case ‘F’. Typical bloody humanities graduates.
If this heatwave continues, what other shite will they come up with.
“ICE CREAM CANCER ALERT”
“DONT SIT ON GRASS”
“TUBE TEMPERATURES 347K ON FRIDAY”
They are the fun police. Whatever news you have, we will find a way to moan about it.
If you don’t rub in suncream, you wind up with great white splodges all over yourself. That’s not a good look, especially in a beach-full-of-sand situation. The sand’ll stick to it and then somehow bake rock-hard, and you will actually be The Thing from the Fantastic Four, minus super-strength.
Tbf, the cricketers have been putting on suncream without rubbing it in for years. WHY DIDN’T WE LISTEN!?!?!
Haha, it’s just occured to me that neither the Mail nor the Sexpress has deemed the insane little scrap between terrorists and Isreal in the middle east worthy of their readers attention, instead preferring Diana, suncream, Blair…
Wow.
DE & DM. Same photo, same archaic temperature measurement, same ubernazi crap.
Typical Mail – whinge a lot and run scare stories (quite often with a “something must be done” feel), then label anyone trying to act as being “part of the nanny state”.
Boring sensationalist non-story, let me guess, inside there are a few pictures of girls in bikinis. Hell, it’s just the Sun for people with semis and caravans.
Oh, hot day..summer, lets wheel out the standard cute kid with ice cream add some unnecessary health scare to help things along ..then get some intern to sit on a crowded tube in rush hour, measure the temperature at 47C ,then yawn on about the cattle transportation act whilst changing the headline to ‘london sizzles in 47C heat..’ twunts
Compare:
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I’d like to comment on message 11 by ‘Timothy O’Toole’. He seems to have branded the Lebanese as ‘terrorists’. You better watch what you say ‘Timothy’.
Back to the topic: what a load of rubbish
At least I’ll be able to spot Daily Mail readers in the street if they all wear suncream like that, so I can throw cheap insults at them.
Don’t rub it in? What else should I do with my suncream – drink it or maybe use it as a substitute for mayonnaise?
The Idiots who don’t read the small print may think that sunscreen infact causes cancer.
Not the end of the road
The self-certification market car loan personal to hit the headlines and car loan personal for all the wrong reasons.
Rather strange they’re giving away free European language CDs, shouldn’t Johnny Foreigner all speak English? And Italian too – who won the bloody war anyway?
Maybe it’s just a CD teaching you how to speak English slowly and in a loud voice.
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