Farmer Roy's Random Thoughts - I never said it was easy.

[Blaithin]

I know I got burnt on my arms & legs in the Snowy high country over Christmas, & I don't here with much higher temps ( not really burnt, just red for a few hours then went a bit darker )

Sunburn isn't heat burn. Has nothing to do with temperature really.

If I'm outside in the winter my face can become just as tanned in the summer. Add in the fact in winter you have the snow reflecting sunlight back up at you, you can be getting twice the amount at one time. Usually just limited to my face though since I'm wearing many, many clothes a lot of the time

Could easily have to do with day length as well. Yeah northern QLD has some harsh sun, but it has shorter days. The sun here, in comparison, might not feel like it's cooking you alive as often, but you can be out in it for hours longer than FNQLD people ever could be. Plus I want to say there's something about refraction of sunlight to reach the farther latitudes that can have a different effect than the more direct angles near the equator.

Probably so many factors we've never even discovered yet.

 

[Farmer Roy]

I also think sunscreen gives people a false sense of security ( especially if it isn't applied correctly or frequently enough ), rather than taking action to keep covered up, keep the sun off their skin or stay in the shade . . .

Besides, I resent spending money & using such an "industrial" product ( especially on my skin ) when I could just wear a hat or roll my sleeves down . . .

yeah, I get plenty of vitamin D, my arms & legs are quite brown & see plenty of sun, but they generally don't get burnt

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Aren't you under a hole in the ozone layer?

So its Pete's fault

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[Kiwi Pete]

That's my best line

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I read an article somewhere about diet and heavy use of sunscreen might play a bigger role in skin cancer than the actual sun. I'll see if I can go find the link...

Seemed an out there view but it did make a person think.

I have recently learnt the value of self-heal, it's bloody miraculous and grows all over the place down here.
A few nibbles on that and I am much more sun-able, eg if I do get a bit too much sun I don't feel burnt or sun-struck.
But I do cover up, my workmates (singlet, shorts, no hat) all say "aren't you hot, I am"

Of course I am, but so are they; I'm hot and shaded, they are hot and getting sunburnt

However as @Blaithin says winter is the time to get caught out, you let down your guard a little when it isn't scorchio.
You can get burnt in less than ten minutes here, it can be pretty savage if the cloud rolls away and you haven't got your hat

 

[Kiwi Pete]

So its Pete's fault

Everything is my fault

"Can't beat a good hole in the layers, but you can beat the eggs that come out"

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Bet Jaun in the train was wondering why it stopped, then started going backwards meanwhile Jesus in the loader and Julio in the pickup probably should have gone the other direction.....

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

6500ha cattle station "Cobungra station" in vic high country near mt Hotham sold for $35 million

 

[Farmer Roy]

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Oh FFS give the man a prize
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/10795690

 

[Kiwi Pete]

What a cock

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Bet his mother wishes she had swallowed that day

 

[Blaithin]

You must have a bad conception rate if you try and breed your cows in their mouths and make them swallow

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Bet his mother wishes she had swallowed that day

Aye, some chunts would have been far better off, spat into the coal-bucket

Did he not imagine everything else that happened before he was born, happened without his consent also?

What a doozer

 

[Blaithin]

Another sign of the cold weather - one of the barn cats has his annual UTI

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

You must have a bad conception rate if you try and breed your cows in their mouths and make them swallow

I don't tell the bull which end to jump on

 

[fgc325j]

Oh FFS give the man a prize
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.abc.net.au/article/10795690

The day he was conceived - a shame his father hadn't been happy with a hand job

 

[Farmer Roy]

sh!t - im happy if someone smiles at me . . .

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Note to self: if I ever meet Roy in person, remember to stomp on my own toes first