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Non sequitur:
"... bleached ring of skin around my left wrist where my watch always sits."
I'm 43 and just recently became aware of the fact that people ten to fifteen years younger than me don't wear watches. The cellphone is, to them, a perfectly natural place to find the time, and one that was never missing in their lifetime.
Oliver | 13.08.09 - 8:37 a.m. | #
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This year DG I am having a holiday in Cambodia, Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia, Where you'll kiss ass or crack
Pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, pol pot, etc.
Strandman | 13.08.09 - 9:25 a.m. | #
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Strandman, I only realised this week your musical comments... What have been missing by not paying attention earlier?!
And... has anyone ever *seen* DG?
EskimoPie | 13.08.09 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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DG is our Muse. He does not exist IRL.
Strandman | 13.08.09 - 9:44 a.m. | #
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A doctor told me once that there is one healthy way to get a good looking tan. However inheritance is not an option for most of us.
Pedantic of Purley | 13.08.09 - 9:56 a.m. | #
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Get well soon.
Bina | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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I recall a comment in the office once, after a person had been on holiday to rather sunnier climes than Blackpool. The comment was 'Show us your white bits' (meaning wristwatch) and the holiday maker said 'I haven't got any'
Hmmmm
Richard | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 10:16 a.m. | #
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She said, 'There is no reason
and the truth is plain to see.'
But I wandered through my playing cardsand would not let her be
one of sixteen vestal virgins
who were leaving for the coast
and although my eyes were open
they might have just as well've been closed
Whiter Shade of Pale | 13.08.09 - 10:18 a.m. | #
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You might be healthier - so long as you didn't burn. Lots of evidence piling up now for the beneficial affects of sunshine in boosting Vit D production
Mother of the bride | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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Love this blog.
Oliver - I'm 29 and enjoyed wearing a watch until mobile phones became affordable to my generation. Like many of my friends, I got a 2nd hand one around 2001, aged 20, and phased out the watch.
Not only were watches well-worn by my friends and I, they were something of a big deal at school in the 80s, particularly the digital kind, as Douglas Adams has rightly noted!
Maus | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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@P of P - I think if you take the world population as a whole most people *do* inherit a tan. It's just us (I speak for myself anyway) pasty white folks who don't. If we were birds, it would be considered a genetic mutation
disgruntled | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 10:36 a.m. | #
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Point taken, disgruntled. Also, Mother of the bride, whilst the comment about vitamin D is relevant, the fact is that most of us in Britain get quite sufficient vitamin D without trying and getting more than sufficient is not beneficial. You don't get many cases of rickets in the UK.
Pedantic of Purley | 13.08.09 - 10:58 a.m. | #
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@ Oliver and Maus. I'm 42 and always wear a watch. I look at it as both usefull and just about the only item of jewellery I wear.
Mark Garth | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 11:14 a.m. | #
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You might be looking well - that is, looking very pale can be a sign of illness. And a holiday enables one to rest, usually, and relax away from the stresses of everyday life. Not that you sound very relaxed. Me, I accept compliments any time I'm given them.
Pedantic, you are of course pedantically correct, in that you're careful to use the words "most" and "don't get many". But cases of rickets in children have been rising and MotB is right, according to reports I've read. I suspect that a lot of people go from office to car to home and rarely are touched by sunlight.
z | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 12:21 p.m. | #
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Can we have a photo of pasty white bits?
Debster | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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Z - the people not getting enough sunlight are those whose genetic inheritance gave them brown skins to protect them from high exposure to sunlight. The GB population is becoming more diverse and thus there are a significant proportions of people who will need to actively expose themselves to our (relatively)weak sunlight. Others will still need to cover up and protect themselves from the harmful effects of our sunlight (even though it is relatively weaker than in other parts of the world.)
Bina | 13.08.09 - 12:41 p.m. | #
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I've read that, also, it's people who are so health-conscious that they cover up their children's skin (with clothing or sunscreen) at all times. It's also been suggested that vegan or macrobiotic diets sometimes don't give enough vitamin D for health in adults or children
z | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 1:10 p.m. | #
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Great post. Isn't it strange that people spend a small fortune on Mediterranean holidays to get a tan which actually only lasts for a week or two after they get back home? Personally, I couldn't spend a whole fortnight just lying around on a beach working up a tan. It just seems pointless to me.
Andrewh | 13.08.09 - 1:13 p.m. | #
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"bleached ring of skin around my left wrist"
No, its just not burnt. It has remained the same colour while the skin around it has darkened. To have bleached your skin, you would have had to dip it in something caustic. Like my wit.
See, we can all be pedantic if we wish.
I sat opposite an obviously very well-heeled chap on the train on Tuesday. He had the most expensive-looking tan I've ever seen and he made me look (and feel) like a photographic negative.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 2:23 p.m. | #
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Be grateful - being fat, I know that when people tell me 'you're looking well' they usually mean 'haven't you put on weight?'
Caroline | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 2:33 p.m. | #
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Even more pedantically Bina is absolutely correct. I originally shortened an earlier draft reply as it could have sounded a bit anti-immigrant/racist. What I nearly wrote was that most people ... although doctors are getting concerned over some recent immigrants from sunny countries (especially women) who cover themselves up too much and consequently no longer get sufficient vitamin D.
I reiterate my basic point though that someone like DG, who I presume is normally white skinned, has nothing to worry about if their lifestyle involves going out of doors and not being excessively covered up.
Pedantic of Purley | 13.08.09 - 3:07 p.m. | #
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DG get a grip of this-Are you taking over?or are you taking orders? Are you going backwards.Or are you going forwards?
White-ish riot - I wanna riot
White-ish riot - a riot of my own
White-ish riot - I wanna riot
White-ish riot - a riot of my own
Strandman | 13.08.09 - 3:15 p.m. | #
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Oh you've nailed my thoughts on the subject of tans perfectly DG.
I once used a sun-bed every week for 4 months to try to get a tan for my brother's wedding some 20 years ago. I didn't go one bloody shade darker, and that's when I gave up ever trying to go even the vaguest shade of off-white again...though the damage was probably already done. 
As a "genetic mutant" I'm happy with my pallor despite currently living in the Sunny States with tanned bodies all around. I blind drivers with my white skin! 
CornishCockney | 13.08.09 - 6:59 p.m. | #
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I'm 25 and I feel lost without my watch. Looking on my phone is just annoying.
Kirk | 13.08.09 - 7:49 p.m. | #
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Exit has nailed the rich man's dilemma. An "expensive-looking" tan should look almost-but-not-quite natural, otherwise people might think you've been strolling on the sea-front in lowly Lancashire
Great Aunt Annie | 13.08.09 - 11:29 p.m. | #
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"DG is our Muse. He does not exist IRL - Strandman"
"And... has anyone ever *seen* DG? -
EskimoPie
Incorrect.
And yes.
I can definitely confirm that, for at least the last 11 years and 3 months (approximately, and IIRC, and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I don't) he *has* existed.
Or else I've been duped. Which isn't really very likely after all.
Blue Witch | Homepage | 13.08.09 - 11:53 p.m. | #
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You could have seen a simulacrum. What evidence do you have for it being the REAL DG?
Debster | Homepage | 14.08.09 - 1:10 a.m. | #
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I've seen a photo of him when he was a little boy too Debster. It is very sweet
Blue Witch | Homepage | 14.08.09 - 9:42 a.m. | #
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The guy on the trains' tan was certainly natural. It was that deep, even, almost honey colour (which you dont get out of a bottle or from the salon) and looked significantly more like Cap Ferrat than Blackpool. The Rolex Oyster Perpetual set it off extremely nicely, as did that certain air of "fuck off" insouciance that only the very rich have.
Exit, Pursued by a Bear | 14.08.09 - 10:54 a.m. | #
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