Welcome to skin cancer fuckers.

[weemadando]

Hole in ozone layer over Arctic.

About time you Northern hemisphere cunts got a taste of your own medicine.

[Iroscato]

Bring it on! I got my Factor 50 and I ain't scared of no sun!
...
But yeah, it's the beginning of the end for us all. Ah well.
And anyway, I have to admit I've never been insulted for living in the northern hemisphere, that's a pretty broad racist brush you're tarring us all with there...

[Alyeska]

Hole in ozone layer over Arctic.

About time you Northern hemisphere cunts got a taste of your own medicine.

Would you care to take your head out of your ass? More discussion and less worthless commentary.

[CJvR]

Quick! Everyone run for the equator - where the radiation is 10 times worse despite an intact ozone layer...

[weemadando]

Hole in ozone layer over Arctic.

About time you Northern hemisphere cunts got a taste of your own medicine.

Would you care to take your head out of your ass? More discussion and less worthless commentary.

Where's the worthless commentary?

Australia (and NZ and Chile and Argentina and South Africa) has had a skin cancer rate of 66% due in no small part to the massive fucking hole in the ozone layer which we've finally been closing. A hole which northern hemisphere industries contributed significantly to.

Now you're getting one of your own.



Hope you dig it and its consequences.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

Yeah, hoping that lots of random innocent people get skin cancer, that's classy and doesn't make you look like a childish sociopathic fuck.

[weemadando]

I'm not wishing cancer on anyone.

But the fact that even what, fifteen years after CFCs were meant to have ceased use you're now developing a hole in the Arctic ozone? That says something about how badly we've fucked up.

And I do have to wonder how much quicker the world would have reacted had the Arctic rather than Antarctic hole appeared first.

Maybe it would have happened before two in three residents of continental Europe had skin cancer in their lifetime. I honestly don't think you appreciate just what a huge impact in this has had on Australia medically, financially and culturally.

Just an anecdotal example - every member of my extended family of my parent's and grandparent's generations has had to have surgeries to remove melanomas.

[Crateria]

Hole in ozone layer over Arctic.

About time you Northern hemisphere cunts got a taste of your own medicine.

And about time for one to appear. I was worried I'd have to travel to the southern hemisphere to catch some rays!
But seriously. This is bad news for all of the Northern Hemisphere. One nation under God? Pfh, more like One world under UV.

[Nieztchean Uber-Amoeba]

I'm not wishing cancer on anyone.

Everyone can see your earlier posts in this thread, dude. They don't turn invisible when you back-pedal like a craven bitch.

[weemadando]

No I'm sure they don't which is why I'm not back pedalling.

But if you think I'm an evil fuck who's genuinely gleeful about the prospect of Europe facing a serious legacy of cancer because of this, then you are being an idiot.

[Todeswind]

About time you Northern hemisphere cunts got a taste of your own medicine.

Now you're getting one of your own.

Hope you dig it and its consequences.

Words mean things, if you use these words in this particular order it does in fact imply that you are wishing for someone in the north (i.e. a cunt who deserves it) will get skin cancer. It may not have been your intent but it is what you wrote.

EDIT: Actually it doesn't "imply" anything, it is the text rather than the subtext. It says outright that you wish cancer upon those who deserve it in the north.

[Alkaloid]

ctually it doesn't "imply" anything, it is the text rather than the subtext. It says outright that you wish cancer upon those who deserve it in the north.

I'm sorry, when did subtext become not important to a discussion? I must have missed it.

[Alyeska]

I expect better weemadando. I can HOS this crap if you continue. Blank news postings and hateful commentary with no substance doesn't rate N&P. Get the thread on track or it gets flushed.

[mr friendly guy]

The Northeners will just have to slip, slop, slap just like we do. Oh, and they might no longer think Aussies are funny for wearing colourful paint on their faces.

[weemadando]

Am I possibly over-indulging in schadenfreude? Probably.

But this is one fucking emotive issue for me (obviously) and being obnoxiously cynical was the intent, given the circumstances of the situation. If that was taken NY others as being some evil prick who wants to give people cancer, then my bad.

[Alyeska]

Am I possibly over-indulging in schadenfreude? Probably.

But this is one fucking emotive issue for me (obviously) and being obnoxiously cynical was the intent, given the circumstances of the situation. If that was taken NY others as being some evil prick who wants to give people cancer, then my bad.

I have red hair. I sunburn quite easily. I have gotten very good at avoiding the sun. The issue also concerns me. Especially since its in my neighborhood.

[open_sketchbook]

Earth continues to break down, humanity slipping ever faster towards extinction?

Wake me up when something new happens.

[weemadando]

Am I possibly over-indulging in schadenfreude? Probably.

But this is one fucking emotive issue for me (obviously) and being obnoxiously cynical was the intent, given the circumstances of the situation. If that was taken NY others as being some evil prick who wants to give people cancer, then my bad.

I have red hair. I sunburn quite easily. I have gotten very good at avoiding the sun. The issue also concerns me. Especially since its in my neighborhood.

Irish heritage on one side, Norwegian on the other and grew up in Tasmania. I'm pretty much guaranteed to have skin cancer already, even if it is not yet evident.

Not to mention hoping it becomes visible before it has a chance to spread.

[Alyeska]

Irish heritage on one side, Norwegian on the other. I'm pretty much guaranteed to have skin cancer already, even if it is not yet evident.

Sun rated shirts, sun glasses, and wide brim hats. They do wonders.

[weemadando]

Yeah, that stuff appeared as I was growing up. I've seen sunscreen go from 5 to 10 to 15 to 25 to 50. Not to mention the slip slop slap campaign going from recommendation to all but law.

Nowadays? My son flatly does not go outside without a hat on. If it's more than a minute or two its long sleeves and sunscreen too.

I'm going back to Tasmania this week and will no doubt be very quickly reminded of how much more brutal the sun is there, only a few degrees further South.

[Thinktank]

Australia (and NZ and Chile and Argentina and South Africa) has had a skin cancer rate of 66% due in no small part to the massive fucking hole in the ozone layer which we've finally been closing. A hole which northern hemisphere industries contributed significantly to.

RE: Underlined part.

Which "We" are you referring to? Last time I checked the Southern Hemisphere hasn't set up
giant ozone generators or some kind of other "Science!" type project to patch that hole.
Nobody has started that kind of re-terraforming project.

Hell, lately the EPA in the US has been bitching because of how pitiful (according to many)
the regs are that restrict how much ozone our industries can release into the environment.

I guess we all better buy stock in "The Sheild Corporation". It will need to get started soon
by some ancient anachronist Scottish smith with a penchant for decapitation.

[Darmalus]

How does one look for sun-proof (rated?) clothing? What sort of key words should I be searching for, and what kind of traps to avoid? This article came out just in time for me, most of my clothing is close to 10 years old and in need of replacement anyway.

[weemadando]

Australia (and NZ and Chile and Argentina and South Africa) has had a skin cancer rate of 66% due in no small part to the massive fucking hole in the ozone layer which we've finally been closing. A hole which northern hemisphere industries contributed significantly to.

RE: Underlined part.

Which "We" are you referring to? Last time I checked the Southern Hemisphere hasn't set up
giant ozone generators or some kind of other "Science!" type project to patch that hole.
Nobody has started that kind of re-terraforming project.

Hell, lately the EPA in the US has been bitching because of how pitiful (according to many)
the regs are that restrict how much ozone our industries can release into the environment.

I guess we all better buy stock in "The Sheild Corporation". It will need to get started soon
by some ancient anachronist Scottish smith with a penchant for decapitation.

The cessation of widespread uses of CFCs in many places had led to the hole decreasing in size. Correlation/causation? Who knows.

But the fact that the Northern hemisphere is now developing one might be closely related to your statements re: EPA.

[Lord Baal]

A fucking hole in the ozone is a worrying thing for every one of us, no matter where the fuck it is. Yeah a lot of industries that caused are located on the northern hemisphere, but that doesn't mean that all the northern habitants of our planet deserve to suffer the consequences.

[tim31]

I'm going back to Tasmania this week and will no doubt be very quickly reminded of how much more brutal the sun is there, only a few degrees further South.

Mate, I got stuck into my 2IC when she arrived this afternoon and gleefully displayed the sunburn on her lower back.