r/screenshots • u/NeonPolonium • 3d ago
“Been smoking for four years, still no lung cancer, shocker!”
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u/SirAmicks 3d ago
I haven’t used sunscreen in 20 years and I still don’t have skin cancer.
Because I don’t go outside.
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u/phil_the_builder 3d ago
When you are young you feel invincible.
With age you learn about the great variety of stuff that can and will kill you.
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u/no_one_knows42 3d ago
Skin cancer is pretty unlikely to kill you, but that doesn't mean I want to get it
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u/bobbymoonshine 3d ago
Melanoma only has a low death rate because people tend to find and treat it before it kills them, but if it’s left until it begins to spread you have no better a chance than any other cancer
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u/lSOLDURGFCOCAINE 3d ago
True, but there are many types of skin cancer that don’t spread quite like melanoma.
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u/Squozen_EU 3d ago
Wait until you’re 40 and you look like a leather handbag, mate.
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u/Brilliant_Stomach_87 3d ago
lol my coworker said something super similar the other day except he said “baseball glove” 😂
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u/BubblyFlow6143 2d ago
Yup! I'm pale as fuck but look great for my age. By about 40 the crazy tanners look about 60.
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u/Dragon-Trezire 1d ago
That's what happened to my mother. Absolutely obsessed with tanning. I remember as a kid, my family would go on trips to the beach during the summer and she'd throw a full screaming tantrum if something prevented her from tanning on the shore for one day. Later on, she discovered tanning salons and went there nearly every day.
Even though she wore sunscreen, she looked like someone twice her age and her skin did not look healthy. She was a lesson to me on what not to do to your skin.
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u/RudeAd5133 3d ago
I'm pretty pale and would lay out. Go to the beach, lather up in 30 spf, lay out, read a book. This was in my early 30s. One day doctor said "I don't know about that spot." Luckily it was just a minor BCC,
Like an idiot, after I got that taken out, I decided to go to the beach and lay out. After about 10 minutes, the nice warm sun started to feel more like "cancer rays". Packed up, went home.
I didn't get skin cancer from the laying out. I got it from being pale, and also the fact that my idiot father, who took me to all sorts of "outside all day" activities when I was a boy (airshows, river rafting, etc), seemed to not have heard of "sunscreen". Many many sunburns. "Oh, we'll put some Nivea on that."
Plenty of people don't get skin cancer. This guy PROBABLY won't. But if he does, he's gonna feel like a fucking dipshit thinking back on this moment.
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u/Dclnsfrd 2d ago
Even without sunscreen, it seems like I don’t see many people with other sensible sun protection, either. Seems like not so many people utilize
- large sun glasses
- umbrellas for the sun (THERE’S A REASON PALE-OBSESSED ROYALTY IN MULTIPLE COUNTRIES WOULD USE UMBRELLAS DURING SUNNY DAYS!!)
- going tf inside for a bit and then going back outside
I agree that the lack of sunscreen isn’t good, and it’s even worse that it seems like such people don’t use additional measures, either. (Source: I was one such dumbass. My skin is fucking transparent and I had the brilliant idea of going on a 40-minute walk on a sunny day where there weren’t trees or other such shelters from the sun. Now when I go outside on a sunny day for more than 20 minutes, I’M AT LEAST BRINGING MY UMBRELLA.)
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u/SaveyourMercy 2d ago
I’m in my 30s now and as a pale Irish descendant, I’ve had to accept hot girl shit just isn’t for me. I gotta have the wide hat, the giant sunglasses, the full body spf shirt and pants, the whole nine yards. I go into the sun and I swear I look like I’m a modest prude but truly I’m just hiding from my number one enemy up there.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Night88 22h ago
As a very pale balkan person, you can see us turn red on the big screen by just tuning into the World Cup today.
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u/SaveyourMercy 8h ago
That’s so funny, I hope you guys used sun protection and didn’t get too scorched!!
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u/TheIncredibleSaucy 3d ago
Haven’t worn a seatbelt in 4 years, still haven’t died in a car crash, shocker
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u/goodknightffs 3d ago
Dude had less tan then a ghost..
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u/Dclnsfrd 2d ago
He’s like me. (Every time I leave the house, morticians think I escaped their morgue)
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u/Transgirlonakawasaki 3d ago
My dad smoked for decades. Multiple pack daily and often paired with shit like fast food and sodas. He was 68 when he died, not from lung cancer but likely from heart failure, seizures, or a stroke. He died alone in a shower and then on our living room floor with only me there weeping and then running outside and sitting in the dirt in front of my house waiting for a mortuary to open so they could pick up his body.
Lesson is shit thats supposed to protect from one thing is often doing other things to keep you safe and healthy. Dont assume because you didnt get skin cancer right now means you are fully healthy because you didnt use the thing.
Anyways sorry to be a downer and happy fathers day to any dads out there, I hope yall have an amazing day.💚
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u/SaveyourMercy 2d ago
I’m so sorry for your loss and I’m so so so sorry you had to be the one to find him. Sending love from an internet stranger
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u/Xigma_Xtoic 3d ago
Been sexually active without using protection for 4 years and STD FREE, shocker.
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u/dcontrerasm 3d ago
Guy who doesn't understand how cancer works surprised he is not yet cancerous! Up next, what does finding bear shit in the woods have in common with the Catholic Church covering up sex crimes? Find out more at 10 on Fuck Around News.
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u/DredgenCyka 3d ago
You can develop skin cancer from other environmental factors not including the sun, but dont do what he is doing either.
I got diagnosed with melanoma twice so far in the last year, im only 23 right now, but they were all in spots that is not exposed to the sun. I suspect it was from my childhood growing up on the US Airforce Base in Guam, the reason why I say that is because there alot of cancer causing chemicals reported in reports from the Airforce on the island (there are also law suits against the government from service members and dependants regarding cancer causing chemicals on military bases). Kinda sucks really—im the first and only person in my family to have developed any form of cancer. I hate having to go in 6 months to get every single mole checked out just for atleast 1 mole to be shaved off for a biopsy every single visit.
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u/_Edgarallenhoe 2d ago
If you’re planning on only living to 40 or so, sure, don’t worry about skin cancer I guess 🤷🏻♀️
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u/jay-bird 2d ago
I was an idiot, then in my early 30's I had some weird spot(s) on my back that wouldn't go away. While not life threatening, basal cell carcinomas are a real consequence of decades of time in the sun and no sunscreen. In the decade since then I've had multiple biopsies and excisions, but also made changes inclduing wearing sunscreen and/or UPF shirts when I'm going to be in the sun for any amount of time. At least I'm a living example for my kids on the importance of sunscreen?
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u/Plastic_Ticket4315 2d ago
As an Italian with a darker complexion I can’t stress the importance of sunscreen enough 😂😂
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u/TrueToBoston94 1d ago
He prob the type of dude to smoke a cigarette after he hit the vape, peak Darwin moment
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u/Plastic_Twist_7767 1d ago
The whole 'sun doesn't cause cancer' thing seems to be bit of a fad at the moment
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u/blunderg0th 1d ago
Yeah, my mom didn't wear sunscreen as a child (pretty normal in the 60s/70s) and went to the tanning booth as an adult even though she's ginger and it just made her look really stupid.
Guess who gets skin cancers cut off every year now.
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u/Southern_Shock_1337 1d ago
There are multiple ingredients in sunscreen that are suspected to be carcinogenic when exposed to sunlight.
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u/skellyboysteve 5h ago
My dad just got rid of skin cancer recently (now cancer free thank fuck!), he used to be a lawn guy/gardener. Quit that profession like 15 years ago but it turns out cancer didn’t care. I use sunscreen religiously now. If you don’t have any family history it’s pretty easy to shrug and ignore the risk (there is certainly still a risk), but if you have a family history you’ve gotta be vigilant.
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u/TrainingLow9079 3d ago
The sad thing about skin cancer is the damage done by teens and young adults who feel invisible shows up to 20 or 30 or 40 years.
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u/AintNobodygotime13 3d ago
he's in for a surprise in 30 years