Is that an Ipod?

Could be my ipod or cellphone, they look nearly identical from a distance. Which photo?

That's quite a tan. I'd never have taken you to be the sort of person to wear a plastic bracelet though.

Looks like the room key to me.

It's the all-inclusive bracelet. Identifies the hotel and the package type.

Without one, too easy for other people to wander into the hotel and start getting free drinks, etc.

Gosh, that bracelet looks like what they put on you at frat parties in college. The strawberry daiquiri looks divine - I've recently discovered how good daiquiris can be in hot weather.

It sounds like you did far too much political-social thinking on your vacation. Tsk.

nice bracelet, E. *smirk*

and LOVELY tan! you could be mistaken for a leb pop-tart with a bit too much sun to make her appealing to the arabsats. yum!

Yes, I don't give a fuck about the whiteness=beauty neurosis that turns so many Eastern girls into tan-phobics. I spent 4-5 hours in the water every day, no way to avoid tanning.

Scandinavians and Germans kept asking me if I put anything on my skin to get such a nice colour. Of course, by the end of the week most of them looked like lobsters or distressed leather bags.

Clearly there is a market for bronze girls. Let the others continue cowering under their umbrellas to please the fairness-obsessed wankers.

i am most certainly part of the bronze market segment. the truely pale females from scandinavia do appeal but tan looks so much more healthy.

what percentage non-euro are you again? 50%?

I agree. Non-white girls without tans often look sallow. Even a bit of colour is nice.

Re percentage: I am rarely pegged as a European of any kind, but some of my ancestors did consort with infidels.

Perhaps why I'm so fond of Catholic boys.

infadels of which stripe?

it appears that i'm related to every group of infadels ever to be called infadels.

While I'm all in favour of the bronzed look and like to sneer at fairness-obsessed Eastern women just as much as anyone, it should be noted that no-one, however naturally melanin-endowed, is immune from skin cancer. Bob Marley died of a melanoma, remember.

Self Tanner Is the Solution.

"Could be my ipod or cellphone"

So you do have an ipod. Sellout.

SP: self tanner is the antichrist.

Ali K: agreed. E is a sellout.

it should be noted that no-one, however naturally melanin-endowed, is immune from skin cancer.

All things in moderation. As long as both the sun and DNA continue to exist, there is a risk of skin cancer.

Too little sun and one has to start putting vitamin D in milk to prevent rickets/osteoporosis. Sunlight is not inherently evil and is in fact rather important from a physiological perspective.

Self tanner is fucking awful, stinky, streaky, orangey disgusting stuff. I would find it terribly ironic if the active ingredient turned out to be carcinogenic.

And what does an ipod have to do with "selling out"? Bloody hipsters. When my last HD blew, I managed to back up the whole thing on my ipod in a few minutes. The fact that it plays mp3s is gravy.

> Sunlight is not inherently evil and is in fact rather important from a physiological perspective.

Well, yes, not evil, but some of us burn rather more viciously than others. Fifteen minutes of solid, mid-day sun is enough to bring on hints of unpleasantness for my particular person.

Stupid genetics.

That must be why they've come out with SPF60 sunscreen.