News Flash Tanning Beds and Cancer
 

This is all over the news today.....

Just in case you could not figure this one out on your own. If you tan using those crazy UV lights your risk of skin cancer goes up 75%.

How much did this study cost????

Jams,

That will depend on whose friends were paid to do it. We don't need no tanning beds here. Spend 5 minutes outside without a shirt and you will have all the tan you want.

Ron :D

I got a serious tan last week. So much so, I am now required to carry a green card.

Mike

Anyone in Havasu that goes to a tanning Parlor is acting "Stupidly", OPP's I should have calibrated my chioce of words.

It's clear outside and 114 degrees...you even get a tan in the shade.

Bill

Bill,

I laugh everytime I drive by the tanning salon on the way to the grocery store out there. I have no idea how they make money:confused:

BTW, 114 sound good (heading out in a couple hours) after it was 122 a couple weeks ago.:cool:

Maybe there selling something else besides a tan in there :rolleyes:

Mike,

Now, that's funny. :LOL:

How's your feet doing? Are they starting to heal?

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Bill,

Whatever it is, it apparently causes skin cancer... ;)

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Years and years ago, I had an unfortunate incident regarding tanning salons. I was already beginning railroading, but didn't get called to work often enough to make a living at it. I was frequently working a yard switching job and usually got off about 4:30 on those afternoons. To generate a little more cash, I had contracted up this remodeling job at a tanning salon where I was building another room just for a masseuse. The complex closed up at 8:00, so it was a mad scramble to get off work, get there, set up, and get much done every day. The railroad always called constantly whenever I had something else going.

The entire little salon complex was made by building cubicles with a common high ceiling, but the massage area was supposed to be somewhat accoustically sealed from the rest of the area (slapping sounds, moans etc :JEKYLHYDE ), so first I built a permanent standard 8 foot wall and then added an extension up another 6 feet or so, to be used only as long as the massage program ran.

I had merrily completed all the framing and drywall finishing and the last high stage was painting this high wall, which I did with the usual fervor, trying to get the dang thing done. Git 'er done ...collect the money ...one focus ...taking care of business.

All this time, the height of my ladder would have afforded me a view of the tanning portion. I was purposely very courteous to never glance in the direction of the tanning area, because I felt some females would have felt uncomfortable with me seeing them in their swimsuits, but the work had to be done and I thought they would understand. And they did for about a week.

Swimsuits, hell! Apparently folks tan in the buff... :eek: :eek: :eek:

I had no idea. I admit I hadn't given it much thought. I mean who would want to tan bare-azzed in a coffin-like thing that somebody else had just sweat like a naked butcher in? :confused: . . . I have a good imagination, but even I don't go that far. :rolleyes:

And why hadn't somebody said something in the several days previous? Geez. :JEKYLHYDE

Towards the end of the job the lady salon owner that hired me, rudely jumped me about it, like I was some kind of pervert. :mad:

Well, I am a pervert ...but I would have never willingly and openly compromised my business integrity by letting on in such an obvious manner, had I known. It was one of the more embarassing moments in my life. :o

Me smiling naively as she approached, that was usually the time that they told me what a good job I was doing and thanked me. Little shock, there. :eek:

Wes

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The question is, would you rather have skin cancer and get a little extra in the booth or risk going blind or growing hair on your palms.

Life is full of risks!

Here in Oregon we don't tan we rust.

6 or 7 years ago I bought a tanning bed as a Christmas gift for my wife, daughter, and daughters-in law. It is a 20 mile round trip to the nearest salon and it has been one of the most used gifts I have ever purchased them, it sure beats the heck out of the treadmill.

One of the benefits of having a home tanning bed is the constant parade of my daughters 16-21 year old girl friends coming over for a free tan...:3DSMILE:

Scott S

Hey, back in the 60's we had "Man Tan", all the girls at schools started using the stuff and turned orange.

Not cool, but kids would do anything to look tan.
Bill

Hmmm... Kind of like a reverse Michael Jackson thing...:confused:

This is just more propaganda by the liberal press. These are the same guys that don't want us to smoke or drink claiming that they are also bad for our health. There is no proof what-so-ever that their claims are true. Next they'll be claiming that texting while driving is dangerous, what a pile of crap. Pretty soon they'll be starting that "ticket or click it" campaign which claims that seat belts save lives. I've got a friend who has been a mechanic for 40 years and he says that more often than not seat belts get us killed. He can site two or three cases where this was the case.

So whom do you believe, the guys with the numbers or my friend down at the garage?

Anyway, I think today is the day I get my MO and PM dividend checks!

Bob