What You've Done Today...or yesterday...or what you are doing RIGHT THIS MINUTE!!!

[ShadySands]

I've only ever seen one thing from Mr Beast and it was some game show. I turned it off because it felt so exploitative and gross.

I also cancelled Spotify, which I actually use a lot but I've been on a cancellation frenzy. I had a fraudulent charge and cancelled my card and haven't cared to update my payments more than anything else.

Edited Tuesday at 07:30 PM by ShadySands

[LadyCrimson]

Men here - curious - do you wear sunscreen daily? Face and/or other places? I suspect more women do this a lot more, if only because a lot of beauty products include it these days. My solution for the past 30+ years has been to avoid the sun. Outside of occasional driving/errands, I'm almost never in direct sunlight. I sunbathed a lot in teens/20's. One day I looked at my legs, realized I could see the faint start of fine skin texture lines, was horrified about future "leather legs" and stopped. Been pale Asian ever since.

Anyway I ask because I've noticed some stuff re: hubby's arms and skin. I've expressed my concern and he's sloughing it off, saying it's been like that for years (I would disagree). He did start wearing a hat and long sleeves if he was going to yard-work a lot, some years ago, but other than that he does nothing re: sun care, and he's the super white, skin turns red vs. tans type. He's more focused on his spine at the moment but I'm getting more concerned about his skin now, too.  How do you get an old fart "they're just freckles/bumps" man to the dermatologist? 

Edited Thursday at 02:07 PM by LadyCrimson

[Sarex]

My sister doesn't go outside without it, I just don't go outside.

[Gfted1]

I never wear sunscreen unless Im on vacation in Mexico, then I use like an SPF 50.

[ShadySands]

I always wore sunscreen as a kid and young adult and so did pretty much everyone I knew. We also covered up a lot more too.

Now I try to avoid being out in the sun though I still do sunscreen when I can't, like the vampires in Blade.

Edited Thursday at 05:24 PM by ShadySands

[Malcador]

Not a user of sunscreen but luckily I'm not out in the sunlight all that much

[Hurlshort]

I use sunscreen as much as possible. Both my parents have stuff removed regularly by their dermatologist, so I'm trying to stay ahead of that. My skin doctor tells me most of the stuff I have is just barnacles, so that is an interesting old man thing I've got going on. 

[ShadySands]

My wife often shows me articles about how millennials not only look younger than older generations did at their age but also younger than gen Z does as well. Dunno if that's just cope or if there's really anything to it but sunscreen and smoking/vaping are commonly cited reasons. Dunno, but I feel like I've mentioned this before.

E: reminds me of a Brendan Fraser movie where he grows up in a bomb shelter and looks way younger than he actually is.

Edited Thursday at 07:25 PM by ShadySands

[Malcador]

5 hours ago, ShadySands said:

My wife often shows me articles about how millennials not only look younger than older generations did at their age but also younger than gen Z does as well. Dunno if that's just cope or if there's really anything to it but sunscreen and smoking/vaping are commonly cited reasons. Dunno, but I feel like I've mentioned this before.

E: reminds me of a Brendan Fraser movie where he grows up in a bomb shelter and looks way younger than he actually is.

The chemicals put in the food by the Illuminati

[LadyCrimson]

Hubby *did* use sunscreen if we were going to be at the beach/lake wearing almost nothing all afternoon or something, we'd always pack some for those trips, but that's the only time I recall him doing it. We did grow up during the time where most retail sunscreens were stinky, oily, sticky, or the white stuff. Negative associations. I personally tend to have high skin (and smell) reactions to some things, even so-called hyper-allergenic, and generally avoid ANYTHING on my face or hands for more than 5 minutes. Legs are ok for unscented lotions. In my older age I've been considering buying a sun parasols (more deco looking non-rain umbrella) if I decide to go outside more often one day. Could double as a walking stick. >.>

On 8/7/2025 at 12:16 PM, ShadySands said:

My wife often shows me articles about how millennials not only look younger than older generations did at their age but also younger than gen Z does as well. Dunno if that's just cope or if there's really anything to it but sunscreen and smoking/vaping are commonly cited reasons. Dunno, but I feel like I've mentioned this before.

E: reminds me of a Brendan Fraser movie where he grows up in a bomb shelter and looks way younger than he actually is.

I see articles talking about how they look older than their age. Although in some cases that's because of too much plastic surgery perhaps. which is a whole nother topic.
Some of it all is simply changing social/age perception of what an age "should look like" too, which includes how fashion/hair affects perception as well - which is becoming warped ever more, imo, because of plastic surgery and social media/tv.

Also, in terms of online - all those live app/software filters. Not just the OTP ones, but more subtle. They're crazy these days.

Edited 17 hours ago by LadyCrimson

[ShadySands]

I'm ready to go home but still have another week here.

The bright side of me being so bored here is that I've been able to teach my kids a little ASL and they're getting quite good at it.

Edited 4 hours ago by ShadySands