So much for witty…
Sat, July 12, 2008
Filed under: Survival, WTF
There are times when I’m just not up to anything. Unfortunately, no one is ever going to pity me over a terrible sunburn. Most especially not, if lots of other people around me suffer of it. How do you perk up then? Apparently, setting a witty/mysterious status on your IM is the way to go.
Ten excruciatingly long seconds of thinking yielded the following:
snake-like1
Quite a disappointment, but then I got busy with work and forgot all about it. To my surprise, the message did eventually elicit a response:
Would that be a metal gear snake or a normal snake?
Who knew I’d end up being embarrassed for not being a metal gear snake, of all things? o_O
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1 for those of you who don’t get it: snakes shed their skin.
At least you didn’t blister or get sun poisoning or anything like that. Peeling from a sunburn is annoying. Although, I wouldn’t know because I don’t actually burn. Haha.
Vera: sun … poisoning? Do I want to know what that is?
I have to admit… I wouldn’t know what you were talking about if I saw that.
I’m currently peeling all the skin off of the backs of my knees due to a painful sunburn that looks like I was beaten (it’s purple
).
Vera: to be fair, I was hoping that people would think I was cunning, rather than my skin peeling.
Purple? That sounds painful.
Send me some sunburn! I’m almost jealous. It’s been raining here for the last week…so much for summer.
Vera: sunburn? Such a masochist! I couldn’t type properly for two whole days after that.
Would’ve been funnier if you’d said “currently moulting” or something to that effect.
Vera: I had peeling for a while, but it was too obvious
I have to admit that I didn’t get it either, although after reading your little footnote.. I LIKE IT! Punny!
Vera: I chose it deliberately like that, so that people would think I’m cunning. Guess that didn’t work out that well either.
Eep, I certainly you slip-slop-slapped! Sunscreen sunscreen sunscreen! You can’t be too careful - half the melanomas (skin cancers) found in older people are results of being careless in the sun in their youth!
Vera: it’s never been an issue much, because I don’t stay in the sun too long (i.e. more than 10 minutes at most). However this was a special case (company day outing).
Re: my other comment.
Sun poisoning is when you get so sunburned that you actually get violently ill (fever, throwing up). It usually happens easily to fair-skinned people.
A woman I know at work got sunburned on her legs, and has a 1-inch-diameter boil on the front of her left shin.
Vera: that sounds dangerous. I’m not naturally fair-skinned, as in I don’t get tanned (I do very much). I just don’t like staying in the sun much.
Heh, I know this has nothing to do with sunburns, but the “metal gear snake” bit reminded me of Solid Snake from the Metal Gear Solid games.
I don’t know if that’s what the person meant, but it made me giggle. 
Vera: that’s most probably the case. As I’m not a gaming fan myself, I didn’t ask, but figured it was a gaming reference.
I don’t get sunburns, on account of using waaay too much sunscreen for my own good.
How did you get one? How bad was it?
In this context, I totally got the snake joke
On an away message, I prolly wouldn’t have. 
The first thing that came to my mind when I read “snake-like” was Voldemort. Eep?!
Anyway, I don’t get sunburns but I color pretty quick. Like 10 minutes in a pool would turn me a shade darker than I originally was.
Gaming references, for the win!
I had a pretty bad burn last month after spending three days under the sun at some beach resort in Malaysia. The first few days are terrible (couldn’t carry my haversack without wincing) but subsequently, it became better.
And yes, there’s the peeling. But I remember my friend informing me now to accelerate the peeling by err … peeling the skin off yourself or anything of that sort because otherwise it wouldn’t heal as fast. (Not to mention getting an uneven skin shade as well. :()
what is a metal gear snake?
Vera: see the comment below yours.
Snaaaaaaaaaaake!
Funniest part? You still didn’t look tanned.
Vera: you guys never notice these things
When I first saw “snake-like” I thought slimy. I spent five minutes thinking “Why would you want people to think you’re all slimy and sticky?” until I saw the footnote and got it.
I had to read this twice to get it, lol.
That’s my favorite part of being sun burnt. Peeling skin off and placing in on my boyfriend. Yeah… he thinks I’m gross too.