"Free lockers" editorial on local news site

Chaos and Dogem, both now removed from the park, was where TT2 is now. The curse spread to PaddleWheel Excursion and then Snake River Expedition.

As far as Sunscreen, I buy SPF 50 and heavily apply at opening. While I know it degrades with time I trust it to do its job for the whole day.

I’m almost certain that regardless of the SPF rating, your sunscreen needs to be reapplied after 2 hours. Every bottle of sunscreen I’ve ever purchased says that, even if it’s SPF 100. This is one of the reasons my partner buys all day lockers.

Velocicoasters locker system is crazy.

it’s like an all out war/race for people to get back in your line position after you lock up your stuff.

I agree bottles of sunscreen say to reapply every two hours. But I have always viewed it to be similar to every bottle of shampoo I have ever seen says, wash, rinse, repeat. Sunscreen makers sell sunscreen. Shampoo makers sell shampoo. Both have incentives to have me use more of their respective products. Valvoline wants me to change my oil every other day (last time I went to a Valvoline oil change joint (its been a number of years), they were suggesting coming back in 3k miles though vehicle manufacturer said to go more than twice that far between oil changes). But Valvoline sells oil.

When I go to Cedar Point in the summer, I apply sunscreen in the parking lot before we head into the park. And I don't reapply during the day (we always stay until close) and I haven't gotten sunburned at the park. Only time I would reapply sunscreen is after going in the water. And that is the same approach I take in Florida, Arizona or other super sunny locations. And there are two options for me: sunburn or no skin color change at all. Nothing in between and certainly no tanning. If I come back from a trip to sunny area looking as pasty white as when I left, its a win.

Other people may have different experiences though. I would suggest try going longer than 2 hours without reapplying and see what happens. You may be surprised. Or not.

As someone who frequent the Bahamas and lives between an ocean and a gulf, if you sweat and/or get into the water, you need to reapply. Last trip I forgot to reapply to my feet and they had a nice peel the next week.

The American Academy of Dermatology does not sell sunscreen. In fact, their members get paid to take cancerous and pre-cancerous spots off of your skin, which would give them an incentive to under-recommend. They also suggest every 2 hours.

https://www.aad.org/media/s...-sunscreen

This is probably in part because they don't view the point of sunscreen to be "protect from sunburn" but rather "minimize UV damage to skin."

Exactly. I'm Black and have never had sunburn a day in my life. But I don't wear sunscreen to protect from sunburn, I wear it so I don't get cancer.

Y'all should start carrying sunscreen with you in those zipper pockets and reapply every 2 hours.

I just carry a flask - a nip of bleach every 2 hours not only protects me from UV rays, but also Covid, the flu, shingle, etc. it is a virtual cure all.

Desperate after three bad months of sales at Kentucky Fried Chicken, the famous Colonel called up the Pope and asks him for a favor. "What can I do for you?" Said the Pope. The Colonel said, "Holy father, I need you to change the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken'. If you do that, I swear I will donate $100 Million Dollars to the Vatican." The Pope replied, "I am very sorry. That is the Lord's prayer and it isn't something I can just change the words for." So the Colonel, disappointed, hung up.

After another month of bad sales, the Colonel panicked, and called again. "Listen your Excellency. I really need your help. I'll donate $500 million dollars if you change the words of the daily prayer from 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken.'"

And the Pope responded, "It is very tempting, Colonel Sanders. The church could do a lot of good with that much money. It would help us to support many charities. But, again, I must decline. It is the Lord's prayer, and I can't change the words." So the Colonel gave up again. After two more months of terrible sales, the Colonel got desperate. "This is my final offer, your Excellency. If you change the words of the daily prayer from, 'Give us this day our daily bread' to 'Give us this day our daily chicken' I will donate $1 billion to the Vatican." The Pope replied, "Let me get back to you."

So the next day, the Pope called together College of Cardinals and said, "I have some good news and I have some bad news. The good news is that KFC is going to donate $1 billion to the Vatican." The Cardinals rejoiced at the news. Then one asked about the bad news. The Pope replied: "The bad news is that we lost the Wonder Bread account."

My wife hounds me about sunscreen, which is antithetical to how I grew up. I was regularly outside for hours with plenty of sunburns without a thought of sunscreen. Considering my parents have both have several basil cell growths removed, I have listened to my wife more. Although a lot of skin damage has already probably been done.

When I was a kid, people used sun tan oil. It was meant to help you tan. And if you went to a pool, you would expect at least one person to be slathering baby oil on themselves and then laying (baking) in the sun. Some said the sun was good for your skin.

Sugar industry at that point was bribing scientists to point the finger at fats in terms of health issues.

I asked a dermatologist one time if she recommended regular full body scans for skin cancer. She said only if you have had 4-5 bad sunburns in your life. I told her I think that is like everyone born before the 1990s.

We grew up with no ac and an above ground pool. My sister and I were in that pool pretty much every day in the summer without any sunscreen. Fast forward 30 years and neither one of us likes to go in pools anymore and wear sunscreen if we are outside more than an hour.

Cycling back to why I originally asked, it boggles my mind when we go to Disney. There are so many families that are burnt to a crisp. Being outside in the Florida sun in the summer seems like such an easy decision for sunscreen.

I just wear swim shirts and hats now if I know I’m going to be at the beach or swimming. I don’t like being sunburned. I will typically just sunscreen my neck.

The swim shirt was a game changer for me at the beach.

Same. "Rash guard," as if I surf or something. I do see a dermatologist annually now, after the half-century mark. It takes like 10 minutes and insurance covers all but the co-pay. I burned easily as a kid, and all things considered, most of my skin is actually in pretty good shape and I appear younger than I actually am. I have to wear hats to protect my forehead, too, which I should have been doing 20 years ago. Skin cancer diagnoses are up by a third or something since we were kids. While they haven't totally gone away, tanning salons were ubiquitous for awhile, but not so much anymore.

I've worn a seatbelt in an automobile more recently than I've put on sunscreen. I think the key is just not knowing I should be dead by now.

I had AI whip me up an image of a sunburned man speeding along with no seatbelt on and it gave me this:

(This may set a record for topic drift)

Once AI figures out human hands we are in trouble.

Shall we move on to bike helmets?

I don’t know why bike helmets are controversial. Helmet is on my bike when not in use, it goes on my head every time. I could have been quadriplegic I had an accident in college when I went head over handlebars and landed exactly on my head. Walked away with a cracked helmet and no damage to me. Will never not wear a helmet.

Mulfinator:

Once AI figures out human hands we are in trouble.

Big time.

GoBucks89:
Shall we move on to bike helmets?

Even less than seatbelts and sunscreen. I've always had great hair. I know what's important.

Seatbelts and Sunscreen would be a great country song! (those of you following my foray into AI music can expect that any week now)