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Suing your travel agent for sun exposure leading to cancer
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Posted By Jonathan Breeze
I think this is porbably what our Dutch cousins would call a Cucumber Time [tr: silly season] story.
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Posted By Cr8r
Whatever happened to non volenti injuria?
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Posted By Robert K Lewis
volenti non fit injuria
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Posted By Cr8r
Oh yeah. That's what happened to it!!!
Anyone seen my brain, I left it round here somewhere.
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Posted By Debbie Spowart
Have just finished reading the said article on the BBC news website and noticed a link from the 22nd May when another group of scientists based in Manchester have stated that going for 10-15 mins in the midday sun with no protection is good for you as it gives the body a healthy source of Vitamin D.......if I wasn't confused before I certainly am now.
I never would have even thought about doing this. are lots of people now going to try and jump on the 'claim' bandwagon.
Anyway whats wrong with getting a tan from a bottle (as long as you don't mind the orange streaky ankles!!)
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Posted By Cr8r
On a more serious note, this has occurred to me in the past, although not in this context. I used to work somewhere where the majority of the workforce worked outside and the upper echelons in their superior wisdom withdrew issuing sun protection creams for fear of claims from people being allergic to the content of it.
It's hard enough to get most big tough boys to put cream on anyway but to withdraw it? It wouldn't surprise me at all if skin cancer becomes the next generation's asbestos (if you see what I mean - the risks are known but usually it is some time before symptoms are noticed and then the claimant has got to show where they got it).
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Posted By Danny Swygart
If anyone is interested I can email a really good photo of the effects of the sun on the skin.
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Posted By Ian Bennett
Further to this I spent 5 years of my childhood following my paernts around the far and middle east with only calamine lotion to ease the pain. This would not be a case of volenti non fit injuria as I had no choice. But I'm sure the M.o.D would have a case to answer. Anyone else in the same position?
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Posted By MichaelM
Debbie
My wife says the tan in a bottle stuff tastes really bad. I've never tried it myself though. I prefer to stick to the shade and pickle my liver (very slowly though) on holiday.
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Posted By MichaelM
We never had sun protection as kids and I burn in 15 minutes (got to keep that Vitamin D up). I remember the pain, the baths which were painful and the calamine which did nothing.
No wonder skin cancer is on the increase.
Who do we have a case against that Valenti person?
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Posted By J Knight
What is Calamine lotion anyway? Looks like a white lead preparation to me. What do I know about this? Well, I've had skin cancer, only a rodent ulcer (basal cell carcinoma for those who prefer the posh version), eminently treatable and not likely to recur, but I put it down to exposure to sun (with occasional serious burns) as a nipper, being a natural blonde and all that. Which is just as well as hair colour tastes even worse than fake tan.
I thought Rupert Murdoch owned the Sun, can't we sue him?
John
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Posted By MichaelM
You know it has just struck me that calamine lotion contains phenol. I just had a look at a material safety data sheet.
What do we tell people working with phenol? We tell them to make sure it doesn't get on their skin as it destroys the lipid layer!?!
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Posted By J Knight
Hey! Maybe it's not the Sun that causes cancer (and I was rather hoping I would be able to sue Rupert Murdoch); maybe it's the calamine! Phenols; good grief! Still, I can remember using coal tar soap and rubbing Iodine into wounds,
John
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Posted By Paul Adams
Aspirins contain Phenol as well.
Stop at home, do nothing, keep the shades closed.
It's the only way to live!
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Posted By MichaelM
Was that while you listened to your gramophone in the sun?
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Posted By J Knight
Mm, well, that's as maybe, but aspirins also contain salicycilc acid (or a salt thereof) which has analgesic & anti-thrombolytic properties; apart from making the victim look even worse, what does calamine lotion actually do? I mean, a bit of phenol in a good cause is one thing, but calamine lotion is just zombie makeup isn't it?
John
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