@This time its personable!: Well done….he’ll be at it all day now.

@WiseUp: why 50, 20 is fine, we’re not all white as a ghost with Irish freckles

@Hugo Bugo: minimum 30 is recommended for all skin tones .

@OConnelj: of course it is, the number is a time factor, how often to reapply, Il stick with 20

@Hugo Bugo: ehhh no? Not correct.

@Hugo Bugo: you can slap some baby oil on for all I care. I’ll stick to 50, I don’t want a face like a Shar Pei when I’m 50.

@OConnelj: il stick with 20, want to let a few rays through for a tan :), people lathering themselves in factor 50 are giving themselves false sense of protection anyway, it’s only marginally better than factor 20, 25 or 30

@Hugo Bugo: absolutely totally incorrect there. The number is the protection you are getting. Get a sun cream with high UV protection that’s the main thing. Some high priced ones are crap as they offer no UV protection. In fact one of the best ones is that Aldi one. Take it from somone who lost someone close to them of melanoma. Not nice , and the most easily preventable

@teddyzigzagbigbag: not totally incorrect, not by a long shot factor 50 only gives u an extra 1% protection from uvb rays over factor 30 for example, factor 50 blocks 98% of uvb rays and factor 30 blocks 97% of uvb rays, its marginal at best, the feeling u get from Irish people is they have some sort of impenetrable wall of protection of their miky white skin because they are armed with their factor 50 which is complete nonsense

@Hugo Bugo: Thanks Google Bugo. You are so knowledgeable.

@Hugo Bugo: Marginally better is still better so it’s not a false sense of protection.

@Hugo Bugo: but you were recommending factor 20 earlier.

@Hugo Bugo: no I was saying you are totally incorrect about the number meaning the frequency of when you have to reapply! That comment is nonsense. Anyway I can see I’m talking to a wall

@Hugo Bugo: also the complete nonsense are the percentages you spouted there . Try googling again. UVA and UVB protection is what you are looking for

@OConnelj: recommending is a stretch on your part, Il be using 20 the same as I have for 20 years :), Il leave the fair skin brigade to slap on their maximum protection 50, if u need factor 50 then u shouldn’t be outside in the 1st place, stick to covid anti socialising policy

@teddyzigzagbigbag: here talk to this article, your welcome, https://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/report/whats-wrong-with-high-spf/

@Hugo Bugo: Read your very first post again and then tell me what you were and weren’t recommending.

@Hugo Bugo: your Factor 20 is not mentioned.

@Hugo Bugo: You’re quoting stats for what’s being blocked as opposed to what’s actually important, the amount being let through. SPF 15 lets in twice the UV radiation that SPF 30 does and so on. Therefore although the percentages are in your words marginal the protection does in fact double as the SPF doubles. Also, most SPF 20′s only provide 3* UVB pritection as opposed to the 4/5* provided by higher factors.

@OConnelj: lol, silenced

@Hugo Bugo: somebody doesn’t like being wrong. Horrible trait.

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: pointless Sorcha. Ever hear the saying about arguing with a pigeon? It doesn’t matter because in the end the pigeon will knock over a the pieces, Siht all the board and strut around like it’s won anyway

@Sorcha Ní Shúilleabháin: is factor 20 sold legally as a sun protection product, just answer me that, so I will use it, I have dark skin and have no interest if fair skin people need factor 50 or think it offers them some impenetrable wall of sun protection, all the best, u will always get people who need to wear 2 seat belts and drive at 20kmh, lol

@OConnelj: but u were telling me to slap on baby oil, so at least my factor 20 comment is legal, so get off your high horse

@OConnelj: gotta go, off to the beach for the day, legally sold and approved factor 20 suncream in hand for a nice tan, Il leave u to sit at home angry for the whole day, lol

@Hugo Bugo: It is legally sold and you’re free to choose it however the logic with which you’re making that choice is essentially flawed.

@Hugo Bugo: remember as kids we’d be slathered with ambre solaire oil and then we’d go straight into the sea for hours, come out like prunes, sand sandwiches, and off again. We always came home like lobsters, roared like hell with pain, then itched like crazy, peeled and then we had a tan and everything was hunky dorey haha.

@Hugo Bugo: you seem to think I care what sunscreen you wear when you are sunbathing, sunbathing lol.

@Hugo Bugo: how do you know so much! Are you the cleverest person in every room?

@Anna Carr: I remember it well. God be with the auld days!!

@Brian Dunne: barometric pressure at play..

@Martin Smith: Outdoor drinking, Sunburn , good chance of getting delta varient …Enjoy it while we can…look on the bright side of life.