Is Apu from the Simpsons racist?

Did he?

Is it ok to be white?

 

A little tan is good. No one wants to be looking at Casper the Friendly Ghost.

 

I’m not trying to sound racist [which means I’m about to say something insensitive] but is it my imagination or are white people turning even whiter?

Not all of course, but recently I’ve seen an inordinate number of white people who look “whiter than white”

 

Do you mean recently like the last few weeks, or the last few years?

If the former... It's just that time of year, man.

 

Over the last 5 years or so ....

Perhaps we’re witnessing the emergence of a new species, or the prophesies of Procol Harum from their song entitled “A whiter shade of Pale?"

 

Impudent little bastards, aren't they?

 

We've finally learned the dangers of tanning beds and skin cancer

 

^^^^ Perhaps My Sound System Needs Attention...Or Perhaps I Do...But I Didn't Understand A Word They Said.????...



Cheers Glen.

 

^^^ (a) They sing badly, and (b) the accent is foreign to you.

 

It’s still a 5 billion dollar industry in the U.S., although Nearly 10,000 salons have closed in the U.S. since President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act
went into effect back in 2010 and imposed a 10 percent tax on tanning

 

Well, tanning isn't healthy at all. Tanning is skin cells under stress. Sun, UV bed.. Dont matter. If you're tanning you're damaging your skin. Which is why I live at night, wear an akubra and UV masks and sleeves. Also why I look 26 when I'm 31.

 

Good luck convincing the teenage girls in my suburban neighborhood who are out tanning on their back decks at the first sign of summer

 

I don't try and convince anyone. It's all facts.
They may look good as teens, but they'll have catchers mit skin later in life. Seen enough older folks like that, enough for me to pay attention to it since I was a teen.

 

Ah, but I am 32, tan, and a woman guessed my age as 20 the other evening : )

It may catch up with me but I doubt I'll care. It's not that I'm obsessed with being tanned.. I just like laying in the sun. It feels good.

 

I don't want to entirely avoid the sun.
I'm with Driftrue, it does sometimes feel good on your skin.
Sure you gotta be careful, but I'm not going to avoid it, fuck that.

 

UV rays were the highest factor in my eye disease causing me to have to have corneal replacements. I learned at 19 when I was diagnosed, to look after myself.

I don't mind the sun during winter and spring, in fact I will spend time in it because I love frosty morning when your skin is tight and then you stand or sit in the sun and you feel you skin stretch, but when the UV rays are high during summer, no chance and I always make sure I wear sun glasses. Some people find that rude, but I'm going to keep preventing the the eye disease so I can last longer before my next corneal transplant, whether it's rude or not.

 

Ah, I'm with you on that. I had bad vision which I got laser eye surgery for, and I always wear shades now.

 

I want a tan