Back then, they seemed to just wear a lot more clothes. It’s such an odd stance to think you can’t use an umbrella or clothing to block out the sun. I can understand being skeptical about the side-effects of sunscreen being slathered on your body and absorbed… but it’s pretty common to see depiction of parasols being used in older times.
I have lupus and my skin has become really sensitive to the sun as I’ve got older. I think about getting a parasol fairly regularly but I don’t have the confidence or style to pull it off unfortunately!
I just visited DC a few weeks ago and it was insanely hot and bright. I always carry an umbrella in my day bag so I used it for shade walking around. Even though it looked dorky and wasn’t at all stylish I got a ton of compliments and nods of approval. Just do it, nobody will judge, everyone will think you’re a genius.
And his wooden teeth story was cover for the fact his fake teeth were made up of the teeth of his slaves. We don’t know if the slaves had died before having his or her teeth removed for the first President of the United States.
According to George Washington’s ledger, on May 8, 1784, he paid 6 pounds 2 shillings to “N****** for 9 Teeth, on acc[oun]t of the French Dentis [sic] Doctr Lemay [sic].”
When i was younger a former friend of mine told me that bs. I have light skin (right translation?) So it’s a dangerous “advise”. I never believed it, but the discusion were… exhausting.
Light-skinned is the right translation. But you mean “advice”. Advice is a noun - it is the information. Advise is a verb - to advise someone means to tell them something. I’m advising you by giving you this advice. That not the best example but hopefully it makes sense! And one last thing, it’s discussions not discussion. But that’s really nitpicking. Plenty of native English speakers make those mistakes and what you wrote was understandable. I wish I was remotely as good at Spanish as you are English!
Thank you for your advice! I turned on two languages im autocorrect, but my smart phone still is getting confused. Cause sometimes i pick Diskussionen instead of discussions or it simply doesn’t get the error itself. When i write fast that always makes me anxios
It proves the OP was exceptionally stupid, and unlucky to have randomly picked as an example one of the four famous historical figures they know who happened to have skin cancer.
there are so many people they could have chosen, and yet they managed to pick almost the worst possible example. they could have even said george washington carver instead if they just really had to type the words “george washington” that bad.
Come on, we already have anti vaxxers, is there some kind of underground anti sunscreen movement now too? And even if George Washington didn’t have skin cancer… What evidence is one dude’s lack of cancer to prove that a modern protective product doesn’t work? We have no idea how much time he spent in the sun, we don’t know if he always wore long sleeves, etc.
Obviously we know he did have cancer, but I just can’t get over how many levels of flaw this argument contains in so few words.
But it is simple. Also, you throw it at this crowd and they come back with evidence. Well, you throw it at another crowd and they might say: Oh right, they’ve got a good point there. Few words, simple message, inner logic = will work on a lot of people.
There is, an old friend of mine posted a ridiculous video about it on instagram…sure, there MAY be side effects to using sunscreen (not sunblock) that have turned up inconclusive in studies, but it has been proven that sunscreen and sunblock are VERY effective against skin cancer.
It’s just like the “covid vaccines can have an extremely small possility of side effects so I’d rather get long covid and DIE!!”
Just because people lacked advanced analysis techniques, it doesn’t mean they weren’t observant. There are a huge number of things about the world that ancient people were very tuned into, they just didn’t have the tools to learn more than their senses could tell them.
Just looking at the stars at night and comprehending how long and tedious it must be to track them to the point that you can determine the time of the year or your position on the ocean is a small taste of understanding how much our ancestors noticed about the world.
I love how obsessed some Americans are with their founding fathers, it’s adorably weird. I’ve never ever based any of my decisions or opinions on what our first chancellor did or didn’t do and I don’t see fucking why.
They were pretty cool enlightenment thinkers who created the first constitutional republic and were able to muscle out the British Empire. It’s pretty remarkable.
Yeah, I know. Now if anyone used their actual intellectual accomplishments as arguments instead of the simple fact that they existed, that might be interesting.
Depends on who you’re talking about and what part of their life you’re looking at.
Is it the George Washington who chopped the cherry tree, the George Washington who dressed his slaves in potato sacks, or the George Washington who declined to be king and set the standard of the presidency? There are a lot of George’s in there who are deserving of vastly different levels of reverence.
What they did is remarkable, but they are often treated more like oracles and the constitution like some perfect golden tablets someone dug up in their yard (despite needing significant changes right after it was ratified).
Lots of US people will explain to you that the constitution and its amendments are immutable. And when you ask them to repeat that slowly, they’ll just say it louder because you’re the slow one.
I’m trying to figure out what the heck you’re saying. You think that no one thinks this is true:
the constitution and its amendments are immutable.
I guarantee you double your money back that there are people who think this. They don’t know what an amendment is, or the verb “to amend”. They just know there’s at least 2 of them and they can only be changed by god.
The way it was explained to me, it’s because of a lack of history.
Being a new country, they had effectively no history or culture, unlike the rest of the world. It lead to a desire to develop it’s own identity which lead to elevating the founding fathers to a myth like status to match those of other countries.
It made sense to me, since there are myths involving demigods in different part of the world.
It’s an important part of history. The fact that the ideology of some guys that founded our nation a few years back would be viewed as far left extremists nowadays is astonishing. These guys literally left a country and made their own country with radical stuff like freedom of speech, allowing people to come through the borders if they feel unsafe, democracy for the people and by the people and not corporate dirtbags fucking us every chance they get. Not to mention our freedoms keeping on shrinking little by little from the Patriot Act and more legislation to monitor our communications “foR tHe ChiLdRen”.
Because it was a government that was pretty much written up from scratch and went against many of the tenants of European governments at the time, such as a right to free speech, no state religion, etc. It is still based on English Common Law though. It inspired the French revolutionaries though they went in another direction ultimately.
It wouldn’t’ be so bad if they actually knew anything about their founding fathers. Maybe did a little research on them, but the ones that idolise them the most know almost nothing about them.
It would be adorable if it wasn’t dangerous :/ they use the founding fathers and constitution in the same way they use Jesus and the Bible - as a reason to hurt others and stop progress
You’re of course correct and I can only be playful about it because of my privileged position of being outside the US. I get that it fucking sucks from the inside.
Just remember if we fail we will bring everyone down with us. So just because you live outside the US doesn’t mean you can make silly jokes about silly Americans because the people who think that sunscreen bad and founding fathers = gods also vote for people who think democracy is bad and fascism good. So when our democracy fails the whole entire planet will suffer, including you
You have no idea, hombre. They’ve slow boiled us like crabs to the point that 50% of the population is bragging that they have a hot tub while not realizing that they’re already cooked.
And it’s funny in the wtf way because the founding fathers were against religion being involved in the governing of the nation. They codified that crap! And yet, these idiots keep trying to claim it’s a Christian nation and we need god back in everything.
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