CockneyRebel
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12 Jul 2025, 6:05 pm
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13 Jul 2025, 10:42 am
Why do people expect skin to have to be tanned and not white? People often look at my white arms and legs and ask if I ever tan. I say no because I'm s**t scared of skin cancer so I use very strong sunblock whenever I'm out in the sun. But apparently I'm supposed to be less white.
It's weird how white people are supposed to tan yet some black people feel they have to bleach their skin to appear whiter, which is wrong on so many levels. Perhaps society wants everyone to be the same colour, like not too white and not too black? 
13 Jul 2025, 11:14 am
13 Jul 2025, 1:55 pm
13 Jul 2025, 5:48 pm
I love that my dad is so committed to composting all our food waste, but when he throws a year's worth of cat feces in there and expects it to break down then it becomes a problem. We want to enjoy sitting it the yard but we can't do that with a constant s**t smell hanging around.
Today he finally cleaned it out and buried it deep enough that we can't smell it, but now he smells like cat s**t even after he showered twice 
13 Jul 2025, 8:29 pm
It's weird how white people are supposed to tan yet some black people feel they have to bleach their skin to appear whiter, which is wrong on so many levels. Perhaps society wants everyone to be the same colour, like not too white and not too black?
I think sometimes it's said out of curiosity. There are different tones and undertones within the white category. Some people are unable to tan. My sister's boyfriend is like that. Incredibly pale redhead. He just burns.
Personally, I can tan. However, I can't tan as much as my mother because I take more after my dad's skin tone. Growing up, people were concerned because they'd see my mother and assume that must be my skin tone so they'd see me and think oh no! She's unnaturally pale! Then they'd see my dad and it would click.
Tanning has become a mark of beauty because it is meant to show that someone is well-travelled and active outdoors. Therefore well-off. Generally, signs of wealth have been tied to beauty standards throughout the ages.
And yet, due to racism and colorism there is pressure on those with a darker complexion to appear lighter. There are plenty of articles out there that go into detail on that particular phenomenon more than I ever could.
CockneyRebel
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13 Jul 2025, 10:37 pm
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14 Jul 2025, 11:25 am
It's only a couple of miles from home
Fascinating place though, you've got Ricky Hattons gym and Doctor Shipman (serial killer) surgery within 5 minutes walk of each other, and then only a couple of miles up the road from there we've got the gap between two houses where the house used to be where the Moors Murderers used to stay
I've not even got to IKEA yet
I went to Hyde a few years ago, and wasn't able to make a positive identification of the Shipman surgery. That was because the buildings on that side of the road seemed to have had their door numbers removed. I wondered whether that was a deliberate action by the authorities to make things difficult for ghouls like me.
14 Jul 2025, 11:30 am
It's along that row behind the bus station innit
My brother met him in strangeways when he was on remand
14 Jul 2025, 11:34 am
14 Jul 2025, 11:36 am
Lucky uncle Fred
We went to Ashton today
It looks like they building something where the market used to be
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