Poll: How tanned are you?

[Cowabungaa]

I'm half tanned; my front side is pretty tan thanks to a lot of hours outside, but my back and calves are still pretty white. It's what you get for reading a lot outside.

 

[Scarecrow]

It's currently winter where I am, so...yeah, not much chance there. Normaly, I do tend to avoid direct sunlight, but...eh, I think I'm normal.

Captcha: dog days

Interesting choice of words, since "Dog Days" is the title of a "Diary of a Whimpy Kid" book about summer.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Hard to say since I'm quite tan looking for a Chinese guy. Well ok no tan lines despite that I have been going and leaving work with just wearing my work polo shirt.

 

[Dags90]

I'm mildly tanned and I'm in Australia, but I'm a gardener so I'm outside a lot.

People still have gardeners outside of soap operas?

Or is this one of those things where two similar words have different connotations in American English.

 

[Bara_no_Hime]

**sigh** Where was this thread last year, when I could have voted the naked sun-bathing option?

This year? Pregnancy makes getting sun difficult. Having a newborn, moreso.

I've been getting some sun lately, I guess, so maybe faint, faint tan-lines? Kinda? I guess?

 

[Mr F.]

I am ginger. As a result I always wear long sleeved shirts and whatnot. Even so, my nose ends up burned. This is despite living in the UK, and up north to boot.

I just burn. I always burn. I grew up in a desert, I spent 9 years burnt and every 6 months since having checkups on various moles thanks to spending 9 years burnt.

Man, I hate being ginger sometimes.

 

[Souplex]

My head, neck, and lower arms are tanned. That's it. Everything else is pale.

 

[Auninteligentname]

Considering that my hometown have had about 1 week with sun, in total, this summer, being pale as a ghost is not a suprise. The fact that I've always been pale as a ghost, no matter what, may come a bit more as a suprise... Unless you already knew that I'm a cave-dweller who never goes outside ^^

 

[Texas Joker 52]

My skin is either white as the driven snow or crimson red. I've never had a tan in my life.

Pretty much this. I am pretty much NEON white, and I don't go outside with the purpose of tanning, because I don't tan: I burn to a crisp like a fucking vampire. At that point, you can salt me, maybe add some ketchup, and I'm done.

Honestly though, I'm not sure I WANT to really tan, since my wire-frame figure and my nerdy-ass face probably wouldn't pull off a tan well at all.

 

[Jedamethis]

I'm the same all year round. Vaguely foreign looking. Half English, half Hispanic.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I tend to only go out when it is dark, overcast, or in the middle of a storm, thunder or otherwise.
I can't stand hot/sunny weather.
As such, I'm rather pale. Not the palest person I've ever seen, but still rather pale, no tan.

 

[DanielBrown]

My arms has a quite clear line on them, and I assume my face as well.
Have been out in the sun more than usual, but I'm not exactly the sunbathing type.

 

[FamoFunk]

I'm so pale its unreal. It's not like I hide away from the sun either.

 

[Palademon]

I don't tan.

I can't, I only burn.
I often blame this on being related to ginger people.

Plus I hate summer (mostly cause of the burning!) and tend to stay inside.
So yeah, I'm either pale as a ghost in winter or red and blotchy in summer if I venture outside.

I am a ginger so I don't tan I am very pale. When I go out in the sun I start to burn after a few min. I remember one time someone tried to tell me everyone can tan I couldn't help but laugh.

I have a light tan left over from my vacation- which means I've got the awkward bikini top tan line around my neck. But even when I am at my tannest, I tend to make Casper the friendly ghost look tan. The trials of being a ginger.

i'm a red haired Scottish person so i'm actually pale blue rather than white and the sun is pretty much a major health hazard...

I am ginger. As a result I always wear long sleeved shirts and whatnot. Even so, my nose ends up burned. This is despite living in the UK, and up north to boot.

I just burn. I always burn. I grew up in a desert, I spent 9 years burnt and every 6 months since having checkups on various moles thanks to spending 9 years burnt.

Man, I hate being ginger sometimes.

The lack of a ginger option confuses and infuriates us!

 

[Mr F.]

*SNIP*
The lack of a ginger option confuses and infuriates us!

Agreed! The lack of a ginger option shows that the original poster is a racist!

Up with the Ginger Separatist Movement!

Bacon!

 

[Random Fella]

No tan, because it was the winter
Ho ho ho ho ho
A few months for me

 

[RobfromtheGulag]

Been biking to work just enough to get some tan lines on the arms.

 

[Cyfu]

I could lay...lie...ligge....I HATE THAT VERB SO MUCH!
I could lay(?) in the snow and I would be impossible to find.

PS: ligge is the Norwegian verb for whatever verb I'm trying to use.

 

[Myndnix]

I'm so pale that sometimes people ask me if I'm sick.
And I get out in the sun quite often.

 

[barbzilla]

Scottish, Irish, German, and Norwegian. What do you think? I actually don't tan, I turn red for a few days (not sun burnt as I don't get any pain, just red) and then go back to white. On the upside, I have an alcohol tolerance on par with Dionysus though I rarely drink (mainly due to the prohibitive costs of doing so).