A couple hundred years ago being pale was a sign of affluence, since it meant you didn't have to work outside in the fields. Somewhere halfway last century it flipped around. It became an indication that you could afford vacation to places where you could tan, especially in winter times. Some people still care about shit like that.

Idk, Skin cancer brained people are weird.

Speaking as a very pale-skinned person myself: nothing super serious, except a tendency to stand out. You're likely to be the most obvious person around.

Moronic beauty standards where you are never enough no matter what you do or what you look like.

My wife worries about it. She's afraid people will make fun of her. Sigh

Western ideology: “You’re suppose to be as white as possible, then you’re suppose to tan that white as dark as possible.”

As opposed to having dark skin, which is totally normal and never associated with any health issues, being very pale may be related to some health issues.

But in this case they are probably talking about being tanned as a beauty standard, which is stupid.

As a very pale person you can be so pale you start to feel reflective, and at a certain point you just feel too visually conspicuous to not be a bit embarrassed

Years ago I was walking down the sidewalk to the neighborhood pool while wearing a swimsuit with an old girlfriend, and I remember joking to her that I felt a little like I was blinding oncoming traffic

Reminder of your past sins

Endemic self-doubt.

why are you using the Royal We?

Went with my Canadian ex-gf and her cousin to Barcelona. They were peeling after a full day in the sun, felt so bad for them. I never really understood it because I would always tan.

Wow, i never know people who can't get tanned exist. It just never crossed my mind that some white people are white because they can't get tanned.

Would that count as yuri? hehe

But you do need some vitamin D, no?

the only tanning I do is occasionally doing something outside in a tank top instead of a T-shirt so I don't get a farmers tan.

There are two different mechanisms involved in the production of a tan by UV exposure. Firstly, UVA radiation creates oxidative stress, which in turn oxidizes existing melanin, leading to the rapid darkening of the melanin. UVA may also cause melanin to be redistributed (released from melanocytes where it is already stored), but its total quantity is unchanged. Skin darkening from UVA exposure does not lead to significantly increased production of melanin or protection against sunburn.[9] In the second process [...]

Replies to your comment proved your point surprisingly quickly.

As a very pale person who was bullied a lot for it and probably has lasting personal doubt from that bullying, I think there is just a fundamental difference (in the US). One is "just" mean and bullying, but there is no horrific dehumanizing history behind it. Both are bad, but I don't think they're directly substitutable in the way you describe, as I think it cheapens the history of slavery and racism

The uncorfortableness around the skin color of "colored" people has to do with their oppression at the hands of white people. It not about their skin color more about their oppression

Yes! Most "white" people are in fact light brown. They cannot stand being around anybody different.

I'm mostly pink with some blue, and I heard all about it in high school. Later, in college (uni) I got over it because my punk, goth, and Black friends didn't care. But man those "white" girls in high school were rotten.

Probably because the entire western world didn't systematically buy and enslave kidnapped pale people, treat them as subhuman and breed them like livestock - so it's not as touchy a subject.

Edit: Guess that's still a touchy subject. You wanted an answer for why it's still socially acceptable to joke about pale skin but not dark skin, and that's pretty obviously the answer why it's not the same thing.

Or maybe the downvotes are because the breeding only happened in the Southern US and French, German, British, Australian, and Belgian lemmies don't wanna get roped in on that specific colonial history.

And once again redditors lemmings learn that using different words changes the meaning of statements.

In England the money due for the maintenance of beacons was called Beaconagium and was levied by the sheriff of each county.

I like to think the promise was made in better times and as proof of the kings' sincerity they paid in advance.

I mean, 16. century Swiss Confederacy wasn't exactly affluent...

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I assume they were not permanently staffed and what we see in the film is a montage. Someone in his farming village saw the Gondor beacon and had to climb to the top of the hill with the local beacon and light it, then someone in the next village sees that beacon and climbs up to theirs and so on. It probably takes a few days and sending a messenger would've been faster.

It's still hot here in California and we're in the Northern Hemisphere so you will simply have to deal with this until we at minimum exit the hot season.