As we get older we get wiser. We are better informed (simply, surely, through a process of being around for a long time and the same old things coming up, that, whether you like or not, you will know more because it has been repeated so often), we are also more careful of our bodies (they just can't take it any more - the spicy food, the gallons of alcohol, the sudden leap at a tennis ball, the sleeping in a single bed with no sheets because you couldn't be bothered to make it....), we all realise that with age we simply do not look as attractive (the wrinkles, the etc etc see previous articles, I don't want to appear obsessed by this) and yet......the lure of the sun is still there!!!!
Look at all these people! They have turned their sun beds to face the sun and are lying, practically naked, trying to get a tan! Why? We know the suns rays are full of hideous toxic stuff which will not only make you wrinkle more and dry your skin, but cause skin cancer. We know that. And yet we lie there, soaking it up, in a dream of youth and beauty which can never come again...............
Does this mean that human beings are not only the most intelligent beings on the planet but also the most stupid? Or does it simply not matter since the end is inevitable and whether you reach it today or tomorrow, wrinkled or not, the inevitability of that end is so much wired into our psyche that we simply do not care? Or is the sun more evil than we thought and has not only rays to cause cancer and wrinkle us but also to seduce our brains into performing a sort of primeval worship with out bodies?
Hmmmmmmm! Send your answers on a postcard to the second sunbed from the left where i am soaking up the rays.
I personally think that the sun contains a drug that sends people temporarily insane. That was certainly true at the battle of Kiev in the summer of 1941. And I have attempted to replicate this effect by installing powerful ultra-violet lights above the diarama of the battle I have constructed in my shed. And, indeed, I often feel somewhat light headed after several hours in there. It is not an unpleasant feeling. Especially if accompanied by a bottle or two of pomagne.
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ReplyDeleteThis is Sven from Sweden speaking! My lawyer has put me onto this photo! I am in it! I take exception to being called insane! I am a good looking Swede in my early 30s and very popular with the ladies with my toned body, lightly bronzed. People are lucky that I sunbath and I am not mad! I demand an immediate apology and a free ticket from Stockholm to London so that I can show the English ladies all they are missing!
Sven, you sound like my kind of guy (not to be confused with guy). I too have a body to be proud of - are you by any chance interested in WW2? We could make a good combination hitting the town - looks and conversation. I will get a whip round at the pub for your ticket...
ReplyDeleteBill, are you really a MAN? If you are, what is this talk about wanting to 'whip round' me? That is disgusting. If you were a women (and not a FAT one) then all might be possible - I am a Swede, after all. But this talk of a male 'whip round' is deeply offensive and I will talk to my lawyer, the lovely Inge (aged 28) on Monday morning about legal action.
ReplyDeleteSteady on my man. I am a respectable motorbiker with a big gang of friends who don't take kindly to Swedes commenting on my sexuality. Send Inge over to England for a ride on my motorbike and I might forgive you. PS Does Inge know anything about model railways?
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