"Wow you aged pretty badly. Use sunscreen."

It ain’t news that a human’s skin don’t respond real well if you put it under the hammer of the sun’s rayons over the course of a few decades.

And the most vulnerable are the fair of skin and hair. Revisit the cute blond beach bunny twenty years hence and that flawless brown epidermis is now a patch-work of dry scaly patches rendered a horror show by the long-term effects of solar keratoses.

Your old pal, DR, who prefers the occasional surgery to sunscreen was once compared to a crocodile handbag by the wife of a prime minister, although I missed the point of the comparison and figured it was because I was an object of rare beauty that only the most elite could afford. (Hubris!)

Now, Gwyneth Paltrow, mommy blogger, surfer, Nepo Baby, and vendor of candles that smell like the very same pussy where Brad Pitt, Ben Affleck and Chris Martin deposited their rancid genetic code, has inadvertently revealed her own croc-bag skin in a post to her eight million followers.

The photograph shows Paltrow and boyfriend Brad Falchuk blissful beneath a Provencal sun, with additional photos including an old villa and a gorgeous swimming pool.

Paltrow, who is fifty, doesn’t hide her skin behind filters and the damage, if you look hard enough, is clear.

But what price a good life, no?

It sure did infuriate some fans unaccustomed to seeing flaws in their idols.

Look at all the sun damage on your skin. What goop product will fix that.

Wow you aged pretty badly. Use sunscreen

Your sun damage is HORRIFIC

Your skin looks severely Sun damaged! Not a good look or advertisement for your products!

Also, she was/is a smoker. At one point, 2 packs a day. That’s sun damage and smoker’s skin. That’s not just normal aging for a 50 year old.

It doesn’t add up to me. The poster queen for a health and wellness empire having skin that badly sun damaged.

You’ll remember, or maybe not, last year when Paltrow “approached cancellation for providing inappropriate sunscreen advice.”

“Dermatologists were horrified, calling for a severe retraction,” wrote Chas Smith.

Barry D. Goldman, M.D., a clinical instructor at Cornell NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital said, “I do think it’s a bad message. 80-90% of all skin cancers are on the face and neck. I’ve seen many tumors on the eyelids or around the eyes, the forehead. Basically, the whole face should be covered… We think of the whole face as a high-risk area for skin cancer.”

Fans were outraged, calling for an execution.

Some lady on Twitter wrote, “Gwyenth Paltrow really made a video telling people to apply SPF like a highlighter to your face… That’s literally not how it works. It goes on the entire face, neck, & the back of hands.”

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“Ridiculous that you are acting like this is a one-sided problem…..it’s a nation wide problem that attacks the non wealthy!

The three-time world surfing champion and black-belt grappler Joel Tudor, described by Matt Warshaw as “supernaturally graceful”, has taken down presidential hopeful Robert F Kennedy Jr in a wild online exchange over “racist” food.

Kennedy, the jacked-to-hell sixty-nine-year-old former junkie son of murdered attorney general Bobby Kennedy and nephew of murdered president John Fitz Kennedy, has been eating up the news as he chases the Democratic presidential nomination, although his vaccines-cause-autism rhetoric has given him more play on the right than the left.

Now, following an online post by RFK where he visits a black-run organic farm and claims “Urban African-American communities have become food deserts where you cannot find healthy food”, or redlining and racism is hoarding all the good food for da whites, Tudor has come out swinging.

“Awwwww it ain’t just black people who eat like this …it’s all of poor america! Ridiculous that you are acting like this is a one sided problem…..it’s a nation wide problem that attacks the non wealthy! Take a trip to any trailer park in America and you’ll find this scenario has no color!”

Tudor, who is forty-seven, found support even among RFK’s followers.

“it’s not a racial problem it’s an American problem.”

“Maybe call it proper instead of making it a black issue. It is an American issue. Every grocery store across the country has this issue.”

“Color color color… complete nonsense, every single demographic in the US has this issue. Even upper-class families eat garbage because it is damn near impossible to find farms like @whiteoakpastures.”

“I’ve made this point about a dozen times in this thread already. Bulk chicken is leaps and bounds healthier than eating McDonalds, doritos and mt dew every day. I’m not suggesting that a poor family can afford small farm organic meats regularly. I’m saying that if they just used the money they spend on junk food on bulk cheap options like rice, beans, chicken, pork, etc, they would be way healthier than eating KFC.”

“I second this motion. Come down to North Carolina and I’ll show you the same thing @robertfkennedyjr Its not a race thing. It’s just a system to keep poor people poor and more importantly sick. The drug company Bayer owns the seeds and fertilizers and bug killers that go into the crops which is designed to yet again get people sick so we can then go to their hospitals and pay for their drugs. It an evil circle that we won’t get out of until all the Lobbying stops and all the Politicians aren’t bought. Maybe if the politicians weren’t making millions from insider trading, they’d have time to actually fight for America.”

And RFK, who enjoys being everything to everyone, quickly conceded Tudor’s stunning coup de grace, although, you’ll notice, he conspicuously capitalises Native American and Latino while giving whites the short shrift I suppose the bleached devils deserve.

“You are right, the lack of access to healthy food is a widespread problem. Six percent of Americans live in a food desert today, including one in five black households…good apartheid exists all over this nation, from Native American Reservations, to white and Latino communities.”

Question: is the choice really that binary, McDonalds and Mountain Dew vs wildly expensive organic food, or can the average citizen subsist, happily and healthily on industrially farmed fruit, meat and vegetables thus nullifying the racism angle?

 

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"I’d like to see the books after the WSL takes out all the alcohol money and see if they can stay sustainable without alcohol."

Without blowing his trumpet immoderately, it can safely be claimed that the 1988 world champion surfer, former anarchist, butterfly collector and pro surfing commentator, Barton Lynch, is a well-matured and rounded individual.

Lynch, who is fifty-nine, was surfing’s most popular broadcaster before being dumped by the WSL for, it’s rumoured, his role in the activist group Voices4Choices, which questioned vaccine mandates and the role of government during the COVID pandemic; he was called paranoid at the time, now he, and Kelly Slater for that matter, is regarded as a visionary. 

No longer bricked in by the WSL’s Stasi-esque Wall of Positive Noise, Lynch now pours his skill and insight into a lightly popular podcast called The Stoked Bloke Show, which he operates with Peter King, the musician, pro surfer and former bandmate of the aforementioned Kelly Slater.

One year ago on the show Lynch listed four reasons why surf culture had gone to hell. 

“We have our spiritual leader selling soft-tops at Costco, the world’s best surfer choosing not to go to Teahupoo and instead go on a sailing trip with his family and friends, we have the number one surfer in the world (Stephanie Gilmore) with less points than two, three, four five and we have WSL turning its back on Pipeline as a finals venue and choosing Lowers.”

An excellent tirade with points difficult to refute.

Now, and in his latest episode, Lynch has called for an immediate ban on booze advertising within the sport labelling alcohol “a poison”. 

“I would not sell alcohol through the WSL,” says Lynch. “I would recognise that what we’re doing is promoting the sport largely to children and they’re coming up through the ranks and those kids need to be guarded from alcohol. Alcoholism is a diseases, alcohol is a poison and to be promoting it through the sport, and that’s what I said to my contact on the phone when he told me times were good and money was good and it was a sustainable biz model that they had created. I said, I’d like to see the books after you take out all the alcohol money and if you can stay sustainable without alcohol. Then I went, what about the energy drinks? How good are they for people? You’re promoting drinks to people that might not be good for people’s health.” 

Where do you stand on the matter? I think if children take up drinking ’cause they saw it on a WSL broadcast, they should be examined for mental wellness.

More importantly, do you think the WSL would survive if the rumoured five thousand dollars per year Corona stipend was removed?