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Free sunscreen (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 months ago by cosmicrookie@lemmy.world to c/mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world
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I was at a local amusement park, where I noticed at the entrance, they offered free sunscreen.

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[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Netherlands does this too, matter of fact beaches have dispensers maintained by a health insurance company. They did the math, it's cheaper to provide the nation with free sunscreen at convenient locations than to pay for all skin cancer scares. And it frees up healthcare capacity.

But I also saw it in Porto at a festival there. More and more this is showing up and it's a great thing.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

Dummies. If you want to maximize economics this isn't how you do it. Just make healthcare a for profit enterprise and then you can make money off cancer and sunscreen.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Free lotion kiosk. I hadn't thought about how that looks like free smorgasbord in Danish...

I'm not saying it's not a good idea. But I'd rather have free smørrebrød than free smørebod

[–] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago

I read it as smørrebrød at first and was very confused at why there was sunscreen and not rye bread and fish

[–] myplacedk@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Smorgasbord is not smørrebrød. It's more like frokostbord or smørrebrødsbord.

It comes from Swedish smörgåsbord, where smörgås is smørrebrød.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm trying to guess without using a translation app, but my brain keeps leaning towards either "free body butter", which makes a little sense and "free butter shop", which makes no sense.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Danish verb smøre is a general verb meaning 'to spread' or 'apply' a substance onto a surface. It is used for butter, sunscreen, cream, ointment, and similar substances. So its basically a wordplay, calling it a butter shop or butter stall

[–] Nioxic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes

I read it as smørrebrød at first

[–] possumparty@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

same 🤦🏻‍♀️

[–] plc@feddit.dk 2 points 2 months ago

One can pick what I suspect is cognates piecewise and arrive at something almost intelligeble and equally weird:

at smøre = to smear en bod = a booth

Smørebod ~> Smear booth

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[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Without using a translation service, I read it as “smearbody” which tracks hahaha

[–] trinsec@piefed.social 4 points 2 months ago

That's a pretty good initiative.

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago

Gratis S'more Bod was my stage name as a stripper.

[–] Anchorxiety@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Must be nice to live in a place where they can actually do this without all the bottles being stolen and emptied all over the street

[–] espurr@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

I don't need sunscreen I'm ASIAN

[–] nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf 1 points 2 months ago

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