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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 3:23:38 GMT
..... when you're nowhere near a body of water?
There is a lovely park across the road from work with a football/cricket ground and parkland with lots of walking paths. I go for a walk there most days during my lunch break. The other day there was girl (probably in her early 20s) sunbaking in a bikini in the park. We are a good 25 minute drive from the nearest beach. It is not uncommon to see guys sitting in the middle of the football ground sunbaking with their shirts off, but I've never seen a female doing it.
Even when I was in my 20s and actually still had a bikini body, there is NO WAY I would sunbake in a park nowhere near water. Weird.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 3:24:52 GMT
Oh, and just in case anybody pulls out the "This thread is useless without pictures" line..... (I was hiding behind a tree like a creepy pervert when I surreptitiously took this!)
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Post by freecharlie on Feb 21, 2017 3:26:33 GMT
Near campus it is a regular occurance. Of course we are also a 3 hour plane trip from a proper beach as we are completely landlocked.
Typically you'll see girls with shorts and a bikini top, but just bottoms is typically reserved for near water or sand volleyball. They are at parks and around town.
Laying out, I'd prefer my own yard or at a pool to the middle of a noisy park.
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Post by melanell on Feb 21, 2017 3:29:36 GMT
It's fairly commonplace here. We don't have an ocean handy, so perhaps that's partly why.
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Feb 21, 2017 3:29:41 GMT
Well, no, but this pale blonde girl only has two colors, white and red, so I wouldn't sunbathe anywhere. I get why you're asking-- suntanning is a quintessentially summer-at-the-beach kind of thing if you had to pigeon-hole it-- but your picture doesn't really strike me as odd. But I live kind of far north in the States, so we take advantage of all the sunshine we can get, no water needed.
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Post by myshelly on Feb 21, 2017 3:30:07 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus?
When I read the title I thought it was meant sarcastically, but then I saw the OP and thought oh, maybe that's a phrase there.
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 3:30:56 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it?
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Post by katlady on Feb 21, 2017 3:31:14 GMT
I live near the coast, and I have seen people sunbathing at parks. It wouldn't strike me as odd.
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Post by katlady on Feb 21, 2017 3:32:25 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it? sunbathe/sunbathing
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Post by annabella on Feb 21, 2017 3:33:39 GMT
Wasn't sure what sunbake was but yeah people do that here and I find it weird when it's a solo woman in a park. I would feel vulnerable doing that and possibly attracting the wrong people.
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Post by trollie on Feb 21, 2017 3:33:52 GMT
I don't think it's that odd. She laying on a blanket in the park. Doesn't seem to out of the ordinary to me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 3:34:09 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it? Melanoming
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2017 3:36:47 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it? In the US we typically call it sunbathing. Where I am, a girl in a park is a tiny bit unusual. We are hundreds of miles from a proper beach. The lakes around here don't always have a shore line that is conducive to laying out for tanning. And it is too early in the season for the pools to open (which is generally the place people lay out to tan in the summer months) Most people sunbath in their own yards or by a pool. But this time of year someone in a park wouldn't gather much attention from by passing people (other than guys oogling a girl in a bathing suit)
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Post by myshelly on Feb 21, 2017 3:39:13 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it? Sunbathing
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 3:40:33 GMT
It's fairly commonplace here. We don't have an ocean handy, so perhaps that's partly why. Near campus it is a regular occurance. Of course we are also a 3 hour plane trip from a proper beach as we are completely landlocked. I hadn't thought of that. Something like 85-90% of Australia's population lives on the coast, so not much landlocking here.
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Post by worrywart on Feb 21, 2017 3:40:51 GMT
We would call it "laying out" "tanning" or possibly less common would be "sunbathing"...and yes in a bathing suit at a park would be relatively uncommon here but in shorts/shirt etc..would be okay. Most people go to a pool if they want to get some sun/layout.
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Post by mom on Feb 21, 2017 3:46:55 GMT
There is no way I would be caught dead sunbathing in an open park. What about perverts? Sorry but doing this is just asking to be a Lifetime Movie.
No one really does it here - unless they are about 10. We are landlocked, and about 13 hours from the nearest ocean. Even just a lake is an hour away.
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Post by milocat on Feb 21, 2017 3:48:12 GMT
I live no where near any water. We also don't have any parks in our small town except the school park and 2 kids playgrounds so no one lays their half naked. If I/someone was lay in the sun in a park it would be in shorts and a tank top. If I was the type to lay in the sun and wanted to tan if it was in a bathing suit it would be in my back yard not a public park. I know people do that here.
I'd call it suntanning. I like @megmc melanoming I always say my very white skin is my non-skin cancer look.
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Post by chaosisapony on Feb 21, 2017 3:48:59 GMT
That would be fairly common here.
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Post by compeateropeator on Feb 21, 2017 3:49:13 GMT
I don't think it is totally uncommon and I see it frequently around my area. It might be more common if you are near a University or College and even more so if it is the first days/weeks of nice weather after winter...people are out in droves as soon as we get some hot days.
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Post by J u l e e on Feb 21, 2017 3:49:55 GMT
Is "sunbake" a common term in Aus? Yes it is. What do you call it? I'm calling it sunbaking from now on!
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Post by Jili on Feb 21, 2017 3:52:15 GMT
I'd call it 'laying out' or 'tanning'. I love the term 'sunbaking', though. Like others, I may have to start using it.
I wouldn't do it in public unless at the beach. Maybe I'd think differently if I was young and had a kick-ass body.
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Post by pjaye on Feb 21, 2017 3:52:31 GMT
Yes, we do call it "sunbaking" here, that's just the name, not a commentary on if we think it is appropriate or not, so the melanoma comment is just being pissy for the sake of it.
Secondly, no, even if I was younger and with a bikini appropriate body, I would not be lying nearly naked in a local park.
There's an off lead dog park close to me and I often walk through there on the way to get my groceries, one time there was a girl just like that lying on a towel in the middle of the oval, someone threw a ball for their dog over to one side, but on the way back the dog ran straight over the top of her...lol. She sat up and looked pretty annoyed, then some more dogs arrived and were running around near her so she got up and moved. But seriously who lies down in the middle of a dog park?
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Post by AussieMeg on Feb 21, 2017 4:00:50 GMT
But seriously who lies down in the middle of a dog park? Probably the same girl who was lying on the sand at the off-lead doggie beach at Brighton and then got pissed off when a heap of dogs ran past her and got sand all over her!
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Post by pjaye on Feb 21, 2017 4:06:40 GMT
Probably the same girl who was lying on the sand at the off-lead doggie beach at Brighton and then got pissed off when a heap of dogs ran past her and got sand all over her! You have to wonder what people are thinking at times.
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Feb 21, 2017 4:09:05 GMT
Yep!
(To some extent I'm not a sun basking person just like the Vitamin D and warmth!)
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Post by ScrapsontheRocks on Feb 21, 2017 4:15:48 GMT
The British Contingent will be up soon- perhaps they will have a different take as my report on the British urban population's habits may not be typical.
On holiday in the UK summer, when a fine day eventually arrived, I was surprised to see London office workers in skirts and stockings, shop assistants in semi casuals or overalls go out into the parks at lunch hour and strip off blouses down to spaghetti type tops to catch some sun. Some just sit on the grass or benches and stick their legs out. This happened in London, in Cardiff and also some smaller Welsh towns. Guys with their shirts off were also fairly common.
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Post by Zee on Feb 21, 2017 4:18:16 GMT
There is no way I would be caught dead sunbathing in an open park. What about perverts? Sorry but doing this is just asking to be a Lifetime Movie. No one really does it here - unless they are about 10. We are landlocked, and about 13 hours from the nearest ocean. Even just a lake is an hour away. What about them? Perverts can be anywhere. That alone wouldn't have stopped me (when I was young and had a cute figure). I will say I wouldn't have been laying out alone anywhere other than my back yard. I would have been with a friend only for the conversation, not because I was worried about perverts in a public park. That was common enough when I lived in IL/IA, though we did have the river and various lakes close by. Laying out or sunbathing is of course frowned upon nowadays, but I still head out on walks with my arms uncovered. I feel like I'm making vitamin D and I'm definitely improving my mood.
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Post by mom on Feb 21, 2017 4:19:57 GMT
There is no way I would be caught dead sunbathing in an open park. What about perverts? Sorry but doing this is just asking to be a Lifetime Movie. No one really does it here - unless they are about 10. We are landlocked, and about 13 hours from the nearest ocean. Even just a lake is an hour away. What about them? Perverts can be anywhere. That alone wouldn't have stopped me (when I was young and had a cute figure). I will say I wouldn't have been laying out alone anywhere other than my back yard. I would have been with a friend only for the conversation, not because I was worried about perverts in a public park. Well, yeah, they can be anywhere. But I am not going to be laying in public, in a state of undress, and not be aware of my surroundings. The perverts can be anywhere - I just dont have to be a target for them.
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Post by anniefb on Feb 21, 2017 4:23:06 GMT
Well I never sunbathe anymore, but I definitely wouldn't strip off in a central city park. I live a few minutes from the beach.
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