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.
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.
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.
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
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Vinny_93@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 47d
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 · 7 pts · 47d
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 · 9 pts · 47d
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 · 8 pts · 47d
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 pts · 47d
Smorgasbord is not smørrebrød. It's more like frokostbord or smørrebrødsbord.
It comes from Swedish smörgåsbord, where smörgås is smørrebrød.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 37d
OK, så siger vi det. At det så bliver brugt om enkelte stykker smørrebrød i amerikansk popkultur er vel så en anden sag.
trinsec@piefed.social · 8 pts · 47d
That's a pretty good initiative.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 47d
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 · 7 pts · 47d
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 · 4 pts · 47d
Yes
I read it as smørrebrød at first
possumparty@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 47d
same 🤦🏻♀️
plc@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 47d
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 pts · 47d
Without using a translation service, I read it as “smearbody” which tracks hahaha
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 47d
Gratis S'more Bod was my stage name as a stripper.
Anchorxiety@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 47d
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
nitroemdash@lemmy.wtf · 1 pts · 47d
Image is broken
espurr@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 47d
I don't need sunscreen I'm ASIAN