Warning: The Ongoing Series Archivestweet below the scroll-line contains some fairly unpleasant close-ups of a man's sun-burned skin. Proceed with caution.

As soon as the sun comes out in Britain, two things happen: 1) everyone complains about the weather, and 2) everyone forgets to put on sun cream.

When it's over 32 degrees Celsius, though, the latter can have some very unpleasant results.

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On Monday, following a very hot weekend in the UK, a man from Edinburgh, Scotland, began tweeting about his sun burn.

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You know the sun burn's bad when you have to take time off work.

But until @grgbinnie shared the photos of himself, no-one probably realised just howbad.

Brace yourself:

Yep: 2nd degree burns, and some very blistered skin.

If that's not an incentive to wear sun cream, we don't know what is.

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