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Tanning Habits for Nuns

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Nuns deserve to get tanned too, if they want. A specially made fabric is black in the visible spectrum but partially transparent in the near UV (the good tanning part, not the bad skin cancer part).
sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 20 2012

Exists for swimsuits http://www.tanthrough.com/
[Klaatu, Mar 21 2012]

http://ypcommando.c...ages/nunstools1.jpg [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Mar 22 2012]

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       Actually, a better reason for this Idea is the fact that the skin makes Vitamin D from UV light. So, people who don't get enough sun-exposure can suffer from a deficiency of that vitamin. What tanning is, is the skin's defense against too much UV. I've read that black people living in places like Chicago sometimes suffer from Vitamin D deficiency because their natural protection against equatorial sunlight doesn't let enough through, when they live that far north.
Vernon, Mar 20 2012
  

       Exactly.
sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 20 2012
  

       Clothes: Nun, not Clothes: None. Easy mistake to make!
gnomethang, Mar 20 2012
  

       Mind: Gutter. Not helpful.
sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 20 2012
  

       Yes, all nuns should go naked when in public. Problem solved.
pocmloc, Mar 20 2012
  

       Well, I bunned this, but aren't nuns allowed to have bathing suits?
xandram, Mar 20 2012
  

       What's black and white and red all over?
goff, Mar 20 2012
  

       What's brown and sticky?
pocmloc, Mar 20 2012
  

       It's not just black folks, [Vern]; even pale-skinned Nordic types like [The Alterother] suffer numerous maladies from short winter days. It's even worse if you live in mountainous regions where the hours of direct sunlight are even fewer.
Alterother, Mar 20 2012
  

       //What's black and white and red all over?// [marked-for-Summary]
FlyingToaster, Mar 20 2012
  

       What's brown and sticky?   

       A stick.
not_morrison_rm, Mar 21 2012
  

       A: a sunburnt nun, a newspaper, a penguin in a liquidiser, a communist zebra
goff, Mar 21 2012
  

       [nmrm] has the correct answer. What's brown and comes backwards out of cows?
pocmloc, Mar 21 2012
  

       Do Penguins have this problem?   

       If so,someone or something could spray them with a concentrated liquid version of //specially made fabric//
skinflaps, Mar 21 2012
  

       //What's brown and comes backwards out of cows//
The Isle of Wight ferry.
AbsintheWithoutLeave, Mar 21 2012
  

       The change in livery did spoil that one decades ago though.
pocmloc, Mar 21 2012
  

       So photographing in the UV spectrum would give you nudes of nuns? I'll bun that.
Voice, Mar 22 2012
  

       Bad-ass habits. [link]   
      
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