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** Or perhaps they borrow sunscreen from the city's trolls, who originally couldn't walk around in the sunlight either.
** When Vimes asks Sally a similar question in "Thud", she states that she's fine with long sleeves and a brimmed hat. Maybe it's direct exposure of sun to skin?
** Well, it has been [[Discworld/Carpe Jugulum|established]] that the Disc has as many kinds of vampire as tropical diseases.<ref>"presumably this means that some vampires are virulent and deadly, while others just make you walk funny and avoid fruit"</ref>
* While the chronic failure of the Borogravian military to catch on to its inflitration by females is justified by [[Rule of Funny]] {{spoiler|and the fact that so many of the brass are part of the [[Sweet Polly Oliver]] brigade}}, it's never said why its army's ''burial details'' would fail to notice that the fallen aren't always the right shape. They ''do'' strip their own dead for uniforms and equipment, after all, and [[Rule of Funny]] tends to lose its persuasiveness when senseless battlefield carnage is involved.
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