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Got Enough Condoms?

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One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday.

Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them.
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Yeah, I can imagine how embarrassing it must be for an Antarctic researcher to walk into the CVS pharmacy near the south pole and have to buy condoms:

"Hey, Janet, this guy wants to buy a package of Trojan XTra Loob Ribbed condoms, but the register isn't scanning it. What do I do?"

"What? I'm sorry, Harry, I can't hear you over there; could you talk louder? What'd you say?"

"I said, this guy wants to buy a package of Trojan XTra Loob Ribbed condoms, but the register isn't scanning it. What do I do?"

"Hang on, I'll page the store manager."

"Sandra, please report to register three for price check on Trojan XTra Loob Ribbed condoms; customer is getting impatient..."

The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter.

"Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable," Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper.

About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness.
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If nobody can see you buying the condoms, why should you be embarrassed?

The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo's population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period.
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And once perpetual darkness ends, condom-using activity will presumably drop off...
 
If it's embarrassing to buy condoms because of the small community, wouldn't it be even more embarrassing to actually use them?

Otherwise, I guess the penguins around there must be petrified...
 
A pregnancy at the south pole would be a really really bad thing so makeing sure their is a large reserve of freely availible condoms is probably for the best.
 
The Painter said:
Doing the math, everyone there is doing "it" 11 times a month. It's a freaking sex party at the bottom of the world.
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Actually, since only roughly half of the staff will wear condoms (provided the distribution in terms of sex is fairly balanced), make that about 22 times a month.

Party indeed.
 
The Painter said:
Doing the math, everyone there is doing "it" 11 times a month. It's a freaking sex party at the bottom of the world.
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Well, thats assuming those 125 researchers are having sex with someone outside the 125 researchers. If you assume they're doing it with each other thats more like 22 times/month ("tonight we use my condom, tomorrow night we use yours"). I wonder what they're supposed to do the other 8/9 days of the month?

ETA: damn you Rufo! beat me to it.
 
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Rufo said:
Actually, since only roughly half of the staff will wear condoms (provided the distribution in terms of sex is fairly balanced), make that about 22 times a month.

Party indeed.
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Well one thing is that if it will be used by the staff when its staffing levels go to 6000 for half the year that would change the equation.

Now if they used that up by the time it opens up again to travel, well then you are looking at say 6 months so it would be 44 times a month.
 
In all fairness, we don't know what they're using the condoms for. They could just be putting them on the cucumbers to...

You know what? I'm not even going to go into it.
 
The Painter said:
Doing the math, everyone there is doing "it" 11 times a month. It's a freaking sex party at the bottom of the world.




There is a Walgreen and a Rite Aid right next-door. I never understand this.
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Well, keep in mind that starting in September, there will be more people there, up to a peak of 1000.

Probably heard about a sex party at the bottom of the world...
 
madurobob said:
Well, thats assuming those 125 researchers are having sex with someone outside the 125 researchers. If you assume they're doing it with each other thats more like 22 times/month ("tonight we use my condom, tomorrow night we use yours"). I wonder what they're supposed to do the other 8/9 days of the month?
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I believe coitus interruptus is the Latin term for it.
 
madurobob said:
Well, thats assuming those 125 researchers are having sex with someone outside the 125 researchers. If you assume they're doing it with each other thats more like 22 times/month ("tonight we use my condom, tomorrow night we use yours"). I wonder what they're supposed to do the other 8/9 days of the month?
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timhau said:
I believe coitus interruptus is the Latin term for it.
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BenBurch said:
Oral sex!
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Ok, I know you guys aren't this dim. Are you aping a clownish exchange from some comedy or something?
 
Maybe they use them for weather balloons; stretchy, high-quality
rubber...perfect.

In the service, a lot of guys used to carry a condom in their E&E
kits for carrying water. I carried a kids balloon since I thought the
rubber was tougher (and I didn't have anything "macho" to prove).
 
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