Antarctic base gets condom haul before winter - 16,500 prophylactics arrive

[BridgeTheGap]

WELLINGTON, New Zealand - 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.

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

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25054286/?GT1=43001

[taterguy]

1. Summer's just beginning. Why are you posting this story now?

[Chan790]

2. Winter is just beginning in the Southern Hemisphere

The seasons are reversed south of the equator, they have summer when we have winter.

[Random_Australian]

3. What the fuck? Summer's starting?

Oh, right. You really had me for a moment there! :hi: :)

Bloody hemispheres. Why did the world have to be round and not flat?

[datasuspect]

5. don't worry scro'

there's plenty of tards out there living really kick ass lives.

you really shined your ass on that one.

duh.

[Fran Kubelik]

7. ha. hahahahahahahahahahaha. ha.

kidding, right? ha.

[KitchenWitch]

17. Dude, SOUTHERN hemisphere

Opposite seasons.

[taterguy]

19. Dude, I live in the South

And summer is just beginning here.

[Bucky]

21. You goofus. When they say "Southern Hemisphere" they're talking about "anal"

And yes, always wear that condom!

[meow2u3]

4. The penguins really need birth control!

:sarcasm:

[Wapsie B]

6. I've wondered before how they handle that sort of thing down there.

But over 16,000 condoms to ~125 staffers? Are they gonna get any work done this winter? And who's gett'n all that sack time? :shrug: Inquiring minds and all that..........

[supernova]

8. Maybe they have other uses?

Water baloons?
Sieves? (for the defective ones)


Oh hell, :rofl:

[Wapsie B]

10. Yeah, that's it..........water balloons..........

:rofl:

[Chan790]

9. Well...how much else is there to do with one's free time?

One can only watch the penguins or read a book for so long.

[Bucky]

25. That comes out to be 128 rubbers per person. Or, I guess, 256 per couple. I should say per coupling.

Or 512 per coupling if they're frugal like me and always turn them inside out for a second use.

[groovedaddy]

11. Is there real work down there or are they just fucking around? n.t

[MrCoffee]

12. Screw it, I'm applying for a job down there.

[Deja Q]

13. What will they do, fill up the bags with water, freeze them, and make insulated igloos?

Stupid wimps; everyone else has to show their face when buying protection for their heads...

[jmowreader]

14. It's not an outrageous number, actually

If there are equal numbers of men and women on base and everyone's coupled, that's only 266 condoms per couple--one per each night the female member of the couple is not on her period. As someone upthread so wisely pointed out, what the hell else is there to do on Antarctica?

Come see me when it's 16,500 pounds of weed or something else even mildly controversial.

[MrCoffee]

15. Way to do the condom math, Professor Poindexter

:eyes:

[BridgeTheGap]

20. No oysters with those condums? What were they thinking!?! n.t

[Courtesy Flush]

16. Skeleton Crew!

Well, it will be by the time they use all those condoms.

[Bucky]

22. Among Arctic research teams, "skeleton crew" is a euphemism meaning "all bones". Get it?

They do.

[av8rdave]

18. 16,500 of them for a skeleton crew?

I want whatever vitamins they're taking!

[begin_within]

23. It's no use; everyone there is frigid.

"to save them the embarrassment of having to buy them?"
You mean there is a store in Antarctica that sells condoms?

[mainegreen]

24. No, they're frozen stiff.

[begin_within]

26. They can still check out the pole

[mainegreen]

27. In think in the winter, it tends to be buried.

[begin_within]

29. guess it's going to be a long, hard winter

[BridgeTheGap]

30. It's one double entendre after another is it? Is there space for one upsmanship here? n.t

[begin_within]

31. Are you up for it?

[begin_within]

28. "embarrassment of having to buy them" ... is there a Wal-Mart there now?