Bars in Antarctica
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Bars in Antarctica
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#2If you, like me, have read latest brr.fyi post [1] and were wondering how bars in Antarctica look like. :-)
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#3Two people I know met their partners while working at Antarctica. Plenty of social life I guess.
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#4With the banning of homebrew at the station being rationalized as a safety issue, do they have actual instances where someone got drunk on homebrew and froze to death outside? Because that seems pretty far-fetched. I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature.
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#5Two people I know met their partners while working at Antarctica. Plenty of social life I guess.
A relative of mine has applied to work there. He told me in all seriousness that he wanted a place where women couldn't get away from him. Thankfully, he was not selected.
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#6Two people I know met their partners while working at Antarctica. Plenty of social life I guess.
I also know of a couple like that. Apparently cross dressing is a staple of the social culture, I wish I could elaborate.
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#7Two people I know met their partners while working at Antarctica. Plenty of social life I guess.
A relative of mine has applied to work there. He told me in all seriousness that he wanted a place where women couldn't get away from him. Thankfully, he was not selected.
I guess the implication scene in Sunny in Philly was not fiction.
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#8I know it's a lot to expect from "drinks digest", but the rampant alcoholism in Antarctic research communities is notorious.
I'm not wagging a finger here, not really, I won't blame people for responding to inhuman conditions with (copious amounts of) antifreeze, but it's jarring to see a puff piece about the fun cocktail bars which doesn't mention the accidents, assaults, and rapes, which trace directly back to drunkenness.
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#9With the banning of homebrew at the station being rationalized as a safety issue, do they have actual instances where someone got drunk on homebrew and froze to death outside? Because that seems pretty far-fetched. I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature.
I don't think most individuals (sober or drunk) are typically wearing clothing that keeps them at an appropriate temperature outside for multiple hours while sitting still, since that's not what they usually plan on doing.
I suspect if these circumstances occur, as the article describes, people are venturing outside drunk and feeling the cold as they normally would expect but caring less about its consequences and then just passing out.
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#10With the banning of homebrew at the station being rationalized as a safety issue, do they have actual instances where someone got drunk on homebrew and froze to death outside? Because that seems pretty far-fetched. I've never been so drunk that I didn't notice sub-zero temperature.
Or perhaps you have but didn’t notice it?