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This is a surprising characterization of alcohol use at mcmurdo, and seems PR-focused. I hiked with a guy after he finished up a season working on the base, an
by elif 4y ago
This is a surprising characterization of alcohol use at mcmurdo, and seems PR-focused.
I hiked with a guy after he finished up a season working on the base, and here is what I recall of how he described it:
Everyone is so bored that alcohol is the default entertainment, crown royal is virtually the only choice for daily drinking, and drinking is rationed to keep the problem down.
- Reason077 4y ago> "Everyone is so bored that alcohol is the default entertainment" Sounds just like winter in the UK to me.
- notpushkin 4y agoSounds just like winter in Russia to me. :^) (Pretty much everywhere else I've been, too. Perhaps something's wrong with my lifestyle.)
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoFunny, alcohol seemed like the year-round UK entertainment to may limited experience there.
- etrautmann 4y agoI spent five weeks doing robotics research at McMurdo in 2010. At least then, there were there separate bars, no limits to alcohol consumption, and regular parties. I didn't get the sense that it was a big problem - seemed like a medium-heavy drinking culture that was quite a few notches less problematic than most college campuses.
- etrautmann 4y agoReading the rest of the replies here, I may have missed some of the more problematic sides of the drinking culture there - though it wasn't apparent to me. Side note - for much of the summer it feels like day-drinking since it never gets dark over the summer.