<story><title>I got paid to live in Antarctica</title><url>https://wandereatwrite.com/how-i-got-paid-to-live-in-antarctica/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phrotoma</author><text>I had a colleague once who worked in antarctica for a while. She told me that according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all I got, I just love this story and mention it every chance I get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacoblambda</author><text>Yeah this is a thing at the South Pole Station however it&amp;#x27;s normally in the gym. They drag all the recliners, couches, and mattresses they can into the gym and settle in to watch all three versions of The Thing on the projector back to back.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icecube.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;life-at-the-pole&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;2016-week-7-at-pole&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;icecube.wisc.edu&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;life-at-the-pole&amp;#x2F;2016&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;2016-...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>I got paid to live in Antarctica</title><url>https://wandereatwrite.com/how-i-got-paid-to-live-in-antarctica/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>phrotoma</author><text>I had a colleague once who worked in antarctica for a while. She told me that according to a long standing tradition, every year after the last supply plane left for the winter and the base was buttoned up for a long dark wait until spring, the whole crew would gather in the lounge together to watch The Thing.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s all I got, I just love this story and mention it every chance I get.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sidlls</author><text>They had a betamax version of the original movie when I was there. Didn&amp;#x27;t get a chance to make use of the lounge to watch it, though.</text></comment>