# Survivor 11/6

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-11-6/471567>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 7, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-11-6/471567 "2008-11-07T01:17:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-11-6/471567/41 "2008-11-12T17:41:00Z")

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From [here](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6293777/):

> [@MSNBC](#):
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> Q: Since Survivors are out there for 39 days, what are the rules on taking necessary medications, or female items that are needed?
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> A: Since the first “Survivor” season back in 2000, contestants have always been provided with certain basic necessities that they wouldn’t really have on a desert island. The list includes tampons, condoms and contact-lens solution. CBS spokeswoman Colleen Sullivan says that any contestant who needs regular doses of a prescribed medication get that too, of course.
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> But all is not as simple as it seems on an island where non-natural items are few, and where contestants have nothing but time on their hands.  
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> In an appearance on the Howard Stern radio show in 2001, “Survivor Australia” ousted contestant Jeff Varner confessed that his tribe unrolled the provided tampons to use the cotton as toilet tissue (hey, softer than leaves, that’s for sure).
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> Perhaps due to that kind of, uh, creativity, CBS spokeswoman Sullivan told us that recent casts have been “told that [the supplies] can only be used for their intended purposes.”

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**Author:** ![rexnervous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e9c0ed/32.png) [@rexnervous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rexnervous)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2008, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/survivor-11-6/471567/42 "2008-11-12T17:57:28Z")

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I’m convinced that the women get razors, but not the men.

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