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Julieboo

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 08:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Thanks hippy & car! I was thinking that Sean & Rob were actually working and building up a sweat. But now it makes more sense-that wasn't sweat at all. I thought it was odd that they'd work themselves that hard!

Now did they show them painting? (cuz if they did, i missed it. Which, with a toddler running around my house, is not that unlikely.)

Anyone know what is provided to them as far as asprin, tampons, etc?

Gina8642

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 08:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I've heard they get tampons, contant lense care stuff, Sunscreen, condoms, and any perscribed medications they normally take.

They don't get (I could be wrong here - this is from memory)
Pain killers like asprin
Toilet paper
Tooth Brush/paste/floss
Other hygiene products

The contact lense stuff has always made me curious. Your hands need to be very clean to scrub your contacts - so do the ones who where contacts have access to soap for their hands?

Anyway, to continue, Tina said pesonal items for each survivor are kept away from camp. They can visit their stash whenever they need to. I believe she said the crew chooses the spot and shows each survivor where theirs is.

Tina has and had rhuematoid arthritis and she gave an interview to the magazine 'Arthritis Today' after the show. She went into a lot of detail there on how she accessed her Meds. (For her, she only needed to take one pill a week, and she said she was very lucky and had no 'flares' (times when the arthritis gets very bad) during the entire filming of S2. She said she never told any of her fellow contestants during the filming about her disease, even Colby.

Awareinva

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 08:11 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
God knows, I hope Kathy doesn't wear contacts. I know we saw her in the preview with some glasses on. I just can't see her getting those hands clean enough to handle contacts that will then go in her eye!!!

Awareinva

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 08:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Car, I thought they got the paper to make the cards from something they got that announced a challenge. That was why they didn't make them until pretty late in the game.

The pencil I saw Gabe with looked like a yellow #2 pencil. That's what made me start the whole quest in the first place....it was so out of place that it caught my eye.

I'm like Julieboo, I don't remember seeing them use the paints; but I have been having more and more of these memory lapses of late.

I try to tell myself they are due to such a busy life, but my newest running joke is that I keep getting run over by the old age truck....the one with "you never see it coming" emblazzoned on its side!

Seamonkey

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 08:30 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Youch.. makes my eyes burn just to think of Kathy, or anyone putting in contacts.. in those circumstances. I know that is why Gabe had his glasses.. but making them take off glasses for tribal council seemed mean. Of course I had to use hard lenses and definitely not ones that stayed in more than a day.

Gina told one of her interviews that they definitely had no TP.. they were told which were the best leaves :)

Car54

Friday, April 12, 2002 - 11:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
There is a picture out there of Kathy-she was one of the first ones spoiled...we knew her name before the announcement, and had a picture...she is a realtor. Very buttoned down and well groomed.

They can't wear their contacts because of the oil they are using for bugs, I think it was Gabe who told that.

There was a big dot painted on one of the blankets for the challenge. I don't remember them showing them painting much.

Awareinva

Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 03:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I thought the dot was the ripped apart life vests...and now that Gina told about her adventure bag we know how they sewed them on!!

I am pretty sure that if I wore contacts I would bag them for a trip like this....of course if I hated wearing glasses, I'd be blind all the time. LOL at poor Gabe wandering all around trying to find the way out of tribal council; poor guy!

Julieboo

Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 07:27 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm with Awareinva, I also thought the "dot" was made with the ripped apart life vests. I could be wrong, but I really don't think paints were used.

Why do they allow contacts at all? I'd think it would be glasses or nothing. I also think that except for necessary meds, nothing s/b provided. (Though I flip between the tampons & sunscreen. Those maybe, but no contact stuff. And no condoms!)

Gina8642

Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 07:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I think the "dot" was made from the lifevests as well.


I think the contact lense stuff is all about looks. MB/CBS wants pretty bodies and pretty faces. Most (not all) people look better without their glasses.

Glasses also cause glare and make it harder to see someones eyes on camera. That is why Gabe had to take off his for tribal council. If you watch carefully on TV or in the movies, when actors where glasses on camera you'll notice either a) the frames are empty (no lense at all) or b) the lense has no correction to it - it causes no distortion.

I'm sure MB allows it to be a personal choice if a contestant wears glasses or not. But he is going to enable them to wear their contacts if they want to.

Glasses are also a pain in the butt in humid conditions. If you perform the mildest amount of exertion they fog up. I used to work out in the woods. I had to switch to contacts because otherwise I couldn't get any work done. My glasses were constantly fogging. And yes, I tried every possible fancy no-fog treatment for my glasses before I finally went to contacts.

Mamaanja

Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 08:47 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Since we're kind of talking about personal hygiene stuff..... I've always wondered if they have razors there--or wax--or something for the women's bikini lines! I noticed some armpit hair on Zoe in one episode, but it seems like these women have skimpy bikini bottoms on, and no bikini line hair. Maybe it's just me, but after a few days, let alone a month and a half, I'd have quite a bikini line hair issue. Sorry if this grosses out anyone.

Car54

Sunday, April 14, 2002 - 09:09 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh no, not the body hair thing...! Anja, go back in the archives...we had a BIG discussion about hair and hygene already!

Julieboo

Monday, April 15, 2002 - 06:55 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Mama-I also wondered that. I missed the discussion.

Sia

Monday, April 15, 2002 - 05:14 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
You think that plucking the bikini line would be a good reward challenge? The team with the job done first would win. Wonder if MB has thought of this yet?

Hippyt

Monday, April 15, 2002 - 07:46 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
EGads Sia!!!
I never knew they couldn't wear contacts this season,makes perfect sense. I was wondering why I was seeing so many people with glasses.Good info.
Yes,please let's not go back to the bikini hair discussion.

Julieboo

Monday, April 15, 2002 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Aw man, I always love a good discussion about body hair! :0 (