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Maxus wrote:Heh.

Sorority bitch has been identified and has resigned out of Delta Gamma.

I'm sure someone has the pics of her taking it in the ass while funnelling Jack Daniels or some shit, so that won't take too long to hit the Internet.

Soroity and whatever the hell the male equivilent is is just a longer way of saying "cult of assholes".

Fraternity. And yeah, frat boy is rarely a compliment.

Shrapnel wrote:

Maxus wrote:Heh.

Sorority bitch has been identified and has resigned out of Delta Gamma.

I'm sure someone has the pics of her taking it in the ass while funnelling Jack Daniels or some shit, so that won't take too long to hit the Internet.

Soroity and whatever the hell the male equivilent is is just a longer way of saying "cult of assholes".

you'd actually be right if not for one thing . .

The one fraternity I have direct experience with was a neat, fun thing that a bunch of cool guys were doing to have fun, and no more elitist than any other private hobby or group. But maybe my experience is non-typical.

So my only former RL (for certain definitions of RL) friend - now former friend - is a pro-Nazi shithead. No, there hasn't been a misunderstanding; it just never came up until now. I want to die. No, not to kill myself, but if I could choose to magically be dead right now, that'd have been vastly preferable.

I love this forum. Thank you.

They do say that living well is the best revenge.

Starmaker wrote:So my only former RL (for certain definitions of RL) friend - now former friend - is a pro-Nazi shithead. No, there hasn't been a misunderstanding; it just never came up until now. I want to die. No, not to kill myself, but if I could choose to magically be dead right now, that'd have been vastly preferable.

I love this forum. Thank you.

Reminds me of the mysoginistic shitbag I used to hang out with. Let's just say I got tired pretty fast after he started displaying his retarted rethoric. The fact that he had his eyes set on my best friend didn't help either.

AH is right though. I don't how important he was to you, but he must have been for you to react this way. I doubt he's worth it.

Cheers.

SlyJohnny wrote:The one fraternity I have direct experience with was a neat, fun thing that a bunch of cool guys were doing to have fun, and no more elitist than any other private hobby or group. But maybe my experience is non-typical.

Sadly, the typical has never competed on even footing with the iconic. And the iconic frat boy is a drunk dude who will make you drink urine, or, if he is especially cruel, natty ice.

So, did a road trip and spent a week in Melbourne. Lots of fun. For each of the 8-10 hour drives, we pretty much chatted the entire way, making stupid jokes about the stupid names of the podunk towns we passed, hashing out what dWo should totally be and having fun.

For the actual week in Melbourne, I took it fairly easy, crashing with some friends (and during workdays, they were out and there was no spare key, so I was really taking it easy, getting acquainted with their wireless and coffee machine). Incidentally, there are no tea drinkers in their house. So they have a few boxes of tea bags so as to be good hosts. The "best before" dates are 2006, 2007 and 2011. All three are from before they moved in there, and in one case, before they moved into the previous house.

Also went to a video night, and discovered a show that's almost as uplifting and cheerful as Oldboy! Black Mirror, which exists to make you aware of the dangers of technology in the future (largely baseless in some cases), and make you want to drink.

Also, the friend I travelled with bought Pandemic, and we managed to get more than ten games in. It is in fact ideal, and it took us all of ten minutes to learn the rules, and we also quickly figured out the broken player combinations. (2P: Medic + Dispatch. 3P: Research+Scientist+Any. Quarantine+Dispatch is also a total boss).

The game tended to turn into "SAVE THE WHITE PEOPLE" (what with US/EU being easy to get to) and "Disease? In Africa? Meh, fuck 'em" (what with that being hard to get to). So very realistic, really.

Pandemic is the best.

Indeed. But we thought too hard about trying to figure out what the diseases are. First we focused on the token colour:
Yellow: Yellow Fever (as in, Japanophilia/Weeaboo Syndrome, not the actual disease mosquitoes can give you), except it spreads in Africa/South America.
Red: THE RED MENACE (Scarlet Fever is too easy, time for COMMUNISM IS A DISEASE), but it breaks out in Ausfailia and Asia, not Russia.
Blue: The Blues (feeling sad - finally a relevant one, given it breaks out in the EU and USA, where depression is the most common condition diagnosed by doctors)
Black: being black (the leading cause of death in young males in America - symptoms include "getting shot")

That had very unfortunate implications about "curing" blackness though.

So then we just focused on the areas instead.
Yellow: breaking out in Africa and South America, that is actually the drug trade
Red: breaking out in Asia, it is clearly bird fluSTILL COMMUNISM
Blue: breaking out in the USA and EU, it is financial collapse. Hilariously, after we decided this, we started a new game and the game started with an epidemic of that... in Chicago.
Black: breaking out in the Middle East, it is fundamentalist Islam.

So basically we made the game into a joke, and made the implications of everything ten times worse.

Koumei wrote:Blue: breaking out in the USA and EU, it is financial collapse. Hilariously, after we decided this, we started a new game and the game started with an epidemic of that... in Chicago.

What's so special about Chicago ? Were you thinking of Detroit maybe ?

I got referred and booked for a sleep clinic this week. The appointment is next month. Seems likely I have sleep apea; basically haven't had a good restful night of sleep in 8 years. Hopefully this fixes that.

I'm waiting for a joke to hit the punchline.

My little sister's been on a band trip to Disneyworld to march in a parade there.

On the way home from work, I bought her a Barq's root beer. It's her soda of choice (one of them, anyway), and I figure she'll need it after the long busride home.

However, I made a price tag to stick on it. It says "20 oz drink, $5.99"

So in a couple of days...

The Vigilante wrote:What's so special about Chicago ? Were you thinking of Detroit maybe ?

No, Chicago is home to the Chicago school of economics, and they've never met an economy they couldn't ruin. Now they didn't actually play a role in causing "The big financial crisis", but they've ruined plenty of places, and the kinds of policy and ideas that they had (and showed with their fancy models!) are the kinds that resulted in the huge mess.

@Maxus . . i don't get it . .

Koumei wrote:

The Vigilante wrote:What's so special about Chicago ? Were you thinking of Detroit maybe ?

No, Chicago is home to the Chicago school of economics, and they've never met an economy they couldn't ruin. Now they didn't actually play a role in causing "The big financial crisis", but they've ruined plenty of places, and the kinds of policy and ideas that they had (and showed with their fancy models!) are the kinds that resulted in the huge mess.

Wow, I really had a case of the brain farts here, I totally know about the Chicago school (I would have to, what with studying economics and all). I just figured you had to be talking about something that happened to Chicago, rather than something they inflicted upon the rest of the world.

Stahlseele wrote:@Maxus . . i don't get it . .

Well, okay, a 20 oz drink is normally $1.25 to $1.50

Disneyworld is famous for having extremely high, extortionate prices on food and drinks. Think like a movie theater or a sports game. The profit margins on these are incredible, but there's literally no other option without having to hike/drive out of the park, get something reasonably priced, and then come back.

So after a week of having to buy extremely overpriced stuff as a matter of survival, she will come home, and see a cool refreshing beverage...

...with a grossly inflated pricetag.

It's the same rationale why I practiced a Brooklyn accent, just to aggravate band buddies who went and marched in Macy's Parade in New York.

I think the most upset I have gotten over extortionate soft drink prices was at a ski lodge vending machine. It was $1.50 for a can of crystal pepsi. You heard me: 1992, 12 ounces, dollar fitty. I was the angriest 11 year old.

Frats are fucking weird.

Here at Dartmouth, like half of the undergraduate class belongs to some frat or sorority. There's two that are actually pretty cool; one ONLY has a chapter here, not sure about the other -- they are basically "nerd frats" and are about hanging out and playing games. Though I tend to like one more than the other because they're also about keeping their house really clean, and the other one has a criminally messy house.

Every other one, though (and there are a lot) are of the "cult of assholes" variety. They do that weird hazing and shit too. I just don't get it.

I didn't do frats, I did ROTC (3 times!), but you get a similar mentality with some of the guys & gals becoming just a little too obsessed with things.

I beat up a frat boy last time I was enrolled in college. It was even more fun than I had imagined. And I got away with it because it was determined that he started it and I was defending myself.

For the first time, I find myself envious of Count Arioch.

It's interesting to see the differences between german and american fraternities, and how they are perceived.

i didn't know that there are fraternities and sororities in germany O.o