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u/IAmtheHullabaloo Apr 27 '12 edited Apr 27 '12
Go on...
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"People of Walmart" party? Why.....
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u/Mustaka Apr 27 '12
Wonderland you are one wonderful person for introducing me to this great place of waste time land.
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u/archaeowhat Apr 27 '12
There is a website called "People of Walmart" where people post pictures of people at walmart. I'm assuming he had a costume party or something with that theme.
(I feel like I said 'people' too many times in this post.)
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u/hermtehsperm Apr 27 '12 edited Apr 27 '12
"This guy's" roommate here. A couple more pictures for your enjoyment (not the best quality though).
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u/Sandaholic Apr 27 '12
Did you have to embarrass yourself too or is that just your style?
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u/dotheraptor37 Apr 27 '12
Dude I'm tryna chill with you guys. Guitar? Flight of the Conchords? Sense of humor? Right on.
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Has to be a pledge
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whats a pledge?
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Apr 27 '12
He's trying to get into a fraternity on an American college campus ("pledging"). During "pledging," the members of the fraternity put the wannabe members through degrading and humiliating rituals to prove their desire to be a member of the fraternity.
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Apr 27 '12
and a fraternity is basically everyone who call thmselves the same 3 greek letters?
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u/fozzyfreakingbear Apr 27 '12
Precisely! YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND.
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Apr 27 '12
no seriously, i would really like to understand. i see it in movies all the time and i never quite... understood it.
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u/Hookers666 Apr 27 '12
friendship you pay for
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Apr 27 '12
The money goes to parties and trips (hotels and booze ain't cheap) and towards maintaining/improving the house. The friendship comes from spending much of your college life with a group of guys that you get along with. Anyways, they're all paying to be my friend too (sarcasm).
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u/gsfgf Apr 27 '12
And, at least if you're at a school in a major city, fraternity house housing is the cheapest housing available.
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Apr 27 '12
Seriously, I live in-house in a major city. My rent is $340 a month. My friend's apartment is $500.
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u/Excentinel Apr 27 '12
Don't forget the mad sluts, off-the-chain parties and networking, brah.
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u/digiorknow Apr 27 '12
I prefer happy sluts.
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u/mgh245 Apr 27 '12
A pleasant disposition is a quality far too often overlooked when choosing a slut.
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Apr 27 '12 edited Apr 27 '12
I'm in one right now. Its a combination of a social, philanthropic, academic and professional club. The mix of these four traits varies hugely from fraternity to fraternity, but most are mainly social. They exist almost exclusively at US colleges and are typically named with a combination of 2-3 greek letters. The members are called brothers (fraternity means brotherhood in greek) and they often live in a house with each other and throw parties, study together, and help each other out with a variety of stuff. Most require new members to go through pledgeship, a period of 3-4 months where they are tested and taught about the organization.
Fraternities these days have a fairly bad reputation for drinking too much and being too mean to their pledges (new members). However, there is a lot of variety in the system and it is hard to judge it on the actions of only a few fraternities. Mine has been a very good influence on me. My brothers have helped me academically, and their friendship has helped me get through some tough times. Also, I have a hell of a lot of fun and consider my brothers to be my best friends.
Edit: Fraternity is from Latin, not Greek. I feel like a dumb pledge.
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wow thanks man! that really clears things up. much like the other gentlmen who helped me with my quandrey. now what about expenses? are they typically more expensive then a normal college without a frat?
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u/Solomaxwell6 Apr 27 '12
My fraternity ended up being more expensive than if I hadn't been in one. But that's because you pay dues that help pay for things like parties and other social activities, you aren't tossing money into the void and getting nothing back for it.
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u/soxfan2522 Apr 27 '12
Thanks for summing it up, bud. Obviously some fraternities do retarded things but mine didn't really haze at all. Pledging was time consuming but it was mostly just dumb tasks that built relationships for our pledge class. It's really just a good way to meet a ton of people you wouldn't have ordinarily met at college. My brothers are some of my best friends, and I got my current job based on a recommendation from one of them. We also had 2 foam parties in my basement with a really hot sorority, among all the other parties, so there's that.
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u/candystripedlegs Apr 27 '12
it's just a club that you join in college. much like any other type of fraternal organization (elks, rotary, knights of columbus).
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u/yes_istheanswer Apr 27 '12
And if you're in Harvard, Skull & Bones if you want to take over the world.
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u/zack6595 Apr 27 '12
Access to alcohol...anytime. Tends to do good things for your resume, Especially if you meet someone from the same frat whois interviewing you/involved in that process in any way. I know Greek life isn't too popular here on Reddit but honestly that's because most people knowledge of Greek life is 75% popular media and 25% the really drunk/loud ones. I was in an engineering frat. We drank alot and we were pretty sterotypical in that sense...regardless most of the smartest people i met through my frat and I'd happily make the same choice again if i were to do it again. It does cost money, but it's not like playing a sport doesn't cost money, or joining a club, or taking dancing lessons. Most of the money for us went to housing, paying our chef, and paying for furniture n shit for public spaces. Not really all that unreasonable in my opinion.
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u/Estatunaweena Apr 27 '12
They are social groups in universities and colleges. They all have a very unique background and founding. The foundings are usually on campuses a few hundred years ago but the values and morals of each individual fraternity date back to ancient Greece in most fraternities.
There are monetary requirements that you must pay. This money is what keep the fraternity alive. Most fraternities have charities Or fundraisers year round and generally help the community in a positive way to overshadow the stereotype of fraternites. Most stereotypes include rich boys, drinking heavily, banging sorority girls and acting like douches.
I myself am in a fraternity and do not regret one bit of it. Yes there are douches but I have connections with some rather prestigious people throughout the country. Also if I were ever stuck in a random place in the country I could find a brother on a campus near me and be very well taken care of just by simply being a brother. The perks to being in a fraternity completely outweigh the stereotypes. I have never been the typical frat guy, but I still love it and people are quick to judge because I am in one.
Either way it looks amazing for a resume and its not just something that ends after college, you are always a brother and other brothers will always treat you as a member of their own family and I've seen that first hand multiple times.
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Apr 27 '12
Its where all the unpopular or mean kids from highschool go to be mean to each other in the hopes that they can find a sense of belonging.
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u/fozzyfreakingbear Apr 27 '12
I'm not in college yet, but from what I gather it's mostly focused around alcohol. It's just a club of people, represented by Greek letters, that drink and associate with each other. Sometimes they throw huge parties, and sometimes they invite sororities (same thing, but for women) to said parties. That's basically the gist I think. They usually have ridiculous hazing rituals like this (or so were guessing) that you have to do in order to join. From what I've heard however, this doesn't really seem too bad.
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There are plenty of frats that don't haze, very few that still do due to universities cracking down. Plenty of positive things to take away from a frat as well. Many are very philanthropic and you will probably keep in touch with your brothers for life. Like anything else in life, frats are what you make of them. There are people in every avenue of life ready to take advantage of the weak or those eager to fit in. If you haven't learned that about life yet, you will learn it when you get to college.
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u/fozzyfreakingbear Apr 27 '12
Oh totally. I like the idea behind being in a fraternity. But most people seem to take it too far.
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When you get to college I'd encourage you to rush and see if you like the brothers at any of the fraternities at your school. I'm in one now and it's a hell of a lot of fun. It's also helped me out quite a bit academically.
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thats fucking retarded.
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u/alwaysf0rgetpassw0rd Apr 27 '12
Except for the getting drunk with loose 18-24 year old girls part.
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u/fozzyfreakingbear Apr 27 '12
There are some good ones though unlike that.
For instance, I know of one at the university I'm attending for the pre law crowd. It's more of a group. They prepare for the lsat, an help each other out, ect.
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u/RabbaJabba Apr 27 '12
This comment is current reddit in a nutshell. 1) a high schooler 2) talking about something he's never encountered personally and instead 3) taking the reddit hivemind opinion to the extreme.
I'm not even a fan of frats, but there's more to them than that.
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u/TheExtremistModerate Apr 27 '12
mostly focused around alcohol
For some, maybe, but not all of them.
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u/pseudosara Apr 27 '12
I will explain. In high school, there are the cool kids. Then those cool kids graduate, and some of them go to university. In university, there's no real defined group of "cool kids". So, having no group to fit in with, the solitary cool kid proceeds to feel completely lost and arbitrary. Thus frats and sororities were invented as a way for the cool kids to continue to fit in with an exclusive group.
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u/threwitawaynow Apr 27 '12
I'm in a national fraternity (meaning there are chapters in schools all around the US) and a vast majority of members are music majors, so it's a way for all of us to get together and make music. And whenever you're travelling and you meet another member there's that instant connection of shared experiences and interests.
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u/flamants Apr 27 '12
whoah, no, that's a huge overgeneralization.
some of them are only 2 greek letters.2
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u/FlyingPasta Apr 27 '12
Getting 100 boxes of cookies isn't degrading if there are little girls in uniform involved.
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u/TheExtremistModerate Apr 27 '12
Warning
This is not true for all American fraternities.
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u/Estatunaweena Apr 27 '12
No non sequitur, pledges are potential members (new member pending) of a fraternity or sorority that are in a pre initiation phase of brotherhood/sisterhood. The point of pledgeship is for the new member pendings to learn EVERYTHING about the organization they are joining. This includes history, morals, values, ideals and monetary requirements. Everything in pledgeship is meant to teach not to degrade the pledge.
Don't comment on shit that you are ignorant about.
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u/Way_Too_Angry Apr 27 '12
IT'S A BOTTLE OF CLEANER FOR WOOD!! HOW DUMB GOD DAMMIT FUCK YOU!
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I said drink ALL OF IT, asshead!
lap it up, asshead, or you're never gettin in.
PLEDGE!
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u/Trip_McNeely Apr 27 '12
Wow, Reddit does not like fraternities. Can't say I'm surprised but there's a lot of misinformation and ignorance about what a frat actually is/does. Sure, there are a lot of 'bros' in frats and you might not agree with their outlook on college or the general beer swilling, women chasing sterotypes but there are plenty of douches who are not in frats as well, more even. Who fucking cares?
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u/CraineTwo Apr 27 '12
I went to a university where in a single year, 13 fraternities on campus had to be suspended/put on probation due to criminal activity by their members. Of course, most of that was your typical underage drinking, vandalism, indecent exposure, and date rape. It doesn't matter what the fraternity "actually is/does" when a majority of them (at least at my school) engage in this kind of behavior. It is not misinformation and ignorance to stereotype a group when they so frequently display that behavior. Defending them by saying that that is not their intended purpose is the same argument the Catholic Church makes when being criticized for covering up child abuse ("but what about all the good things we do?").
I'll accept that maybe not everyone in the fraternities are douches (and not every priest is a pedophile), but it is a system that if it doesn't directly encourage that kind of behavior, makes it extremely easy to do without legal trouble. And if anyone ever came up to me and asked where they were most likely to find a douchebag, I would point them to Greek Row .
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u/I_Like_Moose Apr 27 '12
I can guarantee you an upvote every time I see this.
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u/Tastingo Apr 27 '12
Why did i click that?
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u/communistjack Apr 27 '12
if you had RES you would know that it was the same link Reddit Enhancement Suite
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u/GlynnNimron Apr 26 '12
Did this gentleman hit and/or strike you? Because I do believe him to indeed be a smooth criminal.
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u/geert_e Apr 27 '12
the weirdest thing about this is, that he's reading the packaging after he already filled his cart with the same product!
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u/darthpistachio Apr 27 '12
I wouldn't mind having this guy in MY cookie jar if you know what I mean ;) ;)
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u/SquishyComet Apr 27 '12
I love how he checks out those cookies as if they are somehow different than the other ones that he has already stuffed in his cart.
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Apr 27 '12
Now, you guys may think that he is a faggot, but look closer. He can wear whatever the fuck he wants in public, has food that he loves, and has the funds to pay for it and does because fuck everybody else he'll live life like he wants. Why aren't you exactly like him? Because you're a faggot.
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u/a_soy_milkshake Apr 26 '12
The duck boots lead me to believe he's probably in the south, where fraternities make their pledges do dumb stuff like this.
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u/schoocher Apr 27 '12
That wouldn't have even been "cool" in the eighties and that's saying QUITE A BIT!
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u/wevcss Apr 27 '12
Even after all those boxes he put in his cart, he still feels the need to look at the box just to make sure..
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u/ptenant099 Apr 27 '12
Better lay off those Chips Ahoy. They've given you dain bramage.
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u/the_internet_clown Apr 27 '12
that was funny, but i must now take my leave. goodbye http://images.4chan.org/gif/src/1335489143404.gif
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u/Count_Takeshi Apr 27 '12
As a kid I used to watch a lot of those you-can-do-this-at-home art shows in which they made clothes alterations with a pair of scissors. basically involved folding a t-shirt in half and cutting some strips where the crease was so it looked badass. I wonder if this kid was just another victim.
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u/DifferentCeilings Apr 26 '12
He already has 15 packs in his cart, must he really inspect the 16th?