By definition are made for guys who are not able to make friends the old fashion way by earning people's loyalty through trust. So they just pay for them. Ask TKE they know what I'm talking about.

6/28/2009 4:09:08 PM

who cares

6/28/2009 4:09:36 PM

at least they didn't pay much

6/28/2009 4:10:47 PM

I was in a Fraternity and I still don't have friends. Does this mean I'm the anti-cool?

6/28/2009 4:12:16 PM

see what I'm saying?

6/28/2009 4:13:23 PM

naah we cool

6/28/2009 4:13:29 PM

Fail Boat must have been late with his fees a few times. Just don't let it happen again.

6/28/2009 4:13:58 PM

hi guise, whats my pic doing in this threaD?

6/28/2009 4:14:46 PM

what are you, like 5 years removed from college? you must have some serious pent up angst against fraternities

6/28/2009 4:16:47 PM

okay this looks like a good thread for me to ask something that's been bothering me for a while.

what good does it do to carve your frat into a bathroom stall?

6/28/2009 4:56:24 PM

it's a gloryhole thing

6/28/2009 4:58:40 PM

they representin'

6/28/2009 4:59:05 PM

most people figure this out as a freshman

6/28/2009 5:17:38 PM

I don't think I have any friends.

6/28/2009 5:22:07 PM

I'm just trying to help the freshmen out. Believe me, they can use all the wisdom they can. Paying to have friends it not the way to go.

6/29/2009 6:19:16 AM

the whole "paying for friends" is kind of short sighted. you're paying for social events and food and stuff like that. you could technically not hang out with anyone in your fraternity and still go to parties and functions and what not and still get what you paid for.

6/29/2009 6:54:05 AM

flamebait

6/29/2009 9:12:33 AM

while i was staunchly against fraternities during college I later realized that you're also paying for a network of connections that can't really otherwise be surpassed.

sure there is the life by your own bootstraps and make it on your own esteem philosophies of how life should play out, but thats a fantasy land and fraternities are a microcosm of the real world.

sad, but true.

6/29/2009 9:19:06 AM

Shit son, ur too poor to know this. .
But there's something about buying your friends that makes them so much better than the free ones

6/29/2009 9:49:23 AM

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"while i was staunchly against fraternities during college I later realized that you're also paying for a network of connections that can't really otherwise be surpassed."

LOL SOUNDS LIKE NORTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS

6/29/2009 9:52:19 AM

hahaha, frats are gay

6/29/2009 9:52:20 AM

i too, went to college and had opinions on other people's social networks of choice.

6/29/2009 9:54:41 AM

Fraternities are okay except for TKE

6/29/2009 10:07:46 AM

where the fuck is kontalonis? that fag could tell you all about frats, and how youre not just paying for friends, but for tons of fucking roofies too.

6/29/2009 10:11:07 AM

^we all know that most fraternities are nothing more than drinking clubs and sorostitute shackfests.

6/29/2009 10:13:04 AM

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6/29/2009 11:43:42 AM

Quote :

"the whole "paying for friends" is kind of short sighted. you're paying for social events and food and stuff like that. you could technically not hang out with anyone in your fraternity and still go to parties and functions and what not and still get what you paid for."

yeah you get what you paid for... friends for rent or hire, a social network and functions.

sounds like a rationalization to me.

6/29/2009 12:38:59 PM

a serious question

is there a token gay guy in every frat house who they all use for sex

6/29/2009 12:41:43 PM

Yes my son.

Yes indeed.

6/29/2009 12:54:01 PM

Quote :

"sounds like a rationalization to me."

haha yea there doesnt need to be any rational thought within this thread.

6/29/2009 12:55:30 PM

SON SON SON

6/29/2009 1:02:43 PM

i also don't consider it them paying for their friends as much as I once did. the high price makes it an exclusionary club. thats part of the premium as well. most people who join fraternities were friends to begin with.

6/29/2009 1:13:56 PM

What's up with this high price I keep hearing about sons?

How much money does this frat shyte cost son?!

6/29/2009 1:15:48 PM

only 3k a semester.

6/29/2009 1:16:33 PM

$3k?!

6/29/2009 1:18:22 PM

i dont think a lot of people understand what the money goes to.


but in the grand scheme of things it's not an outrageous sum.



3k!?....in some places, maybe Delta Sig but i wouldn't know. But ours was never 3k even during financial straits

[Edited on June 29, 2009 at 1:19 PM. Reason : add.]

6/29/2009 1:18:33 PM

It guess goes to pay for that gay guy vinylbandit was askin about.

6/29/2009 1:19:14 PM

usually people who trash fraternities are self-centered punks who think they are "too cool for school" and who think all their opinions about life should be law. Yeah some fraternities are sketch, but you aren't "paying for friends". You meet lots of people through fraternity involvement, and develop connections with people which pay off big time down the road.

Regardless if this is troll bait, its still an ongoing discussion amongst college kids, and is just a difference of preferences. If you don't want to join a fraternity, then don't, but quit acting like you are better than everyone else who does.

6/29/2009 1:20:22 PM

what's up with the TKE tattoos? i never see any fraternity tattoos except for TKE

6/29/2009 1:21:15 PM

Why don't they brand TKE on themselves son?

Tattoos are what wimps do son.

6/29/2009 1:22:02 PM

TWW is a nerd fraternity that you pay 5 bucks to get in, you don;t ever have to see anyone face-to-face, and when you do, you can clam up and just look dorky

6/29/2009 1:23:04 PM

its included in your initial dues











not really, it's personal taste. I never got one and know more without them than those that do

6/29/2009 1:23:35 PM

$5?!

6/29/2009 1:23:45 PM

lol tww is more like, the cluster of romantically hopeless dudes desperately seeking 1 ounce of attention from some sub-par looking girls.

6/29/2009 1:27:56 PM

^ This is true my sons.

6/29/2009 1:28:37 PM

Quote :

"but you aren't "paying for friends". You meet lots of people through fraternity involvement, and develop connections with people which pay off big time down the road. "

does not compute.

and actually, the way you described it makes it sound like you meet people who may not even turn out to be your friends.

6/29/2009 1:40:28 PM

well of course you do. You can't expect to like everyone you are associated with. But that's true in almost everything

6/29/2009 1:46:51 PM

yeah it'll cost your dignity when your a pleab right?

Trollbait? it's not enough if they pay $3K, you have to take their dignity too... by hazing them because why? Because you want to express you're better than the ones that are trying to get in, and! it pays off how in the long run? it pays off knowing you were party of something exclusive to those with financial class (notice how I separated people with class, and then people with financial class?) Aren't fraternities the first ones looked at by authorities when someone starts talking about shoving broomsticks up other guys asses?

What you have there is a Navy ship and a lot of forced sodomy is running amok.

[Edited on June 29, 2009 at 2:14 PM. Reason : This is a fun thread]

6/29/2009 2:12:16 PM

Quote :

"yeah it'll cost your dignity when your a pleab right?"

I definitely know it's "you're" and I'm thinking that second one might be "plebe" son.

6/29/2009 2:14:00 PM

I guess the forced sodomy isn't going to be disputed

6/29/2009 2:18:05 PM