Frat Curls

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[quote]TShaw wrote:
Two things come to mind:

  1. That was a gracious apology on the part of dond1diesel, of which there are far too few found on these boards. He’s got my respect for that.[/quote]

Ditto this.

[quote]2. Let’s re-define the term; it’s not that great, anyway. Fraternities can have T-Men (and sororities can have T-Women), so it isn’t accurate to use “frat” as a descriptive–fun, sure, but not accurate. So…we need a descriptive term that can be plunked down in front of “curl” or “squat” or whatever to describe a person whose form/ behavior/ clothing/ whatever is sub-par for T-Nation standards.

–moron curls (naah; doesn’t “flow”)
–punk curls (so long as Sid Vicious fans don’t jump me)
–jerk curls (but “jerk” suggests a movement that is sometimes legitimate–clean and jerk)
–NTN curls ("Not T-Nation; has the added benefit of being the opposite of TNT; kinda catchy, eh? Naah: too scientific!)
–E curls (denoting Estrogen Men, our polar opposites; hmmm.)

Anyone else?[/quote]

How about “tard curls”?

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[quote]oboffill wrote:
dond1esel, stop being a communist damnit. You know who cares about Fraternity stereotypes? Nobody. Oh, and I do have animus. I have two dogs and a turtle named Flash. [/quote]

Okay, now I’m laughing so hard I just puked.

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[quote]lothario1132 wrote:
Wash your hands after you play with your turtle, or you’ll catch AIDS. I heard that somewhere.

[/quote]
dude that’s just stoopid. you can’t get AIDS from a turtle. you can get it from a tractor, tho…

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[quote]wufwugy wrote:
lothario1132 wrote:
Wash your hands after you play with your turtle, or you’ll catch AIDS. I heard that somewhere.

dude that’s just stoopid. you can’t get AIDS from a turtle. you can get it from a tractor, tho…[/quote]

Turtle, tractor… hamburger, cheeseburger – it’s the same damn thing!

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Personaly, I hate frat boys. There’s nothing more on this earth I hate more than a bunch of pretentious, arrogant, knitwits that have been caught up in their own special brand of groupthink. Especially when they are overly verbose, like they’re the only ones who have a grasp of the English language.

Seeing the typical fart boy makes my teeth clench, my hands curl into fists, my eyes blur, and I start to crave blood! It’s usualy only a couple more seconds until the fingers, jaws, nose, and maybee a couple of knees and arms get broken.OH GOD, DOES THAT FEEL GOOD!!!
No, just kidding about the bones. Frat boys are people too.

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Whoops! Kinda snapped on that last post.

How about Nancy curls. Sure, it suonds like a hair product, but I doubt frat boys will be offended by it.

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[quote]mindeffer01 wrote:
Personaly [sic], I hate frat boys. There’s nothing more on this earth I hate [sic] more than a bunch of pretentious, arrogant,[sic] knitwits [sic] that have been caught up in their own special brand of groupthink. Especially when they are overly verbose, like they’re the only ones who have a grasp of the English language.

Seeing the typical fart [sic] boy makes my teeth clench, my hands curl into fists, my eyes blur, [sic] and I start to crave blood! It’s usualy only a couple more seconds until the fingers, jaws, nose, and maybee [sic] a couple of knees and arms get broken.OH [sic] GOD, DOES THAT FEEL GOOD!!!
No, just kidding about the bones. Frat boys are people too.
[/quote]

The florid diction of a fraternity man is bad, but the syntactically abominable hissy fit of an independent is much worse.

The original argument seems to be more or less settled. I’d like to make a request to subsequent posters: read my previous posts so that I can avoid silly ad hominem attacks regarding my writing style and stay retired from this thread.

P.S. I like the term ‘Nancy curl’. I daresay it will be perfectly acceptable to fraternity men everywhere.

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around here we call some people “fancy boys” who do really “fancy” things. It’s a generality for most preppie kids who’ve never had to work for anything in life or at least appear to be too fancy… anyways, you get the drift, and nancy sounds like fancy, so i like the idea that fancy boys do ‘fancy curls’

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bitch curls

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Unfortunatly, the few times I have seen people curling in the rack has been when I needed it. Therefore due to the anger and frustration it has inspired I nominate “cunt curls” I know it is a little harsh but I am jaded.
-Cheers

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Highly Irritating Twat curls?

Gimp Curls

Whatever-name-you-give-it-that-guy-in-the-squat-rack-should-be-beaten Curls?

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They’re FRAT CURLS dammit!!! If you’re insulted, offended, or put off by the term in any other way - tough shit.

Does any self-respecting adult really need a college frat-boy telling them what to do? Whining about his “feelings” or his “Brothers”? Granted, the little punk can spell and has access to a thesarus - but he’s a punk-ass just like every one on here who still lives off mommy and daddy’s tit. He’s earned no respect. None should be given.

You guys do whatever the fuck you want, but there’s a word called ‘frat curls’. I intend on using it - and in the most offensive way possible.

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
They’re FRAT CURLS dammit!!! If you’re insulted, offended, or put off by the term in any other way - tough shit.

Does any self-respecting adult really need a college frat-boy telling them what to do? Whining about his “feelings” or his “Brothers”? Granted, the little punk can spell and has access to a thesarus - but he’s a punk-ass just like every one on here who still lives off mommy and daddy’s tit. He’s earned no respect. None should be given.

You guys do whatever the fuck you want, but there’s a word called ‘frat curls’. I intend on using it - and in the most offensive way possible. [/quote]

Again, i could care less about your use of “frat curls”, i use it too, just your generalizing of fraternity brothers is plain stupid. Are there frat boys that live off mommy and daddy until the ripe old age of 22 years? Yes, of course, some of them are my friends. There are also brothers in the house that work and pay for their own way thru college, and live away from home on their own accord. They are not the exception in alot of fraternitys, atleast not at Indiana University, as this is a very common practice. These “punk-asses” go to school all day and then work at night, which im sure a number of T-men have done here.

Am I one of these kids? To a degree, no. I was lucky enough to earn an athletic scholarship, but I’ve made enough as a personal trainer to afford all my expenses including a house I share and utilities. I know this pales in comparison to raising a family and living in the real world on your own accord, but for someone about to turn 19 in a month i like to think im off to a good start. I work as a CPT, although not full time, even tho if I wanted to I could sit back and let my parents throw money at me.

You don’t have to respect me rainjack, or any fraternity brother, but simply grouping us into this whole entity and degrading us because some frat brothers wern’t cut loose at the age of 18, is in my opinion, ignorant.

Call them frat curls? Shit I do, and i dont think we should chamge them.

Hate the kids that have everything handed down to them in college, who work out in pink abercomribe polos, and spend all day doing bicep curls in the squat rack? Damn, im not that fond of them, i get along, but dont think i have a deep found respect for them.

Group all of us into one giant stereotype, including those that suffer the hardships of real life (the above kids who have no financial support)? Well again, i can’t tell you what to say or think, all I can do is say that I don’t agree.

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I have to agree with RJ here. We already have a fine word for them. I was in a frat (still am I guess right) in college and only about 10% of the guys I knew in any frat on campus had any idea how to lift properly. The only reason I knew how was because one of the guys I pledged with was very into working out and getting very strong. He definately wasn’t a bench curl guy. That being said, no matter what you name it it is going to be derogatory to one group. That is actually the reason you do it. It is funny.

If you called them tard curls you would be derogatory towards retards, and probably undeservingly so, retards probably don’t really curl in the squat rack. If anyone know of a retard curling in a squat rack please get it on video. If you call them nancy curls, anyone named nancy could be offended. etc…

They are Frat Curls because over half of the guys in fraternaties have this perception of working out that arms and chest are the only muscles that need to be worked. I’m sorry but it’s just the case.

I ran cross country in HS and college, do I get upset when I hear cross country runners referred to as wussbag nerds? Not at all, for the most part it’s true. Not about me, but in general sure it is.

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Hey, vegita,

DON’T start ripping on retards,man.I’m a retard and damn proud of it!Some of my best friends are retards too.We proudly lick the windows of the short bus, And I just got a shiny new Kevlar helmet.

p.s. Not one of us would ever be caught dead wearing a polo shirt and doing frat curls.

p.p.s. DonDiesel, why do you identify with the negative so quickly? It sounds like you realy need to work on your internal dialog, get past the personal fable stage,and move on into early adulthood.(Elkind 1967,1974,Erickson et al.)

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[quote]mindeffer01 wrote:
Hey, vegita,

DON’T start ripping on retards,man. [sic] I’m a retard and damn proud of it!Some [sic] of my best friends are retards too.We [sic] proudly lick the windows of the short bus, And [sic] I just got a shiny new Kevlar helmet.

p.s. Not one of us would ever be caught dead wearing a polo shirt and doing frat curls.

p.p.s. DonDiesel [sic], why do you identify with the negative so quickly? It sounds like you realy need to work on your internal dialog, get past the personal fable stage,and [sic] move on into early adulthood.(Elkind 1967,1974,Erickson et al.)
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Almost, but the MLA would still cringe at the syntactically abominable citation of an independent smart-ass who is jealous of people who have social capital (Bourdieu, 1972) that he doesn’t and, worse, escape his mechanism of rationalization (any Freud, obviously). Your first post was asinine and got what it deserved; that is where this situation should have ended. Otherwise, while my personal fable may be false, it is amply robust to deal with you and your ilk.

I hate to disrespect a military man, but you should just leave me alone. After all, I even endorsed your term for the curls!

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[quote]rainjack wrote:
They’re FRAT CURLS dammit!!! If you’re insulted, offended, or put off by the term in any other way - tough shit.

Does any self-respecting adult really need a college frat-boy telling them what to do? Whining about his “feelings” or his “Brothers”? Granted, the little punk can spell and has access to a thesarus - but he’s a punk-ass just like every one on here who still lives off mommy and daddy’s tit. He’s earned no respect. None should be given.

You guys do whatever the fuck you want, but there’s a word called ‘frat curls’. I intend on using it - and in the most offensive way possible. [/quote]

Rainjack,

This is a damn shame. I have read many of your posts. I had a high level of respect for you. Even when your views weren’t amenable to others you kept a modicum of civility. Now this.

I have the option of retaliating, of showing the world that it is I who am actually better than you. You wouldn’t be ‘hating’ if I didn’t have the rhetorical wherewithal to do it. But I don’t have any interest in that. I don’t have any interest because, before you came along, this was an entertaining thread of alternatives to offending people who don’t need to be offended. I had said my piece, fences had been mended and people were having fun.

All you have accomplished is an insipid and profane personal attack that disrupted what had become a discussion of positive values. You made several repugnantly false assumptions about me and fraternity men in general. Hoosierdaddy touched on the invalidity of those views, so I needn’t rephrase here. You’re wrong about me, of course. Moreover, I apologized more than once on this thread for coming off preachy, yet you still took churlish exception.

You have succeeded in emphatically communicating your spite towards fraternities and youth, in me and in general. I think it’s clear that it was best kept to yourself. If you want to say ‘frat curl’ for reasons like that, then you, not I, will be the one reflected upon poorly.

P.S. No joke, this is how I write everything, even instant messages. On these forums I’ve seen both bad and good writing attacked for its own merit. Make up your minds.

P.P.S. Leave me alone, people! This is really starting to remind me of that quote comparing arguing on the Internet and the Special Olympics.

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[quote]dond1esel wrote:

P.P.S. Leave me alone, people! This is really starting to remind me of that quote comparing arguing on the Internet and the Special Olympics.[/quote]

yeah, i wrote that in an earlier thread…

arguing on the internet is like racing in the special olympics, even if you win, you’re stil retarded
(origin unkown)

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Ditto - member of a Greek House… I love it, we’re not that frattastic and it does piss me off when I see frat curls (and boy do I see a lot). It’s also nice to be the guy girls notice doing something other than curls and bench. Any time I do GM’s… lots of female attention.

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don1esel:

This ‘prep school and university writing style’ is terrible. Peppering poor phrasing with SAT words won’t help your argument.

How tempted you must be to ignore me. Do so and banish yourself to writing hell. My eyes glazed within the first two lines of every paragraph.

You know what the worst part is? It doesn’t come across as intelligence. Just snotty.

DI