LOL, I was reading through ABBH and noticed even Chad took a shot at frat boys.
[quote]Chad Waterbury wrote:
Therefore, leave the grunting and screaming to the frat boys who have 13" guns and spend their entire day doing concentration curls and wasting Daddy’s money.[/quote]
Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I hoped ths would come up, and it hasn’t, so I had to post it. I’m in a fraternity, and although I’m not an authority, my workouts are designed around big muscle movements (squats, deads, pull ups, rows, bench). But curls done in the squat rack are FRAT CURLS. This has nothing to do with fraternities in my mind, though. Quick explanation.
I don’t call my fraternity a “frat”, the same way I don’t call my country a “cunt”. So calling piss-poor curls done in the wrong place (almost anywhere in a public gym) by college-age preps “frat curls” doesn’t offend me; its always had a nice ring to it, actually. In fact, some of my fraternity brothers do “frat curls,” and I call them appropriately. I also call them whatever else comes to mind for getting in my way when I’m trying to do squats and wasting my time in the gym.
My .02.
P.S.: Yeah, I do call bad country “cunt music” too.
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BOW TO THE GLORY THAT IS MY HUMONGUS LEFT BICEP, AS IT DROOPS OUT THE WINDOW OF MY SUBAROO!
[quote]dond1esel wrote:
The florid diction of a fraternity man is bad, but the syntactically abominable hissy fit of an independent is much worse.[/quote]
That’s frickin’ awesome! And you spelt (spelled, for our USA brethren) everything correctly too. I’ve never seen that in a post before.
For what it’s worth, I met a Yank over here in Spain in my gym. Nice kid, but one Saturday night I went in to do my squat workout and he was doing frat/sissy/Nancy/fancy/tard curls in the squat rack. We started talking about workouts and he confessed that Saturday was his “Club Workout” - all bench and bis to pump before putting on the tight t-shirts and hitting the discos here.
I vote for Wanker Curls, since they’re wankers for doing it and it’s a form of wanking anyway.
Sounds like a “anything to avoid doing real curls” curl.
Any chance of someone posting a pic of a ‘frat’ curl up on this thread for an ignorant aussie.
There are no real ‘frat’ houses here in australia as such, but from the definition there are definetly ‘frat curlers’ lurking in my gym.
This species seems to exist outside it’s natural environment 
I walked into the weight room this morning and found a much older man curling (just) the bar where it ought not to be curled. I walked up and simply asked “How long will you be curling in the squat rack?”
He was done–crisis over–but it made me want to check out this thread again.
Dond1esel,
When you say you’re done with a thread, you shouldn’t keep coming back. It just makes you look…undisciplined. Let them go on without you. Unless you’re actually having fun, in which case, do carry on.
[quote]dond1esel wrote:
P.S. choyt, you might try coming up with an original attack on me if you’ve got anything up there.[/quote]
I suppose I could a few other ways to address your expostulation and ongoing grouse because your so f00king supraliminal about your precious “FRAT” reputation being marred by the observation of some hoodooed silly-boys in a squat rack but… Why reinvent the wheel?
[quote]choyt wrote:
dond1esel wrote:
P.S. choyt, you might try coming up with an original attack on me if you’ve got anything up there.
I suppose I could a few other ways to address your expostulation and ongoing grouse because your so f00king supraliminal about your precious “FRAT” reputation being marred by the observation of some hoodooed silly-boys in a squat rack but… Why reinvent the wheel?[/quote]
eh, brother, you forgot “choose”, or whichever word you planned to use in its place.
i don’t get why we can’t edit our posts here at t-nation…
Are you referring to the lack of effort put out to perform the edit… or did you miss the little “edit” icon on the right hand side of your own posts?
Has that always been there?!
Man, I’ve got to get more sleep.
[quote]CU AeroStallion wrote:
my only question was if he was in a pink collared shirt with the collar flipped up. For some reason at my school that’s a growing trend which is pretty much saddening, not that every greek kid does it, but what started out as one or two has quickly became about 30 or 40, even in some non-pink shirts… it’s pathetic.
ATTENTION: Flipped up collars are for when you’ve been outside for too long (on the golf course, doing yard work, etc…) and your neck is burning and
you have no other choice, not for the weight room! TURN YOUR COLLARS DOWN IN THE WEIGHT ROOM![/quote]
Sorry, but there is absolutely NO justification for wearing your collar up. If your neck is burned because you were too stupid to put on sunscreen, be a man and live with it. Collars up on golf shirts is for 50+ year old men with spaghetti arms. If any of my frat brothers did that, we would have beat the crap out of him. But then, I was in a more “Animal House” type frat than a Biff and Cole type house.
My $.02 rant for the day.
DB
[quote]vroom wrote:
i don’t get why we can’t edit our posts here at t-nation…
Are you referring to the lack of effort put out to perform the edit… or did you miss the little “edit” icon on the right hand side of your own posts?[/quote]
sorry, “lack of effort”, and that wasn’t a knock on choyt, i just see it all the time and wondered if people knew about the little edit button
[quote]dollarbill44 wrote:
CU AeroStallion wrote:
my only question was if he was in a pink collared shirt with the collar flipped up. For some reason at my school that’s a growing trend which is pretty much saddening, not that every greek kid does it, but what started out as one or two has quickly became about 30 or 40, even in some non-pink shirts… it’s pathetic.
ATTENTION: Flipped up collars are for when you’ve been outside for too long (on the golf course, doing yard work, etc…) and your neck is burning and
you have no other choice, not for the weight room! TURN YOUR COLLARS DOWN IN THE WEIGHT ROOM!
Sorry, but there is absolutely NO justification for wearing your collar up. If your neck is burned because you were too stupid to put on sunscreen, be a man and live with it. Collars up on golf shirts is for 50+ year old men with spaghetti arms. If any of my frat brothers did that, we would have beat the crap out of him. But then, I was in a more “Animal House” type frat than a Biff and Cole type house.
My $.02 rant for the day.
DB
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also, when were you in a frat? Here at IU, every single frat has a couple of guys who pop their collars
[quote]Moriarty wrote:
There is obviously “no possible disrespect” because we all know that fraternity life exemplifies only the finest values of Greek people, culture, and history.[/quote]
Well, yeah.
The rest of your post wasn’t quoted because it was so much stereotypical toilet paper to me. Now, we’ll ALL refrain from presuming to know what should offend one another.
I don’t think he should be doing that many curls… it’s not really helping to do that much.
I can’t believe I just read through all of this. I am ashamed of myself. That was funny about the 2 dogs and a turtle though, and Malone’s post was good.
I’ve read part of this thread (it’s too long) and I have to say its kind of funny. I’m in a fraternity at the U of Iowa and I don’t mind hearing some of the stereotypes because the fact of the matter is there are a lot of frats that live the fraternity stereotpye. We have some here that are just all athlete pretty boys with good genetics. They do the frat curls and party 3 nights a week and still have a good body. It just makes me work that much harder when I see that. Either kill yourself to stay alive, or just kill yourself
Q: How many Greeks does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
A: Five. One to twist it in; two to make t-shirts; and two to take photographs of the event.
I’m not sure if the term “frat curls” would even adequately describe the stupidity I saw in the gym recently.
A pretty slim guy was curling on a preacher bench that was placed INSIDE a power rack. It finally dawned on me that he was inside the rack solely because of the mirror that was behind it; the mirror gave him an up-close view of his curling form!
Of course when he was done, he left the preacher bench – loaded barbell and all – inside the rack!
[quote]TeeVee69 wrote:
Of course when he was done, he left the preacher bench – loaded barbell and all – inside the rack![/quote]
That’s what headlocks are for, man! Where I come from, a guy that does that – he’s gonna get a blanket party.