Posted on 11/23/2025 5:16:31 AM PST by C19fan
Translation: He was a drug abuser and now the parents are trying to blame someone else for his death.
I was a double legacy to Delta Tau Delta. I remember the expense and dismal conditions my next oldest brother endured.... for what? No thank you...
What the hell is wrong with people these days?
....I crossed the Equator as a pollywog PO3 in the summer of 1963...there was NO opting out...every pollywog on our ship had to endure all of the degradations the shellbacks had in store for us...no options....and back “in the good ol’ days...” no one had any hidden alcohol in their bunks, lockers or anywhere else...it was absolutely forbidden for anyone to have any kind of booze in our berthing spaces...and any kind of civilian clothing, as well....!! the penalties for having such were quite severe....ahhhh....fond memories....
Pollywogs and Shellbacks.
I had completely forgotten those terms from the past.
Probably because after leaving the service, I never heard them being used anymore in that way.
Other than ocassional workplace conflicts, I have a lot of good memories from my active duty time. Experiences that only could have happened under those circumstances.
I should not say that the presence of alcohol aboard was ‘approved’. You’re correct, it was not approved policy. I’m just relating what happened then and there.
I don’t consider them Christian. They go against the word of God.
Well, Pall Mall copied the phrase from Constantine (312 AD) or Sigma Chi (1855 AD).
Pall Mall started in 1899.
I vote that they all get the staple gun to the hip, burned with cigarettes and beaten. Sounds fair and equitable.
baptized, confirmed, CCD classes, church on Sunday and holy water and palms in the house.
Does that work for you?
The weakest ought not join frats, but that’s all that sign up. Whattayagonnado?
Kids these days are so soft.
That sounds like regular weekend entertainment for Gen X vets. I say that with very little hyperbole.
Of course, that was voluntary and we did all kinds of things to each other. There was no one telling us we “HAD TO”, we were just willfully complicit in our coordinated stupidity.
Any attempt to exercise any form of duress would have likely just received a punch in the throat and an all paid trip for their face to the nearest table. No one was going to tell us we “HAD TO” anything, we had already given enough control of ourselves to the chain of command.
I really think a young male has to go through playing king of the hill, jousting each other with broomsticks from their bikes, wrestling, playing football, stapling your own hand and hitting it with a hammer while building things then falling out of the tree.
There was one subordinate on my shift we referred to as “Flip”. This guy was constantly wearing some type of cast or sling and using a crutch. He went on leave twice and managed to roll two different Camaros before he got a Jeep with extra heavy roll bars that didnt just crumple when he rolled it the next leave.
Compare something like that to a story I was telling around here the other day. Recently I was walking through the woods with some men I knew. After a bit the Gen Z asked where the bathroom was. I told him trees love that kind of thing. He got all worked up because according to him I was telling him “to pee in the open like an animal” then he stomped away back to the vehicles.
If you raise boys to be girls then they not only can not handle pain or and are not willing to handle risk but do not understand what coercion is and the proper way to handle it by themselves.
History backs it up. Who do you think was fleeing Europe for North America for one?
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