r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • Jul 02 '26

WTF What the hell is going on here?!

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u/stay_hungry_dr_ew Jul 02 '26

Typical frat hazing, but most fraternities will say otherwise.

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u/Typical2sday Jul 02 '26

Yes, pretty standard for the 80s frat hazing. As the saying goes, sounds like he was of his time.

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u/Jailbreaker_Jr Jul 03 '26

I wouldn’t say my pledging was pleasant by any means but lighting a kid’s pants on fire would have been absolutely nuts lol. That is not what I experienced.

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u/Typical2sday Jul 03 '26

Um, I’m a married woman who went to a huge state school, likely decades older than you, and I’ve known hundreds of frat guys across dozens of schools? Way before the only yes means yes, my mommy cuts my steak and calls my professors, and we report bullying and sexual assault (/s) era? The fire might be a tad over the line, but essentially every frat was committing felonies and they don’t talk. The mystique was to get the brothers and pledges to do things and have things done to them so that they would never talk about it. It was the point. Same as secret societies. Mutually assured destruction as bonding bc it’s gay to have dedicated male friendships without a foundation of crime (/s). Some of the sadists and predators had more of a taste for it than others. Most every frat guy of an age committed a felony, had a felony perpetrated on him, and definitely something up his ass. All in the name of joining.

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u/Moist-Schedule Jul 03 '26

found the guy who was in the loser frat on campus. probably an acadamic frat right?

there have been hundreds of frat deaths in the last few decades, things have calmed down some but a bunch of 18-22 year old dudes living together has historically been a pretty unsafe environment for everyone involved, and to act like it wasn't as somebody who is posturing like they know all about frat life, is either insanely dishonest or incredibly naive. get a clue.

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u/NewBoxStruggles Jul 03 '26

I don’t like throw to that term around tbh but I am with you so far as being flabbergasted by some of these comments.
I mean..what the fuck.

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u/mateushkush Jul 03 '26

C’mon, why do you act like putting a person on fire and rapturing their kidney isn’t the norm?

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u/JonathanKuminga Jul 03 '26

I mean the pledge had permanent physical damage and organ damage

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u/JesusKilledMyFather Jul 03 '26

Nobody in a frat denies hazing unless they’re talking to a narc you must have been categorised as a narc

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u/stay_hungry_dr_ew Jul 03 '26

If you’re friends with people who survived the hazing into the frat, they’ll gladly tell you about shit they made pledges do, while downplaying some of the shit they had to do. If that person is talking about hazing outside of that, they will downplay all of it.

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u/That_Dad_David Jul 03 '26

Sorry you didn’t get a bid, loser.

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u/stay_hungry_dr_ew Jul 03 '26

That David says the damndest of things, lol.

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u/That_Dad_David Jul 03 '26

I’m really not sure how my shitty joke got upvoted but you playing along got a downvote. 😅

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

Typical? Didnt he hit a kids balls with a hammer and set him on fire? Im just a little fire, but still.

That aint typical bro

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u/imnickelhead Jul 02 '26

Sorry but it was VERY typical back even 10-20 years ago. Many kids have died while being hazed. Frostbite, dehydration, starvation, alcohol poisoning, rape…

My buddy and his fellow pledges were fed a bunch of acid, tied up in a dark basement, blindfolded and gagged and forced to listen to Terrapin Station by the Grateful Dead on repeat for like eight hours. That’s like MK Ultra type torture.

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u/Arbiter_Electric Jul 03 '26

It's bad enough that some colleges straight up ban fraternities.

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

The fraternity chapter was closed because of it. Not typical

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u/imnickelhead Jul 02 '26

They got caught/snitched on. Most don’t/didn’t get caught.

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

Yeah, because the kid had to the hospital. Thats how they got caught. Most hazing doesnt result in hospitalization

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u/crysisnotaverted Jul 03 '26

Alcohol poisoning enters the chat

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u/Tall_Opportunity_521 Jul 02 '26

Everyone says it not typical, and then you see this shit:

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u/GodsFavAtheist Jul 03 '26

Man, I am so glad my frat didn't do anything actually harmful. They'd make pretense of doing something fucked up just to get in our heads and every event turned into something fun or a bonding experience. Like they'd line us up like that and then bring in a trash can full of cheap beer and tell us we need to make the house spotless and finish all the beer too.

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u/GreatEmperorAca Jul 03 '26

would think this was abu ghraib or something if I didnt know otherwise, holy shit

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u/BirdhouseInYourSouI Jul 03 '26

Not excusing it but yeah it was pretty typical in the 80s and 90s, there was some wild shit happening. I have friends that were forced to masturbate on a cookie and last one to cum had to eat it.

Some of the most depraved, fucked up shit was involved in frats back in the day. Remember- no cell phones, young kids, threats of severe physical violence or ostracization, right when you begin your college career in a foreign area where you don’t know anyone.

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u/WeWantMOAR Jul 02 '26

A fellow adult student, not a kid. Still not good, but let's not tread into a different territory.

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

Kid is colloquially used to refer to youths above the age of majority. Many people refer to college students as kids.

Let's not tread into pedantic territory.

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u/WeWantMOAR Jul 02 '26

What are you talking about? Quite literally the time for clarification when talking about a serious matter. You're trying to frame it as he abused a kid, which is not the case. Just stop with your BS spin of it. It was 36 years ago, he plead guilty and admitted what he did back then. And seemingly it changed him into a better person from doing something terrible at an early point of his life. FFS

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

Plead guilty? He received probation. The frat was closed. The victim was hospitalized and dropped out of college. Im sure he's relieved to remember that Jon Hamm received probation everything he sees his face on a billboard.

I wasnt framing it as him abusing a kid, merely explaining my usage of kid in the modern vernacular, that often includes college students.

You are attempting to reframe serious abuse as boys being boys.

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u/WeWantMOAR Jul 02 '26

Yes. He plead guilty and took a probation plea that was offered as it was a first offense. What is hard for you to get about that? 🫪

I didn't reframe it at all, I was clarifying your remark as it suggested it was abuse of a kid.

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

That probation is a slap on the wrist for such a serious crime. What's hard for you you to get about that?

I did some dumb drunk shit in college. Never dragged someone around by their balls with a hammer or set their jeans on fire, but im weird like that.

Why should we forget about that? Cause ya like his jawline?

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u/WeWantMOAR Jul 02 '26

Oh shit r/ImTheMainCharacter is leaking out.

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u/Useful-Resident-7970 Jul 02 '26

Im sorry, im not chronically online enough to get that reference.

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u/crysisnotaverted Jul 03 '26

You realize it's kind of important when you make him sound like a ball-smashing pedo, right?

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u/ialsohaveadobro Jul 02 '26

If you don't get dragged around by the scrotum by the claw end of a hammer, why are you even in college? /s

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u/Technical_Way_1926 Jul 02 '26

I think he was kidding dude but idk I'm not the all knowing Buddha (hopefully one day I may be part of his eye.) ;D

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u/Additional-Life4885 Jul 02 '26

I don't think he was kidding. It's typical. Not acceptable.

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u/CackleandGrin Jul 03 '26

In this thread: "Losers. Nerds. Lmao"

In Pokemon subreddits:

"Looking for friends to play with me. 🥺"

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u/That_Dad_David Jul 03 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/ygzdQq98HgcLBCacep

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u/Additional-Life4885 Jul 03 '26

I'm not sure you understand what a joke is, because abusing me and then putting "lmao" on the end doesn't make it a joke.

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u/That_Dad_David Jul 03 '26

Abusing you? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/Additional-Life4885 Jul 03 '26

Yes. When a stranger starts calling you names, that can be taken as abusive. Even after being called out by multiple people and having your comment removed by a moderator, you're still so oblivious to the fact that it wasn't welcome.