Frat boys ahoy! (long)

[Jay 2K Winger]

Or the fact that most women just don't want to be assaulted.

Or the fact that women are fellow human beings with the ability to think for themselves, plus the same rights they have.

These are both implied in my description of fratjockbros' beliefs re: women.

[Redbeard]

Almost forgot one of the best parts.

I sent a detailed letter to the Dean of one of the colleges explaining what had happened and how their school was being portrayed by these little jackholes.
The response was basically "that could have been anyone wearing our hats and shirts, I feel that it would be counter productive to talk to the students about behaving themselves while at events in other cities"

So, in a nutshell, it's okay for their students to run wild as long as they don't get caught

[Seshat]

The same way anything else can be set on fire.

Flammable material + match or lighter + optional accelerant = FIRE!!!

A good fire in an elevator shaft is dangerous, because it can heat up the air in the shaft, and then the rest of the building can catch pretty quick.

The mechanisms that run an elevator need to be oiled/greased. Yes, the cables themselves are likely to be steel or some other hard-to-burn material; but there's still plenty that's flammable.

And if the elevator is old, there's probably assorted stuff mixed in with the grease. There's nowhere in the world that avoids getting dust, hair, and other assorted mixed gunk. And it mixes with the grease, and makes things more flammable.

Plus, whatever's accumulated at the bottom of the elevator.


I would expect it to require a certain amount of accelerant to start an elevator shaft fire; but once this gunk has taken fire, it'll heat up the shaft and ... well. Columns of flame are nasty.

[Plague*Star]

Can someone please tell me how the hell an elevator shaft can be set on fire??

I mean, WTF...??

There's a "Fire" keyswitch in most elevators. You just set it to "on".

P*S

[dalesys]

There's a "Fire" keyswitch in most elevators. You just set it to "on".

I thought that was for launching the elevator car to the moon, a la Jules Verne.

[thatcrazyredhead]

I thought that was for launching the elevator car to the moon, a la Jules Verne.

Wonkavator!!

[thatcrazyredhead]

"that could have been anyone wearing our hats and shirts..."

Riiiiiight, because when I was in college, my friends and I used to run around in shirts and hats from other schools all the time.

[wolfie]

Please tell me:

- College that sourced these frat boys had an event that involved booking space at that hotel.
- Hotel management got pissed off at frat boy antics, and canceled the college's reservations (i.e. institution caused a problem, institution goes on DNR list).
- Every other facility in town was already booked solid.

[BearLeeBadenaugh]

Not all frat boys are bad, but I do swear they have negative hive intelligence sometimes. The larger the group of em there are, the less cumulative intelligence there seems to be. Lowest common denominator and all that jazz, lol.

Back in college, my fraternity was the only one allowed at quite a few places(banquet halls and the like) because apparently we were the only one out of five frats that knew how to behave in public.

Kinda funny when another frat gets pissed because they're having their formal the same night as us and we're "taking all the good dates" because we're at the country club and they're at the run down bowling alley. Nevermind that we planned our events months in advance. We had our dinner menu planned before they even had a date set.

[Geek King]

The larger the group of em there are, the less cumulative intelligence there seems to be. Lowest common denominator and all that jazz, lol.

That's actually the rule of thumb when dealing with a group acting together. "The mob's collective intelligence is only as high as it's dumbest member"

[Redbeard]

Please tell me:

- College that sourced these frat boys had an event that involved booking space at that hotel.
- Hotel management got pissed off at frat boy antics, and canceled the college's reservations (i.e. institution caused a problem, institution goes on DNR list).
- Every other facility in town was already booked solid.

Unfortunate is was for the "Eat Mor Chiken" bowl. It brings in too much business for the hotels to shut them out.
To be honest, most of those staying in the main hotels are alumni, pretty chill people who just want to enjoy the game. Some of them even end up enjoying OUR show so much they buy passes for the con

[Kittykat]

The Tighty Whitey Crew : These wonderful individuals were a group of 5 or 6 who ran around in nothing but briefs. They would surround a woman, grind on her and run off. Status: Never caught

I would have SO kicked someone! In the butt, not the other end don't need to go to jail for permanent damage or something lol.

[mathnerd]

I would have SO kicked someone! In the butt, not the other end don't need to go to jail for permanent damage or something lol.

Sometimes you can cause permanent damage in the other end and NOT go to jail. Trust me. I know from personal experience. But that is a story for another time.

[Gimli]

Personally, I've had more problems from the geeks who are geeks because it's cool to be a geek right now than I have from the frat boys. And that's just been in the last 3 or so years. Although, I did have a very funny moment the last day of con two years ago when members of a certain religious organization not known for tolerance were arriving for their convention right after DragonCon. There was pearl clutching galore at several of the more revealing costumes as well as the ones that appeared demomic to the uninformed. I've seldom laughed that hard.

[Chromatix]

ISTR:

Elevator doors open to reveal a man in full devil costume inside, and a little old Baptist lady outside.

"Going down?"