5 Types Of BlackBalled Pledges

5. Shitshow Pledge

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“HOLD MY BEER AND WATCH THIS!”

Shitshow Pledge is the toughest pledge to cut. This kid is the life of the party, but for all the wrong reasons. Sure, everyone has that night where they did something, or someone, they really fucking regret. That’s every night of the week to Shitshow Pledge.

In his first few weeks of pledgeship, he already has as much blackmail as you’ve gotten in your multiple semesters worth of raging, not to mention a few STDs as proof. Despite being relatively normal in stature, this guy thinks he’s absolutely invincible. He’s been kicked of about every bar you can name for fighting, typically losing. He’s that guy that puked on his date at her date party, and got her fined and sent to standards for it. The amount of drugs this guy carries around on a daily basis could keep a strung-out rehab clinic attendee happy for weeks. He is already on each sorority’s shit list before pledgeship is even over.

Basically, Shitshow Pledge is a science experiment of every bad PR quality of each member in your house, somehow mixed into a living, stumbling, cursing human being. While at first he’s the house hero for all of this, all the brothers quickly realize that they’re getting screwed into playing damage control with this kid on a nightly basis. He’ll usually have been arrested a few times, and proudly wears your letters in the mugshot, which he uploads to Facebook shortly after.

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  1. commentsonwrongpost

    I had more like 5-10 mind blowing experiences, but good column. frat on sir

    12 years ago at 3:32 pm
    1. Tuco1855

      Agreed. The awkward pledge is worse than he appears. Just because he doesn’t do anything wrong doesn’t make him less detrimental. He’s an absolute cancer to your house’s social reputation. Girls hate the awkward guy more than anyone else.

      12 years ago at 12:12 am
  2. ThatGuyFromHS

    try hard pledges: the kids who read TFM in highschool and took it literally

    12 years ago at 3:46 pm
  3. Fraternity Lifestyle

    You forgot to mention TFM’s role in producing the Try-Hard pledge.

    12 years ago at 3:54 pm
    1. Pike_Roofies_YOLO

      He’s the guy rocking his Chubbies, Rowdy Gentleman tank top and visor on the way to class during blizzards and hurricanes.

      Fixed.

      12 years ago at 4:11 pm
    2. UofA_BetaThetaPi

      Dont forget his cheap/free neon sunglasses with croakies, and his sperries

      12 years ago at 1:00 pm
  4. CampusPaperEditor

    How dare you not include everyone! You can expect an editorial tomorrow detailing the outrageous exclusivity of Greek Life!

    12 years ago at 4:01 pm
  5. usc91

    Hope there is a part 2 to this column, we balled 3 other types of pledges this year

    12 years ago at 4:11 pm
  6. FrattingInMySperrys

    How many more fucking “types of” piece of shit columns are going to be written?

    12 years ago at 4:13 pm
    1. IFWT

      Just waiting for the “5 types of shitty TFM columns you’ll read” to be an actual column.

      12 years ago at 6:14 pm