Stuff Frat People Hate: GDIs

While yesterday was all about the great things about going back to school, today has a more depressing tone. Today I’m here to talk about the white sunglass wearing scourge of each and every one of our college towns, the dreaded “GDI.” While we chose to be normal human beings and enter into the success-oriented greek system, these creatures elected instead to stick to high-school esque partying, Tapout shirts, and an eternity of social awkwardness.

I’m here to clear the air- it’s not that we hate GDIs just because they didn’t embrace the same (admittedly awesome) lifestyle as us. We don’t hate the fact that they chose a life of solidarity and Xbox Live tournaments instead of our booze filled superior path. We don’t hate them because we have far more post-graduate connections than them (someone has to work under us after all). We hate them because, more often than not, they’re fucking annoying.

While some GDIs are better than others (I’ve even met some that seemed normal), the majority of these Affliction donning atrocities are no better than the hobos that sulk around asking the post-bar crowd for change. While we can be rather arrogant assholes at times, our more independent peers take their douchiness to the stratosphere. Whether its a “Jersey-shore” guido geed, a foul smelling hipster geed, or the ever worthless stoner geed, each of these characters try to detriment your fraternal lifestyle in their own way.

They may ask why your shorts are so short (“Makes it easier to take one-knee liquor pulls, obviously). They may block your path to the bar (they have to get their Jagerbomb fill). They might cut you off on campus on their longboards (I recommend knocking them over). Whatever these worthless geeds do, they represent the complete polar opposite of all things Frat.

While GDIs are annoying, we as fraternal men take the high road and typically completely ignore their existence. Don’t let a few bad eggs spoil the batch is my philosophy. But whenever a GDI crosses the line, by all means I encourage you to put them in their place, be it through insults or fisticuffs. We can’t have the future drive-thru employees of the world thinking they’re worth a damn.

  1. Itsadeepburn

    i googled cargo jeans for shits and giggles. The first link that shows up is to walmart (no surprise there). If you want a few laughs there’s several reviews of the jargo product, it seems even the geeds at walmart dont like em. pretty hilarious

    13 years ago at 7:16 pm
    1. Itsadeepburn

      “I wasn’t sure about these cargo jeans based on the website photos. But when I got them, they were really unattractive on me. They just don’t look like jeans (the regular pockets are all wrong, front and back) and the cargo pockets are too big. The overall cut is just sloppy too.
      I got another pair of cargo blue jeans from Southern Blues (southernblues.com) and although they were a bit expensive for a Walmart shopper like me, they were worth every penny. Basically, they look and fit like a good pair of Levi’s (actually even better) or maybe some higher end jeans, and the cargo pockets just blend into the pants.” hahahahahhaha fucking walmart people

      13 years ago at 7:17 pm
  2. Fratillac CTS

    You can joke all you want, but the fact of the matter is not all GDIs work shit jobs. Some of them might even have better jobs than you (yes, even you as the son of every CEO ever). Only about 2% of all men in America were ever in a fraternity, so there’s literally no possible way for us to fill all of the greatest jobs in the country. You will have to interact with these liberal low-life excuses for existence, and it will suck.

    13 years ago at 7:41 pm
  3. LSullivanRoss

    I am trying to figure out if the 1st picture is a guy or a girl. Reminds me of It’s Pat. Either way, that person has to have a closet full of flannel shirts, hiking boots, and cargo pants.

    13 years ago at 10:05 pm
  4. ohreally

    The part about the kids on longboards made me laugh, I actually had a situation come up where I didnt move out of the way so the geed was forced to roll into the grass. I just looked at him and he apologized haha

    13 years ago at 11:38 pm
  5. James Parks Fratwell

    ^ To much information. I’m not an idiot. I know all of that, as does every other person on this site. I was just making a joke, but you took the humor from it.

    13 years ago at 3:35 am