Types of Middle Tier Fraternities
The Try Hards
No one, NO ONE, frats harder than the Try Hards. They frat so hard that if you tried to frat as hard as them you’d end up shitting your pants and inverting your penis, purely out of shame. That’s what the Try Hards would have you believe anyway. They don’t aspire to be the best. They don’t live their college lives with the sole intention of raging. Their goal is to be the frattest bros on campus, if not Earth, and they need everyone to know it. What Try Hards don’t realize is that “frat” isn’t a thing you can TRY to be. It’s as asinine as someone claiming they “live like a champion.” What the fuck does that mean? Champion of what? People who think like that need to be raped by bears. So it is with the Try Hards as well. Their thinking is completely backwards. You don’t do all the things fraternity men do to be frat. It’s frat because we do it. The Try Hards are completely oblivious to this.
To the Try Hards something like the movie “Animal House” is more than an amazing, funny, and surprisingly accurate film. For them it’s part gospel, part porn. Watching it gives them what can only be described as a reverent erection. They see things like that film and try so, so pathetically hard to emulate and even escalate what they’ve absorbed. The saddest part about the Try Hards is that their letters often seem interchangeable, and their brotherhood disingenuous. It’s not that they love THEIR fraternity, they just love being IN a fraternity. Obviously they miss the point of joining a brotherhood entirely. Luckily for them theirs is a “brotherhood” of mostly likeminded douche bags. Post grad they’re likely to be one of two types of alum. The first being someone who can’t let go of the “glory days”(says the guy who writes for a fraternity website, ahem). It’s either that or they’ll never come around again, having used their fraternity and moved on. I mention the type of alumni they become because it’s one of the main reasons the house is only middle tier (and will never advance further) in the first place. Their alumni suck. The Try Hards usually haze pretty hard, but not because they think it’s necessary for the pledges to earn their way into the fraternity. They just do it because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do. Without understanding the WHY, there’s almost no point in doing it.
The Try Hards do decently for themselves in terms of parties and women though. After all, you can’t try your hardest to be “frat” without partying your ass off. Slams enjoy their parties and are tolerant enough of their company to go over to the Try Hard house regularly. They might be loud, intolerable, and have their fraternal priorities completely ass backwards, but at least they party and pull. But that’s about all they do, and they don’t do it as well as the Ragers or the Top House. This puts them firmly into the middle tier.
The _____________ House
They’re just sort of…there. Wait, who are we talking about again? Oh right, sorry, they’re just so forgettable. There really isn’t even anything funny or mean to say about these houses. They’re THAT bland. The “Blank” house, if you will, is the purgatory of fraternity life. They drink. They have parties. Decent (but not great) girls come over. Sometimes they’re good at stuff. Other times they aren’t. Their pledge classes are moderately sized. This is the very truest definition of a “Middle Tier House,” and subsequently the most common. The Blank house has a little bit of everything. They’re sort of a Jack of all trades and master of none. More often than not the Blank house just wants to be left alone to do their own thing, i.e. drink, slam, etc. They aren’t interested in being a campus powerhouse (like the Top House or the Overachievers) and they don’t insist upon themselves (like the Overrated House, Ragers, and Try Hards). There may be some members of the house who try to pull the house in one of those directions or the other, but the majority of the members are too apathetic to move one way or the other. They just exist.
Everyone would agree that the Blank house throws better parties than geeds, but no other Greek would be truly impressed by them either (except maybe bottom tiers). When sorostitutes go to a Blank house party it’s more so because their friends are going (for whatever reason, boyfriend maybe) than because it’s the place to be. Their pledgeship is also incredibly mild. The pledges certainly have to earn their way, but their path is far from difficult, mostly filled with cleaning and sober rides. Each member of the Blank house has to be taken as an individual as the range of character is everything from a cargo short wearing tool to a rich kid in Vineyard Vines. There is nothing bad about the blank house, but nothing special either, although considering the standards Greeks hold themselves to, that in itself is a negative.
The Meatheads
These guys live at the gym. They measure a man purely by his bulk (excluding the bulk of his shrunken, steroid ravaged scrotum obviously). Think their back-ne is funny? Laugh all you want you skinny pussies, because to them back-ne is simply the oily braille that tells the story of how they became a real man. Protein shakes are the most commonly consumed non-alcoholic beverage in the Meathead house. It’s all about getting swole up. Hell, if someone informed them that semen had protein in it they’d probably at least think twice about their previous skeet disposal methods. It’s not gay if it eventually leads to getting pussy, right? That is why they bulk up, for the ladies (and secretly each other).
Also, REC SPORTS MOTHERFUCKERS. The Meatheads dominate in every sport (kind of). Most of them were badass athletes in high school (badass is loosely defined). They take rec sports seriously, those muscles aren’t just for show damnit! The Meathead house’s pledgeship is crazy hard. They haze balls (just like their steroids, heyyyooooo). Obviously the testosterone fueled culture of the house has a quite a bit to do with that. Credit to their pledges though, those little meatheads in training take their hellish pledgeship like champs, maybe better than most other pledge classes. The Meathead house is also a prime candidate to perform gay-zing though, such is the consequence of the ultra testosterone culture. If “Roadhouse” were their favorite movie (and it might be) their favorite part would be the line “I used to fuck guys like you in prison.” Okay, to be fair that actually WAS the best part of that movie, but still, you get the point.
As far as parties go, I like this analogy: If the Ragers are the New York Yankees of festively fucking shit up, the Meatheads are the New York Mets. Same attitude, no credibility. The Meatheads WANT to rage. They’ve literally built themselves to slam and wreck shit, so they need to let it out. But they just aren’t that fun. A lot of times they’re creeps or just flat out angry drunks. Combining alcohol with their raging hormones and somewhat confused sexuality is like pouring gasoline onto a raging tire fire. They deserve credit where credit is due though. They often pull attractive women. After all they ARE in shape, it might be professional wrestler, male stripper shape, but shape nonetheless.
Farmhouse = Try-hards
13 years ago at 5:03 pmNo greek letters…NF.
13 years ago at 5:07 pm^ True, but wrong column.
13 years ago at 5:10 pmMeatheads= Pikes.
Pikes are meatheads, but they are most certainly not “middle-tier”. Beta outranks them on most campuses for Christ’s sake.
13 years ago at 5:41 pm^so, you know that from personal experience? Well, I’m glad you’ve been to “most campuses”.
13 years ago at 11:34 pmYa, theres nothing wrong with them, but they don’t put forth too much effort. TFTC
13 years ago at 11:52 pmSounds like Phi Delt to me
13 years ago at 12:14 amDefinitely Phi Delt.
13 years ago at 11:14 amHey fuck that, im not a Phi Delt my self or anything, but those mother fuckers rage at our school every weekend
13 years ago at 11:41 amFarmhouse is a terrible thing.
13 years ago at 12:08 pmPhi Delt is _________ House
13 years ago at 12:36 pmPhi Gamma Butt Slammas?
13 years ago at 1:05 pmPhi Delt will haze the fuck out of all you middle tier wanna be fucks.
13 years ago at 1:12 am^
13 years ago at 12:15 amthe picture of the guy passed out was taken at Dingus at Georgia Southern!
13 years ago at 5:06 pmcool story
13 years ago at 5:07 pmHis name is Tom Tolleson, he’s a sig.
13 years ago at 5:41 pmDingus NF, Retrievers FaF
13 years ago at 5:47 pm^is that a joke…?
13 years ago at 7:02 pmCam Sabin. NF.
13 years ago at 8:43 pm^Hahaaaa /
13 years ago at 9:57 amIs that a real school? georgia southern=NF
13 years ago at 11:33 amRetrievers is always fun but it’s kind of a gdi bar. Dingus is pretty good but Rums is the fucking shit. Any one who talks shit about Georgia Southern has obviously never been. We’ll drink you under the table and our girls are hotter.
13 years ago at 7:05 pmAlphaOPerfect more like “ALwaysopenPussy” or “Ate a whole Pie” Aopi and southern is a joke
13 years ago at 12:47 am*at… fuck
13 years ago at 12:48 am^^^SPOT ON.
13 years ago at 1:09 amnope… i put AlphaOPerfect and I meant perfect, but thanks!
13 years ago at 9:47 pmAlphaOPerfect aka Linley Davis
13 years ago at 11:09 pmTaylor Chatley’s boobage gives me a steel rod.
13 years ago at 5:08 pmI’d pee. Excessively.
13 years ago at 5:09 pmI pee’ed on my computer screen. I could not help it.
13 years ago at 5:11 pmAnd yet Gabriella scares the crap out of me…
13 years ago at 5:20 pmI didn’t think she was that bad!
13 years ago at 5:28 pmDid you see the eye makeup? Looks like Cruella Deville…
13 years ago at 7:09 pmBut her body, her body, man her body.
13 years ago at 8:54 pmTaylor gets more pee than my bladder can hold.
13 years ago at 11:16 pmPee for about 39 of the 47 current TFM Sweethearts, but that’s where I’m cutting them off. 39!
13 years ago at 1:28 amDude lets be honest, we’d all fuck every single one of them. Don’t lie to yourself.
13 years ago at 1:01 pmAnyone else notice that the try hards perfectly describes 80% of people on this site?
13 years ago at 5:26 pm^yes. if you submit any more than 1 thing a month u try way too fuckin hard.
13 years ago at 5:36 pmYou’re a try-hard for saying that.
13 years ago at 5:39 pmYou’re a try hard for even thinking that
13 years ago at 6:01 pmIf I had a nickel for every time “try hard” was used on this thread..I would have 20 cents.
13 years ago at 6:03 pmMeh, this website is more about “who can post the funniest shit” than an actual guideline.
13 years ago at 6:29 pm^Agreed. People take this shit wayyy too seriously on here. It’s a fucking humor website.
13 years ago at 7:31 pmSee yall Feb. 1. I’ve met my quota.
13 years ago at 8:39 pmIf you truly think “Reagan sucks”, you are not frat.
13 years ago at 9:05 pmDefinitely, top 3 things I hate about this site:
13 years ago at 4:30 pmcalling people out on spelling errors,
NF statements,
owning something they don’t have
Once again…perfect, Bacon. Perfect 🙂
13 years ago at 5:43 pmSuck his dick already.
13 years ago at 1:06 pmColumns on tape TbaconM
13 years ago at 5:48 pmI’d probably buy them, along with kenny powers audio books.
13 years ago at 6:19 pmHis columns are good but I feel my hair growing when I read them, thats how long it takes
13 years ago at 6:38 pmTotal Preschool/foreign language 101 reading level Move?
13 years ago at 9:13 pm^I’m Ron Burgandy?
13 years ago at 9:41 pmWho’s Ron Burgandy? Never heard of him.
13 years ago at 10:23 amI could be wrong, but i think its (insert comment about old wooden ship).
13 years ago at 1:03 pmThe worst part about the try hards is that they usually think they’re top tier.
13 years ago at 6:17 pmYes, that was established in the article.
13 years ago at 1:31 amWho shoved a bowling pin up your ass?
13 years ago at 12:15 pmfor meatheads why didn’t it just say pike?
13 years ago at 6:36 pmbecause they are bottom tier.
13 years ago at 6:48 pmThis guy’s up to something here
13 years ago at 7:47 pmHEY YOU DON’T SAY THAT
13 years ago at 1:12 amthe try-hards are directly influenced by this god damned web site. it’s fucking satire, fiji.
13 years ago at 7:57 pm^ Hioooooo
13 years ago at 8:53 pmPhi Gamma Butt Slammas
13 years ago at 1:07 pmCopying almost verbatim a TSM article. and working for TFM with people like Dick PErry (even though thats not his name) is a try hard.
13 years ago at 8:10 pmWhy did you read a TSM article?
13 years ago at 12:50 pmThey have TSM articles??
13 years ago at 1:03 pmWhat’s this TSM you speak of?
13 years ago at 10:32 pm