A thread for all things Cephalopod

[cochrane]

@octopus

@Left_Hand_of_Dorkness

The state is already getting involved by giving this private boys’ club any sort of official recognition. Octopus, if you’re all aflutter about the nanny state, the only thing that makes sense is to recommend removing all official recognition from all private boys’ and girls’ clubs: there’s fuckall reason that the government should have any involvement with the Greek system, except to process the forms they file like everyone else and to punish its criminal and civil transgressions like everyone else.

But that’s not the world we’re in: we’re in a world where frats are intimately intertwined with state functions. As long as that’s the case, frats need to take their lumps when they get out of line: if a penny of my tax dollars go toward facilitating their existence, they can damn well behave according to standards the public sets.

Well, having consensual sex with another is none of your business. Even if it’s motivated in part by a contest. Why is it the university’s place to stick its nose in private affairs?

https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=20780767#post20780767

How can one person be that fucking clueless? How many times does he need things explained to him? If he had a brain for each arm, that still wouldn’t be enough.