I lived in the dorms at OU for two years. One year too long to get any sort of credibility or respect from our predominately Tri-Delt and Theta hall. Few people really talked to my roommate and I once they found out we were sophomores, we hadn’t pledged the year before, and that we were almost twenty. Like, OMG.
There were a couple of girls at the end of the hall that were nice to us though, when they passed by and our door was open or when we ended up in an elevator with them or something. Then their crew (which I’m pretty sure was actually the 7 brothers they shared between them — they were all 6′3″ish, had crossed eyes, and may have been from Idabel. Establishing a location that I think explains the crossed eyes and blank expressions.) started showing up and glancing menacingly into our open room and they weren’t so friendly anymore. However, they were kind enough to share their music with our hall, the hall across from us, and probably the two above and below. Well after visiting hours and usually after the aroma of vomit deposited in front of my door had faded.
Thanks to YouTube, I believe I’ve figured out what was going on down there. Presenting “OU’s finest”…
Just making their parents proud because they are getting the education that they never got, at the expense of their parents hard work and sacrifice. The really bad thing about all of this is, when they drop out or get kicked out, it will only foster their belief that they are being beat down by an unfair system. But on the up side President Boren got his Affirmative Action numbers for 2008-09 school year.
Hey! You kids turn that crap off, clean-up your rooms, and get to bed and I mean now dammit!
Carrying the Jarboe torch. Brings a tear to my eye.
Wow, “chiefmech,” latent racism much?
you guys should really think about hiring more folks or putting a forum on this site. You’ve had 2 posts in 4 days and this is one of them… it’s really reaching.
I made it through a minute and a half. Did I miss anything?
And we wonder why there are so many shootings on the NE side….(see Bobo’s Fried Chicken is Extra Bad For You…)
I don’t know much, but I do know this: I’ll shut the site down before
I ever add a message board / forum.
chiefmech, is it hard to type wearing that heavy white robe? Klan much.
that video brought back a memory: those tiny ass “closets” in the OU dorm rooms. I had to grow corn in mine for botany, my roomie was growing weed. I got an F on my project, but I gave her an A…and we celebrated 4:20 style.
4 minutes and 59 seconds of my life completely wasted. What’s next? Are you going to post Beer For My Horses in it’s entirety?
when they drop out or get kicked out, it will only foster their belief that they are being beat down by an unfair system
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Or, they’ll be making millions off of suburban white kids everywhere that idolize them.
At least the girl might, she can flow. The others…not so much.
No white robes required, and the only clan I belonged to was a brief stint in the clan McCloud in the 80’s. Merely pointing out that kids these days have no respect for the sacrifice that their parents have made to send them to a great school to open their minds to new ideas and all they do is spew hatred and disrespect for their fellow man and women. And the hypocrisy of colleges when it comes to education and income.
Toby Keith and TLO commenters are neck in neck in the thinly veiled racist comments contest. First prize, dinner at Ted’s with Randy Terrill.
Chiefmech, that justification doesn’t really work considering the fact that you brought “unfair system” and “affirmative action” into the conversation, in combination with projecting likely failure for some kids goofing off in a dorm room.
The first step to conquering your problem is recognizing it, and we all know the best place to do that is, um, the internet?
chiefmech, the thing is, you don’t actually know the first thing about the real lives of the people in that video. For all you know, they could tote 4.0 averages during the day, and that room could be in the honors dorm.
Considering that it’s OU, isn’t that given?
While it doesn’t appeal to me, it is a form of poetry and protest and I’m down with that.
Is that Courtney Paris?
After having permanently relocated to OKC a few months ago I’ve found TLO to be an excellent, entertaining source of information about my new home and have never held the OU thing against any of you despite being a graduate of “the State’s Other University.” Through the eyes of your writers I’ve been afforded an intimate, insider’s view of the real OKC. However, having said that, I grew up 12 miles north of Idabel in Broken Bow so it was extremely disappointing for me to read this writer’s humiliating characterization of folks from Idabel (i.e. “cross eyes and blank expressions”). In the course of my work I travel to many different parts of the country and am always met with good-humored remarks about Okies with their “double-wide tornado targets,” toothless grandmothers,” and “incestuous cousins,” but am ashamed to find those stereotypes still being promulgated here at home.
So, you hate rednecks, black people (and their music) and sorority girls? You’re a barrel of fun.
Thanks, onelone, I was looking for a way to say the same thing (okay one that didn’t involve questioning the poster’s credentials to judge cross eyes and blank expressions.) You said it more eloquently butmaybe I just should have used the word “better” so the poster could understand.
But Bless Your Heart, Wendy, you hang in there. Maybe someday someone from Idabel will take a liking to you.
That girl D’ goes hard in the paint!
Boomer Sooner!
“You people” take this stuff way too fu$kin serious.
Business as usual.Just without the Chicken Truck.
I say we have a TLO Rap off / Dance off contest.
The joy of TLO is their call-it-like-I-see-it attitude mixed with shades of cynicism and drizzled with sarcasm. Quit being so sensitive people! I did my time in the dorms, too. Whether or not these kids will make millions like Diddy or Missy Elliot or whether they drop out, its irrelevant. This crap is annoying at 2 in the morning (see title of post)! And please don’t stop making fun of small town Oklahomans. I’m from a town called Nardin, Oklahoma. Population 80 (mostly my family). We have a Co-Op and a church and 1 person who still has all his teeth. I laugh about it all the time. lighten up guys.