Get drunk or...

I love 50 cent. 'In da club' was basically the soundtrack to my senior year in college. I loved him even after he made a movie called Get Rich or Die Tryin'. I was ok with the fact that they made a video-game inspired by the movie. I love him THAT much.

Earlier this morning, as I was rushing to make it to my 10 o'clock meeting, I ran into a couple of sorority girls headed to the nearby bar. See, Penn State kids engage in this weird activity called bar-crawling, where they leave the house at 8 in the morning and spend the whole day going from one bar to the next. They are obviously drunk by the time the bar-tour's over. Also, they are very insistent that everybody else is aware of the fact that they are crawling so they make event-specific t-shirts that say ingenious things like: The four P's of drinking: Pong, Power hour, Puke and rally, Pass out. .

The girls from this morning were no exception from the rule. If anything, Penn State students hate to be exceptions to any stupid rule by which their life is run. They are all exceptional at rule-following. But this time they had completely outdone themselves in their stupidity. They were wearing shirts that said: Get Drunk or Die Tryin'.

Now, I'm no prude by any stretch of the imagination. I like to drink and am serious believer in the therapeutic power of getting drunk out of your mind every once in a while. But wearing a shirt that professes your willingness to kill yourself in the quest of being drunk screams stupid to me. In a place where many kids actually do end up dying or getting hurt because of their ridiculous drinking habits, wearing such a shirt is not even remotely funny. What their shirts should have said, I think, is Act Stupid or Die Tryin'. Fuckin' idiots.