It's not every day that you can help a friend make a dream come true. But friend of the site joem has a dream, and I want to help him make it happen:
I have a modest proposal that doesn't involve cannibalism. Let's start an internet meme!
We've
all seen people complaining about some certainties of the internet
(recycled content, so much porn, trolls everywhere, etc etc). Now,
various online communities/forums have their own ways of mocking these
things, and sometimes they spread to other forum/communities, like much
of 4chan's contributions to the world of mockery.
Well, I might be mistaken, but I don't think there
is any general way to mock someone for not quite "getting" the
internet, asides from just calling them "newb" or "n00b" or some
variation. But this phrase is a little too general. It can be applied
to more situations than just someone not getting the internet. (It can
be applied to someone not getting anything, basically.) I have a
specific phrase, which we've all heard before:
"Welcome to front house."
For the uninitiated, the fraternity that joem and I (and some other OC readers) belonged to in college had three houses. Front House was the main house and, uh, the one in the front. Now, there may have been some lame fraternities that hazed their pledges by making them do push-ups and dig ditches out in the back and then live in them for a week, but much more common in our fraternity was the hazing of other members. And sometimes they would get upset about being hazed. Ooh, you don't like being hazed? Too bad!
Welcome to front house!So when you stormed out of your room in a huff because somebody was blasting music in the hallway of the fraternity house at 3 am?
Welcome to front house! Or when some lady
complains about the traffic in Houston and trying to make an exit across six lanes?
Welcome to front house! Or an
article in a blog makes fun of the quality of service that your cable company can provide?
Welcome to front house!!!
