Back in high school, I was involved in a few of the drama productions. I was a terrible actor and couldn't sing for shit, but a bunch of my friends were into it, so it was an opportunity to spend school nights with them with minimal adult supervision. This lack of supervision led to a certain amount of mischief-making which included swirlies. For those of you who have lived a sheltered life, a swirlie is where a bunch of people grab someone, force their head into a toilet, and flush it. The ones we gave were always in a "clean" toilet. We all got one at one point. It was sort of a rite of passage.There was one kid, a real dorkus, who, after receiving his, squealed to the teacher/director. The teacher informed us that swirlies were forbidden. He then claimed that, in his opinion, a swirlie was as bad as rape. I wonder if there are any rape victims out there that wouldn't have rather had their head briefly soaked with toilet water.
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How nice of you to make sure the toilet was clean. That is true friendship.
What was the teacher's position on wedgies?
I'm sorry, the whole toilet-water thing is just...disturbing to me. I never gave, or received, a swirlie. Thank God.
was it Joe that squealed?
and I'm so glad the girls in Drama didn't do that to each other.
Back in high school "at band camp" a couple guys got chocolate pudding wedgies for initiation. I think they were raped...with pudding.
I wonder how high the danger of an E. coli infection is from that stunt? Now, if that happened, it would be a closer contest. Otherwise it's just gross.
Never gave or received a swirly, but it just cannot even be compared to rape for christs sake!
I once had a wedgie tho that shoved the boys so far into my body cavity I thought they would never return...
I just like the word swirlie. Is that wrong?
As one of those who faced The Inquisition (altho I only observed, not performed, said swirlies), I still think relating it to rape was a stretch.
It's like in the first Die Hard where Deputy Dwayne T. Robinson says "that's like pullin' the trigger yourself!"
Not so much of a pacifist back then, huh?
I always managed to neither give nor receive a swirlie. I hope it stays that way.
There used to be a Boston band back in the 90s called The Swirlies. Good name.
Swirlie, Noogie, and Wedgie - why do they have to all sound so cutie?
Over on the wrestling team we got our repressed stuff out on the mat. No need for swirlies.
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