So, I've always wondered...

[Pike]

Yeah but didn't you go to school in Canada? It must be like the most polite school in the world.

[Pumpkin]

I see your point.

[The Man]

Middle school is indeed the smurfing worst.

[Psychotic]

What about SCHOOL SPIRIT and having random dances every five smurfing minutes and THE FOOTBALL GAME being the big thing that everyone gives a smurf about?

Honestly, these influences very much shaped my views of Americans being smurfing weirdos who take themselves way too seriously. Having known such fine Americans on EoFF I don't think that's true of all of you now, but god damn it still weirds me out. Tell me it's not real. Please!

[CimminyCricket]

I don't think my school was like that. Of course, my school's big draw wasn't the football, it was the hockey and even then I don't think the kids who played hockey were very popular. We didn't win many games. XD

[Del Murder]

What about SCHOOL SPIRIT and having random dances every five smurfing minutes and THE FOOTBALL GAME being the big thing that everyone gives a smurf about?

Honestly, these influences very much shaped my views of Americans being smurfing weirdos who take themselves way too seriously. Tell me it's not real. Please!

Sorry, it's all true. In fact, this is much more true than what Aul posted.

Just to be clear, we're talking about suburban high schools right? Inner city high schools are a whole different ballgame. You're lucky to get home each day without a fleshwound.

[Shorty]

School spirit rallies were the worst. My friends and I ditched them to smoke pot backstage in the auditorium.

[Pumpkin]

Oh I live near Clemson now which is apparently a college football town and my goodness is it obnoxious. It's like the Clemson Tigers or something and EVERYWHERE around the town is stuff like "Tiger Accounting" and "Tiger Ice Cream shop" and "Tiger Boats". There are orange (the teams colour) paw prints made into the road. People have it on their license plates and they go around wearing the gear when there isn't even a game going on. A lot of the fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut and Cookout just have GO TIGERS!!!! All over their walls. It's kind of annoying. I can understand people getting into the spirit during the season, but its everywhere all the time. On the roads is a bit extreme, I mean really.

[Psychotic]

Just to be clear, we're talking about suburban high schools right? Inner city high schools are a whole different ballgame. You're lucky to get home each day without a fleshwound.

Are you from DA STREETZ?

[Del Murder]

Hellz no.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Oh I live near Clemson now which is apparently a college football town and my goodness is it obnoxious. It's like the Clemson Tigers or something and EVERYWHERE around the town is stuff like "Tiger Accounting" and "Tiger Ice Cream shop" and "Tiger Boats". There are orange (the teams colour) paw prints made into the road. People have it on their license plates and they go around wearing the gear when there isn't even a game going on. A lot of the fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut and Cookout just have GO TIGERS!!!! All over their walls. It's kind of annoying. I can understand people getting into the spirit during the season, but its everywhere all the time. On the roads is a bit extreme, I mean really.

LET'S GO TIGERS!

My schools weren't really like that. There were bullies occasionally, but it seemed to boil down more to the classic "big person with family issues/lack of self confidence taking it out on the little person" type of thing. The closest the grouping came was that some people were "known" for their interests. Like band, drama/theater, football, etc. So that meant they probably socialized more with other people in that group, because due to hours of practice, they spent more time with those people. Even so, everyone pretty much hung out with who ever they wanted, and there was not a lot of bullying or cliquishness going on. I had friends from all over the spectrum, and that seemed to be a the case for everyone else too.

Some females had their "cliques" so it might have been worse for the ladies who weren't in the cliques? I didn't hear a whole lot about it.

[Shorty]

heyyyy my high school were the tigers, too!

[Shlup]

I hear schools in the mid-west are more like TV high schools. My high school experience was pretty chill--there were jerks, sure, but people of every "type" were nice to me; I didn't feel like I had to stay in a clique or something. Parties were similar to those on TV, I guess.

I had a friend who moved to the mid-west during their sophomore year, and when they got there they immediately started getting trout for not wearing Tommy Hilfiger. I don't remember Tommy Hilfiger ever being cool, but apparently at that school you got mocked if you didn't wear the "right" clothes. Meanwhile in Southern California, I wore whatever I wanted (usually a t-shirt and jeans, maybe fishnet shirts and old army jackets) and no one ever said anything mean to me.

America is a big place.

[Shadowdust]

It's been a long time since high school but some of the attitudes in those shows are there but not to the extreme. I heard of this one geeky dude getting canned by some jocks when I was in school. The kid had a serious superiority complex so I'm pretty sure he brought it on himself.

Other than that, it was pretty tame. I remember being called a snob for having a Jansport backpack but that's small potatoes compared to what you see in these shows. Oh, and lockers were only half size so you'd have to be a midget to get thrown in a locker.

[Unbreakable Will]

There was this kid in my Algebra 2 class that was so long and lanky that it was ridiculous, and he had this giant shnozz to boot. Everyone called him Birdman and I felt really bad for him, he caught so much flak for that smeller of his.