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>be me
>highschool gym class
>shirts vs skins
>take off shirt
>gym teacher sees my bruises
>get called into office
>asked if bruises are from home
>no these are from school
>oh ok
>never chosen for skins again
>thanks gym teacher

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This whole thread is hilarious. I've never seen any sort of distinguishing mark used, throughout the years. Whether on the play grounds or during phys.ed classes, or when I was in sports clubs.

How on earth did we manage? Apparently we had enough brain cells to remember teammates.

Like, seriously, the whole discussion is so alien to me.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

maybe you had a small class, that or a big brain

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm talking about all the schools I've ever been to. There is no such thing as skins vs shirts, in France. Classes are around 30 people usually. Never even heard of it until I went on the Net and was exposed to the US culture.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So you just remember which 15 people are in your group? Are the groups the same every time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

From primary school, we would have people pick teams one at a time. So yeah, you would remember who was in your team. I think the most numerous game would be football, but that would rarely be eleven a side. I ain't saying I'd remember everyone's name, but yeah, you generally remember the people on your side.
It helps that people are generally running in the same direction, or trying to attack you, you know? Faking being on the same team so you'd get passed the ball... never happened, in my experience.
By mistake, sometimes, but you'd have so many of your team mates shout at you for the mistake that you'd not do it again, haha!

Like I said, I'm really baffled this isn't the norm. Maybe it's a Gen X thing?
But that makes no sense. Younger generations are supposed to be more sociable, with much larger pools of "friends". So surely it should be even easier for ye.