>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

    • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      9 months ago

      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.

      • stebo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        51·
        9 months ago

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

        • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          9 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.

          • ashenblood@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            9 months ago

            Sounds like you just played a more limited array of sports. Football is honestly not easy without uniforms, but possible especially if 7v7 or something.

            But playing ultimate Frisbee, capture the flag, etc without uniforms is essentially impossible. Remembering who is on your team isn’t even the hard part. It’s more because you need to make quick decisions and recognize who is open immediately.

            So yeah… that’s how uniforms work. I would be baffled if they weren’t the norm.