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re: Were swirlies actually a thing back then or just something you saw on TV

Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:36 am to
Posted by Hangover Haven
Metry
Member since Oct 2013
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 9:36 am to
I had to Google “swirlie”…. Thank God my parents sent me a Catholic school….

Worst thing I got was a backhand to the nuts walking in the hallway. You quickly learned the nut cover while between classes.
This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 9:39 am
Posted by wfallstiger
Wichita Falls, Texas
Member since Jun 2006
14690 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:03 am to
Sure were
Posted by AlextheBodacious
Member since Oct 2020
3633 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 10:06 am to
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I had to Google “swirlie”

What a nerd
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
100262 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 12:31 pm to
I never saw one happen.

The impossible sit-up in the locker room was a thing though.

Convince a freshman, usually one who has a big ego and thinks he is a badass, that you cannot do a sit up with a towel over your eyes. Say it’s a mental thing and your body cannot overcome it. They’ll usually try it, and when they do you place the towel over their face and when they try to sit up you hold it down so they can’t, meanwhile another person stands over the one attempting the stop and drops his pants. You let go of the towel and the person sits up real fast only to get a face full of asscrack and nutsack
Posted by SUB
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Member since Jan 2009
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Posted on 10/15/25 at 12:39 pm to
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Convince a freshman, usually one who has a big ego and thinks he is a badass, that you cannot do a sit up with a towel over your eyes. Say it’s a mental thing and your body cannot overcome it. They’ll usually try it, and when they do you place the towel over their face and when they try to sit up you hold it down so they can’t, meanwhile another person stands over the one attempting the stop and drops his pants. You let go of the towel and the person sits up real fast only to get a face full of asscrack and nutsack



Posted by Harry Caray
Denial
Member since Aug 2009
20092 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 12:50 pm to
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Swirlies were definitely a thing. Subjected a few shitheads to them

They deserved it.
I'm sorry your dad beat you
Posted by Bullfrog
Running Through the Wet Grass
Member since Jul 2010
60299 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 1:31 pm to
Thanks.
But I deserved it and he said it hurt him more that it hurt me. Whatevs.
No worries.
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
37482 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 1:38 pm to
I remember hearing of them during my brief bullied dork phase and swearing I’d fight to death to prevent it. Luckily I overcame that phase just fine.
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
73144 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 1:46 pm to
Yes. Hold a person in a toilet and flush.
It was a thing.
People were mean in the 90s.
Though the pantsing was more common.
Posted by MWP
Kingwood, TX via Monroe, LA
Member since Jul 2013
10957 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 2:17 pm to
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Swirlies were definitely a thing. Subjected a few shitheads to them



Yep I pledged Kappa Sigma in the early 90's. Pretty sure everyone in my pledge class had to get one at some point. It was fricking disgusting and the main active that would make you do them was a dumbfrick JA that would give himself one. I honestly have no clue how someone didn't get gravely ill. That's why I tried to never be at the house ever as a pledge on a Friday or Saturday night.
Posted by jchamil
Member since Nov 2009
18798 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 2:20 pm to
The older students used to throw the 7th graders in the BFI dumpster behind the cafeteria. Usually only happened to kids with older brothers or who knew older students, not the weaker kids, some got tossed in for being obnoxious. It was almost a rite of passage condoned by the school, we had a picture in our yearbook of a guy climbing out of the dumpster in his coat and tie
Posted by philly444
stuck in contraflow
Member since Nov 2008
12171 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 2:35 pm to
We gave a pledge a swirly one time. shite cracked me up
Posted by AtlantaLSUfan
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2009
26638 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 2:37 pm to
In HS we use to pick up freshman and set them into a garbage can then laugh as they crawl out. Harmless. We would be friends after.

A swirly is just crude.
Posted by BPTiger
Atlanta
Member since Oct 2011
6031 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:01 pm to
About every other week in one particular high school class we would rip our friend’s shoe off and throw it out the window just prior to the start of class. He would walk outside with one shoe and one sock to retrieve it.
Posted by CarRamrod
Spurbury, VT
Member since Dec 2006
58279 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:05 pm to
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Taking a kid’s shoe off on the bus and playing football with it in the aisle.
thats just wild stuff....
Posted by makinskrilla
Lafayette, LA
Member since Jun 2009
9752 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:19 pm to
Mid 90s suburbs Tulsa Oklahoma swirlies were definitely a thing.
Posted by yakster
Member since Mar 2021
3493 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:42 pm to
I thought you were talking about chocolate and vanilla ice cream cones. What a disappointment.
Posted by Packer
IE, California
Member since May 2017
8686 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:49 pm to
HS Wrestling team would always haze a few of the dumbass lower classmen wrestlers by giving them swirlies or pink bellies, which was holding them down, lifting their shirt, and slapping their stomach until it was pink. I wisely chose to play basketball in HS

This post was edited on 10/15/25 at 3:50 pm
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
18842 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 3:52 pm to
quote:

The impossible sit-up in the locker room was a thing though.

Convince a freshman, usually one who has a big ego and thinks he is a badass, that you cannot do a sit up with a towel over your eyes. Say it’s a mental thing and your body cannot overcome it. They’ll usually try it, and when they do you place the towel over their face and when they try to sit up you hold it down so they can’t, meanwhile another person stands over the one attempting the stop and drops his pants. You let go of the towel and the person sits up real fast only to get a face full of asscrack and nutsack


I've seen at least a half dozen impossible situps

Posted by tigerfoot
Alexandria
Member since Sep 2006
60632 posts
Posted on 10/15/25 at 4:08 pm to
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Did know of an entire football team taking dumps in one toilet and not flushing. It was disgusting.
how in the hell do 70 folks get on the same shite schedule.
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