Jonluw said:
ReservoirAngel said:
Jonluw said:
If there is one thing I've learned from this thread, it's that English-speaking people apparently don't shower after gym.
Once again: What the hell guys? Seriously. Gross.
I mean, I can understand when it's shy and insecure twelve-year olds we're talking about, - They don't sweat very much in any case - but 14-18 year olds? Yeah, go take a shower.
You try having a decent shower when you only have 5 minutes to get from one class to the next. It was either be late, or don't fucking shower. And given that in my school all the teachers were either massively unfair or dangerously unstable, it was really advised that you not be late.
Yeah, but why do you only have 5 minutes in the locker room before the next class?
We're given time to take a shower between gym and the next class. It just serves to prove that the no-showering-after-gym culture is really ingrained...
And I seriously can't understand that.
Put it this way: our lessons (in my school at least) were 50 minutes long. No exceptions. In between that 50 minutes, we had 5 minutes to get from one place to another, since the longest walk from one end of the school to the other took about 3-ish minutes so they just made it 5 to allow a little bit of freedom there.
This includes P.E, since no lesson gets more time than any other lesson. So we had 50 minutes of P.E. This included the time to change INTO our P.E kits. We also had sadistic fucks as P.E teachers who were sports-obsessed sadists, so they wanted to get the students working their arses off for the longest time possible. This, unfortunately, led them to keep us out on the field until right before the end of lesson bell. Which meant we had just over 5 minutes to get back to the changing room, change, pack our shit and get to our next class.
Yes, it was stupid, but you couldn't really fit a shower on top of that time. Some managed it but they tended to usually be late. So the no-showering thing was a by-product of time constraints. Stupid, yes. But that's how it was.
They did give more time but ONLY if you specifically took P.E as a GCSE subject in Years 10 and 11, since without that you only had one single lesson of it a week.