# Glee question - slushee to the face **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 8, 2010, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410 "2010-06-08T11:32:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MsChilePepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MsChilePepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsChilePepper)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/21 "2010-06-09T08:49:29Z")
Glee isn’t a satire, it’s a farce, wherein pretty much everything is radically and ridiculously exaggerated for effect, and to serve the plotline. It isn’t a documentary or any flavor of reality, and they don’t want you to believe it is. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/22 "2010-06-09T16:06:08Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > At some schools, you wouldn’t even be allowed to have the drink (outside the lunch room anyway) let alone throw it in someone’s face. Shockingly, kids get away with stuff they’re not “supposed” to have all the time. For example, I routinely spent free time my senior year on the 6th floor (the art/music/drama floor) listening to a CD player, which we weren’t allowed to have. The one time anyone who cared saw it, they just made me put it in my bag instead of confiscating it. ETA: Also note, carrying a drink with the specific purpose of dumping it on someone is liable to not take a lot of time, versus walking around the halls and actually drinking the whole thing. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/23 "2010-06-09T16:21:50Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Other things that don’t happen in real high schools: > > 1. The glee club and the cheerleaders have million-dollar budgets. > 2. The principal gets blackmailed left and right. > 3. The clubs have to keep winning tournaments in order to stay funded. Note that points 1 and 3 at least seem more plausible in conjunction with each other. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2010, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/24 "2010-06-09T21:42:38Z")
> [@Shot\_From\_Guns](#): > > Shockingly, kids get away with stuff they’re not “supposed” to have all the time. For example, I routinely spent free time my senior year on the 6th floor (the art/music/drama floor) listening to a CD player, which we weren’t allowed to have. The one time anyone who cared saw it, they just made me put it in my bag instead of confiscating it. > > ETA: Also note, carrying a drink with the specific purpose of dumping it on someone is liable to not take a lot of time, versus walking around the halls and actually drinking the whole thing. Yeah, well, in some places you can get away with murder, so? Doesn’t mean the rules don’t get enforced in other places. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/25 "2010-06-10T14:21:11Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Yeah, well, in some places you can get away with murder, so? Doesn’t mean the rules don’t get enforced in other places. So, it’s another data point (well, anecdote point) about high school in America, and how it reflects the accuracy of _Glee_. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19adc/32.png) [@I\_Am\_The\_Lorax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Am_The_Lorax)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/26 "2010-06-10T14:33:04Z")
I actually had a Slurpee thrown at me. Not at school, but on the way to school by other students. So, it happens. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/27 "2010-06-10T15:52:43Z")
> [@Laudenum](#): > > Another thread in my quest to ‘get’ Glee. > > What is the deal with throwing slushees (a coloured ice drink) in the face of kids you don’t like? > And it’s accepted. > > In Ireland, even in places where bullying is tolerated, that would have people going nuts - certainly a teacher that didn’t intervene would be frowned upon. > > Is that actually normal in American high-schools? No. That’s not to say bullying isn’t a rite of passage for many high school students, but it tends to be a lot more low key than what you see on TV - a lot of namecalling, some mild pushing and shoving, flicking the back of someone’s head, shooting spitwads. When I was in high school (mid 90s), I never once saw someone stuffed into a locker. I never saw anyone get a swirlie. I never saw anyone get tied to the flagpole. Where I went to school any of those things would have gotten you not only a suspension, but also an assult charge as well. And I wasn’t a big guy in high school, but you can bet if someone threw a drink in my face, I wouldn’t take it lightly, even if retaliating meant getting my own ass kicked. I’d have too much self respect not to fight back. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410/28 "2010-06-10T16:01:04Z")
A lot of bullying these days is more psychological than physical. Teasing and verbal harassment. Which isn’t to say the physical stuff doesn’t happen, too–it does–but that it’s easier to get away with “just” words. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glee-question-slushee-to-the-face/542410.md?page=1)