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How Glee Inaccurately Depicts Lima

If you're familiar with the show Glee you might remember that is takes place in Lima, Ohio. But, if you're not familiar with the show, I'll tell you about it. The show takes place in a small city (yes, Lima actually is a city, but it's surrounded by villages) in Northwest Ohio. A group of high schoolers are in this show choir with the dream of winning nationals. The show used to be more popular years ago, but I just started watching it in June because as always I'm behind on shit. But, I do live 45 minutes away from Lima, Ohio. One of my biggest pet peeves is places and people being inaccurately depicted. Lima is nothing like it is shown in Glee. Northwest Ohio is nothing like it shows in Glee, which is weird because the show's writer is from Lima and should know his shit.

1. Show Choirs

We don't really have show choirs around here. We do have some, but they mostly came around because of Glee. The high school I went to had a "show choir" but they only performed at choir/band concerts. They didn't do anything else. Also, we suck ass. Nobody can really sing around here. They just think they can sing. Take my school (my old school now I guess), all these bitches in show choir and the musical think they can sing, but they all really sound like dying animals that are out of tune. No one around here is doing so damn good with the show choirs that they are known. Like I had to look up if we actually had competition show choirs. They obviously aren't that good if I didn't know they existed.

2. Schools

Schools are like the ones in the show. One, McKinley high school isn't a real school. Schools aren't that relaxed around here. There's security cameras everywhere. In my school, by and in the band room alone we had 9 cameras. You can't throw a slushie in someone's face. You can't have those in school at all. Also, people don't give you shit verbally for being in something like they do in Glee. They'll just do it behind your back here. Additionally, you can't kiss in school like the people in the show do. There's no PDA rules everywhere. Like my school rulebook had the rule "no petting other students". Because you know you would pet people like you do a dog.

3. Outfits

I thought this was necessary because no one dresses like half the bitches and dumbasses in this show. Nobody wears their varsity jacket around school or just casually around. Nobody wears their cheerleading uniforms around. People don't do that kinda shit here. Not to mention, it's gross as fuck to wear the same thing everyday. Like don't you fucking wash that ever? But, let's get real, the schools around here have strict ass dress codes. You can't show your shoulders if you're female because you might give some guy a boner I guess if they see your shoulder or bra strap.

4. Lima

Lima is nothing like it looks in the show. In the show it looks nice. Lima's actually a rundown piece of shit and that's in the nice part of Lima. Go over by the hospitals and you may get jumped. Like my cousin had someone jump on the hood of his moving car as he was leaving work (at one of the hospitals). A classmate of mine sister had a peeping tom and they also looked through her garbage. Everything is leaving Lima. The Lima mall is going out of business because all they sell is shitty outdated shit.

That's all I have for now, but considering I'm not even a complete 3 seasons in the show (and there's 6 seasons) this is kinda sad. I had more reasons too, but I was kinda only half awake when I thought of them and I didn't want to move. So I forgot them.