Was gleeking a thing for you?

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Johnnnybones@reddit

Yes! Still have excellent gleek skills!

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Dense-Health1496@reddit

Yep. Mine was more of a shotgun pattern.

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pimento_mori@reddit

Yes. My older brother used to gleek on me all the time, so one day I spent hours teaching myself how to do it so i could finally get revenge! I can still do it!

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theeBrownNote@reddit

Yep, gotta yawn first to unlock the power of the gleek

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myka-likes-it@reddit

It was a favorite of all of my bullies during middle school. I must have absorbed gallons of spit from those sucker's. Up until I got the nerve to punch a few of them.

Growing up queer in the 90s was fun.

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Michellenorman28@reddit

No man…not me, I’m a chick, but all my guy friends would do it back in the day. I have never tried and have no idea how to do it 🤷‍♀️😂

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balthus1880@reddit

omg....in 8th grade my best friend Jonathan would just gleek on my desk as I would sit there in disgust and amazement. What a fucking insane face squirting talent.

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FutureLocksmith9702@reddit

I'm a grown ass man, I just spit on people now, mostly people I like a lot and they like it too

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fenwoods@reddit

I had never heard that term until seeing it come up in this sub.

Not only not heard the term, but it was never a thing people intentionally did, let aline have s name for, when I was growing up.

So it kind of boggles my mind reading all these stories of it being a generational trend.

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PSN-Colinp42@reddit

I didn’t know there was this definition. There was a sitcom back in the day about a girl who was half alien and gleeking was what using her powers was called.

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QualityParticular739@reddit

I'm still lost and have no clue wtf it is.

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miltonwadd@reddit

When you fold your tongue back and press it to the roof of your mouth, it can cause the saliva glands under your tongue to uh for lack of a better word, ejaculate.

Mostly, it happens on accident. You probably know someone who cops "say it don't spray it" often because they're a squirty talker.

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QualityParticular739@reddit

I never knew that's what it was called. 😅 I knew one kid in school who did that, and he only did it to be a prick to the girls. Never realized it was such a common occurrence.

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rangeghost@reddit

I've only ever done it accidentally, never on command.

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marionbobarion@reddit

I totally forgot that was a thing and would not have been able to tell you the name until you said it, but yes we did it. We never figured out how to do it on command, it either did or didn't.

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Genericname187329465@reddit

I used to be able to spray like a dilophosaurus.

I just gave it a shot and now my screen is wet.

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Genericname187329465@reddit

This is going to be the weirdest G rated OF ever. I'd better start hydrating.

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AgreeableAardvark78@reddit

Ooooo but playing JP in the background.

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lavasca@reddit

and use gatorade gleek in multiple colors

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Ippus_21@reddit

They're gonna be rich, lol... Millennial retirement plans, man.

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DUDEBREAUX@reddit

Gleek on your feet and double your revenue

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hellocousinlarry@reddit

I remember it being about a one-month phenomenon at my middle school. How on earth did this trend spread, and with that name too? It seemed to overlap with the Binaca trend—maybe they were related?

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Legal_Scientist5509@reddit

BFF (a teeny 5’1 woman) can Gleek at least 6feet with accuracy. It’s impressive!

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No but now it just happens. I yawn, I move my mouth a different way and just squirt all over the place. Soon enough it’s going to happen at the worst time. And it’s completely involuntary. Getting old is stupor

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Ippus_21@reddit

I remember it being kind of a fad in like 5th grade. Mostly everybody realized how stupid it was and quit trying by middle school.

I could never do it on purpose.

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DamarsLastKanar@reddit

Ah, middle school.

Gleeking was right up there with HAHA YOU HAVE REFLEXES when you flinched.

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colo_kelly@reddit

Two for flinchin’ 👊👊

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ScotterMcJohnsonator@reddit

I'm '81 and I've got a 14yo son who does this now too, so I'm happy to see it holding strong!

They wipe it off now though? If you don't wipe after your two hits, they get one retaliatory hit or something like that

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ScotterMcJohnsonator@reddit

My wife does it involuntarily about 65% of the times she yawns lol

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Dry-Discount-9426@reddit

My wife tells me that I do it in my sleep.

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VoodooDonKnotts@reddit

Just about every time I yawn, kind of annoying to be honest.

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ZandorFelok@reddit

Accidental gleeker..... I'd be the one person talking and then whoosh goes the gleek without having a clue how I did it and the person nearest freaking out thinking I'd done it on purpose...... then the entire conversation converts to the one person who could gleek on command and then the gleek training session ensued without anybody actually learning how to do it

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riverguava@reddit

I did the equivalent to my then manager at my first adult job - I was eating cherry tomatoes. Luckily he was cool.

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WritingNerdy@reddit

What was your first adult job? The Steward of Gondor?

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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

"FLEE, ABANDON YOUR POSTS!!!"

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carnivorouz@reddit

https://i.redd.it/th3r0gbjxfse1.gif

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i-am-your-god-now@reddit

I had a friend who would gleek, lol. I was never able to. 🤔

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HumanExpert3916@reddit

I could only ever do it after I yawned.

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norfnorf832@reddit

Yes lol damn i forgot all about that

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Geek_King@reddit

I'd gleek on accident while eating as a kid, when I realized I could do it on purpose I set my will to learning how. I can still gleek really long distances! I learned as an adult I'm a bit tongue tied, as in I have a little flap that partially connects my tongue to the floor of my mouth. The dentist I go to has an attached tongue fixing wing, so naturally they pressured me to get it "fixed", but I didn't move forward with it. I mention it because gleeking for me is forcing two glands under the tongue to force out fresh saliva, and those glands are attached to that flap of skin. I think if i had the tongue corrected, I'd loose my ability to gleek. My main reason for not fixing the tongue tie is, mine isn't super severe, and I've had it my whole life, I worried that if I got it corrected I'd hate how everything felt, and would regret it.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

I tried so hard to learn how to gleek. Never could figure it out. Still don’t know how to but I still want to be able to.

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Due_Dog8610@reddit

Me too! Never have figured it out.

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RoyalPuzzleheaded259@reddit

I’ve done it accidentally about 4 times in my life and never sure how I did it each time.

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jgengr@reddit

I yawn-gleeked this morning!

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Some-Secretary-4672@reddit

I'm still pretty good at this

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Roklam@reddit

Yeah, I've punched a few dudes in the face before

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AlekHidell1122@reddit

I could never do it.

Or the water drop cheek flick sound.

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skeptoid79@reddit

My babysitter Katie taught me how to do it when I was around 3rd or 4th grade.

Fun fact, she's the granddaughter of governor John Connolly who was hit by one of Lee Harvey Oswald's bullets when JFK was killed.

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lasims79@reddit

lol, yes I forgot about this.

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alien-1001@reddit

Funny you mention this, I caught my daughter watching a 'how to gleek' video lol. I only knew one person who could do it. She can hold also do that weird "prison snap" with her fingers. Iykyk

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Glass_Bookkeeper_578@reddit

I could never do it and I hated that I couldn't!

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

F*k gleeking!!

My older brother did that shit & would spit on me in the middle of the night when I was trying to sleep. F*king piece of shit!!

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migs647@reddit (OP)

That sucks :(. Hopefully you got him back.

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

Not really. Karma f*ked him up pretty good, though....

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Flaky-Garlic7890@reddit

I always thought it helped immensely eating or drinking something sour.

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Appropriate-Food1757@reddit

Yes and I taught my kids how to do it last week.

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jonny_blitz@reddit

Gleeking trend is still here. It’s just who can do it down under instead.

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migs647@reddit (OP)

🤣😆

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tasukiko@reddit

Not really although it felt slightly cleaner than regular spitting so if I needed some juice to clean something real quick, a gleek might do in a pinch.

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migs647@reddit (OP)

Yah for some reason it didn’t bother me as much as spit even though pretty much just didn’t have air mixed.

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siobhanenator@reddit

Yes. I taught my youngest sister to do it, and she taught all her fully millennial friends to do it too. I hope the gleeking tradition continues on lol.

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migs647@reddit (OP)

Thank you for your contributions to society :)

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Dare2BeU420@reddit

I could never do it... that and not being able to do the water droplet sound when you flick the outside of your cheek used to annoy me so bad 😂

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yitbosaz@reddit

I remember it, but I could never figure out how to do it on command.

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kaest@reddit

Still is. Sometimes I do it accidentally while talking or eating. My wife loves to point out when it happens even though it's obvious.

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unbalancedcentrifuge@reddit

My salivary glands sometimes do it aganist my will...usually at an inopportune moment.

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EveryDiscussion@reddit

I had forgotten about it, until a day or two ago when I did it by accident and got my desk all wet. And nope, I could not figure out how to do it on command again like when I was 11.

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Global-Jury8810@reddit

This is something that would just happen to me. I was never able to time it or gleek at will. It doesn’t happen anymore.

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New_Needleworker_473@reddit

Yes. In my mind it was a feminine way of spitting on people. Lol! We used to dare people to "accidentally" gleek on a teacher. The reward was a slushie, the penalty for failure was a Mountain Dew shower. I don't know how we came up with this stuff but now that I think about it, it was kind of cruel and kind of hilarious.

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pak_sajat@reddit

Everyone that reads this is instantly trying to do it again.

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gatsome@reddit

Was? Still is.

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canray2042@reddit

I could Glen and I could (and still can) blow saliva bubbles

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BearCat1478@reddit

My cat likes that more than gleeks lol!

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Vox_Mortem@reddit

I feel like this was more a boy thing in my area. Most girls thought it was pretty gross and didn't even try. I was one of the ones that was pretty grossed out by it.

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BearCat1478@reddit

As a chick, I gleeked with the best of 'em. Always a tomboy but so were all my gal pals. We played manhunt later than most boys did too. I have the stupid sissy test scar on my hand and as a dummy I know what a deep 10 is too!

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Top_Stand_7043@reddit

Accidentally gleeked on my new baby niece last night. We were both so surprised! Cracked everyone up. I never learned to control the damn thing.

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BearCat1478@reddit

I still do it on accident. I have a cat that loves it when I do it at her. She tries to attack it then wants to know where it comes from lol

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culturebarren@reddit

I accidentally gleeked on the kid in front of me while I was in line to receive my first communion. Perhaps foreshadowing my lapsed Catholic adulthood.

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Quenzayne@reddit

I never heard the term “gleek” until just about a year ago and it was on this sub.

We always called it “snake spitting”.

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rojoshow13@reddit

I really hated the kids who did it right at you and then said, "I didn't spit on you". The fuck you didn't.

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Iron_Butterflyy@reddit

Flashback! I haven't thought of that word in forever. I could only ever accidentally gleek. Had friends that could do it in command with precision aim, though!

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invisibleconstructs@reddit

Yup! Totally a thing, but I could never do it on purpose, much to my dismay.

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Adorable_Goose_6249@reddit

My 10 year old just learned how to do this! I could only ever do it accidentally.

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ObiWan-Shinoobi@reddit

Just did it to my dental hygienist yesterday so yup sure is

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harlembornnbred@reddit

Never heard of this until now. I've done it accidentally but this was not a thing growing up in NYC. Any kind of purposeful spitting is fighting action

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Yarn_Addict_3381@reddit

Can’t do it on purpose, but sometimes when I yawn, it happens and I have no idea how.

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Glittering_Tea5502@reddit

I don’t even know what gleeking is.

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No9No9No9No9@reddit

Still do it as a nervous habit on my mouth all the time. ADHD is real.

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DerbGentler@reddit

I had to look up what that means.

And I think I accidentally gleeked once in my life, back in the 90s.

Some water spurted out of my mouth while yawning, and I couldn't tell why.

So, I was an accidental one-time gleeker.

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_R_A_@reddit

I honestly never heard of this before now!

Like, I had to Google this to see what people were talking about; I genuinely some recall this being a thing back in the day. Maybe just not in our little bubble?

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