Ever been bullied?
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- BusterBoy0
"To this day, the boy that used to bully me at school still takes my lunch money. On the plus side, he makes great Subway sandwiches"
- doesnotexist0
internet bullying is the worst.
- album agreesGeorgesIV
- pango toooey
- fredddddd toooey
- monospaced tooohhhhhsnap
- inteliboy0
Does bullying on QBN count?
Seriously though...
Grade 4, this mega bully that everyone hated & was scared of, sped past in the morning on his BMX "out of the way fuckers!" then proceeded to stack and break his arm. We all kept walking, ignored him, and made our way to school whilst he screamed out for help. He was the nicest guy ever after that.
- ukit20
Maybe I'm alone on this, but I don't think everything that happens to you as a kid determines your future personality so much. I mean obviously, there are some extreme cases out there were kids were driven to depression or even suicide over bullying. But I think people can get overly psychoanalytic about this stuff.
- Everything that has ever happened to you determines your current personality..... Literally everything, especially something extremeset
- ...something extreme and emotional like bullying. Have we ever agreed on anything ukit? :)set
- Literally everything? I don't even remember half the stuff that happened in grade school, so why would it affect me?ukit2
- Everything that's ever happened to us has shaped who we are today, regardless of whether you remember it or notset
- I don't understand how anyone could disagree with that...set
- Are you exactly the same person as you were last year? Yesterday, even? No, is the answer.set
- I agree with set on thispinkfloyd
- I just think people can get carried away over interpreting this stuff. It's definitely good for the psychoanalyst paycheck though :)ukit2
- though :)ukit2
- good point as wellpinkfloyd
- we are products of every second we have experienced, that idea is not really getting carried away in my opinion.set
- I agree.monospaced
- set I guess the question would be how much every single experience affects you...my guess would be the human mind minimizes and discards stuff that is not importantukit2
- mind minimizes and discards stuff that is not importantukit2
- Having said that, I'm not an expert on this...but I'm guessing neither are you :)ukit2
- I'm an expert on everything, you should know this by now.
: )set
- inteliboy0
In high school I bullied this kid, and saw that he was really upset. I saw him later sitting alone after school, I went over to apologise, but he stood up and punched me in the guts.
- doesnotexist0
yeah. i got over it.
- utopian0
I have a few friends that are city cops, and they were definitely bullied as kids. Just saying'.
- exador10
used to get bullied a bit when i was a kid....
country school, lots of very tough kids, and..well..it was the 70's / early 80's...one kid in particular was the main source...and he bullied 'everyone'..absolute little psychopath...
pretty much everyone was afraid of the kid...
i think he made it his mission in life to absolutely terrify everyone...so it wasn't just me...
he got his kicks out of randomly scaring other children by whispering to them in class 'today's the day i kick the shit out of you'...
and then leave you wondering when and where he'd do it....
and usually he wouldn't....he'd just let the fear eat at you all day...
but every once in a while, he'd fight some kid, and pretty much destroy him...just to keep the fear in the rest of us alive i suppose....by about grade 5 or so, this was a thing you just learned to live with...
then one day, as i was walking up through the school yard, i realized i was late coming in from recess...and i looked around, and i was alone..no friends, nobody....and suddenly ...there he was...walking right beside me....
'today's the day' he said...and something in me snapped.
i figured, ..well...i guess that's it....i'm fucking dead....
but i'm not going out without making it cost him...so i grabbed him by his jacket and pushed him against the wall and was about to fight for my fucking life...
when suddenly a teacher stepped out from around the corner and told us to hurry up..we were late...
teacher had no idea what was just about to happen....i let go of his jacket and walked into school.
he NEVER bothered me again.
ever.myself and all my friends had lived in fear of this guy for fucking years...and it was all over after that one small interaction.
by about grade 6/7 he'd discovered weed and hash, and quickly became a burnout metalhead looking kind of guy...(well, we were all basically metal heads, but he was definitely high most of the time)
by highschool i only ever saw him occasionally....and it was always fairly ok by then....whatever demons had haunted his childhood had largely been quieted by all the pot.....
towards the end of highschool, he approached me and asked what i was doing after...he'd heard that myself and a few friends had been accepted into design school in toronto..and he asked if it was possible if he could move up with us...
i kind of fobbed off a quick 'uh...not sure...i'll ask the guys'...
and never spoke to him again...when i look back now, i definitely remember the fear, the anxiousness and all the other feelings....he really was a horrible kid to be in school with...
but mostly now, i just have a ton of sympathy.....i feel kind of bad for that lost little kid that thought the only way to get respect on the school yard was to beat us up...saw him last year at a mutual friends funeral...
it'd been over 25 years...and seeing him again still filled me with dread.at lunch after the funeral, a few of us got together to reminisce....and wouldn't you know....the conversation was almost completely about that guy...and how he'd bullied all of us...
it really is amazing how one fucking guy like that can shape your childhood...
and THAT would be the main reason BOTH my kids take martial arts...
:)
- pango0
Only few times. but i didn't have self-esteem issue and actually enjoys the excitement of retaliation. it's like an invitation to fight em.
none of them attempted second time.
and since most the bullies were taller than me, it doesn't make me look bad fighting em. None of em can hit harder than my parents anyway (asian thing...)
- GeorgesIV0
Is racism considered bullying?
we're in 2014 and everyone pretends to be open minded,
yet I still experience the closet racists in my day to day life,I wish we could go back in the past where it was "politically correct" to speak your mind and tell someone you didn't like him because of his skin color, sexual orientation, etc,
I miss the 80's
- You're a racist yourselfpinkfloyd
- are you serious,
my cat is white!!GeorgesIV - But you dont have yellow cat. Racist!!pango
- [serious] people throw the racist word so much it's lost its luster, just like those ghetto people call themselves niggers...GeorgesIV
- ...like people who didn't grow up in the ghetto saying that ppl or a(ny) thing is "ghetto"ohhhhhsnap
- racism only exists because of racist adults and racist media always talking about race and racists.inteliboy
- you'll see kids don't give a fuck about race.inteliboy
- mg330
I wouldn't call it bullied, but it's funny how even situations where you feel bullied professionally as an adult can linger with you. I worked somewhere where things were so over-analyzed, and I was constantly being asked to over-validate, over-prove, over-explain my reasons for doing things. Nothing ever felt good enough to just run with because all the over-thinking made me doubtful about everything, apprehensive about whether it was a good idea or not.
So, not physically bullied in any way, but since I'm not at that company anymore, it sucks that all of that got bottled into a sort of attack on my confidence, and it totally lingers with me no matter how confident I feel at my current job.
- oey0
I was bullied a lot for different reasons.
Sometimes i had fights with 5 kids at the same time.But, as soon as I found out I could kick most of kids asses...one by one in single fight things started to change.
Later, in high school I was bullied for having glasses or long hair or coming from a small village into the city or even for having good grades. One day I exploded and kicked two bigger guys.
The worse was to come when around 10 bigger guys waited for me in the school patio, they kicked me hard and tied me up with duct tape against a basketball basket pillar and painted my lenses with Edding markers.After that because I gave a good fight against them I turned into a bully myself for a certain period, like 1 year...
It didn't last long because it was not my thing, I felt bad and I got along with everybody which was way cooler.
And I had more interest in girls and other things than being an asshole.
- utopian0
When I was between 8-12 yrs. old, I was really small and skinny. I had my fair share of ass beatings. When I was between 13-17 yrs. old, I grew tall and worked out. I then proceeded to beat the shit out all the bullies that fucked with me. I then went after all bullies you fucked with the weak, shy and or awkward kids in my school and neighborhood and protected them from being bullied.
- monospaced0
Making fun of autistic kids isn't bullying.
- •______• is there another message hidden underneath what you just said?pango
- nomonospaced
- allllllright then.....
glad we cleared that out.pango - I'm not autistic.monospaced
- :) now you say that.pango
- Could have fooled us my friendset
- Just kiddingset
- kidding = bullying?monospaced
- I guess there's a fine line between teasing and bullying. You're a grown man though so, ya know.set
- alright alright break it up guys. i have a feeling one of you's gonna blow it up very soon.pango
- nothing to break up, we're discussing the fine line between teasing and bullying. I'm not autistic so I dont' caremonospaced
- http://i.imgur.com/h…pango
- Pango is the kid at school that shouts 'fight fight' when two intelligent kids are having a debateset
- =Pset
- I was teasing though. I'm a fan of mono's, believe it or not.set
- hahaha, feels like itmonospaced
- a.....mmm....h...
sure. whatever....... •_____•pango - i'm not a fan of mono so ya' know.ohhhhhsnap
- oey0
Internet bullying is the worst!
pango just asked me if i wanted to be his bitch and he wanted to do something with my butt...
