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Anyone here bullied in school?
Posted on 12/10/17 at 2:56 pm
Posted on 12/10/17 at 2:56 pm
Just watched the Keaton Jones video. Heart just breaks for the kid, man. Kid is going to have to toughen up, but as a parent I hate the effect the "toughening up" has on such a sweet little boy.
Full disclosure, I do not support bullying legislation. Bullying, as a portion of my life experience, made me who I am today, good and bad.
I was brutalized constantly for being super poor, kind, and the only white kid in my neighborhood, classes, and group homes.
It made me harden up by high school, but made me extremely hostile and violent to everyone. I thought the answer to every issue was to "make sure you weren't a bitch", which usually meant hurting someone. Win or lose, right or wrong, it always ended up with someone being hurt bad. Were it not for my absurdly amazing foster parents, I likely would have had a prison-filled path in life.
So there is a little bit of me out there. . .
What experiences did you have with bullying? How did it affect you growing up?
Full disclosure, I do not support bullying legislation. Bullying, as a portion of my life experience, made me who I am today, good and bad.
I was brutalized constantly for being super poor, kind, and the only white kid in my neighborhood, classes, and group homes.
It made me harden up by high school, but made me extremely hostile and violent to everyone. I thought the answer to every issue was to "make sure you weren't a bitch", which usually meant hurting someone. Win or lose, right or wrong, it always ended up with someone being hurt bad. Were it not for my absurdly amazing foster parents, I likely would have had a prison-filled path in life.
So there is a little bit of me out there. . .
What experiences did you have with bullying? How did it affect you growing up?
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Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:00 pm to Roaad
I was always one of the bigger kids in my grade so I didn't get bullied. I did beat up a bully in the 5th grade on behalf of one of my friends. I got my arse whipped by the principal for it too 
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:02 pm to Roaad
Yeah it sucks. This won’t be popular round these parts, but it was mostly by the black kids at my school. (Public school)
This post was edited on 12/10/17 at 3:02 pm
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:03 pm to Roaad
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Anyone here bullied in school?
everyone was at some point in their lives. I couldn't imagine growing up now where there is no reprieve from it though. With social media, you never get an escape at all and that would be really rough.
On the other hand, bullies teach you to deal with adversity and does toughen you up a bit.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:03 pm to jdeval1
I don't think I'd be able to record my kid like that.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:04 pm to Roaad
The problem with bullies is their shitty parents.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:04 pm to Roaad
Only for the first week while I was a Freshman in HS. A senior would push me around and call my names, so I eventually slugged him in the nose. We actually became friends afterwards. Different times I guess.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:05 pm to Roaad
We had a 18 yr old that was a freshman because he was so stupid. He was the meanest person I have ever known. Used to do all kinds of stuff to us and we couldn't retaliate because he was so much bigger.
He went nowhere in life and died in his late 30s.
He went nowhere in life and died in his late 30s.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:06 pm to Roaad
No, I got along with pretty much everybody. We didn’t really have any bullies in the classic sense of the word, or at least I didn’t notice any bullies.
I can see where bullies are necessary for children in order to learn how to toughen up. Nobody likes a bully but kids are so sheltered nowadays that I think sometimes that it would be good for some of them to have some adversity. It teaches them to be able to handle stress and handle problems. But our society it seems is run rampant with helicopter parents that it won’t happen.
In regards to that comment about Keaton Jones, I wouldn’t have videoed that, I’d have told him to go and whip that bully’s arse the next time he was mean to him. If that was my son I wouldn’t have let him put up with that shite. Sometimes you’ve just gotta be a mean son of a bitch to get the outcome you desire.
All that video is gonna do is just egg the bully on more.
I can see where bullies are necessary for children in order to learn how to toughen up. Nobody likes a bully but kids are so sheltered nowadays that I think sometimes that it would be good for some of them to have some adversity. It teaches them to be able to handle stress and handle problems. But our society it seems is run rampant with helicopter parents that it won’t happen.
In regards to that comment about Keaton Jones, I wouldn’t have videoed that, I’d have told him to go and whip that bully’s arse the next time he was mean to him. If that was my son I wouldn’t have let him put up with that shite. Sometimes you’ve just gotta be a mean son of a bitch to get the outcome you desire.
All that video is gonna do is just egg the bully on more.
This post was edited on 12/10/17 at 3:10 pm
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:08 pm to Roaad
I’ll be honest and open up for you guys a little bit. I was. What was weird is that when it came to sports, i was accepted. Anything outside of that, socially, i was not.
There were three individual guys that fricked with me all the time. This was 20 years ago. My senior year in HS, i was 5’6, 140, tops. So any physical altercations were probably not a good idea. After I graduated high school, I shot up to 5’10, 5’11, 180.
We’ve all grown up and are adults now and to this day, i still dislike them and wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. There’s been a couple of instances where these same guys have tried to say hello to me later and life and I refuse. When I was buying my house, the guy I was working with as far as mortgages asked me if I wanted to switch Realtors and it turned out to be one of the guys that fricked with me way back when. I laughed and said hell no. Probably cost him thousands of dollars.
Saw him about a year or so later and he waved or tried to be cordial. frick that guy.
There are still lingering psychological issues still to this day (self esteem, confidence) that I deal with because of those assholes. Once I got out of high school, I flourished. Partied. Girls. Whatever. But completely different than what I was coming up in HS.
I watched that little boys video and I swear to god, if I ever find out my kids were being fagg0t little assholes to another kid because he’s different or was just being a jerk, my kids will absolutely pay for it.
If there’s one thing I hate more than Gumps, it’s bullies.
There were three individual guys that fricked with me all the time. This was 20 years ago. My senior year in HS, i was 5’6, 140, tops. So any physical altercations were probably not a good idea. After I graduated high school, I shot up to 5’10, 5’11, 180.
We’ve all grown up and are adults now and to this day, i still dislike them and wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire. There’s been a couple of instances where these same guys have tried to say hello to me later and life and I refuse. When I was buying my house, the guy I was working with as far as mortgages asked me if I wanted to switch Realtors and it turned out to be one of the guys that fricked with me way back when. I laughed and said hell no. Probably cost him thousands of dollars.
Saw him about a year or so later and he waved or tried to be cordial. frick that guy.
There are still lingering psychological issues still to this day (self esteem, confidence) that I deal with because of those assholes. Once I got out of high school, I flourished. Partied. Girls. Whatever. But completely different than what I was coming up in HS.
I watched that little boys video and I swear to god, if I ever find out my kids were being fagg0t little assholes to another kid because he’s different or was just being a jerk, my kids will absolutely pay for it.
If there’s one thing I hate more than Gumps, it’s bullies.
This post was edited on 12/10/17 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:08 pm to Roaad
The video is hard to watch
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:09 pm to Roaad
Whoever down-voted the OP should go frick themselves.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:10 pm to Roaad
Was never bullied or a bully. I had friends from every group.
Did get punched in the mouth by a black guy in high school. Walked up to talk to one of my friends and tried to shake a guy’s hand that I didn’t know. He said, “I don’t know you, get out of here” and I said something jokingly. The black guy I went to say hey to stood up for me pretty quickly and as fate would have it, the guy that punched me actually became a pretty good friend of mine after that.
He said I could take a punch and he was sorry he did it, but he didn’t trust white people. I drove him home after football practice when I got my license.
Did get punched in the mouth by a black guy in high school. Walked up to talk to one of my friends and tried to shake a guy’s hand that I didn’t know. He said, “I don’t know you, get out of here” and I said something jokingly. The black guy I went to say hey to stood up for me pretty quickly and as fate would have it, the guy that punched me actually became a pretty good friend of mine after that.
He said I could take a punch and he was sorry he did it, but he didn’t trust white people. I drove him home after football practice when I got my license.
This post was edited on 12/10/17 at 3:11 pm
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:11 pm to Roaad
#metoo
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:11 pm to TigerFanInSouthland
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We didn’t really have any bullies in the classic sense of the word, or at least I didn’t notice any bullies.
I’m guessing you were known by other people as one of the bullies.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:12 pm to The Pirate King
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I’m guessing you were known by other people as one of the bullies.
No man, I got along with pretty much everybody. I was a smart arse but I never really had any problems with people.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:13 pm to Prominentwon
quote:Yeah, same here
I watched that little boys video and I swear to god, if I ever find out my kids were being fagg0t little assholes to another kid because he’s different or was just being a jerk, my kids will absolutely pay for it.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:13 pm to Roaad
I was bullied by 3 guys when I was in the 8th grade. One day I realized the only way to make it stop was to fight back.
I hit the ring leader in his punk arse mouth as hard as I could one day and he fell out. I was never bothered again.
I'm sure social media could make some kids life a living he'll.
I hit the ring leader in his punk arse mouth as hard as I could one day and he fell out. I was never bothered again.
I'm sure social media could make some kids life a living he'll.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:14 pm to Roaad
I have a feeling a lot of the OT all stars were bullied in high school.
Posted on 12/10/17 at 3:14 pm to Roaad
Even though I was a big kid I was bullied some, probably because of my calm quiet personality. It was always the same 2 or 3 people, I just ignored it, but one day in the 8th grade they happened to catch me in a bad mood, I swung at one of them and landed a pretty good hit they backed off, and left me alone after that.
I think kids today have it much more difficult due to social media, in my day if you were bullied you could leave it at school, but today kids are tormented almost 24/7. Girls have it much worse due to they way they are wired. Boys in a group will pick on a weaker kid, but usually someone in the group will only let it go so far and stop it, girls will pick target and make it a mission to destroy them.
I think kids today have it much more difficult due to social media, in my day if you were bullied you could leave it at school, but today kids are tormented almost 24/7. Girls have it much worse due to they way they are wired. Boys in a group will pick on a weaker kid, but usually someone in the group will only let it go so far and stop it, girls will pick target and make it a mission to destroy them.
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