Finally snapped!!

[Caliostro]

It's the fact that people see this as a good solution and take pride in it that bothers me.

It's a good solution in that in this situation it worked really damn well. It ain't pretty, but it did what a solution is supposed to do; solve stuff.

It's a painful truth, but often the only way to get rid of bullies is to counter them with all that you've got. Bullies pick weak targets, showing that you're not weak gets rid of them. School's a dog-eat-dog world, especially for the geeks among us.

I have no idea who you're quoting, but I never said that... I can't even find the person that did in the same page... What the dick happened there?

You gave into temptation, resorted to physical violence, and in doing so lowered yourself down to his level. Why is that considered a good thing?

"Temptation"? "His level"? You do realize those are completely meaningless expressions right? He had a problem, and now he doesn't. Hard to argue the effectiveness of that. How is solving your problems not a good thing?

 

[Internet Kraken]

You gave into temptation, resorted to physical violence, and in doing so lowered yourself down to his level. Why is that considered a good thing?

"Temptation"? "His level"? You do realize those are completely meaningless expressions right? He had a problem, and now he doesn't. Hard to argue the effectiveness of that. How is solving your problems not a good thing?

To you they may be meaningless expressions. To others they aren't. How you solve a problem reflects who you are as a person. If you consider violence is a desirable method of achieving a solution, I'd say that reflects poorly on you.

But since we never agree on a single thing, how about we don't bother getting into a pointless debate and agree to disagree?

 

[Cowabungaa]

I have no idea who you're quoting, but I never said that... I can't even find the person that did in the same page... What the dick happened there?

Oops, that was a response on Internet Kraken, not you. I think he quoted you as well in that post and I made a mistake deleting stuff. I'll just try it again.

It's the fact that people see this as a good solution and take pride in it that bothers me.

It's a good solution in that in this situation it worked really damn well. It ain't pretty, but it did what a solution is supposed to do; solve stuff.

It's a painful truth, but often the only way to get rid of bullies is to counter them with all that you've got. Bullies pick weak targets and most of them aren't susceptible to reason as I've noticed many many time first-hand. Showing that you're not weak gets rid of them. School's a dog-eat-dog world, especially for the geeks among us.

Taking the high ground as you're proposing often just gets you into deeper troubles. Again, I've noticed that plenty of times first hand. Most bullies just don't give a damn about that, it just gives them more fuel. It's a shame, but often there's simply no room for such things if you don't want to get threatened by a knife and being forced to say horrible things about other classmates.

 

[hazabaza1]

My brother, being the big "I'm better than you" type person, was generally mocking me, treating me like a chi, etc, and I got fed up of 12 years of bullshit. I just punched him in the face.
Sure, he kneed me in the stomach and it hurt, but man did it feel good!

 

[Caliostro]

To you they may be meaningless expressions. To others they aren't. How you solve a problem reflects who you are as a person. If you consider violence is a desirable method of achieving a solution, I'd say that reflects poorly on you.

But since we never agree on a single thing, how about we don't bother getting into a pointless debate and agree to disagree?

My point is that your judgmental value of someone (or mine, or anyone's) is ultimately meaningless. Results matter. Opinions... Well, you know what they say about opinions right? They're like assholes: Everyone has one and they all stink.

At the end of the day, consider this: There will always be people who agree and condone, and people who disagree and condemn anything you do. At the start of that day, he had a problem, and there were people who agreed with him, and people who didn't. At the end of that day, there were still people who agreed with him, and people who didn't... But the problem was gone.

I'm willing to bet with you that the crushing majority of people who "look down" on violence either never had serious problems or just never had the guts to take that particular road. "Violence is bad!". Bet you would think twice if we were talking about a guy holding a gun to your family's head, or if you were on that conference room circa 1945 that decided to turn Hiroshima and Nagasaki into glass.

But since we never agree on a single thing, how about we don't bother getting into a pointless debate and agree to disagree?

This is a forum, all we do here is pointless debate. But fine with me.

 

[gl1koz3]

I was respected at school. So no bad things worth remembering.

But there was one kid... we both were around 10 years old. He thought he'd like to fight for my cousin's heart. Which was absurd... he didn't know we're relatives. Worst thing you can do is spit untruth into my face. So, when he cornered me, I punched a nice indicator on his right eye.

 

[CouchCommando]

Unfortunately I attended a school full of douches (I found out later the campus was been used as a dumping ground for "problem" students from the entire region) and I went from been a reclusive book reading library hanger to a foul mouthed amateur boxer just to survive high school.
Not something I'm proud of but yeah I put plenty of people who got off violating peoples personal space and or property in there place. Unfortunately due to their upbringings some people only respond to force.
Fight fire with fire was one of my main inspirations, as well as treat others as you wish to be treated.
My personal favorite event that wasn't really violent was when I witnessed a bully grab a much smaller introverts school books and throw them out of the second story window all over the quadrangle whilst the teacher was out of class. I simply got up whilst the demented weirdo was chortling up the front of class at what they had just done in the poor guys face, grabbed his entire school bag opened his pencil case and all his pockets on it and up ended it out the other window. The freaks were too scared of me by then to try their luck but I still fondly remember his confused expression on his face and him saying "why did you do that?"

 

[Archaon6044]

this prick at college always used to smash me about, once he came up behind me when i was in the study room between lessons, and smacked me on the back of the head, so i smacked the table with my face. eventually i decided i'd had enough, so i turned round and smashed his head through the partition wall into the room next door, and kicked him in the nuts.
strangly enough he left me alone after that. there were no reprecussions as well, because he was a known trouble maker, and i was known by the teachers to be mild mannered and in no way capable of such a thing, so they assumed he was using my as a scape goat

 

[LandoCristo]

Yep. He had broken my glasses, so after school one day (Middle School), I walked up and punched him in the face. Then he knocked me to the ground, and tried to kick me while I kicked up at him, until somebody pulled him off.

Wouldn't do it again, but wasn't that bad, for a fight.

 

[THEfog101]

Grade 5: Teachers son was in my class and was a huge douche-bag, picked on most kids in the grade. One day outside the bus stop he was picking on one of my mates to the point I decided to step in, roughly 15 seconds later he was on the ground bleeding from his nose and the realization that his mum was going to make my life a misery hit me lol. All the fun of attending a Queensland State School for primary haha.

 

[Silent observer]

...and my brother stopped people bullying him when he sat for 20 mins one break after something had kicked off with this kid in a headlock...

This image had me laughing out loud for a solid 5 minutes

OT:

I have never snapped, which is probably a good thing considering I'm six foot and probably weigh 50lbs sopping wet (exaggeration, but not by much ) and hate the idea of any sort of physical conflict.

Nevertheless, there are one or two people who I feel have more than warranted it over the years, and I would dearly love to go OP on their assess...

 

[etherlance]

I like where this thread is going. Yeeeeesssss...give in to your anger...let the hate *flow* through you...show no mercy, do not hesitate, and soon your transformation to the Dark Side will be complete.

I'm 21 years old and I have made it a point of pride that I never get violent with anyone.....but that Bastard made my life so miserable that I finally went Darth Vader dark side on his arse and sure as hell felt it!!

I gave in to the power of the dark side!!!

Is this after you ruin three films by aging really efficiently and becoming a whining teen

AHH Touche sir!!

 

[zwober]

I like where this thread is going. Yeeeeesssss...give in to your anger...let the hate *flow* through you...show no mercy, do not hesitate, and soon your transformation to the Dark Side will be complete.

but.. paks never gave in, did she ?.. even after all that abuse - she stayed on the path of light.

anyho, i recognize the whole "snapped"-part of this thread, and i doubt not many in here will -
my greatest worry is to snap today.

i used to snap quite often when i was younger, mostly because that was the joy of the bullies, watching me snap. after a few years in diffrent schools i suddenly met the unbelivable feeling of Not having to snap, due to the people at that school actually were quite cool. so, a few years passed and the new trend contiuned - i didint encounter any bullies, i made friends and everything was quite okay.

2 years ago i started working with an local ISP and theres a co-worker there for some reason is hard on my back for everything. got no idea why, but that old feeling of rage is building again.

whats hardest at the moment is that ive stopped smoking, so i dont have an excuse to go away for a bit to let of my "steam" - so, i worry not about the Snaps of yesteryear, but the future snaps that ill have.

oh, and my age is 27. age has nothing to do with it i guess, once you pop - you just wished you would have stopped.

 

[etherlance]

Congratulations and nice punch. Yes I have been bullied before. I was bullied cause I have a slight handicap.

It was something of a....

 

[Broady Brio]

Can't say I've snapped, but this guy and his stupidity thought it'll be fun to bully me for two years and think we're friends. I thought differently.

After those 2 years I was being a nobhead to him constantly and he finally snapped and punched me. It was pathetic and then he ran away after I recovered from the flinch.

 

[PhoenixKing]

At one point in sixth grade, I had this annoying kid as my forced lab partner. Now, not only is he annoying, he constantly touches whoever is closest to him, which was very, well, annoying. So, at one point, I snapped and stabbed his hand with a pen. He didn't bleed or anything, just got up and said ouch, and didn't come near me again.

 

[LightningBanks]

Back in secondary school (im in sixth form now) I used to get bullied by pretty much everyone that wasnt my friend (which were about 20). I am generally a peacful man, but there were sometimes I lashed out.

One being when some kid was taking the piss out of how light I was by constantly pushing the back of the chair, causing it to go up onto the two front legs, after about 5 times I calmly stood up, picked up the chair, then smashed it round his face, shouting HERES THE CHAIR IF YOU WANT IT SO MUCH

Funny thing was, the teacher was still explaining something the whole time. I think I scared the living daylights out of her

 

[Irony's Acolyte]

I'm not a very aggressive guy. Coupled with my easy-going nature means that I don't really reach the point where I just lose it. I have snapped a couple times though.

About 4 years ago my sister started to become a total ***** (probably puberty). Contantly insulting me, be annoying to everyone, starting arguements, laughing at others misfortune. Didn't help I had some bully trouble from some of the older kids on my bus. Anyways where before I would just ignore hurtful comments, she just wore away my patience. All the fucking time. So I think two times when she was being particularly annoying I just punched her, grabbed her, and then threw her around a little bit. To this day I get really defensive against anything I see as an attack against me (physical or verbal).

And before anyone says "You're such a horrible person for hitting your younger sister", let me just say that I'm the really skinny and lanky one. She's more heavy-set and athletic. She probably weighed more then me at the time. Probably still does. So it wasn't me taking it out on some weaker kid.