Poll: Bullying: Thoughts?

[Private Custard]

Bullying led me to wish that my entire home town was reduced to a giant smoking glass-filled crater.

Five years of it just about drove me mad. The walk home from school was a constant battle of wits, just to avoid them. It wasn't pretty, and I'm still pretty fucking bitter about it......and I'm now 30!

Yes, I'd still like to see all of them killed, it'd bring a nice closure to the whole episode, I don't give a fuck that they've probably changed now.

 

[Azaradel]

I don't know about how it ends up affecting other people, but I was bullied rather viciously between the ages of 7 and 16, and it did change me.

The bullying made me introvert and defensive.

I know people don't like me. I know people will judge me before they bother listening to what I have to say. And, quite frankly, I know people are intimidated by my intelligence and won't give me a chance because I'm not afraid of being different. It doesn't phase me anymore. I really couldn't care less if people like me or not.

Oh, and I know that teachers will deny bullying even if it happens in front of their noses - because if students were being bullied at their school, that would imply that it isn't as perfect as they'd like to think.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

it's a life experience

 

[LordFisheh]

It made me extremely introverted and cynical. Unfortunately, I was never one of those who was able to just turn round and whack them. Ah well...

Oh yes, and bitter! Never forget bitter...

 

[Sir Prize]

I'd say it does.

Bullying can make a person stronger or more hateful towards others, depending on how bad it is.

 

[Beldaros]

I was invisible the first two years of high school then a bully tried it on and I became infamous after throwing his head through a cupboard door. I was big back then. The next year or so I went after each bully and I got through them all, I suppose making me the biggest bully of all.

As for your poll. It entirely depends on the person. SOme people can be distraught over bullying. Bullying can lead to suicide. BUllying can lead to all sorts, or it could change the victim into a future bully. BUllies never make it far in life though, they end up changing their ways too late and end up with a shit lifestyle, or they don't change and end up in prison.

I've seen bullying have massive effects on people, I've seen some shrug it off and I've seen some who like me give into the monster that is in every human being. If I killed the guy I doubt I would have regretted it. It's way to easy to seriously hurt someone that's why the way of reacting to bullies can be really dangerous. I've never been one to tell people about my problems, but I still offer that as advice to anyone who gets bullied. Otherwise I may end up almost killing someone else, or indeed killing them. IT's too damn easy.

Convincing someone that you are being bullied can be difficult though. Try and get the schoolyard on your side. (I realise not all bullies are in school but the same theory applies.) If you are being bullied in a work place tell your boss, if you're being bullied by a thug, talk to the police. The police will always listen if nobody else will as well.

 

[Cmwissy]

It made me more hateful.

 

[Soushi]

Bullies are the meanest, dumbest, most useless piles of squid droppings that one can imagine. they are not useful, they are not productive, they are not pleasant and they just take up precious oxygen. I was bullied A LOT as a kid, something i remedied with a golf club when a group of them tried to follow me home one winter day when i was 14. It is just so unfortunate that the school system here in Canada is so unwilling to accept that most of these bullies aren't poor little misunderstood, good at heart children, but rather are just very good at manipulating people and are a bunch of f*cking asswipes who don't require counseling, but rather a date with a baseball bat with a nail through it. And here is the best part, bullies grow up. And do they mature, oh no, they have already learned the oh so important lesson that it is okay to push people around because only one out of a hundred will stand up to them. To all of you who are bullies, to those of you who take pleasure or fun out of making others feel genuinely bad, I wish a rabid wolverine showed down your pants and a wasps nest duct taped to your heads. Find a hole and stay in it you miserable loathsome f*cks, and always remember that very important lesson, some of us don't get mad, we get even.

*pant pant* hoooo... wow.... I saw a bright light for a minute there. In all seriousness, bullies suck, they do, they just suck. And i am fully aware that some of them have issues, and they weren't the ones i was talking about, my level of loathing for them is slightly less.

 

[Stoorm_]

i was bullied
naterally
i was always the smallest in the class
and in high school i just got plain pissed of with it
started working out, the lot
not many people say much to me anymore
now im much bigger

 

[A big red rooster]

I can safely say I would not be who I am today if it weren't for a number of assholes.

 

[Sir_Tor]

I was bullied too until I summed up the courage and beat the guy down with a baseball bat on the way from school in an alley. He got minor brain damage from it and his speech slurred but he never found out who got him that afternoon. Whenever I saw him after that I just got a warm feeling in my belly...ahh fun times.

Epic!! You followed and jumped him? Did he not see you or did you wear a mask?

OT: Wouldn't exactly call it bullying but sometimes a crackhead made fun of me. it all ended when he hit me with a glass bottle on my head (it hurts alot I can tell you) three times, at the third time I grabbed my own bottle turned around and swinged the bottle at his head. The bottle broke a bit and he had to spend the night picking out pieces of glas from his head. All I can say now: It was awesome! And I would do it again and again! Noone ever made fun of me after that.

 

[Communist partisan]

I've been bullied a long time in school but the baseball bat and my fists changed that and in my new school ppl stared f****ing me again and I'm really tired of fighting so I yust beated the shit out of two guys instead of everyone cos' the teachers don't care for them it's ok if they bully ppl or not so in my new school I was forced to do it so they would let me alone and than I got threatedwhith a knife in school they behaved like it was ok and everyone say sweden is a contry that have bullying under control BULL FREAKING HORSESHIT! and after all that shit repeatingly happenig I only trust weapons and my fists and that isn't good.

 

[lwm3398]

I mean, one of them tried to drown me, for Gods sake!

I wouldn't blame you for ending their miserable little lives then. I'd personally have snapped their neck at that point.

 

[tsatoma]

I was bullied verbally a lot by kids in elementary school, and it certainly made me less open and trusting to people. However I was never physically bullied, because the other kids knew not to mess with me because of this:

There was this one kid, Miguel I believe was his name, who decided to bully me and one of my few friends. After detention was over (I never did homework )he started messing with my friend. I tell him to leave him alone or else. He decides to come after me next. Tries to kick me hard, I dodge it and FALCON PUNCHED his face; breaking his nose and knocking him out for a few minutes.

Of course I was extremely proud of myself (and also terrified because I didn't want my mom mad at me). Everyone knew not to mess with me from then on, the teachers congratulated me (he was a huge jerk to them too), and my siblings all gave me major props. And I didn't get in trouble.

From then on I was never bullied again.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Every day for 6 years. By my entire secondary school. 1000 people, every single day and the teachers did fuck all. Then i smacked someone round the back of the head with a wooden stool and transfered out.
It completely changed who I was and made me who I am today.

 

[TheNamlessGuy]

DELETED

 

[Aesir23]

I was bullied throughout most of middle school, literally starting on the first day of 6th grade. It was verbal mostly but there were a few times where it escalated to physical violence.

Finally, one day in eighth grade I just snapped and started beating the current offender over the head with my Social Studies binder. It wasn't one of those three ring binders too. Needless to say, I was left alone after that.

EDIT:\\ But I do have to say, it did change me a lot. Before that I was the happy little kid who would try to be friends with pretty much anyone. Middle school hits and BAM! I turn into a painfully shy girl who's afraid that anything she might say could spark up that Hell once more. At least until I switched to an Alternative School (Illness reasons) and I didn't have to worry about the "popular kids" disagreeing with whatever I might say.

except he ended up going to "Alternative school" which in layman's terms means slack off and be able to graduate with the people who actually work their asses off for the diploma.

Ok, please don't generalize unless you've actually been to an Alternative school. I attend one and everyone I know there works just as hard as kids in a normal high school.

 

[Eggsnham]

I try to be reasonable and meet asswipes with kindness etc. etc. But some people make it too damn hard. In any case, I've learned to shrug it off after a hellish year in 4th grade in which the whole school ended being hostile towards me, I moved though and learned how to just not give a shit, but I really didn't need to considering most everyone at my new school liked me or was neutral with me, at least.

 

[DayDark]

I was bullied a lot at some point, sure it changed me, taught me the difference between disliking someone and, hating someone. Like I'm-gonna-kill-you-if-I-get-the-chance hating.