Poll: Did you ever bully someone?

[J Tyran]

I voted for the last, I do not deliberately bully people but I am very prone to acting in a very passive aggressive way. This makes a lot of people wary if they think they are pushing my temper. In all honesty I have not hit anyone for just over ten years, age and anger management solved that problem a long time ago but people are still wary of this ancient reputation.

Although I never use it purposefully it still counts as a kind of bullying I suppose.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I'm lazy and a horrible person (you've probably educed that my answer is indeed yes >.<) so I'm going to copy what I put in a similar...shit, it was an identical thread from a little while back:

In my primary school days, yeah I think a few times I beat someone up, lashing out people who didn't deserve it in the heat of the moment; unintentionally gave one one kid a conncussion and the other in a neckbrace, putting them both in the hospital for a short time. No derision that I recall, though I was ostracised and to some degree bullied and picked on at the time as well, but given my conduct I suppose I deserved the shit I got. Though really, I kind of write off anything that happened or that I've done before the age of 12, I was an immensely thick, obnoxious, recalcitrant, unpalatable little asshole back then, I had a very short fuse and turned belligerent quite quickly. I really regret how I behaved back in those days, it makes me surprised anyone who went to primary school with would give me the time of day after we had left. Though from the moment I reached an age, where I was capable of exerting some modicum of restraint, civility and all around acceptable behaviour, I quite firmly packed that shit in and never looked back. Never getting into anything that could realistically be construed as a fight since, didn't get bullied per se from that point either, though a lot of kids, my friends included treated me like shit throughout a lot of those years. People who continue this sort of thing into their teen years; abusing others without any remote provocation, persistently picking out one kid and picking on them until they break...that just seems ineffable to me. I just think there's a certain age people should reach where they know better, where fucking with someone purely for the purposes of their own entertainment becomes a tad questionable. I don't know, can't say I understand it...though I suppose I'm pretty unsure why I acted the way I did in my pre-teen years, though I suppose that's largely due to me suppressing those times. Bullying sucks, man. That's a weak way to end a meandering rant, but that's all I got. *shrugs*

So yeah, I guess my only excuse was that I was in Primary school (elementary my dear for you yanks :3) and was consequently an impetuous dumbass.

Captcha: Describe HBO with any word(s)...

...Awesome!

 

[The Night Angel]

Yes, I am not proud of it, and I wish I could take it back. I have since apologised to the person though.

 

[Yuno Gasai]

I've never actively bullied anyone myself, no.

I did once take teasing one of my friends a little too far, though - but I was very quick to apologize and to ensure that he knew I meant no harm.

 

[Tanis]

"I still bully people"

I'm on the internet, so, yeah...

 

[FamoFunk]

No. I've never targeted someone and made their life hellish.

I've done the whole throw insults back and forth with people, but it was never malicious, my school life was pretty damn cool in that no one ever bullied.

 

[IamQ]

No sir, I only bully bullies.

I was bullied A LOT in Grade 9 all the way to early Grade 11. So I stepped up my game and started hitting back, in a sense. I hate bullies and I cannot see why a punk little kid gets a kick out of tormenting someone smaller then them. By smaller I mean, has fewer friends.

Fuck I hate some of the bullies I went to highschool with, even though I am 21 now, I would still wish them dead for all the shit they pulled on some people. It was evil. Ok maybe that was a bi to much, but you can atleast see how much I hate bullies and never became one myself.

Well you are Canadian, why don't you just throw a moose at them?

OT: A bit during 7th-8th grade. There was this Danish kid who was in our grade, but was 1 year older. He sounded like he hadn't gone through puberty yet, and was generally socially awkward. I don't know why I bullied him, but I mocked him quite a few times. I think it was just that I thought that he was silly in every possible way, and that I had to punish him for it, even though he can't change who he is.

I always ponder when people say that others bully because they want to make themselves feel better for being insecure. I think there are a lot less of those people than people believe.

 

[AngloDoom]

Other.

When I was a very young warthog boy, I used to get into a lot of fights and push people about because I was bigger than most people. I didn't specifically bully anyone, I just did what I liked. Then karma struck, gave me short-sightedness, and when I started wearing glasses I got bullied. Then. when I had learnt my lesson another eight years of bullying later, I got contact-lenses and the bullying almost immediately stopped.

 

[Phasmal]

No, I dont think so.

All my friends were the people who were getting bullied. I only avoided it myself because I had a reputation of someone you dont fuck with (I dont know how I got it, bravado mostly, it worked though).

There was one case where a girl in one class would always flick bits of eraser at one of my friends. So I quietly started collecting the bits, for a few weeks. By the time I had a massive handful of them, I just went up to the flicking girl, stood behind her and put them down the back of her shirt.

I guess that was kind of mean, but she never did it again.

 

[Vault101]

highschool politics is a complcated messy thing..and my insecurited never helped the situation

Tis is pretty much 1200% true for every highschooler ever. This is why the majority of problems in highschool arise. I think you pretty much hit the nail on the head. Its hard to tell sometimes, i mean sometimes you know people who are annoying, always wanna be in your business, are uncontrollable liars, boasters ect and you cant help but want to be unpleasant to these people. Theres a fine line between that and bullying though. Its just hard to tell.

haha..its funny you should mention that

there was another girl who was sort of on the "edge" of our freinds circle, me and her were good freinds at one point

but then turns out she was a liar...as in she I think she had issues with it (and at times oyu couls really see through her bullshit) which was actually a shame its not liek she NEEDED to lie to make herself otu to be better...anyway you simply cant be freinds with people like that

I dont dislike her...just feel sorry for her

 

[Daniel_Rosamilia]

I have, and it very nearly cost me a good friendship.
If I could go back and tell my Year 7 self some things, one would be "Don't be a fucking shit to him. He's a good mate, and what you're doing will just fuck it up."

 

[rutger5000]

I wasn't / am not a popular guy and I had / have poor social skill. So when I was 12/13 a bullied another equally unpopular classmate of mine. We later ended up being friends, so no hard feelings. Still it was bullying. Otherwise no, nor stood I silently when others were beeing bullied or badmouthed. Though I didn't go as far as actually trying to comfort the victims. Eventually my tall size and (for a lack of a better word) strenght made this rather easy for me, and I've never been seriously messed with since 14.

 

[Candidus]

I attacked my bullies at the end of year six and was excluded from junior school for doing so. Bearing in mind that I was physically attacked on an almost daily basis for two years without repercussion to them. It is true that my attack was more violent and the physical marks more severe than any conducted against me in the past, but it reflected the corrosive effect of two years of abuse and I believe allowances should have been made.

That being said, I'm a very violent man today and I wouldn't want be any other way. Allowances and counselling might have corrupted what was happening to me, so I'm somewhat glad that they weren't made.

I won't go as far as to say I owe it to those guys, but it's true that before I snapped, I had no access to my violence whatsoever. Having no access to violence used to make me feel emasculated and worthless, even at 8 and 9 years old. I'm only able to feel good about who I am now because I've got the mix of courage and savagery necessary to fight with perfect mental and physical agility- no shaking, no hesitation- and the temperance to do it only when it's the right thing to do; and I doubt I'd have developed the former without the bullies.

So... what can I say. I'll head back on topic and just say no, I never bullied anyone. I pursued, ambushed and attacked several of my bullies on dozens of occasions throughout my exclusion, and then on into secondary school, but I say the retributive nature of the attacks make them distinct from bullying-- and as the injured party, my opinion is really the only one that is valid and the only one I give a fuck about. No offence.

 

[Benni88]

Never bullied anyone at school, but being the youngest of three brothers I now find myself unconsciously terrorizing friends and colleagues who are easily wound up. Call it delayed/displaced revenge.

 

[Caliostro]

Yep. All the time when I was a kid. Why? Cause I could and didn't care.

Wasn't really "bullying" in the sense of picking on the smaller kids. I picked on everyone, started fights with pretty much everything that moved, bigger or smaller. "If it breaths it bleeds". It's just that you can't call a fair fight "bullying" can you? So I didn't technically bully people who put up a decent fight.

So I didn't really "bully" people in the sense of exclusively tormenting people who were weaker than me, I just picked fights with everyone cause I found it fun, and some ended up being too weak to fight back.

I stopped picking fights long ago. Although I will occasionally go out of my way to torment someone if they go out of their way to annoy me. I wouldn't call this bullying as much as someone biting more than they can chew.

So, depending on how you look at it, either: "no, never" or "yeah, still do". Schrodinger's Bully.

 

[Blunderboy]

Anyone saying no is lying. Its human nature to take out frustrations on those we perceive to be weaker than ourselves. I'm not proud of it and I've been on the receiving end far more than the giving end, but I've still bullied people.

 

[Rheinmetall]

No, never. I think it's cowardness and anti-social behaviour.

 

[Rheinmetall]

Anyone saying no is lying.

How can you be so absolute about that?! I have never done something like that and I'm certainly not lying.