Poll: Did you ever bully someone?

[Thistlehart]

I think so. I picked on a friend of mine. Now that may not seem like much, but it was usually to get a reaction (because I thought it was funny at the time and I was bored) and I didn't let up sometimes.

I still think about it occassionally, and then I feel bad.

He had a hard time at school. He was always the odd one out and was one of the "unpopular" crowd. So was I, honestly, but no one really bothered me after I bent that kid in half in middle school.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Well it depends on the definition. But yeah i picked on very few but a few people in my last years in school.But none who didnt deserve it by there dickishness. I had the bigger and "cooler" crowd of people behind me so they never stood a chance. But neither have we been cruel nor did we pick the innocent or weak.
No in university , yeah i'm part of quite an arrogant crowd, and we got fun to set verbal traps of wit to expose the stupid idiots on campus. Humiliation included if possible. Its just one simple law. If you become loud mouthed, be better sure you are right.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

I absolutely have and I feel like a **** for it. Don't know what I was thinking.
The guy is one of my best mates now though so...:].

 

[tzimize]

Once (not sure if that qualifies as bullying). And I felt terrible about it.

I have been bullied so I felt just awful, and didnt do it again.

 

[T3hSource]

I honestly don't know if I really bullied anyone.Girls,maybe,but back then I wasn't that bright.Guys,that's another issue,you always run into some dickheads that just bully you for their amusement,and then you bleed their noses while your adrenaline is pumping up,yeah those were the days.Now I've learned tolerance and the ability to ignore the stupid.

 

[Zyrocz]

Acording to my elementary school teachers I was bullying someone, but screw those guy.

 

[Frankster]

Alas yeh and none too proud of it. Though I was having bully problems on my side and that+insecurities and usual high school politics meant I was only acting in a way that was expected of me from others and lacked the conviction to say "no" and not join in with the others.

But that's no excuse, I honor my past mistakes instead from learning from them, and I'm glad to say I soon as I switched school and was in a better atmosphere, I changed completely. If I met anyone I previously caused harm and they still held it against me now, I'd feel no shame in completely apologizing to them and hope nothing I did had lasting effects (then again maybe i'm giving myself too much credit... I was a bandwagon bully at best, was never one to actually start it....)

 

[hobohazard]

I can't help but remember this one time in 2nd or 3ed grade that I bullied someone. I remember it surprisingly well, though im not to sure how much of this actually happened or not. My elementary school had a smart program thing that I was a part of. The consent was that you get all the kids who pass this test in kindergarten into the same class, and they aren't affected by the usual randomization of the normal classes after every year, and are given slightly harder work. So, what happens when you put about 25 first graders in a room who all think there just a little bit better then everyone ells (Probably only 15-20 of them actually were)? Actually, you get a quite closely nit community of kids who respect each others intelligence, physical attributes, and economic situation (No one in the class was really poor anyway). Most of the time at least. I think it was because of my parents working hours, I had to stay in an after school program until the picked me up. So on a normal day we would go outside to the playground for an half an hour or so. Bullying was never a problem, accept for this one kid who was annoying and failed at everything he did without anyone ridiculing him and another kid who stole a bunch kids lunch money on occasion (With stealth not strength BTW. Were still not 100% sure it was him), So we were all at least knew each other by 2nd grade. So, the only other kid in my class who was in the after school (His name shall be deemed Bob) was called Bob. He was also probably on par with me in intelligence and the tallest kid in the class (Me as the 2nd tallest). We were about acquaintance at this point. So that day, he started annoying me. Not like the bullying kind, more like the general jerk kind (think "hey, listen!"). My motto was (and still is) "words are actions" so when I reached my boiling point, I turned around and shouted a "the reason you suck" speech (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech)at him. I sent him running and crying away. This then started an "anything you can do I can do better" scenario witch lasted for about the next year and a half. It ended when I came to my senses and said this whole thing was ridiculous. Today, he's one of my closest friends. It just so happens that we were talking about bullying today and I brought this up. He doesn't even remember it.

 

[loudmadman]

Back in the day where I was young, naive and stupid, I was bullied a lot, but hung with a group of friends near a sand pit and play fought to get away from it. Eventually, there was one particular kid (about 2 years younger than me) who I fought with who always proudly announced when he farted and was an all around smelly kid to be around. The sadist in me and the irritation to be around him caused me to be a bully to this kid. I only bullied for about a couple of months, but looking back, while I don't talk to him and never could like him, I felt bad about being the bully, especially since I was still bullied by several people up to Year 10. Since that incident I have never seen eye to eye with bullies, since I got no satisfaction out of it.
(Captcha: jam tomorrow. But what kind of jam? WHAT KIND? Least I know what I'll have on my sandwich tomorrow)

 

[Chanel Tompkins]

Once. And it was more the both of us hazing each other really.

 

[Waaghpowa]

I barely talked to people, let along bully them.

 

[Saulkar]

I did not do it to hurt them, I was and still am too socially inept to realise when I am hurting someone and in the end it cannot be called anything but bullying.

 

[Section Crow]

I used to bully physically when people tempted my easily-angered younger self, now i am a pacifist who only bully's people if they give purpose for it with words.

And trust me, the latter in my opinion is much more satisfying as it doesn't involve nearly as much effort

 

[Terminate421]

I probably have. I just don't know it >.>.

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Nice avatar.

yeah?! well youre...

oh wait you werent being sarcastic..thanks

but you have a point..alot of the time the whole "mob mentality" thing comes into play and you jsut kind of go along with it like "omg she's such a loner wierdo" and you might even rationalise it in your own mind as if its like they "choose" to be that way..or sotmhing

highschoolers are monsters

High schoolers?

Middle schoolers are by far the worst students I have ever had the displeasure of standing on the same soil as. They are the appitomy of evil.

Was never the bully, in fact I was the one bullied, I was a 6'6" student getting bullied....

 

[Vault101]

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I'm Australian so Im unfamiliar with the term (that said the fancy private catholic school I went to I think adopted "middle school" thing after I left)

generally years 1-7 is "primary school" and 8-12 is "highscool" people say year 9 is always the worst...for some reason

 

[Terminate421]

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I'm Australian so Im unfamiliar with the term (that said the fancy private catholic school I went to I think adopted "middle school" thing after I left)

generally years 1-7 is "primary school" and 8-12 is "highscool" people say year 9 is always the worst...for some reason

American, my bad.

Middle School is when you reach the age of 12 until you are 14. Essentially years 6-8.

They are god awful. Everyone's hormones are raging and sex and drugs are fired up all over the place. Not to mention is that everyone's intelligence drops like a rock. The worst part is that the teachers and adults don't even take you seriously since you are not an adult yet (Not by a couple years at least).

And don't get me started if other students assume your sexuality.....if someone even starts a rumor that you are gay, then you are fucked.

 

[xdom125x]

Apparently, I am a liar because I can honestly say that I have not bullied anybody in my entire life. I was too far down the social totem poll to have anybody to bully. The only people that I can say that I talked shit to on a regular basis were the people that bullied me (this only happened in high school) because they were doing everything possible to provoke me short of explicitly asking for a fist to the face.

 

[DANEgerous]

I suppose in a way, if being provoked time and time again would not negate me as a bully but typically I was a victim, rare cared that is was until physical provoked then I fought back it only happened 3 times but all major fist fight 2 I "won" due to a person taking my side another I just got annoyed with a person far bigger than my punching my face (once is enough)pulled out my knife an his next blow hit the tip my my blade seeing him into massive pain an my in to uproarious laughter.