Poll: Were you bullied as a child?

[moe19911]

i think being bullied as a kid was a good thing for me, mostly because now i realize that if someone's bullying you call them out, and worst case senario you fight. either they beat you up or you beat them up. and if they keep up the bullshit up destroy them (but don't kill them lol). and chances are you won't have a problem again. if you do then it's time to be smart, use your big brain and fuck them up emotionally, mentally, and any other way you can think of; make them regret ever meeting you.

on a more serious note, i was serious about the first part. and i'm not a violent person. i get along with all people and surprisingly now that i'm confident about my fighting skills i don't get bullied. and i believe that you shouldn't be sad, cuz think about it this way. your life sucks, that's already a one bad thing. so why add another? if your life sucks AND your depressed you're just making it worse lol. and if you're getting bullied but you don't do anything about it then you can't blame anyone else, you're always going to run into jackasses, they're everywhere. you have to decide whether you're going to do something about it, or hope it goes away.

 

[stompy]

It was pretty bad for me during Year 6, what with being in a new school and such, not to mention me being overweight. However, high school (that's middle and high school for the Yanks) is fine, since I generally keep away from the idiots.

That said, I regret not ripping my bullies a new one... the consequences be damned.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

My Dad used to be bullied as a kid, he was a particularly good student and this was working class Coventry in the 60s.

One day he'd had enough and punched one of the people bullying him in the face, breaking his nose. The teachers absolutely refused to believe that my Dad was either capable or inclined to do such a thing. After that the bullies stopped, realising that whilst they could get in trouble very easily my Dad essentially had immunity from anything he did in return.

I have somethng like this, expect I pushed a kid out of his seat in lunch and he fell on the floor pretty damn hard. Usually this would constitute fighting which is an insta-5 day suspension. I was calm and kindly to the security guard and the dean as with the ass-hat that I pushed over. I got put into in-school detention for a day. Just a day. Not even on my record.

I havn't really been bullied ever, even though I am overweight I carry myself around correctly. I look like somebody you woudn't want to meet in a back-alley street.. Deep voice, and yeah. Even the kids that bully people woudn't take a shot at me. XD

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

It was pretty bad for me during Year 6, what with being in a new school and such, not to mention me being overweight. However, high school (that's middle and high school for the Yanks) is fine, since I generally keep away from the idiots.

That said, I regret not ripping my bullies a new one... the consequences be damned.

Ripping them a new one? didn't work out too good for me. You just get told "You should tell a teacher" which is the biggest mistake you could make as they do squat. Turning round and beating the living shit out of someone who has bullied you for 9 1/2 years is what I did. well worth the consequences.

 

[Arcyde]

no, people are usually afraid to bully me

 

[stompy]

Ripping them a new one? didn't work out too good for me. You just get told "You should tell a teacher" which is the biggest mistake you could make as they do squat. Turning round and beating the living shit out of someone who has bullied you for 9 1/2 years is what I did. well worth the consequences.

Wait, I'm confused... what are you trying to say?

 

[bodyklok]

This morning ,as I got hit in the head by a half full coke can throw from the 3rd floor of my school, I was thinking:'I wonder if there are more people who know this feeling?'

So what side were you on the bully factor? Do you have funny bully storys? Share them with us!

Sorry but I can't help but find it vaguely ironic that you avatar is a slice of cake and you got hit by some cake but yeah anyway I have been and still am bullied in school but it's only by some really weak people who to be honest I just feel sorry for so I just laugh at them when they have a go at me.

, coke, cOke!
What did you though I ment when I said 'a can of cake'?!

Look in all honesty the difference between a o and a is like two squiggle lines.
/sigh
but I suppose that's what I get for not bothering to check my spellings properly.

 

[moe19911]

Ripping them a new one? didn't work out too good for me. You just get told "You should tell a teacher" which is the biggest mistake you could make as they do squat. Turning round and beating the living shit out of someone who has bullied you for 9 1/2 years is what I did. well worth the consequences.

Wait, I'm confused... what are you trying to say?

same here...

i was a camp counselor last year for some sixth graders and i had to maintain 16 sixth grade boys all by myself for a week (not easy). some of them started fighting with eachother and so i took them outside and as much as i wanted to say "%#@*%(@%" i told them to grow up, i don't care if they don't like eachother, but if they start fighting they'd be sent home and they're parents would have wasted 200 bucks sending them there. it wasn't what i would normally say but i didn't want to get shit for yelling at kids and it got the job done

 

[mark_n_b]

as for bullying, I have had people try to bully me, when I was young there was this idiot kid who used to call me "hobble" making fun of my muscle condition, but it was crappy bullying because everyone generally hated him and loved me... I just generally ignored and pitied him.

I have been exposed to bullies throughout life, but because I am willing to work with people, have fairly solid leadership / communication abilities, and know how and where to dig in to force a bully to either cave or act like a reasonable person I don't get affected by bullying too much.

 

[dcheppy]

I was always well liked by almost everyone so I was never bullied. The popular kids, dorks, dweebs, outcasts, druggies, goths, bullies geeks etc... all kind of found me amiable and I was always treated well.

I do have two experiences with bullying, once as the bully and once as the bullied. Ironically both times at summer camp where I was even more popular than I was at school. When I was about 9 one of the big kids at camp would take it upon himself to pick on me. It culminated in the only fist fight I ever had in my childhood, I fought dirty and won, and all the onlookers were cheering me on. It's a fond memory.

A few years later I found myself part of a clique of kids at camp and got caught up in their bullying antics. I even took it upon myself to nickname a fat kid "beach" because of his resemblance to beached whale. It was mean, and I regret it. It is a much less fond memory.

I've always had friends who were bullied or were bullies and I've observed and tackled its issues as a camp counselor and working at a day care. With those two rare exceptions I was always a third party to bullying, and it has given me powerful perspectives that make me adept at finding and stopping bullying as camp counselor/day care provider.

 

[.Ricks.]

My fun bully story is that, there was this bully that kept piking on me because I wouldn't fight back, to this very day I still avoid to hit people... However he didn't stop so, one day he came at me again, having had enough of his BS I fought back, result, a new limping walk for him and a few hours of hard darth vader like breathing for him eternal peace for me.

Violence DOES solve things efficiently. Though I'm all up for peace xD.

 

[Pirate Pete]

I didn't have many friends until year 5 (When I got into a selective class with other nerds), but never seemed to get bullied (That I recall, anyway). High school for me was also selective, and all my friends from my year 5 and 6 class came, so that was fantastic. We were the coolest of the nerds, having our own LAN parties, and still going to normal parties! And other schools tended to call students at ours smurfs, because we had blue uniforms, but I never heard it, and would've been happy to be a smurf 'cause they're pretty awesome.

 

[Slayer_2]

I'm 16, Grade 11 and nothing has happened so far. I go to school to work, then go home. No real friends, no bullies.

 

[Mstrswrd]

I used to be bullied somewehat, until I started reacting. I always used to ignore them, but when I was young, I reacted badly to anything said about my mother (This was before the "Yo mama" shit.) In 3rd grade, I believe, someone made a vaguely insulting comment about my mom. This resulted in me ramming a pen through my desk, and then just staring at the now horrified ass-hole, who never got within 3 feet of me ever again.

In 4th grade, a girl slapped me, so I stomp-kicked her shin. That was pretty much the end of me getting bullied because I had hit a girl (in self-defense, mind you), and so I was now officially insane, at least according to my classmates.

 

[EeveeElectro]

From year 1 to year 7 or 8, just about.

Still get the odd ***** commenting, but stuff them, you know?

 

[Archemetis]

I got bullied in school, that shit stops after you leave though, thank christ, but then again, i stopepd taknig people's shit when i left and went to college. (although when i was in college i litterally RULED the fucking place)

I've been guilty of my own light bullying, but i never went as far as the people who'd bully me did.

It was never anything physical, it was always attacking me some-what mentally.
constant belittling and poking fun at me for anything i did.
Hell i couldn't even have a girlfriend in my school years without people knowing and making fun of me for it, simply because i went out with whoever i liked.

And of course beyond school life there was the time a while after i left where i had a month of straight muggings. (no, not very fun)
Where i'd always find myself against swarms of people only out to steal things i didn't have because they'd already been stolen from me.

But i'm over it all now surprisingly.

You wouldn't believe how much counsiling once a week will sort that kinda shit out.

 

[Alone Disciple]

When I was younger, much younger, I suppose I was a typical geeky kid. As an only child, I entertained myself with a plethora of science fiction toys and comics. I was a bit pudgy, had asthma, a bowl haircut, and while I enjoyed some sports (like soccer), I wasn't the best runner, catcher, hitter or thrower (He throws like a girl).

I remember being picked last for most games like dodge ball or kick ball, and not 'fitting-in'.

By the time I got into high-school, my body began to change, and since I sucked at most sports I began weight lifting. It wasn't too much longer that my body really responded to weight lifting, and I totally transformed. I wasn't the pudgy Star Wars, comic book collecting geek any longer....by the time I was a junior I was now the buff-geek, and people began to treat me much diffrently.

I wasn't picked on as much any longer, and even though I managed to never get into an actual fight in High School, people who used to bully me I ran into much later in life said they didn't want to mess with because I was now much bigger than them.

 

[Lord Krunk]

Eh, I'm your stereotypical nerd, but I'm not picked on that much. I mean, not now. Most people grew out of the bullying thing in Year 9, but there are still some assholes around. There always are, am I right?

As for my childhood, I was like an 8-year-old emo (minus the hair, the slashing and the 'I just want to die' attitude; I was merely a pessimist), no doubt caused by the kids' attitudes around me. I outdid the year in every way possible without trying and as such, even the nerds wanted to have a go at me. When I turned 12, I sorta had a breakdown thingy and have been upbeat ever since. I don't know why I hate emos nowadays; maybe I just don't want people to undergo the experience that I went through.

Mind you, I'm not exempt; and I have done some stupid things myself.

When I was younger, much younger, I suppose I was a typical geeky kid. As an only child, I entertained myself with a plethora of science fiction toys and comics. I was a bit pudgy, had asthma, a bowl haircut, and while I enjoyed some sports (like soccer), I wasn't the best runner, catcher, hitter or thrower (He throws like a girl).

I remember being picked last for most games like dodge ball or kick ball, and not 'fitting-in'.

By the time I got into high-school, my body began to change, and since I sucked at most sports I began weight lifting. It wasn't too much longer that my body really responded to weight lifting, and I totally transformed. I wasn't the pudgy Star Wars, comic book collecting geek any longer....by the time I was a junior I was now the buff-geek, and people began to treat me much diffrently.

I wasn't picked on as much any longer, and even though I managed to never get into an actual fight in High School, people who used to bully me I ran into much later in life said they didn't want to mess with because I was now much bigger than them.

He's right. I took some training montages myself, and the difference shows.