29-04-2002 04:56									#1
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I'm just curious - did y'all get picked on as kids, or were you a person who would pick on others?

	29-04-2002 05:05									#2
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i was picked on not so much in elementary school as i was from junior high on. i was the brunt of people making fun of my looks..saying i was ugly..etc etc. never had any friends. and toa certain extent, i still am bullied today.

	29-04-2002 05:08									#3
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I was generally bullied in Junior High, because people knew I wouldn't do anything about.

That changed in high school - no one messed with me because I wouldn't let it happen anymore.

	29-04-2002 05:09									#4
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Kids are cruel. Yes, I was picked on and bullied to an extent until I reached high school. Don't know if it was because I changed schools or what, but high school wasn't bad...not bad at all.

	29-04-2002 05:09									#5
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sometimes your bullies don't give you a choice about it. They seemingly becomes obssessed. perhaps my bullies were just worse than yours...might be why i am the way i am...so much darker and broken.

	29-04-2002 05:13									#6
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Well, part of bullying was verbal - once I started making witty comebacks, making fun of them, it stopped. The other part was physical - nothing major, just humiliating. That was in junior high. In HS, it wasn't really a problem...at first I was thought of as a nerd (which I certainly was), but I slowly changed my image. I only got picked on physically once in high school, the result of which the other guy ended up unconscious.

It was never a huge deal to me - when it happened a lot it didn't bother me to much, but when I started caring more, it slowed down/stopped.

	29-04-2002 05:16									#7
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Haha, I got picked on, but noone ever did anything, they were all talk.

Freshman gym class the "star athlete" of the class didn't like me and we got into a few shoving matches because I wouldn't back down.

I think it started because I was one of the smallest in my class and in Elementary school I had a really bad temper.

	29-04-2002 05:20									#8
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I'm lucky to be in a school where that doesn't happen. Actually, its just my grade in my school, but that's not really the point.

I think part of it is that the whole "popular" thing has gone away this year, so people don't try to act cool by picking on other people.

I only "bully" this one guy who is so absolutely unenthusiastic about life that its a lot of fun to ask him if he's excited about mundane things like Daylight Savings Time.

	29-04-2002 05:22									#9
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd I only got picked on physically once in high school, the result of which the other guy ended up unconscious.

	29-04-2002 05:24									#10
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yeah..but for the rest of us, if we knocked out bullies senseless, we'd get slapped with some law suit just so they could irritate us more.

	29-04-2002 05:27									#11
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I was picked on a little in elementary school because I always took math with the kids one or two grades above me--I'd get along fine with the kids in my own grade, but the kids who were one or two years older didn't like me at all. I also wore glasses, which made me an easy target. 2nd grade was especially bad, because there were two bullies in the 4th grade who sat right by me in math and would always be flicking spitballs at me or something.

One day on the playground one of the 4th graders tackled me and started hitting me. I kind of blanked out for a few seconds (I've always had a pretty bad temper, it's just that it only seems to surface when I or somebody else is actually being physically attacked), and when I came back to my senses I found that I was being pinned to the ground by two teachers. The 4th grader was lying on the ground bawling his eyes out, because apparently I'd broken his nose and one of his collarbones in the course of beating the **** out of him. Well, obviously the 4th graders didn't pick on me much after that, and the rest of my time in elementary school was pretty uneventful.

	29-04-2002 05:30									#12
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I got made fun of for my name.

Aside from that, I was never popular...but I didn't care. Popularity to me is a farse, full of fake friendships and compliments that mean nothing. I occasionally got picked on for that, but it never bothered me. I always had 2 or 3 very close friends that cared a lot for me and that I cared a lot about. Then in High School it all stopped when they realised that being nice was getting me friendships with pretty much every girl in school. Heh.

	29-04-2002 05:33									#13
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Same with me. I don't get too pissed when it comes to verbal insults, but if someone uses violence I beat the **** out of them. When I lose my temper I'm also about twice as strong.
Edit: In response to LB not orange

	29-04-2002 05:34									#14
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quote: Originally posted by orange I got made fun of for my name.

What was it?

	29-04-2002 05:40									#15
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I never got physically bullied - which is good because if I did I would sh*t my pants.

I got laughed at quite a bit because, like so many of us , I am a "nerd", and I was younger than most of the people I have anyting to do with on acount of having skipped 2nd grade.

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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior I don't get too pissed when it comes to verbal insults, but if someone uses violence I beat the **** out of them.

Fortunately, I've only been in three fights in my life. I don't make enemies too easily, and the enemies I do make hardly ever see the need to resort to violence. (Either that, or I never see them IRL. I think that I doubled the total number of enemies I've ever made after only one week of playing Team Fortress. I can't help it that they don't appreciate being spanktified by the loinburger...)

	29-04-2002 05:45									#17
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I only got bullied (only mildly and only orally) in the first two years of secondary school, and basically only by my friends' friends. I found new friends in 3rd grade.
I was bullied because I was little (I caught up) and Belgian.

	29-04-2002 06:00									#18
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I was always the psycho little kid that'd attack the bullies who were twice my size. I think I got suspended 3-4 times for fighting. Then I grew a couple inches in 8th grade and mellowed out a lot and haven't got in a fight since then...

	29-04-2002 06:16									#19
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I was a bully in the lower grades, but stoped around grade 6. After that I mostly kept to myself and wasn't bullied much, but was often teased.

	29-04-2002 06:23									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Jaguar Warrior What was it?

Bobby Hinkle = Booby Tinkle

Oh well

	29-04-2002 06:29									#21
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My name's Owen... the best thing they could think of was 'Bowen'. I think it was more insulting to the people saying it, really.

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No, I was never bullied and I never bullied anyone.

The only exception to that is for the duration of one year in high school where I was constantly picked on by a girl who once punched me right in da face (luckily my nose remained intact).

I later found out that was the way she was expressing her love to me.

	29-04-2002 08:50									#23
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I was bullied in 1st grade (~5yo). That ended shortly after I kicked the kid in the nuts (or so I've been told).

I was a bully, more or less, sporadically through elementary school and the first year or so of high school (I don't know if it's bullying persay, just getting into lots of fights). Gotta love idiotic preteen posturing.

	29-04-2002 08:52									#24
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Neither really, took more of the invisible approach.
Maybe a few comments here and there everyone got, but I just ignored them.

	29-04-2002 08:55									#25
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Hmmm... I was called 'dothead', which is quite amusing, but they couldn't distinguish between people that weren't white . And there was some teasing... but very little physical done to me.

	29-04-2002 09:00									#26
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Dothead?
Don't catch the reference.

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quote: Originally posted by Ramo Dothead? Don't catch the reference.

He's a closet Hindu.

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Ah.

	29-04-2002 09:07									#29
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quote: Originally posted by loinburger He's a closet Hindu.

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quote: He's a closet Hindu.