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Post by FlyingScotsman on Jul 27, 2007 18:17:52 GMT
Private schools are, if anything, more reliant on their reputation than state schools. As they're not run by the local authority, they need a good reputation to attract parents. If the school has a bad rep, then nobody's going to send their kids there if there's a better school that's free.
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Post by Father Austin Purcell on Jul 28, 2007 21:37:46 GMT
There used to be this person who picked on me a lot (outside school, he wasn't a member of mine. But he was a bit of bully in my local area anyway.)
Anyway, I once saw the individual acting as a cleaner at my school, complete with a comically flowery apron and pink rubber gloves. He looked ridiculous, like some stereotype, and gave me a rather unpleasant look. Ultimately, however, the effect was equivalent to that of the word "Eulalie" on Roderick Spode, for those familiar with P.G. Wodehouse. All it took from that day forth was for me to give him a knowing smile and he left me well alone. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2007 9:39:44 GMT
When I was at school I was bullied a lot, but I found that as you get older, unless someone has a particuallar vendetta against you the bullying isn't actually meant to cause any offence. As long as you can laugh at what they are seeing and see the funny side of it, there shouldn't be much of a problem. All you need to do is be able to find some kind of comeback, and working with ex miners, engineers, tool smiths, and other working class backgrounds, working in a pub also helps. You learn a few comebacks which turns the bullying into banter, don't get me wrong I have had a few things shouted at me from a couple of drunken people. In time, when you guys leave school you will find that your bullying is character building, it might not be a good idea to say it, but just think of comebacks. Like if you are called skinny think of something like, at least I'm not fat! or I'd rather be a ginger than be ugly like some people! School isn't the place for this kind of comeback because school kids tend to be more violent and need to see the real world for themselves. When you guys leave school you will find that it should stop, so there is light at the end of the tunnel for you...
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Post by douglas on Aug 4, 2007 16:15:09 GMT
Unless of course, you have a stalker. Then you get a restraining order, and, if they come within ten feet of you, have them thrown in jail.
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Post by bluetraindude on Aug 13, 2007 2:46:29 GMT
There was this kid whenever he saw me he would annoy me about some girl he used to go out with, so finally I stopped looking at him and whenever he talked to me I ignored him. If he walked up to me I would walk away really fast and if he chased me I would run. And sometimes he tried to apologize to get me to talk and I ingored so he stopped and I haven't seen him in about a month.
I also like to stand up to them and give a loud lecture about their flaws, and diss them about their flaws while passing. But one time this ***hole pissed me off to the point where I beat them up, and this kid is an idiot and never stopped. But it has slowed down as I have ignored him.
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Post by CabForward on Aug 15, 2007 7:11:53 GMT
Wait, he'd /sexually/ harrass you? That doesn't need any school intervention, you can take that straight to court.
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Post by bluetraindude on Aug 15, 2007 17:54:08 GMT
No, but I coudn't think of a better term and I was being lazy he kept annoying me about this girl he used to go out with and it annoyed me. Guess I should edit that.
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Post by gonetruckin on Jan 5, 2008 18:29:16 GMT
I've been on the receiving end of bullies, mainly for being fat, and I have played the game Bully, and as its name does not suggests, you are not a bully, nearly the whole game's aim is to take down an ex friend(yes, betrayal in a Rockstar game, how new!) and your ex-friend is pretty much controlling all of the factions. You can choose to beat up people where you have a choice outside of missions, but doing this will result in 'heat', and hitting girls or little kids results in the highest heat level.
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Post by shanedooiney on Jan 13, 2008 11:01:05 GMT
They also mocked my love of the Beatles' music. Blasphemers! (Yes, I realize that is an extremely old post) Growing up in a private Catholic school, I experienced my fair share of bullying. Well, not so much one bully, but my entire class picking on me. I've never met a bully like you see on TV and in movies. Kindergarten was fine, but around Christmas time in 1st grade I was having trouble with my eyesight, so I was given glasses, and soon, everyone in my started making fun of my glasses. Soon it was for my likes and dislikes, and after that because I was smaller than most of the boys in my class. There were separate halls for the middle and elementary schools, but every now and then a middleschooler would make his way into our bathroom and shove us into the urinal we were urinating in (the urinals came all the way down to the floor). In middle school, the boys in my class were really into pro-wrestling, and would usually practice on me in the bathroom. I was never good at anything in P.E., and most of the girls used that against me. And everyone would make fun of the fact that I liked Pokemon and Dragonball Z, and the fact that I didn't listen to all the popular music or watch MTV or do this or do that, and that I didn't swear. One girl in particular, Janelle I think, was particularly mean, so one day I lashed out at her with a cheap shot about her mother's many divorces. That didn't fold over too well, I got sent to the principal's office for the first time in my life and it only made things worse with her. There's loads more, and I still haven't really gotten over it. I look back on my classmates at that school with nothing less than contempt for making my life hell (trivial as it may have been). Still, I didn't receive the worst treatment. Two others in my class had it worse than I did, a guy I will refer to as X (due to extremely personal issues) and a girl named Jessica. If either of them were around I was left alone. was the sweetest thing on the planet, but she was overweight, which brought on the worst kinds of remarks from everyone, including myself on a few occasions. I felt bad about it too, but I guess I just didn't want to be the one getting picked on. She definately didn't deserve it, though. I felt at the time that the boy, X, deserved it. He was the new kid, and we were all nice to him at first, but he proved to be an not a very nice person. So, I guess everyone just went "Well f*** you, then". It also didn't help his cause that he was horrible at everything. That made it worse. However, it turns out that he had some really messed up things going on at home, a stepfather both physically and sexually abusing him, among other things, so I really don't blame him for acting the way he did. So, after that I started at a public high school, and while I had a fresh start, I was still prone to being picked on, mainly for being skinny and dorky. Being a much bigger school, I made quite a few friends there, but I was picked on by the "preps". I don't know why, I tried to mind my own business, but there was always someone in my face about something. I always took it in stride, and would laugh with them. There was a girl named Christine who was picked on severely by everyone. And I mean everyone. Hundreds of students. She was small and dorky looking, gigantic retainer and glasses, tangly hair, etc, and she was also kind of annoying. But, I had learned from my past and decided to be nice to her instead, and I ended up striking up a friendship with her, even standing up for her on some occasions. One such occasion was particularly bad, we were playing baseball in P.E., and she was on first base. This gigantic douche named Rob made a hit, and just for laughs, when he ran to first, he ploughed into her at full speed and sent her flying and tumbling across the feild. Everyone laughed while I stood there in the outfeild, trembling, wanting to pay him out. What made it worse was the fact that the instructor didn't really do anything, just gave him a warning. So, then the teams switched and we were at bat, and he was on second base. I got a hit and ran to first. When I made it to second, I threw out my fist and punched him right in the face. Everyone just gasped and stared at me. I'm not sure exactly how it happened, but there was an anti-violence policy at that school, a strict one, and I didn't get in any trouble whatsoever. The guy got thrown out of the P.E. class, and I never saw him again. Back to me. So yeah, I was picked on a little in high school until my junior year. The summer before that I got rid of my glasses in favor of contact lenses, and when I went back to school I noticed nobody was singling me out anywhere, and all the people who were jerks towards me in the past were suddenly being really nice. I guess glasses just made me look really stupid or something, because everything changed. Girls were even paying attention to me now. Really good-looking ones too. Dare I say, hot girls. It wasn't like, all the girls, just a few, but I'd never had one looker pay any attention to me, so I was pretty stoked. I never dated any of them, though, because I was all crazy into my Catholic faith at that point in time, and didn't want to fall victim to any "unholy" acts. Doh! >.< Eventually, I started dating my current girlfriend in the middle of my senior year. After high school, I started gaining weight, in six months time I gained about 80 pounds, mainly because all my life, and especially in high school, I had eaten only foods that were good for me, and in small quantities. My girlfriend is a really good cook, so she introduced me to the world of dirty southern cookin'. I also discovered the foot-long chili, cheese and onion hot dog at Sonic, as well as the Chedd'r Peppers, and other sorts of junk food. I'm not sure why, I knew what it tasted like, but I had been avoiding that kind food for so long, I just wanted to eat some. I guess my metabolism wasn't really up to speed, because while I was thin, I was also very inactive. Eventually I started gaining weight, and here I am today. I'll tell you what, gaining weight is so much easier than losing it. Anyway, that's my life story. I'm sorry you had to read that rambling jibberish.
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Post by trainzfan on Jan 15, 2008 10:34:48 GMT
I think that Jimbob raised a question...what's the point of bullies? There is no point whatsoever; they are not fit to lick the proverbial mud from the boots of civilised people. I mean, there have been people picking on me simply due to jealously of Chelsea's success. The latest idiot who thought it clever to spam up my inbox with emails which just read "Chelsea are sh*t" were infuriating.
He's currently suspended from school after getting drunk one time too many.
Remember, these are the people who we see on Sky's Road Wars, ITV's Police, Camera, Action! and other such programs.
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Post by Jack on Jan 15, 2008 12:03:42 GMT
I have been with lots of bullies, but I usally win! There was one in my group and all he did was harass anybody he wants too. (He`s black), so I have been wanting to beat the living crap out of him. My bro had a fractured arm and he thought it was broken and insulted him, so we got into a fight and I won. I went to camp and again there was another black kid who treated me badly and we had war during camp. But he surprised me one night and he made up for what he had been doing, I did the same, and we became good friends.
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Post by shanedooiney on Jan 15, 2008 15:13:29 GMT
Lol, what does him being black have to do with it, Jack?
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Post by Jack on Jan 15, 2008 15:29:16 GMT
He just is. I am not racist though. It is just that it is a coincidence.
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Post by shanedooiney on Jan 15, 2008 16:57:56 GMT
Haha, I didn't think you were, I just found it funny.
In other news, I agree with trainzfan and Jimbob in that bullying really serves no purpose. But, one has to think about what goes on at home with bullies. Something's making them act like this, no doubt, most likely a parent or guardian, usually an abusive one.
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Post by douglas on Jan 15, 2008 19:57:22 GMT
Which only gives more evidence of nurture in the nature vs. nurture debate. But that's another story.
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Post by trainzfan on Jan 31, 2008 17:55:14 GMT
Somehow, in my idiot's case I think it was alcohol...
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Post by Aidan on Jan 31, 2008 20:35:54 GMT
That's just awful, trainzfan. I hope that this person is caught because of what he was saying. His immature comments must be due to jealousy, and he's trying to get to you by saying that stuff.
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Post by bocodiseasel on Jan 31, 2008 20:49:53 GMT
I swear to you all that one of these days I will loose it.
My time at my school of two years has been alright. It hasn't even been good. No thanks to the people who make it worse.
Today, I was made fun of because of my weight (Again, I'M NOT FAT!!), had a peice of straight from the heart writing stolen from me and it's going to be spread around school by one of the biggest gossips and I was threatened by chavs.
Yesterday I was floored by a girl in drama for giving her a bad comment on her script for which she tried to steal my bag and punted me on my lower back, right on my funny spine.
And the fun just goes on but i'm not going to mention it. I don't want to relive last week.
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Post by shanedooiney on Jan 31, 2008 23:38:13 GMT
That really sucks, BoCodiseasel, people can be rather scummy.
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Post by trainzfan on Feb 1, 2008 10:07:01 GMT
That's just awful, trainzfan. I hope that this person is caught because of what he was saying. His immature comments must be due to jealousy, and he's trying to get to you by saying that stuff. He's gone. Alcohol and those emails were the primary cause., but mainly alcohol. What happened was that he went into a girl's dorm and launched an attack whilst under the influence, although to be fair no-one really liked him anyway.
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