Did you bully kids at school ?

[Bald1]

LOL dad am I a beaner. For some reason I thought the imigrant kids were gonna bully the white suburbian kids. Aren't immigrants always tougher.

Sometimes. But back when we came to Canada there weren't as many immigrants so no strength in numbers. I got the short end of the stick for a good 5 years. I'm from around the same part of the world as you, btw.


Picked on a kid called Darcy Overload a few times but then got friendly with him afterwards. A shit thing to do on my part as I wasn't a stranger to getting bullied. Kids can be such dicks, my younger self included.

 

[Brampton_Boy]

If you have what are the reasons and do you regret it ? Did you apologize ?

If you were bullied you can post about that too.

I personally only got bullied for 1 year on the way to school by kids who were way older. One day I punched one of them and they stopped. I got bullied verbally and only slightly phisically, didn't get hit or anything.

I never bullied noone. Did something wrong yes, but regulary bullied definitely no. I didn't bully period. Did do a mistake here and there.

Discuss if you feel comfortable with the topic.

Bully is a strong word to use, but I was definitely a dick to a couple of people. I was really just projecting my own insecurities onto others.

One girl had an endocrine problem, and as a result, she had noticeable facial hair - her last name was Gothi, but my friends and I called her Goatee. It was cheap laughs at the time, but I can't even begin to imagine what that poor girl felt like, particularly when we were all in our teens and sensitive about our appearances.

There was another girl who was a classic overachiever - we were all in the gifted program together, but she would do things like bake the teacher cookies, volunteer for every after-school program, and would basically live in the library studying. Given that most gifted students are lazy, we would make fun of her for being a "try hard" and a "suck up". I can't remember exactly what I said to her one day (although I do recall the class laughing), but she stormed out of the room balling her eyes out. At the time, I didn't think much of it, but I later found out that her family situation was really intense. Her parents had unbelievably high expectations for her (imagine Chinese "Tiger" parents), and anything short of perfection was considered a failure. I ran into her several years later where she was waitressing at a restaurant - we were still in university at the time, but enough time had elapsed where I had matured as a person. I still remember the way she looked at our table (my friends and I were all in the same classes as her) - not quite anger, but not quite sadness. If I had to be honest, she looked afraid - nothing happened, we exchanged pleasantries and went on our way. In retrospect though, I really wish I had manned up and apologized.

Cynthia Zhang, wherever you are in this world, I hope you are doing what makes you happy and living your best life.

 

[shunyata]

There was one little shit in middle school who escalated from talking shit to me to throwing my books on the floor when he walked by in class.

I had gym with him, so I slide tackled him on the soccer field during a gym class soccer game. Kicked the ball downfield for my offense. Whole class moved on and I turned back and he was still down so I kicked him in the ribs once PRIDE style.

He talked shit about kicking a guy while he was down, but after that he never messed with me physically again. No pushing, no book throwing, no contact.

 

[Phlog]

I was bullied in secondary school quite a bit, had fights pretty regularly. Ended up being told not to come back except for exams after I ran a dude down a corridor by his neck into a fire door head first busting his face open. I blame watching wrestling.

I bullied my younger brother and sister mercilessly. Ruined any long-term relationship with my bro probably, but then he's like that with everyone.

Once I started martial arts I found that bullying is kind part of fighting and it can be a tool to improve people. When you discover a weakness in a sparring partner, one can sit on it without actually injuring them but making it uncomfortable. Train up their resilience. You can't be their only sparring partner, they need to win also but you can get them ready for deep water.

In American football I've been playing o line the last 5 years and that is a position that is all about bullying all the time. You punish people for their mistakes, friend or foe. My favourite is open handed strikes to rib cage of D line, I've dropped a few guys like that. Or snatching them into the floor if they don't have their feet under them on a bull rush. That's bliss.

The key with these though is its bullying that people buy into. They can walk away, it's the price of doing business and for friends it's the cauldron that you all craft to make each other greater.

 

[genecop]

I was bullied in secondary school quite a bit, had fights pretty regularly. Ended up being told not to come back except for exams after I ran a dude down a corridor by his neck into a fire door head first busting his face open. I blame watching wrestling.

I bullied my younger brother and sister mercilessly. Ruined any long-term relationship with my bro probably, but then he's like that with everyone.

Once I started martial arts I found that bullying is kind part of fighting and it can be a tool to improve people. When you discover a weakness in a sparring partner, one can sit on it without actually injuring them but making it uncomfortable. Train up their resilience. You can't be their only sparring partner, they need to win also but you can get them ready for deep water.

In American football I've been playing o line the last 5 years and that is a position that is all about bullying all the time. You punish people for their mistakes, friend or foe. My favourite is open handed strikes to rib cage of D line, I've dropped a few guys like that. Or snatching them into the floor if they don't have their feet under them on a bull rush. That's bliss.

The key with these though is its bullying that people buy into. They can walk away, it's the price of doing business and for friends it's the cauldron that you all craft to make each other greater.

 

[My Spot]

Never bullied but certainly pushed people's buttons. I went to middle and high school with a dude who was like a cat and impossible not to mess with and he hated Mr. Socko.

 

[I Am Legion]

I grew up a white boy in a black town in the 80s. You either assimilated or were assassinated. I saw such horrible things that I still have nightmares. I watched this one black dude who hung with white guys and liked Heavy Metal get hung from a fence while a gang threw rocks at him and spit on him. I was lucky I had good friends and played sports. I really only had one guy that really bugged me, 7th-8th grade. Guy was named Hassan and called me white devil. He was bigger than me and he was an evil, hardcore dude. He smashed my head in a locker, threw my food tray down, stepped on my new Air Force one's etc. He did the same to a buddy of mine but even worse. One day my buddy went full retard on him in the hall. My friend was a big goof, but lost it Water Boy style. Picked him up and slammed him so hard he lost all air. Then we both stomped his ass. I nailed his ribs a dozen times. He was crying, it was glorious. That ended that. He became a laughing stock. In my town, the worst thing you could do was take it. If you fought back, it didn't matter if you won or lost, you were left pretty much alone. But if you became a target it was a rough life. I would never bully anyone, I hate it and know the damage it causes.

 

[Ichibanner]

I was bullied in Middle School a bit until I hit a growth spurt in 6th grade and also decided to start swinging on people instead of being quiet; hoping they'd get bored and leave me alone.

It settled down after a few kids had to tell their parents that they got their bloody lip or black eye from a kid two years younger than them that had enough of their shit. I served a LOT of detentions for fighting. The kids didn't stop bullying, they simply found targets that didn't send them home with a split lip and blood on their school uniform.

I "bullied" one person in High School that I can think of. My friend's younger cousin was mouthy. He was a Freshman, I was a Senior. I usually drove to school but had to take the bus because the fuel pump went out on my car. He kept talking shit on the bus about me not having a car which wasn't cool for a Senior like me. I guess he thought I was cool with him due to being my buddy's cousin? I told him to settle down, gave him fair warning that I was already in a shitty mood and to shut up or I'll teach him a lesson. He kept talking shit. His older brother Lenny was on the bus and I told him to get a handle on his mouthy little bro. Lenny tried but this seemed to egg the little shit on. Okay, I'm generally known to be a man of my word.

Before school started I talked to my buddy who said "Yeah, he's my cousin, but he could use a lesson.". We both walked down to the Freshman end of the hall, my buddy opened up a locker, and I stuffed his chubby little cousin into it. He was fat so I could only get half of him in there. He was stuck. Everyone was either standing around shocked or laughing at him. He started to cry. I thought it was funny at the time and was happy that it got my point across. Lenny and a few other kids got him out of the locker.

Not my finest moment but it's in the past and the kid learned to take me seriously and not get on my nerves.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Lol nope. The ass whooping I’d catch at home for bullying someone...hurts just to think about it.

 

[Herwald]

Yes, but they all deserved it cause my life was shit.

 

[Brampton_Boy]

I was bullied in secondary school quite a bit, had fights pretty regularly. Ended up being told not to come back except for exams after I ran a dude down a corridor by his neck into a fire door head first busting his face open. I blame watching wrestling.

I bullied my younger brother and sister mercilessly. Ruined any long-term relationship with my bro probably, but then he's like that with everyone.

Once I started martial arts I found that bullying is kind part of fighting and it can be a tool to improve people. When you discover a weakness in a sparring partner, one can sit on it without actually injuring them but making it uncomfortable. Train up their resilience. You can't be their only sparring partner, they need to win also but you can get them ready for deep water.

In American football I've been playing o line the last 5 years and that is a position that is all about bullying all the time. You punish people for their mistakes, friend or foe. My favourite is open handed strikes to rib cage of D line, I've dropped a few guys like that. Or snatching them into the floor if they don't have their feet under them on a bull rush. That's bliss.

The key with these though is its bullying that people buy into. They can walk away, it's the price of doing business and for friends it's the cauldron that you all craft to make each other greater.

You have an interesting take on bullying - for me, bullying is something done out of malice to put another person down, or prey on someone who is not capable of defending themselves. Apart from terrorizing your siblings, it sounds like you are just beasting people in the gym and on the field.

 

[Dana's Moonface]

No I didn't
I stood up for bullied kids mostly, even got beat up myself by groups on occasion

 

[ringking1982]

Bulling is bad, but a SMALL DOSE of joking, testing, bullying and getting bullied here and there in our generation toughened us up. Look at these millennials and gen z's now that live in a safe space growing up, just say something they don't agree with like calling out their 400 gender bullshit and they go ballistic. Can't handle any form of reality. Tell something to a woman to help her or that's logical, it's called Mansplaining. I will not raise my kids like that.

 

[Archie Goodwin]

I was always the smallest one in my class, I was bullied quite a bit by certain mouth-breathing neanderthals in school.

As a result as an adult I have never tolerated bullying and will confront that shit head on never backing down - woe to those who fuck around, for they shall find out.

 

[fingercuffs]

Yeah, I bullied teammates on my sports teams, particularly football.

I grew up in the 80's and 90's. That was sorta the culture back then. In my defense, I bullied bullies. My main reasoning was that I liked putting people in their place, and that was a place it was allowed. I stopped growing in 8th grade, so by the time I was playing varsity football, I wasn't able to fuck everyone up anymore, and I mellowed out after being humbled a bit. I was a 5'9" 170lb defensive back/running back my senior year, but when I was in 8th grade, I was 5'9" 150lbs and already pretty built for a kid that age. Most of the bigger kids were just fat fucks at that age, so I got off on hurting them. I did the same shit in wrestling, but not nearly as bad, as wrestling isn't nearly as rough of a sport as football despite it being a much harder sport both mentally and physically.

No, it wasn't.
Can Americans back up that it was the culture in the 80s and 90s?

I understand locker room banter but bullying is disgusting.

I only experienced it when my dad got posted to the midlands. My mum was way too posh and I didn't have a stupid accent to fit in. Not pleasant.

 

[fingercuffs]

No. If I bullied kids at school and my dad found out about it,he would have given me the business.

Different dads...
My dad was a flippin nightmare if anyone came near me. He literally curb stomped a 15 year old showing interest in me and told him if he told his dad he was a higher rank and would get him fired.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

Yeah, I bullied teammates on my sports teams, particularly football.

I grew up in the 80's and 90's. That was sorta the culture back then. In my defense, I bullied bullies. My main reasoning was that I liked putting people in their place, and that was a place it was allowed. I stopped growing in 8th grade, so by the time I was playing varsity football, I wasn't able to fuck everyone up anymore, and I mellowed out after being humbled a bit. I was a 5'9" 170lb defensive back/running back my senior year, but when I was in 8th grade, I was 5'9" 150lbs and already pretty built for a kid that age. Most of the bigger kids were just fat fucks at that age, so I got off on hurting them. I did the same shit in wrestling, but not nearly as bad, as wrestling isn't nearly as rough of a sport as football despite it being a much harder sport both mentally and physically.

The old I bullied bullies, just admit you where a cunt of a kid.

I use to say the same shit to justify my bad behaviour as a kid/teen.

 

[Big Tuppy Hole]

I've been bullied and been the bully, in some ways I was a horrible kid it's actually 1 of my biggest regrets in life.

 

[Hatorade]

No, it wasn't.
Can Americans back up that it was the culture in the 80s and 90s?

I understand locker room banter but bullying is disgusting.

I only experienced it when my dad got posted to the midlands. My mum was way too posh and I didn't have a stupid accent to fit in. Not pleasant.

How would you know what the culture of playing high School football in the 1980s and 1990s was?

You ever watch some '80s movie like Heathers or can't buy me Love with the stereotypical jock bullies with Letterman's jackets? It sure got injected a lot in pop culture for something that you claim didn't exist. The jocks in those movies were carbon copies of people I grew up with. Stereotypes exist for a reason.

 

[fingercuffs]

How would you know what the culture of playing high School football in the 1980s and 1990s was?

You ever watch some '80s movie like Heathers or can't buy me Love with the stereotypical jock bullies with Letterman's jackets? It sure got injected a lot in pop culture for something that you claim didn't exist. The jocks in those movies were carbon copies of people I grew up with. Stereotypes exist for a reason.

Alright, bully. I thankfully know people of that era who were comfortable and confidant in themselves to not be such a pussy bully. Shame on you if you had o be that weak.