I once knew this kid...

[super-bee_ski]

Hmm,
November huh?
Right around election day....

Trump?
Cruz?

 

[Bart K]

I will save my reply for the political thread.....don't want to get kicked off after just joining!!!

 

[mmissile]

the most of the problem is not physical anymore as it was when i was a kid its now a mental attack these kids hide behind a key board and attack through social media that's when things get ugly as its out of your control because it spreads like wild fire over night

Nothing an old-fashioned FTF ***-kicking won't remedy.

 

[DART340H]

I WAS BULLIED IN SCHOOL GROWING UP. YOU KNOW THE OLD SAYING...KARMA COMES TO THOSE THAT WAIT. WELL ONE BULLY GOT HIS CHEST BLOWN APART 20 YRS. AFTER SCHOOL WAS OVER AND THE OTHER HAD A MASSIVE HEART ATTACK. YES THEY ARE BOTH DEAD. AND NO I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

 

[steve from staten island]

I also believe in Karma or what goes around comes around. I try and never think of revenge but i could understand why some would. I was bullied,intimidated when i was in HS. About fifteen years later i saw that same guy in the gym. Id been working out for years at that time and although i wasn't a monster i was'nt a slouch either. I stared at him and he looked away,no words were spoken but he knew better to say anything. Sometimes the best fights are the ones never fought,that was told to me by my Sensei a long time ago and he was correct

 

[wahya]

Too bad that things are not that simple anymore.

 

[Kern Dog]

Yeah, Steve....
Kicking *** can be pretty satisfying though if the other guy was a bully to you years ago.

 

[Cranky]

I was bullied starting in the 7th grade when I moved from the north to the south. Odd that it wasn't my first trip to the south either but wasn't bullied then. Was down here in the 4th grade and wasn't bullied because of where I was from or my accent. Maybe it was just the redneck school that I ended up go to in the 7th grade? Took years to get it to quit but it did after I finally started lashing out and threatened a few guys that wanted a piece of me. I was a small kid and easy pickens and told them they had better make sure I'd never get up because if I was able, I'd be back with an equalizer and would do whatever it took to do em in. Guess it worked because I never got beat up. Even the shoving around stopped. And most of the bullies died young too....

 

[Budnicks]

Hmm,
November huh?
Right around election day....

Trump?

Nope !!! Just the one

 

[Budnicks]

I was a above average size guy in school in HS 6' 240
but below average in middle school less than 5'4" 120 #'s,
glad I had a big growth spurt....LOL

I was picked on a little, I never backed down, I always stood my ground...
I protected my younger brother & a few of my sisters friends, from a few bullies,
usually on the bus, while riding to school, I got a reputation as the protector,
when I was in HS, I was a mean ****, in great shape, athlete etc.
I just said enough was enough, acted out & took things to a different level when I was pushed...
I never started a fight but finished a few, I guess it's the linebacker mentality...
I didn't like fighting, but sometimes you need to do what's necessary too...
I got my but kicked one time like 11 or 12 yo beginning of the 7th grade IIRC
I was still a little dude, youngest in my class...
Anyway & I told my step dad Bob what happened...
He actually got mad at me for not fighting back, like I should have...
I told him "I did", but he said "not well enough, you should have picked up an equalizer"
or kick him in the nuts etc...
I never had to resort to that ever thou...

But my sister Candy a little more than a year older than me 18 months & a grade ahead,
she went after the guy & kicked his *** up & down, he ran away then climbed up on the monkey bars, in the park by our house...
Unfortunately out on the street & in the park, everyone all the kids in the neighborhood started yelling, "don't mess with him, his sister will kick you ***",that was a hard one to live down...LOL

She was 13 y/o 5'2" 115 probably then, a total TomBoy, she was my shadow & we both did all the same stuff, that I or my male friends, did growing up, it was like having another brother...

Later we had another altercation while playing football, on the front lawn in our
court at home, I called this bigger guy Johnny, with really no ill intent, but he was a bigger bully type guy, he didn't like it, he wanted to be called John, he went off on me...LOL
But he threw me down & sat on-top of me, started messing with me & was telling me how he was going to kick my ***...
But I was fighting as much as I could to get up, I was a little spitfire, but he was a couple years older like 14-15 y/o 50-60 #'s & 6" bigger than me...
I couldn't get up, so "again" here comes my sister Candy "yet again",
she really steam rolls the dude.
She pulls the guy off me {he's got her by 40-50#'s & 3-4 "s},
throws him to the ground & she starts whaling on the guy, bloodied his nose,
gave him a shiner, beating the **** out of him !!
He ran into his house next door crying & screaming for his mommy,
"Candy's beating me up"...LOL

He never picked on any of us smaller kids in the court ever again...

I don't think it's necessary to fight if you can back someone down,
It's worked well for me, but only when I was bigger & older...
6'2" 250 when I went to college...
IMO the biggest guy in the world will go down hard, if you take out the knees, if need be, I was never someone to back down, I kind of regret some of the things I did, but times were different then too, people were different too, you did what you had to & then suffer the consequences afterwards...

It wasn't such a litigious or wussified society like today is...

My kids all did the same things, I tought all them to stand up for yourself & others if need be, fortunately they were protectors too, I was proud of that...

Seems now people are raising a bunch of pussies, spoiled rotten brats/punks/thugs or the opposite that won't ever stand up or fight back, think they should be protected their whole life & entitled to everything...
Living in the participation trophy society, people are too afraid of hurting someone's felling, even when those people are acting out, it's a shame kids I see are out of control & no parents doing anything, always working not giving a rats *** about raising their own kids , just thinking of themselves....

see ya'

 

[ws23jrt]

I have a few stories about bullies. I was early to gain weight and height. But when I did and was ready for them they seemed to be gone. I missed the glory of kicking them back.
What I have brought forward are memories of them that they planted in me.

I recall working for an older guy (40's) (when I was about 19).--He told me about when he was a kid and how he broke a kids arm over his knee because the kid was frail and he needed to show him why.
I recall that man's glee and the sparkle in his eye as he told me this.--He was recalling a good time in his past.

We grow up and learn from our past but we also bring forward from the past.
I am left with memories of bullies and am a good spotter for the ones that still live.

 

[steve from staten island]

The problem is people prey on others who they think they can intimidate or push around. It's not age related and with the age of the internet we now have bullies of all ages who hide behind a computer and talk crap to others. People see kindness as weakness more now then ever before.

 

[Kern Dog]

I agree Steve. Some people have disagreements with you but I see that you try to be a sensible guy.

 

[steve from staten island]

I agree Steve. Some people have disagreements with you but I see that you try to be a sensible guy.

I try Kern and thanks

 

[44070dart]

I had to transfer schools when I went from 7th into 8th..when I got there I found out the first day that there was this kid who was the bully in each grade he attended... Now in eight he could bully the whole school ...I was a big 8th grader, as he was but never had a need to bully anyone and was never bullied by older kids as I had two brothers 6 and 8 yrs. older....He started with me in school the third day I was there ..little did he know I was really pissed about moving from my old neighborhood, my family and friends and was looking for someone to take it out on. He caught me alone in the locker room at the end of the day and told me he was going to wait for me outside to straighten me out .. I hit him right square in the face and he went down .. I told him he could be the toughest guy in the school just LEAVE ME ALONE .....I'm putting this story out here because I regretted as I got older and to this day that I let him do what he wanted as long as he left me and a couple friends that I made that year alone ..should have kicked his *** in public, I knew I could and yet I looked the other way ..True story.......kids shouldn't be bullied when their peers can help ..we have to teach our kids that

 

[wvmarv]

Bullies are nothing new,they come in all shapes and sizes and ages. I don't know what the situation in schools are these days. My kids and my grandkids are taught to stand up for themselves and thats not to say its always going to be a actual fight either but if someone wants to hurt you then you need to defend yourself.
Many want to talk about this liberal PC stuff. I don't know what that really means as i know plenty of so called liberals who will have no problems knocking someone on there *** if that person gets in there face

Count me in that liberal camp. Bring it on.

 

[SteveSS]

Who would stand up to this bullying? It's a rhetorical question. Doesn't need an answer.

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