Better left unknown

[horsedreamer]

You fools! Bullies can only be affected by bullets made out of GPA. Unfortunately, the manufacturing process uses up several valedictorians and produces horrible waste products.

So that's what happens to Cornell students...

[_SeHT]

I was bullied from the day I started school until the day I left. And not just by the other kids.

I wish I were Ozy. That way I wouldn't have this core of hatred and anger deep in the centre of myself that sometimes flares up and makes me want to commit genocide on a massive scale.

But most I just don't bother about it. There are people like that all over the world. If they won't speak to me and take me as I am, then let them spit. I refuse to change... mostly because I prefer to be true to myself, but also because, with that kind of person, whatever you try to do to fit in, you won't.

[Priest_Revan]

I was bullied from the day I started school until the day I left. And not just by the other kids.

I wish I were Ozy. That way I wouldn't have this core of hatred and anger deep in the centre of myself that sometimes flares up and makes me want to commit genocide on a massive scale.

But most I just don't bother about it. There are people like that all over the world. If they won't speak to me and take me as I am, then let them spit. I refuse to change... mostly because I prefer to be true to myself, but also because, with that kind of person, whatever you try to do to fit in, you won't.

[nickspoon]

makes me want to commit genocide on a massive scale.

Is it possible to commit genocide on a small scale?

[_SeHT]

makes me want to commit genocide on a massive scale.

Is it possible to commit genocide on a small scale?

Good question. It might almost be worth trying to find out.

But don't mind me. As I said, I had 14 straight years of bullying. And being thrown in a trash can is nothing, really. At the risk of being Pythonesque, in retrospect I would have loved to have been dumped in a trash can: there's something about that straightfoward ignorant brutality that's utterly refreshing.

[Tom Flapwell]

Is it possible to commit genocide on a small scale?

Perhaps if the population is small in the first place. But I wouldn't think of bullies as "a people," which is required for genocide.

[osprey]

Jack***es are everywhere. I was bullied terribly in school, and in my job as a salesperson, I run into them every day. I've encountered them so much I'm almost numb to them now.

[Angstwolf]

I used to get bullied all the time, but I changed how I respond to insults and it seems to have worked. I haven't had trouble in a few years now, even from older students.

[_SeHT]

The best way I found was to take insults like compliments and thank people for them. It's very confusing (And it means you get more compliments, which is always nice.)

Alternatively, you just ignore the idiots. That works too.

[Dr. Doog]

I've been outside of standard public school all my life so I never got bullied.

[The MAZZTer]

I've been outside of standard public school all my life so I never got bullied.

Same, except I still managed to. One of my past bullies is pretty much now my best friend from HS.

[Tom Flapwell]

Doog, you frown at your lack of history of getting bullied? Are you afraid your creative angst is kaput on that account? Or is it a pity frown?

I had many nemeses in elementary school, but almost all of them went on to be on good terms with me later, some of them friends. Most of those who didn't never saw me again. The one exception was a guy with no more intelligence than Jeremy. I wonder if he's been to jail yet.

[Angstwolf]

My worst enemy from elementary school is now my best friend. I think we hated each other out of rivalry because we were so much alike, but now we see that being alike is a good thing.

[Muninn]

My worst enemy back when I was in school still has not been heard from yet. Heh heh heh...

[Steve the Pocket]

I seem to remember there being a mean kid at my school who was on my case for a while, and another older kid who hung out with me as a bodyguard of sorts until it blew over, which was a short time. But that's all, I think. I have a pretty lousy long-term memory.