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toxicity 08-17-2007 11:03 PM

so... we can all agree on my solution?...

Nemo 08-17-2007 11:05 PM

If it involves testicles and hammers at high velocities, yes.

toxicity 08-17-2007 11:31 PM

My solution was getting the punisher to help...
So yes, yes it does.

Alex2405 09-10-2007 12:04 PM

I still have my head in Bandage since 12 June!
STORY:I missed the Prodigy Concert in Romania, so i crushed my head on the wall until i got a bad Headache!Then, i was feeeling bad!I met a Buly that Crushed my head again on a Wall!After that, i was really feeling Fucked!Accidentally, i fell on a Big Rock on my head in the same day!Crap!!!The third part wasn't able to happen if i didn't meet that Fucker!!!

Mac Sirloin 09-10-2007 12:26 PM

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I still have my head in Bandage since 12 June!
STORY:I missed the Prodigy Concert in Romania, so i crushed my head on the wall until i got a bad Headache!Then, i was feeeling bad!I met a Buly that Crushed my head again on a Wall!After that, i was really feeling Fucked!Accidentally, i fell on a Big Rock on my head in the same day!Crap!!!The third part wasn't able to happen if i didn't meet that Fucker!!!

Oh, NOW I understand why you can't type.

I am KIDDING, we don't want another djreplay.Look, smakcing your head against a wall? because of a concert? break a window for godsake, don't give yourself bloody brain damage.

Majic 09-10-2007 12:54 PM

Do it the same way you tried to get people to stop fucking around on the internet:

Don't feed the trolls.

About the worst thing you can ever do is get flustered and try to fight back, be it verbal or physical.

Manco 09-10-2007 01:30 PM

I agree with Majic. I happen to have suffered from bullying for the past 6 or 7 years, and the best thing to do is ignore the verbal abuse, or come up with a killer retort. Here's a 3-point rule my headteacher once taught me:
1) Ignore them
2) Walk away from them
3) Hit 'em so hard they don't get back up.

Mac Sirloin 09-10-2007 02:58 PM

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I agree with Majic. I happen to have suffered from bullying for the past 6 or 7 years, and the best thing to do is ignore the verbal abuse, or come up with a killer retort. Here's a 3-point rule my headteacher once taught me:
1) Ignore them
2) Walk away from them
3) Hit 'em so hard they don't get back up.

Murder IS always the best answer.

Just ask Cho Seung Hui.

Hobo 09-10-2007 03:09 PM

This thread is silly. Not being there we can't offer any useful advice, just a selection of cliched answers. Every situation is different.

Mutual Friend 09-10-2007 04:04 PM

Yes, I completely agree. I can only offer advice in cases where I am directly involved with the person and issue.

Oh wait. That's not correct at all. Fail.

Besides, even if that were the case, what makes you think the old clichés wouldn't be trotted out, anyway? Sure, they can be custom-fitted clichés, but I doubt it's going to be some wonderfully original piece of guidance.

And yeah, the thread's silly.

mudling 09-11-2007 12:00 AM

I used to get bullied alot, because I took crap, and was small and weak, now I'm just scrawny, but can still put up a fight, and am agressive.
I still get bullied, but only by losers who wish to prove themsevles, and see me as an easy target, but it's quite funny when I phyke up, and walk up to them, and they start apologizing.
My best advice however is to ignore these people, they're not worth your time, and believe it or not, they actually want you to react, so ignore them, if they go out of their way to annoy you, ask them to leave you alone, or threaten them. you may find them apologizing and being normal to you if you stay away from them if poissible, I know it may sound like giving in, but just keep in mind that you're way above anyone as pathetic as them, and nothing they will say matters, if they happen to get physical, react as neassacary, as they started it.
A religous freind taught me to forgive my enemies and love them, and filter everything they say out.
make love, not war.
Pitty at the moment I've got an african of my own (white southafrican, scrawny, albino, rich and phycotic) on my tail, and it's mainly our history against us that puts him against me, that and him being hated by everyone and so therefore wishing to prove himself, I am reacting now, but he can't get at me since he's about to get expelled, and starts sucking up to me whenever he's just about to. I would fight him and expell him if I had time for him, but I don't, quite simply, he doesn't exist to me, in fact, I'm more worried what he's doing to everyone else rather than me.

Hobo 09-11-2007 02:18 AM

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And yeah, the thread's silly.

At last, we agree on something

Mac Sirloin 09-11-2007 04:11 AM

Wait, WHAT? Does this mean world peace? Ehn, It doesn't matter, Canadians shouldn't worry.

I'm sorry.

Bullying is basically a tactic that cowards use to justify their feeble psyche, and usually they end up with on even more bruised and battered mind because of ingenious 200 pound atrocities that scowl.

Rupture Farms 10-02-2007 11:06 PM

Bullies are just people who can't stand to see others happy. When they do, they want them to be unhappy just like they are.

If you don't mind facing the consequences by reacting to it, then forget all that crap you learnt in school about "don't fight back" and "tell them 'you don't like it".
I think you, and everyone in general should have the right to fight back.

As you may know, bullies are powerless without a group behind them, so if you want to get them back in a non-violent way, then that would be the right time to consult them. :D

scrab queen 10-02-2007 11:40 PM

With me, it was always some dominant wolf b**** who would start threatning me for asking one of my 'friends' for a skittle or something small like that. I was young, so of course I didn't fight back or anything, and I always got frustrated by it. One time, it was so bad, the principal actually gave me permission to beat the crap out of anyone who did something like that. I didn't take up the offer though...

What i've learned, is that it really pisses people off when you're all calm about it. Plus, they're probably really stupid to begin with, so use big words too. They see that they can't provoke you into a large display of emotion, and the big words will probably confuse the hell out of em'. If you do get a free shot to clobber him while he's in the act, beat him up good, and walk calmly away. It'll look like you're not even interested in this conflict anymore. Y'know what? You could say that as you walk away... "I am no longer interested in this little asinine conflict of yours. So I would appreciate it if you would stop wasting my time and my space with your foolishness."
I think i'm gonna save that for future referance...

Rupture Farms 10-02-2007 11:59 PM

Yeah, I agree with that.

I've noticed that they really hate it if you don't seem to care about it.
Just act calm, and confident. It seriously pisses them off, because they realise their insults aren't effecting you.

Marvak 10-03-2007 12:25 AM

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Yeah, I agree with that.

I've noticed that they really hate it if you don't seem to care about it.
Just act calm, and confident. It seriously pisses them off, because they realise their insults aren't effecting you.

I can actually back that theory up. While I'm not quite the bullying type, I have had experiences in my childhood where I have laid down what I had believed to be an insult worthy of the Big Man Himself, only to have it merely brushed aside with a 'Yeah, so?'

I went and smashed my window that afternoon.

Rupture Farms 10-03-2007 12:32 AM

Yep, it's not the best feeling.

Strike Witch 10-03-2007 12:43 AM

Just act cool, act cool...then as soon as they forget about you, wait 2 weeks then go to the principal.

Revenge is best served cold...and stale.

mudling 10-03-2007 01:08 AM

Yeah, just stop caring, technically, no one can make your life a mysery, no one can ruin your life, you do that yourself, if you don't care, then anything they do to you is worthless.
Just keep one thing in mind, anything they throw at you, you should be able to recover, if you can't, then what they're doing is seriously screwed up.
That, or you could get your cousins on them. :P
I actually am embarrased when freinds finnish others for me though.

Mac Sirloin 10-03-2007 05:05 AM

Well, I did figure out a why to take care of bullies, with eggs, and punching, and a skateboard....

scrab queen 10-03-2007 09:44 PM

Yeah, laying off potential, mild insults seems to work too. If they say i'm weird, a nerd, a geek, a freak, or that i'm scaring them, I always reply with a little cheerful "Thank you!". They just give me the 'wtf?' stare and they leave me alone. Surefire plan. JUst don't use it on harsher phrases that could backfire on you.

mudling 10-04-2007 02:01 AM

The problem is, that everyone, or at least nearly everyone has an acheilies heal that phyches people at straight away when attacked, and that's what the bully wants, so you have to pretend it doesn't effect you even if it does, trust me, it works. That's exactly why they use the attack, they know it's dangerous, but they realy want to get at you.
Like when someone insults a dead realative or freind, it hurts alot, but it'll hurt more if you react.
However, when you are realy pissed off, you can do pretty much anything, but you will regret it.
Now how come I can think of sooo many examples of these in movies, I guess it's a cliched area, but it's true neithertheless.

Oddey 10-23-2007 10:51 AM

I don't really know how i deal with it but i kind of wait for them to get bored. Every bully usually falls to this.

mudling 10-23-2007 11:50 PM

Well, since ignoring a certain person failed (Altough it failed because I couldn't ignore him and now things are worst), I'm going to stick with the, meet me wherever you hang out (Probably the local emo rehab center, game store, or the internet cafe) and we'll settle this, if you don't, I'll get everyone to call you a pussy, if you rat on me, I'll tell everyone, you and me, and we'll finnish this.
and then beat the shit out of him, and get everyone else to, get everyone to laugh, hopefully he becomes depressed and upset and knowing he is such a looser, either reforms or leaves school.
That's what I'm planning to do anyway, losing isn't even an option.

Bullet Magnet 10-24-2007 04:47 AM

This plan is akin to "Faeces, meet my good friend Propeller".

Kamille 10-27-2007 07:00 AM

Ignore them that's all.

~^_^~ 10-28-2007 08:05 AM

The best way is just to ignore it.
"Hah, your a nerd."
"I said, your a nerd."
"Hello?, God!"
The bully walks off, and there you go.

Bitter Buffalo 10-28-2007 12:46 PM

I think explaining why what they are doing is wrong should help. Remember, God's love is for us all.

Mac Sirloin 10-28-2007 02:23 PM

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I think explaining why what they are doing is wrong should help. Remember, God's love is for us all.

You are wrong.
If I told that guy that I got into a fight with that we should talk it out because god loves us both and doesn't want us fighting, he's going to just get worse.

Go choke to death on some communion wafers.

Mutual Friend 10-28-2007 02:40 PM

Heh! Such intolerance, beautiful.

Mac Sirloin 10-28-2007 02:42 PM

Never mind, he's right, talking it out DOES solve it.

I feel so stupid, my faith had been broken....

OANST 10-28-2007 02:42 PM

Goddamnit, I love Kastere. Okay, I've already been found out so I'll own up to it. I was Bitter Buffalo. Nate figured it out and banned that aspect of my persona so............You're a jerk Nate.

Mac Sirloin 10-28-2007 02:51 PM

I was worked up, honestly.

Did you do it just to get a reaction out of me? I deserve it, I suppose.