Bullies

[JennyGenesis]

I hated that part when doing swimming.....................

And to believe that a few days ago I was walking down the street naked with friends at 1am.................

EDIT: I was the only one naked

[Strike Witch]

Back in high school, I had a friend who was pretty shy. She was a very nice, normal girl, intelligent, but not particularly annoying or uppity or anything.

But there was this other girl, let's call her Kara. She was also normal, intelligent, seemingly nice. But she had a hard-on for books. And not just any book.

Yup, Twilight.

So after Twilight was getting popular, Kara, who was a huge huge fan and read it "before it was popular" was basically evangelizing the thing to everyone. My friend wasn't a reader, but since she was on good terms with Kara, borrowed the book from her and said she'd try it.

So for the next few periods, my friend was basically harassed by Kara who wanted her to read it again and again, and eventually my friend basically said to hell with maths and read it during class. She made it about half a chapter and it bored her to tears, so she smiled at me and asked if I wanted to read it instead. I, having already read it, declined, and we went back to math problems. (teacher in this class was a total lazy fuck by the way).

So, it's afternoon, and we meet up with everyone to wind down. Cue Kara evangelizing to my friend, expecting another triumphant convert. My friend smiled, then handed to book to her.

"It was pretty boring."

Not the best choice of words.

Kara's face puffed up and her eyes practically bulged. She looked a little purple. She said okay and took the book away, and that was the end of it, we though.

But over the next few weeks, turns out Kara had moved the group's lunch spot without telling us. She'd spread some nasty rumours about my friend. Then we found out from the IT teacher that she'd posted something nasty on some now-defunct twilight forum. My friend didn't take this very well, as she was a pretty wimpy person. Me personally, I was just fuming at what a bitch Kara was. After this, apparently there were some other reactions, especially among some of our male friends, who also disagreed with Kara's antics, and my friend, myself, two guys and two girls basically had a talk about what to do. My friend decided the best thing would be to confront her directly and try to work it out....

So we did that. Kara flipped her shit. She took her fucking hardcover and thumped my friend in the head with it. After my friends pulled her away, I took my friend to the nurse's office for some ice. She watched as I then ran all the way back (bout half a K to senior school fucking layout) to the recess area with bloodshot eyes.

I kicked her in the shins and bashed her in the head with her own book. We were both dragged in to the principal's office. Principal is an idiot and the head of senior school was a pedantic fuck, so I texted my mother and refused to say anything until she arrived. My mother, as I've said before, is a workaholic scary black-wearing semi-sociopathic terror, and my friend's mother also backed me up.

So the two of us somehow got off with a detention!

But that wasn't the end of it.

Kara's boyfriend from another school approached me about a week later when I was walking home alone, and threatened me with a bunch of nonspecific things. I could see Kara glaring at me from his car up the road. The guy was kind of stupid, so I just said "Oh, you want my seester! she in school in school" is a fake-asian-accent. He even started to walk back down to the school before Kara furiously texted him. By that point I was waiting in line for the bus. So he runs at me, I kick him in the balls, and ride home.

My friend wasn't the only one though, I found out about a year later that Kara basically peer-pressure/bullied most of her friends into reading that fucking book. About half of them just played along, which my friend later told me we should have done in the first place.

Oh well, live and learn. At least I wasn't shot with a paintball gun again.

[Emesdee]

I avoided bullying through most of school, until the second year of middle school. He was a typical jackass who was held back a couple times, so he was big, ripped someone in their mid teens, and proud of his rather pathetic facial hair. I don't know what I did, but I pissed him off royal during lunch one day, and he spent the next few weeks constantly harassing me in school, and usually attacking me afterwards. It thankfully never went too far, worst that happened was a bloody nose and missing the bus home a few times.

Unfortunately, the following year and first two of high school I ended up becoming a bully myself. Unfortunate that I ended up starting the cycle again since a transfer student we used to pick on went on to harassing people himself the final year.

[STM]

There was a little twat when I was in year six, the only year I was bullied proper and I managed to make him cry just by laughing at him when he threw a football at my face. I wish my parents hadn't gone to the teachers though because it alienated me from my small class for the remainder of the year really.

[Disgruntled Intern]

We never had to take our underwear off, so showing our dicks to one another wasn't a normal thing to do.

You guys don't have showers in your locker rooms? I know most schools don't have mandatory showers in gym class any more, but since it got into the triple digits in the summer, most of us would shower anyway. I don't know, just never seemed like that big of a deal.

[STM]

Because some kids don't like to get undressed in front of other kids. Especially when so many kids are retarded and incite such intelligent comments such as, 'if you have a shower you are gay', it can put people of I expect.

[enchilado]

I'm straight and I never shower.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Because some kids don't like to get undressed in front of other kids. Especially when so many kids are retarded and incite such intelligent comments such as, 'if you have a shower you are gay', it can put people of I expect.

Well I can understand the mentality if you're a kid, but I'm talking high school. Which I guess still makes you technically a kid, but puts you well into your mid-teens. I don't know, by the time I was in high school I was plenty interested in girls and chasing my fair share of tail, and nothing puts the brakes on that faster than smelling like armpits and sweaty balls after you get out of gym. So I showered. As did most people. Sure, you had a few people who would try to talk shit, you know, make comments about how 'gay' you were for showering, but it's like, "Hey fuckface, I'm cleaning myself up FOR THE LADIES. You want to smell like shit, by all means, improve my chances." And the retards who would try to talk shit about the size of another guys penis? Well, that actually DID seem a little gay. I mean...Why are you checking out another guys junk in the shower? And even if you're doing it just to see how you compare...Why are you talking about it...Loudly?

I don't know, it's the same thing when I go to the gym now. I shower there. Well, I have to shower there because you need to shower before you get into the jacuzzi and/or sauna, and you do see the odd weirdo in the communal showers in his bathing suit, but I personally just feel like we all have the same equipment to some degree, and it's just skin. Just get in, wash up, and get out. It's not like it's a social convention where you have to talk to anyone. It's only as awkward as you want to make it.

But I also really like hitting the sauna and jacuzzi after I work out, so.

[Jordan]

No one in my year group showered, and as far as I know no one did in other years. I think it depends a lot on which school you go to (whether they made you or not) and whether the shower facilities were decent enough. The most people used the showers for in our changing rooms was to chuck people's bags under them and get them wet. It's weird I know, but it's just something our school didn't pick up.

[Wings of Fire]

Maybe the aversion to doing it in British schools is because you're there since you are a kid (11/12) so you never really change the habit, whereas in the US you go into high school at around 15 right? Less baggage.

[STM]

Well our facilities were shit any way...they were good that is until the kids made them shit. And I agree with you DI in the respect that I really didn't care about being nude but everyone else did so in turn I never really went about in the noddy. Especially since the teachers might pop in at any moment.

Also, saunas are swell, jacuzzi's on the other hand...are the breeding ground of festering infections and diseases. I mean you are literally in an incubator containing all the right chemicals for viruses to take hold. Toe jam!

[Ridg3]

That's why you shower before you get in, silly.

[STM]

Yeh but some people don't man. I just don't like them. I'd rather relax with a bath at home or sit in the sauna and bake in the quiet and relative privacy that they offer. Especially since everyone in a sauna seems to prefer to keep their heads down and shut up rather than talk to anyone who makes eye contact for a split second.

[Jordan]

I went in a sauna when I went on holiday once. I hated it, the air made me uncomfortable. That was most likely because I was pretty young at the time. But because I itch like crazy when I get hot I doubt my feelings towards them will have changed.

[Dixanadu]

In Strabane, which is about less than an hour from where I live, there's a sauna that has a reputation of being the 'gay sauna'.

Guys routinely go there to bone each other, and the owners either turn a blind eye or join in. I went there once before I was aware of it's status, I was completely oblivious to everyone's advances. I just kept thinking, "My god, everyone here is so great!"

[STM]

So are you coming our or what?

[Strike Witch]

At school they were like, supposed to be sunsmart so you needed a hat to do sports.

I just folded up my hat and shoved it under my shirt and skipped the whole deal.

[Alcar]

For the most part, Australian schools don't have shower facilities, except for a few older and private institutions.

It was such a shame

Alcar...

[JennyGenesis]

We only used the showers after swimming, and even then we kept our shorts on. When getting changed the goal was to keep yourself covered otherwise somebody would vocally acknowledge that your treasure was on display which would then be followed by mocking. It was rather embarassing. But these days I wouldn't care.

[Munch's Master]

We only had some really manky and not very good showers that in my entire time at the school (with it being the only school I ever went to before college) I never saw anybody use them.

And hoo boy did I get bullied. First had 1 guy who was bigger than everyone so would rough some of us up. Gave me an egg on my head for about 6 months. I found that if I retaliated he backed off so I started retaliating more, and not controlling my temper. Then, after 1 guy beat up a mate of mine over something very trivial I got in his face about it & shoved him, he retaliated by grabbing me by the neck and throwing me into a wall. This led to my becoming alienated slowly, and if I did lose my temper I'd just get picked on more.
For a period of around 4 years there wasn't anyone I could call a friend at that school, god knows why I didn't leave or tell someone. I mostly just recieved very large amounts of verbal abuse, but if I tried to stand up for myself I'd get shouted down, or if I tried to resist being physically excluded it'd lead to minor altercations. Thing was even if I came out on top it didn't stop it- I had 1 guy bigger than me on the ground in a guillotine choke hold that I only let go because I saw a teacher wasn't too far away and I didn't want to choke this guy in front of the teacher. He gets up after I let go, punches me and says not to piss him off, then struts off as if he won with everyone siding with him. People would conveniently forget having ever said certain things to me. 1 guy bullied me, and his best mate, who I was okay with, didn't have a clue why. Me neither.

Anyway the moment I took up a martial art, as a hobby more than anything, the bullying dropped off rapidly to just snide backhand comments. Still had no real friends, but there were a few guys I was okay with and a few who would be civil when the ringleaders weren't around. Of course I was too affected by it to properly make friends at college, since many of these people ended up going to my college, but I made some friends there, and since the fresh start of university have been fine. That said I did encounter an unpleasant character here, but we've brushed things over now.

[Disgruntled Intern]

Also, saunas are swell, jacuzzi's on the other hand...are the breeding ground of festering infections and diseases. I mean you are literally in an incubator containing all the right chemicals for viruses to take hold. Toe jam!

The Jacuzzi at the gym is pretty god damned hot. There's actually a warning posted for the elderly and children due to its high temperatures. Actually, I think you have to be over 13 to even get in. I'm not sure. It's shut down during the summer. And what chemicals are you talking about? That's a little confusing to me.

[STM]

This will explain better than I can...there are scientific journals and more articles but this one has most of what I am trying to convey.

http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com...-in-filth.aspx