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Did you ever bully somebody?

  • 27-08-2010 03:55AM
    #1
    cooltown
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 288 ✭✭


    Did you ever bully somebody?
    Why?


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  • #2
    x PyRo
    Moderators Posts: 8,948 ✭✭✭x PyRo


    No.

    'cause I didn't want to.


  • #3
    DOC09UNAM
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭DOC09UNAM


    Yes.

    Cause I was a cúnt.

    We're best friends now, funny how it works out.


  • #4
    banjo.splunker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭banjo.splunker


    no.


  • #5
    Sheeps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭Sheeps


    I still bully people.


  • #6
    Brendog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    I bullied sheeps because I'm a brendog...


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  • #7
    ShaneU
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,139 ✭✭✭✭ShaneU


    No.

    Now give me your lunch money.


  • #8
    toe_knee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 841 ✭✭✭toe_knee


    Yep
    Don't know why. Not proud of it and didn't really think it was bullying at the time. It's when you look back and think about it


  • #9
    FearDark
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,425 ✭✭✭FearDark


    Shut the fúck up OP or ill wreck ya.


  • #10
    Stephen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    No, 'cos I'm not an asshole.


  • #11
    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,594 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Sure did.

    You can beat a bit o' bully.


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  • #12
    fakearms123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,381 ✭✭✭fakearms123


    I wonder how you came up with the idea for this thread...

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056012521


  • #13
    easyeason3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,102 ✭✭✭easyeason3


    Not directly but I didn't stop a friend of mine from bullying a girl in primary school. She tormented her & I still feel really bad I didn't do something.


  • #14
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    If you consider bullying as a slow mental torturing of another person, drawn out over a long time period, in such a subtle way as to be barely noticable, yet to such an effect that it is ultimately undermining, then, no.


  • #15
    who the fug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,042 ✭✭✭who the fug


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    If you consider bullying as a slow mental torturing of another person, drawn out over a long time period, in such a subtle way as to be barely noticable, yet to such an effect that it is ultimately undermining, then, no.

    Job description for a teacher


  • #16
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    Yes I did. Not proud of it, didn't do it for long but still think about it the odd time.. Meh.


  • #17
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Never, ever!

    I may be a lot of things but a bully I aint....and never was!


  • #18
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    who the fug wrote: »
    Job description for a teacher

    Where did you get that idea from? Are you talking about one teacher in particular, or teachers in general?


  • #19
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Nope, nor was bullied either. Lucky on both counts.

    Many worry about Artificial Intelligence. I worry far more about Organic Idiocy.



  • #20
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,388 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    cooltown wrote: »
    Did you ever bully somebody?
    Why?

    TO be honest i think i did, i was a timid young kid starting school, didn't really fathom where i was, and got some **** of other kids....then a few summers later had a pretty rediculous growth spurt, and came back to school a quite a big f**er!!! Bullying never happened to me again, but made a few kids life miserable. hate it now.


  • #21
    drkpower
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,474 ✭✭✭drkpower


    Sykk wrote: »
    Yes I did. Not proud of it, didn't do it for long but still think about it the odd time.. Meh.

    Nice that you show such indifference to your actions which are pretty dispicable. I wonder to the poor victims feel such indifference?


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  • #22
    Cianos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,850 ✭✭✭Cianos


    Feeona wrote: »
    Where did you get that idea from? Are you talking about one teacher in particular, or teachers in general?

    And so it starts...


  • #23
    checkyabadself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 471 ✭✭checkyabadself


    Never. I was bullied myself as i was a small wirey kid. It was terrible, I got my ass kicked more times than I can remember. Funnily enough, i grew up to be a big bloke and as a result I'm now always looking out for the small guy.

    I've intervened a few times where I've seen someone being pushed around. It broke my heart one day to see a bunch of fellas around 16 picking on one of their "friends" who was pretending to not be bothered by being pushed around but was only trying to fit in.
    I asked the "leader" if he wanted to impress the girls that were watching him, that he could pick on me. I called him a pussy and a coward. He turned
    and walked away.
    I met a few lads that used to pick o me, that I considered friends in the last few years who didn't recognise me as I ended up twice the size of most of them.

    Bullying, especially among adults is the lowest of the low in my book, to get ahead by crushing vulnerable people is disgusting.


  • #24
    Nailz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,691 ✭✭✭Nailz


    No, I don't do things to others that I wouldn't like done to myself.


  • #25
    PeterIanStaker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,072 ✭✭✭PeterIanStaker


    No, because I dont care enough to make an effort to give someone else a hard time over what amounts to nothing.

    Having said that I wouldnt allow someone else to be victimised.


  • #26
    Feeona
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,632 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Cianos wrote: »
    And so it starts...

    Do you think I shouldn't have questioned the statement? I don't believe the statement, and fear there's a public attitude that teachers can be run down without having to back up such allegations.

    Silence and fear are the bully's most important allies. I will not be cowed into accepting that teachers should be talked about in such a manner.


  • #27
    coffeelover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭coffeelover


    Ya...... but only because she bullied me first :rolleyes:


  • #28
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    I'm not sure. I never picked on anyone in primary school and nobody picked on me. It was all fairly decent. In secondary I tormented a lad in my class one day but it got too much for him and he broke down in tears. I really liked him and it was just messing but he cracked. I apologised to him and never did anything like that again.
    There were one or two lads in the class who always got the slags but they took it well. There was one bully in the class who stayed back a year and so was in my class and he used to push his weight around but once we got into secondary school and got a little bigger, he took a few hidings and that was the end of his bullying career.


  • #29
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    I was a bit of a **** towards a few people back in the day but luckily I grew out of it at around 15 years of age.
    In hind sight, I'd say it was probably a case of transference: clicky, which basically means you act like the people who got the better of you.


  • #30
    kelle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭kelle


    Never, ever, ever. Bullying is disgusting.

    I was in Tesco recently. I witnessed a young shelf stacker tormenting a fellow worker who I have figured out over the years is special needs. He was teasing this poor man who was not making any response, but was visibly getting upset by the teasing. I stood beside them, the young guy remarked to me that they were both having a "bit of fun at work". I said "This doesn't look like fun to me. He's not laughing, and I'm not laughing. You are being a bully, and I am going to report you to management".

    It was his turn to go red-faced, it made my day.


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  • #31
    WhollyChao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭WhollyChao


    kelle wrote: »

    He was teasing this poor man who was not making any response, but was visibly getting upset by the teasing. I stood beside them, the young guy remarked to me that they were both having a "bit of fun at work". I said "This doesn't look like fun to me. He's not laughing, and I'm not laughing. You are being a bully, and I am going to report you to management".

    I find it quite pathetic that nowadays bullies try to shrug off their behaviour by claiming it's all "just a bit of fun", it's just a "bit of banter", etc. Not for the people on the recieving end for the most part. I guess telling everyone that makes it easier for them to go to sleep at night and justify their actions to their conscience.


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