The Bullying Issue

[Panthers128]

Not surprised it's fake. A lot of these gays and suicide types are attention whores and actually cause more trouble than they receive. Take the case in California recently where a gay kid bullied another kid. Unfortunately for the gay kid he ended up being shot.

[cookinbrak]

When I was in 1st grade, 4th graders would try to take your lunch money. Me and my cousin would gang up on them and take their lunch money. Then we started doing it for profit, because no 4th grader is gonna admit that little badass 1st graders robbed them . Eventually we got caught, and they made us apologize to these kids that were way bigger than us. I can still hear our parents and the principals laughing their asses off.

[Seal (SmittyIsOurSavior)]

He said that it's gotten much better and he posted the first video over 4 months ago, so it's possible that the video opened up people's eyes and stopped the bullying.

But either way, whether fake or not, the kid sparked a revolution. He's inspired millions and I honestly think he may have saved lives of other kids in that situation.

[CosmoGirl]

On another note: Its awesome now when you see all the kids who gave you a hard time back in middle school when you check out at Wal-Mart and they are scanning or bagging your items. Or when you see how fat/gross/unsuccessful they are these days and get a teeny bit of satisfaction from that.

Agreed!

Also, people are the product of their environments. One of the biggest bullies to me in elementary and middle school is one of the nicest people to me now. We've become friends as adults. My mom cannot stand it but you know something, we grow up - I chose to forgive.

Funny, I was going to a different high school than everyone else. This girl pulled me aside and said to me "don't ever think that anyone is better than you or let them treat you like that". I found that ironic but it stuck with me.

[SmootsDaddy89]

I found that apparently the best way to defeat a bully is to fug his girlfriend.

#str8tpimpin

[Panthro]

Not surprised it's fake. A lot of these gays and suicide types are attention whores and actually cause more trouble than they receive. Take the case in California recently where a gay kid bullied another kid. Unfortunately for the gay kid he ended up being shot.

I would give you a wedgie till you kissed a black gay jewish man.

[Darth Biscuit]

I would give you a wedgie till you kissed a black gay jewish man.

I would pay money to see this.

You would have to get him to take the white sheets off first though.

[SCP]

That's sad. I worry about that stuff having two young boys. A soon to be 7 year old and a soon to be 2 year old. So far I haven't heard of much bullying at my 7 year olds school.

[Jase]

It may seem strange but I don't ever remember being bullied in school.

Guarding panthro in the post, however...

[Guest]

When I was in 7th grade the 9th graders would come down with box cutters to where we were hanging out (getting high) and steal our lunch money. One friend, who was really short, had just bought an ounce. Dude pulled out a cutter, said, "gimme" and that was that. I remember him with tears running down his face. Helpless.

Those guys never made it to HS. One guy who was one of the meanest finally showed up my junior year, in a wheelchair. Some dude in the hood shot him and he was paralyzed.

[MadHatter]

My pops always told me don't hit them unless they hit you first. Then you go at it.

Yep. Never hit first....but make sure you always hit last.

[MadHatter]

My son was being picked on by another kid in his class...one that was always in trouble. Not physical bullying, but name calling and teasing.

He called my son a nerd.

He came home and I could tell that something was bothering him. I pressed himuntil he finally told me what happened. My wife looked at me wondering how I was going to handle it.

I proceeded to tell my son that he WAS a nerd. And that coming from my gene pool, he never stood a chance (any of you that know me from the TG's know just how true that statement is). At that point, I explained that the kids definition of a nerd was someone who respected others, respected their elders, got good grades in school, etc... and that there was NOTHING wrong with that. Never change who you are for someone else.

I told him the next time he called him a nerd to say....."I might be a nerd, but that's OK. Because you will be cutting my grass one day". I then told him to interrupt the kid as soon as he started to say anything and say"And NO, I don't want fries with that"....then turn and walk away.

Two days later I got an e-mail from his teacher telling me that she witnessed the kid starting to pick on my son. Before she could intervene, my son did exactly what I told him to do. The other kid was so stunned that he did not know what to do and his buddies started laughing at him. The situation was completely stopped.

His teacher said it was the funniest and best handling of a situation like this that she had ever seen. She said it was great.

[Zod]

My twins also know if one comes home beaten up from school, the other damn well be beaten up as well less he finds a longer term punishment from me. Having two boys in the same grade should be an advantage against bullying.

[Johnny Rockets]

Zod's kids bullied my daughter at a party at a house on a golf course once. The house was right where many golfers would hit their drives and his boys intimidated my daughter into running out on the course and stealing golfballs from the fairway for them. His boys are running some kind of golf ball mafia or something.