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View Poll Results: Is bullying always a bad thing?
Yes, it is. 14 82.35%
No, it's not. 0 0%
Sometimes it is. 3 17.65%
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:44 AM   #21
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Does that even happen in real life? Shoving someone's head down the toilet? Because I've never seen or heard of that happen in real life. And I've seen and experienced bullying before. Seems more like a movie thing in general..

I wondered the same thing myself when I typed that but was just going on the image posted.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:45 AM   #22
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Kids are cruel and jerks to each other. I don't think they're truly aware sometimes of what they're doing tbh. I mean, I remember a lot of people back up until 10th grade being tools and jerks to others, but nowadays are normal functional adults and no longer do that. I'm not excusing or defending their former behaviour btw.

What's even worse is when people keep bullying others as adults. Workplace bullying is a thing.

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Yet they still feel the need to berate others. Just because they're popular and have good grades, it doesn't mean they might not have something going on. They're clearly insecure about something.
That is true. I never understood that, tbh. If I was so popular, had good grades, a great home life and such why would I feel the need to be an ass to people who don't have those things? If anything, someone as equally popular and successful would be way more likely to stab me in the back, since they'd have the power to do so.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:54 AM   #23
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That is true. I never understood that, tbh. If I was so popular, had good grades, a great home life and such why would I feel the need to be an ass to people who don't have those things? If anything, someone as equally popular and successful would be way more likely to stab me in the back, since they'd have the power to do so.
It could be that their fortune just got to their heads, and haven't learning to be gracious about their talents to not look down on others who aren't as fortunate in the ways that they are. You know, like the good athlete who talks trash to others who don't have their skills, or the guy who gets all the girls and pities the guys who have difficulty getting a date.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:58 AM   #24
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It could be that they just let these things go to their head, and haven't learning to be gracious about their talents to not look down on others who aren't as fortunate in the ways that they are.
Yeah kids can be real assholes about such things. That's why lots of people who aren't good at sports never bother to improve. because they get made fun of and harassed in school for not being extremely talented at them.

Kids/teenagers tend to be very insecure and want to look for approval of their peers. From my observation, bullying was worse from 7th to 9th grade. Around 10th grade it became less aggressive, even if people were still shallow.
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Old 12-02-2017, 01:08 AM   #25
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The flip side is... many people who never got bullied, never got punched in the face... they sometimes grow up to be self-entitled a**holes. I know quite a few people that maybe could have served to -- if not necessarily get bullied in the strictest sense -- maybe get their ass kicked at least once in life.

Nowadays I think bullies as we may have known them in the 80s or 90s would be immediately expelled, with the parents possibly facing lawsuits. I think maybe things have gone too far.
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Old 12-02-2017, 01:14 AM   #26
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The flip side is... many people who never got bullied, never got punched in the face... they sometimes grow up to be self-entitled a**holes
Those people were most likely bullies themselves.

Also, one odd thing about bullies is that they tend to play the victim when they're stood up to.

All in all, bullying is never acceptable, no matter how one tries to justify it.
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Old 12-02-2017, 03:22 AM   #27
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As someone who was bullied, there's no up sides to being bullied. "Building character", "learning to take a stand" are just weak ass excuses bullies use when they're confronted with their bullying.
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Old 12-02-2017, 05:11 AM   #28
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Anyone else get the feeling that either Andrew hasn't been bullied himself or was a bully?
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Old 12-02-2017, 05:44 AM   #29
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Anyone else get the feeling that either Andrew hasn't been bullied himself or was a bully?
I wanted to say that at first, but he said he thinks it's a horrible thing, and said he wouldn't want his daughter to experience it. I also had the same thought about the ones who didn't vote yes. In Andrew's case, I'd guess that he hasn't been bullied, but not so much that he ever did any bullying.
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Old 12-02-2017, 07:08 AM   #30
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Anyone else get the feeling that either Andrew hasn't been bullied himself or was a bully?
There is no reason to assume either of them.

I could even say he asked this question because he was severly bullied once and is either trying to somehow justify why it happened in life, or wasn't ever a bully himself and was curious to gain their perspectives, but those are just assumptions too.
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Old 12-02-2017, 10:48 AM   #31
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I was bullied every now and then in school for nearly a year, though I was well able to stand up for himself and there was always someone to talk to.

One odd thing about the two bullies I knew was there were many times that they talked to me as if we were good friends (very charming and polite, surprisingly enough) and they seemed to have a split personality. After a while, I realized that they both couldn’t be trusted.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:41 PM   #32
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I was never bullied. Everyone always stuck up for me in school. I have no idea why either, I was never all that friendly with a lot of these people but they always looked after me for some reason. Probably helped I used to be the shortest kid in the class.
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Old 12-02-2017, 12:43 PM   #33
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I was never bullied. Everyone always stuck up for me in school. I have no idea why either, I was never all that friendly with a lot of these people but they always looked after me for some reason. Probably helped I used to be the shortest kid in the class.
Probably because, no matter how annoying you can be and how many head scratching things you say at times, there is a certain charm about you that makes it impossible for anyone to truly dislike you. Hence why pretty much no one in this place wants to see you getting banned or leaving this place ever
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Old 12-03-2017, 05:10 PM   #34
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Coming out of a bad situation well doesn't somehow magically exonerate the people who made the situation bad in the first place.
Perfectly said.
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Old 12-03-2017, 05:39 PM   #35
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The flip side is... many people who never got bullied, never got punched in the face... they sometimes grow up to be self-entitled a**holes. I know quite a few people that maybe could have served to -- if not necessarily get bullied in the strictest sense -- maybe get their ass kicked at least once in life.
No thats just bad parenting, they don't need a bullying but good parents
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Old 12-03-2017, 05:51 PM   #36
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People have committed suicide because of bullying.

Let that sh*t sink in.
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Old 12-04-2017, 06:08 AM   #37
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Perfectly said.
Totally. Also, if anyone wants to use that argument that bullying teaches kids to stick up for themselves, or that victims become successful as adults, then most victims might say they turned out well IN SPITE OF it. Not because of it.
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