I can’t beleive I’m the first to mention this.
Best revenge, start dating his sister if he has one. That will absolutly kill him
I can’t stress how highly I agree with this statement - indeed I mentioned it myself in my earlier post. When you can do it - especially towards fuckwits who are trying to hang shit on you - it’s a real sign of inner strength and moral fibre I reckon. It says you’re on top of your game, that you’re not intimidated, and most importantly, that you’re thinking stuff which only YOU know about.
You know what? I was bullied ALL the way through school, ALL of it, from kindergarten up.
And you know what? I love my life now (I am 22), I really honrestly don’t know anyone happier than me. And the idiots that bullied me? I feel REALLY sorry for them. They got involved in drugs, crime, and some really unpleasant people. And they are fuckwits.
All this shit don’t matter. Get yourself a good book if you like to read, or music, or whatever you like to do, and shut them out. Just find some sort of escape.
And punch them. I punched several of them at different points, and it feels damn good. But don’t get into trouble for it, and don’t take it too far. One person punched a year is enough.
Lil
Is this kind of stuff normal for American high schools?
Wow TMWTGG . Am I right in recalling you have Asperger’s syndrome? This is a dreadful situation for you to be in - and reinforces why my gifted/AS son will be homeschooled from next year. Do you have this option?
Oh yes, AngelicGemma. I’ve often said India’s caste system has NOTHING on the caste system of the American high school.
Now maybe kids typically don’t go around accusing each other of being snipers, but the OP’s harassment is nothing new. A lot of teenagers are like vultures; they seek out someone they perceive as weak and then try to peck them to death.
According to google, 95 kilos is a little over 200 lbs.
I just like using that feature of Google. Carry on.
TMWTGG, everybody here is right. High school sucks, you seem to be handling it pretty well, and it will be over soon and you can forget about it.
I found (when I was older–too bad I didn’t know how to do this in grade school or high school) that the best way to deflect that kind of harassment is to laugh, as though the other person has made a really amusing and clever joke, and then act as if they’re someone you get along with–smile, greet them pleasantly, whatever. It either throws them off something fierce, or they actually start responding in a civil manner. Some cases are too serious for this, and it takes a lot of practice and guts to do it when you’re feeling cornered and insulted, but I personally think it’s a useful technique you’d be well advised to cultivate.
Very normal for HS. There is almost always a few on the extreme end of bullying. They can be pretty bad.
I was bullied quite a bit. I would love to report that I’m great now and all of them have sucky lives.
Threads like this or other ones about bullys get me though. 20 years later and all the same pain and anguish can all come flooding back. I’ve gotten a lot better about turning it around though.
I haven’t really kept up with my tormentors but I do know that some have gone on to be quit successful and have familes and are probably raising the next generation of bullies while for me, one of the many reasons I don’t want kids is because I couldn’t handle it if my kid was being bullied.
So basically, yes HS sucks, but don’t expect justice to just happen.
Take the flyer to an lawyer and sue them.
Maybe people pick on you because you use phrases like “I can’t be arsed” and you’re from Ohio.
Just a thought.
Tame, compared to my H.S. experience. Middle school was worse.
:rolleyes:
And I suppose picking on the kid with an accent (any one at all) is ok in your book? How about the kid with the slight stutter when they’re nervous? Or the one who can’t quite seem to differentiate w from r sounds when she speaks? That was me, fuckwit, and there was NO excuse for people picking on me for it! People speak how they can, with phrases they feel suit them, and for you to consider that a valid reason to pick on someone just indicates how much of an asshole you are!
There is NO excuse for bullying. NONE. EVER.
Amen to that. Middle school was three years of unmitigated pure hell. I was the one EVERYBODY abused, though not physically.
It sounds like you’re dealing with this situation far better than I handled stuff when I was in school.
And while yes, high school does suck, there is no excuse for this sort of bullying. None at all.
Jesus, if this is the worst thing they’re saying to you, be thankful. Isaiah’s being a dick because it’s so easy to pull your chain. Next time he calls you sniper, just laugh and say “That’s right, and I’m gunning down your mama next.”
Instead of running home for lunch, grow some teflon on your skin. This is the game of jack-and-jawin’. It’s a rite of passage. Once you two scar each other, you have established a bond of blood. Calling you sniper could be Isaiah’s way of saying “Hi, how you doing?” Telling him “Your mama’s hot. How much does she charge?” with a smile means “Doing fine, how about you?” Who knows, make friends with this guy and maybe he’ll fix your car in the future.
You’re going to have to deal with worse than Isaiah after you leave HS, and if you don’t toughen up now, you’re never going to be able to deal with it.
Hey, tell them you ARE the sniper…and they’re next.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph. :eek: SOMEBODY needs some fucking therapy.
Listen, anus huffer, there’s a difference between the things that people picked on you for doing (i.e., stuff beyond your control) and using obscure British phrases when you’re from middle America and NOT British. One is assholes picking on people who can’t help it. The other is somebody getting picked on who probably uses affectations to make himself feel more learned and important than the people around him. I was simply pointing out that people tend to not take kindly to that sort of thing.
I know all about schooltime abuse, so do me a favor–step the fuck off me. You don’t know me any more than I know you. If you’ve got some picked-on issues, then here’s some picked-on tissues. Don’t come out with guns a’blazing because I pointed out something other people haven’t had the stones to mention before me.
Sometimes people unconsciously alienate others, and they’re usually the first ones to cry about being alienated themselves.
I would HIGHLY recommend NOT doing this. This Ohio sniper thing is no joke, and you shouldn’t even give anyone a hint you might be the sniper. (Unless you are. Then turn your ass in now ;))
If the school doesn’t stop it, see if you can get a lawyer. They are committing slander and libel, and rumours have a tendency to get out of hand. (Remember Richard Jewell?)
Umm…
As someone who lived through some pretty nasty social outcasting through primary, middle, and high school, let me share with you two pieces of knowledge.
- Let it roll off you like water off a ducks back. Seriously, the more imperturbed you are by their stupidity, the less “payoff” there is for them. They’ll slow down with the taunts if you don’t let them spin you up. Which is, honestly, what’s happening here. It DOES take two to tango, and you are obligingly dancing along AND letting them lead as well. If you don’t want to dance this dance, then stop. Stop dancing along with them. Go nuetral to their comments. Shrug, and walk off.
Water off a ducks back.
- Mental Judo. Next time he hands you a peice of paper like that in front of others, laugh, and say “Yep, you got me Deputy Dogg. Want my autograph? Anything for my friends…” EVERY time they confront you with crap like this, roll with the offense and deflect it by making it more absurd then it already is. When they say “Hey, you’re gay!” You say “Oh yeah! Huge pole smoker. But you already knew that big boy…” “Your mom is a ho!” “You know it! But, you know, we gotta make the trailer payment and all and times is hard!”
This removes, utterly, the sting from their comments. It leaves them no place to go without sounding lame as fuck. It will also get you a reputation for being a laid-back “cool” guy. This can be more valuable than gold, and will bring a short end to all this sort of stuff.
Never give them satisfaction. Even better, turn it back on them and they’ll stop as soon as you figure those two things out.
Regards,
-Bouncer-
PS: Good luck with school!
Right. Here’s a trophy. See that engraving? It says “Biggest Dumbfuck Of The Day Award”. Underneath is written “For Exemplary Performance In Making Idiotic And Unfounded Assumptions”.
You should be proud, asshole. Check that… I mean arsehole.
:eek:
I think its funny that a dude who calls himself “Man with the Golden Gun” is complaining that someone thinks hes a sniper! 
Honestly, you are worried about this?
She told me she loved me like a brother. She was from Arkansas, hence the Joy!
Not to put too blunt a point on it, but suck it up and deal, dude!
You can’t have lunch with your peers because of “school anxiety”? What kind of new-agey disease-of-the-coddled-classes is “school anxiety”?
You think it’s slander and libel to call you the “sniper”? Hey, it’s called “teasing”. It’s not right and its not fun, but it’s gone on since forever and it will go on forever more. They’re not beating on you. They’re not even giving you wedgies or noogies – both of which I received in BIG SUPPLY, in front of many people.
And you know why? Because I was a friggin’ wise-ass and brought it on myself. Only I didn’t have the instinct to go to the principal when it happened.
Your parents haven’t said it. Your doctor didn’t say it. Your principal really can’t say it, but we can: deal with it. Everybody else does. You think you’re the only kid who’s ever been teased?
Oh – and in this post-Columbine era, I wouldn’t tell anyone you’re going to snipe them. That’s an invitation for expulsion.