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Bullying is getting way out of hand.It's becoming a real problem.Bullying is not even close to being cool.We need to keep everyone safe from this.If you've ever been bullied in your life,please try to prevent it if you see it.Seriously.I think Americas not safe.Bullies could become the new Adolf Hitler.I never thought this could become a teenage problem too.But it is.We need to keep the world safe.If you see bullying happen or about to happen,Prevent it.It's a really big deal.If you've ever been a bully,never be one again.It can cause serious problems.Anyone agree?

Bullying is actually better than it used to be, surprisingly.  Just more publicized.

u say this on a pokemon forum as if any of it is news to us

glash101 if you're being bullied tell a teacher or another responsible adult. :police:

Liam you'd be surprised at how often that doesn't necessarily work.  You definitely should do it, that way once you complain to the superintendent the principles/teachers get in trouble too.

It's a shame that it doesn't always work, but often it's a good place to start at the very least. They have a duty to protect you and assuming you have a good support system around you something should be done.

usually their "support system" is telling the bully that you grassed them up and asking them to stop being mean
from what ive heard this is the "support system" in a majority of schools

Quote from: Lord Raven on August 16, 2013, 03:47
Bullying is actually better than it used to be, surprisingly.  Just more publicized.

I'm interested to know what you're basing this on. I'm not picking a fight, it's a genuine question!

Quote from: sylar on August 16, 2013, 18:23
usually their "support system" is telling the bully that you grassed them up and asking them to stop being mean
from what ive heard this is the "support system" in a majority of schools

I wouldn't be able to speak for everyone, considering my school had quite a good policy on bullying. What I am saying is that in my opinion it's better to say something rather than do nothing about. I think saying that the "majority of schools" have a policy of just telling the bully to stop being mean is exaggerated.

You guys might wanna get out more.I see bullying so often,it hurts my eyes.Literally.I'm serious.I bet none of you have picked the 1rst poll choice.

youre telling people on a pokemon forum to get out more

I meant whenever they can.

yeah but pokemon x and y are being released on the eshop so

Are you like 10 or something?  lol

Quote from: Clairefable on August 16, 2013, 18:41
I'm interested to know what you're basing this on. I'm not picking a fight, it's a genuine question!

The fact that bullies used to be more vicious back in ye olden days for even more reasons than before.  In the US at least, people really didn't like integration and it did lead to all sorts of violence.  Homophobia was far more prevalent back then, and general cruelty and racism were greater in general.  People were also told by their parents to fight back in school before it became outlawed by US law (now you get suspended for fighting).  Fights were more popular back in my middle school days too, but my high school days barely had any.

It's way easier to bully online nowadays and it's way easier to hang yourself than it used to be, so you hear more reports of suicides and whatnot.  The consequences are more extreme but it seems like that kids have found different reasons to bully and it just happens in smaller doses.  But the standard old "stalk people on their way home and beat the crap out of them eventually" doesn't occur nowadays.  The suicide rate may or may not be as high, but it only really backs up that bullying isn't nearly as vicious and cruel as it used to be, the consequences are just far worse which is a result of a generation that places less value on bullying.  I know that attitudes changed completely between when I was in elementary/middle school and when I was in high school; the former gave more of an actual elem/middle school feel you'd see on those 80s/90s TV shows, and the latter gave a much much different feel.

How am I supposed to feed on children's tears if I can't bully them? I got warned about hanging around at funerals.

you need to be subtle about the funerals. try dressing completely in camouflage clothing. paint your face camouflage too so youre completely invisible.
perhaps bring a long camouflage curly straw to drink them from afar

my straw reaches acroooooooooss the room

Alright,who gave me a warning for nothing?

^glash101, you should have been given a reason by automated PM, I highly doubt it was for "nothing".

Quote from: glash101 on August 16, 2013, 20:39
Alright,who gave me a warning for nothing?

I gave you a warning for breaking the rules.

You got a PM with the reason.

This is off topic for here. If you want to discuss it, PM me... but the rules are clear on posting in all-caps.

I absolutely adore bullying. It's my favourite thing to do.

Hey, hey, it's an interesting topic. Bullying? Hm... I kind of view it as a part of growing up... To some degree. You need to learn how to have some thick skin. Sure, I think it can be malicious, I wouldn't encourage it, but if you learn to cope with bullying early on you have a good setup for life. (Of course it can also install various scarring emotional problems, but so can almost any background.)

Also, for some people, I think they just genuinely don't know where the line for 'teasing' ends and 'bullying' begins. After all that differs from person to person. For one person 'you look hideous today' would just be two friends joking around, for another it could be a huge knock to the self-esteem... It depends. A common solution to it can (depending on the type of bullying) be to make it clear that you do not like it - without necessarily rising to it. With that being said if the bullying clearly IS malicious, well: I chose to just ignore it and that worked fine for me. People still sucked a bit, but they did get bored of it.

Just for one example, on the school bus, people used to throw things at me. I mostly ignored it, but one time a kid poured some cococola on my head. At that point I turned around and calmly pointed out, 'I'm wearing hearing aids, which are expensive electronic devices which you could have seriously damaged.' Everyone on the bus acknowledged that this may have been too far, and said sorry, and it reverted to the occasional thing being thrown my way - something which they gradually grew bored of, and by next year it had stopped completely. It was unpleasant, but didn't escalate, and when it did get worse I was able to calmly tone it down again. Of course the downside is that this won't work in the instance where people just think it's a joke, so be sure to be assertive rather than just passive. And it may not work with more aggressive bullies... I'm not sure. But that's just my two cents on my bullies experiences.

I really do think bullying is needed. Not to the point where someone wants to kill themselves, but seriously. I think it really helps shape you as a person, and like Sly Foxx said, gives you some thick skin. And that's really important because in the real world, not everyone is going to be nice to you. People are going to have bad days and call you names if you serve them a McDouble instead of a McChicken when all you're doing is standing in the front. You won't last long in any industry if you start crying or get upset with people getting upset with you.

After being bullied myself, I learned the best way to cope is just act like it's not even happening and either ignore them or not get my pants in a knot over what they say to me. We were all bullied and we all have bullied. It's just natural in all social animals. There's always going to be people in your life where social interaction with them is a nightmare. It's best to get a start with dealing with people who can't deal with their own emotions when you're young.

 I'll admit that I was bullied as a child. However, for the most part, I'm a lot more sympathetic towards others because of it.

At the end of the day, if you're being bullied, it's going to be the same insults and sure, it will hurt at the time but in a years time it wont.

Heck, I was called gangbang for a year in comp and it doesn't bother me anymore since they must have sounded like a bunch of prats and whilst I'm in college because of my GCSE's, they didn't manage to get any and now they struggle.

In regards to online bullying, you really have to step back and look at what's happening. Someone's life is so crappy that they have to try and force their hate and anger on someone else over the internet.

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