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Perhaps I should have made it a bit clearer Kittywaste, I'm not condoning severe mental and physical torture where there is systematic abuse and the singling out of one person.
All I mean is, in the playground, the bigger boys will give you the odd dead leg. Deal with it.
And Jenkins from year 9 calling you a 'pissy poo pants' 4 times in the same week does not constitute systematic abuse.
So I guess my point, in a nut shell, is that the word bullying has become so diluted as to become almost meaningless these days.
I mean, they started going on about bullying in the Celebrity Big Brother house. It was a group of about 9 adults - all over the age of 21, and one group took a dislike to one person and made a few snide remarks.
That's bitchiness, not bullying. Don't just bandy the word around willy nilly because it makes it harder for the kids who are genuinely being victimised.
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HoratioFellatio Taking the the out of psychotherapist, Sun 18 Nov 2007, 11:23,
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