This.
I agree. I'm 21 now, and haven't been bullied for a good 7/8 years now.

But back in my early teens, I was an outsider, target of daily ridicule for the bigger, less intelligent guys.

Your school years are an important time in human development; They span the years in which you grow up (physically and mentally), suffer from puberty-induced hormones, and form your first relationships and lasting friendships.

Bullying isn't something that just 'happened at school years ago, grow the fuck out of it'. Bullying can, and often will, mentally scar you for years to come, because you missed out on a massive, defining part of your 'growing years'.

You're a regular twat for thinking it to be anything less. If you spent five years of your life, at an early (impressionable) age being scared of the people around you, and what they might decide to do to you today, you carry that with you for years to come.
(Obsidian, Thu 14 May 2009, 12:39, 1 reply)

only if you choose to bub
i got the SHIT kicked out of me in 7 different schools along with a mesy parental divorce, was homeless and kipping on floors at relatives during my gcses and collge, and you don't see me using it as an excuse not to better myself. all without the assistance of self-help books and counselling/drugs i might add.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 14 May 2009, 14:00, closed)

no.
but you seem very angry over lots of things.

Maybe it's not obvious to you but I whenever I see your posts there's usually a fair amount of anger in them.
(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 14 May 2009, 15:03, closed)

a fair point
this is in no small part due to the fact that up until the end of my notice period, i am working a job with HORRENDOUS hours that i HATE, (apart from the wage) this will change. as it is, /talk i'm mostly trolling for morons, which abound, and qotw i'm practising my odd mix of crude invective/insight/black humour dressed in poop jokes.
none of this bears any relevance to being forced to eat mud/getting a good shoeing.

i'm not saying it shouldn't affect you ever, i'm just saying if ti's more than maybe 3-4 years ago and you're STILL using it as an excuse for your social inadequacies, you are kidding yourself.
(UppityDamnPrimate LET'S OPEN THIS F*CKING PIT UP, Thu 14 May 2009, 20:36, closed)

Grow
the fuck up. These are all little hardships. "Man up".
(FredrickPendragon found this post to be in very bad taste on:, Fri 15 May 2009, 4:54, closed)