
Pooster tells us that a relative was once sent to the shops to buy an onion, while the rest of the family went on a daytrip while he was gone. Meanwhile, whole sections of our extended kin still haven't got over a wedding brawl fifteen years ago – tell us about families at war.
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 12:24)
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he would still be now if I wasn't taller and harder than him. We get on ok now, but I have distinct memories of him waking me up by grabbing my head and repeatedly smashing it into the bed, or me having a nosebleed over the sink in the kitchen, and him squirting me in the nose with a super soaker from the side, spraying my blood across the room.
He doesn't remember being a twat all those years.
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 13:01, 8 replies)

It's written into the big brother code to toughen up the whippersnapper. Like your family, my brother is now two inches taller and built like a young Arnold Schwazenegger. He's mostly forgiven me for my transgressions.
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 13:11, closed)

by stealing his friends to form my band.
and one of my mates (who remembers the abuse) always calls him beachball head
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:24, closed)

Sounds like standard big sibling behaviour. Obviously didn't work though, man up! You've nicked his mates, and they call him names?! Are you still in Primary by any chance?!
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 14:39, closed)

and your (different) mates calling him names is much more effective when you are only a few years either side of the 30 mark.
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 15:39, closed)

Oh yes he does. You said: "I [am now] taller and harder than him".
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 15:01, closed)

I see your point, but that wouldn't make a difference, I believe him when he says he doesn't remember it.
( , Thu 12 Nov 2009, 15:38, closed)

Well, I don't think we ever fought physically (good job as he is now 6 foot four and a stone heavier than me), but I was a bit of a twat to him. I think in retrospect it's because we're quite alike in many ways and I took my self-loathing out on what I saw of myself in him, if that makes sense?
Since then I've been away to university and become a lot more comfortable in my own skin and I now think he's a bit of a dude (though I don't think either of us have changed much - just goes to show, eh?), and things are slowly starting to thaw between us. Give it a few more years and I hope we'll be friends. Sorry Joe.
( , Fri 13 Nov 2009, 11:12, closed)

but I too was a bit of a shit to my sister when we were young. I'm only two years older so not much difference but I did some pretty cuntish things. My point is that although I am aware of my shitty behaviour, I have forgotten 99% of the actual stuff I did. Add to this the following:
- No-one ever got seriously hurt
- My sister and I get on very well now (despite being massively different people)
-She has also forgotten most of what happened
You find that, as has been previously mentioned, this sort of thing is standard older sibling behaviour.
( , Fri 13 Nov 2009, 14:13, closed)
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