I take it you missed the
"amongst many other physical/emotional torments" & "who made my life a misery for a couple of years" lines & since you seem to have taken the "explaining it slowly to a gimboid" pov I'll elucidate.
Most of the physical torments involved sly, surreptitious kicks, trips and punches which I quickly learned to ignore as he would quite often engineer them so as to be right in front of a teacher so that if I did react either I would be seen as "whingey dobber" (tell-tale) or he would be seen as the victim when I popped him one. He even punched me in the face a couple of times to try to goad me into fighting him and then getting busted - the look on his face when I simply didn't react was worth the blood nose.
The psychological attacks were much more pervasive and usually centered on the idea that the dead man whom I thought was my father (another tale for another time) had chosen to die a horrible death rather than go thru the shame of having me for a son.
I mentally look myself up and down in my "self-evaluation mirror" and... my conscience is clear. If you chose to think I'm a prick then bully for you.
EDIT: "the good turn" you speak of involved him telling his mate how he used to hassle & beat the shit out of me and then trying to intimidate me by suggesting how dangerous it was to hitch (which I didn't, they stopped to pick me up as I toddled home) If anything you could chastise me for knowing better than to get into a car with strangers, but I've made it this far haven't I?
As to the whether I could give as good as I might get I don't know (thankfully) - I did aikido & judo for many years when I was a kid & altho I don't train I haven't forgotten how. I keep moderately fit (yoga, walking, sports with the kids etc.) but as I'm sure you'll concur - I don't look for trouble & at any age group anyone who does (no matter how fit) is a bit wrong. I remember my 1st aikido lesson - speak softly and carry a big stick, way of love blah, blah BUT have strong legs to run away quickly.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 7 Feb 2011, 5:34, 2 replies)

Awww, poor you.
See, when I was growing up, most schools had plenty of secluded places where kids could fight out of view and earshot of teachers. Now I only went to my local primary school and a bog-standard comprehensive rather than a fancy boarding school, but I'd imagine that it would be set in it's own grounds and therefore have plenty more places than the schools I went to where you could meet your nemesis and batter the living fuck out of each other. But then I'm working class, all our fighting at school was done in quiet corners of the playgrounds during breaktimes (Behind the outdoor toilet blocks was one favourite), or in the fields or park on the way home.
Waiting years and THEN sneakily hitting him, like a coward, after he'd done you a favour is what marks you as being as much a prick as him.
EDIT: Nice edit though. I'll give you the benefit by editing this in bold
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Mon 7 Feb 2011, 5:51, closed)

Bring socio-economics into it. Wow.
"He even punched me in the face a couple of times to try to goad me into fighting him and then getting busted - the look on his face when I simply didn't react was worth the blood nose." I had my share of fights @ school (most of which I didn't start). I trod a thin line at that school (not because of fighting) so I really couldn't afford to get into too much trouble - which he knew.
Please see the bit about "the good turn". Trust me there was nothing sneaky about how I hit him - he knew it was coming. But as I've said he was the 1 trying to instigate something and intimidate me.
Sorry - conscience is still crystal clear.
Apologies for replying to myself.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 7 Feb 2011, 6:02, closed)

"being as much a prick as him."
I'll cop that.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Mon 7 Feb 2011, 6:03, closed)

If you wanted this to be understood
then you should have explained better at the start.

It reads as if the guy used to tease you a bit, put shampoo in your bed whilst you weren't in it (NOOOO), and then you laughed at him being expelled then punched him in the chops.

It did not sound good.

Next time you tell a story you might explain the context better.

Your replies are defensive as well. Woof!
(Stiltzkin, Tue 8 Feb 2011, 14:27, closed)