I think when you are a kid it is more so, yes
The transition from kid to adult is where you decide to do stuff your own way, rather than how your mates do it. This could be when you are 12 or 92
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:05, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

what happens to you as a kid can really affect what kind of adult you grow into
i am v open and find meeting new people really easy, and i loved school, was in the popular gang etc etc. but i know lots of people who got badly bullied who say that you never get over it and it marks you and how you relate to people for life.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:07, Reply)

This is true
I kind of didn't fit into any particular group. I was a clever shite but not marked as a swot, etc. I played football with "the lads". I spoke to the girls and I think most of the nastiness in school passed me by, fortunately
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:09, Reply)

You are a lucky bastard
At Primary School I was unpopular because the only currency that mattered was being good at football, and being clever just made me a swot. Then I went to a decent Secondary school and was a sport pariah, a geek and of only average intelligence.

Anyone who says school days are the best days of your life is a cunt and a liar.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:12, Reply)

My school days were just a bit meh
I suppose. OK but nothing special
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:12, Reply)

I had it half and half really
I was bullied relentlessly for several years, but the people I was friends with then are still those I count amongst my best friends now, nearly 7 years after leaving.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:14, Reply)

sorry to fall out with you, i really am
but i bloody LOVED school, esp a-levels... loads of mates, shiny red beetle, the thrill of underage drinking, snogging hundreds of boys.... i'd go back to being 16 like a shot!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:14, Reply)

I was never one for underage drinking
But we had a club open by us midway through year 10, where several people could get served. Going there was a way of guaranteeing a snog, great fun!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:17, Reply)

You obviously went to a school less heavily populated with absolute shitbags than mine
I'd go back to being 19 and being at Uni like a shot, although I'd be single this time around
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:25, Reply)

Same here
I liked school but not the other kids.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:32, Reply)

Yeah, I could've had a great time at school if you'd just removed my peers
and science lessons
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:36, Reply)

Good to see you're not getting bullied anymore eh you massive ponce.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:15, Reply)

Good point well made
Internet bullying is in no way comparable though. At school I was not only getting picked on but permanently in fear of having the shit kicked out of me. Not that it's relevant, but I'm absolutely confident I could beat the fuck out of you IRL
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:22, Reply)

Vroom

(PsychoChomp, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:25, Reply)

haha!

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:27, Reply)

Played
I meant to put "most of you", cos let's face it, we're geeks, and geeks are weedy
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:28, Reply)

i thought you meant most of him
i was wondering which bits you would beat up and which bits you would leave untouched.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:34, Reply)

Never hit a man with glasses
Or, more accurately, never hit the bit of a man his glasses are on. Expensive things to replace.
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:38, Reply)

It does
I got verbally abused (but rarely physically abused) every day for about ten years. It's only quite recently - ten years after I fucking left! - that I've started to get over some of the problems it caused me, and even now I'm quite difficult to get on with. I'd honestly rather live on the streets in a cardboard box full of sick than go back to school with those cunts.
(berk, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:29, Reply)

Same here but luckily I got over it.
The desire to go 'back' and inflict pain on them has passed as well. The best revenge really is being happy with yourself.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:33, Reply)

I can't blame kids for being kids
even if they all were an incredibly pendulous, syphilitic set of scrotes. I blame the teachers, one teacher in particular, for turning a blind eye, and for telling me (essentially) to MTFU when I came to her in tears and covered in bruises when one of their 'circle berk and call her names' games got a little rough. Her I'd quite cheerfully set fire to, the evil harpy.
(berk, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:44, Reply)

yes, grown-ups I do blame.
Like the mothers who said "Do you think, as an only child, Roota might be a bit too used to getting her own way?" when my mother objected to her child and her croneys putting me in a circle and booting the little legs off me.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 2 Feb 2011, 13:50, Reply)