Poll: Did you ever bully someone?

[Murlin]

My little sister was, and sometimes till is, at the receiving end of my practice of verbal taunting. She would oft respond with swift tactical strikes aimed between my legs.(ouch)
Siblings fighting each other, fun times.
But other then harassing my little sister I have never continuously bullied someone, though I harshly ridiculed people but that wast mostly because I was a wimpy victim of bullying and really had no other way to stand up for myself. Psychology and poignant humour are my only weapons. I admit to deriving some satisfaction from seeing my remarks hit a weak spot, those faces were just priceless >

 

[MammothBlade]

Slightly. I've bullied people without realising it, just through insensitive, tactless comments.

 

[Martijn Nijkeuter]

Yes i bullied a few people, but generally only with specific personal reasons
-some fat kid that other bullies left alone as long as he'd harass me, needless to say i didn't spare any pity to that guy.
-someone who used to bully me, he had to wear glasses a few years later and was oddly sensitive to being called 4-eyes. i returned the favor.

 

[Lieju]

Yes, a friend of mine.

She and I were in high school together, and didn't really have all that much in common, but we sort of drifted together, since we were both kinda outcasts.
She was such a door-mat. She was always nice, and agreeable, and never defended her opinions. And that annoyed me, I just couldn't have decent discussion with her. I started pointing it out every time she was wrong, and she'd just admit it. Then whenever she said something, I'd disagree even if I didn't really think that, and she'd just go "Okay, you're right".

I was meaner and meaner to her, trying to get her to defend herself, to say SOMETHING. I'd contradict myself in my arguments and make really bad ones, and she never said anything.

So eventually I just gave up, and figured I was being mean to her. And didn't try to discuss things with her.

 

[Carl The Manicorn]

I used to bully this kid really bad back in second grade. I still feel really bad about it. He was mentally handicapped (I think) and really annoying. I look back on that, and I feel terrible about it. I was a dick to him.

Then, later on in life, I was bullied a lot by some asshole in High School. I guess I got what I had coming to me. Karma works in mysterious ways.

 

[Eamar]

As someone has already said, I'm sure we've all participated in bullying to some degree, depending on how we define the concept. While I never sought someone out and deliberately tried to upset them, I certainly did go along with the school mob mentality thing when it came to picking on the "misfit" kid. Never to his face, but I went along with the bitching and insults behind his back. I regret it now, but I was a young teenager and didn't think it through. He's actually at the same university as me now, though I've only run into him once. He's not the sort of person I'd choose to be friends with still, but we had a decent enough conversation and he doesn't seem to bear a grudge against me (though like I said, I wasn't one of the ones giving him shit to his face).

I did once punch the school bully in the face when I was about 15 though, and I'm still proud of it, whether or not that might count as "bullying." The guy was an ass, seriously. He picked on EVERYONE except his little group of friends. Not just "nerds" or "easy targets" or whatever, literally everyone in our year outside the "popular" crowd (who couldn't stand him either, but he thought he was one of them). I didn't get the worst of it, just name calling and attempts to make me feel stupid, and though I couldn't stand the bastard what he did and said to me didn't bother me all that much. But one day I was just sick of him seriously upsetting my friends and classmates, and told him to shut up. He turned around and started bad-mouthing me, and I punched him in the face. In a crowded corridor. Hilariously, I completely got away with it because the rest of the students who saw/heard about it were very much on my side, and there was no way the "hard man" was going to tell a teacher that he'd been hit by a girl. He never bothered me again, either. He even tried to befriend me. Happy days.

 

[King of Asgaard]

Nope, I was the victim in those situations for 11 years.
I may have lost the ability to trust others beacause of it.

 

[Dango]

Yes.

I've been at both the receiving and giving ends of bullying, though I'm smart enough now and much less of a completely ignorant asshat to ever bully someone again.

 

[DkLnBr]

Unfortunately i did, and im a little ashamed about it. A couple years ago i used to pick on my youngest cousin more than i should have. We're buddies now, but im sure he resented me a little back then. But still, I have a list of things I'd want to change if i could do it all again, and this is on it .

 

[Tiger Sora]

I was a real bully up to grade eight. High school I got bullied but I was a rather large guy so unless the other guy was way bigger than me I fought back with words or fists.

I do still bully my brother, but hey he's my brother.

 

[Mayhaps]

Sometimes you just don't like some people, and if you have the social upper-hand it's easy to rag down on them, even if you don't really want to.
I wasn't the guy who actively ragged down on the same people every day like in high-school movie bullying, but I'm the first to admit I did things I'm not proud of now.

 

[Thistlehart]

I think so. I picked on a friend of mine. Now that may not seem like much, but it was usually to get a reaction (because I thought it was funny at the time and I was bored) and I didn't let up sometimes.

I still think about it occassionally, and then I feel bad.

He had a hard time at school. He was always the odd one out and was one of the "unpopular" crowd. So was I, honestly, but no one really bothered me after I bent that kid in half in middle school.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Well it depends on the definition. But yeah i picked on very few but a few people in my last years in school.But none who didnt deserve it by there dickishness. I had the bigger and "cooler" crowd of people behind me so they never stood a chance. But neither have we been cruel nor did we pick the innocent or weak.
No in university , yeah i'm part of quite an arrogant crowd, and we got fun to set verbal traps of wit to expose the stupid idiots on campus. Humiliation included if possible. Its just one simple law. If you become loud mouthed, be better sure you are right.

 

[BlueberryMUNCH]

I absolutely have and I feel like a **** for it. Don't know what I was thinking.
The guy is one of my best mates now though so...:].

 

[tzimize]

Once (not sure if that qualifies as bullying). And I felt terrible about it.

I have been bullied so I felt just awful, and didnt do it again.

 

[T3hSource]

I honestly don't know if I really bullied anyone.Girls,maybe,but back then I wasn't that bright.Guys,that's another issue,you always run into some dickheads that just bully you for their amusement,and then you bleed their noses while your adrenaline is pumping up,yeah those were the days.Now I've learned tolerance and the ability to ignore the stupid.

 

[Zyrocz]

Acording to my elementary school teachers I was bullying someone, but screw those guy.

 

[Frankster]

Alas yeh and none too proud of it. Though I was having bully problems on my side and that+insecurities and usual high school politics meant I was only acting in a way that was expected of me from others and lacked the conviction to say "no" and not join in with the others.

But that's no excuse, I honor my past mistakes instead from learning from them, and I'm glad to say I soon as I switched school and was in a better atmosphere, I changed completely. If I met anyone I previously caused harm and they still held it against me now, I'd feel no shame in completely apologizing to them and hope nothing I did had lasting effects (then again maybe i'm giving myself too much credit... I was a bandwagon bully at best, was never one to actually start it....)

 

[hobohazard]

I can't help but remember this one time in 2nd or 3ed grade that I bullied someone. I remember it surprisingly well, though im not to sure how much of this actually happened or not. My elementary school had a smart program thing that I was a part of. The consent was that you get all the kids who pass this test in kindergarten into the same class, and they aren't affected by the usual randomization of the normal classes after every year, and are given slightly harder work. So, what happens when you put about 25 first graders in a room who all think there just a little bit better then everyone ells (Probably only 15-20 of them actually were)? Actually, you get a quite closely nit community of kids who respect each others intelligence, physical attributes, and economic situation (No one in the class was really poor anyway). Most of the time at least. I think it was because of my parents working hours, I had to stay in an after school program until the picked me up. So on a normal day we would go outside to the playground for an half an hour or so. Bullying was never a problem, accept for this one kid who was annoying and failed at everything he did without anyone ridiculing him and another kid who stole a bunch kids lunch money on occasion (With stealth not strength BTW. Were still not 100% sure it was him), So we were all at least knew each other by 2nd grade. So, the only other kid in my class who was in the after school (His name shall be deemed Bob) was called Bob. He was also probably on par with me in intelligence and the tallest kid in the class (Me as the 2nd tallest). We were about acquaintance at this point. So that day, he started annoying me. Not like the bullying kind, more like the general jerk kind (think "hey, listen!"). My motto was (and still is) "words are actions" so when I reached my boiling point, I turned around and shouted a "the reason you suck" speech (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech)at him. I sent him running and crying away. This then started an "anything you can do I can do better" scenario witch lasted for about the next year and a half. It ended when I came to my senses and said this whole thing was ridiculous. Today, he's one of my closest friends. It just so happens that we were talking about bullying today and I brought this up. He doesn't even remember it.

 

[loudmadman]

Back in the day where I was young, naive and stupid, I was bullied a lot, but hung with a group of friends near a sand pit and play fought to get away from it. Eventually, there was one particular kid (about 2 years younger than me) who I fought with who always proudly announced when he farted and was an all around smelly kid to be around. The sadist in me and the irritation to be around him caused me to be a bully to this kid. I only bullied for about a couple of months, but looking back, while I don't talk to him and never could like him, I felt bad about being the bully, especially since I was still bullied by several people up to Year 10. Since that incident I have never seen eye to eye with bullies, since I got no satisfaction out of it.
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