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poignant words marin
my O Level German teacher said i was "an enigma"
I thought we cracked the German's Enigma Code.
Maybe he was making a pass at you! 😉
Met no one from school since leaving in 1982.
Friends Re-united was popular one year and so I have a vague idea where everyone ended up, but it seems to have died a death. 1/2 ended up in the Forces or the Police, so we swapped one institution for another!
I managed to walk that fine line between geek and sporty, accepted by both.
Was bullied once, nothing physical just threats, there was no 'give him a right hook and he won't bother you again" heroics, the guy was a nutter. He beat up his own father breaking his back in the process a year later.
So I escaped pretty much unharmed and anonymous.
Living in the states I am alarmed about how people survive american high schools, At least I faced nothing like my friend who survived Columbine.
My ex went to the same high school as this lovely lady [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Drexler ]'Lacey NJ'[/url]
And this weekend I'll be camping a few miles down the road from here: [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platte_Canyon_High_School_hostage_crisis ]Platte Canyon[/url]
Our school as the first school to have CCTV in Scotland. That and the fact its shaped like a bike were its claims to fame. In actual fact it was just quite dangerous !
Blown away by the amount of people on here who were bullied/picked on and went on to knock seven bells out of a tough kid.
Maybe I just don't hold on to those school memories with quite that vigour 🙂
This thread does profile the average STWer quite well though. I think I fall below that line mind 😀
The older I get, the better I was
[i]Blown away by the amount of people on here who were bullied/picked on and went on to knock seven bells out of a tough kid.[/i]
Strange that isn't it? Maybe it goes on more than we imagine. I'd think it was a lot of wishful thinking if a similar thing hadn't happened to me. Can't be bothered to recount it though. However, I remember the 2 [i]real[/i] bullies in my school were pretty hard and I wouldn't have taken a pop at them!
Strange that isn't it? Maybe it goes on more than we imagine. I'd think it was a lot of wishful thinking if a similar thing hadn't happened to me. Can't be bothered to recount it though. However, I remember the 2 real bullies in my school were pretty hard and I wouldn't have taken a pop at them!
you can be tough without being a bully. thus the bully has no idea what you can do ...
during my time at school i broke a guys jaw(he`d not long put my mate in hospital and was chasing me down with a pool cue as an associate of richards....so i put an end to that) and another chaps nose with a swift backhand after he attacked me from behind - both times in self defence. just a bit stronger on the rage than i gave my self credit for.
was very lucky to be allowed to stay in school, he tried to press charges for the jaw - scumbag. Because i was 16 and he was 15 he thought he would be fine - CCTV showed him with a pool cue ....
to look at me now youd not see that in me ... im 12 stone wet , all through school i was 14/15 stone and still fit/strong - used to do 150/200 miles a week between paper round and school as i lived 5 miles away from both and used to ride home for lunch
We had a bully who I was intermittently friends with (although somewhat warily on my part) and at war with. Well, he wasn't a bully as such, just a wild kid with aggressive tendencies. He wasn't so big though so I never felt threatened.
Well he got expelled, and after a few years I saw him and he'd bulked up loads and looked extremely mean and nasty having presumably discovered the outside world.. perhaps the system failed him I dunno. Anyway he got into lots and lots of trouble, beating up one of the teachers who had become a mate quite badly (teacher in his 50s at the time).
I reckon the bully theme on here is linked to the under-achiever/bored theme. Which I think is why we all hang around on here all day too. Plus there's a lot of physically able people on here too being a sports forum.
Intelligence + not toeing the authority line + physical confidence = getting up bullies' noses + being able to do something about it.
I didn't knock seven bales out of my bully, nor did I go and seek him out to get retribution. I just started to defend myself when he decided he wanted some amusement.
The manner in which I chose to do it was deliberate, but I did enough to make him leave me alone, that's all.
Whats with all the violence etc?!!!!
I remember when my girlfriend first met me her mate said to her 'ah he was known as a right perv at school'.....
didnt stop her though 8)
In essence?
"Bright enough, but easily distracted. Could try harder."