Scotty Tunbridge Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Did you go school with 8Mile by any chance? Bully ^ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Terrapin Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 (edited) I was bullied by my brother who was 5 years older than me. He would even encourage older boys to knock f**k out of me when I was, on the odd occasion, in his company playing football. It stopped one day when he was chasing me in the house and i got ahead of him by a distance and waited behind a door. As he approached at full pelt I pushed the door into him with all the force I could muster. I knocked him clean off his feet and he was unconscious for some minutes before coming to. He didn't touch me again after that. He was the exact antithesis of how a big brother should be and I haven't spoken to him for over 5 years and feel all the better for it. Edited May 17, 2022 by Joe Terrapin 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 4 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How did workies go from sending someone into the shop to get bubbles for the spirit level to blow torches and brooms up the arse? Srs question. Learned it from the Canadians imo Affidavits outline alleged abuse, harassment and hazing in junior hockey - TSN.ca 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lofarl Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 I work for the royal mail. The company has a huge never ending problem with bullying. I suppose every large company has these issues. But nothing ever gets done. Had a few fights in school. Won some, lost some. Used to batter some wee kid on my estate about four years younger than me. Saw him in the toilets of a nightclub once. 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur daley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 2 hours ago, velo army said: A pal of mine was bullied so bad it made national news. He was the classic specky introvert I've definitely been a bully at work, mainly when I was in hospitality. I hid behind the "doesn't suffer fools gladly" and would steamroller over people Your pal a work colleague ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 Not sure why the company itself were successfully sued for £250k. The article doesn't explain that.Because they have a responsibility to provide a safe place to work . 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur daley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 23 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How did workies go from sending someone into the shop to get bubbles for the spirit level to blow torches and brooms up the arse? Srs question. Rugby thread for this question. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 32 minutes ago, Scotty Tunbridge said: How did workies go from sending someone into the shop to get bubbles for the spirit level to blow torches and brooms up the arse? Srs question. I once worked in a place - but a different department - where it was mostly foreign labour and young kids. One of the Polish guys was a fucking knobber and would put his sander on the young guys back when they were working on his bench to much hilarity from the other knobbers. One day a young guy had a hammer in his hand and melted the Polish guys kneecap instantly after he done the old sander 'joke'. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 40 minutes ago, Joe Terrapin said: I was bullied by my brother who was 5 years older than me. He would even encourage older boys to knock f**k out of me when I was, on the odd occasion, in his company playing football. It stopped one day when he was chasing me in the house and i got ahead of him by a distance and waited behind a door. As he approached at full pelt I pushed the door into him with all the force I could muster. I knocked him clean off his feet and he was unconscious for some minutes before coming to. He didn't touch me again after that. He was the exact antithesis of how a big brother should be and I haven't spoken to him for over 5 years and feel all the better for it. I had an older brother like that. When I was about 3 years old he would give me polythene bags to play with, but had deliberately wiped out the warnings with a marker pen about how young children can suffocate playing with such bags. The fact that I couldn't read or write at that age didn't matter. He blacked out these warning messages just in case. Nice guy.... RIP big brother. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jambomo Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 3 hours ago, oaksoft said: In the good old days, if you went home and told your parents (the people who should be protecting you), that you had been bullied at school, they'd have skelped you for not fighting back. That generation really has a fucking brass neck criticising the generation of parents who came after them. Bullying isn't taken seriously enough. Never has been. And because it's not dealt with at school level, many of these b*****ds just continue it into adulthood. It's a true saying though that the second you stand up to a bully, 9 times out of 10 they back down. Wish I'd known this sooner. I put up with a few years of it until I snapped and thumped one of them. The trouble stopped overnight. Yeah that happened to me. I was getting hassle from a guy when I was at high school and he was in my art class. One day when the teacher left the room he got hold of my bag and was away to go into it - I snapped and had enough, started punching f**k out of him. He was so nice to me after that and I got away with it as I was otherwise the most well-behaved kid you could want. After that I must admit I pretty much learnt to be aggressive with anyone who started on me, but not unless they tried to hurt me first. I’ve had to unlearn that as you can’t hit people who try to bully you when they are your boss. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted May 17, 2022 Author Share Posted May 17, 2022 1 hour ago, 101 said: Ah the good old days of weans battering each other or being battered by adults for not resorting to physical violence. Makes you feel nice and gooey! Such nostalgia. The level of violence used against children not that long ago was pretty staggering. My parents are boomers, born in the mid 1940s, and when they were growing up they were routinely beaten. My dad in partricular likes telling stories about his mum who'd hit him with the vacuum cleaner cable and his dad who would be called upon to administer the real beatings when he did something pretty bad. On one occasion he played truant from school to go swimming in the local river as it was a hot summer day. He and his pals were caught and when his dad came home and found out he belted my dad using the leather strap that he had for sharpening his long bladed razor. My grandad was a policeman as well. They laugh about it now but they never laid a finger on us so they must know that it's wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alert Mongoose Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 4 hours ago, oaksoft said: In the good old days, if you went home and told your parents (the people who should be protecting you), that you had been bullied at school, they'd have skelped you for not fighting back. That generation really has a fucking brass neck criticising the generation of parents who came after them. Bullying isn't taken seriously enough. Never has been. And because it's not dealt with at school level, many of these b*****ds just continue it into adulthood. It's a true saying though that the second you stand up to a bully, 9 times out of 10 they back down. Wish I'd known this sooner. I put up with a few years of it until I snapped and thumped one of them. The trouble stopped overnight. Not a Gatlin boy was left standing. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 35 minutes ago, ICTChris said: The level of violence used against children not that long ago was pretty staggering. My parents are boomers, born in the mid 1940s, and when they were growing up they were routinely beaten. My dad in partricular likes telling stories about his mum who'd hit him with the vacuum cleaner cable and his dad who would be called upon to administer the real beatings when he did something pretty bad. On one occasion he played truant from school to go swimming in the local river as it was a hot summer day. He and his pals were caught and when his dad came home and found out he belted my dad using the leather strap that he had for sharpening his long bladed razor. My grandad was a policeman as well. They laugh about it now but they never laid a finger on us so they must know that it's wrong. It's crazy but good that most of the generation that were smacked about realised it wasn't a great way to treat children, bucking societal trends from way back. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thane of Cawdor Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Ron Aldo said: I was bullied quite badly when I was about 10 by a guy in my street. We lived in a new build estate and were initially pals as there were so few kids which meant you either had to kick about with who was there or with no one at all. A few months in this guy decided he didn't like me and basically bullied me like f**k (constant ripping the piss, turning pals against me, giving me kickings for no apparent reason). There was about 4 years between us so at that age he was a good bit bigger than me but it also meant that after a couple of years he outgrew the "playing in the street" age so the bullying stopped by default more than anything else. This isn't something I'm particularly proud of (well maybe a bit) but I saw him on a night out a few years ago for the first time in ages. He started talking away to me in the toilets as if we were old pals. I'm not sure if I expected him to apologise for making my life miserable for a good couple of years but a lot of old emotions came back to the surface and I decided there and then (in my drunken state) to kick his c**t in. Spent the next few days expecting a visit from the polis but nothing ever came of it. Was it this c**t? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Central Belt Caley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 One of my mates at school was getting bullied pretty badly and had been going to MMA classes 2 nights a week. One day he snapped and gave the bully an absolute doing in the PE changing rooms, got suspended for a few days and the bully was in a state. He had a golf ball sized lump on his forehead and a black eye whereas my mate didn’t even have a scratch 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Boghead ranter Posted May 17, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted May 17, 2022 Yeah, I was bullied as a kid, for pretty much the whole of my S2 year. I found the move up to high school really difficult, found it hard to process the change moving from being in the biggest/oldest year at primary to being the youngest/smallest in secondary, for some reason. Then, in S2, 3 of who had been my closest pals for years (lived near each other, hung out together all the time, etc) decided for reasons that only make sense to schoolkids to make my life a misery. And I made it worse by, rather than standing up for myself, going completely into my shell, and just sucking it up. And at the time, it felt like the entire S2 year piled on and joined in, though, looking back later, some other kids joined in occasionally, most didn't give a f**k, but for me at the time, it felt the way it felt. I didn't even get respite in the school holidays, there were threatening/silent phone calls to my house, things thrown at our windows, stuff like that. There was one guy who I knew thru the BB and the played golf with, who without being a nutter, could be a hardnut and knew how to look after himself, and he kinda railed against what was happening to me, and hung out with me, went out of his way to walk me to and from school, and such. If it hadn't been for him, I dread to think what sort of place I would have ended up in mentally. It all kinda stopped in the summer between S2 and S3, though I never fully trusted those 3 in the way that I had done before. My self confidence never recovered from it, and has always been a fragile thing ever since then. I have grown up thru my teens hating my reflection, looking for both physical and mental things about myself that I deemed 'my fault' and the reason people would want to bully me for. And to this day, in my mid 50s, I still occasionally myself looking in the mirror and doing myself down, especially now that I can add 'old' and 'bald' to the list of things to dislike about myself. It's held me back in pretty much every job I've had, whether a new job or promotions, even though interviewers have spent time assessing me and deciding "yeah, he's the one for the job", I still get into the role and find myself thinking "I can't do this job, why did I put myself up for it" fairly frequently, and basically stressing myself out. I've become very adept over the years at being very careful how much of myself I let friends and colleagues know about me - most folk I'd say would say they know me pretty well, but they don't, they know the me that I've allowed them to know. I've taught myself to have a personality that doesn't come across as "there's something he's holding back and not telling us", so people think they know me. There are probably only 3 or 4 people who actually know me completely, who I trust to be able to share how I'm really feeling with, without worrying that they're going to twist that knowledge back on me. TL;DR bullying is shite. 38 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gannonball Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Left Back said: I mind getting a hard time off a lad older than me when I was a kid. I knew my old man had the exact mindset you described so I couldn’t go to him. Ended up lamping the c**t with a cricket bat. Parents round house doing their dinger and all sorts until my dad lamped his old man when the story came out. Never happen these days Im horrified, what self respecting individual has a cricket bat. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arthur daley Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 https://m.pinkbike.com/video/186158/ hopefully a lesson learned about the dangers of bullying, He should have done the same to the guy taking the video laughing about it at the start Aswell. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Back Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 19 minutes ago, gannonball said: Im horrified, what self respecting individual has a cricket bat. Someone who has a professional Yorkshireman as a dad. He wouldn’t have approved of the hook off the front foot though. Not in the MCC manual or a shot Boycott would have played. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophia Posted May 17, 2022 Share Posted May 17, 2022 1 minute ago, oaksoft said: Not sure what the employer could have done to stop it TBH. Declared a policy on bullying? A failure to have one is enough to draw attention to themselves from any self respecting inspector. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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