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Ginger
Beginner June 2008

Bumping into school bullies.

Ginger, 23 June, 2008 at 16:26 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 22

Has this happened to you?

I was bullied at school, mainly because i have ginger hair and liked to stick up for the underdog, so got bullied along with them too, although it did not affect me really.

However, it is weird when you see them again years later. Nice as pie, wanting to chat, which i did, and was polite, but it wsa just so odd.

I think i have faired better mind you, both appearence wise, and career wise, is it wrong that i feel a little smug?

A few years ago i became friends with one of the bullies, who then tried and succeeded in bullying me as an adult, which did affect me, and makes me mad still now!

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Latest activity by HaloHoney, 23 June, 2008 at 22:39
  • Sunset21
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    Well i've seen girls that were horrid to me at school or were just generally horrid to everyone and they are still horrid.

    I wouldn't be friends with a person like that - ever.

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  • Ginger
    Beginner June 2008
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    and do they look like skanks? ?

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  • Sunset21
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    Unfortunately not Ginge. They were mainly the good looking girls and they're worn rather well - mores the pity lol!

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  • Platty
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    I haven't bumped into any of my bullies thankfully. I think most of the kids I knew at school bullied or teased me at some point, it wasn't pleasant ☹️

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  • Old Nick Esq.
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    I'm too long out of school to care, sometimes (very rarely actually) someone will tell me we went to school together....

    I'm usually polite, but really I'm thinking "And....?". If we were pally it can be good to meet up again, but if it's just someone who happened to live in the same postcode... So what?

    Not being at all dramatic in saying that just about everybody I would have classed as a bully at school is either Dead or in prison.

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  • P
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    I ended up working next to one a few years ago. I was smug as at the time I was getting more attention from the lads than she was as had grown into a tall dark haired thin swan like creature and she was still small and rounded.. Its petty but it made me feel so much better. Now that I am 3 stone heavier, pregnant again and with grey hairs that I am unable to dye and am so knackered I have two brissle brushes as eyebrows as I don't get the time or the inclination to pluck, I really think I wouldn't want to bump into her just now again!

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  • KB3
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    I was bullied by one nasty piece of work. She was nasty nasty nasty. She'd send threatening notes through her friends in my year (she was 2 years), things like I'd better watch my back on the bus that night, she's gonna get me at the disco on x night, and so on. One day we had a huge fight and she threw me down the stairs outside the RE class, this caused us to both have detention which made it even worse. I hated school and the hell she was putting me through. When she left I thought that was it. But oh no, she used to come up to the school at 3.30pm on purpose to scare me. It was horrible.

    A few years after I left school I found out she'd been knocked up by the local gang leader and he'd left her. I felt so smug about that and that was the last thought I ever had of her.

    Until I saw her 3 weeks ago on my train. My heart skipped a beat, I could hear it thumping in my ears, I had sweaty plams and went bright red. I always thought if I saw her I'd give her a slap, but turns out I'm still scared of her now. How sad is that eh ?

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  • Ginger
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    Its not sad KB3, its very upsetting that we let others affect us like this.

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  • rosy
    Beginner July 2007
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    ?

    I wasnt bullied at school, but I did see the MOST popular girl a couple of years ago and I looked at her and thought you really arent actually that attractive at all and you arent even a lovely person. Really could not see why everyone used to be so in awe of her!

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  • Sparkley
    Beginner September 2007
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    I was bullied horrendously at school. Farking slaaaaaaaaaaags they were. Just because one of their boyfriends said I was nice.

    It went on for years. Haaaaaated them for making my life hell.

    Bumped into one of them at a wedding I went to in Feb. She was as fat as a house and had 5 horrible children and a husband with a moustache.

    I didn't give her a smug look at all, oh no. Biatch!!!!!

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  • SophieM
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    ? Revenge is sweet.

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    My sister was bullied by a horrible girl at school and won't go to any reunions in case she turns up as she's still scared of her 20 yrs later..

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  • knickers_twickers
    Beginner September 2010
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    I was horribly bullied in me first year at secondary school (pushing me around, following me home from school about 10 of them - I ran away and someone found me hiding behind a car in the staff car park, pulling out chairs from behind me, had a broom poked in my eyes, it goes on) I moved schools at the end of the year.

    There was one main girl and I remember not long after I qualified as a nuse nipping into a burger bar when out shopping with my mum and she was the one waiting tables - I did have a bit of a smug smile about that and my mum may have made a comment about isn't that the girl who bullied you at school ?. She may have been top dog then but look where it got her.

    As an aside I'm not even sure she recognised me - I was that insignificant to her and her friends that they probably now wouldn't even think they'd done anything to me. I'm sure I didn't make anywhere near as much of an impact on her, I was just the small skinny kid she needed to fulfil the role so she could look big to her mates.

    Nikki xx

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  • Koobie
    Beginner September 2008
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    I was bullied quite a lot at Secondary school by one girl in particular. Thankfully, havent seen her since we left school, although she did message me through Facebook a few months ago. I just ignored her, its one part of my life I wish to forget, and I dont want her to know what I am up to now

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  • NumbNuts
    Beginner October 2004
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    A few of the girls who made me feel bullied at school are facebook "friends" or friends of friends and I have to say even at my tender age ? of 27 they really haven't aged well and have spent far to long in the sun

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  • Clairy
    Beginner October 2003
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    I had a weird bullying experience - by lots of people in a low lying way. I was popular with the boys (but horribly naive. I thought they wanted to be friends and were just making jokes about my big boobs ?) so, on several occasions, I got "leave my bloke alone, you slag" comments. Which used to really upset me, because I had no intention of nicking their blokes (usually they were ugly and, when I said I wasn't interested, I got the "why not? What're you saying about my bloke" sort of comments).

    This reputation went before me, so it happened time and again as a sort of pre-emptive strike. Boys all used to think I was easy. It was a conspiracy of whispers. In fact, I got into so much trouble because some lads kept following me around, shouting dirty things at me and pinching my bum, and the teachers told me I "shouldn't encourage them" ? When I went to secondary school, it got more serious. One boy told all his mates that if I didn't go out with him "he'd pin me down and force me to have sex with him". I was far too upset to tell the teachers, and it really frightened me.

    As a consequence, I think a lot of the boys told each other that they had had sex with me, which perpetuated the myth (teenage boys exaggerate, don't they?) It was helped enormously by my mother, who was utterly paranoid, phoning the Mum of one of the bullies and telling her she was worried I would get pregnant. That went round the school like wild-fire.

    I wouldn't mind, but I didn't even lose my virginity until I was almost 17. It was a consipracy of whispers. In fact, I didn't really make any proper friends until I left school, aged 17, and started mixing with people who took me at face value.

    So, I avoid school reunions ? it really wasn't a happy time for me.

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  • bettyb
    Beginner July 2006
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    I'm not sure how I would react if I saw the lad who bullied me. He is currently in prison for murder serving 15 years I think. I must admit I did do a little dance when I heard he got locked up (although very sad for the family of the victim). I also did another dance when he appealed against his sentence and the judge decided to extend it again.

    Given his history I think I would be rather scared of him as he was unpredictable as a child and obvioulsy hadn't changed as an adult.

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  • Dr Doo.Little
    Beginner May 2007
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    I was bullied right the way through school by a variety of different people, the worst was a guy who used to call me horrible things, which still make me cringe when I think about it.

    A few years ago I went to a family party and he was there and I felt sick the second I saw him, he came up to me at the bar and started chatting me up before offering to buy me a drink. I told him not if he were the last man on earth, revenge is very sweet!

    I don't get this thing of people who made your life miserable at school adding you as friends on facebook, they weren't my friend then and I sure as hell don't want them as a friend now.

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    I wasn't bullied at school. I was teased , but not bullied.

    I wasn't a bully either but a few years ago, a friend told me she had seen "X" (a girl from our school) when going through the list of people that my friend still knew, she mentioned me. X immediately went off on one , telling her how I was the biggest bully in the school, I made her life a misery along with another girl (who left after a year, TBH I could see that perhaps she might be spiteful and a bit of a teaser but she wasn't my friend , just my room mate)....... she went on and on apparently. My friend was quite shocked as she knows me well , so asked me about this. I have never bullied the poor girl. I've never bullied anyone! But i was and still am so upest by the accusation.

    I asked my friend to please ask her if she's sure it's me as I think she maybe mistaken, but she insists it was me. I shared a bedroom with the other girl who , as I said, seemed a bit spiteful . Is the anyway she just assumed I was a bully as we shared the same room? So by association.

    This has nothing to do with the original post but I needed to get it off my chest.

    Anyway, it's always good to see the very cool, mean girls looking much older than they should!

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  • loobyg
    Beginner November 2008
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    PEople attempted to bully me at school, then one day I flipped and one of them ended up with a broken nose. They still cross the road if they see me!

    OH when straight into the Army after school then 5 years later was discharged on medical grounds. He started working in the local factory where lots of the school bullies (who had never left the town) worked and most of them were scared of him because he had been in the army! Ironically the reason they bullied him was because his Dad was the manager and had the power to fire their Dads... 10 years later they are also working there and OH has the power to fire them!

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  • Chunk
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    Yes.
    I was bullied by a girl in the year above me. She was a vile little witch, and now lives a few doors down from where I work. I work in a chemist so she regularly comes in with prescriptions, or buying nappies for her baby.
    Since I started working she has always been pleasant to me and as it is my job, I'm pleasant to her. It was a bit of a shock at first but I think she's really grown up (we both have) and can make idle chit chat with the rest of them now.

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  • geekypants
    Beginner August 2008
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    I was horribly bullied all the way through school and I have no desire to ever speak to the people who made my life so utterly miserable again.

    However a guy in my year apologised to me once for being part of a group that picked on me, and I forgave him. I thought that was pretty big tbh.

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  • HaloHoney
    Beginner July 2007
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    I was with my Mum in Debenhams a couple of years ago (it was 10 years since I left school) and spotted a former tormentor of mine with her own mother. I whispered to my Mum "check out the evils I'm about to get off this girl". Sure enough, despite my smiling and general happy demeanour, she obliged wonderfully and [Jesus] looked like she had a turd stuffed up each nostril [/Jesus]. To my delight, I clocked her figure - she had always been particularly full of herself about her looks, and I was astounded to see that although she had a perfectly trim and toned size 10 upper body, she was well stuffed into a pair of jeans that I would have estimated at a size 14/16. She looked a little bit butternut-squash shaped.

    She whispered something to her Mum whose face also turned into a turd-nostril situation on sight of me and my Mum, and, still smiling, I said in a voice that was a touch too loud:

    "well, at least my arse is slimmer than hers"

    I shouldn't have done it, but it felt good. Her face was a picture. ?

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