Really surprised. Almost 50 posts and nobody has claimed "and that's why I don't do Facebook..."

;-)

Cookbook's Anarchist: Attention! All victims of child abuse and rape, you no longer have the right to claim that it affects you after twenty years. Basically, stuff happens and you should get over it. If you were mentally tortured and abused by people your own age during the most formative years of your life, then you have no right to act as if that affected every other relationships and incident of your life.

People have no right to hold grudges, no matter the level of abuse.

Or at least, this is what I'm left to believe from this bullying thread.

Since the article is light on specifics, one has to assume it was the same as the bullying and hazing 99% of us nerds went through.

Dude doesn't help his case by talking about "start[ing] the Columbine shootings early." He's a drama queen who clearly didn't feel scarred enough to seek professional help.

I'm sorry if your experiences in high school actually qualified as torture. As opposed to, you know, a reminder that most people are assholes.

I just feel sorry for the kids who are bullied these days. Back when I was in high school I was bullied, but at least once I got home I was safe. That was before the internet, though. Nowadays the victim gets home and goes online and the bullying continues. That would suck so farking much.

dv-ous: I'm sorry if your experiences in high school actually qualified as torture.

Wait. Isn't high school supposed to be torture?

If I assaulted Santa Claus and took all of the toys that were to go to the orphanage
and later regretted it for 5 years.. so what! big deal, boo farking hoo, I still stole their Christmas. Theyll never get it back. They are orphans for Christ sake, what the fark was I thinking

LOLWUT

Neo Geek: But of course the original bullying will go unpunished... damn bullies, they always pull the Eddie Haskall and get away with it...

Yeah, a random ITG asshole threatening people on facebook, that's definitely someone whose accusations 20 years after the fact totally need to be taken seriously.

ontariolightning: Everybody gets bullied. I've been bullied. The thing is you either stand up for yourself or you become someones biatch. That is life. It doesn't matter if you're wimpy looking or monstorous. Quit being a pussy and take care of your business.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold agree.

basilbrush: ontariolightning: Everybody gets bullied. I've been bullied. The thing is you either stand up for yourself or you become someones biatch. That is life. It doesn't matter if you're wimpy looking or monstorous. Quit being a pussy and take care of your business.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold agree.

No, they killed some innocent people who did not bully them.
They were cowards

ontariolightning: They were cowards

As were the people who bullied them, who never were punished for it. And of course nothing changed at the school afterwards.

Genevieve Marie: Trapper439: I just feel sorry for the kids who are bullied these days. Back when I was in high school I was bullied, but at least once I got home I was safe. That was before the internet, though. Nowadays the victim gets home and goes online and the bullying continues. That would suck so farking much.

It really would. It was just starting when I was in high school, and it sucked then. I can't even imagine how bad it would be now. Back then, it was mostly just people getting other people to admit secrets on AOL instant messenger and then printing up the chats and showing them to everyone else. I also remember a girl I know leaving her hotmail account open on a library computer- and someone printed up all the emails she and her boyfriend had exchanged about their awkward high school sexual encounters and posted them up on lockers.

Early cyber bullying, we had it.

In my day we had to bully by telegraph. Or pony express.

Fatebook is dangerous.

I would have done the same thing but how is one message harassment?

coderitr: I would have done the same thing but how is one message harassment?

Letter bomb.

Danger Avoid Death: Genevieve Marie: Trapper439: I just feel sorry for the kids who are bullied these days. Back when I was in high school I was bullied, but at least once I got home I was safe. That was before the internet, though. Nowadays the victim gets home and goes online and the bullying continues. That would suck so farking much.

It really would. It was just starting when I was in high school, and it sucked then. I can't even imagine how bad it would be now. Back then, it was mostly just people getting other people to admit secrets on AOL instant messenger and then printing up the chats and showing them to everyone else. I also remember a girl I know leaving her hotmail account open on a library computer- and someone printed up all the emails she and her boyfriend had exchanged about their awkward high school sexual encounters and posted them up on lockers.

Early cyber bullying, we had it.

In my day we had to bully by telegraph. Or pony express.

--. . -. . ...- .. . ...- . -- .- .-. .. . .... .- ... ... - .- .. -. . -.. -... .-.. --- --- -- . .-. ... .- ..- -.. .. -... .-.. . --. ..- ..-. ..-. .- .--

Last month i saw a bee bullying flowers with that annoying buzz noise so I hit it
that sonofabiatch came at me and yada yada yada now that flowers blossoming like a motha

AverageAmericanGuy: Danger Avoid Death: Genevieve Marie: Trapper439: I just feel sorry for the kids who are bullied these days. Back when I was in high school I was bullied, but at least once I got home I was safe. That was before the internet, though. Nowadays the victim gets home and goes online and the bullying continues. That would suck so farking much.

It really would. It was just starting when I was in high school, and it sucked then. I can't even imagine how bad it would be now. Back then, it was mostly just people getting other people to admit secrets on AOL instant messenger and then printing up the chats and showing them to everyone else. I also remember a girl I know leaving her hotmail account open on a library computer- and someone printed up all the emails she and her boyfriend had exchanged about their awkward high school sexual encounters and posted them up on lockers.

Early cyber bullying, we had it.

In my day we had to bully by telegraph. Or pony express.

--. . -. . ...- .. . ...- . -- .- .-. .. . .... .- ... ... - .- .. -. . -.. -... .-.. --- --- -- . .-. ... .- ..- -.. .. -... .-.. . --. ..- ..-. ..-. .- .--

They call you "tater salad"??

Trapper439: I just feel sorry for the kids who are bullied these days. Back when I was in high school I was bullied, but at least once I got home I was safe. That was before the internet, though. Nowadays the victim gets home and goes online and the bullying continues. That would suck so farking much.

It can suck yes.

But between email blocking, Facebook defriending and privacy settings, and reporting posts and such to school administrators (using a school run Moodle setup to harass another student is, sadly, not the dumbest thing I've seen a teenager do) etc., a cyber-bullied kid has a LOT more control over what they see online than they do over what happens at school.

And if you know how to do all that, you're also qualified to teach a computer class.

As far as what people say about you behind your back, well, you don't have any more control over that online than you do IRL.

I kinda had a bully in high school but his heart wasn't in it. For some reason, the wrestling team had it in for him so he spent more time dodging them than bullying me. In retrospect, it's a bit pathetic that I didn't rate a proper bully dedicated to making me miserable.

violentsalvation: Have you ever considered moving on with your life? Dork.

I got bullied in middle and high school too. And not just by the students. By the middle school special-ed teachers as well. It's not exactly something you 'get over' with a snap of the fingers. I still have that shiat pop into my head when my mind has a down moment- when I've got downtime at work, when I'm trying to get to sleep, that kind of thing.

I try not to even look at the middle school anymore, or even use streets that go past it. The only reason I ever go to the high school anymore is because that's my voting precinct and I have to go inside if I haven't voted early. I push myself every day to get to the moment when I can get out of the town where it all happened and, if not mentally leave it behind me, at least physically leave it behind me.

So, yeah. The bullied kids absolutely remember what the bullies did to them. Some will remember it for the rest of their lives. I probably will. I'm not saying this guy is correct in threatening the rest of his class, but I understand where it came from because I've been there too.

/high school class of 2003

Maybe they bullied him...because he is a farking weirdo who is the type to threaten to kill his fellow students.

Grow up you creepy, creepy man.

Worst use of Hero tag I've seen in some time.

Had he done something other then sob over his keyboard while he made idle threats to people who have more then likely forgotten his existence...maybe the tag would have been warranted. But honestly...talking trash to people on the internet makes people heroes now? Really?

Gosling: violentsalvation: Have you ever considered moving on with your life? Dork.

I got bullied in middle and high school too. . By the middle school special-ed teachers as well.

What? I don't believe you. Or you have an incredibly warped view of what 'bullying' is.

violentsalvation: Have you ever considered moving on with your life? Dork.

You are asking that on this site?

Please,most of the people here are that guy.

Not me though. I taunted and beat kids like him. And have no regrets.

pbjrfym: Maybe they bullied him...because he is a farking weirdo who is the type to threaten to kill his fellow students.

Grow up you creepy, creepy man.

Worst use of Hero tag I've seen in some time.

Had he done something other then sob over his keyboard while he made idle threats to people who have more then likely forgotten his existence...maybe the tag would have been warranted. But honestly...talking trash to people on the internet makes people heroes now? Really?

oh heres your problem, your irony detector is broken.

It doesn't matter whether the bully remembers, pbjrfym. What matters is that the bullied person remembers.

Let's put it this way. The Philippines still remembers all the stuff the United States did to them in a side battle of the Spanish-American War. Iran still remembers the whole Shah overthrow. Central America still remembers a guy named William Walker from Tennessee who tried to take over the whole region.

Does the average American remember any of that? Hell no. Doesn't mean it doesn't still have an effect.

the lord god: violentsalvation: Have you ever considered moving on with your life? Dork.

You are asking that on this site?

Please,most of the people here are that guy.

Not me though. I taunted and beat kids like him. And have no regrets.

The funny thing is, it's better to regret the things you have done than regret the things you haven't done.

DrWhy: Sad, sad, situation. No winners here

no, I think the bullies won here.

They had the police do the bullying for them!
This is how it works.

Gosling: The Philippines still remembers all the stuff the United States did to them in a side battle of the Spanish-American War. Iran still remembers the whole Shah overthrow. Central America still remembers a guy named William Walker from Tennessee who tried to take over the whole region.

Does the average American remember any of that?

Sure. Of course I do.

/pssshhhh

AverageAmericanGuy:

The funny thing is, it's better to regret the things you have done than regret the things you haven't done.

I do regret that I never had sexual relations with a young woman named Amiee. Nicest tits in HS. Oh well probably for the best. Heard a few years later she had contracted the herp.

the lord god: AverageAmericanGuy:

The funny thing is, it's better to regret the things you have done than regret the things you haven't done.

I do regret that I never had sexual relations with a young woman named Amiee. Nicest tits in HS. Oh well probably for the best. Heard a few years later she had contracted the herp.

Fark Politics tab, eh? Terrible fate.

ontariolightning: McBatt: ontariolightning: whats your address tough guy?

Yes, I'm such a big tough guy that I spent 5 years feeling guilty about a single punch I threw when I was 16. You sure have me figured out.

If I assaulted Santa Claus and took all of the toys that were to go to the orphanage
and later regretted it for 5 years.. so what! big deal, boo farking hoo, I still stole their Christmas. Theyll never get it back. They are orphans for Christ sake, what the fark was I thinking

How is the view from the cross you must climb everyday? I bet its fantastic.

MNguy: What? I don't believe you. Or you have an incredibly warped view of what 'bullying' is.

Oh yes. They stuck me in special-ed after misdiagnosing me with ADHD (I was later rediagnosed with Asperger's- they had me tested and everything; there was this one test i remember that involved staring at a computer and clicking boxes for three hours straight). There was maybe two or three kids in there with actual special-ed issues, me being one of them. The rest was just kids the mainstream teachers didn't want to deal with. I think the teachers just lumped everyone in the 'troublemaker' archetype and acted accordingly.

There was this back room in the special-ed 'classroom' where they'd stick anyone they didn't feel like dealing with. They'd stick you in there, lock the door and just leave you there for however long they felt like. If they didn't like you you reacted to this, they'd remove all the furniture from the room and leave you in what was now a blank box of a room, again locking the door. The kids in there tended not to react well at this. Often the kid would burst out in tears. Me included. This was the cue to occasionally have three different special-ed teachers burst back into the room and basically pin the kid to the ground until they stopped crying.

You'd be in there for up to half the school day sometimes.

This is about the point where my grades started dropping from what was nothing but A's and B's in elementary school and repeated second-place finishes in the school geography bee (I'd have won but for the fact that the same guy beat me every year in the final). Can't imagine why.

I should have been bullied, but my sister, one year behind me, was smokin' hot. It's amazing what the hopeful dreams for pussy will do to weaken the resolve of a bully.

If you've ever bullied anyone in your life and not feel one modicum of guilt, fark you in the ear. You're not a tough person, you're a psychopath. You are maggot shiat of the lowest order and I honestly hope you contract something painful and debilitating. If your kid is a bully and you don't do anything to stop them, I hope your kid gets mauled and eaten by a bear.

AverageAmericanGuy: the lord god: AverageAmericanGuy:

The funny thing is, it's better to regret the things you have done than regret the things you haven't done.

I do regret that I never had sexual relations with a young woman named Amiee. Nicest tits in HS. Oh well probably for the best. Heard a few years later she had contracted the herp.

Fark Politics tab, eh? Terrible fate.

Haha very nice. But sadly no it was the real herpes. To bad the way it happened. She was at a party and passed out. Some asshole took advantage of her. I did hear that before the police showed up he had a nasty fall on the way out the door. Broke a leg and both arms.

I feel like I missed out on a chapter in life, I never had a bully.

Everyone in my HS knew me, they said hey when they passed me in the halls but I only associated with a select group. I was very quiet and standoffish but I listened to everything going on around me, if I started to smile people wondered what was ticking inside my head. And while I didn't have the appearance of the trench coat mafia nonsense people still thought I was going to shoot up the school, I think that's why I had so many "friends" muahahaaah.

the lord god: How is the view from the cross you must climb everyday? I bet its fantastic.

Ask your son.

I was always much bigger than the kids that picked on me. They never got physical, I guess they knew better. I could've squashed any of them like a bug. But I fell for the stupid ass, non existent, "permanent record" bullshiat. I never wanted to get in trouble, because my life would be ruined by having a black mark in this so called chart. Now, 17 years after high school, I realize, no one gives a fark about whether you were suspended for a week, had detention,or whatever. My advice to anybody still in school, kick the shiat out of your nemesis. Don't even wait for them to start with you again, Monday morning, just deck em. It'll be one of the best things you do in your formative years.

dv-ous: Since the article is light on specifics, one has to assume it was the same as the bullying and hazing 99% of us nerds went through.

Dude doesn't help his case by talking about "start[ing] the Columbine shootings early." He's a drama queen who clearly didn't feel scarred enough to seek professional help.

I'm sorry if your experiences in high school actually qualified as torture. As opposed to, you know, a reminder that most people are assholes.

I blended all throughout high school. I played sports, participated in debate, and loved anime and video games. I was also big enough to never get farked with, and the few times I did, I could easily hold my own. Light or not on the particulars, people suffer abuse differently and respond differently.

Drama queen or not, these abuses were enough to skew his way of thinking due to the nature of his mental state at the hands of abuse. Some people are beat their whole lives and never show the scars that are left. Some are left to suffer without any support and hope.

His thoughts were framed in the mind of the boy he once was, the boy that suffered enough to think that killing would be justifiable. These are not the thoughts of someone that went through the "usual" or the 99% of nerds that suffered the same as perhaps you did. Abuse during these years perverts their ability to deal with people in a logical and adult manner, and we shouldn't so easily dismiss his pain or the suffering of others. It's simply not fair.

I was going for hyperbole (of course) and was merely illustrating that the differences of abuse mean enough to those abused. Some people suffer rape and become rapists, some do not. Perhaps the human experience is ubiquitous, but humans are also individuals that exemplify the extremes and the averages of these experiences. The worse I ever suffered was being given a false number from a good looking girl, this was enough to make me think that I was an ugly, unwanted guy and thus skewed my ability to talk to women for years. While not enough to destroy my sense of being, it was enough to hobble my social skills well into the college years. You are being unfair to so easily dismiss his suffering, just like those that thought nothing of their abuse later, those that probably didn't even remember his name until his FB post.

The Shatner Incident: If you've ever bullied anyone in your life and not feel one modicum of guilt, fark you in the ear. You're not a tough person, you're a psychopath. You are maggot shiat of the lowest order and I honestly hope you contract something painful and debilitating. If your kid is a bully and you don't do anything to stop them, I hope your kid gets mauled and eaten by a bear.

Much anger do I sense in this post. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Say as much, Captain Kirk, did not?

hbk72777: I was always much bigger than the kids that picked on me. They never got physical, I guess they knew better. I could've squashed any of them like a bug. But I fell for the stupid ass, non existent, "permanent record" bullshiat. I never wanted to get in trouble, because my life would be ruined by having a black mark in this so called chart. Now, 17 years after high school, I realize, no one gives a fark about whether you were suspended for a week, had detention,or whatever. My advice to anybody still in school, kick the shiat out of your nemesis. Don't even wait for them to start with you again, Monday morning, just deck em. It'll be one of the best things you do in your formative years.

Listen to this guy
wise words

Lionel Mandrake: That's a long damn time to hold a grudge.

When every wretched, miserable post-HS day reminds you of the Living Hell you suffered, the hunger for Justice never goes away.

38 and already balding and wearing an oxygen hose. These bullies must have been absolutely devastating!

Picture of the bullying in question: