Relationship Chat Thread #20/ read 1st post (love, success, never)

[jasper12]

Teachers ignore bullying, because many of them are bullies themselves.

[JordanJP]

That, or they're afraid of being sued or otherwise punished somehow for intervening. My teachers had to have known that I was getting bullied, however, nothing happened until they wrote some really messed up stuff in my yearbook (6th grade, didn't know how to deal with it) or until I wrote an open letter about what was going on (7th grade, after I'd transferred to a private school to get away from it and found the same result).

[Thursday007]

Originally Posted by JordanJP

That, or they're afraid of being sued or otherwise punished somehow for intervening. My teachers had to have known that I was getting bullied, however, nothing happened until they wrote some really messed up stuff in my yearbook (6th grade, didn't know how to deal with it) or until I wrote an open letter about what was going on (7th grade, after I'd transferred to a private school to get away from it and found the same result).

I did just the opposite and quit private school to go to public school because at least at the public school they knew it happened. In the private school a gang of girls came flying in the bathroom and smacked my head into a concrete wall and stuff. Shaken up, I was off in space and got a demerit for not paying attention in class. I tossed my books in a trash can and caught a city bus home. My mother took me back and the Principal Nun actually said, "I find it hard to believe anything like that could happen at this school." I stood up and said, "Mom, I think we are finished here." I told her if she doesn't believe this goes on then I'm not safe here.

I later found out the girl who did it to me was actually looking for someone else - she wasn't looking for me. She also pulled a knife on another girl in the parking lot after school a year earlier and the school did nothing because they claimed it was after hours - truth is the parents had money.

[SifuPhil]

I got into martial arts at the age of 12 because I was being jumped by gangs of kids that no teacher would dare discipline, let alone their own parents. They were a "wild bunch" who responded to nothing except superior force.

It was the ending of the hippie era and the beginning of the blame-someone-else era.

Once I learned how to apply that force I had no more problems at that school, except for the talking-to I received from the teachers about "propagating violence".

Yeah ... where were YOU when my face was sliding across the gravel?

[sierraAZ]

I can't believe what sort of experiences so many of you had in school...

[Hawk J]

WOW...Awesome...

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[JordanJP]

Originally Posted by sierraAZ

I can't believe what sort of experiences so many of you had in school...

Trust me, there's a few things there that I've purposefully just forgotten about until a few years ago. Being messed with like that makes respond one in REALLY strange ways sometimes, if you don't know how to deal with it. Thankfully (mercifully), I started standing up for myself not too much later, but it was a couple years too late. By the time I finally started doing that, I'd already gotten a fresh start with different people at yet another school and wasn't the total weirdo anymore. It was funny, because I'd gotten multiple talks from family members about just beating the crap out of them (and my parents would have condoned it in those cases) that I never really considered. That was before I figured out that I was physically much stronger than most people at that age.

Edit 5: The interesting thing was that a few years later a few of the people got back into contact with me and admitted having some sort of guilty conscience about things, and that I was actually fairly normal. After I'd spent nearly three years eating by myself at lunch and then spending my time in the library.

[WFW&P]

Originally Posted by Thursday007

Yes, but once it hits the store shelves it is. I don't know anyone who shops for bait in the seafood department at the grocery store.

True, to an extent; I can get bait and catch my own salmon. Try hooking your own ketchup; methinks the manager won't appreciate you casting in the store.

Originally Posted by Rakin

You know know what's hard about Salmon ? Saying it.

I love Salmon and I can't get the L being silent. It should be Sal-Mon not Sa-Mon.

Maybe it's my southern accent.

I too used to think "samon" was the proper pronunciation.

[WFW&P]

Originally Posted by SifuPhil

Hey! I resemble that remark!

Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk ...


Exactly.

REAL food cannot be used to patch holes in drywall.

........or used as the skin on the space shuttle.

[WFW&P]

Originally Posted by Djuna

Top three dream threesomes;

Rakin and Phil

Chow and SoG

Jordan and Prince

In no set order of preference

Seeing how 5 of the 6 are guys, I'm damn glad to miss that cut.