And yet still, most readers don't see bullying as a problem.

Anyone who has ever said that bullying is "normal childhood behaviour", "character building" or makes you driven later in life, shouldn't have children.

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Indeed. The thread has drawn out quite the crop of cunts, thankfully languishing in the "worst rated" section but still.

Suicides with similar motives are "copycat" now. Also I never heard of the police "debunking" any recent bullying-related suicides - anyone care to shed light?

The "today's children are soft" meme is very much alive, then.

A bit lost for words on this one really. Most of the ones I can find are "cunt."

There's a bit of a difference between dogs scrapping over their place at th food bowl, and flushing Specky McPastry's head down the toilet.

Besides, just because something 'happens in nature' doesn't make it morally right.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

(Aggressive) Bullying, by its very nature, is a phobia of equality....

Oh

It's official: Most of Britain's 72,000 dysfunctional families have no father at home

The mail complains about people being dysfunctional....

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I went to school with a lad who was horribly bullied. I was his mate, so wasn't involved but, I'm sad to say, rarely got involved because as a kid, I didn't want to be the target. He was the classic 'fat kid'

He eventually stopped being bullied (and they moved on to someone else - not me, thankfully) when he realised that he was bigger and stronger than the bullies and broke someone's nose and gave another of them concussion by picking them up and throwing them down onto the concrete. (I got lucky... I accidentally detached someone's retina playing football and played on the reputation for being a possible nutter so no one wanted to test the water)

Essentially, he got through school with the message that 'violence is the answer'. I've not heard from him for 10 years now, but last time I saw him, he was not a nice man to know.

^ You get only one shot at life (at least that's what I think) and it's terrible to think that other people's actions could change the person someone becomes for the worse.

What decisions an individual makes for themselves is one thing, that's their choice. But for other people to act in a way that alters a person, it isn't right.

Just like what seemed to happen to that guy, made into an unpleasant violent man because of the way people treated him when he was younger. Who knows how different a bullied persons life (like his) might have been if they didn't have to waste so much time during their years of mental and educational development fending off bullies.

There's no excuse for it, and a parent who is told that their child is doing it but does nothing is just as bad and as guilty as their children.

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"Now get those trousers off before someone dies!"

I used to be bullied a lot. In high school I was the butt of all jokes, really, and probably the lowest on the rung. Same was true for primary school, I guess.

I don't think I ever really fought back. Never had the strength to.

But I turned out alright... and I've only been waiting for psych analysis for two years

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Changin' avatars like there's no tomorrow

It's central to the Code of the Mailite, though. Mailites treat capital-N Nature with the same reverence as the free market — as a supernatural but brittle force which is perfect in itself and must not be disrupted by human intervention of any kind. This allows them to absolve themselves of responsibility for their inactions. Obviously, this reverence only extends so far: if you try pointing out that, for instance, homosexuality is found in all kinds of fauna, you'll quickly be informed that gay ovines are okay as long as they don't, ahem, ram it down other people's throats.

One of the few advantages of a) getting older and b) Facebook is that you can follow from afar the dismal lives of the twats who once got off on duping themselves into feeling they were superior to you. I try not to judge people from photographs, but Tiffany, you look half-dead already.

There's no point in fighting back against bullies, rapists, etc. The real fight takes place within yourself afterwards. I'd give excellent odds that you'll win it, shrink or no.

I completely cut all contact with everyone. No Facebook account with them added, nothing. Heck, I'm almost literally a completely different person now, and I left sixth form just three years ago (I left at 19; I resat a year). I just didn't really want to keep in contact with anyone, and had no reason to keep in touch with them.

But bullying is a horrible thing. I was lucky, I think. I ended up in hospital once with a nearly-fractured wrist (the bone bent instead), I sometimes managed to get away and in the last year or so I split off more. I tried to talk to different people and stuff.

The guy who almost fractured my wrist? He got off because he had problems in the past. Jeez. He nearly breaks my wrist and gets off with it? What about me being bullied for all those years? Heh. Whatever. Let bygones be bygones and all that.

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Racism against black and Jewish people is all in their minds, claims veteran comedian Jackie Mason in provocative outburst.

The mail says that persecution is 'all in the mind'.....

:snicker:

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'I loved him, but it was too much when my BOYFRIEND told me he was having our baby': Man reveals shock at UK's first transgender pregnancy

The mail complains about people making unfit parents....

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Having included an opinion piece yesterday arguing that it was "nonsense" to regard any of the following as an attack on human rights: "parents smacking children", "the eviction of travellers from illegal encampments" and "the deportation of foreign criminals in breach of their supposed 'right to a family life'"; what headline do we find this morning?

Diktats of the drought police: Not just a hosepipe ban, but ELEVEN tough restrictions on water use
Water bosses in the South and East issue checklist of restrictions for 20m people
It includes washing cars and boats, filling fountains and cleaning windows
Those caught breaking the rules face a £1,000 fine
It follows two years of low rainfall that's left reservoirs at record low levels
Predictions of more dry weather has led to fears of even more restrictions

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1oymmXMZt

....and erm... elephants.

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I'm a nasty, violent lefty. You cunt.

'It's like calling a shoe the Al Qaeda': Outrage as Nike names new trainer after British Black and Tans who cracked down on Irish in 1920s (just in time for St Paddy's Day!)

The mail complains about foreigners being offended.



Nah... never see any moaning from Brits in the mail ....




Christ almighty.... Spot the irony.... .....




Would Brits be outraged? Mmmmmmm I wonder?


Clearly Mailites can take a joke about the IRA

'Will the IRA please bomb Tory conference': Fury as Labour councillor 'likes' offensive comments on Facebook hate group






Yeahhhhhhhhh..... just imagine if the foot was on the other foot....



Yes ......... "this type of behavior is endemic in these people."

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