[kasperl]

ok, i really need to vent about some stuff happening to me lately:

most kids at my school yell "a bomb, a bomb", "tick-tack, tick-tack" and "KABOOM" and things like that the moment i walk by just because i'm to only student with a briefcase instead of a bookwrecking backpack.
even the bloudy freshmen are yelling that! and i'm in third grade (dutch school system, 6 years of the highest level of high school, from aprox 12 to 18)
some idiot actually called me with this message:
"hello, i'm from dutch customs, we have found out that there's a bomb in your briefcase"
i've got a question for you guys on this: is it normal to do something like that to someone just because he is a bit different?

and on top of that people are calling me some stupid name some teacher "accidentially" called me one time, i really ask them to stop it, but even my friends keep using it.

[Stryke 9]

People suck. Yes, the automatically harass anyone with any distinguishing features, unless that person

1. Can kick the **** out of them
or
2. Is willing to kiss ass

I was lucky in that I happened to get an entire class that wasn't as smart as me, and thus I learned after about three years of hell in middle school to pretend to be a class clown while still making fun of them nonstop. Plus, I'm bigger than any of them now, so it's unnecessary.

[SKYNET-011]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
1. Can kick the **** out of them

Kick their sorry pathetic asses.

[kasperl]

i don'tthink my problem is point 2 it's point 1, i'm just not strong enough!

but seriously, it just gets very annouying, and the teachers can't do much about it, they want to,but they can't punsih half the school, can they?

[Zeronet]

Either hit them(you dont need to be strong, just make sure you are just violent and angry), or make a fake bomb, put in it your briefcase and then if they say anything, say you do have a bomb and take it out and proceed to press a button on it, causing it to tick.

[Stryke 9]

Point one is a problem. If you can't fight, or have a small frame, you're not likely to get much more effective. A big guy can take out a little guy pretty easily, judo classes notwithstanding.

Basically, you either have to outsmart them, outmuscle them, or learn to just not give a ****. The last is extremely effective and much more satisfying than the other two (getting physical has the tendency to get you expelled, while messing with their heads is hard work and not always effective). I recommend it. Best way, have an interesting life outside of school.


Zeronet: That's how you get your ass expelled, in prison, and raped up the chocolate speedway every day.

[kasperl]

i'd dothat, but i'd get into problems with the teachers because of it, and it would only makes things worse, because i'd get even more attention. (that is a bad thing right now)

[Nico]

Originally posted by kasperl
ok, i really need to vent about some stuff happening to me lately:

most kids at my school yell "a bomb, a bomb", "tick-tack, tick-tack" and "KABOOM" and things like that the moment i walk by just because i'm to only student with a briefcase instead of a bookwrecking backpack.
even the bloudy freshmen are yelling that! and i'm in third grade (dutch school system, 6 years of the highest level of high school, from aprox 12 to 18)
some idiot actually called me with this message:
"hello, i'm from dutch customs, we have found out that there's a bomb in your briefcase"
i've got a question for you guys on this: is it normal to do something like that to someone just because he is a bit different?

and on top of that people are calling me some stupid name some teacher "accidentially" called me one time, i really ask them to stop it, but even my friends keep using it.

her... well come to France, you won't be the only one to have a briefcase at school, so no pb
as for the nicks, can't be helped, I used to have a quite offending and ridiculous nick mlyself, got rid of it only when I parted from my old "friends", and almost punched the last one who used it. hopefully I didn't have to actually punch him, I hate that ( I have nothing against violence, as soon as I'm not the one using it, call me weirdo )

[Carl]

wait until you're off school property, then show them the fake bomb. the school couldn't do jack.

[Bobboau]

I was small fat and had several minor physical abnormalities (ears were .005% larger than average for example) and I dressed poorly though most of grade school, I was beaten, harased, torchered, atacked with a bat by someone three times my size while the rest of the class blocked my escape and cheared on the other guy, had large sport balls drop kicked at my head/gut, ear flicking, pantsed, mocked and generaly made miserable for a good chunk of my life (the last three years of grade school were particulary bad) to this day have lasting socal problems.

don't wory you've gotten off fairly lightly, just remember there ****tards and ten years from now they will be beging you for a job.

[SKYNET-011]

Originally posted by Carl
wait until you're off school property, then show them the fake bomb. the school couldn't do jack.

No, but the cops could.

[Sesquipedalian]

Zeronet has the right sort of idea, kasperl. (Well, not in the details, since you don't want to be expelled.)  The power of group mockery lies in the one being mocked accepting the words as a put-down.  The key to disarming the enemy is to be amused by their comments, rather than hurt.  If you find it funny, and engage in some light joking along those very lines, suddenly you've turned their sword into a playtoy, and what was meant to cut you down is now building you up.

The social dynamic at work here is this:  they take a tone of mockery and condescension, and we all too often accept without thinking the shame that they are trying to impose on us.  If they mock us, and instead of shame we respond with laughter, the force of mockery is taken away from them, and they can either shut up and look stupid, or be transformed into fellow jokesters who have to grant you respect.

There is no cure like full-hearted laughter.

[LtNarol]

I think its important to note that messing with their heads only works IF there's something in their heads to mess with in the first place, which judging by their immaturity there isn't.  The most effective and efficient route in my opinion is just to tune them out and ignore them, act like you don't give a flying ****.  After a few weeks (or months, if they're really thick), they'll grow tired of it (as people do if they don't get a reaction) and leave you alone.

That said, I've always personally prefered the following:

"Judoooo CHOP!"
*knee's opponent in the crotch instead*

Thats just me though, and in most cases that'd get you expelled, fortunately for me everyone in the classroom was laughing too hard (including the teacher, though not the guy in front of me) to do anything else.

[vyper]

Rule #1 - Everyone goes down if you kick them in the balls
Rule #2 - Knees are very vunerable and painful targets
Rule #3 - When they start to go down, keep going until they won't come back at you.
Rule #4 - Don't fight if you can avoid it. They're arseholes like the title says, so why waste time on them? If at all possible, get them roasted by an authority figure somehow.

[Fetty]

Originally posted by Bobboau
I was small fat and had several minor physical abnormalities (ears were .005% larger than average for example) and I dressed poorly though most of grade school, I was beaten, harased, torchered, atacked with a bat by someone three times my size while the rest of the class blocked my escape and cheared on the other guy, had large sport balls drop kicked at my head/gut, ear flicking, pantsed, mocked and generaly made miserable for a good chunk of my life (the last three years of grade school were particulary bad) to this day have lasting socal problems.

don't wory you've gotten off fairly lightly, just remember there ****tards and ten years from now they will be beging you for a job.

i also was/am small fat and ...
but i was realy strong for my age (i work on a farm 2 months every year) and when a guy a head taller than me tryd to beat me up i tossed him thru half of the class, i earned some respect apparently because i hardly ever got toutched after that
and thers of course my nickname Fütty wich im still getting called but after 8 years i dont mind anymore (fütty is custructed by Fat food and a part of the femal sexual organ , goto translate thatinto german of course). lets see i got called cat****er(because i like cats.......) the usual fat boy stuff and of course most of the teachers ignored me (ok thats normal i guess ) oh yeah and i got a problem of saying "no" so they always came to me when the needed something ... oh and i get ignored by 99.99999% of the female polulation WUHU (im just a very good friend and good to talk to )

maby thats why i hate being arround people...

[Stryke 9]

Actually, while a crotch kick will incapacitate them for the moment, the resulting adrenaline rush will mean that they're that much stronger and nastier a second later. VERY bad idea, unless you follow it up with a kick to the face when they bend over, thus sending them sprawling and either breaking a nose or loosening a few teeth.

'Course, my main mode of fighting at that age was getting them down on the ground (generally by tripping them), and then, if they were dumb enough to keep it up, resting one foot on their neck, just to give them the idea.

... We were a nasty bunch, back then.

[SKYNET-011]

Originally posted by StrykeIX
... We were a nasty bunch, back then.

Some of us still are.

[Knight Templar]

My Advice is to work your fat little ass out. Come back in a year, and see how many peopel **** with you then. you'll know if you are stronger, you'll lose fat, gain muscle, and then tall won't be stronger.

I've been in a few situations. If you work at it a little, you'll be plenty strong enough to wrestle the **** to the ground, "get on top" then twist one arm until it's at an off angle looking like a V then insert one of your knees against the throat/back of neck and apply pressure. You also want to make sure your target's legs are firmly behind them or under your body weight.

Now if you are the lazy type, then get over it. We all have problems like this, the best thing is to ignore them, find an intrest with them, annoy the hell out of them, become a class clown or make fun of their mothers.

[Stryke 9]

Working out's bull****. Pay good money for the same muscles you'd get being paid for manual labor- and for what?

I don't really advocate kicking the **** out of the people (I'm more the psych type), anyway, but I know how to fight, and there's damn little you can do to really hurt a guy who's bigger and stronger than you, that he can't do back doubly. Karate and all that **** don't really make a difference, far as I've seen (and, once again, the kids I was stuck with in middle school were a buncha violent little bastards. I've trounced smaller kids who claimed to take karate, thinking it made them Instant Badasses, and I nearly had my nose broken by one kid who was half my height, but faster and stronger than me, with no technique or finesse at all)

[Bobboau]

BTW ignoring them does not help, and fighting only works if you are in fact able to win (it makes it worse if you fight them lose and remove all doubt in there minds that you are in fact weaker)

the only thing that ever seemed to work with any regularity is to fines the situation with some major administational figure to make them look bad if the ****off continues to cause problems, but this is quite hard to do right especaly if there are quite a few of them, at wich point this can turn on you and you get the blame seeing as there are a lot of people who have a problem with you.