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RK_Striker_JK_5 wrote:Man, schools must be a hell of a lot more wired than when I graduated in '97.

Everything is a helluva lot more wired than in '97. My High School had not one, not two, but THREE computer labs, plus one computer in each classroom, as well as one classroom having two of four walls lined with computers. (Part of a journalism class)

There was... one computer lab, IIRC. Although I spent most time in the library. With, you know, books. And that's how I learned, too. Through ye olde textbooks.

Last night Casey was interviewed on A Current Affair, he basically talks about how he was bullied all through primary school, then when he got to high school he lost all friends and was constantly bullied. He talked about how he was once duct taped to a pole amongst other acts of bullying done to him. He even spoke about how he contemplated suicide.

Tonight ... in typical A Current Affair reporting (this isn't a news show that should be taken with any respect) they spoke to the bully himself who is still unrepentant.

I remember back in high school I was copping crap from some guy, I picked him up and body slammed him. I also got into a fight with some other guy who took boxing classes after school, I ended up with a mild headache, he ended up with a broken hand. Both situations though I snapped. So I sort of know what this kid went through.

All through my school years, I was only involved in 2 altercations, and I was pushed by a bully both times. in 8th grade the guy ended up going head first into a locker, and in 11th grade we actually got into a punch-up, and I ended up with a bruise on the side of my head and he ended up with a busted hand and a fat lip. I don't think fighting is the first option, but when it comes to bullies, if you turn the other cheek, so to speak, it'll only give them encouragement. The best way to deal with a bully is to get right in his/her face, and if it comes to violence, be ready.

Forgive my ignorance, but who or what is this Anonymous that you speak of?

Cyber Bishop wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but who or what is this Anonymous that you speak of?

Anonymous is a large, reputable, and influential Internet-based hacking group.

Jesterhead wrote:

Cyber Bishop wrote:Forgive my ignorance, but who or what is this Anonymous that you speak of?

Anonymous is a large, reputable, and influential Internet-based hacking group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29

If they don't like what you say or do they ruin your life/business in the name of free speech then hide behind the internet.

Wow. That bag of sticks got dropped. Maybe a bruised ankle and a helluva lot of pain will keep that pest from torturing anyone else. Another thing. Is it smart to bully someone older and bigger than you? Even if he's heavy set, that doesn't mean he can't kick arse. Usually its the big kid on little kid.

Bully speaks out

Burn wrote:Bully speaks out

No sympathy. Even if it turns out to be true, the whole world saw him make the decision to attack that kid for no reason. Telling a kid he should be in class when he should be in class does not warrant violence.

Burn wrote:Bully speaks out

Wow....... What a dick.

The Legend wrote:If they don't like what you say or do they ruin your life/business in the name of free speech then hide behind the internet.

A little bit of both. There was an incident a while ago where someone had hacked the Westboro Baptist Church (The "God hates Fags" people) website, and WBC claimed it was Anonymous. A representative said it wasn't Anonymous, whoever hacked WBC was acting on their own. They actually defended the Westboro Baptist Church because when they say they defend free speech, they mean it. But WBC wouldn't drop it, and kept picking at Anonymous...and Anonymous was forced to retaliate. I'm not sure what the extent of the damage was, though.

Shadowman wrote:

The Legend wrote:If they don't like what you say or do they ruin your life/business in the name of free speech then hide behind the internet.

A little bit of both. There was an incident a while ago where someone had hacked the Westboro Baptist Church (The "God hates Fags" people) website, and WBC claimed it was Anonymous. A representative said it wasn't Anonymous, whoever hacked WBC was acting on their own. They actually defended the Westboro Baptist Church because when they say they defend free speech, they mean it. But WBC wouldn't drop it, and kept picking at Anonymous...and Anonymous was forced to retaliate. I'm not sure what the extent of the damage was, though.

Forced to retaliate? They made the decision to retaliate instead of doing the mature thing and ignoring the crazy, hatefilled freaks. What sort of threat are WBC to a group of immature, social rejects sitting in their mum's basements tripping on delusions of grandeur and internetz revelry? None. Anon is just another bully who picks on those weaker than it because it can, they can try to justify it by saying they're fighting for an ideal but it's just a case of a bunch of nobodys trying to make themselves look big.
And the irony of: 'We'll defend your right to say what you want as long as it's not about us or we'll make your life a living hell' should be funny but it's just sad.

Burn wrote:Bully speaks out

The only reason he's saying any of this is because he doesn't want the government to hunt him down.

The Legend wrote:

Shadowman wrote:

The Legend wrote:If they don't like what you say or do they ruin your life/business in the name of free speech then hide behind the internet.

A little bit of both. There was an incident a while ago where someone had hacked the Westboro Baptist Church (The "God hates Fags" people) website, and WBC claimed it was Anonymous. A representative said it wasn't Anonymous, whoever hacked WBC was acting on their own. They actually defended the Westboro Baptist Church because when they say they defend free speech, they mean it. But WBC wouldn't drop it, and kept picking at Anonymous...and Anonymous was forced to retaliate. I'm not sure what the extent of the damage was, though.

Forced to retaliate? They made the decision to retaliate instead of doing the mature thing and ignoring the crazy, hatefilled freaks. What sort of threat are WBC to a group of immature, social rejects sitting in their mum's basements tripping on delusions of grandeur and internetz revelry? None. Anon is just another bully who picks on those weaker than it because it can, they can try to justify it by saying they're fighting for an ideal but it's just a case of a bunch of nobodys trying to make themselves look big.
And the irony of: 'We'll defend your right to say what you want as long as it's not about us or we'll make your life a living hell' should be funny but it's just sad.

And those "immature social rejects" are also capable of hacking every electronic device you own. Their not trying to make themselves look big, they are that big.

EDIT: As for being a bunch of nobodies, why do you think the group is called Anonymous?

EDIT Again: Here's a news story about it. Taunting Anonymous is like taunting the Devil: They can and will completely wreck you.

EDIT once more: And a story on the actual attack.

SlyTF1 wrote:

Burn wrote:Bully speaks out

The only reason he's saying any of this is because he doesn't want the government to hunt him down.

Don't be stupid. Our Government protects kids like him by banning Mortal Kombat and redirecting Customs to ensure copies of the game never make it into the country.

Clearly this is why we can't have an adult games classification in this country as this way they can ban such games and ensure kids like Ritchard can't play them and grow up to be psychos.

Hey

I know I'm way late to this thread, but I can relate to all of you here. I was picked on a lot, too, blah blah blah. Whatever. I punched the snot out of a bully in middle school and mostly everyone left me alone after that.

At the time, I thought the other kids left me alone because I did something "cool" and beat someone up, and that I would do the same to them if they crossed me. Now that I'm older, I know why kids left me alone: Because I became confident in myself.

Here's a big kid with a confidence issue. If he believed more in himself, this would never have happened, and that smaller kid would have known better than to mess with him.

Another bully gets a beating. Looks like this guy had a LOT of pent up rage.

The Legend wrote:Another bully gets a beating. Looks like this guy had a LOT of pent up rage.

Pent up because the bully wouldn't leave him alone. The kid clearly tried to walk away several times and wasn't able to get free.

If anyone cries foul on this kid getting his just desserts, then they're idiots, plain and simple.

He tried to leave, he tried to escape, and the bully wouldn't stop. The bully got what he deserved. I'm not cheering it on, I'm not saying violence is the answer, but it was deserved and that's that.

Autobot032 wrote:

The Legend wrote:Another bully gets a beating. Looks like this guy had a LOT of pent up rage.

Pent up because the bully wouldn't leave him alone. The kid clearly tried to walk away several times and wasn't able to get free.

If anyone cries foul on this kid getting his just desserts, then they're idiots, plain and simple.

He tried to leave, he tried to escape, and the bully wouldn't stop. The bully got what he deserved. I'm not cheering it on, I'm not saying violence is the answer, but it was deserved and that's that.

The difference between the two was Zangief kid stopped and walked away when the bully was incapacitated and this kid kept pounding his face for about 30 seconds whilst the bully was in the foetal position and then screaming in his face for the remainder of the video.

The Legend wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

The Legend wrote:Another bully gets a beating. Looks like this guy had a LOT of pent up rage.

Pent up because the bully wouldn't leave him alone. The kid clearly tried to walk away several times and wasn't able to get free.

If anyone cries foul on this kid getting his just desserts, then they're idiots, plain and simple.

He tried to leave, he tried to escape, and the bully wouldn't stop. The bully got what he deserved. I'm not cheering it on, I'm not saying violence is the answer, but it was deserved and that's that.

The difference between the two was Zangief kid stopped and walked away when the bully was incapacitated and this kid kept pounding his face for about 30 seconds whilst the bully was in the foetal position and then screaming in his face for the remainder of the video.

The end result is the same. I don't care if one beating was more vicious than the other. The bully pushed and prodded, the victim finally fought back.

Try being the victim of a bully. See what it does to you mentally. I can't fault either kid for snapping and beating them down. Disagree if you must, but I won't fault either of 'em.

I've seen both sides of the argument. I'm with the victims 100% of the time.

I don't disagree completely but puting a kid down when he was hitting you and giving a kid a savage beating for getting in your face is different.

The Legend wrote:I don't disagree completely but puting a kid down when he was hitting you and giving a kid a savage beating for getting in your face is different.

And finishing a fight against someone who hit you, and releasing years of rage at being bullied is different. I was bullied for most of my life, and if I were to release the many years of anger and hate on someone like these kids are doing, it would be a helluva lot more than just knocking him down.

Not too surprising seeing all these tales of bullying, from all of us members and from the links of these videos. I have to add myself to the list, I was bullied too. For me it was a case of being the scrawny kid who looked like easy prey. being the youngest in a large family and therefore being a target for my older brothers, I was already marked heading into school. If it wasn't for one of my cousins teaching me how to fight, a mixture of martial arts and street fighting, I probably wouldn't have made it through high school intact. I had 2 bullies in particular who, at least every other day, would decide it was time to slam-dance me into the lockers. Finally one day I snapped. I saw the one kid give his partner in crime a "power-shove" to get things started and I dropped my books, side stepped and latched onto my 'Dance Partner' and added some more momentum to his journey and forced him face on into the lockers. I finished my spin by launching myself at his accomplice and slammed him into the lockers directly behind him and told him if either of them even thought about touching me again I'd kick both their asses up and down the halls. I remember it like it was yesterday even though it was over 20 years ago and I feel no shame in admitting that remembering the look of terror in their eyes still gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. 2 against 1, both of them bigger than me and I had them scared ****-less! I lost track of the number of times after that that I stepped in the middle of situations where other kids were getting bullied and it didn't matter to me what the odds were. I knew what kind of hell the victims went through and if the bullies wanted to know just what kind of terror they were inflicting on their victims, by god I was willing to dish it right back at them. Almost every single time the altercation ended without a punch being thrown which is the best outcome I could hope for. Let the big kids know their power is limited and let the ones being picked on know that they aren't alone and that they aren't helpless. I applaud the kid in the video for standing up to that little punk. Lord knows the schools don't do enough (or aren't allowed to do enough) to stop this, parents in general these days tend to be the ones causing the kids to become bullies and deserve an ass-whooping themselves, and the laws in general tend to protect the guilty and make the victims suffer more in the long run so there really is only one way to deal with this issue and that's to let the bullies know that you aren't putting up with it and there are consequences if you keep pushing it.