How I stopped getting bullied:
I went from a very Catholic primary school, where there was really very little bullying - God was watching, you see - to a pretty rough secondary school.

I wasn't ready for it. I got roughed around for being bright and being crap at sports, and especially for being posh (by kids who had far more money than my family did, but there you go, that's what you get for liking to read books).

The kids at my school were right bastards. We used to 'collect' all the local nutcases, they'd get expelled from all the local schools and end up at ours, and some of them had no place being outside a special school.

But - when I was 15, I did something that basically stopped me from getting bullied ever again:

I started smoking. Smoking, you see, makes you look cool (when you're 15). Hanging around the bike sheds smoking a sly fag with the cool kids tends to stop them picking on you, not least because they know at some point they might have to bum a fag off you.
(Seebeedee, Fri 15 May 2009, 17:14, 4 replies)

I bet it was really because your dad drove an Accord.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 15 May 2009, 17:32, closed)

It's lucky you're not mental
or I'd rape you.
( wotofco pissing in your swimming pool, Fri 15 May 2009, 17:59, closed)

Keep at it
Maybe it'll become funny again!
(Seebeedee, Sat 16 May 2009, 17:34, closed)

I became cool
when I started cycling my BMX to school.

I was a bit obsessed with it, I'd stripped it to bare chrome and replaced every part baring the frame. Suddenly, there were kids 2 or 3 years older wanting a go on it and wanting to know where I'd got such and such, could they buy/swap it, etc.

That's the one time in my life when I was cool. For a few months.
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Fri 15 May 2009, 18:52, closed)