The School Bully.

[mickd1961]

I’ll bet you all remember him/them?

The person who’s gaze you avoided or you crossed the road if you saw them in the distance.

On our year group Facebook page one of the lads brought up the name of someone who gave him him a rough time at secondary school, it was the same scrote who’d been a thorn in my side.

We got chatting on Messenger about this horrible little t w a t and this guy said he still saw him around the Stourbridge area.

After his description I realised that I’d noticed this same person ( always on foot ) walking around the Stourbridge area.

He was one of the scruffy, smelly lowlife at school and he now looks even worse, shuffling along with a stoop and some sort of disability.

I’m looking forward to seeing him next time he’s in my orbit, I intend having a chat with him and passing on the good wishes of the other lad who suffered at his hands.

I’m thinking of flicking his ears and kicking his ankles as he hobbles along and then asking him if he wants a fight like he used to goad me.

If he says “no” I might well smack him one like he used to smack me and Nick and many others!

It may be 43 years ago but it’s something that’s stuck in my mind all my adult life, once I’d grown up properly and become a bloke rather than a kid I’ve long wanted to front up to this w a n k e r.

Maybe I should console myself with the fact that it appears he’s had a horrible life.

At this moment I’m more in favour of fronting him and laughing in his face.

Anybody else had similar issues?

[viaductbaggies]

Nope, was always told by my dad if anyone tries it on with you whack em one and ask questions later

[phild]

I was bullied by a black gal who swung me round the playground by my hair. The person was one of them notorious ebanks. You'd know em if you were in West Brom in the 70s. I think it was her way of saying she fancied me.

[baggieal]

Although I could handle myself there was one t osser when I was about 14 who thought he was as hard as rock and gave me a good kicking. My brother who was known as super hard and two years above me at school took action - he sent a nerd under threat to this bullies classroom and said the head wanted to see him - the heads office was just next to the toilets. So this bully trotted out of class and was walking by the toilets to the heads room and my brother and his mate diverted him into the toilets. They gave this bully a huge kicking and actually put his head in the toilet pan and flushed it!

When we left school or soon after lost touch with my brother as kept getting into trouble at West Brom games - was known as Clunk and part of what was ‘ the club house ‘. The bully though from then on licked my boots for want of a better word!

[Albionic68]

Sorry I haven't read the whole thread but we didn't really have a school bully. We had a number of bullies across years who'd try it on with anyone they thought they'd get one over. Being in the football team meant I was pretty much immune despite my then small frame though. One tried once at secondary school and felt a warm gush of blood as I spread his nose across his face with my forehead. He never tried again and neither did anybody else.

[boingy]

I tried a different tack, I used to treat him like anyone else, no fear, no sucking up to but used to make him laugh. I wasn't mates with him but he always left me alone. A lot of these kids have issues, when we were kids nothing was ever dealt with unfortunately. Bullied at home then they go to school and take it out on the kids.

[DaveP67 is back!]

I tried a different tack, I used to treat him like anyone else, no fear, no sucking up to but used to make him laugh. I wasn't mates with him but he always left me alone. A lot of these kids have issues, when we were kids nothing was ever dealt with unfortunately. Bullied at home then they go to school and take it out on the kids.

You are spot on there Boingy, most bullies in my experience had pretty s hit lives, the bullying is often a reflection of their home life, from your description of your school bully Mick it sounds like his is still pretty S hit.

[Albionic68]

...... A lot of these kids have issues, when we were kids nothing was ever dealt with unfortunately. Bullied at home then they go to school and take it out on the kids.

This is very true and a point that's often overlooked. I had a pretty sh it time of things at home whilst growing up and although I wasn't a bully I got into a fair bit of trouble on occasions. I had a lot of issues which stemmed from home. Thankfully I didn't go on to terrorise other kids on the back of it though.

[boingy]

This is very true and a point that's often overlooked. I had a pretty sh it time of things at home whilst growing up and although I wasn't a bully I got into a fair bit of trouble on occasions. I had a lot of issues which stemmed from home. Thankfully I didn't go on to terrorise other kids on the back of it though.

Most problems stem from childhood 68. Parental connection or lack of it is with us our entire lives. My mother had schizophrenia, rejected me at birth and treated me badly for 3 years until the divorce. I am suffering from that now, I never wanted to hurt anyone but internalised my pain and am only now learning to live "in the now". Society back when we were kids was pretty brutal even with things like being born cross eyed and parents not doing anything about it. Fathers often never communicated much at all unless it was with a smack or fists. Authorities didn't do anything and understood very little. I should have had therapy at 5 years of age but I received nothing. I was interrogated at school when I fluffed my exams by being absent,because I was looking after my grandfather who was dying with Cancer, they thought I was lying and proceeded to phone up relatives to see if I was telling the truth. They couldn't have been nicer when they found out. "Doing well" at school was the least of my concerns. Wasn't even on my list.

[WBA1955]

I think it was part of growing up and makes you who you are.
I was never bullied by anyone in particular at school, though we had some thickos at our school they weren't quite that dumb lol.
Seriously I think it's how you look to others, the same as how a dog can spot anyone who is nervous of them.
The older boys picked on the new starters but that wasn't personal, that was something that had been going on for decades and was accepted.
If you went to the teacher or head and said someone was picking on you they would tell you not to tell tales, they expected you to stand up for yourself.
That is what is wrong with the younger generation of today.
There will always be bullies but they will only bully you if you let them.
They may well give you a beating but you have to make sure that their effort isn't worth the result.