I learnt to deal with it. Like Pinkie, I developed a kind of stealth/ninjitsu ability to sneak around and away undetected, and used it to slip past bullies I couldn't handle.

We should all be so lucky. I got picked on in High School. I guess it's wasn't so bad in retrospect, but it still kinda sucked being the quiet awkward kid.

I wonder if Featherweight ever has that trouble.

edited 23rd Nov '12 7:31:16 AM by edvedd

Yes they did.

edited 23rd Nov '12 7:31:00 AM by Enlong

I was fortunate enough to combine being not interesting enough to bully with being too smart to bully, at least in the eyes of bullies. Actively not giving a single fuck what others thought helped as well.

Oh hey, I forgot that.

edited 23rd Nov '12 7:31:44 AM by edvedd

Happy to be of service. I just saw people saying "nah, I don't think so" and distinctly remembering that they did get one. So I went hunting.

While I had been bullied during elementary and middle school, but once I reached high school, people tended to let me be. They'd tease me occasionally, but it was usually gentle ribbing and very rarely was it malicious. I was actually quite liked despite being more than a little weird.

edited 23rd Nov '12 7:34:52 AM by Drenius

In my case, the most prominent bully got kicked out of the school after a while, and the rest mellowed out, which I assume happened because ours was a relatively small class, and the staff stepped in when it got too far.

Oddly, I met the aforementioned prominent bully later, and she had become a much better person after so many years.

Post of the Day #204

@Ed: Featherweight has embarrassing pictures of everyone. Noone would dare mess with him.

Does he have embarrassing pictures of himself?

Yes, that way he can clone himself in the mirror pool and blackmail his clones into doing his bidding.

Pretty much what it was like for me. I didn't have many particularly bad things happen to me, but still.

Oh yeah, @Mousa: I explained why I ship Twimac. I saw him take her doll. I thought, "Why does he want it? Is it because it's hers? Does he have a shrine dedictaed to her or something? Wait! He licked her once! He loves her! That's so sweet! I hope they manage to work things out."

He is...the element of gangly. And Blackmail. But mostly gangly.

In my case, I cannot say that I ever was really bullied. In elementary school I've been in a few scuffles, sure, but that was nothing dramatic or unexpected.

Later, I tended to keep to myself, in hindsight perhaps rather too much, and there was no shortage of people who did not care terribly about me. But to be fair, I did not care terribly about them either, and under some aspects I was not an easy person to get along with (seriously, I was kind of intolerable at times).

Human!Pinkie :D

There's a buncha fanfics that made Featherweight out to be a bit pervy for his age, taking dodgy photos of the CMC and the older mares.

edited 23rd Nov '12 7:51:18 AM by AceOfScarabs

Like in Batman Begins?

I was bullied when I was younger, but it was helped out by a combination of my bully being expelled in the later years of middle school and several growth spurts putting me at a size that people didn't want to bother with after that(And trimming me out a bit, which helped considerably). Then the wits came in, sealing off any other avenues. And then the charm... and by the end of high school I was generally well-liked, actually.

Still, I can't deny that, tame as they were, those early years did leave something of an... impression. Not nearly so tender as for some, but still there.

   Resistance is futile   

Also, I've never really been bullied either.

I was bullied all throughout school. It finally tapered off at around my junior/senior year of high school. It's the reason I tend to keep to myself and not really say very much.

I've had trouble in the past, but I always fought back, and when that didn't work, I simply told my older brother.

The one time I did tell a teacher, it didn't work, because the teacher I told had something against me, so she dismissed it as harmless. At the time, I translated that to: "The school can't help you. You can only help yourself."

Okay, is anyone else thinking that it might turn out that Babs Seed is such a bully because she was a product of bullying herself and initially turned to bullying in order to try and defend herself?

Question: Is the episode airing at 10 or 10:30 Eastern?

Showtime at 1030 EST.

I'm thinking that Babs is a genuine, not played for laughs, medically accurate sociopath.

Then again, I think most bullies are like that. It's the only way I have found to explain some of their actions.

edited 23rd Nov '12 8:11:19 AM by Steventheman