Seems the case alright!! Group of little shitbags (16/17 years old) up the road from me. Robbed my kids(13) bike right in front of him in october, wouldnt give back etc. So had a ding dong where id to go down to the green and sort it. Neighbour saw the schmozzle and comes to me a day after and says āim sorry i didnt come to you earlier but I saw 2 of those lads on the roof of your house trying to get inā These little scrotes have the old folks and young kids terrorised on the estate, he was too scared to tell me.
Blood boiled, went up to the motherās during the day. She actually laughed in my face when I told her about robbed bike and attempt to break in āNot my Fionn, impossibleā. I flipped saying I snap his legs if he came near me or mine again. She called the fucking guards! Guards turn up to mine, tell him the story, says sounds like this kid needs a boot up the hole.
Another neighbour comes down. Tells me how she caught this same kid on fucking security camera trying to get into their house. The mother of this Fionn again gives it the āNot my Fionnā. Thereās actual video fucking evidence and shes still unprepared to accept her angel can do any wrong!
Does the kid no good in the long run. While hes still mostly acting the cunt, soon enough heāll simply be a grown cunt and wont know any different,.
Not a hope Iād hit a fella like that. Iāve never been a fighter. Wish I was more. Was only in a couple of scraps ever really. One with a forumite! And then was semi involved with a good all pitch brawl inspired by a couple of forumites which resulted in a lad from East Wallās sideline running at me and catching me with a football boot to the head (he was swinging it in his arms).
All this excludes family scraps, which there were a few with 5 boys in the house.
Iād probably be more inclined now to hit a fella and take the consequences than I was then, mostly because Iām doing old man boxing training now, under the expert tutelage of a forumite who really knows how to throw a sneaky dig.
I was late reading your posts about you giving your brother a clipping. How did the Christmas dinner go?
Me and one of my brothers never got on. We ended up in a drink induced scuffle outside Supermacs one night. Got up next morning all cuts and bruises. Auld wan asked us were we fighting. We said yeah. She said it was great we stuck up for each other. Some nosey relation stuck their oar in though and put her straight the following week.
Very proud to say both of us are thick as thieves shortly after it all.
To give him his dues, he said to me when looking to make up āone of the best things ive learned off you is thereās nothing that shouldnt be sorted out or thats worth falling out overā. Took me a lot longer to get that level of maturity and certainly not a trait evident in some of our other siblings so very proud to see that capacity in him already.
Kids these days shout ābullyā far too quickly, parents tend to believe it and want serious action taken, real bullying isnāt as common as youād think in school, some lads are pure bould, some are awful messers, sometimes people get hurt, usually unintended, but before you give your lad license to throw digs youād want to be fairly sure that heās been targeted
Reminds me of a story with my auld lad in early 90s. He got wind that said group of local bullies were going to break into our house while we were gone away on a bank holiday weekend to Clare, like most Limerick folk!
Auld was coming home from work on a Friday and passed them on the road, and stopped the car. Got out and told them he heard they were going to break in to the house over the weekend. They gave him lip etc, you canāt say that to kids, weāll call the police etc.
Auld lad called their bluff. Opened the boot and took out a hurley. Told them he was leaving in an hour or so and was coming back on Monday night and whether they break into the house or not, he was going to assume it was one of them, and would break legs. Again, they came out with āweāll call the guards on youā etc, and he left them to it. Nothing happened. A lot of mouth out of them, and they could have pucked the auld lad around if they wanted.
Heās not a boxing pro. More a street fighter, king of the gutter type, a sand in your eye, bite your ear type. SNeaky left hook coming around the back of the boxing bag type. Youād like him.
What would you define bullying as? Schools obviously have definitions of it. I wouldnāt agree with it all but sustained and targeted abuse is good enough for me.
What about bullying in underage GAA by managers?Suffered it myself fairly badly years ago. Everyone got it but i was soft, took it to heart. Think it affected me badly throughout my life as i loved GAA and couldnt understand it. Really affected me confidence wise. My mother tells me the story of coming home from training at 12 in tears as manager called me a spineless coward. I presume it does not happen anymore.
Thatās about right,
Iād have had parents onto me about ābullyingā after isolated incidents where (for example) somebody drew an unflattering picture of them, or ādeliberatelyā doesnāt pass the ball to them, the list is endless
Thatās all well and good until you meet someone who has less to lose than you ā¦ then youāve risked everything for the sake of engaging with a bum .
If a young lad is getting a hard time for 4 or 5 years and isnāt alone in that, and all of the efforts of the school have been in vain, then I think itās fair if parents and kids have enough and decide itās time to stand up for yourself.
Again, nobody here is talking about one off or even a couple of incidents. I agree that the term bullying is overused. āTargeted and repeated over a period of timeā I think is the terminology, or something like it, isnāt it?
