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ive figured out a few things... like... people are *******s.. people = $hit and things like that. but im not kidding, im serious. ive never really thought about this before, but today i was at home just laying there, peacfully on my bed thinking up a storm and it hit me. people suck. lets take school for example, say you wear a pair of jeans you really like. your loving it, you think you look good, walking down the hallway like your something special. your really feeling good. no one says anything, but then you get into class, as you sit there people criticize they sit there and think of mean $hit to tell you. maybe its becasue of jealousy, maybe its because they dont like how you look, maybe its becaue they suck. but then you sit there. as soon as one person opens his mouth. BAMM! people start saying things out loud "omg Diego! why are you wearing those jeans!!" and "omg diego you like a dumbass!!" and things like that.. but does it really matter to them? does there opinion matter to you? do wake up in the morning and get dressed for them? are they wearing YOUR clothes? no. but yet they sit there and make fun of you and laugh and all types of things. do you ignore it? no. you sit there in your chair (usually alone becaue no one defends you) and get embarassed. you never wear those pants you loved so much again, all because people couldnt shut there mouths and accept the fact that not everyone dresses the same... its almost like they want to decide things for you... my point is... who are these peoples parents? who lets there kids do this? do they not pay attention to their kids and how they act? no... maybe it seems normal at school.. because it happens all the time. but why must it happen? what gives them the right to make fun of the clothes you wear or other things like that? nothing gives them the right... but everyone does it anyways. nobody says to shut up and not be dumb. not even teachers. some times they even join in the laughter... and that really sucks... who do you turn to? what can you do? absolutely nothing... why? because that is the way society is... and that really sucks.. the situation explained above can be put into many types of environments not just school. people can do the same things at work, in a waiting room of a doctors office.. and other things... the only solution to this might be to teach your kids not to do this. but its not happening, parents arent as good as they were when "leave it to beaver" was on. society just seems to be worsening... this is the only reason why there are "wierd people" in life, becasue that is the label that is put on them when they are young, that is what people call them, and it never seems to go away.......
but... this is just a rant... nothing more... it wont solve anything..
Black Hawk
6 Oct 2004, 11:47pm
I know that all too well...
Dexter
6 Oct 2004, 11:57pm
Dude, "people" don't all necessarily suck. Kids do moreso, especially at that high-school age. But adults, by and large, are better than that...although many adults do the exact same things. :(
Why?
The easiest way to feel better about yourself is to make fun of someone else. The kids in the "in crowd" are so insecure about that status, they have to constantly make sure they keep others "out" by publicly denigrating them.
Don't sit there and be embarrased. Give them a good healthy dose of "STFU." They only have as much power over you as you let them have.
I was not in the "in crowd" when I was in high school. I remember being teased about wearing my hair short and spiked (this was mid 80's...it was the "Billy Idol look.") I told the idiots from the in crowd that I did not care what they thought so they might as well STFU. Did that piss them off? You bet. Did it stop them from trying to bug me? Not right away. But after getting the same reaction over and over, they clued in: I really didn't care what they thought, they were not going to get a self-validating reaction from me, I was not about to change my life, habits, dress, or appearance in any way to emulate them. They gave up and left me alone. Why bug me when there were other kids who would get visibly embarrased and show up next week trying to look/act/be just like them?
Dude...put those pants back on tomorrow. Wear them. And the first person who bugs you, turn around and tell him, loudly enough for all to hear: "Buddy, your opinion is compeltely insignificant to me, so shut the f*ck up, you're just wasting your breath." When they try a comeback, repeat: "Dude, why are you still talking to me? Shut the f*ck up, I don't care about anything you have to say." And on the next comeback" "Why are you still talking? Which part of 'shut the f*ck up' did you not understand?"
It won't be easy at first. But stick to your guns, weather any threats of physical violence (because the "in crowd" often resorts to that when their assumed superiority is threatened) and act like you truly do not care about their opinions. They will eventually leave you alone.
Wear the pants Jengo!
Dexter...
People aren't mean, the ignorance that controls them is.
GnomeWizardd
7 Oct 2004, 1:06am
Dude...put those pants back on tomorrow. Wear them. And the first person who bugs you, turn around and tell him, loudly enough for all to hear: "Buddy, your opinion is compeltely insignificant to me, so shut the f*ck up, you're just wasting your breath." When they try a comeback, repeat: "Dude, why are you still talking to me? Shut the f*ck up, I don't care about anything you have to say." And on the next comeback" "Why are you still talking? Which part of 'shut the f*ck up' did you not understand?"
Wear the pants Jengo!
Dexter...
DAMN STRAIGHT!
u are like thrax
i wear what i want when i want ( cept wed, thats professional dress day ) and i dont care what any 1 says about me, i havent combed my hair in probly 6 years, i havent shaved in about a month and i dont care about any 1 elses opinion but mine
i got these tight ass pair of cow print pants i wear thay are awsome
primesuspect
7 Oct 2004, 1:47am
pics!
ive been looking, the site whare u get them from is www.lbz.com they make moto X clothes, but the site was broken when i whent looking for it
dex, you spoke right out of my mouth, i am not the one that has the pants or anything problem, i dont let people give me crap, i am just annoyed at the people who give crap and take crap, but yeah... i got more ranting... but thats for tommrow...
If someone was to say something about what I was wearing when I was in High School I would have told them to simply STFU. After that I would have found something to pick on, I don't care if it was their dog that had recently died. The thing, is you got to hit them where it hurts. If they have a gap in their teeth, hammer on it. Do you think they give a crap about you? Then why should you give a **** about them. Others might say you are just acting like they are, but F$% them to. If someone gives you ****, you server it back to them x2. If not then run with your tail between your legs. It is a cruel world sometimes. If you can make them feel like a total piece of garbage then your job is done, they will not think to say anything to you anymore.
Kids never grow up, they just think of newer ways of doing the same thing. That's way I joined the football team young... kick their asses on the practice field, coaches couldn't care more.
Gotta love school huh? I just heard on the news today a coach even head dropped a student on a concrete floor becuase he wouldn't put away his CD player. You see? They never grow up. Just a different kind of ass.
What sucks is that now I can't do much about it... you get sued... or of course get killed becuase they got their asses kicked, etc... It's why I am once again contemplating joining the Marines or maybe the Air Force, I would think I could handle the type of kids in those places. SO far everyone I have met who work in the field I have been going to school for, are not the type of people I would enjoy hanging out with.
In the end all I have to say is... whatever. :shakehead
entropy
7 Oct 2004, 2:46am
Clutch, I think that's a good, but not good enough idea. I used to have people do this to me ... say sh*t about what I wore and such. I'm not "popular" but I'm not down there at all. I talk to pretty much everyone: preps (preps = jocks here, same thing), nutbags, "dirties", oddballs, etc. But still people gave me crap. I used to get really, really upset. I wouldn't wear something again, or I wouldn't say something again, whatever the case. Then one day, I realized they're all tardasses if they say stupid things like that. I got extremely fed up. I pretty much just said stuff like, "Well doesn't that make you feel special?" or something.
I've learned something. If you want to cut someone, watch them. Find their softspot. If there's anything ever that they get more-than-usual-upset about, make note of it. Use it when you see fit. But really? There's a better way.
Make 'em laugh. If they can laugh about 1) what you retort and 2) that it basically didn't register with you (even though it did), they'll bug off. If someone says something about what you're wearing, say, "Yeah, maybe, but I still look sekseh as hell, hey?" and wink at 'em or something. Even if it's someone of the same sex. Actually, that works better cuz it creeps the hell out of them at the same time ;D.
My 'group' or whatever is like that. We're all who we want to be, no matter what. We're not the punk kids, or goth, or dirties or anything. We're just ... normal :p. In our group of, what, 6 or 7, we're ... uh ... EXTREMELY open, lol. If something's on our minds, we say it. My friends and I joke around all the time pretending to be gay just to see people's reactions :p.
Honestly. Live to amuse other people. Laugh about it, and possibly make them laugh. I'm not kidding. If you don't give them the satisfaction of a cocky response, and turn their idiotic comment into a joke (NOT aimed at them), they WILL feel stupid. Insignificant, even. Just my handful of cents...
Leonardo
7 Oct 2004, 4:41am
Yup, unfortunately, there are turdbirds like that at every high school. Some of them will grow up to become real people; some of them will remain camp followers all their lives. Just pity them - that they don't have a life of their own. If you think of them that way, they won't get under your skin as much.
Really now, someone that makes fun of you for your clothes - does such a person merit so much as three seconds of your brain time? In the long run, those morons will not control your success in life - only if you let them control you.
Side note:
People aren't mean, the ignorance that controls them is. I quite disagree. There are mean people in all walks of life. We all have uncivil/animal/natural impulses that are bad; the advantage of being human is that we usually are able to select how we react to our impulses.
bothered
7 Oct 2004, 8:35am
There was a master and a pupil. Somebody came to the master and started calling him all sorts of names and generally abusing him. The master didn't react other than just smile at them. After the person left the pupil asked the master why he didn't react, how a man of his high standing could just stand there and take all this from such a lowly person. The master answered "If you come to me with a preasent and I refuse it, who does it belong to?" The pupil said "it would still belong to me" "That's why I didn't accept his insults".
Wear the pants.
He is Thrax lite remember :D
I was a little younger than you are now but.....my mom was a single mother raising 3 kids, so clothes were bought on a budget. Sears used to have a house brand of jeans called TuffSkins, with a little plastic name brand patch on the back. While everyone else was in their Lee's (big leather patch, y'know?), Wranglers, Levi's, Calvin's, etc., I got rode hard for wearing Tuffskins. Did it hurt? sure. Does it matter today? Not even a little. Hadn't thought of it in 15 years until reading your thread. Ignore it, man. Tomorrow it'll be something different and every day something different again if they can see they are getting under your skin. High school is full of people blowing off steam from raging hormones they have no idea how to handle. Not reacting is best, unless you are prepared for physical confrontation - and there will always be more of them than you.
Be proud of your individuality. People will remember you well in the future for having the guts to do your own thing. Well, or they will remember you as 'that flake Jengo' ;) j/k man. Ignore them, for real.
Wow! I don't miss middle/high school one bit!
By the time I was a Junior in highschool, all this **** ended for me. Middle school was by far the worst when it came to the 'in-crowd' picking on everyone else about what they wore/said/did/breathed.
Jengo,
Get it out of your system while you can. Give them all frosty stares and tell them "coming from you bunch of backward-a$$ knuckle-draggers that's a compliment", or don't say anything at all, or immediately beat the absolute living LIFE outta the biggest one, or say" funny your girlfriend thought they looked cute on me last night, Jack"...
...Because when you get out of school, one of these mental midgets could be your boss. Then you are stuck lumping it.
After that I would have found something to pick on, I don't care if it was their dog that had recently died. The thing, is you got to hit them where it hurts. If they have a gap in their teeth, hammer on it. ......
If you can make them feel like a total piece of garbage then your job is done, they will not think to say anything to you anymore.
Clutch, you're exactly right man, that's what I did in high school and it's what I do now, if somebody says some stupid ass thing to me just to piss me off or get me down, I think of the nastiest most horribly personal thing to say to them and just say it, generally everybody around is so shocked including the person trying to give you **** that they don't say anything ever again cause they know they are just going to get bombed on.
It may sound mean, but, hey I'm not the one screwing with people in the first place, they just picked the wrong person to insult because I don't care what people think of me and I'll say whatever I'm thinking, even if it is pretty rotten, they brought it on themselves and maybe they'll think before opening their mouth next time because they don't want to be embarassed again.
I like entropy's advice a lot. I never had to be an ass back at anyone. Only in middle school was anyone really an ass anyway. If you just let the little things go with a laugh, they'll probably let it go too. Act like you don't feel like they're harassing you in a malicious way... instead you're just having fun, you understand where they're coming from, good joke, whatever, but look natural. Just be a nice guy. I don't make a big deal out of anything unless I decide it's really worth it.
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