I was bullied pretty extensively from about 4th grade (the first time I remember being teased about watching cartoons, fucking really?) to about freshman year. I tend to believe a lot of it had to do with the color of my skin...somewhat olive due to my Portuguese heritage. I was seriously the "darkest" person in my entire school and I was made very aware of it everyday by my peers. I've heard just about every racial slur imaginable. The thing about my school was it was K through 12 in one building, so you went to school with the same group of people forever. Its in a small farming community and there were 85 kids in my graduating class. I actually had an ARCH NEMESIS, which looking back on was pretty fucking rad and may one day serve as inspiration to write a novel or screenplay about. Who knows?
The worst instance of bullying I endured was when said nemesis and a few of his cronies hit me over the head with a textbook (Yikes!) and the next thing I remember is being yelled at by the middle school principal while laying in a trash can in the girl's restroom. I nearly got suspended for that. Oh, and there was the time some kids just embarrassed me to the point I started crying and the substitute teacher joined in the subsequent laughter. I would later in life slash that guy's tires after a chance encounter where he pulled into the parking space next to mine as I was about to leave and it just became an instinctual reaction to do so.
I think the biggest problem I had was that none of my teachers or the administration wanted to hear about it. Our guidance counselor was supposed to be the sympathetic ear but told me not to tattle tale on anyone. There just wasn't any support system for me or the other kids.
concert_addict REQUEST
The moment Andy pops into Ron's office behind Rob Lowe. It's so subtle but I nearly choke on my pizza because of the lulz it created.
I know, right? There's this other 12 year-old making the web-rounds because he's challenging Einstein's theory of relativity and being offered a research position at a university, yet he also does stuff any kid would like play Halo even though its rated for Mature audiences. Granted he's got a 170 IQ, but that just kind of proves a point that when it comes to this kind of thought process it ain't S-M-R-T, smart.
Better make sure the bags of garbage and beer cans get to the landfill and not some ditch in the country. We don't want the police backtracing an errant piece of junk mail with our parents' address on it to us and fine us for littering AND get us grounded.*
*True Monster Confessions
Yeah, let's just say I have a little cousin who Liz Lemon would call a future stripper because if her name and it's hard for me to say it without laughing at family functions.
If you apply the tenacity for organization you have for this weblog to raising a little lady, I don't think you will have much of a problem in the poppa department, Wert.
BITTERSWEET REALIZATION: This means that tenacity will no longer be able to be applied here and that is a NET LOSS for us.
I've been waiting patiently. I've had my exotic oils and incense laid out since Monday. Today is going to feel so good, you don't even know you guys. We are about to get worked-over, given "the business" if you will. The Master Monster has been given the keys.
As a pilot episode it was pretty bad.
I did like the "dramatic exit music bit" and it kind of shows that the two dudes (really don't remember their names) have the most chemistry of the cast right out of the gate. If they spend most of the time focused on them and less time trying to be a 30 minute Parenthood it might be a watchable programme.
We Hoosiers tend to do that to any perceived "backwoods" area of the state:
Jay County = Jaytucky
Kendallville* = Kendalltucky
Etc., etc.
*For good reason, this is really Methtucky, USA.
As I commented on the Buzzfeed thread but will probably be more appreciated here:
This is a perfect microcosm of race relations in Indiana. We have the guy who doesn't think it is at all harmful to sell reproductions of clearly racist soap packaging. He may very well not be racist himself, but in a round about way not thinking there is anything racist about them is definitely not the correct thing. Then we have the reporter completely overcompensating for the mistakes of past generations in regards to race. It's then a VERY SAFE bet to make that neither side has friends/non-work acquaintances that are non-white. That's Indiana.
From the article it seems as though the writing staff wasn't utilized enough of the time to warrant keeping them on the payroll, which leaves more money for zombie effects.
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