On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:41, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 02:35:34PM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote: > > Why are you attending youth group meetings? > > The church my family goes to has a youth group for teenagers. My > parents decided that I need to socialize with kids my own age, so they > "suggested" (it was voluntary, but I figure resistance is futile) that > I join. So I did. *shrug* Is resistance truly futile? Perhaps you should resist and find out. > > > "ISP? What's that?" Someone seriously asked me that. "Computer > > > language? You mean you're learning how to talk to computers? How do > > > you talk to them?" *sigh* Those quotes from the future of > > > America... *rolls eyes* > > > > It's not sufficiently cool to know things like that. Hence, they don't > > know. When (if) they grow up and coolness loses its relevance, they'll > > grow more knowledgeable in that area, at least to the degree of knowing > > what an ISP is. > > Hmm... I hope so. If not... *shudder* Well, there will always be bums, but I suspect you won't have much contact with them later in life, unless you're a police officer. > > Amen. I'm glad at least some members of your gender have some degree of > > sanity. :P > > *grin* Yeah, well, my mom is trying to train me to be 'insane' > (normal) like that. Help! ;) (HHOS) She's not succeeding, is she? > Hmm... about 50/50 here-- 50% verbal, 50% physical. Still have a scar > on my leg where a boy kicked me in 6th grade, in fact. :( Ouch. Must have been pretty hard to leave a scar. > > because physical attacks generally failed. ;) I was still quite shy, > > though. Verbal abuse is much harder to defend against, and almost as > > effective. > > Definitely. You can duck a punch or throw someone off balance if > they're kicking you; there's not much you can say to a bully that'll > faze them, especially if you're not good at thinking on your feet > (like me). Try to lure bullies into close proximity with someone that's protective of you, preferably someone with authority, like a teacher you're on good terms with. Try to lead them all to the same individual every time. That way, that one person will be an eyewitness (earwitness?) to a lot of what you're taking, and your attackers are likely to get a firm ass-kicking once your protector gets fed up with it. > Besides, if you're bleeding, you at least have evidence that the > person actually did something to you. Just going to someone and > saying "so-and-so called me stupid" (or whatever) doesn't have as much > affect, you know? All too well... Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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