When someone calls me a POS or similar...

I always think "What if they're right?"

so be gentle with me

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Wrong response... you should say "Why, thank you Chief POS". It takes one to know one - and most name calling tends to be a bully projecting their own insecurities onto you rather than something about you.

Matt85 · 36-40, M

@HootyTheNightOwl youre awesome

HootyTheNightOwl

@Matt85 I wouldn't go that far, but I have seen enough of bullying to realise how it works now.

JamesBugman

In school we always used to say "I know you are, but what am I?"

HootyTheNightOwl

@JamesBugman Our version of this was

I know you are, you said you are, but what am I?

Did you use exactly the same one or was yours slightly different to ours???

I find subtle differences in how we do the same thing fascinating to learn about...

JamesBugman

@HootyTheNightOwl My quote was accurate for up here, but I am sure others expanded on it. :)
The other way to deal with it was to keep saying What?, no matter how often they repeated it. haha

HootyTheNightOwl

@JamesBugman Yeah, I believe that it changed from school to school in some cases, too, I'm sure my step dad told me a slightly different version of the same thing - and the way that he was different to us (besides being older) was that he attended different schools in the same town.

I think it was from talking to him that I developed my interest in how we all do the same things in different ways.

Hahaha "What???" was a good one... I got a couple of children caught bullying by adults with that one.

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