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Stupid things you were made fun of for as a kid

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Silly jokes about my enjoyment of Radiohead's music. As an adolescent culture back then, if you didn't listen to punk or Eminem then you were a hobo. I think this was just prior to Kid A being released too.

However I still remember less than a year ago being asked who my favourite bands were and I stated Radiohead were near the forefront, and the person asking me said "geez, but they're pretty mainstream aren't they?"

Lovely how the world revolves.
 
Ya, I try to forget that stuff. Anyway, the list is far too long.


Oh, but here's the extra annoying part:

Videogames - Got made fun of for liking then. They're popular now.

Computers - Got made fun of for liking then. They're popular now.

Comics/Manga/Anime - Got made fun of for liking then. They're popular now.

I'm too bitter now to take advantage of the current/passing popularity of all that.
 
I used to get made fun of because I never wore the name brand expensive clothes and shoes. I used to hate it at the time, but halfway through high school I stopped giving a damn.
 
-I have long eyelashes. Good thing girls love(envy) them!
-I didn't wear a ton of name brand clothes, by choice.
-I still catch shit from co-workers for playing videogames. Some people really never do grow up.
 
Fenderputty said:
Being tall .... a lot.
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Same. Being VERY tall, smart kid who wore glasses and sucked at basketball.

Do your own math on that one. Toss in art talent to finish out the bouquet of akwardness.
 
Listening to Iron Maiden/Guns n Roses/Pantera etc and having long hair were probably the stupidest things I got abuse for - also, not listening to Drum & Bass or Garage automatically lumped me in with the goths and grunge kids, and then later with shitty nu-metal fans.
 
Dipper145 said:
Most of these aren't stupid things people make fun of you for, but normal things to make fun of people for.
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Really?! Are you kidding me?
So...what were the things you used when you made fun of people?
Edit: The point is, it's stupid to make fun of someone for any of the reasons listed...
"You don't wear Abercrombie and Fitch? Loser..." <- Yep, that's not dumb at all.
 
Door2Dawn said:
I was made fun of(mainly by black kids) for sounding like a white person when I talk. It really made talking to other kids very difficult for me.
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I've heard this before in various threads here for various reasons, what the hell does it mean to sound like a white person when you talk. All I can think of is that they expected you to sound like whatshisface in Tropic Thunder.
 
My two front teeth got knocked out when I was 7-ish, so for a while I had a gap there. Then when they did grow in, I had buck teeth for the longest time.
 
I think one of the things that saved me a lot of pain was that even though I was freakishly tall for my age, and white, and surrounded by black kids (grew up in hood), my elementary school had this set of basketball hoops that were set much lower than normal ones. And I was the only one that could drunk that shit. Sure I was this freakish nerdy white boy but I could dunk a basketball? Shiiiieeeeeeeeet, I was like a god to them.
 
Wormdundee said:
I've heard this before in various threads here for various reasons, what the hell does it mean to sound like a white person when you talk. All I can think of is that they expected you to sound like whatshisface in Tropic Thunder.
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It means that you speak proper English.

"There's nothing in there" instead of "Ain't nuttin in 'nere"

When I got older, it was pointed out a lot to me that I spoke "like that" (although I don't recall ever being teased or made fun of for it).

The ONLY thing I can remember being made fun of was when I wore glasses back in kindergarten. They were really big back then and I would have made fun of me, too :lol It only lasted a day, though
 
I called my grandmother "gabba" until I was ten years old. When some classmates found out they would always flap their arms and act like a chicken in front of me.
 
Grade School

Being fat and short
Having crooked teeth
Being smart and in "gifted" programs
Misspelling "pyramid" due to nervousness/shyness at a spelling bee.

Jr High/High

Being a nerd
Being into video games - played my GBA at lunch
Playing Magic the Gathering
Being fat
Having crooked teeth.
Being smarter than the stuck up cheerleaders (they are ruthless bitches, had a class project with a few of them once...)
 
In elementary school, these kids called me a bug for some reason. I really didn't care, but some teacher thought they were being racist and made us go to a peer mediation thing. After that they made fun of me for telling on them, even though I didn't say anything.

Then in middle school, people called me Token because I was one of the few Black kids in our grade.

In high school, no one gave me shit.
 
I used to have short hair and when I was 2 I had smashed my face against a brick damagin my teeth.

I was called Buck teeth no hair. Then, I grew up and was taller than most of the so called bullies. My teeth got straightened, my hair grew out. No one has dared try to bully me again. =)

Childhood can be a hard time, thank fuck being an adult is awesome.
 
Being african. Got called ridiculous names like African bushboogie or African bootyscratcher. Where the fuck did hey come up with this shit? Pretty much led to me becoming a dickhead in middle school and making fun of everyone. Honestly, there were probably about 20 people who dreaded coming to school back in middle school because of me.
 
Liking Pokemon and video games. My group of friends and I were the only gamers most of my grade school, it didn't really become socially acceptable to game until Halo 2 came out.
 
In first grade we made hand puppets out of brown lunch bags and paper cutouts of Chicken Little. We needed to color in the CL drawing first. I made mine red, and every kid gave me shit for it. I remember being really upset about that and my mom later on was just like "fuck them, if you want a red chicken, have a red chicken", so from then on I just did my thing the way I thought was right.

27-28 years later, neogaf has bjork. Don't you feel lucky?
 
My mom

In primary she would come pick me up and yell my name in her thick greek accent, and afterwards other kids would mimic it
 
This thread has made me realize that I actually wasn't made fun of that much... at least not to my face. Then again, maybe I'm just repressing all those bad memories :lol
 
Pancho said:
For crying a fucking lot for my mother, everyday at 3pm, thought I was gonna be left at school or something, it still mentioned sometimes and it sucks, left me with a fear of crying of sorts, couldn't even be able to cry at my grandpa's funeral last year even though I really fucking wanted to =(
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To be fair, that is pretty funny.
 
I have a dermoid (skin) patch on my right eye that, as a kid, essentially made me blind in my right eye. I had to wear a patch over my left eye to force my brain to use my right and make it better. When my family moved to Maryland right before third grade, not only was I the new kid, I was the new kid with that thing on his eye! Funny thing is now there are people who I've known for 2-3 years that haven't even noticed it :lol
 
Having darker skin than most (Still happens sometimes actually), getting good grades on spelling tests, not having fashionable shoes.
 
In highschool I wore khaki cargo pants pretty much every day. I wasnt poor really. My logic was that cargo pants never fade like jeans and they also tend to be cheaper. I havent worn cargo pants since.
 
Got made fun of for being in remedial classes. Got the typical "retard" and "sped" names a lot. Well assholes, guess who has a degree from university while you're all in jail!
 
When I got glasses, this one girl who was my friend (although we kinda alternated between friends and enemies back then) started calling me four-eyes. She had gotten glasses more than a year before I did :lol

Also, I would get seriously (seriously, no joke) made fun of because of my height. I'm 6'2" now, which is above average but nothing super-special, but from pre-K to 6th grade I was like a fucking titan standing next to anyone else anywhere near my age (or a bit older). The thing was, both of my grandfathers were tall men (6'2") and so is my father (same height) so I figured they were just jealous or something (I'd always been proud of my height, still am). It didn't stop me from beating the shit out of kids though. I had a really short temper back then.
 
Some changed my last name to "Odyssey". Doesn't really sound similar, and it was a pretty weak insult.

The guy who coined it ended up in jail. :lol

I also made an enemy of one kid 'cause he cut in front of me in the lunch line.
"You snooze, you lose." He said.
I just walked past him while he was spacing out, got my lunch first anyway.
"Hey! What happened?"
I said, "you snoozed."

After that, he'd try to punch me in the hallway.
 
Frester said:
I have a dermoid (skin) patch on my right eye that, as a kid, essentially made me blind in my right eye. I had to wear a patch over my left eye to force my brain to use my right and make it better. When my family moved to Maryland right before third grade, not only was I the new kid, I was the new kid with that thing on his eye! Funny thing is now there are people who I've known for 2-3 years that haven't even noticed it :lol
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I'm surprised kids didn't call you a pirate or something (which would be pretty funny) :lol
 
lordmrw said:
Being african. Got called ridiculous names like African bushboogie or African bootyscratcher. Where the fuck did hey come up with this shit? Pretty much led to me becoming a dickhead in middle school and making fun of everyone. Honestly, there were probably about 20 people who dreaded coming to school back in middle school because of me.
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Holy shit I remember that name too..... it must have been a nation wide used term?
 
Kids are such assholes.
Pointy ears.
Being short.
Not wearing name brand clothes.
And because my dad committed suicide. Apparently that is a reason to make fun of someone. :/

It makes me feel good inside that the kid who told everyone about my dad is now a drug addict. Asshole made me cry every single day of elementary school. Karma?
 
smonster said:
Kids are such assholes.
Pointy ears.
Being short.
Not wearing name brand clothes.
And because my dad committed suicide. Apparently that is a reason to make fun of someone. :/

It makes me feel good inside that the kid who told everyone about my dad is now a drug addict. Asshole made me cry every single day of elementary school. Karma?
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I dunno, at least he gets to be happy when he's high. Not really revenge unless he ODs.
 
I liked Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles rather than 50 cent and eminem. The only rap I liked was Outkast.

I also got made fun of for playing video games.
 
When I was a kid I saw this documentary on elephants, and I saw some close up shots and noticed that elephants have sparse amounts of hair. I retained this knowledge and used it to make an elephant drawing I did when I was 5 more 'realistic'. Well, I went home and showed it to my parents, they showed it to my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, etc. Everyone laughed at it, and it made me feel horrible. I eventually ripped up the picture because I didn't wanna be laughed at anymore.

Later on, I find out I had pretty much drawn what resembled a hairy cock. I wish I still had that drawing.
 
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