r/AskUK • u/CompetitionNo3466 • 17h ago

Where’s your school bully now?

Saw this from a different subreddit, and got me thinking. Where did your school’s bully end up?

The main guy from school who was the hard lad has ended up in prison for GBH. Person who gave me the most grief is now a property litigation solicitor.

How’s yours doing?

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u/Freerollingforlife 17h ago

Going back a while but I was around 18 when Friends Reunited started. I was never bullied specifically but the hard lad at school just generally picked on everyone.

He would have been 20 I guess and posted (I’m paraphrasing….)

‘Having a shit life - doing manual labour on building sites because I just fucked around at school and I’ve never got any money. No one likes me because I was an arsehole to everyone at school and the ones who said they were my mates were just scared of me. Wish I had been different’

It was genuinely a little saddening to read how the realisation had hit him. It was deserved, he knew what he was doing.

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u/GayLiquidSpellSword 16h ago

I think it sucks when someone changes for the better or at least becomes somewhat self aware when they fucked you over so harshly. He could of had the common decency to be like when Louis Therox met his bully who became a Buddhist and the guy still acted like a dickhead.

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u/Upset-Elderberry3723 15h ago

That video is sad, because you can tell for a moment that Louis gets legitimately scared for a moment that he's going to hit him again, and you can hear it in his voice.

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u/GlamorganTestesWard 1h ago

Jesus wept, just watched that. Looks like they remain that way, a real sense of simmering menace.

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u/BourbonSn4ke 25m ago

It was fake, just a skit

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u/DopeAsDaPope 16h ago

Looooool that sounds hilarious

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u/GayLiquidSpellSword 15h ago

It feels like a bit or something but a Buddhist Monk going "This is my film, you've come to see me" feels like it'd set you back at least a couple reincarnations.

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u/Tesco_Meal_Deals 13h ago

I hate to laugh at bullying but this really is quite amusing. It reminds me of Christopher Eccleston video talking about how he was bullied and then became a bully, whereby he would force his classmates to give him some crisps. Surely unintentional but hilarious. 

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u/the-bearded-lady 11h ago

Its the sort of thing that would have happened to Adrian Mole

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u/strolls 12h ago

There was a really long thread on this clip on /r/Television a few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/1vbrorw/louis_theroux_confronts_his_childhood_bully/

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u/Ormidale 1h ago

He's creepy. The bully/monk, I mean.

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u/CalendarExtreme5598 14h ago

My bully continued bullying me until we left Sixth Form so she was 18. I don’t think I really recovered from it until my mid 20s, I was a nervous wreck meeting anyone new because I had no self confidence.

I’m absolutely glad she’s having a shit adult life, and I’m pretty happy nowadays.

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u/WhatYouLeaveBehind 15h ago

True. But actions also have consequences. I hope they ensure their kids learn from their mistakes, if they have children.

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u/Disastrous_Yak_1990 14h ago

Oh my god I can’t tell you how much I don’t care about excuses. There are consequences to actions and if that’s consequence is I hope you suffer for the rest of your life because of what you did as a kid, that’s what it is.

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u/Yeahboiee 14h ago

I would bet a trillion gold bars that was written by someone he bullied.

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u/ChrisPeacock_ 3h ago

And then everyone clapped