(February 28, 2020 at 2:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(February 28, 2020 at 2:07 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Huge difference between friendly teasing and bullying.
Bullying is when people who don't like you pull down your pants on the HS field when you are in gym. Yes that happened to me.
Friendly teasing is when you pick up your friend at a hotel (HB) to pick him up on a holiday trip, and he opens the door and he is shirtless with a scary old man halloween mask on to startle you.
Jokes are fine when everyone knows the other who pulls one on you isn't trying to hurt you. Bullying is when the person doesn't like you and wants to humiliate you in a harmful context.
(February 28, 2020 at 2:28 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Boru, I am a hermit. I spend most of my time at home. But throughout my life, and even now, I can take a joke.
You'd have to live alone on another planet by yourself if you didn't know how to take a joke.
If I ran every time someone poked fun of ABBA, for example, I would have left this website a long time ago.
Teasing those you like is not a crime. Bullying is not the same thing as friendly teasing.
I never said it was a crime. I asked why you find doing these sorts of things to people who are ostensibly your friends funny. I ask again: Why is it funny?
Boru
The guy who came to visit me and I paid to go to Australia, Hillbilly Atheist, I have known since the early 2000s. We talk on an almost weekly basis on skype and pm each other constantly. When he opened the door to his hotel room with the mask on, my only thought was, "Really"?
If you are going to shit on any type of friendly humor, then you'd have to condemn my late mother too.
We once went to her Urologist's office. In the examination room, I noticed a proctology graphic on the wall. One with a doctor's latex gloved finger up the graphics ass. And all I could think at the time was, " I know it is need to know, but couldn't you simply bring it out to those who need to know"? I felt uncomfortable sitting next to my mom, staring at a graphic with a finger up an ass. So stupid me mentions this to my late mother. She laughed, but ever since then wherever we were, if I was teasing her, all she'd have to do to get me to shut up, was to wiggle her finger to my face.
Now, are you going to stupidly claim her teasing was mean?
