There are four main types of Bullies:

Physical Bullies
Physical bullies are action-oriented. This type of bullying includes hitting or kicking the victim, or, taking or damaging the victim's property. This is the least sophisticated type of bullying because it is so easy to identify. Physical bullies are soon known to the entire population in the school. As they get older, their attacks usually become more aggressive. These aggressive characteristics manifest themselves as bullies become adults.

Verbal Bullies
Verbal bullies use words to hurt or humiliate another person. Verbal bullying includes name-calling, insulting, making racist comments and constant teasing. This type of bullying is the easiest to inflict on other children. It is quick and to the point. It can occur in the least amount of time available, and its effects can be more devastating in some ways than physical bullying because there are no visible scars.

Relational Bullies
Relational or relationship bullies try to convince their peers to exclude or reject a certain person or people and cut the victims off from their social connections. This type of bullying is linked to verbal bullying and usually occurs when children (most often girls) spread nasty rumors about others or exclude an ex-friend from the peer group. The most devastating effect with this type of bullying is the rejection by the peer group at a time when children most need their social connections.

Reactive victims
Reactive victims straddle a fence of being a bully and or victim. They are often the most difficult to identify because at first glance they seem to be targets for other bullies. However, reactive victims often taunt bullies, and bully other people themselves. Most of the incidents are physical in nature. These victims are impulsive and react quickly to intentional and unintentional physical encounters. In some cases, reactive victims begin as victims and become bullies as they try to retaliate. A reactive victim will approach a person who has been bullying him/her and say something like, "You better not bug me today, otherwise I'll tell the teacher and boy, will you be in trouble, so you just better watch out."

Statements such as this are akin to waving a red flag in front of a raging bull, and may provoke a bully into action. Reactive victims then fight back and claim self defense. Reactive victims need to learn how to avoid bullies.

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crack pipe said:

	... lmfao
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June 08, 2009 6:12am
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cotts said:

	bully i was bully in school when i was in the 8th grade because i was dump not good in my school work
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July 30, 2009 6:30pm
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loot said:

	bully anyone know what kind of bully my friend is? He bully's other bullies... Si that even bully?ing
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August 30, 2009 9:51pm
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shroomie said:

	... haha
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October 05, 2009 10:33am
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Hurt said:

Bullying isnt funny Ive gone through being bullied i once was a bi standar, the victim ( More then anything else) and even the bully .... I say stop stand up to those who bully and show the bullied that really they only picked u because you have or they think u have a perfect life... because u can show the world ur smile and say i have a million reasons to smile and jus 3 reasons to cry... I say step in to help those in need did you know that there are 17 suicides everyday because of bullying and every 17 seconds someone tries... Honestly i think stop the suicide stop the bullies and stop the war then maybe just maybe we can fix the world inch by inch and we dont have to cry when we here about the poor countries or someone getting shot

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October 19, 2009 9:41am
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david stallard said:

	Bully You wanna kno what kinda bully i am if i get bullied imma bully back cus i dont play nd dat stuff aint funny forreal put dat in yo pipe nd smoke it
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November 10, 2009 10:53am
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Ashley said:

	ppl r mean ppl r mean if they want to hurt a nother human being and thats not right would you want some one to come up to u and push you down i think ppl like that need to get a life and go some where, where they r wanted cause if any one comes up to me like that i will hit them so hard that i will be the only last thing they will see, now put that in your pipe and smoke it booyah!!!!!!!!
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November 11, 2009 7:18am
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Derek Alvez said:

	What teh Eff Who is that retard above me?..... Kids now a days....
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November 23, 2009 3:13pm
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Chris Badman said:

	I was A Bully. 'I used to be a bully down secondary, school, cos i found it funny, even though bullying ppl was normal back then these days it's not allowed , i used to throw condoms, banana's apples at people because i just found it funny and a huge joke, these days things have changed around, i look so hot for a guy these days girls are just making me look like a hot knob..
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January 07, 2010 9:53pm
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sexygirl said:

	mean ppl if someone bully me wtf imma bully them back y wld I sit there and let some1 bully me while I sit there and CRY
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February 07, 2010 2:41pm
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Ashley said:

	Bullying People bully others all the time in my skool lmao
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March 01, 2010 4:17am
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maxine said:

	bullying i got bullied in the past and i no what it is like for those people thats my freind above me lol lmao
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March 01, 2010 4:20am
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Ashley said:

	HIIII!!!!!!!! Hi Maxine ^ /
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March 01, 2010 4:21am
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David said:

	BIG FAT BULLY!!!! I'm only ten and ever body is a bully on my bus only me nobody just me.
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March 18, 2010 5:42pm
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David said:

	... Its not funny!!!!
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March 18, 2010 5:44pm
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John said:

	Big Player Yo you no what bully I am, I'f somebody hurts me they get bully even i'f my friends get bully I stand up got it PLAYER!!!!!!
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March 24, 2010 5:24pm
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gfyhfgj said:

	sad sad
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March 28, 2010 8:50am
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Madeline said:

	Bulling isn't cool!!! I think that bulling is a huge issue and i'm happy that people are trying to stop it.
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March 30, 2010 5:26pm
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John said:

	? Now people are not doing athing at all, they just don't knowwhat to do
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April 04, 2010 7:46pm
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Devmi said:

Bullying You know just because you are a victim of bullying it doesn't mean you have to go for revenge like bully the person back have a heart! If you bully the person back it will come back to you it will just go on and on and on so why not end it right itin one place. Stand up to the bully instead of wiating and crying... Tell someone you know better than the bully so why suffer. If you knew better you wouldn't go and bully that person back you would stand up to yourself! I know the feeling of being bullying... so you decide after all it's your life not mine remember.

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April 06, 2010 8:33am
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MAXINE said:

	Bullying. I was bullied all through my life, hurt, laughed at, and I am seriously messed up. I cut myself, starve myself and might run away or kill myself. So no, guys, bullying is the worst thing you could ever do to a child, and children can be so cruel. I don' ever want to see another child bullied, and if I do, I am going to run.
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April 07, 2010 1:03am
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Jojo Bizarro said:

Root Cause of Bullying I know the feeling of being bullied, not just as a student but also as a teacher. I got bullied last week by a bunch of morons in a tenth-grade class. They were throwing pieces of chalk at me while I was trying to conduct a lesson, and while their serious classmates were trying to learn something. They only threw things when my back was turned, but I could see the ones who found it funny. Their names have been reported to the vice principal at my school, who in turn will inform their parents about what happened. Bullying in schools is the main reason why I oppose compulsory school attendance, a root cause of bullying. Bullies are ignorant and typically don't care about what's being taught in school and thus won't learn anything. Compulsory attendance therefore really has nothing good going for it. It has one major strike against it, though, namely that bullies involuntarily kept there in the classroom disrupt the classroom environment and interfere with the learning of those who go to school to actually learn something. It would open up a lot of doors to learning for those willing to learn if we teachers could just boot the morons out the classroom door.

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April 24, 2010 5:57am
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bubble_hehe! said:

	bullying i think bullying is wrong and bullies are stupid and not cool to me even if they try to be cool they are really not. and i think that physial bullying is wrong and it is wrong to do i think bulling should be stopped.
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May 11, 2010 5:04pm
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Every bully's worst nightmare said:

This just reflects societal subjugation The purpose of schools is not education, but systematized obedience-training from childhood in order to create a docile work-force population which does as it's told, an can't think for itself. After all, if your earliest childhood experiences are of being legally forced to go to a government education-center among strangers, regardless of how your rights are violated there, then clearly you're learning that individual rights really don't matter that much, and you're just supposed to tolerate any abuse that comes along, and "get used to it--" and feel indifferent or superior to anyone who complains. So basically, bullying is simply the end-product of a long-running political cause, and the best solution is for victims to take the matter to court immediately, since otherwise the schools won't do anything, since they know that they've got the kids basically as prisoners with no rights. Students have to learn that schools and faculty are NOT their friends, but their JAILERS- and schools ARE jails of a sort... for those who committed no crime. Ironically, however, prisoners have more rights than students.

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May 29, 2010 6:58am
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lolly said:

	bullying if your getting bullied take a bigger stand fully the f**kers back dnt have it thell soon enough back down x
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June 14, 2010 1:11am
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Yuor Face said:

	it is hilarious but its fun to bully stupid dumbasses!!!
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June 16, 2010 7:56am
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Bullied no more said:

Standing by is Just as Guilty I taught my son never to start a fight, but if someone started one with him, to always finish it. AND I taught him never to just stand by if someone else was being bullied. More than once the school suspending him for fighting. When I'd ask why, it would turn out he was defending some kid being picked on. So I'd make his suspension into a vacation -- we'd go out and do something unusually fun.

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July 23, 2010 3:58pm
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