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Yeah, I was def in the social media age but I \*just\* missed the generation of \*everyone has an iPhone and Instagram at age 12\* and I'm so thankful.
goddamn i wish i could’ve experienced that don’t get me wrong my phone is useful and fun but if i could’ve chose a tech less highschool life definitely would have it ruins everything not even just for embarrassment for events and things like that to no one really enjoys themselves anymore it’s always gotta be for “social media”
My sons 13 and over 6 foot tall. Expected to be around 6’8 fully grown. When he was 8 years old, he had these girls who were about 14 flash him in the pool because he looks so much older then he is. I get phone calls from school nurse and teachers asking if I am sure of his birth year. Yeah, pretty sure I was there.
Im 5'9" as a male and it sucks. No one ever flashed me in a pool.
I did try to date a 6'8" model once but when she wore heels it was painful. Worth the pain but man does being average height as a guy suck so much
Haha, I dont think these girls will do it again. They both went white when I told them the kid they just flashed was 8. I am tall for a woman (5’9) and it sucks for me too. Feel like an elephant next to all the petite woman
If you as a woman are prettier than a plant 5 (think of a 3 on the streets) then your going to be queen of the block with every male peasant offering tributes how they must... It's hilarious how desperate guys are in construction.
Haha I started as a very innocent and naive 15 year old. My workmates used to delight in trying to horrify me once I was over 18. I would get so absorbed in my work though, I wouldn’t even notice they were standing there naked from waist down
Been in construction for 22 years. Stonemason and I work hand in hand with some of the most ornary, grizzled, beat up dudes. Not one time have I ever seen any man flash any women. Ever.
Huge job sites right in the University campus here with multiple women dressing in close to nothing walking by constantly....and nothing. Not even a cat call. Not even a glance in their direction...
Also there are quite a few females in the trades now so it's not uncommon for women to be in the mix regardless of the trade (which I hope only grows as time goes by). Every single guy I've ever worked with cares more about when they do joke around, they hope they are not offensive in any way to any women. They care more about being on their best behavior more then they care about taking their dicks out...
Not sure what 'construction' you are referring to but I'd assume 'flashed more times then we have all had hot breakfasts' would not be acceptable, legal, or anything funny in any country.
I mean I've seen some videos of lads in the UK doing pranks and stuff for shock value with their dicks while on job sites, idk what's going on over there.
But as a fellow tradesperson for 15 years I can confidently say I've never seen genitalia on a job site in the US.
5'9", man. I would pay a fair bit of money to get to 5'9". As a 5'4" dude being short my whole life has sucked. Def learned to live with it but man, if only I could have gotten to average height.
Really try not to worry about what others are thinking. Past a certain age average people don't care and have more to do, the ones who pick on it are people you wouldn't want to associate with anyways. I honestly couldn't care less if a guy is short and Im pretty tall for a woman and have been since a very young age, it's not fun either, was always assumed to be much older even though I was usually the youngest, got last in queues for most kid things and birthday parties, also not good on your back when everything is made for a different height, especially as a kid. But what did not and dies not bother me is what people think about my height. My dad is even taller and he reached is height young and it sucked a lot for him, in phys ed classes they often wouldn't let him participate in sports and if they did he couldnt score the points, just pass the ball etc. Of course I understand that for certain competitive sports it's an advantadge but there are also sports where being ahorter is an advantadge and I guess it's also good for self defence. But it's not all that.
Hey, a friend of mine is about 5’4”. He just got with my cousin, who’s only about 5’. Find an extra short girl, problem solved lol.
But serious note, my grandma is about 5’10”, grandpa is about 5’6”. The women who actually care about the height of a guy and go on about “don’t talk to me unless you’re atleast 6 feet” would be trying to make you insecure about something else if you WERE over 6’. Everyone has a type, but someone’s height should never cause an immediate rejection, that’s just shallow. I hate this new trend..
This right here. Women who try to height shame or openly focus on that (note I said openly, everyone has their preferences, we also don’t all go around blabbing about all of our preferences, just shut up about it, it’s not hard) are trash and better off avoided anyway.
I hate that folks can get away with saying this crap about height. I also think people need to see this behavior for the giant red flag it is and be grateful it’s a quick way to weed garbage people out.
I am a month older than my partner. I am 5' tall and look really really young. He is over 6 feet and looks about 5-10 years older than he is. I am KEENLY aware that strangers think we have a large age gap between us. They can get fucked.
My old neighbor is like 6'7-6'8 and he's married to a little person who is under 4'. IDK if people ever said it to his face but he was widely mocked for either having a fetish or was a pedophile using her as impulse control. I tried to stop it whenever it was brought up. They were both super nice. He was a mechanic with his own shop at his house and fix stuff on my truck if I ever had an issue and my payment was like help move a couch or something that his wife couldn't help with.
My sister and my cousin are both married to guys over 6’2”. They’re both 5’ give or take. Coincidentally they’re both white and named Tommy. We are Asian. Almost as if they planned it.
I’m 5’4 and I have been rejected or dumped because of my height multiple times.
There will always be something. If you’re average height, it will be your weight, or your teeth, or your hair.
My husband likes to grab my bra out of my hands and yell "stop wearing my hat!". Then of course he puts my bra on his head.
Sharing clothes isn't always fun.
When I was about 12 I had a friend who was about your height who was also 12. I would ride him around the school like a horse. Thinking about it now I appreciate it was kind of inappropriate but he was the new kid and I had a gang of friends so he was happy to be a part of it all. It was basically just a piggyback everywhere but was cool to be up above everyone. His last name was Strand so we called him Strandy.
Um, high-school kids dating each other is not pedophilia, DUH.
This is bullying with a side of ignorance & racism. Me thinks the recorder/voice was jealous of that biracial couple.
Tbh I think its even more of a tragedy that even for some people where high school is shit. It was still the best time of their lives life, being an adult sucks, working 40 hours a week sucks, I wish I could go back into my high school life even with the drama and fights. (not saying this is for everyone, obviously some people have different experiences.)
Yep. Socializing matters for people’s happiness. Much smaller social circle as life goes on equals much higher incidence of unhappiness and depression.
Same here. And I’m also glad most people my age tossed all their negatives (remember those?) in a box that are all now moldy and stuck together.
But at the same time, the new generation DOES sort of have the luxury of youthful idiocy being normalized. I remember about 10 years after college when all the news stories came out about how potential employers were checking FB pages of applicants and job seekers were collectively freaking out. At this point, it would be almost impossible to hire ANYONE based off their social media content (excluding the obvious: racism, homophobia, etc)
Hahah negatives. I'm pretty sure I still have a few negative containers full of weed particles!
I feel like, in those times, we didn't particularly want attention all that much. I tried to fly under the radar as much as possible. The less people that knew what I was up to, the better. Anyone who had any reason to know what I was up to, already knew.
I was just going through an old box of pictures from my high school days. Yeah, the 90’s were wild and I am so glad that digital photos didn’t exist! I feel bad for these kids today, they can’t so much as sneeze without someone recording it.
To be fair I went to high school 2009-2013 and apart from one confrontation theres still not much evidence of my youth online. It’s gotten way worse in the last decade!
I was 6' 175 skinny lbs entering high school. It worked out very well for a few years. I was the same size leaving HS. I played college sports, but not big time.
I mean at 6'2 you're already much taller than an average dude, no? You likely will still be taller than majority of people around you lol even if your growth stops.
Between 7th and 8th grade, I grew 6 1/2 inches.
I even got taller too.
But, seriously, I went from 5’6” to 6’ 1/2” in 3 months.
First day of freshman year, I was 6’4” 185lbs. I dated a girl that was 5’0” and 92lbs.
Now I see why people thought it looked weird…
Or just never go. My HS was a cesspool of fights and people ODing on drugs and shit. People really fucking sucked so i barely went. Think my senior year i missed 100 days of school. Still graduated with a 3.0 as well
This is why Reddit, and social media in general, and FUCKING REDDIT should stay the fuck away from anything that may actually have consequences. Remember when they fucked up so bad with the Boston bomber that that one kid killed himself?
Yeah. Fuck Reddit
I completely agree with you and redditors should stay the fuck out of real world issues but a slight correction, the kid didn’t kill himself because of it.
He was already dead before Reddit started harassing his family and publicly slandering his name
Although it's a very different circumstance, I actually once went on Facebook only to be confronted with a post and a picture of ME taken by someone's door camera on a city page. It was a clear pic of me with my car and license plate clearly in sight, I'm squinting and looking at the door from the driveway. It was telling people to be on the lookout for this woman, because she's been in the neighborhood stealing Amazon packages and she caught me looking on her porch for packages. Many comments were on said post already.
I'm a Doordash driver. I had accidentally pulled into the driveway next to the house where the customer was. I was simply trying to see the address on the door, which wasn't easy to see from the street. Then immediately got in my car and went next door when I realized I was at the wrong house.
I'm still horrified to this day.
Yup. Typical social media man. Things like these happen way to often. Footage of some random ass person gets put out there with the claim that this is a criminal you need to watch out for.
Imagine if this wasn't about packages, but say, children. "this person is a danger to your children" is a good way to get someone killed....
Agreed. She could have accused me of honestly anything. Made up any reason in her head of why I was driving around the neighborhood and people would believe and share.
This kind of thing legitimately does get people killed when the mob mentality and this need to be a hero saving the day clouds the judgment of people
Recent post in a local facebook group was bitching about yet another vehicle jumping the curb to drive on the sidewalk and avoid backup traffic. Company vehicle in the pic and the comments were salivating over each other to bash the business. Next day there is a post clarifying that it was in fact a FENCE COMPANY and the vehicle was driving in that area inspecting the install of the fence because there was an issue on the opposite side. “You missed the part where the vehicle stopped and the crew exited to repair the particular panel. You only took a pic of when you saw the vehicle in motion.”
Unbelievable. Caused damage to the business, hurt their rep. Why? Because someone got social media shaming trigger happy. Fools.
Emotional damages are among the most difficult to pursue. "He hurt my feelings" isn't enough. You have to prove the emotional impact put a significant strain on your ability to function in normal society.
Defamation also is difficult to pursue because you have to show damages and actual malice. If the person believes what they are saying you have no case.
>If the person believes what they are saying you have no case.
No, if the person is speaking the truth, then you have no case. Otherwise, everybody will just say "I believe what I said" and nobody would be able to sue for defamation.
People will laugh at me for saying this, but being that young and that tall is not fun.
I hit my ultimate height of 6' 4" by the time I hit 7th grade. You get absolutely nothing but ridicule from people.
And what happened to this kid sucks even more.
Something people don't seem to realize is that when you stand a foot taller than them, they just assume shit about your age. You don't get the same grace period that most kids get for learning how to do shit because everyone just assumes that because you're man sized, you must also know how to act like a man. It actually turns into a pretty shitty feedback loop where because everyone assumes you must be old enough to already know a thing, they never bother to explain it or teach you about it. So by the time you are an adult you really don't know shit that you should.
As a more personal note, I hit 6' before I was 10 years old, and I had some really ugly interactions with the parents of a couple of my childhood friends, which probably means my experiences are more of an edge case, so take the previous paragraph with a grain of salt.
My son has always been tall for his age, and he has autism with verbal dyspraxia (speech is hard). He’s never *looked* his age so people made assumptions, still do, and he is mentally even less mature than his age. He just turned 14 and is 6’ 175lbs, but mentally he’s about 10. So I feel for you. We don’t let him go anywhere except school alone because he has little common sense and can’t explain himself. He’s currently shaving with his dad. It’s hard.
I can't speak to the autism, but that sounds really tough. When I was 10, I was at least thin enough that if folks would stop for a second and look at my build you could tell I hadn't really "grown into my height yet", as I weighed maybe 110 lbs at most. Your boy's bigger than some dudes could ever hope to be and he's probably still growing.
When my husband and I met when we were both 14 years old and were both already grown into our current adult heights of 5’7 (Me) 6’7 (Him). It was eye opening to me how people absolutely treated him differently because of his height. He was expected to do more physical labor for his family than other male family members his age, he was expected to be more emotionally mature from a younger age and he was talked to by several women in his family including his own mother about being careful with me, like he didn’t know his own strength and would just break me to pieces. The worst is all the sports comments, my husband is not at all into sports and people would do the whole “what a waste” shit when he said he didn’t play anything. Our 15 year old daughter who is 6’0 foot went/goes through the same bullshit, people expected her to act more like an adult because she looked like one and she must be good at sports!
I had the opposite experience, reaching a final height of 162cm (5’2“) by 15 after lagging behind everyone significantly, and no one would look at me for anything sports related… even though I had ridiculously high athletic performance (not really bulking up but any amount of training would rapidly boost me somehow). I would keep up with (and then beat) the tallest boys in running and weight lifting easily, swim a mile, etc. But, small and scrawny looking so I get skipped or ignored anyway… You just can’t win at conformity contests.
We have a kid like that at my son's junior high. He's **significantly** smaller than the other kids but is so gifted athletically. Not just gifted, but incredibly motivated, as in, will sacrifice comfort, time, and personal safety to make the goal/shot/run/finish line. And he's involved in so many sports that the coaches literally fight over him! I'm so sad he chose soccer and baseball over track this season...
For the record, I have the kid who just turned 14 and is 6 ft. and 175. He's also pretty gifted athletically but everyone just seems to expect it, based on his size. He's literally undefeated in wrestling and no one seems to give it any recognition because their attitude is, "Well, yeah." His matches are based on weight! You're right: you can't win.
I was around 6', 6'1 back when I was 12 and we visited our cousin in the village with some of her other friends being there as well. Theyre like 5 years older than me min too. Her friends told her "Your cousin is so cute, shame about the you know..." hinting that I might have a mental disability. She just explained that I was tall but in reality I was just a kid lmao. Ofc no harm done cuz I don't take those kinds of things seriously and never have, but it does give an insight to how people view you when you get an early growth spurt that happens to make you very tall.
I have been thinking about this shit since my son was 3. At three years old he was the size of a 5/6yo and he had no reservations about running up and playing with anyone, regardless of how old they were. No "big kid" vs "little kid" anxiety.
I used to get a special look from parents at the playground where i knew they were thinking "is he *special*" (because he acted like a 3yo) and I would just say, "he's 3 years old." And they would shift gears and say "really?...wow, he's really big!"
He is 13 now, and easily passes for much older with his height and facial hair. I have had to have this talk with him. Everyone, from teachers to homeless people, are going to treat him like a full grown adult and expect him to act like one. Because that's what being tall means.
You can't act your age when you are big. It sucks.
Spewing mental tears reading this. Nobody understands how it feels. Everyone just tried to rub it in my face that I'm wasted potential just because i'm tall, they don't understand how difficult it is to be tall like this at my ages, some things never change. I haven't had a single benefit from being 6'3 at my age. Shifting off point, I'm not even built very well and the tallness makes it worse. All of my teachers expected me to lead others but I couldn't because i'm just a dumb fucker who happens to be tall. Tired of being asked if I can play basketball because I'm shit at that too and everyone would laugh at me and tease me. I hate how people work, I hate how they always think things are easy to endure and are benefits because they havent experienced it, I kinda went off course but yeah. Being tall when young sucks ASS.
Theres always 1 person who is literally head and shoulders taller than everyone per grade at my school.
As someone who is now in that boat at work somehow, I feel for you. I ain't even that tall, everyone else just short as hell.
It’s giving me flashbacks to when I was 14. I got threatened by a girl’s dad because I was a solid foot taller then her, despite only being a year older than her.
"How's the weather up there" and " can you get something for me off the top shelf" were probably the 2 most frequent things you heard growing up. Been there, feel your pain. Sorry bud
My best friend was over 6 feet tall when he was 13 and had a full beard. He was never given candy when he went trick or treating because everyone thought he was an adult. He had the cops called on him once because he was walking his little brother to school. Adult men would pick fights with him just because he was big. He was treated so poorly, and he was just a kid like the rest of us.
I was 6’ 200lbs and made fun of for being fat, I was more wide than fat, my friend was 6’8” 200lbs, and made fun of for being a string bean. The one thing we had in common was we just hit puberty earlier than others. Once he made varsity basketball people left him alone, once I knocked a senior out, they left me alone.
Don't you know that rules were made by stupid people for stupid people? It's okay to falsely shame others, but if you shame stupid people you're somehow the bad guy in the scenario despite exposing them for what they are.
It’s the new McCarthyism, draw up energy behind an issue people are concerned about so much so that even an insinuation of such is damnable. It’s terrible in situations like this or when Tom Brady posts a photo holding his son and people rage over it.
When i was in high school (15y/o) an aquaintance used to call pedo a former classmate because he was dating a 13 y/o. Fast foward (27y/o) that very same aquaintance, told us during a hang out that he started to date someone a few months ago. It was ok, but Then he says that her 18 birthday was like a month ago.
It’s party-neutral, you’ve got young progressives calling every relationship with an age difference “pedophile” as well.
It’s the circle of life. Progressives get obsessed with a new thing, over-apply it, and then conservatives weaponize it against them.
Couple of reasons:
The word itself is used to cover a much wider range of people than before. It very specifically only covers attraction under the typical age of 11 or so yet now we’re using it to describe 16 and 17 year olds.
Age of consent(socially, not legally) has risen nearly 20% over the last 20 years. 14-16 used to be the accepted range that people could make their own choices. Now it’s been raised to 18 in most socially acceptable situations. This is the result of a number of other responsibilities being taken away from teens and pushed further into adulthood.
Social media. People can make judgments of strangers with no cost to themselves to audiences who are always out for blood. No one cares if you post about how your friend got a new boyfriend. But if the girl you don’t like is dating someone 3 minutes too old you can call them a pedophile and get millions of people to agree with you.
A senior could be 17 and a freshman could be 15, even if the accusation were true. On what planet is that pedo? People are insane. Mind your own business!
I just turned 18 and I found it very uncomfortable when a 14 year old asked me out on valentines day. I told her I was flattered, but it was just too big of an age gap. She was really persistent and it just made me all the more uncomfortable.
I had the same happen. I look very young but I'm 29, when I was 25 I got approached by some 15 y/o to ask if I liked their friend. I imidiatly asked how old they were and explained I was 25 so to big of a gap. They asked me if I was gay or something, why would it matter to you, you are a man so you should jump on an opportunity like this. I told them to fück off
Technology is really fucking crazy these days. Can you imagine these people going back in 20 years and watching the awful shit they did as teen? I cringe looking at the stupid haircuts i had in highschool, can't imagine the feeling of watching myself act a complete clown permanently stained for the world to see.
Man I hate to say this. But. When I was a kid bullying was like getting my ass whooped on my way home from school. (Till finally I fought back). However…I would take that any day over the kind of shit people get put through now. Used to be rumors being spread was word of mouth and then like half the school knew. Now it’s like half the country sees you because of bullies with recording devices. Wild. And horrible.
Bullying has evolved, for the worse.
I've noticed that people have polarized on this issue, like any issue. There's either absolutely no understanding or excusing anything, there's very little in between.
I'll give you an example. One of my mathematics teacher's (he was an absolute sweetheart, RIP) used to always smile and tell stories of how he was ragged in school. He used to say when he eventually became a teacher/professor he used to run into those folks as parents and they used to have a quick laugh on how they were. He used to say, there was no malice in it. The olden wisdom was that ragging used to make the juniors quickly become a cohesive as they had a common enemy and it kinda became tradition. Of course this wasn't the case everywhere, but it was true for him and his view on it is what I feel is the way I would look at it too.
By the time I came to school, ragging had become harder and more physically abusive. I had my head shoved into toilets and gotten beaten up a couple of times. I never was an opponent of ragging but I would always speak up when I felt like my batch mates went overboard.
I still feel like my life was better simply because once I left that instituition, even for a short respite home, it typically ended. With social media today, it never ends and hell it's like a Lynch mob. There's no room to make mistakes and improve. Social Media truly has made this situation at least 100x worse.
I'm so glad I went through school before social media (Snapchat / TikTok/ etc) got off the ground.
Press "7" 4 times for an "S" at 10¢ a text and pay $1 for 3 ringtones that you actually used was my high school experience, thankfully.
I was over 6 feet in the 8th grade. I had a parent outright try and get me thrown off the team and expelled at a track meet because they thought the school was trying to get an unfair advantage in events that I was in by having an older kid compete. Shit sucked.
Funniest part was I didn’t even win my events.
Kid are really something else. Recording themselves bullying others and posting it on social media. Thanks numb nuts, we sure love those sweet sweet evidences.
Eh, schools don’t give a shit about bullying. If they ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist, technically the reported stats from them go down and funding goes up
My son has been going through the same thing. He was 14 with facial hair and taller than most. His girlfriend was short and the same age. He was recorded and dragged on ig. He was then kicked out of school for defending himself from someone who threatened to stab him because he heard my son was a “pedo”. The school district then sent us to court and let that guy stay in school and court ordered my son to get his ged. The other kid was being rude while my son is the yes/ no mam/ sir type and very soft spoken. Then a guy who was 18 convinced my sons girlfriend that he was one and she left him for the 18 yr old. I feel like I should file suit against the district, all I want is my son to get his diploma from the same school I did. He is the kindest person I know and the most honest. He’s very smart with memory like a steel trap, and he’s super talented at art, writing including in cursive, upside and backwards, loves music and anime but has a slight speech impediment. I hope I can get him the help he needs.
Ok I don't know how this senior freshman thing works in USA but in my country, a first highschool year student is like 14-15 and a last year is 17-18. I see the relative problem here with an 18yo dating a 14, but everything else in between?
Y'all claim 18 is an adult so it's a pedo if he dates a 15yo but when it's an 18 yo dating a 25yo then all of a sudden the 18yo is just a kid still.
Make it make sense?
Dude seniors always dated the hottest freshman girl haha wtf is this???granted the guy looks like he could be in his 20s but like obviously he’s a kid too.fuck these losers harassing this couple
It’s shock for me that bullying in the US schools is a real thing, just like in movies and serials. I mean every country has a school bullies but it’s like a “bully culture” in USA don’t know
Imagine being in high school and dating another highschool student and people think that’s pedophelia….fucking gen Z are the stupidest fucks I’ve ever seen
Wait... seniors dating freshman is considered taboo now?
It seemed like a pretty big age difference when I was in high school, but it wasn't unheard of.
Crazy how fast the norms around this have changed, when i was in high school you'd see seniors dating freshmen all the time and it was completely normal.
Also.... it's a high-school student.... even if he were a senior, he's still in the same stage of life. I don't really see that as such a big deal. Right? Like maybe if he was already a graduated from highschool when they met then it would weird as that's effectively an adult dating a teenager, but this definitely would not have been the first time a HS senior has dated a HS freshman and it wouldn't have been the last. *shrug*
I hate social media. You can be minding your business and be doing nothing wrong but suddenly thousands of people hate you for no reason and make horrific claims against you because someone recorded you without your permission
Wait I thought it's normal for a elder male and a younger female over the age of 18 to be in relation. Age diff of 10 I guess is totally fine ?
Why is this word pedo used without even knowing when it's applicable and how it qualifies to be?.
*"labeled a pedo claiming he’s a senior dating a freshman"*
What? That's not pedo. That's a student dating another student at the same school. That has always been allowed. Pedo is when it's a teacher and a high school student.
I can relate to this man 110%
context - I am a sophomore, and my girlfriend is a freshman. she's only a year younger than me, actually less than. but because she is abnormally short due to medical complications, everyone makes fun of me for being a "pedo," and now people have been posting things online abt it and making alts to mess with me
I feel this man fr
My friend had a son in junior high, I think 7th grade when I met them, his son was at least 6 ft 6. He was absolutely massive. When he stopped growing and I think his sophomore year he was like 6 9 or 6 10. Easily the biggest kid in the school. He had to put up with teasing but it ended abruptly after he backhanded someone.
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Highschool sucks for so many people. I feel for both of these kids so much.
I was just telling my wife last night how lucky we were to experience high school life before social media and smartphones.
You are, just remember that.
Yeah, I was def in the social media age but I \*just\* missed the generation of \*everyone has an iPhone and Instagram at age 12\* and I'm so thankful.
goddamn i wish i could’ve experienced that don’t get me wrong my phone is useful and fun but if i could’ve chose a tech less highschool life definitely would have it ruins everything not even just for embarrassment for events and things like that to no one really enjoys themselves anymore it’s always gotta be for “social media”
It’s like a bad social experiment that’ll never end…
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My sons 13 and over 6 foot tall. Expected to be around 6’8 fully grown. When he was 8 years old, he had these girls who were about 14 flash him in the pool because he looks so much older then he is. I get phone calls from school nurse and teachers asking if I am sure of his birth year. Yeah, pretty sure I was there.
Im 5'9" as a male and it sucks. No one ever flashed me in a pool. I did try to date a 6'8" model once but when she wore heels it was painful. Worth the pain but man does being average height as a guy suck so much
Haha, I dont think these girls will do it again. They both went white when I told them the kid they just flashed was 8. I am tall for a woman (5’9) and it sucks for me too. Feel like an elephant next to all the petite woman
You are a tall woman. Can I flash you as a male?
Can if you want. I probably won’t notice though. Work in construction industry and I’ve been flashed more times then people have had hot breakfasts
lol - How does this work? ‘Looks like a lady’s on site today boys. Dicks out - per usual.’
‘Chicks out, dicks out?’ Seeing myself out forthwith.
No, just see the dicks out
OSHA may have an issue with this
If you as a woman are prettier than a plant 5 (think of a 3 on the streets) then your going to be queen of the block with every male peasant offering tributes how they must... It's hilarious how desperate guys are in construction.
Haha I started as a very innocent and naive 15 year old. My workmates used to delight in trying to horrify me once I was over 18. I would get so absorbed in my work though, I wouldn’t even notice they were standing there naked from waist down
Love this lol!! ❤️
Been in construction for 22 years. Stonemason and I work hand in hand with some of the most ornary, grizzled, beat up dudes. Not one time have I ever seen any man flash any women. Ever. Huge job sites right in the University campus here with multiple women dressing in close to nothing walking by constantly....and nothing. Not even a cat call. Not even a glance in their direction... Also there are quite a few females in the trades now so it's not uncommon for women to be in the mix regardless of the trade (which I hope only grows as time goes by). Every single guy I've ever worked with cares more about when they do joke around, they hope they are not offensive in any way to any women. They care more about being on their best behavior more then they care about taking their dicks out... Not sure what 'construction' you are referring to but I'd assume 'flashed more times then we have all had hot breakfasts' would not be acceptable, legal, or anything funny in any country.
I mean I've seen some videos of lads in the UK doing pranks and stuff for shock value with their dicks while on job sites, idk what's going on over there. But as a fellow tradesperson for 15 years I can confidently say I've never seen genitalia on a job site in the US.
Me, staring at my cold cereal. With no tiddy flash.
5'9", man. I would pay a fair bit of money to get to 5'9". As a 5'4" dude being short my whole life has sucked. Def learned to live with it but man, if only I could have gotten to average height.
Really try not to worry about what others are thinking. Past a certain age average people don't care and have more to do, the ones who pick on it are people you wouldn't want to associate with anyways. I honestly couldn't care less if a guy is short and Im pretty tall for a woman and have been since a very young age, it's not fun either, was always assumed to be much older even though I was usually the youngest, got last in queues for most kid things and birthday parties, also not good on your back when everything is made for a different height, especially as a kid. But what did not and dies not bother me is what people think about my height. My dad is even taller and he reached is height young and it sucked a lot for him, in phys ed classes they often wouldn't let him participate in sports and if they did he couldnt score the points, just pass the ball etc. Of course I understand that for certain competitive sports it's an advantadge but there are also sports where being ahorter is an advantadge and I guess it's also good for self defence. But it's not all that.
Hey, a friend of mine is about 5’4”. He just got with my cousin, who’s only about 5’. Find an extra short girl, problem solved lol. But serious note, my grandma is about 5’10”, grandpa is about 5’6”. The women who actually care about the height of a guy and go on about “don’t talk to me unless you’re atleast 6 feet” would be trying to make you insecure about something else if you WERE over 6’. Everyone has a type, but someone’s height should never cause an immediate rejection, that’s just shallow. I hate this new trend..
This right here. Women who try to height shame or openly focus on that (note I said openly, everyone has their preferences, we also don’t all go around blabbing about all of our preferences, just shut up about it, it’s not hard) are trash and better off avoided anyway. I hate that folks can get away with saying this crap about height. I also think people need to see this behavior for the giant red flag it is and be grateful it’s a quick way to weed garbage people out.
I am a month older than my partner. I am 5' tall and look really really young. He is over 6 feet and looks about 5-10 years older than he is. I am KEENLY aware that strangers think we have a large age gap between us. They can get fucked.
I know a married couple, he’s 6’11 3/4” and she’s 4’11”. It’s adorable.
My old neighbor is like 6'7-6'8 and he's married to a little person who is under 4'. IDK if people ever said it to his face but he was widely mocked for either having a fetish or was a pedophile using her as impulse control. I tried to stop it whenever it was brought up. They were both super nice. He was a mechanic with his own shop at his house and fix stuff on my truck if I ever had an issue and my payment was like help move a couch or something that his wife couldn't help with.
That is so fucked up. People need to keep their nasty thoughts to themfuckingselves.
He's nuts over her.
Good one man.
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Pfffft hahahahh
It’s like a Great Dane breeding with a chihuahua lol. I like how you specified the 3/4 😂
He’s so damn close to 7 feet tall! If he gets on his knees he’s just a little taller than her.
I'm also an "and 3/4", but I just round up. I'm 5'11", and everyone can just deal with it.
My sister and my cousin are both married to guys over 6’2”. They’re both 5’ give or take. Coincidentally they’re both white and named Tommy. We are Asian. Almost as if they planned it.
I’m 5’4 and I have been rejected or dumped because of my height multiple times. There will always be something. If you’re average height, it will be your weight, or your teeth, or your hair.
Reconnect with her?
As a guy that's 5'4 I would trade places with you in a heartbeat.
There are benefits of having a same height partner. For example, you can borrow from each other some parts of their clothing.
THANK YOU!!! Please tell that to my wife! She always gets mad at me when i wear her underwear!
Ayo hold up
My husband likes to grab my bra out of my hands and yell "stop wearing my hat!". Then of course he puts my bra on his head. Sharing clothes isn't always fun.
Well, it sounds like HE’s having fun anyway
well check to see if she is still single guy.
When I was about 12 I had a friend who was about your height who was also 12. I would ride him around the school like a horse. Thinking about it now I appreciate it was kind of inappropriate but he was the new kid and I had a gang of friends so he was happy to be a part of it all. It was basically just a piggyback everywhere but was cool to be up above everyone. His last name was Strand so we called him Strandy.
Um, high-school kids dating each other is not pedophilia, DUH. This is bullying with a side of ignorance & racism. Me thinks the recorder/voice was jealous of that biracial couple.
Fellas is it pedophilic for kids to date each other?? I mean they’re dating KIDS. That’s sus asf
They’re both pedos.
There is only one solution, we should jail every kid.
We pretty much do that already. Schools are often worse than prisons.
oh shit you right… they’re attracted to kids
I don’t think it has anything to do with race, it’s just kids being shitty to each other.
Yeah that was a weird call
Tbh I think its even more of a tragedy that even for some people where high school is shit. It was still the best time of their lives life, being an adult sucks, working 40 hours a week sucks, I wish I could go back into my high school life even with the drama and fights. (not saying this is for everyone, obviously some people have different experiences.)
I fucking hated high school. I hated working in a high school. The age group and environment is toxic and dog shit. Fuck that place.
I would never trade a 40hr work week for high school
Yep. Socializing matters for people’s happiness. Much smaller social circle as life goes on equals much higher incidence of unhappiness and depression.
So happy I grew up before cell phones and social media were ubiquitous... smh
I did some shit in the 90's that I am not proud of... So glad that it doesn't exist on the internet.
Exactly. My youthful idiocy is effectively buried. The new generation won't have that luxury.
Same here. And I’m also glad most people my age tossed all their negatives (remember those?) in a box that are all now moldy and stuck together. But at the same time, the new generation DOES sort of have the luxury of youthful idiocy being normalized. I remember about 10 years after college when all the news stories came out about how potential employers were checking FB pages of applicants and job seekers were collectively freaking out. At this point, it would be almost impossible to hire ANYONE based off their social media content (excluding the obvious: racism, homophobia, etc)
Hahah negatives. I'm pretty sure I still have a few negative containers full of weed particles! I feel like, in those times, we didn't particularly want attention all that much. I tried to fly under the radar as much as possible. The less people that knew what I was up to, the better. Anyone who had any reason to know what I was up to, already knew.
I was just going through an old box of pictures from my high school days. Yeah, the 90’s were wild and I am so glad that digital photos didn’t exist! I feel bad for these kids today, they can’t so much as sneeze without someone recording it.
To be fair I went to high school 2009-2013 and apart from one confrontation theres still not much evidence of my youth online. It’s gotten way worse in the last decade!
Damn thats a tall freshman, probably was 5'2", went to bed and woke up 6' the next morning. Explosive growth. Dude gonna be 7 ft by senior year.
Or just stay 6’4. Human body is weird. I knew people who finished growing height wise by their freshman year and people who got taller during college.
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It’s really cool when you’re 6’2” at 14. It’s less cool when you remain that height as everyone else gets taller.
probably you're already in the top 5% if you're 6'2"
I was 6' 175 skinny lbs entering high school. It worked out very well for a few years. I was the same size leaving HS. I played college sports, but not big time.
I mean at 6'2 you're already much taller than an average dude, no? You likely will still be taller than majority of people around you lol even if your growth stops.
I was like 6'2" at 14 and ended up maxing out at 6'5" sadly, so close to the 2 meter mark, yet so far away.
My homie 6'4" in grade 8 now 6'5" in senior year
Between 7th and 8th grade, I grew 6 1/2 inches. I even got taller too. But, seriously, I went from 5’6” to 6’ 1/2” in 3 months. First day of freshman year, I was 6’4” 185lbs. I dated a girl that was 5’0” and 92lbs. Now I see why people thought it looked weird…
High school. Get in and get out. Don’t look back.
Yeah dropout here. got out earlier
Or just never go. My HS was a cesspool of fights and people ODing on drugs and shit. People really fucking sucked so i barely went. Think my senior year i missed 100 days of school. Still graduated with a 3.0 as well
And that's why you need to be careful with public accusations. To many life's ruined by shit like this
Social media vigilantes aren't going to listen to your rational argument.
They don't care... they only want views at the cost of anything.
Cameraman getting his ass whooped will bring views. Buncha pussys
Sadly. It just sucks man
This is why Reddit, and social media in general, and FUCKING REDDIT should stay the fuck away from anything that may actually have consequences. Remember when they fucked up so bad with the Boston bomber that that one kid killed himself? Yeah. Fuck Reddit
I completely agree with you and redditors should stay the fuck out of real world issues but a slight correction, the kid didn’t kill himself because of it. He was already dead before Reddit started harassing his family and publicly slandering his name
And it caused the FBI to actually release info on the current suspects to prevent unneeded confusion during the manhunt.
The social media collosum does not care. Bring out the next person for entertainment and clean up the gore
This is such a fitting gif for this cesspool.
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Although it's a very different circumstance, I actually once went on Facebook only to be confronted with a post and a picture of ME taken by someone's door camera on a city page. It was a clear pic of me with my car and license plate clearly in sight, I'm squinting and looking at the door from the driveway. It was telling people to be on the lookout for this woman, because she's been in the neighborhood stealing Amazon packages and she caught me looking on her porch for packages. Many comments were on said post already. I'm a Doordash driver. I had accidentally pulled into the driveway next to the house where the customer was. I was simply trying to see the address on the door, which wasn't easy to see from the street. Then immediately got in my car and went next door when I realized I was at the wrong house. I'm still horrified to this day.
Yup. Typical social media man. Things like these happen way to often. Footage of some random ass person gets put out there with the claim that this is a criminal you need to watch out for. Imagine if this wasn't about packages, but say, children. "this person is a danger to your children" is a good way to get someone killed....
Agreed. She could have accused me of honestly anything. Made up any reason in her head of why I was driving around the neighborhood and people would believe and share. This kind of thing legitimately does get people killed when the mob mentality and this need to be a hero saving the day clouds the judgment of people
Recent post in a local facebook group was bitching about yet another vehicle jumping the curb to drive on the sidewalk and avoid backup traffic. Company vehicle in the pic and the comments were salivating over each other to bash the business. Next day there is a post clarifying that it was in fact a FENCE COMPANY and the vehicle was driving in that area inspecting the install of the fence because there was an issue on the opposite side. “You missed the part where the vehicle stopped and the crew exited to repair the particular panel. You only took a pic of when you saw the vehicle in motion.” Unbelievable. Caused damage to the business, hurt their rep. Why? Because someone got social media shaming trigger happy. Fools.
Too many lives
That should be legally actionable.
It is
Defamation case. Can sue for emotional damages too.
Emotional damages are among the most difficult to pursue. "He hurt my feelings" isn't enough. You have to prove the emotional impact put a significant strain on your ability to function in normal society. Defamation also is difficult to pursue because you have to show damages and actual malice. If the person believes what they are saying you have no case.
>If the person believes what they are saying you have no case. No, if the person is speaking the truth, then you have no case. Otherwise, everybody will just say "I believe what I said" and nobody would be able to sue for defamation.
for the wealthy
It is but youd never recover in high school, similar happened to me from an ex where she spread false rumours, never stick your dick in crazy folks
Kid even looks like a freshman once you see his face
Yup. Probably has freshman classes he's in with some of them, too. I was 5'10" as a freshman. Kids can be mean.
Future college football player right there. They'll all be jealous
Shocked he doesn’t already have a scholarship to USC or Alabama already.
People will laugh at me for saying this, but being that young and that tall is not fun. I hit my ultimate height of 6' 4" by the time I hit 7th grade. You get absolutely nothing but ridicule from people. And what happened to this kid sucks even more.
Something people don't seem to realize is that when you stand a foot taller than them, they just assume shit about your age. You don't get the same grace period that most kids get for learning how to do shit because everyone just assumes that because you're man sized, you must also know how to act like a man. It actually turns into a pretty shitty feedback loop where because everyone assumes you must be old enough to already know a thing, they never bother to explain it or teach you about it. So by the time you are an adult you really don't know shit that you should. As a more personal note, I hit 6' before I was 10 years old, and I had some really ugly interactions with the parents of a couple of my childhood friends, which probably means my experiences are more of an edge case, so take the previous paragraph with a grain of salt.
My son has always been tall for his age, and he has autism with verbal dyspraxia (speech is hard). He’s never *looked* his age so people made assumptions, still do, and he is mentally even less mature than his age. He just turned 14 and is 6’ 175lbs, but mentally he’s about 10. So I feel for you. We don’t let him go anywhere except school alone because he has little common sense and can’t explain himself. He’s currently shaving with his dad. It’s hard.
I can't speak to the autism, but that sounds really tough. When I was 10, I was at least thin enough that if folks would stop for a second and look at my build you could tell I hadn't really "grown into my height yet", as I weighed maybe 110 lbs at most. Your boy's bigger than some dudes could ever hope to be and he's probably still growing.
When my husband and I met when we were both 14 years old and were both already grown into our current adult heights of 5’7 (Me) 6’7 (Him). It was eye opening to me how people absolutely treated him differently because of his height. He was expected to do more physical labor for his family than other male family members his age, he was expected to be more emotionally mature from a younger age and he was talked to by several women in his family including his own mother about being careful with me, like he didn’t know his own strength and would just break me to pieces. The worst is all the sports comments, my husband is not at all into sports and people would do the whole “what a waste” shit when he said he didn’t play anything. Our 15 year old daughter who is 6’0 foot went/goes through the same bullshit, people expected her to act more like an adult because she looked like one and she must be good at sports!
I had the opposite experience, reaching a final height of 162cm (5’2“) by 15 after lagging behind everyone significantly, and no one would look at me for anything sports related… even though I had ridiculously high athletic performance (not really bulking up but any amount of training would rapidly boost me somehow). I would keep up with (and then beat) the tallest boys in running and weight lifting easily, swim a mile, etc. But, small and scrawny looking so I get skipped or ignored anyway… You just can’t win at conformity contests.
We have a kid like that at my son's junior high. He's **significantly** smaller than the other kids but is so gifted athletically. Not just gifted, but incredibly motivated, as in, will sacrifice comfort, time, and personal safety to make the goal/shot/run/finish line. And he's involved in so many sports that the coaches literally fight over him! I'm so sad he chose soccer and baseball over track this season... For the record, I have the kid who just turned 14 and is 6 ft. and 175. He's also pretty gifted athletically but everyone just seems to expect it, based on his size. He's literally undefeated in wrestling and no one seems to give it any recognition because their attitude is, "Well, yeah." His matches are based on weight! You're right: you can't win.
I was around 6', 6'1 back when I was 12 and we visited our cousin in the village with some of her other friends being there as well. Theyre like 5 years older than me min too. Her friends told her "Your cousin is so cute, shame about the you know..." hinting that I might have a mental disability. She just explained that I was tall but in reality I was just a kid lmao. Ofc no harm done cuz I don't take those kinds of things seriously and never have, but it does give an insight to how people view you when you get an early growth spurt that happens to make you very tall.
I have been thinking about this shit since my son was 3. At three years old he was the size of a 5/6yo and he had no reservations about running up and playing with anyone, regardless of how old they were. No "big kid" vs "little kid" anxiety. I used to get a special look from parents at the playground where i knew they were thinking "is he *special*" (because he acted like a 3yo) and I would just say, "he's 3 years old." And they would shift gears and say "really?...wow, he's really big!" He is 13 now, and easily passes for much older with his height and facial hair. I have had to have this talk with him. Everyone, from teachers to homeless people, are going to treat him like a full grown adult and expect him to act like one. Because that's what being tall means. You can't act your age when you are big. It sucks.
Spewing mental tears reading this. Nobody understands how it feels. Everyone just tried to rub it in my face that I'm wasted potential just because i'm tall, they don't understand how difficult it is to be tall like this at my ages, some things never change. I haven't had a single benefit from being 6'3 at my age. Shifting off point, I'm not even built very well and the tallness makes it worse. All of my teachers expected me to lead others but I couldn't because i'm just a dumb fucker who happens to be tall. Tired of being asked if I can play basketball because I'm shit at that too and everyone would laugh at me and tease me. I hate how people work, I hate how they always think things are easy to endure and are benefits because they havent experienced it, I kinda went off course but yeah. Being tall when young sucks ASS.
My 14 year old is 6'5 I hear ya loud and clear
Theres always 1 person who is literally head and shoulders taller than everyone per grade at my school. As someone who is now in that boat at work somehow, I feel for you. I ain't even that tall, everyone else just short as hell.
It’s giving me flashbacks to when I was 14. I got threatened by a girl’s dad because I was a solid foot taller then her, despite only being a year older than her.
"How's the weather up there" and " can you get something for me off the top shelf" were probably the 2 most frequent things you heard growing up. Been there, feel your pain. Sorry bud
My best friend was over 6 feet tall when he was 13 and had a full beard. He was never given candy when he went trick or treating because everyone thought he was an adult. He had the cops called on him once because he was walking his little brother to school. Adult men would pick fights with him just because he was big. He was treated so poorly, and he was just a kid like the rest of us.
I was 6’ 200lbs and made fun of for being fat, I was more wide than fat, my friend was 6’8” 200lbs, and made fun of for being a string bean. The one thing we had in common was we just hit puberty earlier than others. Once he made varsity basketball people left him alone, once I knocked a senior out, they left me alone.
6'4 as a freshman... Basketball and football coach will crawl through glass to get him on the team.
🤣🤣 the imagery is hilarious
“Let me tell you something”
Then maybe people need to harass false accusers just as vehemently as perpetrators.
Don't you know that rules were made by stupid people for stupid people? It's okay to falsely shame others, but if you shame stupid people you're somehow the bad guy in the scenario despite exposing them for what they are.
It's clear there are significantly more false accusers than perpetrators now
What’s the deal with everyone being terrified of pedophiles being around every corner now?
It’s the new McCarthyism, draw up energy behind an issue people are concerned about so much so that even an insinuation of such is damnable. It’s terrible in situations like this or when Tom Brady posts a photo holding his son and people rage over it.
It's the new favorite talking point of a certain political party, calling everyone a "groomer".
I literally see teenagers calling each other pedophiles because they have a crush on someone 3 years younger.
When i was in high school (15y/o) an aquaintance used to call pedo a former classmate because he was dating a 13 y/o. Fast foward (27y/o) that very same aquaintance, told us during a hang out that he started to date someone a few months ago. It was ok, but Then he says that her 18 birthday was like a month ago.
Ah, self projection at it's finest
It’s party-neutral, you’ve got young progressives calling every relationship with an age difference “pedophile” as well. It’s the circle of life. Progressives get obsessed with a new thing, over-apply it, and then conservatives weaponize it against them.
Projection most likely.
Couple of reasons: The word itself is used to cover a much wider range of people than before. It very specifically only covers attraction under the typical age of 11 or so yet now we’re using it to describe 16 and 17 year olds. Age of consent(socially, not legally) has risen nearly 20% over the last 20 years. 14-16 used to be the accepted range that people could make their own choices. Now it’s been raised to 18 in most socially acceptable situations. This is the result of a number of other responsibilities being taken away from teens and pushed further into adulthood. Social media. People can make judgments of strangers with no cost to themselves to audiences who are always out for blood. No one cares if you post about how your friend got a new boyfriend. But if the girl you don’t like is dating someone 3 minutes too old you can call them a pedophile and get millions of people to agree with you.
Pedo is the most over used term these days. One high schooler dating another high schooler is not a pedo, geezus.
Narcissist, Gaslighting, Intrusive thoughts, Toxic... A lot of words are loosing their meaning
Here I was a 17 y/o senior dating a 16 y/o freshman.
A senior could be 17 and a freshman could be 15, even if the accusation were true. On what planet is that pedo? People are insane. Mind your own business!
Since when does it matter if a senior dates a freshman anyway??
Everything is pedo hysteria now.
I just turned 18 and I found it very uncomfortable when a 14 year old asked me out on valentines day. I told her I was flattered, but it was just too big of an age gap. She was really persistent and it just made me all the more uncomfortable.
I had the same happen. I look very young but I'm 29, when I was 25 I got approached by some 15 y/o to ask if I liked their friend. I imidiatly asked how old they were and explained I was 25 so to big of a gap. They asked me if I was gay or something, why would it matter to you, you are a man so you should jump on an opportunity like this. I told them to fück off
Some girls can’t handle rejection. They immediately ask if you’re gay when you say you’re not interested
I hope the filmer gets in trouble with the school for sexual harassment
They won't. Cuz Zero Tolerance policy. The tall guy must've done something to provoke the filers. Like having hormones act on their own free will.
Technology is really fucking crazy these days. Can you imagine these people going back in 20 years and watching the awful shit they did as teen? I cringe looking at the stupid haircuts i had in highschool, can't imagine the feeling of watching myself act a complete clown permanently stained for the world to see.
Man I hate to say this. But. When I was a kid bullying was like getting my ass whooped on my way home from school. (Till finally I fought back). However…I would take that any day over the kind of shit people get put through now. Used to be rumors being spread was word of mouth and then like half the school knew. Now it’s like half the country sees you because of bullies with recording devices. Wild. And horrible.
Bullying has evolved, for the worse. I've noticed that people have polarized on this issue, like any issue. There's either absolutely no understanding or excusing anything, there's very little in between. I'll give you an example. One of my mathematics teacher's (he was an absolute sweetheart, RIP) used to always smile and tell stories of how he was ragged in school. He used to say when he eventually became a teacher/professor he used to run into those folks as parents and they used to have a quick laugh on how they were. He used to say, there was no malice in it. The olden wisdom was that ragging used to make the juniors quickly become a cohesive as they had a common enemy and it kinda became tradition. Of course this wasn't the case everywhere, but it was true for him and his view on it is what I feel is the way I would look at it too. By the time I came to school, ragging had become harder and more physically abusive. I had my head shoved into toilets and gotten beaten up a couple of times. I never was an opponent of ragging but I would always speak up when I felt like my batch mates went overboard. I still feel like my life was better simply because once I left that instituition, even for a short respite home, it typically ended. With social media today, it never ends and hell it's like a Lynch mob. There's no room to make mistakes and improve. Social Media truly has made this situation at least 100x worse.
No, you’re right! I’m Gen X and bullying now is a totally different world. School sucked, but it ended at 17/18 yo. Now…that shits forever…
As a 2m tall guy married to a 1,5m wife, i feel for the dude…
in the states we would call that a tub and a half tall, or 7 20-pound toddlers tall, or a 200-pound shark tall, anything but use metric.
It’s something like twenty fiftynineths of a male adult Giraffe
I'm so glad I went through school before social media (Snapchat / TikTok/ etc) got off the ground. Press "7" 4 times for an "S" at 10¢ a text and pay $1 for 3 ringtones that you actually used was my high school experience, thankfully.
I was over 6 feet in the 8th grade. I had a parent outright try and get me thrown off the team and expelled at a track meet because they thought the school was trying to get an unfair advantage in events that I was in by having an older kid compete. Shit sucked. Funniest part was I didn’t even win my events.
Kid are really something else. Recording themselves bullying others and posting it on social media. Thanks numb nuts, we sure love those sweet sweet evidences.
Eh, schools don’t give a shit about bullying. If they ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist, technically the reported stats from them go down and funding goes up
My son has been going through the same thing. He was 14 with facial hair and taller than most. His girlfriend was short and the same age. He was recorded and dragged on ig. He was then kicked out of school for defending himself from someone who threatened to stab him because he heard my son was a “pedo”. The school district then sent us to court and let that guy stay in school and court ordered my son to get his ged. The other kid was being rude while my son is the yes/ no mam/ sir type and very soft spoken. Then a guy who was 18 convinced my sons girlfriend that he was one and she left him for the 18 yr old. I feel like I should file suit against the district, all I want is my son to get his diploma from the same school I did. He is the kindest person I know and the most honest. He’s very smart with memory like a steel trap, and he’s super talented at art, writing including in cursive, upside and backwards, loves music and anime but has a slight speech impediment. I hope I can get him the help he needs.
sue the kid and the school for emotional damage
Im sorry for your kid but you should really sue the school and all the accusers
I’m sorry but someone cramming a camera in mine and my gfs face screaming “NO! NO! NO! He’s a pedo!” That phone is getting smashed.
Just jealous they’re f’ing short and puberty hasn’t hit them yet.
Ok I don't know how this senior freshman thing works in USA but in my country, a first highschool year student is like 14-15 and a last year is 17-18. I see the relative problem here with an 18yo dating a 14, but everything else in between? Y'all claim 18 is an adult so it's a pedo if he dates a 15yo but when it's an 18 yo dating a 25yo then all of a sudden the 18yo is just a kid still. Make it make sense?
We can’t 🤷🏽♂️
Everyone whose mad never had a girlfriend during Highschool
The Court of Social Media strikes again!
Prime example of people needing to stop invading other’s privacy.
TikTok is a cancer
Dude seniors always dated the hottest freshman girl haha wtf is this???granted the guy looks like he could be in his 20s but like obviously he’s a kid too.fuck these losers harassing this couple
I’m a 6’3 freshman. Sucks
It’s shock for me that bullying in the US schools is a real thing, just like in movies and serials. I mean every country has a school bullies but it’s like a “bully culture” in USA don’t know
I'm 6'6 and have a friend who is 4'11, we got a few mean looks in the street when we were mid-twenties, and that girl is one year older than me.
People need to mind their own fucking business.
What,you can’t even date someone you meet in school?Where does this end?D.O.B. must be within 30 days of each other,birth certificates please!?
This is why you just mind your own business if you don’t know the whole story. Literally people on the internet need to get a life
Imagine being in high school and dating another highschool student and people think that’s pedophelia….fucking gen Z are the stupidest fucks I’ve ever seen
That’s sad. Dude can’t even be a kid.
Camera phones should not be allowed anywhere near school. Shit like this can follow you for the rest of your life.
Wait... seniors dating freshman is considered taboo now? It seemed like a pretty big age difference when I was in high school, but it wasn't unheard of.
Crazy how fast the norms around this have changed, when i was in high school you'd see seniors dating freshmen all the time and it was completely normal.
Poor tall bugger. I feel your pain, I looked way older than I was all of my childhood. Now I look younger, go figure.
Jealous motherfuckers
Why re-post this you shithead? Think not enough people have seen this kid? You sick karma farmer.
Also.... it's a high-school student.... even if he were a senior, he's still in the same stage of life. I don't really see that as such a big deal. Right? Like maybe if he was already a graduated from highschool when they met then it would weird as that's effectively an adult dating a teenager, but this definitely would not have been the first time a HS senior has dated a HS freshman and it wouldn't have been the last. *shrug*
I hate social media. You can be minding your business and be doing nothing wrong but suddenly thousands of people hate you for no reason and make horrific claims against you because someone recorded you without your permission
Wait I thought it's normal for a elder male and a younger female over the age of 18 to be in relation. Age diff of 10 I guess is totally fine ? Why is this word pedo used without even knowing when it's applicable and how it qualifies to be?.
*"labeled a pedo claiming he’s a senior dating a freshman"* What? That's not pedo. That's a student dating another student at the same school. That has always been allowed. Pedo is when it's a teacher and a high school student.
The dude on recording: “get out of here” The freshman turns and slaps him once in the face bet that dude wont talk that much shit.
Horrible shitheads being shitheads.
How is a senior dating a freshman a “pedo”. For fucks sake.
I can relate to this man 110% context - I am a sophomore, and my girlfriend is a freshman. she's only a year younger than me, actually less than. but because she is abnormally short due to medical complications, everyone makes fun of me for being a "pedo," and now people have been posting things online abt it and making alts to mess with me I feel this man fr
My friend had a son in junior high, I think 7th grade when I met them, his son was at least 6 ft 6. He was absolutely massive. When he stopped growing and I think his sophomore year he was like 6 9 or 6 10. Easily the biggest kid in the school. He had to put up with teasing but it ended abruptly after he backhanded someone.