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Bullies are just plain ugly

Vic Barlow
30/ 8/2006

I WAS so glad to hear Macclesfield student Jade Prest had finally broken free from the intimidation of school bullies.

I detest bullying. I attended a rough, tough inner city school in Manchester and on my first day a group of thugs locked me in the toilets and slashed my schoolbag with a Stanley knife. I decided that was the last time I would be bullied.

I was a poor fighter but a good comedian. I could even make the teachers laugh so I used it to my advantage.

I'd make a bully into a laughing stock just by using words. This was particularly effective when some of the boys guffawing were the toughest kids in school.

We had some really gorgeous sixth form girls who thought I was funny and adopted me. Senior boys often wanted me to act as go-between in setting up dates.

It was naturally in the interest of these older boys to look after the little kid they were asking to play Cupid (and I was a great Cupid).

One thing I did notice was that bullies were invariably ugly with no social skills whatsoever. They employed the vocabulary of hate and I've yet to meet an attractive girl bowled over by loud-mouthed aggression. In fact the only girls attracted to bullies were as ugly and stupid as they were.

From her picture, Macclesfield schoolgirl Jade Prest is an extremely attractive young lady and that'll be the reason for the bullying. I bet the perpetrators are as ugly as sin.

One thing's for sure, the only guys they will ever attract will be as dumb as they are. Morons attract morons. They'll probably end up sharing an ASBO.

Jade, on the other hand, is going to have the boys flocking.