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    Chele Writer:odd being that transforms caffeine to books

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    The Staff of the 'D are making a real effort to stamp out online bullying, and as many of you have already noticed, are sporting Muppet Signatures. As dedicated and respected members of RPG-D, we are also offering these to you to use as you will.

    Credit for the banners goes to Sherlocked Pixie and Chele.

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    Lint Roller Queen Mother

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    And pinned! :D

    We'll be making an official announcement in April, but RPG-Directory is declaring April to be Bully Awareness Month! Help spread the word and use any of these signatures (or you can make your own!)
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    Kajouka Thunder Rumbling, Castles Crumbling

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    I LOVE THEM ALL!
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    DesR "Sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

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    So adorable!
    How do I pick?!
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    Darkfire Literally Voldemort

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    I recommend throwing a dart at your screen.
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    DesR "Sometimes, when you fall, you fly."

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    There :p

    Now to fix this hole in my screen...
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    And a Youtube Suppository:

    - "Bully" by Shinedown (a current hit)
    - Watch Casey stand up to his bullies

    Remember, bullies want easy prey. Stand up for yourself and you become too much of a hassle for them to bother with.

    While others may disagree, I say that one detention for fighting back is far better than spending the rest of your years in hell being picked on. You only need to do it once, because that self confidence stays with you the rest of your life.

    You're important. You're not alone.
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    Sherlocked Pixie The White Duke

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    Honestly the credit on my part must go to my daughter. Not only was I bullied at school, now my daughter is and for those of you that have children, when bullying takes place you feel utterly helpless. It was my daughter that chose the Cookie Monster as he is her fave and the past few weeks have been strengthening my daughters composure with regard to the bullying at her school.

    Seeing bullying through my daughter's eyes it is very clear. Bullies are insensitive attention seekers. They crave the emotive response from you to feed their ego's. More often than not they exist in a crowd or group which further feed's their egos. The past week my daughter has won her battle against her bullies, and she did it on her own. I could claim I aided in giving her the strength to do it, but her character has always been strong. She came home from school a few days ago and explained the bullies left her alone.

    I asked her what she did, as she had tried telling them to go away, she had cried, she had even physically and verbally fought back to no avail. They were picking on her, pushing her. Do you know what she said? "Thank you." Each comment of abuse she just replied with Thank you. Apparently they looked rather befuddled and did not know what to do and ushered themselves away.

    That's a 7 year old child combating bullying. Quite frankly my daughter is my new hero.
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    Sunreon brain overload, reboot

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    This is the best. You know why? Cause bigotry is bullying. And a safe environment where people won't feel attacked for their skin colour or sexual preference or gender or physical ability or age or nationality or economic background would be the best thing ever. Think about what you say before you say it, because you're probably compounding what someone has had to deal with their entire life.

    Don't let bullies have power over anyone. Stand up to them. Call them out on it. Like the Swedish Chef says, throw them in the frying pan. Fry them up cause I eat bullies for breakfast, just like Cookie Monster.
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    Cobalt ALL BEAKS. ALL THE TIME.

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    I agree with this, but on RPG-D it's important to stand up to bullies in a way that doesn't embarrass them or make them uncomfortable or force them to respond in inappropriate ways. Ask them politely to stop hurting your feelings and if that doesn't work, ask someone in authority to step in and hope they take care of it to your satisfaction. I know that it doesn't work this way in school or in politics all that often, but on this forum the "Kill it with Kindness" policy is pretty clear, so I wanted to make sure we didn't get too fired up and that all of the "likes" on xexes's post (as of this posting from Kajouka, Chele, Cassis, RobotLamia, and Sunreon) hadn't given anybody the wrong idea.

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    Xalcen You Understand Nothing!

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    .....I think I love these siggies.

    Only hard part is picking.

    Thinking http://i991.photobucket.com/albums/af37/CheleCooke/rpa/statlerwaldorf.png

    May go cookie monster or Oscar though. SO HARD TO PICK!
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    FelixTheCat Mr. Inconsistent

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    Tossing around names like 'bigot' for example for not agreeing with you is a form a bullying. Let's be more like Gandhi and less like (insert name here). ;)

    An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

    An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

    An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
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    Sunreon brain overload, reboot

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    ..............

    Gandhi almost died many times, and was eventually killed because of political bullies.

    Meanwhile, the man himself has this to say on the subject


    I'm not really sure what message you're trying to tell me.
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    So I don't normally talk about things this personal to me but I feel the need to express how DEEPLY this issue means to me. I was bullied as a child in grammar school and it effected me and shaped the way I grew up. I was shoved down stairs and broke my hand. Pushed on the playground/parking lot (cause we just played on the parking lot in my grammar school) and sliced my face open against the pavement. Thrown into a fountain fully dressed at 8 in the morning, and the worse was in gym class.

    In my school you had to be sitting on the bleachers before the bell rang or you were marked as tardy, so of course we all ran to get to the bleachers. Well one of the boys stuck their foot out and tripped me and I went face first into the bleachers and my two front teeth were shoved up into the roof of my mouth. Luckily my mother and grandfather were able to get me to the dentist quickly where they were able to pop my teeth back in place but one of my teeth died so I had a brown tooth in my mouth till it fell out naturally.

    I was called every name you can think of, stabbed with plastic silverware, poked with sticks and pushed to the edge so many times I finally convinced my mother to let me transfer schools.

    I'm not telling you this for sympathy or something like that, but to show you that I myself was bullied and as bad as that was, I didn't have to deal with Facebook, youtube, twitter, tumblr, or anything that like that I KNOW would have made it worse. I turn on the tv news and see reports of children killing themselves because bullies are telling them on facebook and twitter that they are stupid and should just go kill themselves.

    This isn't a campaign that doesn't hold any weight for me. This is something that I care very, very, very much about. Think about it this way....if it wasn't you, what if it was your son or daughter? Your little sister or brother? Bullying in ANY FORM is wrong and does nothing but harm, hurt, and destroy.
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    Well said! Sometimes it is honestly for the best to simply turn the other cheek and leave bullies to their eternal aggression. I generally find ignoring things works wonders for me personally, because generally, if some one bullies me, they're not worth my time, nor generally have the intelligence to actually understand my defence, but I am one who naturally shy's away from personal conflict as I dislike getting stressed or upset. Bullies are not worth it.
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    The point is that bulling back only escalates matters. But I'm not going to get pulled into another debate about it. Instead, I'm taking Hattress out for a spa day.

    *hold open the door* Come on snooks, lets see if they can handle my toenails in a deluxe pedicure.
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    Kajouka Thunder Rumbling, Castles Crumbling

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    I agree with you Sherlocked. The walk away strategy works well for online bullying, at least in this setting where we don't know each other in real life. Obviously stories like your daughters (which had me in tears!) and Hattresses are more difficult to deal with, in that you see these people every day.

    It is sad to think that people throw their weight around with words and actions to hurt other people. It is sad that when some try to talk others drown their out, or make them feel unimportant or don't listen to what they have to say.

    I love the new sigs and I love the Anti-bullying month. I'm already thinking of new topics to start to bring up awareness!
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    The Mad Hattress Hands OFF my Domo....I'm saving him for later.

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    *loops arm throw Felix's.* Lovely! I'm overdue for a nice pedi!
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    There, got mine up. ^_^

    They are the closest to my favorite puppet, Walter of Jeff Dunham's, so they get the blessing of being used by me.
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