Is it ever okay to fight back against a bully?
Short & Curly
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4.6 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2016
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Back in 2011, an Australian teenager was filmed being punched again and again in the school playground by a bully. What made the video go viral was what happened next. The bullying victim lifted up the bully and threw him to the ground, hard. Was that a kind of justice?
Our guests are Onor, Izzy and Alex from Theatre Bugs in Adelaide.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and today you're Disney. |
| 0:04.0 | Short, you're listening to Short and Curly. |
| 0:08.0 | Yay! |
| 0:09.0 | Short and Curly! |
| 0:10.0 | Curly! |
| 0:11.0 | Curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly, curly. |
| 0:15.0 | Short and curly. |
| 0:18.0 | All right, Molly, most embarrassing thing that happened to you at school hit me. |
| 0:23.9 | Everything that happened to me at school was embarrassing, Carl. |
| 0:26.5 | I don't know how, but every moment was embarrassing. |
| 0:29.4 | My skirt was too long. |
| 0:30.5 | All the girls had short skirts except for me, and apparently I looked like a giant idiot. |
| 0:35.6 | I had to get out of the pool because I couldn't swim the whole lap at the swimming carnival. What else happened? Everything. Molly, I feel for you. But, like, did you ever get picked on for any of those things? Or were they just, like, little things? They were just little things. I was never bullied for anything like that. Maybe some other stuff, but not that. Well, that's good because I think, like, a lot of kids can actually get bullied over odd little things like that. And lots of kids get bullied in much nasty ways, too. Yeah, and I find it pretty crazy that all kinds of people are bullied when they're at school. Even people who are now rich and famous. And kind of cute? |
| 1:12.6 | Uh, sorry, what? |
| 1:13.6 | Nothing. |
| 1:14.6 | Nothing. |
| 1:15.6 | I'm just saying loads of famous people have been bullied. |
| 1:17.6 | Like this guy, see if you recognize his voice. |
| 1:19.6 | You make me feel like I'm living a teenage dream. |
| 1:25.6 | I was bullied and I think that Most people in their lifetime have been bullied |
| 1:29.8 | At some point |
| 1:30.8 | Oh god, that's Justin Beaver |
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