Do U Even Lift Bro
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Vice principal for me, she had one of those candy bar posters on the wall.
Stephen King once said that those who recall High School fondly don't really remember it that well. Have to say I agree.
Four high schools in four years. My aunt was a teacher and we moved alot.
Dont remember anything from High school. People were either chill or too busy doing their own thing. My life definitely started with college. I sure as hell dont envy any stories shared here. Im thankful of my uneventful (although quite boring with too few friends) high school period. Got three friends that are still my best friends after 10 years (from different classes and years., so that counts for something!
I remember high school as an unpleasant time of life. College was wonderful, though. :)
I'm amazed that people remember high school. My life began in college. I only have sketchy memories before then.
Coping Mechanism?
The smaller the high school the worse it is. Mine was 3000+ for only 3 grades. The group as a whole was diverse enough there really were no loaners to pick on. It happened, but it wasn't the massively obvious problem I've seen in other schools. We were also the absolute most apathetic group ever. Class of 99. The class after us was a big deal for no reason other than the year they graduated. It made them magical somehow. Fine fuck you. We got to have a Jr High, all 9th grade coming from 2 middles schools, because the building was under construction. 4 schedules in one year. Then we get to the high school and within 6 months, construction. Fine fuck you. Columbine was my senior year. That changed everything.
I'd agree with that, I had 2000+ in my high school across the four grades, with my graduating class over 400. In a small school I might have been a weirdo loner, in a school with my size I hung out with the orchestra/choir/band kids. And since my orchestra alone had about 75 people in it, adding choir and band in meant that the "music geeks" were too big a group to single out. I was class of '01, so we got the awkward "haha i guess maybe we'll graduate if we survive Y2k" year
Fun memories...
Judging by the comments, something is deeply broken in the whole High School system.
to be fair, I think it is just school in general that is broken, bullies everywhere and the only ones that get punished are those that fight back, I was kicked out of school for 2 weeks for smacking down a guy that got me excluded from 3 classes as he even got teachers to bully me. Meanwhile he was treated as a hero for facing down the school psycho, at least when I got back he was so scared of me he left me alone for the rest of my school life.
Funnily enough, despite being autistic, 5'5", and 120 lbs, I almost never got bothered in high school. A couple years after I graduated, one of my classmates messaged me on Facebook, apparently drunk, to say that he always thought I'd be the one to snap and shoot up the school. I still don't even know how he knew me, because I interacted with almost no one outside the spec-ed classes and I don't remember him. I think everyone thought I was scary.
Renee needs to back the fuck off. Sometimes you do what you have to to survive the hellscape that is High School. For Elliot, that meant weightlifting, wrestling and not rocking the boat when the other jocks were being bullies. You do what you have to to be accepted and survive.
BUSTED!
I had the bad habit of beating the crap out of the people who teased me.... I can still recall every detail in my elementary principal's office. That's why I started working in the kitchen!
yuuuuuuup. i was nice as peaches until people were mean to me or people I care about. then all bets were off.
Survival is job number one in high school. Stop shitting on him, Renee.
Shitting on people is apparently Renee's job.
holy shit
Cinnamon roll status is receding in the rear-view mirror.
What? He's a complex Human being, with fears and drives that he often can't even articulate, let alone deal with in a constructive manner? Huh. Who would have thought....
Past Elliot nooooooooo~~~
high school IS manual labor. so is talking about it.
Why does the song "highschool never ends" suddenly start playing when I read this strip lol
Nobody did well in High School. Start doing your therapy, forgive yourself, or become a monk and get away from the world as it is, else you will drive yourself mad.
There was a kid in the year before me who took "the wrong shortcut" at some point during his first week as a freshman. The largest gang in the high school attempted to beat him to a pulp. He put several of them in the hospital and at least gave the rest a lot of pain. I think he did pretty good in high school. Because of him, I didn't have to worry about physical bullies for three years. Of course, there were still social bullies.
Back when I was in college, I was known for being "big and scary looking, but as harmless as a puppy." Then one day, my roommate and his boyfriend were getting harrassed at our favorite bar, and a fight broke out. My roommate later said "You went from teddy bear to grizzly!" I don't have many friends, I protect the ones I have.
Greetings to a fellow teddybear with claws!
I didn't know high schools had weightlifting teams
Yeah. Mine did. Sadly my high school had the worst mascot name, the Savages, as in native American savages. No one in the county could find a more manly nickname than an Native American slur. Except the north part of the county. They had cardinals.
And anyone else remember the flashback strip involving Renee, Brun, and the jocks? Acquaintances of Elliot?
And speaking of past strips, does anyone remember the number, or date, of the strip that showed May and Marten getting it on?
Well, Elliot just got his harshbrowns returned to him! Can't say he didn't deserve that, either!
Oooh! High school hi jinks coming home to roost.
Cinnamon roll never getting dusted
Oh Elliot. The best part of being the biggest strongest guy in school was beating up bullies.
The other Elliot (El Goonish Shive) would agree.
Anyone surprised by that giant slab of adorable beef blending in with the jocks to avoid getting bullied by them? Just Renee? Thought so. 😋
Heroics are optional, and muscles are not an instant qualification.
elliot :(