School Stuff that got you Bullied in the 80s

[@kennyahrens5296]

I was one of those kids with a comb in his back pocket. Still do it today. I was everyones savior when they needed a comb. Always carried my wallet, lighter, & pocket knife as well. Dad thought me right!!!

[@sergioleone3583]

I lived in Upland in the early 80s, home of the Pipeline skate park. NO skateboarder would have EVER carried that pink and purple purse to school...

[@spankynater4242]

In my day, we didn’t have bookbags, the guys held their books in their hands at their sides, and the girls held them hugged against their chests with both arms.

[@bgab2211]

I know one thing that won't get you bullied, random camera changes. Those are awesome!

[@Dragonrider1227]

expressing your individuality in any form was a good way to get beat up in middle school

[@heatherallerdice-gerow5966]

Yeah, especially if you were a girl wearing short sleeved clothes because of incels 😢

[@sithcritic8906]

The bullies respond to the sound of Velcro cracking like the cry of a helpless antelope to a lion.

[@mikemonk4375]

If you were a tough guy you had to have the comb in your back pocket, Junkman! And the two tailed bandanna, too! You had to be careful you didn’t bring anything to cool, that the bully would want, either. Like your sweet new Hotwheels van.

[@3Storms]

Trapper Keepers with anything but Star Wars or sports cars got you picked on. Also novelty erasers were big business in the 80s. I don't remember a single kid who didn't like those. One thing that got you picked on by teachers was scented markers. It turned out having kids doing lots of marker-sniffing was not a good idea.

[@korg13]

Back in the 60s i had a Roy Rogers and the son's of the Pioneers lunch box, back then if you dropped it the glass in the thermos broke in a million pieces/

[@stevedenis8292]

Getting bullied back in the day built character. Made you stand up for yourself . Make alliances with others to fight the bullies together.. Learn to resolve the conflict in other ways . Half the time the bully would forget to fight you .Some times you found out you were the bully.

[@3Storms]

I disagree. All it does is make kids evasive and withdrawn.

[@stevedenis8292]

@@3Storms Maybe some did I got picked on as a kid got into physical and verbal fights survived. Stood up for other kids when they were out matched.

[@tperson8347]

​​@@3Storms You're both right, but neither option/path would be an absolute.

[@Dragonrider1227]

now fighting back against the bully gets you suspended. "Zero Tolerance" bullshit

[@spankynater4242]

“Sometimes you found out you were the bully“ 😂

[@shanester1832]

Garfield is generic Heathcliff, the more popular cat came out a few years after Heath. Sorta like Hydrox was percieved to be an Oreo ripoff when they were the original all along. Mind your manners, that's Heathcliff you're talking about!

[@FleetwoodTheProfit]

Stop terrorizing the neighborhood! No one should.

[@sirgalahad1376]

@@FleetwoodTheProfitWe can win it with him!

[@sergioleone3583]

I always read Heathcliff as a kid, and hated garfield.

[@maximusprime3459]

I remember in elementary school I had the Coy and Vance version of the Dukes of Hazzard lunchbox. I "lost" it, then my mom got the re-issued Bo and Luke version.😂

[@MrAvenger1975]

I had a metal Sesame Street lunchbox in first grade. I don't ever remember being bullied over it, but a metal lunchbox makes a great defensive weapon! 😃

[@spankynater4242]

He said specifically he’s talking about middle school. He even said these things might have been acceptable in elementary school.

[@MrAvenger1975]

Yes. I'm well aware of that.

[@superpaul79]

You can always identify undercover cops at music festivals, because they always wear THOSE sunglasses.

[@NintendoSuperstar93]

What got you bullied the most when I went to school is if you wore or had generic stuff instead of the brand name stuff.

[@sergioleone3583]

Oh man. Pity the kid that wore "imitation" Vans at my junior high in 1980. "IMO! IMO!" It was like Lord of the Flies, we were ruthless assholes.

[@benrositas8068]

For some reason, where i went to school, this was especially true if said generic item came from K-Mart, but also anything from K-Mart. "You got that from K-Mart!" was the one thing you didn't want to be accused of!

[@panzerdragoonss4021]

I love these lists

[@jediknightjairinaiki560]

I laughed when you said you were into Pandas. It just sounded funny.

[@dank3151]

Larry really has something going with these switching of camera angles. Very Artistic. It's almost like a professional studio release. Almost.

[@Sammy_Boy_Smith]

Roos' were cool in 83 if you were 7. I wanted a pair, but never got em. But middle school, hell no!!!

[@MrChristopoop]

I wholeheartedly agree. After fourth grade, definite no go.

[@brianlocke2657]

I was proud of my ROOS. And I wasn't the only one that had them.

[@ThatJunkman]

In middle school??

[@dustinalbright5012]

Roos wouldn’t get you bullied. Most of this wouldn’t get you bullied. I think you would have been bullied no matter what

[@chazhaze3d]

Lol I don't think I knew any guy in Jr High that had any of these...by 7th grade we used book covers and drew Van Halen, Judas Priest, etc all over them. Only carried black or red spiral notebooks with same drawn all over them with erasable pens crammed in the spiral and regular pencils. Metallica shirts with leather or denim jackets with patches of bands and Harley-Davidson patches. Holy jeans and black boots with cigs or snuff crammed in them

[@superpaul79]

I finally got my first pair of Roos in my 20s. They were blue, and of course they had pockets. I once used them to smuggle some weed into a concert. Nobody bullied me. Probably because I had weed.

[@kennyahrens5296]

Besides the occasional Levi's, I always wear Wranglers. Best affordable jeans and they can take a beating. Those others were pricey & built for shit. Nothing beats a classic!!!

[@sergioleone3583]

These are always some of my favorite That Junkman vids. Those, and when he gets "serious" and gives us his Charles Kuralt of our generation take on his/our youth.

[@nategoalbevazin1387]

I remember Roos being cool!! Later on, when I had to wear the ProWings, that was embarrassing because kids picked on me for them, but I got over it. I realized in the 8th grade that I was lucky to have decent clothes that were new. The 8th grade was when the "picking on kids less fortunate than you" phased out at our school. I do not remember after that year if there were kids that got bullied due to that any more. They certainly didn't make fun of you for wearing Wranglers, or Rustlers, that's what we all wore. And we shopped at Weiner's!!

[@bonebreakingaction6815]

Lol I wire kangaroos to elementary school i thought they were cool but no they didn't go over to well

[@bonebreakingaction6815]

Im getting that smurf wallet beat me up idk

[@erraticstatic70]

the pencil toppers were 5 and a half bully fists not 6 and a half, you miss counted

[@ciscodeer9094]

Nope didn't have any of them

[@paddric9346]

A good rule of thumb, was to avoid anything with a cartoon on it.

[@BuggyGlugg]

How about making that second camera angle the "JUNKDOG CAM"? Every time your dog goes past the background, show us, please?

[@ThatJunkman]

I would be he doesn’t stick around

[@chazmagoo]

I lovvvvved my “Kangaroos, the pockets with shoes”. Where else are you gonna keep your lunch money and house keys ? Those Larry-Bird-lookin’ shorts with the color trim, didn’t have any pockets on them !! I tried keeping stuff in my tall, tube socks with the fat stripes on them, but that got me jumped !! Pretty funny, Junkman. Sounds like you and I had a similar “Jr. High”….😂

[@dank3151]

I thought middle school girls got on the bully beat down list for wearing the same color sweater as one of the popular girls.

[@SuperJono42]

Bullies were gutless bastards because they didn't expect you to stand up to them.....once you did they shit themselves and wanted to be your friend

[@TheJohno95]

Junkman, you were TOTALLY still using that Panda Trapper Keeper in middle school!

[@sardinedood]

1:33 HEY ITS ASS KICKING O CLOCK!

[@benrositas8068]

I didn't have any of those things because I had an older brother, who's mistakes I made darned sure to learn from!

[@AnakinStarkiller1974]

I love how you said some of them items the teacher will even bully you for lol 😂 Skate in the states !😂😂😂😂

[@nategoalbevazin1387]

This video also got me searching for some new Roos, def gonna get some.

[@adamn.4615]

I didn’t have a Garfield shirt in middle school, but I did sometimes wear a tee shirt to school with my Orthodontist’s name, which I got when I got braces. I’ve still got bruises 30 years later! 😵🤛🏻

[@gooniesgirl1979]

I liked the pencil toppers with the fuzzy velvet bears.

[@sergioleone3583]

The pig shaped pencil eraser packaging notes that they are "Scented"... not sure I want to smell those!

[@sergioleone3583]

Just about pissed myself when that Critter Sitters folder popped up. That was worse than the pink and purple purse for poseur skaters!

[@_The_Worst_]

I disagree🚫with the Nintendo pencil✏️bag...👌🏼 That's just awesome...🤘🏼💯✔️

[@ThatJunkman]

Not for middle school

[@Chris.Mc83]

I had shark pencil toppers in school, and I guess sharks must have been cool cause I never got beat up over it. 🦈

[@sithcritic8906]

A big french word… “Portfolio”😂

[@gooniesgirl1979]

I think I had that Panda Trapper Keeper too, Junkman.

[@Geewunner4life]

I was bullied once for wearing a Pac Man baseball cap. It was 1982 and I was 11 years old. Long story short; the monster inside of me awoke one day and the bully found himself being thrown down a flight of stairs while I laughed maniacally. I was never bullied again after that day.

[@johnbeechy]

3:22// The only excuse i would have for possessing that smurf wallet would be 'my girl friend gave it to me and we see each other every saturday morning, to watch the show together'. and then i would laugh at the bully for not having a GF.

[@masonwallace0572]

I was hoping to see a Gizmo backpack b/c I went to jr high with a boy that had one.

[@woncarlos7494]

#cucumberThatJumkman

[@johnbeechy]

by Grade 8, i was able to convince the school to allow us to bring real wooden hockey sticks, and a real hockey net, to school, for playing outside during recess and lunch time. of course the net got smashed, but no one got hurt while we used real wooden hockey sticks. // now r days, actually decades ago, wooden sticks were banned from school properties. insurance was their fear. //

[@MS-lk2sk]

A surf wallet should get the full beat down even by nerds

[@Straight0uttaCrofton]

think that's bad? i had the Heathcliff HUXTABLE lunchbox / =

[@Kingofthecastle79]

Kids today couldn’t handle 80s bullies 😂

[@braniganirby3586]

0:20 ⌚️💻. 😐🦷🦷🦷

[@tperson8347]

".. like it was a Nazi glove." Lovit. :) The David Hasselhoff folder. :) haha The only thing I had that would be bully worthy was an Ep.I shirt with C-3PO & R2-D2 on it. I was 14, I don't know WHY I did it. I knew better! :) haha Really good episode, Mr.Junkmun. :) Thanks for the video

[@ZombieFBody]

Luckily for me my grandpa smoked like a chimney so he'd cash in his Camel Cash for jackets and things for me to wear. Pissed off the school officials in middle school which earned me a little cred. They tried to ban me from wearing my denim jacket with Joe Camel on the back but grandpa fired off on them and they eventually relented.

[@Mike-l2m]

Ihad morkfrom ork suspendeders and green and red plaid pants

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

Really man? Roos got you bullied at school? They‘re cool as hell.

[@ThatJunkman]

In middle school? At 13???

[@alluvialedaempfer962]

Yes! :D Clyde Drexler wore them @@ThatJunkman

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

We can seriously do without this garbage notion that bullying is perfectly all right so long as its done to enforce societal norms.

[@ThatJunkman]

Facts

[@adambrown9105]

It was a bit Long but hilarious