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My brother (four years older than me) used to make me eat spiders. He threw snowballs at me containing slugs and snails, put worms in my bed, slammed the front door so hard in my face one day that the glass in it shattered and a large jagged shard just missed my eye (but embedded itself at the top of my cheek - still have small scar from the stitches!), frequently ripped the arms and legs off my Barbie dolls, shaved all the fur off my Teddy Bear, and tied me to a tree so I could be a football goalpost for him and left me there all day...........

He's lovely really though, and we are the greatest of friends now.

What sibling cruelty did you have to endure (or did you inflict) when you were kids?

― C J, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother played "Superman" with me. This is a game where he would pick me up by the back of my shirt and pants and toss me across the room in hopes that I would either fly or bounce.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

And did you?

I was doubtless evil to my sister in many ways. The one example I can remember off hand is randomly changing the rules of boardgames so I would always win. She got very frustrated by that, and understandably so.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking sides: changing rules to a board game or flinging your younger sibling across the room hoping that he'll bounce? C'mon Ned, you've gotta step up to the plate here.

My wife once made her sister eat mud pies. She claims it was an accident. (?)

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

He's lovely really though, and we are the greatest of friends now.

CJ = more forgiving than Jesus, probably...

The greatest cruelty inflicted on me by my sister was refusing to let me tape the TBS James Bond marathon week, because she wanted to tape the World Figure Skating Championships. Every time I see people ice dancing, I get furious and start muttering about how I'd rather be at home watching Man With The Golden Gun.

― Dave M., Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

C'mon Ned, you've gotta step up to the plate here.

Your brother = a crude physical brute. Me = a subtle, crafty strategist. ;-)

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

subtle, crafty strategist=cheat.

my brother once stuck one of those car cigarette lighters on my thumb. or made me stick my thumb on it. I forget. but I'm sure it really hurt and I that should still be bearing a grudge.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

subtle, crafty strategist=cheat

You make it sound like it's a bad thing!

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother one time almost stuck a knife in my eye, he says it was faor away but i can remember hitting the skin over the eye(wich i dont know the name). But the really EV0L ones were the cousins, my bro was nothing compared to them

― Chupa-Cabras, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. I remember once. my brother trying to get out of a tent and me stabbing the bridge of his nose with the blade of a dinghy paddle. but it was more-or-less an accident. he probably beat me up afterwards. when he had regained his senses.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

lid

― mark s, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

i hate my older brother.

― di, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister is only about a year younger than me, so we'd get into knock down fistfights over every little thing. So just punching her mercilessly in general is probably the meanest thing.

― Nicole, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, I was wrestling with my younger sister once when I was 14 and she was 7. My 240 pounds to her 75, I broke her leg by accident. I had her in the figure 4. I didn't do it on purpose. I had a hard time picking on her, she had cancer as a child and I usually beat the shit out of people who picked on her. She had a tumor on her spine and it caused her to walk funny. So needless to say I did my share of defending not picking.

― Chris, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

when i was young, i bit my sister. i once gave my brother a bloody nose.

― youn, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

oh. I remember another one. this isn't so much around CHILDHOOD or CRUELTY, but. when my brother was still at university and banned from driving and I had to drive into town. and he criticised my driving. and I said he was the most dangerous driver I knew. and he, like, pulled me out of gear [this was because my driving was making him "afraid" or some shit]. and then I said another good one. and he biffed me across the back of my head. yeah, while I was driving; he was afraid. so I, not taking my eyes from the road ahead, punched him right in his nearest [right, yeah] eye with my nearest [left, yeah] fist. he had a shiner for a week and refused to get in a car with me until he thought I would think he had forgotten about it.

― RJG, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was made to dance by having darts thrown at my feet. I think my older brother saw it in some film or something...and-they-say kids don't copy what they see on the big screen.

― chris, Thursday, 15 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my brother and i were given matching pocket-knives and my brother tied a piece of green string to his so we could tell them apart. in about two days mine went missing and i cried and looked everywhere for it. 12 years later my brother told me that he had actually lost his pocket-knife and had just taken mine and tied a piece of green string to it.

also i used to think that a "NO EXIT" sign meant that if you drove your car into that street you weren't allowed to drive it out again. i couldn't understand why all the "NO EXIT" streets weren't filled up with thousands of cars. when i asked my brother if this was true, he said "yes".

― jack benny, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

As the older sibling & a very bossy child I fear I gave my brother quite a traumatic childhood. Even when he was a teeny baby my mum said it took him ages to learn to speak cos I did it for him 'oh yes he wants a biscuit' etc. When I was playing dressing up as princesses with my 2 friends from next door (both also girls) we would make him stand outside the room in his soldier outfit or Spiderman costume + mask and 'guard' us while we played. Also I broke his Action Man training tower slide thing and never owned up and managed to make him get the blame for things by being quicker to burst into tears.

Sorry bro...... but then he got his own back by making me have the crappy car when we played Scalextric (sp?) and by now using his survival against the bullying sister skillz to earn loads more money than me. Bah.

― Emma, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

my parents insist that i was taught to lie by my (2.5 year) younger sister. i'm sure this story has been dressed up and myth-ed up some. they say that i would look just baffled when she'd say something that was not true.

My sister seems to have had a traumatic childhood, and I'm sure I played an important role in it (maybe not as important as the divorce), but i can't remember much beyond her breaking/damaging my stuff, and me getting annoyed BUT GETTING NO JUSTICE. bah

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Through a combination of threats and wheedling I once managed to get my younger brother to ride his crappy Raleigh bike off a table. I told him he would be like a BMX Bandit. It was the most spectacular face-plant I have ever seen.

― Sam, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I teased my sister so much about being 'fat' (I gave her diet books at Xmas) that she became an anorexic, I read her diary once (nasty in itself) and it said "I won't eat and nobody can make me" etc. She's a bit of a lardass now though so obviously there wasn't too much damage

― dave q, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

One of my friends felt so guilty about the sibling cruelty that she inflicted on her brother that she paid for him to have therapy when they were adults.

― toraneko, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Apparently I wuvved my little sister so much that I was constantly berating my parents for not taking enough care of her. Also when she was a bridesmaid I was so nervous about her behaving herself that I threw up. Thankfully she remembers none of this.

― Richard Jones, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister was (and, obviously, still is) younger, but oh so much stronger. She enjoyed using this to her advantage whenever possible - a particular 'game' that sticks in my mind was 'pinning sibling down on the floor while letting a long string of spit dangle over sibling's face until the last possible minute before slurping it back in'. She was a beast.

― Archel, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

You were all so nasty to each other!

― Richard Jones, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

My father was quite shrewd. By siring a daughter at the age of 30, divorcing her mother nine years later, marrying someone else (ie, my mother) eight years after that and giving rise to me a couple of years later, he ensured that I had a half-sister nineteen years my senior who wouldn't dream of doing any of the evil things mentioned above. What a guy.

― MarkH, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

It all started three days after they brought Betsy back from the hospital. I was almost three. Apparently I approached my mother and said, "I'm bored now, can we take it back yet?"

― suzy, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the most cruellest thing my sister has ever done to me was giving me a present. So she said. One day we were in the house and she shouted me, telling me she had a present for me, a surprise. "Close your eyes," she says. The next thing I know she is putting Vicks Vapour Rub in my eyes. I'll never forget that. Still love her to bits though. She's one of my best friends.

I'm lucky by the fact that I have 3 older sisters. Another time I remember I was carrying on with Sylvia, one of my other sisters. Next thing she grabbed my dads snotty hanky and placed it in my mouth. Just makes me sick thinking about it. Yuck.

There were times where all 3 of them would give me "the typewriter", where they would get hold of me and tickle me forever. I hated it.

― Shaz, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

once i spat on my sister, my mum told me "they spat on JESUS!". many years later i thought of the snappy comeback "She ain't Him".

― unknown or illegal user, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No stories. I'm an only child ;)

― brg30, Friday, 16 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I was locked in the cellar with the spiders.. one of my sisters used to bite me regularly, sort of like a pre-school appetizer.

The second oldest sister tried to convince me to eat faeces, telling me everyone did it, and I would be shunned if I didn't.

Thankfully I didn't believe her.

Kirsteen

― Kirsteen, Saturday, 17 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Kirsteen = wisdom at a tender age.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 17 August 2002 23:40 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother and I used to chase each other around with knives when mom wasn't home, but I don't think we ever intended to use them. We really have a very good relationship.

― Dan I, Sunday, 18 August 2002 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

My brother used his nails in fights. That was cheating, I thought. He thought it was perfectly fair. He also had reaaaaally long nails, and mine were always short. I was stronger than him, but he fought dirty. grrr, cheater.

― Maria, Sunday, 18 August 2002 21:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Once, on a rainy day when my younger brother (10) and I (12) were alone in the house and bored, I started acting as if everything he knew was a lie -- telling him that our father was dead, that it was three years later, that we had moved to a small apartment in the city, that the dog in the house was a different dog, that Reagan had declared himself king. He wasn't too impressed with this at first, but after about three hours of it, he had starting screaming "STOP BENDING MY MIND!! STOP BENDING MY MIND!!!"

I still get a laugh when I remember this incident. My brother, however, just gets quiet and his left eyelid starts twitching.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Monday, 19 August 2002 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no, my darling brother and i get on like a house on fire! really! these are the selected highlights that spring to mind, anyway:

I pushed his pram over when i was 3, to see what would happen; He bit out my milkteeth canines in a wrestling bout [even better, it was in a family friend's spa pool and mum later sat on one of them, youch]; He made frequent use of the ever-effective bite-himself-and-say-i-did-it schtick right up to high school; He once snuck up behind me and pulled the fingers on my right hand so far back it broke my ring finger; I embarrassed away several potential girlfriends by TALKING to him in PUBLIC; He slammed a plate-glass door on my arm, i got 15 stitches and missed a major artery by a fraction of an inch; I have absconded with his beloved 7" of ? and the Mysterions' '96 Tears'.

I think we're about even.

― petra jane, Monday, 19 August 2002 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I kicked my younger brother once in the ribs knocking the wind out of him, but I can't think of any really horrible/funny stories.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I have absconded with his beloved 7" of ? and the Mysterions' '96 Tears'.

you won, IMO

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

hey did you know :
The group had originally called the song "69 Tears," but had decided to change its name to "96 Tears" due to concerns that if they recorded the number under the original title they could risk losing radio air play.

(from
? & the Mysterians - 96 Tears - Band Biography and History)

― duane, Monday, 19 August 2002 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

My older brother convinced me he was in fact my half sister's second cousin when I was 5. I haven't trusted him since.

― ejad, Tuesday, 20 August 2002 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

My sister's birthday is October 31 (Halloween). I used to say that that mean that she was a "witch, or something that rhymes." She and I get along better these days, though. Still, for her last birthday I gave her a card that referred to the moment when the doctor looked over the product of delivery, and exclaimed "It's alive!"

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I remember my older brother trying to convince me that he'd brought a glass of water back from the bathroom for me in the middle of the night--how thoughtful!--when it was actually a glass of pee. I didn't fall for it. He also used to hold me down and spit in my ear really slowly--that's pretty common, isn't it? And he often shoot at me with his bb gun.

I once got my younger brother to eat soap after seeing an episode of Gilligan's Island in which they ate soap and started speaking in bubbles. It didn't work. And I used to try and put the legs of my sister's Barbie's in the arm sockets. Not to be mean, I just thought it would look cool.

― Arthur (Arthur), Tuesday, 20 August 2002 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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