Friends constantly taking the piss out of me

Some people enjoy doing it because it takes the attention off them, they're afraid if they don't do it to you then others will do it to them. If it gets too much, I wouldn't bother with them personally but just try and don't react angrily or anything and see what happens or start giving them a bit of stick.

If I were you, I would just tell them to stop because it annoys me.
I usually say things straight..

Thanks for the reply.

I suppose you're right. But I'm always the one who's being singled out. Everytime we're together it's just them taking the piss out of me and me just sitting there.

I've tried the giving them some stick thing but they all gang up on me and laugh in harmony and so on. Ugh. I don't react angrily at all. If I try to ignore it they keep saying stuff like 'You're not crying are you?'

I'd just stop hanging around with them but I don't want to lose my other friend because of them.

any time they start up, just walk away and dont say anything....they'll soon realise and stop

There reaches a point between a bit of friendly joking banter and just getting insulting. It sounds like they've crossed that threshold really to the point where they don't even seem like your friends, maybe they just see you as someone they can pick on for entertainment which is why they keep you around. Sounds like you're better off just not bothering with those kids.

any time they start up, just walk away and dont say anything....they'll soon realise and stop

Basically, next time they do it, tell it like it is, angrily. Don't get emotional or begging, tell them how it is and tell they should stop acting like they're in year 7 and grow up, because they're the childish ones, not you. Get up and walk away confidently and maturely. Find someone else to talk to, and wait to see if they come back to you with their tail between their legs, which they generally would do. If they don't, they're not worth it. You won't lose your other friend if you do this, if he realises what he's been doing, but if he doesn't come back to you he's not truly your friend.

Thank you so much.. I'll try that next time. I think they would try to come and sort it out with me if I did that, but then I'd always feel awkward and 'fake' around them.. I don't know, but that's what I think.

I don't know what I've done wrong to deserve this though. Why didn't they pick on someone else? Why me?

Maybe try talking to your friend before you confront all of them? Say that you understand it's a joke and not meant to be taken seriously, but enough is enough and a you are not obliged to find every joke they make funny. If you're better friends with him then the rest of the group then he should be more understanding.

It's really difficult to say something like that if you're male because you're supposed to be all macho and pack animals and stuff like that, but if you get your friend on your side first and say that the jokes need to be toned down because it's not nice hearing it, maybe ask him to give you an example when someone else in the group was taken the piss out of (someone who hasn't had it done to them recently obv) and just generally explain that enough is enough.

It's nothing you've done, people are idiots at times, even our friends. I've been in this situation so many times it's untrue. All the time, I've walked away and just got a new set of friends to talk to, showing it's them and not me whose had the loss, and practically every time one of the other group has come back to me, saying they miss me or just trying to make amends by talking to me with a sort of youthful sorry face . It's actually quite satisfying seeing them beg for you to come back, and it's your choice whether you want to go and act like nothing happened, or just stand your ground and avoid them, depending on how much it affected you.

Don't feel as though you'd be awkward and fake around them, if they are genuinely sorry and there is a genuine friendship between you and them, then you'll be back to normal again. I've found people do it to the ones they think are the most vulnerable and who won't just walk away, so if you do walk away, they'll get a shock.

Exactly. I mean, I'm not some skinny little kid.. I'm an amateur boxer, but I'm just not the kind of person to enjoy being taken the piss out of ALL the time. I'd understand if everyone was equally 'bullied', but it's just me and nobody else and it's done all the time.

If I told my friend, he'd stop himself, definitely, but I doubt he'd tell the others to keep it down. I wouldn't want him to do that either as it's worse if they hear it through third parties that I don't like it, right?

I've already done the 'I'm serious, can you please stop that? It isn't funny all the time' thing. They just all laughed. I'm finding it really hard to control my temper to be honest.