My father had an odd way of punishing us as children. When we did anything bad he would just stop speaking to us. It would go on for days and was terribly painful to be on the recieving end. I remember crying because he wouldn't reply to me,  always had to keep trying and trying desperately until he would relent and be normal again. I have learned as an adult that this is called stonewalling. I have also grown into a very successful stonewaller. People who piss me off become invisible to me. I understand such behaviour is ultimately pointless because those that will feel affected by my stonewalling will be those who care about me, the assholes don't give a shit about whether I talk to them.