Montgomery Burns
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mancityvstoke said:One thing I will say Monty is not everyone had an upbringing and lovely parents like you had the fortune to have.
I'm not using it as an excuse for being violent but if, like me, you had a Father who attacked you with a hammer on Xmas day because you were playing music too loud and smashed your room up including your record player and you had violence like that on a regular basis it made you slightly angry and more prone to violence yourself.
It wasn't like the Waltons in our house.
I'm a man who avoids trouble now but in the 70's I was a violent 'orrible cant.
I watch videos like that and cringe as I regret a lot of what I did. I also know that back in those days it was so very fucking different. Very scary at times too. Sometimes I wanted to run but couldn't because it would have been worse if you did.
I realise that mate - it wasn't the Waltons in our house either believe me, although it wasn't the Grimleys either although the old man did/does have a touch of Baz now I come to think of it.
Of course people are conditioned by their circumstances/surroundings/ upbringing etc but if I slip back into Monty mode about the music - no. I better not!
But you've changed as you say, so have I. I never wanted the upbringing (ruled by fear) I had for my kids and neither did my brother - the mould has to be broken somewhere, sometime, that's all I'm trying to say.