It's a feeling that isn't uncommon Lencoboy.
It's a feeling that isn't uncommon Lencoboy.
Today I'm having irrational thoughts about challenging the authority of the staff at my day centre, provoking the manager there to cane me and also provoking the police and the local youth in Burton on Trent to brutalise me.
I'm also having irrational fantasies about the windows of the Jobcentre Plus in both Burton and Tamworth being smashed, like in the 1982 TV film 'Made In Britain'. Not that I have any actual intention of doing it personally though.
What happened to the 'stick it to the man' youth attitudes of previous decades?
I also recall being triggered by the Adrian Mole TV drama series' a few years back when I watched them on YouTube (both 'The Secret Diary' and 'The Growing Pains').
In 'The Secret Diary', I was especially disturbed by the scene where Adrian's dad was trying to make a phone call but the phone had been cut off because Adrian had hidden the phone bill under his mattress (which Adrian's mom incidentally found while changing his bed, along with a porn mag) because Adrian secretly made phone calls to his girlfriend Pandora in Tunisia while she was on holiday there with her parents, and Adrian's dad went totally berserk, acting like Adrian had committed the most heinous crime against humanity and screamed something like 'Get in there, you stupid little sod'! Adrian replied 'Why'? and his dad screamed even louder 'BECAUSE I'M GONNA THRASH YOU THAT'S WHY'! and Adrian's dad then sounded like he was pathetically about to break down and cry, plus I think he may have looked like he was about to take his belt off to thrash Adrian to within an inch of his life.
'The Growing Pains' was extremely poignant in parts, especially where Adrian was struggling to cope both at home and school, especially following the birth of his baby sister Rosie (who was born illegitimately as a result of Adrian's mom's affair with the family's former neighbour Mr. Lucas), which eventually led to Adrian running away to the north of England with his family's pet dog to escape the torment of his chaotic home and school life, and ended up sleeping rough on the streets of cities like Leeds and Manchester.
I mean, my own family and school life could be quite chaotic and tumultuous at times when I was a kid but thankfully never as terrible as that of Adrian Mole's, even though like Brookside and Grange Hill, was/is only fictional TV drama, but still reflecting the general zeitgeist of Britain for many during the early-mid 80s period.
Ditto for the police procedural drama series 'Juliet Bravo' (1980-85) which often seemed to tell of the struggles many faced in the north of England during that same era, and is also quite harrowing to watch at times.
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