Sean Connery

Parents were the landlords Annie.
Oh I do BlueBelle and the methods and ends used to protect them by teachers sometimes. Their inability to leave and go to a shelter because their entire extended family is housed on the one estate and if she leaves he will punish them. Doesn't mean there are no violent women around. As I said I understand why they believe their boy must learn to fight.

No of course not. I havent worked with vulnerable families for 30 years, I have never had to be part of decision making to remove children from violent homes. Its all kittens and rainbows here.

.....And with respect maybe you know nothing about abused and beaten women trisher

What was a 7 year old doing in a pub ? Being working class there with his mother ?

Some women expect their sons to be "hard", withdraw affection at an early age, encourage fighting to solve an argument and stand cheering their son on as he fights with another child. I realise that most of you won't have encountered these women and I really don't blame them. It is incredibly difficult to raise a boy who will have to survive in a culture where violence is the norm. Until you've had a 7 year old tell you that last night a man had a snooker cue broken over his head in the local pub you probably know little about the violence in some lives.

Can't stand James Bond!

Out of all the 'Bond's' I liked him the best RIP

A handsome man right to the end.

I only pinponted working class abuse because it was what I heard of from my GM ,she didn't work with women from any other backgrounds and it was women whose hubands worked in factories and shipyards who hit their wives that my GP helped.I know it happened and still happens in other walks of life .even now .
The women they worked with were in the main uneducated and didn't expect anything else ,they had no say in any part of their lives and chastisement for overstepping their "place" was the norm .I'm sure there are well documented cases of this and I know there were very basic refuges for women in Glasgow.In fact I remember seeing photographs of the poor sould in one refuge which was little more than a hovel .
I have never excused wife beating ,just explianed it was learned behaviour .
Surely Jane 10 there are millions of Scots living in other countries who still love Scotland ,even some on here .They may have left because they had no choice for work or relationships or because their parents took them when they went.Doens't diminish their feelings about being a Scot one little bit.There are many IN Scotland who are happy to be ruled by English based parties are we to imagine their feelings are more relevant ?

‘she asked for it ‘ ? ?

I m so glad you are so sure it only happens in working class families trisher
I m going to leave this thread now I ve said enough and I m getting cross and I don’t need to get cross on a Sunday afternoon
If you choose to excuse it and ignore it and wrongly make out it only happens in one bit of society I feel sorry for your closed eyes
I ll leave you with trisher s classic
“and the reality of how women contribute towards it” and there we have it folks
Enjoy your hero

She made me do it. Said every mra always. Cracking job on the feminism though.

Dear god trisher.

He stayed at my house in 1963. I lived in a pub which did B and B and he stayed the night, supping whiskey with my dad (also a Scot) until the early hours! It was just before Dr.No came to our local cinema so we didn’t appreciate his ‘star quality’ at that time lol

Even my son text me with the news saying he was one of his favourite actors.

and the reality of how women contribute towards it

Trisher he made much of his 'Scottishness' but didn't bother to even come here much. It was just PR spin. Not impressed.

It’s the woman’s fault trisher ?

Sean Connery for an actor was a private person. I object to anyone male or female being condemned because of one speech on a talk show or one failed marriage. So all those accusing me of condoning violence can just get stuffed. I simply know what happened in some working class families, what still happens in many, and the reality of how women contribute towards it. If you have taught a boy from the earliest years that he has to be hard you shouldn't be surprised if he is unable to adjust his thinking when it comes to women. (Although actually some men do). Or if it takes him some time to change the habits he has been taught in childhood.
As has been said his support for Scotland remained strong throughout his life. Perhaps he chose not to live there and pay taxes because his money would be taken by the Westminster government and he preferred it to go directly to Scotland.

No other Bond matched Sir Sean. Looks, voice, presence, he had them all in those films.

Always sad when someone dies although I was never a fan really. He had some good roles but watching a montage of his films on the tv news last night confirmed that he just played himself in all of them!!

Just because most of us don't hit others doesn't make us perfect. Sean Connery was a film 'star' not a great actor nor necessarily a wonderful person. He was 90. He had a good innings. As a 'professional Scot' he chose to live elsewhere. Nuff said.

My favourite Bond. I’m not a great Nond film fan, but he made it worthwhile having to watch it, where some of the other Bonds were an excuse to do jigsaws instead.

Pantglas2
The eyes would say it all..Who needs words ?

Paddyanne
“Nice to see so many perfect folk on here though !”
Agree!