This might be seen as a 'not much, moving on' by the public at large, particularly as the William Roache case is breaking bigger.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 10:59 (eleven years ago) link
well, not if they put this sick fuck in jail for the rest of his natural
Doubt it, with regard to what's been confessed to so far.
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
More likely he admitted it because he knew the case against him was strong
Yeah, I am leaning towards that interpretation after reading about this thing a bit more. What is all this horseshit about him now wanting to 'regain his honour and reputation'? How deluded are these people?
― dschinghis kraan (NickB), Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
Does anybody remember this..
Paul D-notalot used to have this 'joke' when if he got a young woman out of the audience to 'help'..
He'd point at his cheek and say 'kiss?', and when they did, he'd turn his head at the very last send and cop it on the lips.
How we all laffed....
― Mark G, Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:05 (eleven years ago) link
The defence seemed to be comprised entirely of "ah you can't charge him for these things that happened like half a century ago just cos times have changed now! Back then it was fine and the families didn't mind save for keeping their kids away from him in the future, so what's the big deal? It was just a series of one-off things that happened 14 times spanning 20 years. To clarify, each time something happened it was definitely a one-off."
― not lazy but clowning (Suedey 2), Thursday, 2 May 2013 11:22 (eleven years ago) link
I know this is hardly the most important aspect of all this shit which is coming out, but at this rate it'll be nigh on impossible to have any kind of jolly nostalgic 'weren't the 70s great?' programme as just about everything from that era is becoming tainted.
― The Horse Rustler and the Rustler's Horse (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
otm, we're currently watching a celebrity edition of pointless and i can't help wondering which contestants will end up in custody
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
who is there to choose from?
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
brian blessed, bill oddie, anthea turner
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
could be worth a cheeky treble
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
calling it now: all three
― Neil S, Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
also have my suspicions about that bloke with the computer on that show
Oddie definitely looks like a mf with some dark secrets
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:44 (eleven years ago) link
As i said upthread, wonder which of today's celebrities will be getting arrested 30 years from now
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:24 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think it necessarily projects that way, even taking into account intimidation and fear of not being believed, people are probably more likely to go to the police now than in the 70s and 80s. Even if they aren't, it's unlikely to take 30 years.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 May 2013 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
i thought all these old scrotes would get away with it, due to it being so long after the fact and the grim stats about sex crime convictions. kinda shocking, but good, that stuart hall has fallen - means it all can't be spun into a 'this whole post-savile investigation was a waste of time/witchhunt'
― NI, Thursday, 2 May 2013 20:45 (eleven years ago) link
I can't imagine the horror that some of these victims have endured and survived. The double whammy of your rapist/abuser on the television in your living room after already infiltrating your life. A lot of my family suffered in state care in Dublin in the 50's. It's all the same I suppose, 50's catholic priests/70's television presenters. Just another case of state collusion with various sick fucks.
― Jason Dowd, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
so very sick of this sudden 'hall wishes to apologise to his victims' crap. where were your apologies 40 years ago?
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 May 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hey man it's been 20 years give the guy a break, he just wants to regain some honour
...
― not lazy but clowning (Suedey 2), Friday, 3 May 2013 07:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/may/02/stuart-hall-5-live-instruct-sex
― Mark G, Friday, 3 May 2013 08:15 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/how-i-exposed-stuart-halls-sex-abuse-yasmin-alibhaibrown-on-the-letter-that-kickstarted-the-investigation-8601517.html
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2013 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
I'm pretty sure when I read that article yesterday there was a reference to an MP who is now a peer who was allegedly his accomplice. Presumably that's now been removed for legal reasons.
― Matt DC, Friday, 3 May 2013 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
So Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is good for something after all then
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Friday, 3 May 2013 09:42 (eleven years ago) link
we're currently watching a celebrity edition of pointless and i can't help wondering which contestants will end up in custody
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 May 2013 22:26 (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the chuckle brothers are on this one
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 5 May 2013 03:03 (eleven years ago) link
Tarby arrested...
― ailsa, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
oh sigh
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol ignoramus from the usa here but is this all tangentially related to jimmy saville in some way that i don't understand, some revelations tied to what they discovered w/r/t him?
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
What they uncovered seems to be at minimum a culture of looking the other way at the national broadcaster, and at worse a sustained culture of grooming within said broadcaster.
Tarby was at a different network though, so it looks like the inquiry has moved onto a stage where they are more looking at whether tv celebrities during the 70s as a whole were exploiting their fame to rape kids and taking overlooked victims' claims seriously, finally, nearly 40 years on.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
xp Many of them are light entertainment TV figures from the 70s/80s.
― Camp Macaroni Style (snoball), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
Will the DM highlight ITV wrt Tarby?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
Unlikely.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 06:34 (eleven years ago) link
Should have a sweepstake on whose next, bagsy Paul Daniels
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 10:51 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't Paul Daniels already come out with some kind of weird defensive "I slept with loads of women but I don't THINK any of them were underage" statement just after Savillegate kicked off?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:12 (eleven years ago) link
Will the DM highlight a photo of Thatcher with Tarby?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9764387/Paul-Daniels-admits-he-cannot-be-sure-all-his-groupies-were-over-16.html
― you say potatooles (onimo), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:14 (eleven years ago) link
“Life back then was a blur, and therein lies a major problem with what is going on now.“It was 35-40 years ago. How the hell can you say you did or you didn't?“Anyone can come along and claim to have been ‘abused’ by anyone they care to name.”
“It was 35-40 years ago. How the hell can you say you did or you didn't?
“Anyone can come along and claim to have been ‘abused’ by anyone they care to name.”
vile, vile bastard
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
can anyone among us truly be sure that they haven't abused children??? truly???
― ohmigud (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
i am thoroughly sure i have never fucked a child
― great wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
what a disgusting piece of shit
probably this should just be a matter of looking up people who were subjects of Louis Theroux documentaries, informing the police accordingly
― Neil S, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
... either that or just Thatcher's famous friends and supporters
― Bees Against Racism (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 15:46 (eleven years ago) link
Charles Moore gets defensive in the Spectatorhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/BJwEpwvCMAEr_7h.jpg:large
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
Well yeah, it's a war on the culture which apparently allowed the widespread abuse of vulnerable children.
― bizarro gazzara, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 15:22 (eleven years ago) link
Ooooh, *culture war*. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Charles Moore: The Parvenu Fucktard.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/ uh
― stet, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
Now even a deputy speaker of the House of Commons is accused of male rape. This is an unfortunate consequence of the present mania for policing all aspects of personal life under the mantra of ‘child protection’.
uh indeed
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:51 (eleven years ago) link
was going to respond to that shite but if i do that they win
― Koné 2013 (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 17:57 (eleven years ago) link
That article's some Littlejohnesque bullshit. I genuinely don't believe I just read that.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
let rapists be rapists, just a bit of fun with the lads, no harm in it, now lets all have a spot of tea and forget this nasty business
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
i mean aaargggggh
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 May 2013 18:07 (eleven years ago) link