you should try listening to "i'm the leader of the gang (i am)"
― Professor Giff (NickB), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
There's another glove, and twitter searches are a bit creepy:
***** ******** came to my kids school for the gold awards, disappointed he wasn't wearing his leather glove!
― stet, Friday, 12 October 2012 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
Now they're saying Jeremy Beadle may have had a small hand in it.
― ~ (Matt #2), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
xp Ha! That's the glove i assumed people were talking about. Not that there have ever been rumours about him, iirc.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Mike Reid's dead, right? We can libel him if we want.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 12 October 2012 23:22 (eleven years ago) link
Have I Got News For You; very interesting tonight.
― piscesx, Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
come on, timmy mallet, no trial needed, if savile is the entertainment paed jesus then mallet is saint peter.
― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Saturday, 13 October 2012 01:58 (eleven years ago) link
was praying the other night that Noel Edmonds gets outed
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:05 (eleven years ago) link
Dear Jesus,
Please please please please fix it for me for Noel Edmonds to be outed as a nonce.
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
(ftr I think it's incredibly unlikely - out of all the DJs on that 1977 Radio Times cover, Edmonds is the least nonce-like. A huge womanising creep, yes, but not a pedo.)
― a great poke for Jet Set Willy (snoball), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:10 (eleven years ago) link
i wonder if it's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Adamson who played Len Fairclough on coronation street? It's the right era and I don't know if there were any other UK soaps at that time.
― jed_, Friday, October 12, 2012 9:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"LEN STOLE MY SUNSHINE" = a headline that can be used if this story gets another airing
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:29 (eleven years ago) link
back then there was Crossroads and Emmerdale Farm
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
If it was Peter Adamson they would just publish his name since he was dead
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
They might want more than one source for the stories, though, even with a dead star like Adamson or TV-comedian-turned-soap-actor-and-close-friend-of-Freddie-Starr Mike Read.
― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:17 (eleven years ago) link
Reid. Not Mike Read, obviously.
More Sadowitz:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ktIcElNDtM&feature=watch_response
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
And HIGNFY, back on form I thought last night. Needs to be like that more often.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
back then there was Crossroads andEmmerdale Farm
Doesn't need to be back anywhere, this new story isn't about Savile back then, it's about the BBC covering up for one of their stars, so unlikely to be anyone from an itv soap.
I find this guess-who's-a-nonce game a bit distasteful though.
― ailsa, Saturday, 13 October 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
Agreed.
― Chewshabadoo, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
Peter "Is it true if you take your finger out I'll sink" Adamson was a convicted nonce tbf
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:21 (eleven years ago) link
also it's fair game speculating about people as long as they're cunts anyway
He won his court case did he not?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
Good friend of mine, in 2003, wrote a 4 page cartoon story for UNICEF on child abuse, for use in schools.
Guess what he called it.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
ooh, never went to court apparently. forgot. didn't work much after that tbf.
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
The four page comic story, illustrated by John McCrea, is about sexual abuse within the family, which is still where abuse is most prevalent.
this can't be stressed enough tbh while we're all having a laugh and the press are playing "boo the pantomime villains" as per
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 October 2012 12:35 (eleven years ago) link
Watched that ITV doc last night. There's a section where a local newspaper journalist goes to interview him at his home. A young girl arrives, Savile takes her into the bedroom for 10m, comes out, has a wash.
The hack says: "I left then, even though I hadn't even got a story."
Uh, I can sense the inkling of a story there, mate.
― stet, Saturday, 13 October 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
over 75,000 people have now come forward? incredible.
― Randy Carol (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 October 2012 23:18 (eleven years ago) link
Savile gets the defender he deserves:http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/12973/
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
I like how Spiked's layout makes it look like BO'N has changed his byline photo to one of Savile, like a forum avatar. unless that is what he's done?
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
we are all Jimmy Savile to an extent
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
my extent stops short of fondling comatose children tbf but the point stands
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
the guess-a-nonce thing particularly shit when it turns into the smirk-at-famous-gay-people game
― thomasintrouble, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah there's a tiny leap in a lot of wankers' brains between homo and nonce
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 10:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/292862_10152100086961686_766376163_n.jpg
"fuck the Criminal Justice Act"
― it's the Suede/Denim secret police/they have come for your 90s niece (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:35 (eleven years ago) link
disgusting beast finally discredited in the eyes of a formerly adoring public and rightly taken to task for his crimes standing next to Jimmy Savile etc
― thread lock holiday (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
DLT, to nobody's surprise:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9608676/Dave-Lee-Travis-allegedly-groped-women-in-his-BBC-studio.html
― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Friday, 19 October 2012 10:41 (eleven years ago) link
surely not the hairy cuntflake
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 10:45 (eleven years ago) link
Telegraph seems to be doing a lot of the running with these stories, they are like pigs in shit with this stuff
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
pace HIGNFY, reeeeeeally uncomfortable w/how this story is being used as stick with which to beat the BBC
― Chief Queef (stevie), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/19/jimmy-savile-met-criminal-investigation
Up to 200 victims, unprecedented scale, says Scotland Yard.
WHY ARE WE ONLY DOING THIS NOW HE'S DEAD?!
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
He got away with it his whole life.
To clarify, I'm not aainst theis investigation in any way, the victims deserve and need acknowledgement and closure and help if they want it, I just find it frustrating that he wont get punished, and seemed to live his dirty, nasty, exploitative life safe in the knowledge that he never, ever would. How did this happen?
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Suppose it depends on how much anyone at the BBC knew about it at the time. The Newsnight thing doesn't feel like a particularly big issue in itself. There's a lot of hearsay going around at the moment.
― Matt DC, Friday, 19 October 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
haven't really heard anybody blaming the BBC either other than the usual suspects
― rhino what boys like (Noodle Vague), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone who grew up watching Benny Hill or On The Buses must be totally shocked that there was a culture of leery sexpests at the heart of entertainment industry
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
Does anyone know who John Simpson was referring to when stories about "Uncle Dick" were reported the other day?
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
The row over Jimmy Savile's four-decade career at the BBC has intensified after it emerged that the veteran journalist John Simpson claimed that top executives knew of sexual abuse by another star presenter in the 1950s and 60s.Simpson referred to the star in his 1999 autobiography as "Uncle Dick" and said he had been a household name from the 1920s until his death in 1967. He claimed that BBC bosses up to the level of director general were aware of the allegations.The former BBC News world affairs editor said he was told about sexual abuse by the star when he died and was asked to write an obituary."Week after week, children from all over the country could win competitions to visit the BBC and meet Uncle Dick," Simpson wrote in Strange Places, Questionable People."He would welcome them, show them around, give them lunch, then take them to the gents and interfere with them. If parents complained, the director general's office would write saying the nation wouldn't understand such an accusation against a much-loved figure."The BBC refused to comment on the identity of the presenter.
Simpson referred to the star in his 1999 autobiography as "Uncle Dick" and said he had been a household name from the 1920s until his death in 1967. He claimed that BBC bosses up to the level of director general were aware of the allegations.
The former BBC News world affairs editor said he was told about sexual abuse by the star when he died and was asked to write an obituary.
"Week after week, children from all over the country could win competitions to visit the BBC and meet Uncle Dick," Simpson wrote in Strange Places, Questionable People.
"He would welcome them, show them around, give them lunch, then take them to the gents and interfere with them. If parents complained, the director general's office would write saying the nation wouldn't understand such an accusation against a much-loved figure."
The BBC refused to comment on the identity of the presenter.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/oct/17/jimmy-savile-abuse-bbc?INTCMP=SRCH
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
Uncle Dick likely = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_McCulloch
― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:05 (eleven years ago) link
Ah okay!
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:07 (eleven years ago) link
In 1939 the audience for Children's Hour reached 4 million. His sign-off line "Goodnight children, everywhere", became more poignant after the evacuation of many children from their homes at the start of the Second World War.
^ not sinister at all, in retrospect
― a punch-up at a web zing (NickB), Friday, 19 October 2012 12:08 (eleven years ago) link