god blass you jimmy, you are a legend
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 09:49 (ten years ago) link
the lady....., who sees it as it is!
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 09:50 (ten years ago) link
`The country would be a much better place full of Jim ul fix its. Great character
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:03 (ten years ago) link
Like I know this is obvious but Mail readers (or maybe just commenters) (nah, readers) are such shockingly awful judges of character.
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:08 (ten years ago) link
Now steady on there, he might have loved abusing kiddies but at least he didn't hate Britain.
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
or Thatcher
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 10:32 (ten years ago) link
waiting for the smoking gun that connects her to all of this like a david peace novel or smthng
The Alderman Roberts connection, Perhaps. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/thatchers-dad-mayor-preacher-groper-1257249.html
― In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
lol just remembering last autumn when the Savile revelations were coming out, and journos were all 'yeah all the papers knew we just couldn't publish it'. But still cool to publish fawning stories about a guy they know to be a serial sexual predator of children.
― In times of osterity, these Eton-educated poshboys (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
The MO for covering people like that, as far as I am aware, is to mention whatever it is they're trying to hide in the most glowing of terms, laying it on as thickly as possible, in the hopes of getting enough of a rise out of the subject that their lawyer can't really help them...
― hatcat marnell (suzy), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
The interview at the end of this has to be seen to be believed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXQ6bgMskpo
"I'm feared in every girl's school in Britain"
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
8:22 is where it goes down. he's like an object lesson in hiding in plain sight.
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:45 (ten years ago) link
yer man on the panel there seems to say something like "it's a Spitting Image nightmare". Spitting Image back in the 80s was the only show i recall ever actually having a pop at him, constantly having the puppet Jimmy refer to himself as "You sad man".
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 13:46 (ten years ago) link
Who are the Fraiser Crane and Johnny Vaughan lookalikes on the panel?
― One Trick Over-Painted Pony (soref), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:07 (ten years ago) link
I sort of recognise the JV lookalike but I forget who he is.
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:10 (ten years ago) link
Andrew O'Connor
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:11 (ten years ago) link
FC lookalike is James Whale
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Andrew O'Connor ended up producing Peep Show - at least I think it's the same guy.
― nate woolls, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:14 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW6qfB-Z3mg"Say everything twice, say everything twice"
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
aye, this is the one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_O%27Connor_(actor)
― Vic Arpeggio, Private Investigator (stevie), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:16 (ten years ago) link
i think that's Coogan doing the voice! never twigged that before.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:32 (ten years ago) link
It's Hugh Dennis doing the doctor voice.
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:33 (ten years ago) link
i venture Kate Robbins as the nurse too maybe.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 12 November 2013 14:35 (ten years ago) link
That sweatshirt! "I am an animal and I will eat you if I have to" - is that a mid 90s reference I'm missing there or just an utterly bizarre thing to wear on a light entertainment show?
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 15:37 (ten years ago) link
Not a mid 90s reference AFAIK, just an example of the kind of bizarre stuff Savile would have written on his sweatshirts.
― Meine Damen und Herren, Kraf-twerk (snoball), Tuesday, 12 November 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile
... from 1978
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:34 (ten years ago) link
I read the comments thread under there. Why did I do that?
― Tim, Wednesday, 8 January 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
lol @
No wonder his career was over by 1980.
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 January 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
so DLT, Rolf Harris and Ken Barlow are all in court today. wtf.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:38 (ten years ago) link
Dave Lee Travis described as 'opportunist' sex offenderRolf Harris denies 12 indecent assault chargesCoronation Street's William Roache on trial not Ken Barlow, jury told
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:40 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/14/dave-lee-travis-trial-fame-target-vulnerable-young-women
Grimly banal:
"Another incident took place in Travis's dressing room as he appeared in a pantomime in Crawley in 1991, the court heard, when the DJ pinned a woman up against the door before shoving his hand down her jogging bottoms.
The assault lasted a matter of seconds, the jury was told, before Travis was interrupted by one of the Chuckle Brothers walking past his dressing room."
― Eyeball Kicks, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 15:59 (ten years ago) link
Roache 'sent autograph after attack'
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
Just noticed the three news stories mentioned by snoball on the Guardian's (website) front page. Feels quite ... I dunno ... perhaps anagram nailed it with wtf.
― djh, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:52 (ten years ago) link
dunno what his defence case is like but this dlt trial is all sorts of horrible
― tench and pike, scaup and snipe (NickB), Friday, 17 January 2014 13:25 (ten years ago) link
Read this in 'The Captive' by Proust just today, struck a chord:
"Lying, though it is so often deceptive and is the basis of all conversation, conceals less thoroughly a feeling of hostility, or of self-interest, or a visit which one wants to appear not to have paid, or a short-lived escapade with a mistress which one is anxious to keep from one's wife, than a good reputation covers up - to the extent of not letting its existence be guessed - sexual depravity."
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:41 (ten years ago) link
Does Proust explore the idea of lying being the basis of all conversation more in this book? Sounds interesting
― badg, Friday, 17 January 2014 17:52 (ten years ago) link
well a large part of that particular volume is about the narrator's obsession with the lies that he and Albertine, his on-off love person, tell each other other, all the time, and that quote feeds into a larger theme about social duplicity and malice amongst the french aristocracy in times past - conversation in proust is p much always a snakepit of deception, snobbery, stupidity etc., all rendered as v. malcious comedy.
sorry this is a way away from rolf roache & DLT
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 January 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
That quote also stood out for me when I re-read The Captive a couple of months ago, more for the "Lying...is the basis of all conversation" is such a hook.
Awesome how you've quoted it here, comes off as even more savage...
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 17 January 2014 22:01 (ten years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BeBwTzzIEAA3qp9.jpg
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
The phrase "rock and hard place" is not remotely adequate
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Saturday, 18 January 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
Irrelevantly, RIP Lord McAlpine. A man of unimpeachable integrity.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:12 (ten years ago) link
So, was there any fire behind the smoke, or was the mistaken identity thing true?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:49 (ten years ago) link
lol or maybe he's faked his death to smoke out more internet libellers... wonder how the law stands on that- can you libel someone you reasonably believe to be dead, if they turn out not to be?
― UK Cop Humour (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 18 January 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
poor janice
― i lost my shoes on acid (jed_), Saturday, 18 January 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
On the bright side, Savile clearly not interested.
― time is a train that make the future flag post (snoball), Saturday, 18 January 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
oh god.wish i could unsee that picture ..
― mark e, Saturday, 18 January 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
I was going to say that Savile's motto was "as long as it's got a pulse" except it didn't even need that (if rumours are true)
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 January 2014 12:40 (ten years ago) link
sorry mark!
― piscesx, Sunday, 19 January 2014 13:57 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-25917895
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Monday, 27 January 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Ken Barlow not guilty
― cyfytlapdbfr? (darraghmac), Thursday, 6 February 2014 12:28 (ten years ago) link