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
So, DLT and Rolf verdicts to come.
― Mark G, Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
KB was a certainty to be not guilty, i would have put money on it. I reckon DLT will be not guilty too, not sure about Rolf
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 February 2014 17:40 (ten years ago) link
DLT acquitted
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
no justice
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 14:31 (ten years ago) link
How do you reckon that, exactly?
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
just being stupid.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
seriously though, does the CPS need to take a look itself? That's what the papers will be saying I would guess, though of course it was the same moral panic they created that caused allegations like the DLT/Roache ones to come to court.
― Kim Wrong-un (Neil S), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:33 (ten years ago) link
Close Shave For Hairy Cornflake
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 13 February 2014 15:47 (ten years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26322552
Love that the picture looks like it was taken just as they told him.
― Ian Glasper's trapped in a scone (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
Quack quack oops.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:18 (ten years ago) link
https://audioboo.fm/boos/602753-quack-quack-oops
given his acquittal for the other offences there might be an argument that the CPS are being willfully stubborn here
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
Have these unsuccessful cases perhaps been pursued to distract from investigations into police corruption behind Saville's escape from prosecution while he was alive? Just to 'David Peace' it all up, so to speak?
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:26 (ten years ago) link
Maybe, yes. They clearly believe they have the evidence to support a prosecution but are maybe still in denial of the power of celebrity in the face of such evidence, even washed up celebrity who was never all that in the first place.
― Idris Elba don't keep your lights on (onimo), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:29 (ten years ago) link
i'm not sure it's about the celebrity only, i've heard lawyers argue that these cases were not strong enough. i think there's a real concern that bringing cases just to be seen to be doing something, or for more nefarious reasons as stevie suggests, is just going to muddy the waters for potential cases with a genuine prospect of conviction in the future
― we sold our Solsta for Rock'n'Roll (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:32 (ten years ago) link
Anyone remember the Times profile of DLT published just before the Yewtree situ blew up? Female interviewer noted that he was "handsy" throughout, and wanted to show her his library of photographs he'd taken of friends' teenaged female daughters. Is behind paywall so I cannot link it.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 11:35 (ten years ago) link
DLT has a Paywall?
― Mark G, Monday, 24 February 2014 12:45 (ten years ago) link
Dave Lee Travis: Look out, Suu Kyi - he's a bit touchy
― sleepingsignal, Monday, 24 February 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
yup, that's the one.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 14:07 (ten years ago) link
There’s a half-body sculpture of buttocks, thong and legs near the fridge, opposite a chalk board with “poo bags and Nurofen” written in capitals. Christ.
― heritage punk act (onimo), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
Hoping those poo bags are for the dog.
― you are clinically deaf and should sell you iPod (stevie), Monday, 24 February 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
poo bags and Nurofen
Rejected line from Dana's 'All Kinds of Everything'.
― an office job is as secure as a Weetabix padlock (snoball), Monday, 24 February 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
Tarby walks
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:44 (ten years ago) link
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/sinister-jimmy-savile-board-game-6981620#.U0rN0t_VU7Y.twitter
― sktsh, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:17 (ten years ago) link
“The instructions suggest it would be harder to finish than Trivial Pursuits,” he said.
“The game’s complexity, and the fact Savile was the biggest sex offender in history, really puts you off from getting the die out...
“I know it’s not like an ouija board that could invoke the spirit of Savile.
“But imagine if this had been a pub quiz board game with Ian Brady’s face on the box?"
keep having to check that this isn't a spoof
― waterflow ductile laser beam (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link
'Woman guzzled lager with friends instead of getting help for dying puppy' in the sidebar gave me pause as well
― soref, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:24 (ten years ago) link
hang on .. the owner is "loaning" it to the museum.
they may want it back at some point !!?
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
there's a subtext throughout that the owner obviously thinks it'll be worth a few quid when the moral panic's died down
― waterflow ductile laser beam (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link