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
well, yeah.
after all, gary glitter vinyl goes for a fortune these days.
(actually it probably does, but i am not going to check)
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:02 (ten years ago) link
I pretty much tossed a coin over whether to post it here or to the shit that looks like an onion article thread
― sktsh, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
Clifford guilty
― A frenzied geologist (Tom D.), Monday, 28 April 2014 14:44 (ten years ago) link
Sentenced to eight years.
― Yuri Bashment (ShariVari), Friday, 2 May 2014 14:51 (ten years ago) link
these cunts are completely loathesome, every aged light entertainment wasteman shuffling to and fro over the last couple of years, wish them nothing but ill, clifford probably the only one deluded enough to self-incriminate but they are all vermin
― Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln (nakhchivan), Friday, 2 May 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
all this makes me mourn richard whiteley all the keener
― imago, Friday, 2 May 2014 15:30 (ten years ago) link
The sentencing remarks, au revoir you piece of worthless shit.
http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/sentencing-remarks-hhj-leonard-r-v-clifford.pdf
― under the cobblestones, le dogshit (xelab), Friday, 2 May 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
Rolf Harris sexually assaulted girl of 13, court told
― goth colouring book (anagram), Friday, 9 May 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Why would anyone send this card to anyone?
https://twitter.com/CourtNewsUK/status/466284842767093760/photo/1
― Alba, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link