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
Rolf found guilty on all counts, and the judge hints he'll do time.
― Rabona not glue (aldo), Monday, 30 June 2014 14:33 (nine years ago) link
Guessed as much..
― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:22 (nine years ago) link
Amber was all, like, "nooo., I wanted him to do my portrait one day"
I said he's already done Lily Cole, and she said that's why..
(Summary: More people were hoping it wasn't true about Rolf than any other one)
― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2014 15:55 (nine years ago) link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/it-was-a-relief-when-i-got-the-knighthoodbecause-it-gotme-off-the-hook-an-exclusive-interview-with-savile-from-1990-has-a-new-meaning-9571057.html
― The Littlest Boho (stevie), Monday, 30 June 2014 16:00 (nine years ago) link
uggghhh"Now you, watching from afar, might say ‘Look at those young girls throwing themselves at him’, whereas in actual fact it’s exactly the opposite. I am of no interest to them, except in a purely platonic way."
― kinder, Monday, 30 June 2014 17:34 (nine years ago) link
"He is very keen on reason, very distrustful of emotion: he boasts often of his “logic” and his membership of Mensa." -- early Redditor
(A bit far? I suppose so. Posting it anyway to regret it later.)
― the ghosts of dead pom-bears (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 30 June 2014 20:08 (nine years ago) link
Xpost I dunno, any 'old bloke' DJ would have said much the same thing. Apart from deflecting (or not answering) the question "Yes, but would you be interested in them?" there's nothing terribly 'obviously evil' in what got written..
― Mark G, Monday, 30 June 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
Touring the Stoke Mandeville wards with him is a disconcerting experience: when he coos over a young woman paraplegic “A-ha, now I can have my way with you, my dear!” one can only pray that she appreciates the joke.
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Monday, 30 June 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
"One can only hope that he is only joking, this time"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 06:39 (nine years ago) link
"When she died she was all mine. The best five days of my life were spent with the Duchess when she was dead. She looked marvellous. She belonged to me. It’s wonderful, is death."
AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHH
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 08:54 (nine years ago) link
is there an investigation into police complicity with Savile? Stories from the Yorkshire end especially seem to imply real corruption.
― woof, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 09:53 (nine years ago) link
plot of next David Peace novel amirite
― goth colouring book (anagram), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 09:56 (nine years ago) link
plot of previous Peace novels too
― The Littlest Boho (stevie), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 10:03 (nine years ago) link
Now you, watching from afar, might say ‘Look at those young girls throwing themselves at him’, whereas in actual fact it’s exactly the opposite.
― Prostitute Farm Online (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 1 July 2014 10:12 (nine years ago) link
would have liked a Gordon Burn true crime book on him.
― woof, Tuesday, 1 July 2014 10:32 (nine years ago) link