As an American I had only the vaguest sense who jimmy saville was and what he did, decided to correct that last year by reading In Plain Sight and I can't say I'm 'glad' I did, but he definitely fills a unique niche in the historical beast cabinet
― or at night (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:04 (six years ago) link
oh aye, he was a character alright
― cast your vote for fully automated gay space luxury communism (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 15 June 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
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A company has brought out a card game called ‘British Nonces’ similar to Top Trumps where you compete using cards with well known perverts, paedophiles and killers as the subject. The roster of 52 includes the likes of Jimmy Savile, Gary Glitter, Rolf Harris and late MP Cyril Smith. Categories for the game are as follows: physical threat, slipperiness, cockiness, offences, remorse and ‘nonceoriety’.
"The Spymaster from PIE"
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:09 (five years ago) link
the man from noncle
― repartee is deft (darraghmac), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:11 (five years ago) link
paedophilia is SO funny
― Arthur Funzonerelli (stevie), Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:37 (five years ago) link
come off it Stevie, half of my family were abused by the catholic church and still like dark lols, without humour some of us might give up!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:39 (five years ago) link
mind you, I heard Jimmy S considered paedophilia to be a very serious business.
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:46 (five years ago) link
I was going to do a joke about PIEty, but I might going in 51 territory here!
― calzino, Sunday, 8 July 2018 09:55 (five years ago) link
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nothing to see here, just on old man going about his daily business. Which just by chance happened to be within the grounds of a primary on this day...
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
school
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:09 (five years ago) link
what am i looking at here
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:12 (five years ago) link
Rolf Harris in the grounds of a primary school, allegedly was waving at the children and was escorted out by the headmaster.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
i can tell what it is now
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
Loving kids not wisely but too well
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:15 (five years ago) link
the paedo-hunter bat signal was down on this day obv :p
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:17 (five years ago) link
this is probably another iconic scene that the tool out of The Auteurs will make a painting of at some point.
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:22 (five years ago) link
what's the symbol projected from the paedo-hunter signal i wonder
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:24 (five years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/New_F4J_sticker.jpg/250px-New_F4J_sticker.jpg
― Neil S, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:25 (five years ago) link
Specsavers going in hard
― Brex Avery (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
a big PIE in the sky!
― calzino, Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
lol
― Calgary customer Elvis Cavalic (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:28 (five years ago) link
Can see the Sun headline, "What Is Rolf Didgeridoing In A School Playground?"
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:29 (five years ago) link
(xp) lol, perfect.
― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 February 2019 09:30 (five years ago) link
I don't think he's on anything like the same Caligula-like scale but he does constantly remind me of Boris Johnson, a similar confidence trickster using TV, media, sentimentality, charity, 'eccentricity' and a similar 'yes, I actually am a gangster' double-bluff— Owen Hatherley (@owenhatherley) May 9, 2020
hatherley drawing some interesting + otm parallels here
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:11 (four years ago) link
Also, shit hairstyles
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:21 (four years ago) link
Should read that book but don’t know if I could handle it presently
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:24 (four years ago) link
I think i'm going to dive in, lol a month after finishing vol 2 of Ullrich's Hitler biog!
― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
the dan davies book is p good tho -- unless there's a updated post #metoo edition -- it felt like he was pulling some of his punches (at least that's what i felt when i read it)
in terms of "in plain sight" saville's own "as it happens" is a good deal grimmer
lol i couldn't even finish the first paragraph of the david hare review, just take this guy's pen away forever plz
― mark s, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:40 (four years ago) link
delete "tho" which is a relic of this post when written in a different order (take my pen away also)
Nobody give me a pen because it looks to me like tho works fine in that sentence
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
it implies a qualification of a fellow poster's opinion that i did not intend to make, harmless as it seems
― mark s, Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:55 (four years ago) link
grimmer police
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 11:57 (four years ago) link
learning since i posted that the book was extremely heavily lawyered which may explain the aspect which frustrates me -- i shd reread it probably
― mark s, Sunday, 10 May 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EozUAEWWMAEmatf?format=jpg&name=900x900
yoikes! I can vaguely remember in the 70's when my my mum was a registered childminder he was the face of registered childminding. I know I'm not making this up because I can clearly remember some govt childminding pamphlet in the house with a pic of a black haired Savile on the cover.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
Jerry OTM ... in 1987! nowthennowthen young Billy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUHNGq96iw
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:20 (two years ago) link
saw sadowitz in a pub in ealing once, rehearsing his tour, and it was one of the funniest things i’ve seen (partly because it definitely wasn’t for a lot of the people there). then i went to see pretty much exactly the same show at the royal festival hall (bit weird) and it felt offensive and flat.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
possibly worth noting i generally loathe comedy and esp stand up comics (numerous notable exceptions aside)
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:31 (two years ago) link
god how pompous. but i just don’t like the whole stand up comedy thing. every fibre of me resists violently.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
agree. there's just something cringe about the whole setup. an audience pays to have someone be funny for them. no wonder so many stand-up comics are assholes. i'm not sure why i don't feel this way about theater. the older i get the more my definition of humor turns to spontaneous riffing among friends.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:55 (two years ago) link
OTM. Jerry is a magician though! I mean, literally a magician.
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
You'll like this you cunt, not a lot, but you'll like it! tbf he was a much better magician than Paul Daniels and he's often made me laugh than any comedians do.
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:14 (two years ago) link
more
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:15 (two years ago) link