http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 02:53:31 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146419 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:10:49 +0000 Oxbridge 146419@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>(as was this)</p> <p>Jimmy Savile was an influential figure in the history of rock. Back in the 60s he introduced Cream to the Small Faces.</p> <p>I'll get my coat... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146406 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 10:10:34 +0000 Oxbridge 146406@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>An old woman spots Rolf Harris in the street and goes up to him.</p> <p>"Aren't you the one who did 'Two Little Boys' in the 70s," she asks.</p> <p>"No dear," says Rolf, "that was Jimmy Savile."</p> <p>Ba-doom TSH!</p> <p>(Also lifted from Sickipedia, BTW) </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146402 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 09:52:44 +0000 sigmund 146402@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>But, tripod, did you see the bit further down where Ann Robinson claims to have been groped by the Irish PM? I never knew Blunkett was the Irish PM. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146308 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:04:19 +0000 Tripod 146308@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>I don’t know why everyone is so hard on Jimmy Savile when I was 8 he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded, funny thing was I had asked to fly on Concorde. </blockquote></p> <p><a href="http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/jimmy-savile-let-me-milk-cow-blindfolded-prank-text-bbc-radio-ulster-reporter-left-redfaced-16231035.html">Life imitating art, or ??</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146295 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:24:44 +0000 The All New Jeni B 146295@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I dunno, I feel that Rolf is probably innocent.</p> <p>If he's not, questions will be asked of his "Learn To Swim" ad... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146290 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:10:50 +0000 Tripod 146290@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wonder if Rolf Harris has any holiday planned...</p> <p>Jake the peg... with his "extra leg"... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-146261 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:08:16 +0000 beau-jolly 146261@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dear Jimmy, please fix it for DLT to be arrested next. The tension is killing me. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-145943 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 18:19:42 +0000 godly1966 145943@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I don’t know why everyone is so hard on Jimmy Savile when I was 8 he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded, funny thing was I had asked to fly on Concorde. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-145522 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:15:54 +0000 bonjonelson 145522@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxPqS3z_vw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGxPqS3z_vw</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-145521 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:13:12 +0000 The All New Jeni B 145521@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>beau, I don't reckon you'd be entitled to compensation, but they could probably arrange you a spot on Jeremy Kyle. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140&page=2#post-145518 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:05:57 +0000 Idiot 145518@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>David Attenborough.............only joking. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145516 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:00:25 +0000 tedweasel 145516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>When I was a teenager Sally James on Tiswas forced me to violate myself frequently, I'm sure I wasn't the only one... Can we have some cash? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145475 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:52:32 +0000 Oxbridge 145475@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I'm still traumatised from listening to Savile on Radio One 30 years ago. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145474 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:48:01 +0000 beau-jolly 145474@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Did ITV ever fail to protect me too? Hmmm. Those train and road safety adverts... might be worth a punt. No win , no fee. What do you recon Jeni? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145471 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:27:54 +0000 charlies_hat 145471@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I've seen Chris Tarrant chuck his custard all over the faces of kids in the early 1980's every Saturday morning.</p> <p>I didn't say anything though, as he was a big star. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145470 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:16:58 +0000 Tripod 145470@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote> In fact, although I never met him, I am sure JS interfered with me when I was a kid. </blockquote></p> <p>He interfered with me through the TV screen... Can I get compensation?... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-145467 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 12:11:58 +0000 beau-jolly 145467@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I heard a lawyer (possibly schister) on the TV this morning saying dozens more had come forward in search of compensation. I think the suggestion was that if the BBC is culpable they may be forced to pay compensation. Given it has a pretty big purse I think we may see many more victims come forward. In fact, although I never met him, I am sure JS interfered with me when I was a kid. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144914 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:44:48 +0000 Ironduke 144914@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"If that penis was a coffee, it'd be a decaff soya skinny latte". </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144910 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:36:24 +0000 Oxbridge 144910@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Even Abba got in the act with 'Does Your Mother Know?', whose plot is basically man-reluctantly-decides-against-doing-it-with-underage-girl, for Benny and Bjorn were singing.</p> <p>I like to think of Clarkson suffering from impotence ahead of yet another fling and the woman patiently asking him...</p> <p>[...wait for it..]</p> <p>... 'How hard can it be??' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144906 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:18:31 +0000 The All New Jeni B 144906@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lucy4 is quite correct, although in Scotland we only have defamation which covers the areas of slander, libel, hurt feelings and ruinous to reputation.</p> <p>I think there has been an 'open-season' mentality, but that is probably due to the revelation that ribald behaviour was pretty much a given amongst certain groups during the 60s, 70s and 80s.</p> <p>I also suspect that there will be more to come, and many more boats will be rocked. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144903 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:10:54 +0000 Scroat 144903@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Gilbert O'Sullivan "Claire."</p> <p>Maurice Chevalier "Thank Heaven For Little Girls" OMG!!! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144882 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 15:39:28 +0000 Tripod 144882@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>No Tripod...I'm not 'one of them'</blockquote></p> <p>Well, since this is a humour site, and I don't know who the fuck you are, you might have assumed, rightly, that I was joking.</p> <p>The humour - and it's grim stuff, post Savile - is not about which celeb might be implicated in naughty doings, but about an open season on people in the public eye... now that we have dispensed with legal procedures, and established that unsubstantiated gossip is all that's required to blacken a man's reputation and send him down. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144866 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 12:52:27 +0000 Scroat 144866@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Might be an idea! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144860 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:45:46 +0000 Lucy4 144860@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's libel if it's written and slander if spoken. Oops, sorry I've butted in.<br /> The lynch mob is certainly out, though. Old Jimmy might well have been a predatory sex monster but I'd have a bet on at least some of those who are now saying they were abused are either after a bit of the spotlight and/or compensation. William Hill are't interested though. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144859 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:43:04 +0000 Squudge 144859@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>just a suggestion, but it might be worth asking the admin to take this thread down</p> <p>Scroat - you happy with that? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144857 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:19:44 +0000 Gerontius 144857@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>This is where it leads.<br /> If you don't join the lynch mob then you must be 'one of them' yourself.<br /> No Tripod...I'm not 'one of them'<br /> Make sure you know what you're doing when you make accusations like that.<br /> I don't have a highly paid lawyer to fight my corner but I'm pretty sure some of those already mentioned will have.<br /> I can hear the legal people licking their lips as we speak.<br /> But if you think it's fun to slander people....away you go.<br /> Jeni...is it slander or defamation of character? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144855 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:17:33 +0000 The All New Jeni B 144855@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Was 'My Sharona' not about the singer's lust for an underage girl? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144852 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:02:30 +0000 Nowherefast 144852@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Lucy4:</p> <p>Neil Sedaka cut it a bit fine too: </p> <p>"Happy birthday sweet sixteen<br /> Tonight's the night I've waited for<br /> Because you're not a baby anymore"</p> <p>And if you have a twisted enough interpretation of lyrics.. Eric Clapton might raise a few eyebrows with After Midnight.. although like Neil Sedaka before him, at least it could be said that he waited.</p> <p>"After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang down.<br /> After midnight, we're gonna chug-a-lug and shout.<br /> We're gonna stimulate some action;<br /> We're gonna get some satisfaction.<br /> We're gonna find out what it is all about.<br /> After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang down.</p> <p>After midnight, we're gonna shake your tambourine.<br /> After midnight, it's all gonna be peaches and cream.<br /> We're gonna cause talk and suspicion;<br /> We're gonna give an exhibition.<br /> We're gonna find out what it is all about.<br /> After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang down" </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144851 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:48:44 +0000 Scroat 144851@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUkt59vY1Q" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaUkt59vY1Q</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=50140#post-144847 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 10:33:30 +0000 Lucy4 144847@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Gary Pucket and the Union Gap were quite open about it back in the olden days but at least they seemed to realise they had a problem. (sorry, that means had an issue, for the younger listeners) </p>