Jimmy Savile

[Lachlan09]

Well then well then well then !

Bit of a story building up here. They're dragging in Freddie Starr and John Peel now. Any thoughts ?

I met him once back in 1980 (I wasn't underage) at a sponsored walk in Edinburgh. I queued up afterward to get him to sign my participant's number-card. I was really hoping he'd dedicate it to a young lady I knew in Kent and I wanted some extra brownie points with her. When I reached the front of the queue and asked him nicely just to add her name, he completely ignored me and said "How about i just put this ?" and just did his "Jimmy $avile" signature thing.

I binned my card on the way out

Maybe if I said she was 14 or something he would have put her name on my card and asked for her address !

[Lachlan09]

The caption read: Now, then. Now, then. Now, then


Jimmy Savile was a big fan of jewellery.


What a liar Jimmy Savile was.

[tig]

not just the saville one that was at it now it seems......

"it was rife at the beeb" said the un-nameable

toskiv said she was groped....johnson got raped

freddy star didnt do anything but took out an injunction to stop people hinting that he did.

[kathyv]

While this forum is set for a news and views type of discussion, PLEASE remember that offensive pictures and crude jests at another person's expense isn't a responsible use of this area.

You may be as crude and disgusting in your personal life as you like, and you may find it funny, but don't bring it here to offend people.

[Lachlan09]

Sorry Kathy - I forgot you're American and most likely have never heard of Jimmy Savile or the effects that growing revelations on his allegedly sordid past (and allegedly, his many young impressionable victims) are having on the BBC (shame about their years of silence and quiet condonement), Parliament (PM now ordering full police investigation), the police and British public. If you want a heads up, read the Daily Mail online.

But you're right about the Sir Jimmy Savile O.B.E., K.C.S.G. jokes, they were crude and have no place on this site - sorry. I found them on one of numerous websites on the subject which are easily googled.

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by tig

not just the saville one that was at it now it seems......

"it was rife at the beeb" said the un-nameable

toskiv said she was groped....johnson got raped

freddy star didnt do anything but took out an injunction to stop people hinting that he did.

Oh, but at least Freddy Starr never ate that hamster.

[Celyn]

Originally Posted by kathyv

While this forum is set for a news and views type of discussion, PLEASE remember that offensive pictures and crude jests at another person's expense isn't a responsible use of this area.

You may be as crude and disgusting in your personal life as you like, and you may find it funny, but don't bring it here to offend people.

Kathy, I missed seeing whatever offensive jokes and pictures there might have been posted here, and those that were here, I am glad you deleted them.

However, this Jimmy Savile issue does also raise questions about who knew, what did they know, and when did they know it*, and (rather more importantly), why they did not report this to the police at the time. I do not mean the underage children, because I do quite see that they would fear being disbelieved, but there were actual adults who now say they knew about this.


* Phraseology chosen because it so conveniently echoes a famous question from the early 1970s.