Jimmy Savile

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I’m too young to have grown up when he was relevant but how could anyone look at Jimmy Savile and not think “that guy is a massive nonce”.

He literally looked like a cartoon pedeophile, I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.

What more effective way to hide in plain sight than act, look and dress like a nonce?

 

[domalino]

I’m too young to have grown up when he was relevant but how could anyone look at Jimmy Savile and not think “that guy is a massive nonce”.

He literally looked like a cartoon pedeophile, I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.

When the story broke back in 2012, I remember me and some friends all saying this, and my parents just not seeing it.

I think to the older generation it was a bit of the boiling frog effect where he just always dressed like that and when they were kids they got used to it and it wasn't so creepy when he was 45, whereas the younger generation saw him at 70+ and immediately thought there was something off about him.


I also suppose a caricature of a pedophile in this country from comedy sketches etc. would be informed and defined by the non-stop rumours about one of the most famous people in the country being one?

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

When the story broke back in 2012, I remember me and some friends all saying this, and my parents just not seeing it.

I think to the older generation it was a bit of the boiling frog effect where he just always dressed like that and when they were kids they got used to it, whereas the younger generation saw him at 70+ and immediately thought it was creepy.


I also wonder how much a caricature of a pedophile in this country from comedy sketches etc. would be informed and defined by the non-stop rumours about one of the most famous people in the country being one.

It must be a generational thing but it’s absolutely nuts isn’t it.

 

[kippaxwarrior]

The royals and Thatcher may not have known about the rumours but I suspect their respective security advisors did.

Think The Queen wasn't keen on him one bit . She kept rejecting Thatchers request for him to be knighted. And only accpted the request on Thatchers final Honours list after she resigned.

Prince Charles was extremely close to him

 

[domalino]

It must be a generational thing but it’s absolutely nuts isn’t it.

We also didn't see him on TV as much being heralded as the great charity man either.

I imagine if you're a child it doesn't matter what someone looks or behaves like if you see them getting praised by the Prime Minister and Princess Diana or the Beatles/Stones on the news every few months for doing huge things for charity. An impressionable child of the 70's and 80's takes the lead of authority figures and known good people giving him their stamp of approval.

 

[DrBlueBob]

I'm still gutted that Rolf was a wrongun.

 

[BlueMoonday]

There's plenty of well known eccentric celebrities who looks a bit oddball'ish - doesn't automatically make them a peado

Rolph Har .... oh wait!

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

I'm still gutted that Rolf was a wrongun.

Yes, that one was a lot more left field.

 

[DrBlueBob]

I’m too young to have grown up when he was relevant but how could anyone look at Jimmy Savile and not think “that guy is a massive nonce”.

He literally looked like a cartoon pedeophile, I’ve never been able to wrap my head around it.

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I heard specifics about his behaviour from a Bulmers cider rep at a trade show in Washington, Tyne and Wear in 1995! Hard to imagine those at the top weren’t also subject to the gossip. Gossip can’t ever be enough to condem someone, though, surely.

Surely, as City fans we have to accept that.

*condemn

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I felt very uncomfortable listening to the lady who he molested when she was 11 during church services. Had to fast forward past that section. How could anyone have not glanced back and caught him in the act just once?

I think the truth is that people must have known but closed their eyes and ears to it because of "don't rock the boat" and the shame and social stigma of that happening in your family.