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[challenge entry] Jumping on this bandwagon while it's still rolling

From the Happy/Unhappy Endings challenge. See all 146 entries (closed)

(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:18, archived)
# pfft..
after watching that Jimmy Savile exposure on itv... There's a weird thing about the 50s/60s where inappropriate stuff with teenagers was almost accepted as the norm. (this is my perception of it)

lots of songs referring to it to: just look at the lyrics to "Young Girl", "Happy Birthday sweet 16" etc
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:20, archived)
# Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13 year old cousin
not wrong at all, no sir.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:27, archived)
# Was he from Shelbyville?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:37, archived)
# Just watched it now...
Shocking, all those people who say they knew, even saw, what was going on yet didn't do anything.

I seriously think, as shocking as it may be, that culturally it wasn't considered a big deal, even though it was illegal.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:29, archived)
# ^
this is what i was getting at..
culturally we are poles apart from even as recent as 30 years ago.

The clip with Gary Glitter made me physically cringe
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:32, archived)
# it's not just a time thing though, all over the world opinion changes over what is appropriate
some countries frown on anyone doing the sexy time under the age of 20, so does that make most people in this country a nonce?
Or on the terrifying flip side, some places are as low as 9 years old :(
www.zonu.com/images/0X0/2010-02-20-11779/Edad-de-consentimiento-sexual-en-el-Mundo-2006.png
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:38, archived)
# yeah, true..
I think theres a massive difference between two 14 or 15 yr olds experimenting with a fiddle and frap, and a 40 yr old Lamé wearing cigar chewer getting Rapey in the back of his car though.

personally, I think at 15 they're still babies.. I have a 17 yr old son and I still don't think he's emotionally ready for a sexual relationship.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:43, archived)
# haha, I bet he loves you for that
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:46, archived)
# I haven't watched it so forgive my only going by what the press have said
but why did these girls repeatedly jump at the chance for a ride in his car if they weren't happy to exchange a grope for an appearance on top of the pops?

Not saying he wasn't completely abusing his position of power and was a wrongun, but he didn't chloroform them or anything.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:34, archived)
# I guess
you do stupid things when you are a kid.

You've summed it up pretty well, most of the girls were dazzled by the Rolls, TOTP, being in the company of celebrity.

But there was a rather horrible story from a girls school for 'troubled' kids. Saville used the girls for his TV audience, and raised money for the school.
One girl accused him of molesting her, and for her troubles she was locked up in the schools equivelent of solitary for having the nerve to speak out against 'Uncle Jimmy'.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:42, archived)
# Christing heck
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:43, archived)
# yeah..
Collusion to the nth degree there!

It's this type of activity that should be investigated!
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:44, archived)
# I have heard, and believe someone mentioned this yesterday...
That he had his OWN PRIVATE ROOM at Stoke Manderville hospital, I cannot for the life of me sugar coat that at all.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:52, archived)
# again this is the attitude of "bad things do not happen" and "therefore it didn't happen" and "you're making it up"
and "we don't want any trouble, shut the fuck up"
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:38, archived)
# "Oh, I get it. I'm supposed to get inside your limo and let you put your finger inside me. And if I go down on you, I get a movie part."
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:05, archived)
# Casting couch
Im guessing that still goes on today.
Well, Fred Dineage told me it was normal...
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11, archived)
# if you don't talk about bad things
bad things never happened

la la la la hands on ears... la la la..

etc.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:36, archived)
# Elvis.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 11:55, archived)
# John Peel married a 15 year old.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 13:04, archived)
# yeah well maybe, he did allegedly rape that girl.
(, Fri 5 Oct 2012, 11:25, archived)
#
This repost from June sure has a lot more relevance now...
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:28, archived)
#
Did Glitter have a beard?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:31, archived)
#
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 13:28, archived)
# Ta
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 13:51, archived)
# Father Christmas
Doesn't like children?
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 13:06, archived)
#
He doesn't like naughty ones. That's why Black Peter beats them with a stick.
(, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 13:27, archived)