Jimmy Savile and Big Daddy were thick as thieves. Trufax.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 22 Jun 2020, 21:34,
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I know Savile was trained by the great Les Kellett, which is a huge black mark on his career.
I did not know Big Daddy was a friend of his. Makes sense, every B-to-Z-List celebrity was.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Mon 22 Jun 2020, 21:39,
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Er, by Trufax, I mean I just made that up.
Prince Charles will be really stung by your 'B-to-Z-list' remark. He was mates with Savile. Trufax.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Mon 22 Jun 2020, 22:49,
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I did not know that this happened...
..And... Actually that's a fairly impressive prank for such a sick cunt as Savile. I can't deny it.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 1:13,
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www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/jimmy-savile-peter-sutcliffe-yorkshire-17103854
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 1:36,
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Savile's eyes look particularly cold/evasive in this one.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 1:31,
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Charles is B-List at best. Talk about being famous for being famous.
And though you made it up, apparently it was true:
www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-big-daddy-1286571.html
Sir Jimmy Savile, the DJ and television presenter who is himself a former wrestler, paid a fond tribute to Big Daddy. "He was a big, beautiful fellow, and though I never actually fought him - because he was super heavyweight and I was catchweight - in the Sixties, I was often on the same bill . . . it was always a joy because the crowd would be in super-good humour but more importantly the atmosphere in the dressing room was magic with him around.
"As two Yorkshire lads, we used to terrorise everyone. It was a laugh a minute. He had this great booming laugh and all the rest of us could do in the ring was hope and pray."
www.halifaxpeople.com/Big-Daddy.html
(The Crabtree brothers) were pals with Jimmy Savile and visited the Mecca Ballroom in Briggate, Leeds to see the twin turntable record machine used by the king of the dance halls.
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Big Daddy’s Club was opened by Leeds lad and Britain’s most famous D.J. - Jimmy Savile. Jimmy had wrestled and his proud boast was that he had lost his first 35 fights. The opening began with a procession from Harrison Road led by the Leeds City Pipe Band and Jimmy Savile, with blond hair, big cigar, mink slippers and a zebra coat, riding a white horse. The club which was on two floors did not hold a drinks licence and operated more like a traditional youth club.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 0:56,
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I'm shocked, shocked to find that a depraved pervert should derive such gratification from a sham 'sport' that involves half naked men simulating acts of violence upon each other in front of a baying crowd.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 1:59,
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"...and other revelations in this weeks episode of 'Sociopaths in the Closet'".
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 2:22,
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Some people never get over the feeling of betrayal when they find out wrestling is fixed.
They don't behave the same way when they find out that adverts, TV shows and films are also fixed. Why?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 14:10,
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They want to believe.
Or just the Plato's cave effect.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 15:16,
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I don't quite understand what you mean by that.
Are the betrayed reactionaries the ones who have seen the sun, or the ones who fight to remain in the shadow realm?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 19:05,
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In some ways both,
those who, having seen the sun, regret the dissolution of the enjoyable shadows and want them back.
See also father Christmas etc.
I have no problem with wrestling, it seems like a series of well planned tricks which simulate violence with far fewer injuries.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 19:15,
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There's plenty of proper wrestling out there,
e.g. Sumo, various styles from south-east Europe/west Asia, etc.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 20:32,
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Of course, I just meant the fun commercial sort.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 20:44,
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Not wishing to burst your bubble but quite a lot of those things are fixed to some degree too, they just really lay it in.
E.g. Japanese shoot wrestling and MMA promotions such as UWF, Pride FC, and IGF were 99.9% fixed. Early UFC was a worked advertisement for Gracie Jujitsu (pretty much all the Gracies worked for promotions that have subsequently been outed for matchfixing, Royce's arch rivals Ken Shamrock and Dan Severn are pro wrestlers). Even sumo has had match fixing scandals in recent years.
Even supposedly legit promotions manage and matchmake in creative ways to generate the outcomes they most desire.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 21:21,
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No fucking idea.
Some people never get over the feeling of excitement when they find out wrestling is a load of blokes inflated by steroids in scanty spandex dry humping each other. Why?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 16:51,
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You just described most sport.
You might want to ask why anyone likes watching athletes perform, and you might want to ask yourself why you think it's okay to throw your homophobia about so casually.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 19:02,
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It's not homophobia. It's not being an eight year old boy. Adults engaging in such infantile pursuits and their (adult) audience mystify me.
You might just want to stop being such a tedious white knight.
You might just want to grow the fuck up and stop pretending wrestling is anything other than the gutter-lowbrow trash it is. How many of your wrestling heroes use steroids to their own detriment? How many people fall victim to their 'roid rage?
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 21:19,
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It is very obviously homophobia. Why deny it? OH I see now, you're ashamed of yourself!
My hypothesis: You enjoyed wrestling while you were in your prepubescent homosexual stage. When homophobic shame was revealed to you, you banished those complicated feelings to your dark place, and whenever you are confronted with them, that angry, anxious and betrayed 8 year old lashes out.
Re: White knighting: Not everyone feels the same sense of genetic superiority that you do. Deal with it, snowflake.
Re: growing up: You're throwing a temper tantrum about how horrid and gay and fake wrestling is while telling me to grow up.
Re: pretending wrestling isn't "gutter-lowbrow trash": Gee Willikers. When have I done this? What is wrong with being lowbrow? Opera was considered lowbrow once, was it not?
Re: Steroids: Again, you are describing every sport.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 21:43,
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You're projecting.
The homophobia accusations are bollocks and are water off a ducks back when shrilly screeched by a virtue signalling twat like you. Just stop pretending wrestling has even a veneer of respectability or integrity. It's all just so sad. Like you.
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Prufrock Lucifer, son of the morning!, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 22:31,
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I'm not projecting so much as interpreting your words in the context they were delivered and then feeding them back to you.
The homophobia is self evident. Read back what you have actually written.
Complaining about virtue signalling is an act of virtue signalling.
Can you quote me arguing that wrestling has respectability or integrity? Do you understand what projecting is? These two questions are grouped together on purpose.
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Wed 24 Jun 2020, 0:38,
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I'm not homophobic, but gay men give me the willies
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 24 Jun 2020, 2:02,
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Also are we still talking about Savile?
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brb welcome to my reed organ repair blog, Tue 23 Jun 2020, 15:00,
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So do I
It's easy and convenient.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Tue 23 Jun 2020, 15:19,
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