Sir Jimmy of Saville
Not really my story, more my mum's, but there is a twisted resentment of the man somewhere in her maternal psyche. You see, it's not even the obvious things which make her detest him. Yes, he's northern, a prolific smoker, not particularly amusing, and single-handedly legitimised the combination of sportswear and inactive lifestyles. My mum takes all that in her stride.

What fucks her off is his charity work.

'Charity work?' you ask yourselves in confusion. Yes, charity work.

Despite being from Leeds, Sir Jim pledges a lot of time to an establishment down south called Stoke Mandeville Hospital, of which my mum previously worked as a nurse. The directors love him there. New spinal ward open? Get a handshake with Jimmy as a pulls a drag on a cigar. Front page stuff for the local rag. Need someone to cheer the patients up? Send in Jimmy to do his radio dj stuff.

While it's all in good fun, think of the implications. You're assisting a heart surgery - delicate operation in a sterile room - when all of a sudden an 80 year old in polyester bursts through the door screaming 'Righto righto!' with a couple of cameramen on his heels. He's smoking too. Smoking around oxygen tanks and over a man's exposed heart. 4 hours of work undone by cigar ash.

The only tarnish on my mum's medical record is laying into a retired radio dj and expelling him from operating rooms for continually endangering patients and staff. 7 times.

Every time you see him on tv, she launches into a full on tirade of obscenities that would make a sailor blush. Makes me so proud to be her offspring.
(FoxyBadger (try saying it backwards), Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:01, 10 replies)

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For your mum. She sounds awesome
( pixel_fucker is going to need a bigger brush, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:13, closed)

^^this
and ^^that :D
( Jeccius Steam Borderlands 2 junkie, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:16, closed)

and
the other
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:31, closed)

SirJimill
He lives down the end of the street from my mum and dad's where I grew up. Often seen jogging around the area topless in shell suit bottoms, 27 gold medallions jingle jangling and of course the trademark cigar. I have it on good authority the local Flying Pizza lost many young female staff due to being fed up of having the randy old perv feeling them up and patting them on the bum.
(DBS, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:23, closed)

regdabyxof
I don't get it
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:25, closed)

He is a sex pest
and a pervert with an unhealthy interest in underage girls.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 9:29, closed)

Details please.
Anything that should be passed on to ChildLine?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Fri 5 Feb 2010, 10:06, closed)

It's well known - various payoffs in the 70s/80s etc
He is also rumoured to be a necrophiliac.

He was a bouncer and serious thug in the 50s/early 60s too - a seriously nasty character.

But on the plus side, he is also the first person to have DJed with two turntables. Yes, Sir Jimmy invented modern DJing.

The corpse-shagging kiddie-fiddling unhealthy-obsession-with-his-dead-mother-having gangland torturing cunt.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:00, closed)

Nah...
...I used to live near the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville and did a few fundraising discos/events for them. Met Jimmy Savile quite a few times - he worked as a wardsman at the hospital (after he was famous). He seemed to be a very caring guy but I have never met anyone who swore like he did. It was like being with a hardcore Tourettes' sufferer. He did indeed smoke like a chimney (cigars) but I never saw him smoke inside the hospital - perhaps someones' mum scared him off?!
Never found him creepy or odd around kids. He was totally consumed by his public image and super-conscious about how he was perceived by the public. He was aware of the rumours about his supposed sexual preference for children and said that was why he told people he didn't like children - it was his attempt at deflecting the (never proven) rumours.
Pesonally I think the paedophile rumours were just the result of the insidious 'tall poppy' syndrome.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 11:58, closed)

Monty Boyce...
...yes he was quite proud of his innovation in using two turntables!
He was very interested in my Technics SL 1200 mk2s - but just couldn't embrace the concept of mixing - "What? So you don't use the fucking microphone then?"
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Fri 5 Feb 2010, 12:10, closed)