282 Responses to Weekend Thread 25 September 2021

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  1. Guest Who says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:30 pm

    Hence the perfect BBC graphic*.

    *Just don’t get caught ©️Martin Bashir’s Photoshop guy.

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    • Fedup2 says:
      September 26, 2021 at 6:45 pm

      Let me guess

      More girls in the population
      Change in counting methods
      Victims more likely to report
      Huge influx of 3rd world vermin

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  2. Fedup2 says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:32 pm

    So lenny henry is to play jimmy saville in the forthcoming 13 part musical / drama series…
    A BBC spokesman said it will be an opportunity to show that no one in the BBC had any idea about the serial paedo rapist that was our Jim ….

    ( sorry i misread the news item – its not lenny len henry – its that bloke who played borax – steven unfunny coogan …

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  3. theisland says:
    September 26, 2021 at 6:38 pm

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58698406

    Appearing on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show, Sir Keir Starmer was asked if it was transphobic to say only women have a cervix.

    The Labour leader replied: “Well, it is something that shouldn’t be said. It is not right.”

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  4. Northern Voter says:
    September 26, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    Mrs V just watched All Creatures Great and Small on Channel 5. Supposed to be based on the book’s of James Herriot. Load of tosh! Last series we had a black farmers wife, that is the wife was black, not the farmer. Tonight’s episode we find an Asian vet in Darrowby, pinching work from the Farnons. Must have come up the Humber and then the Ouse on a dinghy.

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  5. Fedup2 says:
    September 26, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    Time for a new thread – I bet if I said there is a thread shortage someone would start a queue ….

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  6. MarkyMark says:
    September 27, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    Steve Coogan to play Jimmy Savile in BBC One drama
    Published22 hours ago

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58699058

    Pope said: “The purpose of this drama is to explore how Savile’s offending went unchecked for so long, and in shining a light on this, to ensure such crimes never happen again. Steve Coogan has a unique ability to inhabit complex characters and will approach this role with the greatest care and integrity.”

    . . . . .

    How did Savile get away with it?

    In 1971, a 15-year-old girl was found dead. She was known to her friends as Samantha. In the papers she was called Claire McAlpine where she was described as a “dolly dancer” on Top of the Pops.

    The death, from an overdose of sleeping pills, was front page news. Just before, her mother had contacted the BBC to complain that a DJ had seduced her.

    In her diary she is said to have described seeing two DJs. Savile was not suspected of sleeping with her but the inquiry w
    as described by Dame Janet Smith as “wholly inadequate” – more concerned about protecting the reputation of the BBC than getting at the truth.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35659358

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  7. MarkyMark says:
    September 27, 2021 at 1:19 pm

    Savile, Canon Winter said, would in private “go on about girls” and so one day he questioned how this squared with the DJ’s “professed Roman Catholic faith”. Savile said it was simple, he would get in to heaven because of his charity work.
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35659358

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