“Jim could you fix it for me”
– I Left My Heart In Papworth General
So… what do we know about Jim (-my Saville)?
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The A to Z of HMHB
“Jim could you fix it for me”
– I Left My Heart In Papworth General
So… what do we know about Jim (-my Saville)?
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“What do we know about Jim?”
Nothing humorous (although that doesn’t normally deter me, I’ll make an exception here.)
Comment 19997.
5 June 2015
gok wan acolyte
A lot more than we did when he was alive…
6 June 2015
brumbiscuit
There was a typo on his very elaborate and aggrandising tombstone. Luckily it was only unveiled a few weeks before his misdeeds came to light and was subsequently destroyed. I believe he was interred at 45 degrees so he could see the sea.
6 June 2015
Bobby SVARC
Really? I thought the 45 degrees was so we could all pi55 and s**t down it.
6 June 2015
peter mcornithologist
I for one will never understand how that talentless monster ,in his pursuit of innocent flesh, managed to hoodwink the British establishment, from hospital staff,to Thatcher, into letting him get away with it. As long ago as 1978,Johnny Rotten conducted an interview warning about Saviles behaviour. It was cut by the B.B.C. His protection for all those years leaves many questions unanswered and they probably won’t be.
7 June 2015
dickhead in quicksand
As long ago as 1963, everyone I knew considered him a total waste of space. We didn’t suspect his predilections, but he was by some margin the most useless and phony DJ on both radio and TV. Looking back, I do wonder why they kept on employing him.
7 June 2015
liquid len
I’d guess that he had ‘information’ on the rumoured paedo rings in high places, and would have spilled the beans if he’d been collared at the time.
7 June 2015
bobby svarc
Here, Kitty Kitty
8 June 2015
Peter mcornithologist
Not sure if many of you were born when the 1966 Aberfan disaster occurred but I was a teenager and I recall well, the immense feeling of horror. My grandson is currently doing some schoolwork on the history of mining ,this being an area where once upon a time mining was everything.
I have been assisting in a grandfather fashion and suggested he look at disasters.Showing me what he found left me with a feeling I cannot describe.Months after the disaster, Savile visited the surviving children at the newly built school.Perhaps I ought to have kept that to myself. Sorry
30 March 2016
Half Matt, half Byrne
My Dad lost a cousin in that disaster. Would have been two, but the brother was off ill that day. To think he then had to ensure a visit by Savile means bad luck sure graced that branch of the family tree.
10 October 2020
lord leominster
With absolutely no connection to the world of entertainment I heard an ugly, not lovely, rumour about JS in the mid to late 1970s when he was at the height of his powers. I was told by a seemingly knowledgeable adult (I can’t remember who) that JS’s exhaustive charitable work was driven by his need to seek some sort of redemption for previous (unspecified) misdeeds. The truth turned out to be far worse than the rumour. But for me, this goes to show just how widely known his behaviour* was and, unbelievably worse still, that he and his behaviour* were tolerated by so many for so long.
*behaviour is a deliberate understatement, presumably much like the ‘disgraced’ used by the BBC in their promotion of a forthcoming drama/documentary about the diabolical monster (I can say what I like because Savile can’t sue).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-54542956
15 October 2020
Lord leominster
‘tireless’ not ‘exhaustive’ – div.
21 October 2020
Lord leominster
The BBC allowed all manner of creative swearing and graphic insults to air during The Thick Of It. But there was just one line in all of the scripts that made executives so nervous they insisted it be censored, creator Armando Iannucci has revealed. The excised line, spoken by Peter Capaldi’s fiercely foul-mouthed spin doctor Malcolm Tucker was: ‘That’s inevitable. It’s as inevitable as what they’ll find in Jimmy Savile’s basement after he’s dead.’
5 November 2020
dr desperate
During a Q&A session with the ToI team at the 2010 Cheltenham Literature Festival I asked them if it was true that the scriptwriters had employed a swearing consultant (specifically on the line “Come the fu*k in or fu*k the fu*k off”).
Iannucci denied it, and Capaldi went on to recite ‘Tucker’s Law’:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Tucker%27s%20Law
(*WARNING* This link uses an awful lot of – what we would call – violent sexual imagery, and I just wanted to check that none of you would be terribly offended by that.)
6 November 2020
Cream CHEESE AND chives
I know the TOI book-still in a box somewhere- refers to a writer as having been used as a swearing consultant. The quality of the foul language is exceptional, proving to numbskulls like Liam Gallagher that swearing is an art form.
6 November 2020
Lord leominsteR
Series three, episode seven: Steve Fleming: “Everybody knows that we don’t like each other. We are the Gallagher brothers of politics.” Malcolm: “Does that mean that I am the semi-talented songwriter and you’re the f***ing loutish pr*ck? That’s a lovely analogy.”
6 November 2020
Cream CHEESE AND chives
Recovering from a hip op (not in a chip shop) will be the perfect time to watch again.
6 November 2020
Lord leominster
It’s all on the iplayer at the moment, apart from the Savile insult deemed too sensitive. Enjoy.
6 November 2020
dr desperate
Get well soon, @C3.
6 November 2020
Cream CHEESE AND chives
Dr D. Thanks .
On the road to recovery .Never has a walk to a lampost meant so much! Efforts to hoopla it with a tyre are temporarily postponed.
Listening to all sorts of podcasts etc. A BBC programme on sleep included a very unnerving account of restless legs syndrome.’Like bees under your skin,’ said the sufferer.
Sleep well.
6 November 2020
dr desperate
I have the ToI ‘The Scripts’ book, in which Iannucci says the baroqueness of the swearing is all down to the writers, including Simon Blackwell (not that one). Ian Martin has since admitted that he was originally hired as swearing consultant before becoming a full member of the writing team.
7 November 2020
Cream CHEESE AND chives
Swearing consultant? It always struck me as being right up there with Cricketing Consultant to the Sultan of Brunei as a job. Sir Viv Richards held the latter position I recall.
7 November 2020