To think that Saville was NEVER a "Much loved family favourite"???

[MrsWinnibago]

Sorry to start a thread about this sick, awful animal but they just said on Radio 4 that he was a much loved family favourite.

I CLEARLY remember watching him on Jim'l Fix It and thinking "Oh he's HORRIBLE!"

I hated him...he was frightening and I could see that some children were very scared of him on that show.

Did ANYONE actually enjoy his "performances" and appearances?? I don't think so.

I think the establishment kept him where he was...on TV and in positions of power because he knew too much about THEIR activities.

And it's funny how it all came out once he was dead and couldn't name anyone else.

I challenge anyone to think back and remember how much they "loved" him at the time before his activities were known.

whatsallthisthe

I agree, it was very frustrating, very frustrating.

Its called "Obfuscation". I have a relative who is like this, and slaps the dc bottoms...its difficult to engage with him and he cuts you off mid sentence and sort of cant help but just speak without listening...no boundaries either.

Obfuscation means making something harder to understand, usually by complicating sentences needlessly. Weasel words are a form of obfuscation. Obfuscation is usually used when people either do not know what they are talking about or wish to hide their meaning.

Some people say that when doctors use difficult medical words to hide unpleasant things from patients, they are using obfuscation.

I cried when catweastle disappeared at the end.

I hated the way he spoke to the kids at the end creepy and teasing.

Rock you don't ALLOW him to slap the DC bottoms do you??

Yes he does.

Playing slapping child's bottom and speaking in Ob (sp) way does not make him a child abuser.

Good Heavens! Just read that the actor who played Catweazle also played the Crow Man in Worzel Gummidge!

Always thought he was very strange & creepy towards young girls.

ROck then why were you bringing him up in this fashion and in this conversation? If you are happy he's not got any bad intentions then why bring it up??

Goodness!
whatsallthisthe mentioned slaps on the bum and a strange way of talking. It reminded me of this relative!

Some people Mrs W are cuddly and put their arms around others, infact Italians I have found are more physically demonstrative....it does not mean I am happy with it, or think they are abusers, but some people do not respect personal space...

I see. I do know some people who're a bit over keen on the hugging front...both women...one hugs and kisses when she's only known someone for a short time and this is the North West where it's not the norm...and another is old..and a bit lonely....I suppose some people just want a bit of human contact.

singersgirl

At the height of the mid-70s IRA bombing campaign I was on a camping trip with the Girls' Brigade in that well-known terrorist hot-spot of the Isle of Wight.

I found a lovely black enamel penknife in the woods. I guiltily pocketed it but worried that it might be a concealed bomb - because that would make sense, if you were 10.

So I put it in the bottom of my suitcase. As you would.

Fuck knows where it is now. Ticking away somewhere.

And I still didn't realise that when I got home and watched Jim'll Fix It that Jimmy Savile was a monster.

It's probably going to take my parents' house up any moment now. That would serve them right for not looking after me.

It was more the language thing I clicked with having got one in our family...someone who doesnt talk straight like jim. I am not saying he is an abuser like Jim but I have experience of this maddening way of talking.

Fair enough, Back2Two, it's just one of those things that is always going to be horribly emotive and it always seem to be the woman who is charged with protecting the children, never the man. My mum knows that she could have done more - she knows it now but at the time she didn't see anything wrong and I kept quiet. My dad was always oblivious and I don't see him anymore now because I suspect that he wasn't as clueless as he portrayed.

If there's anything positive to come out of the JS thing, it's that this will be tolerated no more, by anybody. I wish he'd been alive long enough to suffer the humiliation of being publicly shunned for what he did.

I suspect that his arrogance was so all consuming that he'd be incapable of feeling shame or remorse.

The thing about speaking in riddles and obfuscation, I can think of people who operate like that.

I didn't like him from an early age, I used to watch Jim'll Fix It but only the fixes and would read while Jim was on. I was completely unsurprised when it all came out.

There are a lot of people here asking why nobody at the BBC reported him. I have it on good knowledge that there was someone at the BBC who discovered his vile secrets and was planning on exposing him. Sadly, she passed away under mysterious circumstances before she got the chance.

I don't want to say who it was because I don't want to get banned...

Are they still wondering who killed her?

You can't libel or slander the dead, Nokidsnoproblem. Name away. I have a fairly good idea who you've got in mind, anyway.

Shared her initials with a popular brand of Tennessee Whisky?

That was my thought too, Tucson

Thud!

Really??
I can think of the Tennessee whiskey but no idea who the person would be :(

The last name is similar to Dildo.

Jill Dando? Not exactly "inside information" I read about it in the papers last year. I'll see if I can find the article.......