OK, it was a pretty decent stab at alternate reality.
Now?
Is there anyting that can't be ruined by a rubbish bootmix?
― Mark G, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised they used a real, living, person to base it around.
Wasn't this sort of thing the premise for that Death of a President thing where they fictionally assassinated George W Bush - use a real person for maximum dramatic impact?
― ailsa, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
wait waht
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President
― ailsa, Monday, 9 November 2009 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahahaha I am pretty sure that film would get you arrested in the US
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Monday, 9 November 2009 22:35 (fourteen years ago) link
oh man that movie was so corny.
― lou reed scott walker monks niagra (chinavision!), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
Is there anything that hasn't got a ready prepared thread on ILX thesedays?
Well they (SPOILER ALERT) didn't shoot him.
Interesting reaction on the C4 website, seems mostly anti-death penalty with even a few people saying - I was in favour but after this I'm not, only a few saying "pity it wasn't real lol". The last fifteen minutes were pretty powerful I thought, the actor playing Paul Gadd was excellent, and pro-death penalty home secretary horribly plausible.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Monday, 9 November 2009 23:14 (fourteen years ago) link
rev for the mornin' folks.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
I can't imagine how I would respond psychologically if someone made a movie about my hypothetical death
― I'm gonna put on an iron burt, and chase stanton out of urt (Curt1s Stephens), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, that was definitely one of the weirdest things about it. That and the lengths they were prepared to go to shoehorn Glitter into the story (see article by Brooker mentioned above). According to the Mirror yesterday Glitter was considering sueing C4, but it was probably a made up story to get a bit more publicity.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 08:58 (fourteen years ago) link
According to the Mirror yesterday Glitter was considering sueing C4
I hope he does and I hope he wins. Horrible, sensational, tabloidy drivel from Channel 4. I don't always agree with Brooker but that article sums up my feelings about this ridiculous programme exactly.
― Venga, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 10:39 (fourteen years ago) link
In a similar vein, there was that "Tony Blair tried for war crimes" shite with Robert Lindsay
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 10:43 (fourteen years ago) link
... also Channel 4?
This thread is probably as good as any to ask: anybody know of any good articles about the treatment of (non-celebrity) child sex offenders in the U.K.? I was having a discussion with someone who claimed the country was some kind of lenient haven for perverts. It was one of those things where I didn't have any conversational ammo one way or the other, ya know?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:23 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mark G, Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:19 AM Bookmark
I got very confused for a moment when I read this post.
― cash rules ? me (The Reverend), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:25 (fourteen years ago) link
1) "Revive this thread for general discussion, the day after the show broadcast"
or
2) "Here comes the rockin' vicar to take the morning sermon"
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:42 (fourteen years ago) link
actally nevermind. I bet I could find something in a scholarly journal or something.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 11:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I was having a discussion with someone who claimed the country was some kind of lenient haven for perverts
Well, yeah, compared to Saudi Arabia maybe.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:01 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't suppose this guy advanced any evidence for his position did he? Folk like that aren't worth talking to imo.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
some kind of lenient haven for perverts
LOL Ben Elton ca. 1985 joke about the Conservative Party
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Was he thinking of the church instead perhaps?
― Obscured by clowns (NickB), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:09 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL Rory Bremner ca. 2009 joke about the Conservative Party
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, apparently he had watched some TV special about child molestation, but was also influenced by the way the Elton John case was handled.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:22 (fourteen years ago) link
mind continues to boggle...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:30 (fourteen years ago) link
What Elton John case?! The adoption thing? Is your friend equating gays adopting with child molestation??
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:35 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:36 (fourteen years ago) link
No, the child porn thing.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, the boy scout thing.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:41 (fourteen years ago) link
So many "things" to chose from
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, they're two pretty big things!
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Anyway, my point wasn't to try and pick it apart on ilx. I just thought somebody could recommend a little light reading on the matter. It's not like I completely believe the dude based on his citing television as a source and I would still like to return to your country some day to enjoy your landmarks and cultural institutions.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
The "child porn thing" was that he owned a Nan Goldin photo! The boy scout thing I had to look up - apart from the fact that it was 10 years ago - it hardly seems evidence of UK's lax approach to pervs.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Have you seen the photo? Would you post it to this thread?
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 12:59 (fourteen years ago) link
even if you accept it's child porn, which i don't, it's weak evidence for the uk having any kind of official tolerance for child abuse, because the picture was seized and the exhibition forced to close.
― joe, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:03 (fourteen years ago) link
'The boy scout thing' and other tabloid horrors e.g. hen parties dressed as schoolgirls - I don't speak from a position of expertise or anything but, logically speaking, isn't adults dressed as kids the exact opposite of paedophilia?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Actually I have seen the photo. I think it may even be in the big Nan Goldin retrospective available in a bookshop near you. I'm not sure what point there would be of posting it here beyond prurience.
a little light reading on the matter
I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist btw.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:05 (fourteen years ago) link
by using gary glitter's name and likeness in this i guess they will have to pay GG some kind of loyalty for this programme?
which means because of this programme effectively GG has now got paid for molesting children?
― ken 'a shaved finn' c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
adults dressed as kids
It was teenagers dressed as strippers. Anyway, like I said, I didn't want to pick a fight with the U.K. or nothing. I just wanted some information. I'm going to fuck off for a couple of hours and this thread will have returned to discussing Gary Glitter.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:09 (fourteen years ago) link
royalty obv.
― ken 'a shaved finn' c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:11 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost it's not picking a fight with the uk so much - child abuse investigations are woefully under-resourced by the police over here, for instance - but you're basically accusing elton john of being a paedophile, and given the long history of prejudicial attempts to associate homosexuality with abuse, people are understandably objecting.
― joe, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
did someone here just call nan goldin a child pornographer?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:13 (fourteen years ago) link
teenagers dressed as strippers
Wow.
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:15 (fourteen years ago) link
It was teenagers dressed as strippers.
It was 18 and 19 year olds, so yeah, teenagers, but also adults. I get that you're not trying to pick a fight with the UK but after about 200 years of our media being pretty obsessed with the idea that we are sinking into some kind of self imposed cesspit of perversion it's not surprising if we get a bit bored of it.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Or...er...what Joe said.
― PC Thug (Ned Trifle II), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Shocking, what next, the Sun printing pictures of topless 16 year old girls on Page 3?
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:19 (fourteen years ago) link
The police in Newcastle did, essentially! I was at Baltic for the opening the night that they removed the Goldin photo, which had been shown all over the place prior to the seizure, without incdent, so it was possibly a case of cops in search of publicity/trouble (I'm no fan of police as art critics) because on balance they are sensationalist and pig ignorant). The room where it was hung had already been restricted to 18 and over.
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
front page: GORDON BROWN'S SO CALLED GREAT BRITAIN DESCENDS INTO CHILD PORN HELL
xpost
― ken 'a shaved finn' c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:23 (fourteen years ago) link
... AND HE CAN'T EVEN SPELL PAEDOPHILE
― I Poxy the Fule (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:24 (fourteen years ago) link
actually not enough puns in there. "NUDE BRITANNIA"
― ken 'a shaved finn' c (ken c), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 13:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Glad someone beat me to the "18/19-year-olds are adults, dumbass" argument.
― a Barbie-like nub where he provates should be (HI DERE), Tuesday, 10 November 2009 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
A few years ago, The Sun's page three had a feature about their models having "It's their Sixteenth Birthday!! Wor", etcet.
Until someone pointed out that they must have had their photos done while they were still 15.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 November 2009 15:31 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27720875
Gary Glitter has been charged with eight counts of sexual offences against girls.The charges relate to two women who were aged between 12 and 14 at the time of the alleged offences between 1977 and 1980.The former pop star - real name Paul Gadd - is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 19 June.The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken over five allegations made by two other people.Baljit Ubhey, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: "We have carefully considered the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service."Mr Gadd, 70, was arrested on 28 October 2012.Police materialMs Ubhey said police had been "providing material to the CPS since July 2013, with the most recent material submitted in March 2014".The charges relating to the first complainant, who was aged 12 or 13 at the time of the alleged offences, are: Two counts of indecent assault between 31 January and 31 May 1977 One count of administering a drug or other thing in order to facilitate sexual intercourse between 31 January and 31 May 1977 One count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 between 31 January and 31 May 1977 Two counts of indecent assault between 31 May and 31 December 1977Charges relating to the second complainant, who was aged 13 or 14 at the time of the alleged offences, are two counts of indecent assault between 1 October 1979 and 31 December 1980.
The charges relate to two women who were aged between 12 and 14 at the time of the alleged offences between 1977 and 1980.
The former pop star - real name Paul Gadd - is due to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 19 June.
The Crown Prosecution Service said no further action would be taken over five allegations made by two other people.
Baljit Ubhey, chief crown prosecutor for CPS London, said: "We have carefully considered the evidence gathered by the Metropolitan Police Service."
Mr Gadd, 70, was arrested on 28 October 2012.Police material
Ms Ubhey said police had been "providing material to the CPS since July 2013, with the most recent material submitted in March 2014".
The charges relating to the first complainant, who was aged 12 or 13 at the time of the alleged offences, are:
Two counts of indecent assault between 31 January and 31 May 1977 One count of administering a drug or other thing in order to facilitate sexual intercourse between 31 January and 31 May 1977 One count of sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 13 between 31 January and 31 May 1977 Two counts of indecent assault between 31 May and 31 December 1977
Charges relating to the second complainant, who was aged 13 or 14 at the time of the alleged offences, are two counts of indecent assault between 1 October 1979 and 31 December 1980.
― ۩, Thursday, 5 June 2014 15:05 (ten years ago) link
The fifth grade concert band at my son's school played "The Hey Song" at their spring recital. As a non-sports watcher, my only mental association with this song is that it was written by this dude.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 June 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
https://www.fes.de/de/fileadmin/_processed_/csm_JHD010092_92a28445ab.jpg
― Ndalni Luigj Xhaka (nakhchivan), Sunday, 29 May 2016 03:19 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPJyRaSW0AArAE0.jpgI've not seen this in a long time, but it seems to be doing the rounds today.
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:22 (six years ago) link
that’s... unfortunate
― It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
it's funny because he raped young people.
― XxxxxxxXxxxxxxxxXxxxx (dylannn), Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:27 (six years ago) link
And "This is the age.. of the Train!"
Actually, there is an excellent documentary based around the Sex Pistols Christmas 1977 charity gig in Huddersfield. At one point they played that ad, and had inserted John doing the payoff line. Very deft, our Julian!
(as opposed to Savile, obv)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:37 (six years ago) link
if only trump had been president in time to intervene. he’s into defending pedophiles and flexing his muscle around the world (i hope my sarcasm here is apparent)
― maura, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:44 (six years ago) link
The trains I went on back then never looked anything like those Inter-City 125's on the Savile adverts, it was usually dilapidated old rolling stock from the 50's/60's.
― calzino, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
Ah, it doesn't seem that long ago we could have re-filmed the on-train scenes from "Hard Day's Night" simply by getting on at Earley Station..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link