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Whose transgressions shocked/disappointed you the most?

  • 04-08-2019 09:32PM
    #1
    Sheridan81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Sheridan81


    Every suggestion from a large-scale crime to a misdemeanour that may have happened in your daily life is permissible in this thread.

    I think my number one choice is Chris Benoit. He was a well-respected, hard-working, technically adept star in professional wrestling, who had won the WWE title, and was by all accounts a humble and good, dedicated family man.

    In 2007, he rather unexpectedly tied up his wife and killed her, along with his young boy, then committed suicide. He has been whitewashed from wrestling history.

    I was a teensy weeny bit disappointed with those offbeat shenanigans to say the least!


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  • #2
    SmartinMartin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,936 ✭✭✭SmartinMartin


    Bishop Casey.


  • #3
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,402 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Louis CK.


  • #4
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,082 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Robert Maxwell. CEO Mirror group. Destroyed pension funds.


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    David Drumm. He was only trying to emulate Tom Cruise in that movie.


  • #6
    lbc2019
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,291 ✭✭✭lbc2019


    Bertie


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  • #7
    Edgware
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,874 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Goldilocks, breaking in to a house and stealing little baby bears breakfast


  • #8
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Santa Claus.

    No explanation required.


  • #9
    mikemac2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,018 ✭✭✭mikemac2


    I believed Tiger Woods was a sponsors dream and never put a foot wrong.

    When his wife attacked his car and he crashed it I reckoned she was crazy

    Boy was I wrong


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Graham Linehan being a massive transphobe.
    John Cleese turning into a Basil Fawlty-esque, Brexit-supporting Little Englander in real life.
    Maureen Tucker (drummer with the Velvet Underground) becoming a Tea-Party supporting nutcase.
    Billy Corgan just being a massive bellend in general.


  • #11
    Franz Von Peppercorn II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,398 ✭✭✭Franz Von Peppercorn II


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Graham Linehan being a massive transphobe.
    John Cleese turning into a Basil Fawlty-esque, Brexit-supporting Little Englander in real life.
    Maureen Tucker (drummer with the Velvet Underground) becoming a Tea-Party supporting nutcase.
    Billy Corgan just being a massive bellend in general.

    Linehan is bring totally sensible.


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  • #12
    ever not always
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23 ✭ever not always


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    Linehan is bring totally sensible.

    He might be right, but I wouldn't call him sensible


  • #13
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Pete Townshend paying for child pornography. I loved The Who and would like to believe his various explanations for why he did this, including that he was doing research for a book and that he was trying to heroically catch British banks taking money for child porn, but the stories are just too far fetched. He even did an interview in which he said people think he's a paedophile because he has a big nose. If someone who hadn't been in a multi-million album selling band came out with this claptrap there's absolutely no way anyone would believe them.


  • #14
    Sorry about that
    Closed Accounts Posts: 632 ✭✭✭Sorry about that


    Ian Watkins


  • #15
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,186 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    mikemac2 wrote: »
    I believed Tiger Woods was a sponsors dream and never put a foot wrong.

    When his wife attacked his car and he crashed it I reckoned she was crazy

    Boy was I wrong

    I was going to mention him and Ronan Keating, both seemed so too wholesome I suppose.


  • #16
    Ursus Horribilis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,168 ✭✭✭Ursus Horribilis


    John Peel


  • #17
    KaneToad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,201 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Eddie Hobbs
    Baz Ashmawy
    George Harrison


  • #18
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 11,195 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sol campbell


  • #19
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 21,740 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ursus Horribilis wrote: »
    John Peel

    Why? *goes off to google*


  • #20
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 76,172 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Sorry about that wrote: »
    Ian Watkins

    Same. Assumed when I heard the very first reports that it was going to be teenage girls which would be awful enough, then it turns out to be what it was...


  • #21
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    Jimmy Saville


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  • #22
    sabat
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,895 ✭✭✭sabat


    Arghus wrote: »
    Louis CK.

    Yeah, we had absolutely no warning signs that he was a chronic compulsive masturbator.


  • #23
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I grew up in two channel land so Jimmy Saville wasn't a big figure growing up though I would have known who he was. Rolf Harris came as a huge shock as he was the face of Denny rashers and he would have been a lot better known in 80's Ireland than Saville.


  • #24
    Hangdogroad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,910 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    KaneToad wrote: »
    Eddie Hobbs
    Baz Ashmawy
    George Harrison

    The other two are insufferable knobs but what did George Harrison do ?


  • #25
    skooterblue2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭skooterblue2


    Hangdogroad wrote: »
    I grew up in two channel land so Jimmy Saville wasn't a big figure growing up though I would have known who he was. Rolf Harris came as a huge shock as he was the face of Denny rashers and he would have been a lot better known in 80's Ireland than Saville.

    No, we had "Jim'll fix it" in my house and we only had 2 TV channels too. We thought he was amazing, my father always told me he was a creep. I had no idea why until he died and it all came out the day after ...... and still is , and a lot more covered up.


  • #26
    Jurgen The German
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,220 ✭✭✭Jurgen The German


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Graham Linehan being a massive transphobe.

    Someone in the public eye, having the gumption to stand up and be held accountable for their views, views echoed by many people too afraid to be branded phobic by expressing said views, is not a transgression.

    It should be fcuking applauded.

    We live in a world now that seems to side with whoever screechs the loudest, fair fcuks to him for bucking the trend.


  • #27
    Tony EH
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,966 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    Rolf. Has to be Rolf. :(


  • #28
    Skylinehead
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    Jurgen The German wrote: »
    We live in a world now that seems to side with whoever screechs the loudest, fair fcuks to him for bucking the trend.

    For screeching the loudest?

    He's a bit militant about the whole thing.


  • #29
    Yer Da sells Avon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,736 ✭✭✭Yer Da sells Avon


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    Linehan is bring totally sensible.

    He is in his hoop. Regardless of whether or not being a massive transphobe is good actually, his obsessive behaviour is far from sensible. He's literally lost friends over it. An argument with a fellow obsessive crank resulted in the police calling to his house. The whole embarrassing and undignified episode ended up costing him nearly £30,000 in legal fees.

    He's recently taken to randomly lashing out at other celebrities/well-known people on Twitter for daring to not share his opinions...

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    Absolutely batshit.


  • #30
    greencap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭greencap


    Alan Watts alcoholism, feckless lifestyle and alcohol related death. (from what I can tell)

    Took a lot of validity away from his speeches for me.

    discussion/2058195983/russia-threadbanned-users-in-op/p3135

    😁



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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 4,824 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Franz Von Peppercorn II wrote: »
    Linehan is bring totally sensible.

    Harassing people on Twitter to the extent that the police have to be called is not exactly "sensible". Neither is treating trans-inclusive feminists with contempt and acting like he's a superior arbiter of women's rights.

    Sure, there are some trans people on social media who are obnoxious and abusive but the majority are fairly normal folk who just want to be able to get on with their lives without being harassed or feeling threatened. Contrary to what Linehan and the people he promotes want you to believe, there's no massive conspiracy to indoctrinate all kids to question their gender. Or any widespread sinister cabal of male perverts who declare themselves female so that they can harass women in bathrooms.


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