Whose transgressions shocked/disappointed you the most?

JohnnyFlash · 05-08-2019 12:12AM

I find the whole Lenihan story to be great to be honest. One of the high priests of the twitterati decides to break with liberal dogma and is crucified by his own disciples for having the temerity to suggest that trans men shouldn’t be allowed compete in women’s sport or share facilities because it’s actually not great for women. A position that’s held by very many feminists and women, but is funnily enough seen as deeply conservative by online ‘progressives’.

iamwhoiam · 05-08-2019 12:16AM

Michelle Smith the Olympic swimmer

ceadaoin. · 05-08-2019 12:16AM

Sheridan81 wrote: »

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!

Was Chris Benoit not found to be suffering from CTE when they did the post mortem? Not that that excuses his actions but it goes some way towards explaining them. It's probably part of the reason he's been erased from the WWE, like the NFL, they don't want to be held accountable for severely damaging the health of their players/participants

Yer Da sells Avon · 05-08-2019 12:22AM

Apparently Linehan's hatred of trans people stems from the criticism he received after this episode of the IT Crowd:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3BY72RF8vc

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 12:29AM

iamwhoiam wrote: »

Michelle Smith the Olympic swimmer

It wasnt just you it was the whole country, except for Tom Humpries

Nigel Fairservice · 05-08-2019 12:31AM

I love the film American Beauty. I was most disappointed by Kevin Spacey. My gf always maintained he was a creep long before things came out in the news about him. I never thought he would be capable of it.

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 12:34AM

Nigel Fairservice wrote: »

I love the film American Beauty. I was most disappointed by Kevin Spacey. My gf always maintained he was a creep long before things came out in the news about him. I never thought he would be capable of it.

He was just a sacrificial lamb to be thrown to the masses. There are far bigger ones higher up.

05-08-2019 12:34AM

skooterblue2 wrote: »

It wasnt just you it was the whole country, except for Tom Humpries

tom humphries

PTH2009 · 05-08-2019 12:36AM

Garth Brooks regarding the 2014 regarding the croke park fiasco

05-08-2019 12:39AM

Neil deGrasse Tyson's making an arse of himself at the moment.

Wasn't sure what to make of the #MeToo claims against him as they seemed to die down compared to others, so it faded from my memory a bit. His tweets following the mass shootings are, at the very least, extremely tone deaf. Stuff like this feels worse coming from someone who's exceptionally intelligent, and who us normal saps should be expecting better from!

Yer Da sells Avon wrote: »

Apparently Linehan's hatred of trans people stems from the criticism he received after this episode of the IT Crowd:

At the time I never considered that episode transphobic, as I thought Douglas was the butt of all the jokes and that it was his ridiculousness that we were laughing at, not at the April character. I rolled my eyes at the criticism it recieved, thinking it was just people looking for something to be offended by. But now, knowing more about his contempt for trans people, I can't help wonder if maybe I was wrong about it and it was really meant to be just a cheap laugh at a transwoman's expense. (Still some good lines in that episode though)

I still like a lot of the comedy that Linehan wrote and he and his wife's strong support for Repeal the Eighth was certainly welcome. It's a real shame he went down this road and made it his main obsession.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

One of the high priests of the twitterati

Not really a thing.

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 12:39AM

PTH2009 wrote: »

Garth Brooks regarding the 2014 regarding the croke park fiasco

That ended for me long before then, as soon as I found out about him and Trisha Yearwood. He is all talk and no substance.

Sheridan81 · 05-08-2019 01:07AM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

Was Chris Benoit not found to be suffering from CTE when they did the post mortem?

He had the brain of an 80 year-old Alzheimer's patient. He took lots of chair-shots and his finisher was a diving head-butt.

It's probably part of the reason he's been erased from the WWE, like the NFL, they don't want to be held accountable for severely damaging the health of their players/participants

Yeah, they still acknowledge other suspected murderers and reprobates.

Lady Spangles · 05-08-2019 01:19AM

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Why? *goes off to google*

IIRC, when he (John Peel) lived in the US for a short time, he married an underage girl and moved her across state lines to avoid prosecution. Later, when he returned to Britain, I think there were heavy rumours that he was involved with another underage girl.

It was a shock to me too, tbh. I still have fond memories of listening to his radio one show late at night, while at University and still re-listen to many Peel Sessions. The Fall and the Sisters of Mercy all did great Peel Sessions.

Anyway, before I digress, back on topic: Ian Watkins of the Lost Prophets shocked me. I was going through some old CDs I have packed away in an old suitcase and found some Lostprophets albums. Not sure what to do with them as I'd heard from a friend in England that even charity shops won't take them. Unsurprisingly.

Rolf Harris is another. I loved his art show when I was a little kid.

Pawwed Rig · 05-08-2019 01:28AM

Axl Rose. Idolised him as a young teenager before finally conceding that the man is a total knob head.

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 01:29AM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

Axl Rose. Idolised him as a young teenager before finally conceding that the man is a total knob head.

Was Slash the real driving force behind Guns n Roses?

branie2 · 05-08-2019 01:49AM

Jimmy Savile

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 02:00AM

branie2 wrote: »

Jimmy Savile

Its not the stuff you know about worries me about him. Its the stuff and his connections with the Royal family that scares me. He was protected from up on high much the same as Epstein, just Saville was louder and tackier.

branie2 · 05-08-2019 02:00AM

He was a psychopath as well

skooterblue2 · 05-08-2019 02:05AM

branie2 wrote: »

He was a psychopath as well

Tip of the iceberg stuff. Way more going on there.

amovingstatue · 05-08-2019 02:11AM

Charles J F***ing Haughey, but then again I was young and naive during his reign.....

Sheridan81 · 05-08-2019 02:19AM

Jimmy Savile was a member of Mensa and an evil genius. I didn't know much about him before the allegations emerged because he was sort of before my time, but having watched many of his TV appearances since, and learned more about him, I can't help but be amused by the eccentricity and idiosyncrasy of his character, not to mention the sheer gall and political maneuvering to have the establishment squirming under his bejeweled, ringed fingers. He was the puppet-master, the manipulator in chief.

It's just a pity he was a narcissistic, psychopathic child molester, rapist and possible murderer; it's a tad off-putting to say the least.

If you read the thread on Boards that was created just after his passing, it's humorously tragic. "Rip Jimmy, you were a harmless aul sort", "Rip Jimmy, Legend" etc.

05-08-2019 03:16AM

skooterblue2 wrote: »

Was Slash the real driving force behind Guns n Roses?

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sunbeam · 05-08-2019 03:34AM

I remember watching Jim'll Fix It on RTE2 in the early 80s. I would have been about 11 or 12 and probably a little older than the target audience. I didn't really get a creepy vibe from him at the time. The one thing that struck me as rather odd was that he rarely seemed to get involved in the actual fix-its. He just was there handing out the medals at the end and seemed strangely involved yet detached.

At.the time the growing cynic in me thought that perhaps he really just didn't like kids very much. In hindsight and looking back on the infamous Louis Theroux interview it is clear that this was what he wanted us all to believe. He was a master manipulator who had perfected the art of hiding in plain sight.

Airyfairy12 · 05-08-2019 04:18AM

I read somewhere that he had a sexual relationship with his mother, he lived with her until she died, he kept her body for a few days after she passed, god only knows what he did during those days. Its stomach turning how twisted he was. Complete and utter sociopath.

Airyfairy12 · 05-08-2019 04:32AM

Rolf Harris - I have memories of him on that animal rescue show were theyd bring in the little animals to the vet and make them better, also remember him on CBBC playing the didgeridoo and drawing caricatures, he was so funny and charismatic, he had a lovely energy about him. Never would have imagined he'd be capable of everything he did.

Bill Cosby was another disappointment, he came across as such a warm and genuinely decent, cool person, he was like a really sweet, funny, cool grandad, I dont think anyone wanted to believe he was anything but a good skin, took something like 50 women coming forward before the accusations were taken seriously.

Just goes to show, when someone is charismatic and well liked by others they can pretty much do anything they want, a persons reputation says nothing about their character.

Gwynplaine · 05-08-2019 08:10AM

I'm going to make a prediction here. David Walliams will some day be found out. I don't knoe what his weird secret is, be it harmless or very bad. But he is hiding something big.

ceadaoin. · 05-08-2019 08:35AM

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Rolf Harris - I have memories of him on that animal rescue show were theyd bring in the little animals to the vet and make them better, also remember him on CBBC playing the didgeridoo and drawing caricatures, he was so funny and charismatic, he had a lovely energy about him. Never would have imagined he'd be capable of everything he did.

Bill Cosby was another disappointment, he came across as such a warm and genuinely decent, cool person, he was like a really sweet, funny, cool grandad, I dont think anyone wanted to believe he was anything but a good skin, took something like 50 women coming forward before the accusations were taken seriously.

Just goes to show, when someone is charismatic and well liked by others they can pretty much do anything they want, a persons reputation says nothing about their character.

Just today I had a minor interaction with a well known murderer and all around nasty person, who is still walking free despite all this. Came across as a polite old man. If you didn't know who he was (unlikely) you'd never guess. These people are experts at hiding their true nature

MarquisDeSad · 05-08-2019 08:55AM

Lance Armstrong when I was a young and naive lad. I didn't want to believe he doped.
Though by the time of his fifth tour de France win I started go off him.

everlast75 · 05-08-2019 09:04AM

Woody Allen. Loved his movies

The Tetrarch · 05-08-2019 09:11AM

No mention of US Presidents!
Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.

Whose transgressions shocked/disappointed you the most?

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