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Gary Glitter arrested at his London home connection with the Jimmy Savile scandal

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  • #2
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Hardly took a rocket scientist to figure that this was coming.........he was named weeks ago


  • #3
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    I really wish Savile was alive :mad:


    Edit. Don't know how that thumbs up got on my post. Can't edit it. But in some ways its apt.


  • #4
    cometogether
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭cometogether


    Dirty c unt. Hope they throw the book at him.


  • #5
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Jim'll fix it with some glitter.......

    ban for that:pac:


  • #6
    Run_to_da_hills
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,009 ✭✭✭✭Run_to_da_hills


    tallaghtmick wrote: »
    Jim'll fix it with some glitter.......

    ban for that:pac:
    Sickliopedia is going to crash this morning. :p


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  • #7
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Run_to_da_hills wrote: »
    Sickliopedia is going to crash this morning. :p

    Is that on sickipedia? seriously just made it up there.....not sure if I should be proud of that:confused:


  • #8
    A Primal Nut
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,949 ✭✭✭A Primal Nut


    Thought Glitter was put away in Vietnam years ago. From Wikipedia it looks like he only spent a couple of years in prison. I thought they would have been stricter.


  • #9
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    A foreign singer in a foreign country, why all the fuss here?


  • #10
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    A foreign singer in a foreign country, why all the fuss here?

    Theres always one:rolleyes:


  • #11
    cometogether
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭cometogether


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    A foreign singer in a foreign country, why all the fuss here?

    Why post then if you're not interested? Ignore it, it really isn't that hard to do.


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  • #12
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    cometogether wrote: »

    Why post then if you're not interested? Ignore it, it really isn't that hard to do.

    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.


  • #13
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.

    Saville may have molested hundreds of children over a 40 year timescale, the BBC, one of the largest media networks in the world, may have hushed up a lot of it, with some of the cases possibly happening in Northern Ireland (I seem to remember the police looking into the possibility of it), some other major personalities were involved, and you're wondering why people seem to care?

    That's slightly strange.


  • #14
    cometogether
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭cometogether


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.

    What is this rubbish you're spewing? Its not a fascination (for a want of a more suitable word) with the fact that they're celebrities, its the fact that its now emerging that they committed all sorts of heinous crimes over years and years! And what difference does it make if they're foreign or not? Are we only allowed to talk about people from Ireland and things that happened in Ireland?


  • #15
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    boneyarsebogman wrote: »

    and you're wondering why people seem to care?

    ........

    You have (deliberately?) misrepresented what I have posted.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,920 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    You have (deliberately?) misrepresented what I have posted.

    Not in the slightest. You asked why we care about "washed up" foreign celebrities. I am telling you that we care because of the horrible acts they did.

    If a "normal" person had also done those deeds, molested as many children as they had, then you'd be sure there would be just as much outrage. This one will always gain notoriety because this pedophile was a children's TV show host for a long time.

    You're obviously just trying to be a troll and a rather bad one at that - I've made my point and I shall leave it there.


  • #17
    joolsveer
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    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.

    When I was a lot younger I met Saville a couple of times on the CRC walks from Abbey Street to Baldoyle. Who can say that there could not have been Irish victims of his too.


  • #18
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭senorwipesalot


    So does this mean he"ll be pulling out of children in need?


  • #19
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    boneyarsebogman wrote: »



    ......

    If a "normal" person had also done those deeds, molested as many children as they had, then you'd be sure there would be just as much outrage. ........

    Absolutely not. This story is only so big because of the celebrity aspect. The fascination with the likes of Saville and Glitter is highly amusing.

    People are hiding behind mock-outrage, but, in reality, only are interested because of the celebrity angle.

    As for the abuse directed at me? Says a lot about those posting it.


  • #20
    tallaghtmick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,724 ✭✭✭tallaghtmick


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.


    Didnt get the ride last night?

    In before yore'ma etc


  • #21
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    senorwipesalot wrote: »
    So does this mean he"ll be pulling out of children in need?
    You now need to go outside and rescue a kitten or somthing.


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  • #22
    TheCatsMeow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭TheCatsMeow


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Yada, yada, yah!

    I was commenting on the ridiculous fascination some Irish people have with washed up celebrities in a foreign country. Glitter and Saville stories have nothing to do with Ireland.

    So when a news story has nothing to do with Ireland it shouldn't be reported or talked about? There are many reasons why people are interested in this story. For one, it bares a similarity to what happened with the Catholic Church in our own country.

    If you are not interested in a news story don't click on the thread, turn the page in your newspaper or switch off the segment in the news.


  • #23
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    Absolutely not. This story is only so big because of the celebrity aspect. The fascination with the likes of Saville and Glitter is highly amusing.

    People are hiding behind mock-outrage, but, in reality, only are interested because of the celebrity angle.

    As for the abuse directed at me? Says a lot about those posting it.

    Who honestly gives a sh!t what other people are interested in talking about?

    RTE news were covering this story too, perhaps you should write a strongly worded letter to them about their outrageous coverage of this non-story.


  • #24
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    TheCatsMeow wrote: »

    So when a news story has nothing to do with Ireland it shouldn't be reported or talked about?

    .......
    Why shouldn't it be reported?

    Another poster deliberately missing the point.


  • #25
    Yakuza
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,130 ✭✭✭Yakuza


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    A foreign singer in a foreign country, why all the fuss here?

    As someone who grew up in the 70s, watching Jim'll Fix It and Top of the Pops (where Glitter featured regularly) was a part of my weekly tv routine. These (and other youth-oriented) tv programmes from that "foreign country" were vastly superior to those on RTE 1 and extensively watched here. I suspect I am not alone among the hundreds of thousands of Irish 40-somethings alive today for whom these "personalities" are childhood memories (thankfully only tv ones for me) and there would naturally be lots of interest in what's coming out in the news.

    I presume such an insular, navel-gazing view is just a lame attempt at trolling, or perhaps you are not the right age to remember them when they were at the height of their popularity.


  • #26
    Hal Decks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭Hal Decks


    dark crystal wrote: »

    Who honestly gives a sh!t what other people are interested in talking about?

    RTE news were covering this story too, perhaps you should write a strongly worded letter to them about their outrageous coverage of this non-story.

    What's RTE got to do with anything? It's the likes of you I was making the point about and you have proved my point. Thanks.


  • #27
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    Hal Decks wrote: »
    What's RTE got to do with anything? It's the likes of you I was making the point about and you have proved my point. Thanks.
    Motors is over there===>

    Tip on over, you'll love it and they'll love you.:)


  • #28
    donegal_road
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭donegal_road


    anyone else sick to death of all this Saville tripe? What is really going on in the news that they have to distract the public with this


  • #29
    deelite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭deelite


    Why would they arrest Glitter - I mean surely when all the stories came out about him a few years ago - the victims would have gone to the police then to make statements. I just hope they are not going for the easy targets and allowing the publicly unnamed abusers to remain behind closed doors.


  • #30
    Wanderer2010
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    I also thought he was in jail for years now and wouldnt get out for another few years..Im not surprised this is turning out to be sich a huge story, i say we have only just scratched the surface of this case, seems Saville was so protected over the decades that it took his death to expose the abuse stories, well either that or nobody wanted the lid to be lifted on what now seems to be an institiutional culture of abusing women and children.


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  • #31
    [Deleted User]
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    deelite wrote: »
    Why would they arrest Glitter - I mean surely when all the stories came out about him a few years ago - the victims would have gone to the police then to make statements. I just hope they are not going for the easy targets and allowing the publicly unnamed abusers to remain behind closed doors.

    There's probably a chance that any accusations against Gary Glitter that involved Jimmy Saville were swept under the rug with a lot of the others. So now that the ones against Saville are surfacing, then the ones Glitter were involved in are too.


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