Shocking Footage Of John Lennon Mocking The Disabled

seenitall · 21-09-2015 05:23PM

Candie wrote: »

Hindsight and the lens of cultural relativity are uneasy bedfellows. There was nothing shocking about that kind of thing, in the time it was done in. Lennon was a product of his time, if he was around now I'm sure he'd behave in a way that is acceptable now.

The past is another country, and the inhabitants are very foreign.

You watched a certain period drama on BBC last night, didn't you?

(Please say you did, otherwise I'll look like a nerdy weirdo!

)

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." LP Hartley, The Go-Between

What a beautiful quote.

R P McMurphy · 21-09-2015 05:31PM

seenitall wrote: »

You watched a certain period drama on BBC last night, didn't you?

(Please say you did, otherwise I'll look like a nerdy weirdo! )

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." LP Hartley, The Go-Between

What a beautiful quote.

Brother of J R Hartley who wrote a book about fly fishing

21-09-2015 05:39PM

seenitall wrote: »

You watched a certain period drama on BBC last night, didn't you?

(Please say you did, otherwise I'll look like a nerdy weirdo! )

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there." LP Hartley, The Go-Between

What a beautiful quote.

It's a beautiful quote, but I didn't watch any period dramas last night. It's just one of my favourite truisms.

We're both nerdy wierdos so that's okay.

RWCNT · 21-09-2015 06:02PM

There's a lot of **** out there on Lennon, this isnt exactly the darkest thing he ever got up to. Disgraceful carry-on but the man beat his wives like.

Im still going to listen to The Beatles, why wouldn't I? If youre not then I'm sure you were never a fan anyway.

Menas · 21-09-2015 06:04PM

Kenny Bania wrote: »

That was really crap.

Happy to oblige.

Buona Fortuna · 21-09-2015 06:05PM

I'm shocked and outraged.

But tbf Lennon was a bit of a cnut, and I don't think any of the other beetles would have been on anyone's top 10 to go for pint with - or top 10,000 come to that.

/unsubscribes

Sir Osis of Liver. · 21-09-2015 06:13PM

Disgraceful.
Someone should shoot some sense into him.

Junkyard Tom · 21-09-2015 06:13PM

I will stamp on every beetle that crosses my path henceforth.

jamesbere · 21-09-2015 06:13PM

The_Valeyard wrote: »

That's it, I'm off to read 'Catcher in the rye'. What's your address?

I'll only give it to you if you promise to bring biscuits

ctrl-alt-delete · 21-09-2015 06:21PM

You'd be lying if you said you have never done an impression of Christy Brown . . .

seenitall · 21-09-2015 06:26PM

Candie wrote: »

It's a beautiful quote, but I didn't watch any period dramas last night. It's just one of my favourite truisms.

We're both nerdy wierdos so that's okay.

Good. Thanks to you and R P McMurphy there with a fly-fishing reference, I deffo feel I'm in good company at least!

The stuff you can learn in a John Lennon thread, eh?

EDIT: d'oh... feeling more like a Homer Simpson now!

Thanks, Google!

toptom · 21-09-2015 06:32PM

The Beatles wEre a bunch of cornerboys behind it all. Gurriers.

glynf · 21-09-2015 06:32PM

He did a better impression for Chapman in 1980. Karma's a bitch.

LordSutch · 21-09-2015 06:37PM

Mark Chapman?

Arytonblue · 21-09-2015 06:46PM

ctrl-alt-delete wrote: »

You'd be lying if you said you have never done an impression of Christy Brown . . .

We all wanted to let him take it!

I think people who idolize and set up celebrities and famous folk on completely meaningless and baseless pedestals are the cause over such 'outrage' when the unthinkable emerges, celebrities, musicians and actors have the same propensity to be twats and assholes as us ordinary peasants!:eek: If we always got angry and furious over the assholes throughout the world we'd be pretty occupied on a daily basis OP.

Lennon's stuff was always overrated anyway:p.

The Backwards Man · 21-09-2015 06:53PM

Cilla and Lennon have tarnished the squeaky clean image of Merseybeat no doubt.

But if this song is about voodoo worship I'm never listening to a Scouse band again.:pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29fwB4UtJNE

LordSutch · 21-09-2015 06:53PM

Arytonblue wrote: »

Lennon's stuff was always overrated anyway:p.

Much of his solo stuff probably? But when Lennon & McCartney sparked off each other, the results were often magic. Lennon with the lyrics, McCartney with the melody (or combinations there of) was how many of the best Beatles tracks were created. Songs that will last forever.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-09-2015 07:41PM

What's shocking about it? I've witnessed countless examples of people doing a mentally handicaped impression. It's distasteful sure and not something I'd find humorous, but there's no point in having an irrational over the top reaction about something John Lennon did on a stage 50 years ago.

FloatingVoter · 21-09-2015 08:01PM

I feel sorry for the OP when he discovers that

Elvis - was no friend of the vegetarian. He may even have eaten one or two in a burger.
Frank Sinatra - was friends with people who did a line in concrete boots.
Phil Spector - it would be easier to list the sins he didn't commit.
Jerry Lee Lewis - took kissin' cousins to a whole new level.

wendell borton · 21-09-2015 08:11PM

Well I'm off to listen to some dead Kennedy's while reading Charlie hebdo and watching Monty python, most likely I'll explode due to excessive moral outrage. Goobye cruel world.

21-09-2015 08:23PM

FloatingVoter wrote: »

I feel sorry for the OP when he discovers that

Elvis - was no friend of the vegetarian. He may even have eaten one or two in a burger.
Frank Sinatra - was friends with people who did a line in concrete boots.
Phil Spector - it would be easier to list the sins he didn't commit.
Jerry Lee Lewis - took kissin' cousins to a whole new level.

Frank kept dodgy company, but the mob owned LV in those days along with most of the entertainers who worked there.

He was also a good guy in other ways, a big advocate of black civil rights in the days when there were separate water fountains. He'd perform at black events, refuse to stay in hotels that didn't welcome people of colour, and never performed at venues that expected their black performers to use the back door or had whites only audiences. He used his mob connections to get work for his black friends and was a vocal opponent of segregation and did school talks in support of civil rights way back before it was desirable, or even safe, for a white person to be visibly supportive of equal rights. He was a very flawed man, and not always a good man, but he did accomplish some good works. And he did have that voice.

Poor ole Elvis probably ate a bit of everything though, I'll give you that.

josephryan1989 · 21-09-2015 09:05PM

How can you excuse someone making fun of disabled people?

How can you listen to his music ever again?

Shame on you.

DEFTLEFTHAND · 21-09-2015 09:12PM

Candie wrote: »

Frank kept dodgy company, but the mob owned LV in those days along with most of the entertainers who worked there.

He was also a good guy in other ways, a big advocate of black civil rights in the days when there were separate water fountains. He'd perform at black events, refuse to stay in hotels that didn't welcome people of colour, and never performed at venues that expected their black performers to use the back door or had whites only audiences. He used his mob connections to get work for his black friends and was a vocal opponent of segregation and did school talks in support of civil rights way back before it was desirable, or even safe, for a white person to be visibly supportive of equal rights. He was a very flawed man, and not always a good man, but he did accomplish some good works. And he did have that voice.

Poor ole Elvis probably ate a bit of everything though, I'll give you that.

Granted he seemed to have time for the African Americans which was very unusual for an Italian but many people who knew him thought he was a complete piece of sh1t who had no problem using his powerful friends from New York to advance himself.

Brian from Bray · 21-09-2015 09:15PM

It's not nice to speak ill of the dead OP.

josephryan1989 · 21-09-2015 09:22PM

Brian from Bray wrote: »

It's not nice to speak ill of the dead OP.

The video shows him mocking disabled people and you're blaming me?

wp_rathead · 21-09-2015 09:23PM

josephryan1989 wrote: »

How can you excuse someone making fun of disabled people?

How can you listen to his music ever again?

Shame on you.

Ah Beatles have some good songs, no denying your man Lennon was a prick in that clip
That said, he not exactly in the lead singer to Lostprophets category

Seth Brundle · 21-09-2015 09:26PM

John who?

Tarzana2 · 21-09-2015 09:46PM

Surely it's common knowledge by now that John Lennon was a bit of a knob? And this would have simply been more acceptable then, which doesn't make it right of course, just puts it in context.

And on the whole boycotting stuff because of the dodgy character behind them. Well, I can't see myself not watching 'Chinatown' ever again. It's too damn good.

FloatingVoter · 21-09-2015 09:50PM

The man knew he had problems himself. I'll let him say a few words.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBuMC25npYk

Satan is Real · 21-09-2015 10:02PM

Sorry op, your heroes might not necessarily be very nice people. I'm a big Jimi Hendrix fan but I've read he could be a drunken woman beater. Still who cares when the music's good?

Shocking Footage Of John Lennon Mocking The Disabled

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