True.. two wrongs don't make a right.

 

I remember my brother worked with an older lady who made comments about his appearance.... He's short in stature but muscular and she used to make jokes like "We're training him up to be a chippendale" and laugh. He found it so humiliating and was upset, though he never complained.

 

It isn't funny and shouldn't be portrayed that way, I agree Olly.

Guy with disability at work is a big footballl fan and of course enjoys the rivalry.

He says "Everyone from Newcastle is scum"

Even though i tell him i'm from newcastle and i find it offensive  - he just laughs.

I commented to colleages it is the same as calling someone 'p*ki scum' - its a form of racism.

Have passed it on for management to talk to him.

I'm not sure whether Geordies, be they barcode or red, and Pakistanis are a different race. : pedant : Those who call people from Newcastle, horse punching, overweight, unwashed Geordie scum are probably guilty of generalisation and stereotyping.

won't be quote-tastic, but Olly, maybe it's a possibility it's going to be an issue in the show later.

That's what I thought.

 

It certainly made me feel uncomfortable and I think we were meant to feel like that, and sympathise with the poor bloke, not to find it funny, as the other coppers did.

I think it was also meant to show us that people can do really stupid things on the spur of the moment and question why the hell they did that, as we saw Janet did.

I haven't watched it yet, but that's what I thought when I saw the trailer.  I actually thought it was going to be an issue for her career.

ah thanks guys ... I do hope it will be addressed...  mind you that's if I stick with watching it much longer  cos I am increasingly hating the female characters more and more each week

 

I really enjoyed the first series. .this one not so much.. and if the chief doesn't stop talking in short bursts of sentences all in a monotone soon my TV may well be adorned with a brick. 

 

funnily enough I recently had a yougov survey come thru about this show and the characters and whether they were likeable or not.. I get the feeling ITV are sensing they have made an error in judgement with the way the characters are forming this time.. they've made a show supposedly about strong female characters into a show about female caricatures..  

I'm still really enjoying the show, Olly - but what really impressed me was George Costigan.  I've always just thought of him as a bit of a 'joke' (blame Rita Sue and Bob too) but I think he's been brilliant in this.

I listened to a little bit of the Jeremy Vine show today and my jaw hit the ground at some of the attitudes people had.  Many of them women, who thought it was ok because that was just the way it was back then. 

I have no idea who that is. .I can't remember character names never mind the actors anjymore. .tho I've seen the film yonks ago but it's all a tad hazy now...the only one that I recall is the blondish girl who I think ended up in Corrie at some point later.. and some very bad clothing worn by all

blimey I am surprised they thought it was ok. .to me it was a bluddy annoyance you had to deal with back then and if you got firm about it you got called a 'lesbo' cos that's what men did and probably still do now if women rebuff their 'advances' ..   tho I must say I was lucky not to come across it at work. . I saw more men given the better jobs type of thing at work than sexual harassment thankfully. . it was generally out and about stuff I and my friends had to contend with mostly. .

 

suppose there is one thing about being an old hag  . .I don't have to worry about any of that happening to me anymore. . plus I think I have a perma scary scowly face on me anyway nowadays .. enough to scare anybody off I think  ..it does me the odd time I catch a glimpse of my face in the mirror, which is rare thankfully as I don't like to look at the  scary old hag women that lives in there.. 

he was the OAP serial killer...   he was 'Bob' in that film

Yes and the Brunette ended up in Downton and the Syndicate. Now let's have no more. Some of us recorded it while watching Lord Sugar and his march if the knobheads.

 Olly! I'm sure its not that bad... 

Hair dye + make up is all you need. Ever seen a pic of Joan Collins without her slap on?  You wouldn't know it was her.

oh it really is that bad Rosie .. it really is..

 

also I don't go out anywhere for two reasons, one being lack of money the other and probably main reason being my aggy so have no need of slap to impress anyone. . not that there is anyone to impress and not that I wore much anyway. . I hated all that gloop/foundation on my face .. tried it a couple of times and reverted back to just a bit of mascara and lippy and some black Kohl eyeliner now and then.. 

ah right .. still can't recall their faces from the film apart from the blonde one and the dreadful clothes..

I feel so OOOOOOLLLLDDDDD

 

  I love that film!!! 

Wasn't he in Connie before that?

oh blimey I'd never have put the guy now and then as the same person

 

thinking about that film, you have a much older guy  [well it always looked like that to me] and two young girls . . made around the same time as a lot of this stuff coming out now was going on..  nothing looks the same anymore after recent revelations..   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22459815

 

I saw that Katty....dreadful IMO....

Barbara Hewson told online magazine Spiked that the move was necessary in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal to end the "persecution of old men"

Read the whole article - http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13604/

 

Note she doesn't mention the nine year old assaulted by Stuart! 

Unbelievable!  

Just one less than Harriet Harman proposed a few years ago.

 

Still ain't it 13 in Spain and 14 in quite a few?

Wtf? Who the hell does she think she is...... admittedly i couldn't stick it to the end

Stuart hall's sentence doubled, well done Attorney General:  Mr Grieve had told the court that the original sentence "failed adequately to reflect the gravity of the offences and the public concern about offences of this nature......Even if the individual sentences for each count are appropriate given the statutory maximum available, some should have been made to run consecutively so that the total sentence passed reflected the culpability of the offender, the harm caused and [would] deter others,"

Speaking after the ruling, Mr Grieve said he had asked the court to "consider the multiple offending over a prolonged period of time which involved numerous victims".

He said he had wanted the judges to take into account "breaches of trust" by Hall, as "some of these offences [were] in places where the victims were entitled to feel safe".

"He used his celebrity status to invite them to attend the BBC and he also displayed an element of planning and premeditation," he said.

Mr Grieve added that he was pleased with the increase in Hall's sentence, which "highlighted the fact that historical sexual offences are always taken very seriously and [showed] the law still applies, whoever the offender may be". 

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Lancashire Police said the force had received further allegations against Hall since he was jailed and were working closely with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to determine the most appropriate course of action. 

Good news. I remember at the time of his original sentencing, the judge had said something along the lines of he had sentenced him in accordance to what the sentencing would have been at the time of his original crimes.  I said to Mr C, so if someone who committed a murder in the late 50's or early 60's and only got caught now, would that mean they would get the death sentence? Very odd.

 

 

Good decision, but should have still been longer, quite frankly I don't care if he dies in prison, his victims have a life sentence of their own.

 

 

 

The PR guru Max Clifford has been found guilty of sex charges in his trial at Southwark Crown Court.

Clifford has been found guilty of eight counts of indecent assault, cleared of two and the jury was unable to reach a verdict on one other.

 

 

 

Sky nick pisa @NickPisa

 Quite shocked at that, thought he'd get off. Well well well.

You and me both .

On the news it stated that the police during a raid found a letter from one of his victims in his dresser ,in the letter she claiams that he had assulted her .

There will be many top celebs shaking in thier boots because he knows so much about them and has been very successful in keeping them out of the headlines.

Indeed there must be.

 

 

 

 

 

Hope he doesn't wriggle out of the charges on appeal 

 

 

Arrogant git !!!

Clifford Couldn't Resist Media Gaze

This has just been shown now the trial is over

Unbelievable Erin  

 

Bet he doesn't feel like larking about now !

When was that clip taken Erin?

 

Bet that reporters boss was fuming he didn't ask him any questions... or maybe he was told not to

The clip creeping up on reporter was taken 8th April but not shown until today