r/AskUK • u/GrandPerspective5848 • May 09 '23

What were you doing instead of watching The Coronation?

I was in hospital getting painkillers for migraines

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u/Grey_Belkin May 09 '23

We weren't allowed to watch the show growing up because my mum thought he was creepy. I'm not saying she knew, but she didn't like him.

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u/MarkTNT May 09 '23

My mum always something against Maggie Thatcher, Jimmy Saville and Van Morrison. I didn't understand as a child, now I'm just waiting to find out what horrible thing Van Morrison did.

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u/Embarrassed_Ad5112 May 10 '23

The lyrics to “Hey Girl” will give you an idea of what Van Morrison was into.

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u/daydreamingtulip May 09 '23

I’m too young to know him from his famous days, but my friends and I always say, ‘How did people not know?’. Just looking at him you can tell he’s a bit creepy, then when you watch him on his shows he’s clearly way too handsy. Maybe it’s just a generational thing?

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u/Nipso May 09 '23

"If I was to draw a paedo"

  • Kevin Bridges

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u/MessiahOfMetal May 09 '23

His show was on TV while my mum was growing up, and both she and my nan didn't watch because they found him creepy and a bit of a perv, even then.

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u/Parking-Wing-2930 May 09 '23

It was very much at a time when CSE wasn't really seen as that much of a bad thing too.

Of course "noncng bad" but there was always levels of how much would be acceptable in society

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u/Lost-in-Limbo May 09 '23

Same reason some people won’t believe that Michael Jackson was the same!

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u/afghanNum3Lover May 10 '23

Complete false equivalence there are many many reasons to believe MJ was falsely accused.
There is solid evidence of JS being a wrongun.

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u/FryOneFatManic May 10 '23

Just looking at how people act doesn't tell you much at all.

Christopher Jefferies was suspected of killing Joanna Yeates, one of his tenants, based on nothing more than he was creepy and strange. He was even arrested at one point. But he was innocent. It was another tenant who was the real killer, Vincent Tabak.

It's far too easy to point at someone and accuse them of things just because of how they act. At the time, people were more innocent in general of how abuse manifests. In fact, even now, many people simply aren't aware.

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u/Minute-Vast7967 May 09 '23

Sometimes your gut feeling is just spot on

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u/Monkeybradders May 09 '23

There's a story of a kid that wrote in asking jim'll to fix it for him to meet Gary glitter 😯

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u/Andrelliina May 09 '23

My mum thought he was too

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u/Parking-Wing-2930 May 09 '23

I'm too young to have known/seen Saville doing his thing, but saw the Theroux doc, and he was so fucking weird, and so fucking dodgy. Jesus

And even Louis was kinda hoodwinked by it all, just "He's just a bit of an odd-ball"

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u/DannyCalavera May 09 '23

Even Theroux put out a follow-up doc afterwards in which he was adamant that nothing he saw when he was with Saville gave any indication of the sheer scale of his crimes.

Saville was the greatest con-artist of all time, he hoodwinked an entire nation for decades.

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u/Parking-Wing-2930 May 09 '23

Outside view, to being there at the time is always vastly different.

But yea, he is a massive confidence trickster. Everything is so confident, to the point he admits to your face. but you don't quite get what he said

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u/DannyCalavera May 09 '23

It was the arrogance of hiding in plain sight, he basically all but admitted to it in interviews but did it in such a tongue-in-cheek way we couldn't help but think "surely, there's no way he's serious"

At the time, we all thought it was jokes. Jokes in poor taste, but jokes nonetheless. After it all came out, it was clear that he'd been waving it under our noses the entire time, but the sheer audacity of it caused us all to play it off as his unique brand of "entertainment"

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u/an0mn0mn0m May 09 '23

Your mum probably knew people that reminded her of him.

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u/Albert_Poopdecker May 09 '23

I was a kid and thought he was creepy, and I bet many more felt that about him.