This ^^^^. Agreed. What DLT did used to be common place. If it was that bad she should have made more of it at the time. DLT is hardly Jimmy Savile ffs.
It was in 1995, I'm not sure feeling women's tits without their permission was "commonplace" then, to be honest. The reaction and all this bollocks about custodial sentences is ludicrous (and totally media-driven), but let's not suggest it's okay to do it when it clearly isn't.
Maybe. But equating someone who fondled a21 year old to Savile is ridiculous. Though it could be that he did similar to under 16s. The sainted John Peel,would have been in trouble nowadays. As for sentences, in Hull you can be a repeat offender who batters women and tries to gouge theirselves out and you get a fine. Throw some lager on a police dog being held by a copper who is amongst those being unlawfully prevented from leaving a pub unless they agree to be photographed and give their names and addresses (both of which do not have to be agreed to unless being charged with something) and off to jail you go, even if it is your first brush with the law. Only things related to football seem to be treated with any seriousness by some magistrates in Hull.
Everyone brings up the John Peel thing but it was legal to marry a girl of that age where he did. Yes we might view it as wrong and more than a bit dodgy but he broke no law there.
I don't think anyone is equating DLT to Savile and if they are they need their bumps felt, if you'll excuse the pun. John Peel had a consensual relationship with one teenage girl, which again is very different to being a predatory *****phile. The second part of your post I agree with entirely. It seems the sentencing policies in these parts are downright inexplicable at times.
That's not what everyone has a go at him for, presumabley as there is not sufficient evidence. They have a go about his first wife.
Yeah, everyone always went on about Savile being a ***** when he was alive and then shut up when he died.
You're probably right, he was well into girls as young as 13 in the US but when he came home he thought "getting blow jobs off 13 year old girls is illegal here, I'd best not do that anymore" despite being surrounded by amongst others Savile, King & Denning. We'll not mention the 15 year old he was openly shagging & got pregnant in case it smears the rose tints.
Perhaps she was too timid to do anything about it. Why have these celebs got away with it for so long? Because their celebrity gave them power. Women and girls felt they wouldn't be taken seriously and in many cases when they did complain they weren't.
Anyone know why he was called The Hairy Cornflake. If it's because he had a beard and did the morning show the person who thought it up is a cock. A massive phallus.
That's not the point at all. You said people dont have a go at him cos he's dead and I pointed out it's the exact opposite with Savile so that doesnt work. Why havent all these people come out of the woodwork exactly how they did with Savile once he carked it? Being dead is nothing to do with it. And he wasnt 'openly shagging', it's still rumour although a very credible one.
I always assumed that was precisely the case but we know what assuming does. It mustve taken all of 5 seconds to think of it and he could just as easily have been referred to as The Furry Shreddie. If he'd done the evening show could he have been called The Bearded Clam?
There's a fantastic story about DLT on the VeryGoodPlus forum... and here it is... We're all sitting comfortably... ...then I shall begin. In 1994, my team were at a pop quiz in Clacton On Sea, Essex. The team line up was myself, my mate Keith, his mate Phantom and John Cooper Clarke. The compere was Dave Lee Travis, obviously at a bit of a low ebb after resigning on air. We were the favourites, with our only competition coming from a team supplied by local radio station Breeze FM. From the off, Travis was crawling 'round the radio team, saying how they were sure to win and the rest of us shouldn't bother. It was particularly galling to us as we had never lost a quiz yet, added to which the Breeze FM team had about 12 people in it, a clear infringement of the rules. As time wore on, and a few ales were drunk, Cooper Clarke & I got increasingly pissed off with Travis' attitude - edging closer and closer to their table and giving out clues when he thought they didn't know the answer. Cooper Clarke questioned this and was told by Travis not to be such a bad loser. When I pointed out that we hadn't lost yet, Travis replied that it was just a matter of time. The atmosphere began to heat up, with other teams starting to make disgruntled noises. Ultimately, my team drew with Breeze FM (Travis was amazed) and the other teams began to become quite vocal about a. the help our rivals had received and b. the size of the team. Travis, starting to resemble General Gordon at Khartoum, panicked and told everyone to shut up - there would be a tie-breaker to decide it once and for all. Myself & JCC stood up to take the challenge. Question one ('The three members of Cream were Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and...) despite answering the question about 30 seconds before Breeze FM's reps DLT (the cheating bastard) said it was too close to call. At this stage, the Essex riot police were on standby. Question two ('Who replaced Brian Jones in The Rolling Stones') JCC and i answer simultaneously - not a squeak from Breeze FM - cheers from the crowd. JCC points his finger at DLT and says 'Gissus our prizes, then' - DLT chucks them at us (some tokens; some t shirts; some booze) and mutters 'stick 'em up your arse'. It all kicks off from there - I'm poking DLT in the chest (I called him a 'bearded tit' and, memorably, the 'hairy ****flake') and telling him what a cock he is, how he should **** off back to Amber radio and his wacky farm while JCC incited the crowd to slow handclap and boo. Eventually, the manager came and asked us to leave, which we did. JCC shouted 'Manc twat!' while leaving (bit odd, that). We laughed all the way home. DLT is, incidentally, the only person to ever win both the Rear Of The Year and Pipesmoker Of The Year award. He is also a humourless, conceited twat. And there ends the rambling story of myself and John Cooper-Clarke VS DLT & Breeze FM.
