Boycott the BBC??

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To Boycott or Not to Boycott??

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  1. JWK

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    Nick, sorry I can't help with the boycott because we are the same as Sheal, there was so much rubbish on the telly we gave up watching it completely about 18 months ago, not just the BBC but all the channels in my opinion.

    I can understand why people have waited till he was dead, each individual thought they were the only one he abused or maybe thought they had too much to lose (in particular jobs or respect). Some did complain and were ignored at the time and of course the police never managed to piece together all the separate reports. Now one or two have complained others feel safe that they can come forward, it's not a nice thing to have had it bottled up for decades and some may even have felt some guilt, so at least people will feel better for telling their stories - hopefully it's not going to be just about money.

    I'm happy that his family have taken action so quickly, his garish gravestone was not far from my Mum's plaque in Scarborough - apart from never ever liking the man I couldn't understand why such an ugly monstrosity was allowed in those lovely peaceful seaside gardens (NB: his family have broken up his gravestone and removed it from the site).

    I don't know anyone who ever confessed (before this scandal hit the headlines) that they actually liked him. It amazes me that talentless so called celebrities command such high wages, there are plenty on the box today and in the papers too, who pays their wages? Well I think I know - BBC licence fee payers are amongst them along with OK/Hello magazine readers - sorry if that's you, no offence intended.

    So Nick I think you do have a point, if people stopped buying telly licences it would be a start.
     
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      A few years ago, it came to light that Jonathon Ross was on a salary of £18 Million per year.
       
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      :hate-shocked::yikes::thud:

      So given that Clueless & I are just as entertaining, what salary should we be on?
       
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        I can't say I like J. Ross, but he does at least have a personality and is quick witted, but he does not deserve that salary :catapult:
         
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          Do you leave obscene answer-machine messages?
           
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            Oops, silly me, it seems I might have mis-remembered the news article.

            Its only £6 Million per year it seems. I don't know where I got the figure of £18 Million from. To be honest its hard to understand how he can motivate himself to drag himself out of bed in the morning for a mere £6Million.
             
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            • Phil A

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              For that price we'll leave anything you want.
               
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                Perhaps clueless, if it were reduced to a diva footballer's wage, he wouldn't bother to ever get up again.
                Would suit me down to the ground...
                 
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                • Phil A

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                  Maybe you read the article 3 years ago?
                   
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                  • Folly Mon

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                    To Each and Every One of You Who Have took Time to Reply to my Rant :ThankYou:All Sincerely I Love and Adore The Diplomacy this Site Offers Me if that is the Correct Word??

                    I Know Ime a Donkey Some Times and Some Times I Get My Donkey in My Hand and My Head Goes Realing!!! Spinning is another F raze I Use to Put it politley

                    As a Sexually Abused Kid Luckley and AA & NA Teach me How Lucky I Am That it Only Happened Wonce and I Lived to tell The Tale AND NOT MURDERED

                    As was said above and thank you for that
                    I Told NO ONE!!! AND NEVER TOLD NO ONE TILL I GOT TO MY 1st AA Meeting That Almost Cost Me My Life On a Number of Occasions to Get My Seat in Alcoholics Anonymous!!!! I Burried it in the Souls of My Feet BUT Every Morning I Got up it Was Like Walking on Broken Glass or Red Hot Coal

                    So My Journey in Alcohol and Drugs Was An Anertherstic it Turnd in to my Best Friend My Lover My Crouch My Soul Mate For Many Years

                    The 3 c s Had a Hold of me On a Bad Day Carlin Cocaine & Cannabis

                    On a Good Day Jack Dannyels Guinness and More Cocaine Extacy Acid LSD

                    Id Take Anything to Escape Realty Creating Plenty of Misery and Hart Ake Along the Way I Dont Tell you this with Pride As Ive Said Before I Tell You this with 110% HONESTY Because if I Start Lieying to You I Start Liying to My Self!!!!

                    And under No Un Certain Terms Can I Ever Go Back Down that Dark Dark Road Again!!! or it Will BITE ME ON THE DONKEY Again

                    My Alcoholism and Addiction Was Like a Train Journey and IT WAS UP TOO ME TO GET OFF THAT TRAIN

                    Or Stay on The Train till it Hit the Buffers!!! The Crematorium The Grave Yard

                    On the Way I Got Mentally Instetunised Twice Went to Jail For Refusing to Pay the Poll Tax :lunapic 130165696578242 5: Drunk of Corse I Laff Because of wot I Said to the Judge

                    I Said Listen Our Mon! I Beg Your Pardon Smith!!! You Will Address Me As Your Worship Contempt of Court £100

                    OK Your Worship Would I Be Correct or In Correct In saying you have sent 2 Police officers to My House this Morning Using the Poll Tax Payers Money to Arest Me

                    Thats Correct Smith Yes I Have

                    Would I Be Correct Sir Sorry Your Worship In Saying You Have Sat there in this Court of Law and Made Me Hold the Holy Bible and Told me To Tell the Truth Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth Yes Smith I Have Wheres This Leading

                    Well Your Worship I Be-live in that Book Ive Red it Back to Front I Aint No Bible Bass-her But theres An Extract in that BOOK THAT SAYS YOU CARNT GET BLOOD OUT OF A STONE & I Aint Paying you a Penny!!! Hows That Grab Ya Your Worship?? Smith I Give You 3 Months in Prison 3 Months Your Worship I Will Do That Stood On My Head!!! Will You Boy?? Heres Another 3 Months to Help You Back On Your feet Then :doh: 6 Months Take Him Down

                    Now Here Comes the TRUE Lesson of Alcoholism Every Night Praying to God PLEASE PLEASE Get Me Out of Here And I SWEAR I WILL NEVER DRINK AGAIN!!!

                    He Answered My Pr airs Only For me to let Him Down Again

                    Soon as the key went in my cell Door Smith your FREE TO GO!!!!

                    I Thought Oh I CORE BE ONE OF THEM ALCKYES Ive just Done 3 Months With out a Drink 3 Months For being a Good Boy :loll:

                    I Will just Have 1 to Celebrate

                    Ive Never Had One Drink in my life 1 is too Many and 100 aint enough I Am like a light Switch with Drink & Drugs On it or OFF IT

                    To Each and Every One of You Diplomatic Lovely People :wub2:

                    I Mean that Sincerely:ThankYou: Yet Again For your Diplomacy Kind Rash enal Words and Getting My Donkey Out of My Hand Back Where it Belongs at the Bottom of My Nackerd Back God Bless Ya All Nick FM
                     
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                      Don't know how to answer that one Nick, so i've got you a Donkey with back trouble instead.:)

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                        There's only one answer for Nicks' post..................RESPECT!!!!

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                          Hi Nick, Respect to you for coming through, I can relate to some of what you have been through, as I am going through Talking Therapy at the moment, luckily, I never went down the route of drugs, but a little tipple, though not to the extent of needing help, because of what happened in my childhood.
                          It never leaves you, and some days it's tucked away, but at the moment with all that's going on with that evil man Jimmy Saville, it is making things difficult, it sickens me to even look at his face. I feel sorry for the victims who have hidden their stories for so long.

                          I know that I will take my problem to my grave, but know that it was not my fault.
                           
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                            I want you to see this victim's response in the Saturday Telegraph yesterday.
                            At 15 she and others were invited to JS's dressing after TOTP show. She says:
                            " The first time something happened, he got me into the alcove in the dressing room, pushed me back against the wall and then it was a hand up the skirt and touching me. He did it on various occasions in various places and it was always very quick and he was very strong. He would grab any opportunity, the first question he ever asked me was how old I was, so he knew."
                            Then, when she was 16, he raped her in his caravan.
                            So, she kept going back knowing what he was like. To me, this is PROSTITUTION and no doubt she received a reward.
                            So, why is she telling us this now? Am I alone in my anger over the way the media are reporting this? Am I alone in my opinion of her?

                            Jenny namaste
                             
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                              Do you think there's a book deal or serialisation in it?
                               
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