FabSwingers.com forum: Rip Sir Jimmy

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Sad to hear of Sir Jimmy Savile passing away.

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By *--Cinders---Couple
over a year ago

a place near Blackpool

didnt realize he was that age...a good age...RIP

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By *adcowWoman
over a year ago

kirkcaldy

He brought many a smile to many faces - with his marathon running and tv shows . RIP

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How old was he? I used to be a big fan of his in the 70s. I know a few people who've met him and said he was a really nice guy. RIP

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By *herokee18Couple
over a year ago

Carlisle

Agree with all postings and have heard many stories about him as he had connections with a place I used to work.Never met him and that has always been a regret, but his memory will live on for the help he has given so many people.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He used to be a dj many years ago in a club in Leeds where my uncle sang. R.I.P Jimmy. xx

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By *--Cinders---Couple
over a year ago

a place near Blackpool

"How old was he? I used to be a big fan of his in the 70s. I know a few people who've met him and said he was a really nice guy. RIP

ms"
in his 80.s

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bloody hell, I'm sat having a coffee whilst out shopping so this is first I've heard of it, what a shame, he was a good person

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

ahh,didnt hear that. absolute legend,r.i.p.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RIP

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

sad news but i belive he had been unwell for a while now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

christ on a bike! dead you say??

bugger.... a true eccecntric has passed and the world is a slighly duller place for it. Guess it just leaves Ian Brown to carry the shiny tracksuit torch now....

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By *enithWoman
over a year ago

closer than you think

"How old was he? I used to be a big fan of his in the 70s. I know a few people who've met him and said he was a really nice guy. RIP

ms"

was two days away from his 85th birthday

great man ..... had pleasure of meeting him when I was in Stoke Mandeville

sad news RIP Sir Jimmy

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By *uckscouple2007Couple
over a year ago

Bucks

what a life he had

so sad to see him go

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

wow..... he was a legend to a generation of kids!!!

I just hope this thread remains jolly and respectful... but I know what happens to RIP threads around here...

3 days before birthday 85 as well.... sad

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By *mumaWoman
over a year ago

Livingston

met him many moons ago in a wee restaurant in Aviemore. We asked for an ashtray and he gave us an ice cream instead. RIP x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RIP to a great entertainer.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i lost count of the amount of times i wrote to jim'll fix it when i was a kid, he never did tho lol

sad news but he lived to a ripe old age and did a lot of good in his life

RIP x

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

sleep well xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

His timing is bloody great ... my tv is broke and I was hoping he'd come n fix it for me. Have to buy a new one now. Ta Jim.

R.I.P. to someone who raised £40m for charity. Quite an achievement.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jim'll fix it was one of my fav programmes as a kid. RIP Jimmy

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By *ruitWoman
over a year ago

near kings lynn

He was an amazing man and most of us wrote to him when we were kids

RIP to a wonderful man.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Just saw it on MSN news.....so sad to hear about it.

Jim'll Fix It was a fave of mine as I grew up.

R.I.P Jimmy Saville xxx

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By *ensual temptressWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

yes he did a great deal for charity, especially at stoke mandeville, they are brilliant there

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By *ensual temptressWoman
over a year ago

Southampton

very sad news .RIP jimmy . we can all hope our lives have such a posative affect on other peoples as yours did .x

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

A great man and a great entertainer

RIP Sir Jimmy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sad news, used to love watching him as a child...always wanted Jim to fix it for me.

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place

Thats all guys and gals RIP Jimbo

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

RIP! on a less serious note

http://youtu.be/QK01f5_aKY4

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

Oh no how sad, first ive heard of it but was thinking only last week how old he was. He will be missed and i also remember him as being the first "celeb" to do charity runs ect

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

another one of life's lovable eccentrics gone...

Wolf

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

He scared the shit out of me as a kid. I'd hide behind the sofa when Jim'll fix it came on. My big sister once told me that she had written in with a fix it for me. She even typed out a fake reply saying I would be going on. I went and locked myself in the shed and refused to come out for 2 days.

RIP Jimmy

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By *ashful BazMan
over a year ago

poole dorset

Very sad news, R.I.P Jimmy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

sad, and strange, we were talking about him on hols earlier in the week.

Let's hope he took the wish list with him.

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

R.I.P Jimmy

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By *arkstaffsMan
over a year ago

Rugeley

Well RIP Sir Jimmy, thanks for the tunes and the legendary tv. A man who raised so much for charity and gave so much of his own time to help others.

Sadly missed.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It is very sad.. but he had lived a long and fulfilling life..

RIP

Cali x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Well, well well, now then now then, as it 'appens, today is a very sad day indeed.

Poor Jimmy - did a lot of good for a lot of people. Loved Saville's Travels on a Sunday afternoon, not to mention his stints on Top of The Pops, the Radio One Roadshows and his yearly appearances at Gt. Ormand St Hospital on Christmas Mornings.

Another of life's one offs gone to a better place. He'll be playing some great tunes up there alongside Alan 'Fluff' Freeman I'd like to bet

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By *nJ_NW_cplCouple
over a year ago

wirral

Now then

Now then.....

No more....

R.I.P. Jimmy

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

hup!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"He scared the shit out of me as a kid. I'd hide behind the sofa when Jim'll fix it came on. My big sister once told me that she had written in with a fix it for me. She even typed out a fake reply saying I would be going on. I went and locked myself in the shed and refused to come out for 2 days.

RIP Jimmy"

I wonder who this poster was, he/she showed great insight

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By *bbandflowCouple
over a year ago

South Devon

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By *issBehavingxxWoman
over a year ago

Glasgow

RIP Jimmy

I wonder who this poster was, he/she showed great insight

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

How strange to read this thread now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How strange to read this thread now"

Yes indeed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"How strange to read this thread now

Yes indeed"

Suppose RIP could mean Rot In Pieces

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By *xodussxMan
over a year ago

sheffield

Can't believe you all got it wrong...I wonder how many of you would love to remove their post now

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Can't believe you all got it wrong...I wonder how many of you would love to remove their post now

Ah, the benefit of perfect 20/20 hindsight! The people who posted were lamenting the loss someone from their childhood. No way they could have known what's come out since, and should have no shame in what was posted then. Just as I have no shame in watching jim'll fix it as a kid (and appearing on it)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hindsight eh

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got cross, that many people waiting all that time to come forward just makes no sense. Why wait till now? Still no closure and you are opening up old wounds.

I say leave the dead guy alone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I got a "jim fix it for me" golden wallet can't use it now in case someone sees it and shouts pedo at me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Its obvious that it was brushed under the carpet. Now its come out they baned him from being on children in need. I dont know how people who knew about him doing this to vunruble children and kept there mouths shut can sleep at night! .

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

This thread was started before anyone knew what Savile had been up to all these years and it doesn't seem appropriate to keep this thread running in light of what we know now."

I dunno about that, it serves one purpose… it’s a reminder how easy it is to believe the persona and not know the person.

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Agree with Polo.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

today's headline.

man from leeds blocked by the masses.

film at 11.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Thread should be closed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thread should be closed "

No it shouldn't.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Thread should be closed

No it shouldn't. "

Re-titled ?

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By *uncpl2015Couple
over a year ago

Bridgend Area

"Thread should be closed "

Agree... any extra time given to this is wrong.. Especially on an adult site...maybe more respectful to victims for this thread and any subsequent posts on this to be closed.. also the sickos that have been seen using his face in pics on here...

Calling each other names is not going to stop or help anyone.. maybe should all be left to the people that can stand any chance of sorting this terrible situation out... admin need to step in and close it... And yes i have asked then too...maybe if anyone that feels the same messaged them they might who knows...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think the thread gives an idea of what victims were up against. Had someone had the guts to post negatively about Saville a year ago, they would have probably faced a backlash.

It's very difficult to swim against the tide, especially when there's a strong current.

Just like now, in the current environment, nobody wants to entertain any positives about the man. (Rightly so in my personal opinion).

I think threads like this can tell us all a little bit about ourselves.

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By (user no longer on site)
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over a year ago

The unacceptable name calling post and those that quoted them have been removed if you wonder where your posts have gone

Admin have allowed this discussion to carry on over various threads in the past few weeks so it won't be closed unless they change their minds at any point in the future

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By *r and Mrs SnogalotCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

What happened to a society that believed in innocent until proven guilty? Who gave the media the power over the courts to find someone guilty of a crime? Before anyone criticises me, I am not defending the persin - I can't, I neither knew him nor have I heard all sides, seen the evidence or heard a guilty verdict...

Shy x

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

"What happened to a society that believed in innocent until proven guilty? Who gave the media the power over the courts to find someone guilty of a crime? Before anyone criticises me, I am not defending the persin - I can't, I neither knew him nor have I heard all sides, seen the evidence or heard a guilty verdict...

Shy x"

sadly the society that you describe is on the way out... very sad indeed

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I got cross, that many people waiting all that time to come forward just makes no sense. Why wait till now? Still no closure and you are opening up old wounds.

I say leave the dead guy alone. "

And his legacy??? surely you can not be serious ?

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By *he_original_poloWoman
over a year ago

a Primark shoebox in Leicester

"Thread should be closed "

Nothing is ever learnt from removing the past.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"I got cross, that many people waiting all that time to come forward just makes no sense. Why wait till now? Still no closure and you are opening up old wounds.

I say leave the dead guy alone. "

you are a lucky person..

clearly you were never molested as a child..

those that have been live with it every day, it can take decades for some to come forward..

some never will as they will have taken their own lives sadly..

try to put in perspective a child coming forward to make a claim of being sexually abused against someone as 'iconic' in the public psyche even today as he was..

and we are meant to have 'moved on'..

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"Thread should be closed

Nothing is ever learnt from removing the past."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh."

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By *xodussxMan
over a year ago

sheffield

"Thread should be closed "
it need tobe kept for the future

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

OK just a reminder, you can talk about the situation but not your own experiences.

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh."

the Louis Theroux documentary was interesting but tbh only in that he came across as a bit of a wierd old guy..

think some folk think there is a'default look' to these evil people..

most of them are the guy next door, the nice bloke at the bank etc..

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By *mm_n_ZedCouple
over a year ago

Fareham

"I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh."

I felt exactly the same. I always thought he was a bit creepy and came across as not actually liking children. Even when I was a kid myself I felt the same and wouldn't have wanted to go on Jim'll Fix It even though it was the dream of most kids.

But, like the poster above, I didn't want to post what would have been perceived as disrespectful at the time of his death.

Funny old world innit.

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By *ugby 123Couple
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over a year ago

O o O oo

"I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh.

the Louis Theroux documentary was interesting but tbh only in that he came across as a bit of a wierd old guy..

think some folk think there is a'default look' to these evil people..

most of them are the guy next door, the nice bloke at the bank etc..

I didn't say there was a certain " default look" for people....I just said I thought he came across as a sleazy weird man.

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By *arambarMan
over a year ago

swindon

"Thread should be closed

Nothing is ever learnt from removing the past."

Very nicely put

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By *ouple in LancashireCouple
over a year ago

in Lancashire

"I didn't posted on this thread at the time as he always came across to me as a sleazy weird man so it would have been wrong for me to spoil a RIP thread with my thoughts.

Strange how things turned out huh.

the Louis Theroux documentary was interesting but tbh only in that he came across as a bit of a wierd old guy..

think some folk think there is a'default look' to these evil people..

most of them are the guy next door, the nice bloke at the bank etc..

I didn't say there was a certain " default look" for people....I just said I thought he came across as a sleazy weird man."

was'nt suggesting you did..

mine was more of a general point..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

There are two other issues with the whole enquiry/Saville personna no-one has touched on. 1) trust your instincts about people. If they make your skin crawl- avoid them. I always do. 2)for every single person who has been abused by anyone, this has opened their closed world right up. There must be tens, thousands of people suffering all over again now. My thoughts are with them xxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If what is reported turns out to be true and proves him to be the monster he is now suspected of being…. All the condemnation in the world will never make up for the horror his victims have faced.

But it is right for people to have the option to change their _iew of him based on recent revelations. …and no-one should feel quilt for not having foreseen this… If he is indeed guilty of these crimes, he masterminded a cloak of deception that fooled millions… .

For me there is an unfathomable quagmire surrounding the behaviour of someone who repeatedly commits atrocity against the vulnerable whilst simultaneously championing help for those in need.

I’d like to think it was simplistic as he felt by doing good for those in need he somehow mitigated his vile behaviour, But in reality I cant see that being the case and its certainly no justification,,,,,

But those in who call for an end to open debate over this dreadful situation, they risk leaving society poorly equipped at to identify the warning signs in future.

Thats my tuppence worth ....

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