Joy Division
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How young were the girls and how old were you?
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How young were the girls and how old were you?
Otis
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It was a different era, rightly or wrongly back then.
Now it must all seem very foreign and weird and just plain wrong the likes of some of the stuff we are hearing about. It was entrenched in society though back in the 70's and was all considered quite normal. Just a general feel about the whole thing
I was still at school as a very young teen then, so it sort of passed me by, but I recall off the top of head, stuff like a Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads episode in about 1974 where Bob and Terry, the two main characters, are talking about 14 year old Israeli schoolgirls and really leching and drooling over the thought of them. Today there would be outrage at such a sitcom episode and the show would probably be pulled off air!
No-one batted an eyelid at that though back then and it was considered to be really amusing at the time.
Times have changed. Just must be hard for people nowadays to even begin to understand how things were. Just as no-one would bat an eyelid back in Victorian times at the thought of children working 14 hours a day and smoking and being sent up chimneys.
Think what Pax is talking about though is consent rather than some of the sexual offenses of the likes of Savile and rape allegations.
As I say, I was very young and naive in the early 1970's, but it was a different world with different perceptions back then.
Now it must all seem very foreign and weird and just plain wrong the likes of some of the stuff we are hearing about. It was entrenched in society though back in the 70's and was all considered quite normal. Just a general feel about the whole thing
I was still at school as a very young teen then, so it sort of passed me by, but I recall off the top of head, stuff like a Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads episode in about 1974 where Bob and Terry, the two main characters, are talking about 14 year old Israeli schoolgirls and really leching and drooling over the thought of them. Today there would be outrage at such a sitcom episode and the show would probably be pulled off air!
No-one batted an eyelid at that though back then and it was considered to be really amusing at the time.
Times have changed. Just must be hard for people nowadays to even begin to understand how things were. Just as no-one would bat an eyelid back in Victorian times at the thought of children working 14 hours a day and smoking and being sent up chimneys.
Think what Pax is talking about though is consent rather than some of the sexual offenses of the likes of Savile and rape allegations.
As I say, I was very young and naive in the early 1970's, but it was a different world with different perceptions back then.
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Paxman II
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You are absolutely right Otis and its really a different world now.
Somewhat ironic to think that people care so much about this from the past when we have the worst looking society ever today?
In those 80's days we never would have believed records would have lyrics that had f..ing and blinding on them as a matter of course?
That drunken people unable to take responsibility for themselves would need hospital attention treatment on a Friday night having been polaxed on the street? Ot that schools will routinely hand out condoms to under age girls?
Yes times have changed and not for the better.
Somewhat ironic to think that people care so much about this from the past when we have the worst looking society ever today?
In those 80's days we never would have believed records would have lyrics that had f..ing and blinding on them as a matter of course?
That drunken people unable to take responsibility for themselves would need hospital attention treatment on a Friday night having been polaxed on the street? Ot that schools will routinely hand out condoms to under age girls?
Yes times have changed and not for the better.
scroobiustom
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"It's only a game so...put up a real good fight!"
Jim Obviously took that as a green light
GaryPendrysEyes
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'45 year old bitch' - not a great advert for you Paxman.
You don't know the facts of this case, there could be accusations of assault or rape. More generally young girls may have been groupies, but some may have been coerced, or people may have conspired to gain access to and abuse young girls. You don't know and can't assume innocence at the end of an enquiry either.
For the record, no I don't think people should be named before being charged.
deanocity3
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Keith Harris will be next.Ive seen him put his hand up a green ducks arse
Otis
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Unless it is Piers Morgan or Vernon Kay.