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I wish everyone would just shut up about Jimmy Savile, ok so he may be a child abuser but the things people are coming out with and trying to make more of them. Like grown women who say things like 'he shock my hand for 3 seconds too long..it was so creepy'
 
I wish everyone would just shut up about Jimmy Savile, ok so he may be a child abuser but the things people are coming out with and trying to make more of them. Like grown women who say things like 'he shock my hand for 3 seconds too long..it was so creepy'

People wanting in on the story, just like the April Jones 'volunteers'. You see it a lot on the internet "my mum's aunt's cousin went to school with Peter Sutcliffe" or "I only lived 43 miles away from Soham when Holly and Jessica were taken". Ugh.
 
Yeah some people come up with some odd ways of connectine themselves to news stories. Bad thing is the media lap it up and make it breaking news.
Honestly, Sky rolling news ticker thought 'Gary Glitter is arrested' and 'Hurrican to hit USA' where both worthy of the same breaking news scroll.
 
Truth to be told, my mother worked with Jimmy Savile. So did my father and his brother. She had told me stories about him long before this whole thing came into the news. :shrug:
 
^ :yes: It's the scale on which so many people covered it up which is so shocking.

I'm sick of hearing and reading about JS too, it feels like some people love reading about the details which is creepy in itself. I can't read about the abuse of animals, children/other vulnerable people without choking with rage and I find it so triggering. Also stop showing photos of him online, the guy was repulsive enough even before people knew he molested so many young people.
 
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Truth to be told, my mother worked with Jimmy Savile. So did my father and his brother. She had told me stories about him long before this whole thing came into the news. :shrug:

That's a "legitimate" connection though, if that makes sense. It's people who are desperate to connect themselves by a thread to big stories that make me sick :p
 
Feel like I should point out that the stories about JS which my mother told me didn't involve children.
 
I hate hot chocolate, if only for the fact that I can never get it to the perfect temperature. It's either too cold and untasty, or so hot-it-scalds-your-tongue-for-the-next-week.
 
Cock sauce is overrated. I know everyone has much love for sriracha but I'm not sold on it. It's okay but far, far from as amazing as everyone makes it out to be.
 
I like baked sweet potatoes, but I am completely unimpressed by sweet potato fries.

I might like sweet potato fries more if they weren't so horrendously trendy. They used to be one the menu at just a few places, so they were an occasional interesting thing. Now, it seems every place with a deep fryer offers them, and you can buy big bags of them frozen at the grocery store. (Probably the exact same ones bars use.) Yawn.
 
I like baked sweet potatoes, but I am completely unimpressed by sweet potato fries.

I might like sweet potato fries more if they weren't so horrendously trendy. They used to be one the menu at just a few places, so they were an occasional interesting thing. Now, it seems every place with a deep fryer offers them, and you can buy big bags of them frozen at the grocery store. (Probably the exact same ones bars use.) Yawn.
I was just happy to find something vegan to eat there, so I'm so glad the sweet potato fries are trendy!. :D This sports bar had great tvs and crowd, but of course limited vegan choices. I ended up with sweet and white potato fries and a green salad with oil and balsamic vinegar. Plus some good bread, and they had sriracha. :)
 
We have awesome sweet potatoes here. Purple peel and a light yellow centre, and a lovely mellow flavour.