Jimmy Savile thread
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TTmonkey

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20,911 posts

276 months

Monday 30th June 2014
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It flippin knarks me that the Jimmy Savile thread still says 'sir Jimmy Savile'.

As he is dead, he is no longer a knight. knighthoods cannot be withdrawn after death as actually on death a person ceases to be a knight.

He clearly doesn't deserve to be known this way, and it is clearly technically wrong to continue to use this title anyway. So the thread title should just say his name, it's not like he has a common name that needs the title to ensure that the correct person is being discussed

So can we get it changed, please?.


y2blade

56,318 posts

244 months

Wednesday 2nd July 2014
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I'm glad it isn't just me that thinks this way.


Try reporting the thread, you might get a mod you might not...they are very hit and miss

Davie_GLA

6,876 posts

228 months

Wednesday 2nd July 2014
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Was my post deleted?

saaby93

32,038 posts

207 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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The worst thing about that type of thread and similar ones is that if anyone posts anything using a principle attributed to Voltaire, they're rounded on as being the same type of person as the subject of the discussion.

Luckily no-one mentioned Jehova

As for JS he was given the knighthood for all the good work he did. Much of it stands today and without it many hospitals and the people who've gone through them wouldn't be here either.
The other things that have come out, he should have been punished for too. Does that include closing down the hospitals and giving back all the fundraising or anything else associated with his name. The higher they get, the harder they fall.


Edited by saaby93 on Thursday 3rd July 11:31

TTmonkey

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20,911 posts

276 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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saaby93 said:
The worst thing about that type of thread and similar ones is that if anyone posts anything using a principle attributed to Voltaire, they're rounded on as being the same type of person as the subject of the discussion.

Luckily no-one mentioned Jehova

As for JS he was given the knighthood for all the good work he did. Much of it stands today and without it many hospitals and the people who've gone through them wouldn't be here either.
The other things that have come out, he should have been punished for too. Does that include closing down the hospitals and giving back all the fundraising or anything else associated with his name. The higher they get, the harder they fall.


Edited by saaby93 on Thursday 3rd July 11:31
Whatever your arguement, dead, he's no longer a Knight, therefore should not be attributed the title of 'Sir'.

Because he's dead.

MattDell

3,302 posts

184 months

Thursday 3rd July 2014
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If you want to alert the moderators for a thread title change, click "[report]" on the first reply.

Locking this thread as otherwise it's going to turn into a long thread about the merits of Jimmy Saville.
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