Rolf Harris: dead at last

[Artaxerxes]

He’s Jake the Peg, kiddy fiddler diddle dee, and he’s fucking dead, diddle diddle dee

 

[Dystopiary]

Never admitted what he'd done, never showed any remorse, mocked the victims in ridiculous poetry. Thoughts with them today.

 

[Elpenor]

Good riddance. Another of the BBC nonces gone. Hopefully another dies tomorrow.

 

[WouldBe]

Confirmed on BBC news. Already laid to rot.

 

[Ranbay]

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[Orang Utan]

He’s as didgeridead as a didgeridodo

 

[DotCommunist]

He should be lowered into the ground to the accompaniment of mocking wobbleboard sounds. Was the one that really shocked me during the yewtree era. Rolf Harris was the nice man who did the art show, I still had a childs affection for that. I even read his bio in my teens and was impressed by him detailing how he overcame addictions to painkillers (possibly barbiturates, can't recall). And then it turned out he was a beast.

 

[A380]

I thought he'd died years ago.

 

[Orang Utan]

I remember I was working in a school when Yewtree caught up with him. I felt it necessary to remove this book from the school library:

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought he'd died years ago.

The Rolf Harris Effect

 

[editor]

*thread title updated

 

[A380]

*thread title updated

Dead good.

 

[A380]

The Rolf Harris Effect

Yeah, I'm sure I remember watching reports on CNN that Harris had died on Robben Island...

 

[Cid]

He’s Jake the Peg, kiddy fiddler diddle dee, and he’s fucking dead, diddle diddle dee

Dig me deep underground sport, dig me deep underground.

 

[The39thStep]

He should be lowered into the ground to the accompaniment of mocking wobbleboard sounds. Was the one that really shocked me during the yewtree era. Rolf Harris was the nice man who did the art show, I still had a childs affection for that. I even read his bio in my teens and was impressed by him detailing how he overcame addictions to painkillers (possibly barbiturates, can't recall). And then it turned out he was a beast.

My parents bought my brother a 45 rpm single of his for a birthday present .

 

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, I'm sure I remember watching reports on CNN that Harris had died on Robben Island...

The Long Wank To Freedom

 

[MickiQ]

Tbh I'm another one of those who thought he had carked it a while back. I was never much of a fan of Savile he always seemed to be irritating even when I didn't know he was a paedo but I was a fan of Rolf. It was a bit of shock when they arrested him.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I know a couple of people who can testify that he was an arsehole even in public. In fact, he was my early teens introduction to the disillusioning concept that the nice person on the telly could actually be really fucking horrible, as a couple of kids in my class at school went to his roadshow programme in the early 80s and said he was awful. In fact, he was so unpleasant that some parents got their complaints about his behaviour aired on the local BBC news programme. I guess the south west was a long way from Broadcasting House back then, but I expect a missive followed and that mistake was never made again by the local editorial team.

 

[Orang Utan]

I just wish the animals could speak

 

[Orang Utan]

I know a couple of people who can testify that he was an arsehole even in public. In fact, he was my early teens introduction to the disillusioning concept that the nice person on the telly could actually be really fucking horrible, as a couple of kids in my class at school went to his roadshow programme in the early 80s and said he was awful. In fact, he was so unpleasant that some parents got their complaints about his behaviour aired on the local BBC news programme. I guess the south west was a long way from Broadcasting House back then, but I expect a missive followed and that mistake was never made again by the local editorial team.

Yes, I worked with someone who had direct experience of him just being a rude drunk who stank of whiskey on a live show that was on telly at 7 in the morning.

 

[Idris2002]

Yeah, I'm sure I remember watching reports on CNN that Harris had died on Robben Island...

Took me a second.

 

[skyscraper101]

Tbh I'm another one of those who thought he had carked it a while back. I was never much of a fan of Savile he always seemed to be irritating even when I didn't know he was a paedo but I was a fan of Rolf. It was a bit of shock when they arrested him.

This. Saville always seemed creepy from the get go and I never liked him. Harris OTOH looked way more friendly and had art and musical skills and shit. It was a shame to hear he was kiddy fiddler.

 

[Idris2002]

Yes, I worked with someone who had direct experience of him just being a rude drunk who stank of whiskey on a live show that was on telly at 7 in the morning.

There was an interview with him NME in the 1980s which was totally at odds with his usual public persona - something to the effect that the disappearance of ancient peoples like the Hittites showed that genocide was a normal part of human history.

 

[sealion]

Fuck him, i hope he suffered and good riddance.

 

[kalidarkone]

I might have mentioned this before...but my dad is the spit of Rolf Harris. So I'm relieved as I have often mildly worried about my dad being mistaken for him and attacked. He has definitely had some funny looks.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Good riddance.

 

[tim]

I might have mentioned this before...but my dad is the spit of Rolf Harris. So I'm relieved as I have often mildly worried about my dad being mistaken for him and attacked. He has definitely had some funny looks.

Did he never consider shaving off the beard. It worked for Lord Lucan, although he still misses his dapper 'tache

 

[a_chap]

I might have mentioned this before...but my dad is the spit of Rolf Harris. So I'm relieved as I have often mildly worried about my dad being mistaken for him and attacked. He has definitely had some funny looks.

As long as he didn't get his didgeridoo out in public...

 

[StoneRoad]

I know a couple of people who can testify that he was an arsehole even in public. In fact, he was my early teens introduction to the disillusioning concept that the nice person on the telly could actually be really fucking horrible, as a couple of kids in my class at school went to his roadshow programme in the early 80s and said he was awful. In fact, he was so unpleasant that some parents got their complaints about his behaviour aired on the local BBC news programme. I guess the south west was a long way from Broadcasting House back then, but I expect a missive followed and that mistake was never made again by the local editorial team.

Interesting.
I met him in the late 1970s - they did a kids roadshow on the campus where I was a student.
A lot of fellow students were acting as "back-stage crew" including keeping the kids "quiet" between takes.
I had a couple of chats with him - he was polite, cracked a few jokes at the expense of the TV crew [who were having "technical problems"] and he was sober. The so-called painting was a bit of a travesty ! And, I was close enough during that time that I would have smelt anything ...