Would you be surprised to learn that this man was a rapist?

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Have a look at this photo...



...and answer the following question: would you be surprised to learn that this man was a rapist?

[opebo]

Seems a trifle unfair.  Lots of people look funny, it doesn't mean they have any ill-intent.

[Platypus]

I'd be surprised if anyone was a rapist.

If he was in a line of five men of the same age from various backgrounds...he'd probably be the first one I'd guess, though.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Which man?

[opebo]

Oh, now I've read up on it - 'Jimmy Saville'.  Al as usual jumping on the bandwagon of unproven allegations - in this case after the man is dead and unable to even attempt to defend himself.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Oh, now I've read up on it - 'Jimmy Saville'.  Al as usual jumping on the bandwagon of unproven allegations - in this case after the man is dead and unable to even attempt to defend himself.

Of course the keystone cops (Metropolitan Police) start investigating a year after the guy dies?

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

The one in the background, no. The smiling one with the cigar, yes.

[Grumpier Than Thou]

Probably not. Looks like an elderly Bill Clinton.

[Joe Republic]

Oh, I thought this would be about Link.

[Oakvale]

Jimmy Saville being a paedophile is not exactly surprising, no.

[Simfan34]

Disc jockey? Why on earth was he knighted?

[Tetro Kornbluth]

Disc jockey? Why on earth was he knighted?

The best way to put this was that he was kind of a cultural institution in the UK. Also, what Oakvale said.

[Silent Hunter]

Disc jockey? Why on earth was he knighted?

The best way to put this was that he was kind of a cultural institution in the UK. Also, what Oakvale said.

Yep, cultural institution who raised an awful lot for charity.

Of course, I don't know what actually happened for sure, but if that many women are coming forward, there must be a ring of truth to it somewhere.

[Simfan34]

So if I give a lot of money to charity and a little to The Party might I get a knighthood? If a give a boatload to charity and a lot to The Party might I get a life peerage? And, if I give an astronomical sum to charity and a boatload to the party, maybe, just maybe, might I secure a hereditary peerage?

If I give every Briton enough money to be millionaires to the last, might they depose HM the Queen, marry me off to Princess Eugenie, and proclaim me King Edward IX? What if I promised to add on India in return?

[minionofmidas]

So if I give a lot of money to charity and a little to The Party might I get a knighthood?

Yes.

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That is, in fact, the only way.

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No. That's right out.

[Simfan34]

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No. That's right out.

Well that is a shame. I've always thought I'd make an excellent Marquess of Quenby. Or a Viscount Darlington. Why there's already a great estate in town that would make for an excellent manor house:



Well the house is lovely. The estate is rather non existent at this point, consisting of only twelve-and-a-half acres. Yes, that's a large lot but pitifully small for a house this large, both in terms of the landscape and a general sense of property-after all, these are meant to allude the great manor houses that were surrounded by the kind of land one could make a living off of. Unfortunately, that great estate has been chopped up from its original thousand acres and subdivided for other houses. Including mine. I suppose that makes me a philistine.

[Хahar 🤔]

ITT: Would-be aristocrat comes to terms with the honours system

[Simfan34]

ITT: Would-be aristocrat comes to terms with the honours system

There is the "marry peer's only daughter and find my own life peerage" route.

[patrick1]

Being a boot licker will not help you get girls.