Independent Leyton Orient Forum

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:59 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:09 pm He’ll get sacked by BBC after or leave on his own accord

He’ll moan he’s been cancelled fland never convicted of anything

He’ll get a show on GB News

Can you be convicted for telling dirty jokes or speaking inappropriately

Why don’t you try it next time you’re at work and see how it goes down?

The Reverend wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:18 pm

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:59 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:09 pm He’ll get sacked by BBC after or leave on his own accord

He’ll moan he’s been cancelled fland never convicted of anything

He’ll get a show on GB News

Can you be convicted for telling dirty jokes or speaking inappropriately

Why don’t you try it next time you’re at work and see how it goes down?

What’s that got to do with my question

Even after 13 years? Crivvens, talk about the long arm of the law.

Has Greegs"""yyyy been reported to the peelers and are they investigating? I'm struggling to see a crimnal offence.

CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:01 pm

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:08 pm Kirsteen was probably waiting until she retired before mentioning gregs mispeaks and didnt want to go upsetting her BBC bosses whilst an active employee there.

But then realised she missed being in the public eye and has found an unusual rouse to force her way back into the spotlight. 13 years is a long time to sit on a "sexualised joke".

Weird post.

Always so literal.

I should have remembered the golden rule - it’s sarcasm if you posted it before 7pm, genuinely disturbing if you’ve posted it at 1am

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:10 pm

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:59 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:09 pm He’ll get sacked by BBC after or leave on his own accord

He’ll moan he’s been cancelled fland never convicted of anything

He’ll get a show on GB News

Can you be convicted for telling dirty jokes or speaking inappropriately

Harassment is a criminal offence so yeah, if it’s a sustained pattern of behaviour against an individual

Fair enough. But at the moment , there is no suggestion of that. He shared it around. So if you speak inappropriately to one person ten times it is harassment, but if you speak inappropriately to ten people once it’s ok ?

CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:53 pm I should have remembered the golden rule - it’s sarcasm if you posted it before 7pm, genuinely disturbing if you’ve posted it at 1am

Now you're getting the hang of it. So having posted at 5.08pm which category does that post fall into? Just guess if you're not sure.

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:54 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:10 pm

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 5:59 pm

Can you be convicted for telling dirty jokes or speaking inappropriately

Harassment is a criminal offence so yeah, if it’s a sustained pattern of behaviour against an individual

Fair enough. But at the moment , there is no suggestion of that. He shared it around. So if you speak inappropriately to one person ten times it is harassment, but if you speak inappropriately to ten people once it’s ok ?

You didn’t caveat your initial question

Using words to cause harassment alarm or distress is also an offence

If you want any more legal advice it’s a very reasonable £10 per question

I see Kursty Allsop has entered the fray.

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:01 pm

George M wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:54 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 6:10 pm

Harassment is a criminal offence so yeah, if it’s a sustained pattern of behaviour against an individual

Fair enough. But at the moment , there is no suggestion of that. He shared it around. So if you speak inappropriately to one person ten times it is harassment, but if you speak inappropriately to ten people once it’s ok ?

You didn’t caveat your initial question

Using words to cause harassment alarm or distress is also an offence

If you want any more legal advice it’s a very reasonable £10 per question

That certainly is reasonable. I shall come back to you

Max B Gold wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 7:04 pm I see Kursty Allsop has entered the fray.

This is a pretty funny one tbf, since she's a big ol' fan of calling everyone snowflakes and accusing people of being needlessly offended by everything. Could just as easily see her coming down on the other side of this furore.

Woah, hang on...I think I've confused her with Julia Hartley-Brewer. These poshos all blend into one.

I could have just deleted the above post but actually amused by my own mistake.

Hartley-Brewer does have a decent rack. So it wouldn't surprise me if at some time she had walked into a room and Greg had gone full-on GregOFF.

I'm thinking either a humorous quip a la "eh lads, here comes Right Said Fred". Or (and I'd grant him a pardon for this) he just lunged his face between them and did the shake of a head whilst emitting the "brrrrrrrrr" sound, thing.

I find it sad that a story about a man telling dirty jokes makes the headlines above the ongoing genocide in Gaza . Barely a mention anymore. Just goes to show the state of the British media now.

He’s bottled it and apologised

Should never have apologised. If you are going down, go down swinging. What is Lisa Nandy doing phoning the BBC, is it because the government are doing such a FANTASTIC job at the moment she has time on her hands.

Agreed. His TV career is pretty much over now anyway, so may as well double-down and join the ranks of Russell Brand, le Tissier etc.

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:27 pm Agreed. His TV career is pretty much over now anyway, so may as well double-down and join the ranks of Russell Brand, le Tissier etc.

Lawrence Fox.

Tbf he's only apologised for his post yesterday, not for anything he's actually alleged to have done.

My assesssment of the situation is this:

1: Wallace is clearly a bell end, but no individual aspect of this case was necessarily career ending, had it been addressed properly at the time

2: the reason it wasn’t addressed at the time seems to be, as ever, linked to the BBC’s chronic failure to properly manage the on screen “talent”

3: Wallace’s position is now untenable, and he’s made it more so

4: that the BBC didn’t deal with the dual scandals of the Andrew Sachs stuff and the Jimmy Savile stuff by completely changing the culture of how talent is treated (and instead seemed to focus on pulling the punches of comedy writing) is indefensible and the BBC’s failings are the bigger issue here than one man being a bell-end

CEB2ElectricBoogaloo wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:41 pm My assesssment of the situation is this:

1: Wallace is clearly a bell end, but no individual aspect of this case was necessarily career ending, had it been addressed properly at the time

2: the reason it wasn’t addressed at the time seems to be, as ever, linked to the BBC’s chronic failure to properly manage the on screen “talent”

Seems mad that they'd get as far as following a reasonable process and giving him a formal warning 6 years ago (not aware of the details of that investigation, but let's assume this was a proportionate response) and then...that was that, nothing else to see here, not aware of any other complaints and even if we are we're not going to link them together, la la la la not listening, oh my, how did this happen?

It’s vitally important you keep paying that license fee though

He's employed by the production company that sold the show to the BBC. Something the likes of the Daily Mail would prefer everyone ignored

Dunners wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:27 pm Agreed. His TV career is pretty much over now anyway, so may as well double-down and join the ranks of Russell Brand, le Tissier etc.

Does anyone know any podcasts where his sort would be welcomed?

o-no wrote: ↑Mon Dec 02, 2024 2:55 pm He's employed by the production company that sold the show to the BBC. Something the likes of the Daily Mail would prefer everyone ignored

This is true, but also a cop out. He's clearly a face of the BBC, whatever his contract says. If Cole Palmer walks off the pitch during the next England game and starts telling the female 4th official what he got up to with his Mrs last night, most people would agree it would be off for the FA to shrug and say "nothing to do with us, Chelsea pay his wages".