David Walliams #2

[pommynoir]

Ron Jeremy, Sam Fender, Leigh Francis.

Sam Fender? Isn’t he about 12?

 

[Lukeal70]

Ron Jeremy, Sam Fender, Leigh Francis.

Sam Fender ???? Take that name out of your mouth. Stephen Fry is the p being talked about

 

[ClockworkDolly]

The vomiting woman was GROSSSS

Also the woman who peed herself was equally gross. I think that character may have been on one of the earlier episodes of Little Britain…I wasn’t an avid viewer of LB, I just didn’t find it funny. It was more vomit-inducing than funny.

 

[Dotty Merton]

Sam Fender ???? Take that name out of your mouth. Stephen Fry is the p being talked about

And this is why we don't use initials @Just my opinion

 

[moldwarp]

I’ve just been catching up so sorry if I’ve missed someone else making the same point - yes I think I think every woman has had an experience that (at best) has made them feel uncomfortable but they’ve said nothing.

But also culturally (in my experience, born mid 80s) girls/women in the UK were taught that they should be treating long hugs/attention/bum slaps etc as a compliment, a sign they were sexy/desirable. Men not taking no as an answer and continuing to pester until they got their way (as in the case of Walliams) was also encouraged/told to be expected I think. I like to think it’s changing, but I’m not particularly confident.

This is how this type of behaviour has been allowed to happen, and the perception of ‘turning a blind eye’ going on. It’s hard to raise concerns when you half think you should be pleased with the attention, even if it doesn’t sit right.

Agree with all this and just to add it's worse in Greek culture where men will feel no issue in commenting loudly and publicly on your body, your hair, whether you're too large, haven't made an effort, too weird looking, all with the clear expectations that a) they have the right to pass this judgement and b) that you will take on board their comment and do something to fix it so as not to offend with your large bum again

Bonus points if the guy making the comment is your cousin Tzimmi who still lives with his mum at 36 cos no other woman is good enough for him and his fingers are so large and hairy they look like wooly bear caterpillars

 

[ClockworkDolly]

I didn’t get that far but the book is sooo problematic. The main kid wants to wear dresses, he’s into fashion, but he doesn’t want to be teased. Fairly sweet and quite inclusive. But then.. the local shopkeeper reveals he’s a cross dresser and asks the kid to keep it a secret from his wife. Iffy. And would you know it the headteacher at the kids school is ALSO a cross dresser and the kid blackmails him and threatens to revel his ‘secret’.

So we have a young boy (11-12) keeping two adult secrets. He also takes his dad’s porn magazine and he also goes into the girls toilets and describes how he is in heaven doing so.

It’s aimed at 8-12 year olds. Thank goodness I read a bit first, skipped ahead and agreed it was unsuitable. The story should be ‘wear what you want, accept who you are’ etc. But it has this inappropriate seediness to it which is hard to describe. My daughter is a huge reader and moved on to far better books but I was shocked that some schools had Walliams on their curriculum!

Dear god, is that what parents are buying for their children?!

People vilified Enid Blyton, she’s an angel by comparison.

 

[Tofino]

I thought about “Alex” and her comedy writing Walliams used to groom her with when I saw this. I wonder who Wendy and Henry were to him, how old they were and who else he dedicated his books to. This is from The Midnight Gang.

 

[kittycatkitty]

Agree with all this and just to add it's worse in Greek culture where men will feel no issue in commenting loudly and publicly on your body, your hair, whether you're too large, haven't made an effort, too weird looking, all with the clear expectations that a) they have the right to pass this judgement and b) that you will take on board their comment and do something to fix it so as not to offend with your large bum again

Bonus points if the guy making the comment is your cousin Tzimmi who still lives with his mum at 36 cos no other woman is good enough for him and his fingers are so large and hairy they look like wooly bear caterpillars

They’ll have bigger boobs than the women they’re large shaming too…. THE AUDACITY.

 

[HotesTilaire]

AH that's good then, I watched it a bit bleary eyed this morning and thought it was odd, but sounds like it was all straightened out.

I think it’s a bit like if you were at a work meeting and person X was there, that’s different to you having spent a few weeks working with person X on a project.

Just because Lucy has been on a panel show as a guest at the same time as him wouldn’t be thought of as “working” with him. If she’d had a recurring part in Little Britain or written a show with him or been his warm up act, that’s different to would be “working with him”. Being in the same panel show is just being in the same studios with him and others, once, for a day, she may not have even seen him or spoken with him outside of the parts that were filmed.