Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 715526)

just found about this

Barclays IT director jailed for downloading hundreds of child porn images to company laptop | Mail Online

now last May i was in Madrid on business drinking and eating tapas with this bloke... :eek: TBH he came across as a generally decent bloke, just goes to show you can never tell from the outside whats in someones mind.

so the question is how close to infamy have you been?

Originally Posted by entwisi (Post 715562)

Less, Harmless? not sure if that should be a compliment or an insult! :D

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 715571)

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...98_1131060.jpg
:D

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 715572)

Oh no, no, no, no!...please tell me the kid is not who I think it is! :eek:

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 715572)

Oh no, no, no, no!...please tell me the kid is not who I think it is! :eek:

Originally Posted by Mancie (Post 715572)

Oh no, no, no, no!...please tell me the kid is not who I think it is! :eek:

Originally Posted by andrewb (Post 715571)

http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-...98_1131060.jpg
:D

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715655)

There's been quite a few, but one I remember thinking at the time was odd was chatting to a very unassuming charity worker at a dinner party. He happened to be John Profumo, the man who brought down the government, which subsequently changed the landscape of the decade that I was born into.

Some of the others were sitting directly opposite and chatting to Margaret Thatcher, upstairs in a private dining room at the Carlton Club.

Deciding I wasn't going to attend a lunch party my housemate was giving to try and flog his new paintings, because I was too hungover, only to be woken by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu and the actor Alan Bates, who decided to sit on the bed chatting to me, once they'd roused me from my groggy slumber.

Getting drunk in Kensington Palace, because someone forgot to tell me that the person I was supposed to be seeing had gone to inspect the fire damage at Windsor Castle instead, leaving me sat there with a constantly refreshed gin and tonic.

Getting picked up in the Armani shop in Milan by one of the world's most famous living artists.

Meeting two people, Mike Tyson and Enoch Powell, both of whom I expected to dislike, and finding them thoroughly charming.

Chatting to Kylie Minogue at an aftershow party at Teatro, and tapping her too hard, resulting in her falling off the sofa we were sat on.

Getting locked in an attic bathroom at a houseparty in Battersea for over an hour, because of a dodgy lock, with one of the Queen's children.

Spending a weird evening with Naomi Campbell, when she modelled for my friend Julien, some of which it would be unwise to say what really happened, which ended with us sharing a cab back to London from Greenwich, after she'd pushed us to the front of the queue and caused a big fight.

There are other more, err, intimate encounters with the infamous/famous, but I'm not about to publish them on a local forum. They can be revealed after all the people involved are long dead.

:D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715664)

That is exactly what I inferred when I said -
"Most of us have met people who have infamy potential - they just haven't been exposed - YET"

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715665)

Don't forget that the very best fraudsters, abusers, charlatans, whatevers, don't ever get caught.

No public outcry, no shaming, no infamy.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715668)

These corrupt times are rapidly coming to an end.

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715673)

Yes Cassandra, but have you any concrete evidence of this forthcoming new Utopia, for those Doubting Thomases that may be amongst us?

:D

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715675)

If you take the trouble to search you can find evidence of corruption on a large scale.
Most people don't want to know - and only believe it when they accidentally are slapped in the face with it.

Do you own muck searching. I am having a rest from it at the mo

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715678)

I wasn't having a go actually, but hey ho. I was one of the few people who posted in your defence when some members recently, and unfairly in my opinion, were on your case.

I do a lot of research, or muck searching as you put it, but we both come to differing opinions. My own being the opinions of a realist, and I suppose someone who sees the glass of life and humankind being definitely half full, rather than half empty.

Hey ho.

:)

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715680)

The fact that you have said that you are well aware of lots of corruption and prefer to stay silent, demonstrates to me that you have lost your integrity.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715680)

PS I appreciate that you thought that you were fighting my corner - but I am not in one

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715685)

I never said you were in a corner.

You were obviously affected, because you posted you were leaving the forum.

It was nothing personal, I'd have defended anyone against what I saw as unfair bullying.

I've never been one to be silent, be it the fashionable thing to do at the present time, or not.;)

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715684)

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715687)

The 'famous' people I happened to mention in my original post.

Nothing about being 'well aware of lots corruption, and preferring to remain silent'.

Blimey the mind of a conspiracy theorist is unfathobable, and invents it's own bizarre facts that aren't there, at least not apparent to those of a rational mind.

If that's evidence of research I'd label it very sloppy, if not verging on the slanderous.

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715686)

I lost patience briefly - at no time did I experience anger - I no longer feel the need for such destructive emotion

Originally Posted by MargaretR (Post 715688)

Do you have a different definition of defamity from most people:confused:

Originally Posted by garinda (Post 715656)

Just rereading my post some aren't really encounters with people of infamy, but I could justify them all if I brought in the Belgrano, or being arrested for immoral purposes in the 1950's, or hitting your maid with a hairdryer and being made to sweep the streets on New York.

I could infact defame all those I listed.:D

Originally Posted by Studio25 (Post 716482)

I could defame all those you listed. Defamations are unfounded.

Originally Posted by cashman (Post 716507)

met n had a pint with Ronnie Knight one xmas in benalmadena when i lived there, he was on the trot at the time. seemed n ok geezer to me, but barbara windsor probably would not agree.:D

Originally Posted by mick (Post 715724)

When i used to stand Accy market we had a guy that helped out now and again that used to knock about with the Kray Twins

Originally Posted by beechy (Post 716528)

me and my mate bully had a fun packed night in the midland hotel with Gary Glitter in the early eighties he had just been made bankrupt and was cadging drinks all night,long before the other scandals be fell him :eek: