Jeremy Beadle

I've seen some things posted on TV Forum over the years, the bitching, the fact those in with the mods often get away with murder, those that don't get taken for a joke if the whim takes someone, but this thread has reached levels even lower than The Sun usually linger at.

I know Jeremy Beadle wasn't to everyones taste, but as stated there is a time and a place for such comments. I mean, why not just send his wife a letter laughing at her loss, its pretty much the next level.

Jeremy was a decent person, and as far as I'm aware everyone on Beadles About when the game was revealed enjoyed the experience and appeared with him in the studio to talk about it. The people involved were set up by family members and most stunts were based on what the family knew would work.

To meet him he was kind and approachable, he had that knack of making the other person feel the more important one and certainly could laugh at himself.

Whatever people think, he had decency and integrity, something a few people here clearly lack. I never heard him say a bad word about anyone else.

Maybe it says more about the society we live in today when respect is lost, and people have the need to say things online that they know full well if they said it to someones face they'd more often than not end up with their teeth knocked out.

From BBC News:



Nice to know they're doing something for him.

@MikeGNE: Did you meet him by any chance? Just out of interest because some of what you say about him doesn't quite line up with what I know about the man. I'm not disagreeing that people should leave comments but I'm sick of people blaming society and lack of respect and whatever other Daily Mail bile they can dredge up to account for people voicing their opinion on the net. If anything, it allows for looser ties on what people can say and good for it as you haven't got some idiot looking to punch your lights out should you not speak in line with everyone else's opinion and morals.

Anyway, I won't be in this thread no more because it's frankly dumb for me to shout the odds and I should let people pay their respects. Doesn't lessen the pointlessness of the thread but there you go, not everyone wants to wallow in false sadness at someone's death as it's the "right thing".

My sadness is genuine. Why you think people are wallowing in false sadness I don't know. There's nothing in this thread that even suggests it.

I notice my earlier post regarding my dislike of obit threads has been removed whilst Lorna's bile apparently is quite appropriate.

To the best of my knowledge I did not insult Mr Beadle himself in the post so I'm fascinated to know what the reasoning behind its removal is.

Yes ...interesting isn't it.
So was my earlier observation that whilst I suffered a week's ban from this forum for having the temerity to suggest that newsreader George Alagiah's OBE might have something to do with the colour of his skin whilst many other equally talented white newsreaders received nothing it was quite alright to pour out bile against a man whose body wasn't even in the ground.
There are some double-standards going on here.
And whilst we're at it - why a WEEK's ban ...is there a pecking order of punishment based on how offended the Thought Police might be ?
Either you're allowed to voice an opinion without being abusive or you're not.

I didn't meet him but a colleague at work was on Game For A Laugh and met him & said he was a very nice chap & very sociable.

I quite agree. He was also personally involved with child leukemia charities and helped stop it being the childhood death sentence it was 20 years ago.

but then; some people on here can't cope with a semi-colon in the wrong place without getting into personal slagging matches.

Yes, more than once.

What a stupid argument. Speaking ill of the (recently) dead may not be a very nice thing to do, but its nothing compared to knocking someones teeth out.

Maybe you need to re-read it. Thats not the argument at all.

What a preposterous thing to say, designed I am sure to rack people with guilt.

This forum's raison d'être is for the membership to offer up opinions and thoughts on a range of subjects. If a thread is started regarding someone who has died then as with any other topic you are likely to find a range of opinions.

People are always left behind when someone dies, and there's nothing members here can do about that. To suggest that the general membership - the vast majority of whom have never met Mr Beadle or his family - should not speak their opinion on an internet forum for fear of hurting their feelings is nonsense. I'm sorry, Mike, but it is.

I have nothing particularly negative to say about Mr Beadle - I really have no opinion either way other than to say I wasn't a particular "fan" of his broadcasting work - but I have to protest at people with a personal connection making others feel guilty for exercising their right to speak on this board.

I fully accept that some individual comments were beyond the pale, but your scattergun, "J'accuse!" comments are equally out of order.