David Walliams

[DeeLicious]

Apparently some bookshops are taking David Walliams' books off their shelves: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5320625/Ocado-boss-faces-backlash-Presidents-Club-attendance.html
I've always found Walliams creepy, dating back to when he did this on the Little Britain stage tour:
What do you think?

[mikey4444]

I too find him a tad creepy, although I am a great fan of Little Britain !

[emmie]

I don't think he can be blamed in anyway for the shenanigans at the Presidents club, and why should his books be pulled from shelves that is just stupid.
but having said that on a personal level i don't like him at all.

[Zacs-Master]

The DM uses the plural and then only cites one bookshop in Essex. Fairly standard.

[Islay]

Apparently he left well before any of the problems started so why is he being hung drawn and quartered for it?
It sounds like only 1 store that has done that!

[Zacs-Master]

A different side to the story
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5308001/David-Walliams-absolutely-appalled-sexist-party.html

[naomi24]

Ban this, stop that, look for offence everywhere and complain about everything. Some people in this country are losing the plot completely.

[mikey4444]

Yes...typical DM story. According to the link, only 3 bookshops have "pulled" copies of his books.

[emmie]

mikey
three too many, ridiculous.

[mikey4444]

I agree Emmie....I was just pointing out the ludicrous nature of the DM article.

[naomi24]

The whole fuss over this - and a lot of other things - is ludicrous. The mentality of some people in this country has to be seen in action to be believed!

[Zacs-Master]

The Dialy Mail readers obviously like this sort of thing. Very sad indictment on our society.

[douglas9401]

Man victimised for turning up for work a arranged, mumsie wumsie types lose all reason.

Please boycott The Chicken and Frog bookshop in Brentwood for the owner being a knob and the shop having a twee pretentious name.

[Zacs-Master]

The shop is on Twitter should you wish to make your feelings known.

[douglas9401]

I doubt I'll enter into combat directly with them ZM.
1. I'm not on Twitter.
2. It would end in a fraught and pointless Hughesian debate.
3. They're already telling folk to use Sainsbury's car park free for half an hour to shop in their palace of snittiness so in effect encouraging dishonesty.
4. Mr Walliams is more than capable of dealing with their ill-judged censorship on his own.

[Zacs-Master]

Coward ;-)

[douglas9401]

Guilty as charged, hitching up my petticoats for a quick getaway as I type.

[Zacs-Master]

;-)

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Okay, Walliams may be a creep, but if we are going to take his books off the shelf for that reason which great writers would be left?! Clear the shelves of George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, David Starkey, T E Lawrence and no doubt hundreds of others? If creepiness and contempt of moral values was a reason to ban books, Waterstones would be a pretty empty place!

[anotheoldgit]

Yet another celebrity up for criticism.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5321081/Jimmy-Carr-ogled-hostesses-Presidents-Club-event.html

[naomi24]

Jimmy Tarbuck was at the dinner and says "I never saw anything like that happening and I would think a majority of people would say the same thing."

https://news.sky.com/story/presidents-club-critics-should-look-at-hen-parties-says-jimmy-tarbuck-11223149

This whole furore has been created by a woman trying - and succeeding - to make waves - and the idiotic, as always. fall for it.