Dontcha Just Love Idle Sunday's

[mertol22]

I'm not into green men either Mertol...I'm not even convinced man landed on the moon. Mt Gran always told  me to believe nothing unless you see it for your self.....She also told me to keep my purse full, so to deceive others into thinking i had a lot of money....I should be a major land owner, but it is sods law that it was my grandfather who had his birthright taken from him....   

ive a couple of john boland hardbacks,the league of gentlemen /the gentlemen re form

[Jane]

Walter Sickert.


Sickert took a keen interest in the crimes of Jack the Ripper and believed he had lodged in a room used by the infamous serial killer. He had been told this by his landlady, who suspected a previous lodger. Sickert did a painting of the room and titled it "Jack the Ripper's Bedroom." It shows a dark, melancholy room with most details obscured. This painting now resides in the Manchester City Art Gallery in Manchester.
In 2002, crime novelist Patricia Cornwell, in Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case Closed, maintained that Sickert was Jack the Ripper.A psychological motivation for Sickert was said to be a congenital anomaly of his penis. Cornwell purchased 31 of Sickert's paintings, and some persons in the arts world have said that she destroyed one of them in a search for Sickert's DNA, but Cornwell denies having done this.  Cornwell claimed she was able to scientifically prove that the DNA on a letter attributed to the Ripper and on a letter written by Sickert belong to only one percent of the population.

It may be worth mentioning that his father bought him, as a child, to London to have the anomaly rectified. I believe at the time he spoke only German, having been born there, and as was the practice at the time, no attempt was made to comfort or explain to the child what was about to happen. The operation was carried out, aided by nursing assistants to hold him still, without the use of anaesthetics. The poor child must have thought he was being murdered, on top of which the operation was unsuccessful. I couldn't be certain if his penis served any function save urination. I seem to think that some of it had to be amputated during the operation. It's easy to see how he may have developed a lifelong hatred of women if he recalled women holding him down whilst his genitals were mutilated.

[guest154]

It may be worth mentioning that his father bought him, as a child, to London to have the anomaly rectified. I believe at the time he spoke only German, having been born there, and as was the practice at the time, no attempt was made to comfort or explain to the child what was about to happen. The operation was carried out, aided by nursing assistants to hold him still, without the use of anaesthetics. The poor child must have thought he was being murdered, on top of which the operation was unsuccessful. I couldn't be certain if his penis served any function save urination. I seem to think that some of it had to be amputated during the operation. It's easy to see how he may have developed a lifelong hatred of women if he recalled women holding him down whilst his genitals were mutilated.

Yeah, I am just reading about this now. It makes for another angle to the mystery. Walter Sickert is IMO one of the more likely suspects I've read about.

Its all very interesting mat. Can you remember a few years ago the police tried to get DNA from a shawl that belonged to one of the victims? Sadly, even with today's advanced technology is was unsuccessful.
I haven't  heard of him...so now I will have to google him...lol

Mat check the dates of the murders, they are significant....and to me they form a patten.

Interestingly enough I have a relative, on my ex husbands side Thomas Cutbush....who is also a suspect...he was committed into a mental home eventually for stabbing a woman in her buttocks....Twas very cheeky of him...lol 

Yeah, I remember the shawl. I was hoping soemthing would come of it, because this mystery drives me wild!, but nothing did, you're right.

[maggie]

Saw books this morning patti at a local car boot sale lots of em , you cant beat a tea biscuit or two and watching bw films , Night of the hunter comes to mind, night of the demon, or dead of night, ore night of the eagle , when dark and raining outside even better.

Hi Mertol....Night of the Giant Rabbits, was one of the best!!  Beyond belief, circa 1972/3 ish.

[Jane]

Hi Mertol....Night of the Giant Rabbits, was one of the best!!  Beyond belief, circa 1972/3 ish.

Maggir, how can you sleep after reading things like that. I'd have to read them through my fingers or from behind a cushion

[maggie]

Maggir, how can you sleep after reading things like that. I'd have to read them through my fingers or from behind a cushion

Hi April, I am the biggest coward out, many a time when I was young I have had to go and sit in the loos waiting for the B film to finish cos I was so scared.  The rabbit film thing was so rediculous that even I survived it, I think it was voted as one of the worst films of all time!! 

[mertol22]

Hi April, I am the biggest coward out, many a time when I was young I have had to go and sit in the loos waiting for the B film to finish cos I was so scared.  The rabbit film thing was so rediculous that even I survived it, I think it was voted as one of the worst films of all time!! 

The worst film of all time maggie there can only be one such a film, Plan 9 from Outer Space.

[HMEssex]

Hi April, I am the biggest coward out, many a time when I was young I have had to go and sit in the loos waiting for the B film to finish cos I was so scared.  The rabbit film thing was so rediculous that even I survived it, I think it was voted as one of the worst films of all time!! 

I've never heard of the 'Night of the Giant Rabbits' film.  (Might have different connatations nowadays!)

The worst film for me when I was young was 'The Birds'.  I went on holiday to Cornwall not long afterwards and refused to get out of the car when we stopped at a service station as there were crows everywhere!

[maggie]

I've never heard of the 'Night of the Giant Rabbits' film.  (Might have different connatations nowadays!)

The worst film for me when I was young was 'The Birds'.  I went on holiday to Cornwall not long afterwards and refused to get out of the car when we stopped at a service station as there were crows everywhere!

Hi HME, I avoided that film like the plague, I love birds but only at a distance as I have a phobia about them.  That film could have killed me!! 

[Jane]

I've never heard of the 'Night of the Giant Rabbits' film.  (Might have different connatations nowadays!)

The worst film for me when I was young was 'The Birds'.  I went on holiday to Cornwall not long afterwards and refused to get out of the car when we stopped at a service station as there were crows everywhere!

Ohhh, I don't blame you. I've had a phobia of feathers since being taken to a carnival in my pushchair and when one of the floats went past, they emptied sacks onto the assembled crowd. The sacks were full of feathers, which settled on me, in  my mouth, in my hair and on my clothes. Being trapped in  a pushchair I couldn't get away from them. It's only been in recent years that my fingers haven't dripped with perspiration when I was anywhere near a feather. You may understand that "The Birds" was a definite "no no".

[HMEssex]

Hi HME, I avoided that film like the plague, I love birds but only at a distance as I have a phobia about them.  That film could have killed me!! 

I got over my phobia, luckily.  My daughter, however, has the worst bird phobia ever - she freaks out if even a pigeon dares to land near us when we're out - many a time I've suddenly been pushed sideways when she sees one!

That film was on T.V. the other night and it wasn't scary at all.  I still watched it as I love Hitchcock films.

[maggie]

I got over my phobia, luckily.  My daughter, however, has the worst bird phobia ever - she freaks out if even a pigeon dares to land near us when we're out - many a time I've suddenly been pushed sideways when she sees one!

That film was on T.V. the other night and it wasn't scary at all.  I still watched it as I love Hitchcock films.

Hi HME, I had hypnotherapy for flying and that has helped my bird phobia as well (ironic really!).  I dont have to move if a pigeon comes a bit close but I'm still pretty bad and could never touch one.

[HMEssex]

Ohhh, I don't blame you. I've had a phobia of feathers since being taken to a carnival in my pushchair and when one of the floats went past, they emptied sacks onto the assembled crowd. The sacks were full of feathers, which settled on me, in  my mouth, in my hair and on my clothes. Being trapped in  a pushchair I couldn't get away from them. It's only been in recent years that my fingers haven't dripped with perspiration when I was anywhere near a feather. You may understand that "The Birds" was a definite "no no".

That sounds horrendous - I don't blame you for hating them or the film.

[HMEssex]

Hi HME, I had hypnotherapy for flying and that has helped my bird phobia as well (ironic really!).  I dont have to move if a pigeon comes a bit close but I'm still pretty bad and could never touch one.

Yes, ironic! 

I don't like flying that much either because I hate being cooped up for too long. (Another phobia - claustrophobia - lol?)

I've often thought hypnotherapy could work for my daughter.  One place she'd like to visit is Venice...

[maggie]

Yes, ironic! 

I don't like flying that much either because I hate being cooped up for too long. (Another phobia - claustrophobia - lol?)

I've often thought hypnotherapy could work for my daughter.  One place she'd like to visit is Venice...

Oh dear!! I believe Venice has it's fair share of pigeons.   Hypnotherapy is really good, I was hypnotised for longhaul flights but not Easy Jet so I need to go back for that!!   You need a hypnotherapist who practices the modern way,  it should only take a few sessions if they are good.