His funeral will be held next Thursday.

This scum doesn't deserve to have RIP next to his name.

Change the thread title to RIH, Rot In Hell.

yeh why not just dead - instead of rip

its literally the joke guys..........

In loving memory.

He died of shame ?

lol RIP thread

That's two remarkable blokes we've lost this week.
Greig loved to taunt the Windies, Ferguson loved to haunt the kindys.

What was the main difference between Neil Armstrong and Michael Jackson?

Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. Michael Jackson fucked little boys in the arse.

God damn, was so tempted to post something similar on Facebook yesterday, but was worried people wouldn't get the joke. Judging by the first few responses in this thread, I made a good choice.

Fucking lol. But yes, good riddance.

we hardly knew ye

Someone want to explain the joke?

hahahaha Dazhel

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Nature or nurture ? ...

It's not quite as simple as the bogans make it sound.
He should never have been let out on the streets, but no one should have wanted him dead. He was fucked up because he had been fucked up.

To be quite honest I am not sure which I detest more Denis Ferguson or Hetty Johnston.

Thanks for providing some genuine perspective in the thread FaceMan.

As Obes said it's not as simple as people make it sound. Sure he did terrible things, and yes he definitely should never have been released and basically hidden from people, so relief I understand, but to celebrate his death is taking it a bit far.

Unless you subscribe to the kind of dumbed-down, simplified view of the world that many religions provide, you have to admit that there isn't really such a thing as someone being 'pure evil'. People are always how they are for a reason, whether it's a mental defect, or how they were brought up, or who knows what else? Society is much happier to dismiss someone as evil because it basically absolves them of any responsibility for how that person has become the way they are. I don't know about you guys, but I find it pretty hard to blame someone for those things out of their control that made them who they were.

Apparently he was the perfect reformed ex-crim by the end of it all, he lived out the rest of his days in Sydney with his gay lover.

From Faceman's link

In the end Ferguson, who police say was found in his apartment on Sunday afternoon amid no suspicious circumstances, died as he lived much of his life – in combat with police, the media and the state government.

Ferguson was due to appear back in court next week, charged with attempting to do volunteer work with children in Sydney's eastern suburbs.

Police said he had tried to sign up for the volunteer program in October and November in Bondi Junction without informing police.

He was charged with one count of breaching a prohibition order, which was not to approach any child for 14 years, or work with children.

Yup, sounds real reformed...

I don't care how fucked up your life was, at some point, he made a conscious choice to perpetuate what he had been subjected to whereas a decent human being would have thought "I can't ever let that happen to someone else" whether it be sexually, mentally or some other form of abuse to an innocent woman, child, sibling, relative or acquaintance.

And no, I'm not going to discuss this any further.
This is my steadfast opinion and don't see myself being swayed anytime soon.

Yup, 2013, year sounds better already.

And no, I'm not going to discuss this any further.
This is my steadfast opinion and don't see myself being swayed anytime soon.

At least your honest in your ignorance.

I don't care how fucked up your life was, at some point, he made a conscious choice to perpetuate what he had been subjected to whereas a decent human being would have thought "I can't ever let that happen to someone else" whether it be sexually, mentally or some other form of abuse to an innocent woman, child, sibling, relative or acquaintance.

At some point he went from being an innocent kid to being something other than a "decent human being" ... why ?

3 (overly simplistic) choices:
1. Nurture
2. Nature
3. Demons ...

I doubt it was nature it implies there is a gene (or combination of genes) for pedophilia, and demons seem as unlikely as purple flying spaghetti monsters. Yes that is probably some form of fallacy, but as a society we failed him and in doing so ruined the lives of the families he touched (so to speak), and currently we don't know how.

Don't get me wrong he should never have been let out again. But we as a society should not have carried on the way we did with the burning of effigies, coffins and bullshit. And we should have looked in to how and why more.

Short version bogan vilification of individuals does not solve the long term problem nor restore the victims...

Why not just shoot them in the head? Why find a solution. The Government doesn't need to find shit.

I doubt it was nature it implies there is a gene (or combination of genes) for pedophilia, and demons seem as unlikely as purple flying spaghetti monsters.

maybe some people are just wired that way

this guy went to prison and got the holy crap kicked out of him so much it caused that face thing he had, and he still kept doing it

used to lend me his duncan ferguson to play club cricket on satday arvo

Nice troll but legally blind people don't own cricket bats.

Poor Door needs attention :(