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Cinema and seeing a `maddie snatched` advert

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  • deanos
    deanos Posts: 11,241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Uniform Washer
    I suggest everyone reads this, makes very intresting reading, and sums up everything quite well

    http://ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com/search/label/Madeleine%20McCann
  • Josie_Jump_3
    Josie_Jump_3 Posts: 367 Forumite
    Morglin wrote: »
    Well, I'm sure Madelaine's parents are sorry that your "fun and enjoyment" was spoilt for a few minutes, because they are trying to find their daughter.:rolleyes:

    Jeez.

    Lin :(

    Pity they didn't consider that when leaving the poor child alone whilst out enjoying themselves.
  • grex80
    grex80 Posts: 78 Forumite
    Josie_Jump wrote: »
    Pity they didn't consider that when leaving the poor child alone whilst out enjoying themselves.

    totally.

    IMO there is something distinctly "odd" about how the McCanns have managed to stay in the limelight all this time - they've definitely got contacts and possibly some sort of hidden agenda.

    Sounds bad saying it, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if this whole thing was some sort of elaborate "experiment" or press stunt for one reason or another. There's just too much about it that doesn't really add up, and the whole hysteria surrounding it has meant that few have really stopped to ask questions....

    It's even harder to ask questions, of course, when the "if you don't have/like children, you're a waste of oxygen" brigade won't hear a word against them... YES, it's terrible etc but there is a lot more to this than meets the eye, and I for one would like to see the McCanns heavily scrutinised rather than sympathised with.

    They're far too self-serving - something about this whole affair just gives me a bad feeling...
  • andyrules
    andyrules Posts: 3,558 Forumite
    However bad and careless the parents are, it's not the fault of the three year old, and surely if she is still alive she deserves to be found and go home?
  • catkins
    catkins Posts: 5,703 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    I saw this ad on Saturday before the Die Hard film. When it said "her parents did not get to spend her birthday with her" or words to that effect the woman behind me said "Well if they had looked after her in the first place they would have spent her birthday with her"!! Sums up my feelings precisely
    The world is over 4 billion years old and yet you somehow managed to exist at the same time as David Bowie
  • katiekittykat
    katiekittykat Posts: 9,622 Forumite
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    That's a bit harsh, I know they didn't bother with a babysitter, but apparantly they were only yards from their apartment.


    the pub is only yards away from my house - but i would never leave my niece there whilst i went to the pub.
    Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
  • Gaz83
    Gaz83 Posts: 4,047 Forumite
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    catkins wrote: »
    I saw this ad on Saturday before the Die Hard film. When it said "her parents did not get to spend her birthday with her" or words to that effect the woman behind me said "Well if they had looked after her in the first place they would have spent her birthday with her"!! Sums up my feelings precisely
    That was my thinking as well. I thought it was a very strange choice of words.
    "Facism arrives as your friend. It will restore your honour, make you feel proud, protect your house, give you a job, clean up the neighbourhood, remind you of how great you once were, clear out the venal and the corrupt, remove anything you feel is unlike you... [it] doesn't walk in saying, "our programme means militias, mass imprisonments, transportations, war and persecution."
  • asea
    asea Posts: 1,398 Forumite
    i am wondering why they haven't been done for neglect. i'm sure that parents in the uk who left a young girl like that alone and in charge of two other siblings would be prosecuted for neglect
    nothing to see here, move along...
  • katiekittykat
    katiekittykat Posts: 9,622 Forumite
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    probably because they are middle class and are both dr's.

    if the family were from a council estate everyone would be slagging them off.

    i feel sorry for the parents i really do, but their daughter isn't the only child to ever go missing. also they have to take some responsibilty for their actions.

    I notice that the little girl kid napped in africas only got a small paragraph in the papers.
    Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
  • Wouldnt it be ironic if she was found, they returned to the UK, were charged with gross negligence and had the bairn taken off them....
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