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AIBU?

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to hope that the people who tortured that baby to death will get a taste of their own medicine in prison?

161 replies

daisy5678 · 13/11/2008 20:39

I know that two wrongs don't make a right and all that...but I can't help it.

I really can't accept that they'll just get a few years in prison and be out to get on with their lives. I don't even agree with the death penalty, but this Baby P case just makes me (along with everyone else, I know) so so angry.

So AIBU to actually wish them harm?

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Tortington · 14/11/2008 12:04

wtf is wrong with you lot.

the spelling of her name

......really

bullies

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:04

Oups, I think lovleygirls lost her rattle out of her pram....

pingping · 14/11/2008 12:04

PMSL marlasinger. I think we should all stop bullying the new troll its not nice pmsl. welcome to mumsnet lovleygirls ha ha

LittleBella · 14/11/2008 12:04

Well this is a thick thread.

Imagine my surprise.

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:05

It is a very thick thread.

Sorry Custy, you are of course right.

pmsl

(sorry again, shall go do some accounting)

slayerette · 14/11/2008 12:06

My God, this thread is vicious! Is it a full moon or something?

Aitch · 14/11/2008 12:07

alright, stop...

we aren't friends, lovleygirls, we are just a bunch of strangers who happen to disagree with the premise that because some people did a monstrous thing that they should be tortured to death (thereby creating other monsters, do you see?) it's not what justice is about, we don't do eye for an eye any more.

if you think we should, that may be the beginning of an interesting discussion, but i don't think that by posting such an inflammatory title in AIBU the OP was actually looking for a debate. she was looking for validation, as someone else said. and by and large she didn't get it, that's all.

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:07

Yes I am sorry. I am out of line.

tiredsville · 14/11/2008 12:07

Ok, Lovelygirls follow me out of here and let them have their orgasmic bitchfest. I can see them practically drooling.

This clearly is no longer a healthy debate.

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:07

She was looking to sensationalize a really tragic event.

blunt · 14/11/2008 12:08

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Aitch · 14/11/2008 12:10

actually blunt, i think that happened a good while after the poster resorted to good old sweariing and insult...

but yes, it did turn badly, no question about it.

blunt · 14/11/2008 12:11

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Saturn74 · 14/11/2008 12:13

Enough with the sneering about spelling, ffs.
Actually this whole thread is vile.
The title is disgraceful.
MN hits a new low.
Again.

tiredsville · 14/11/2008 12:14

Clearly I was right about the dictatorship.
Byeeeeeeeeee (Runs for her life)

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:16

"debating technique"?

Let me see, sniggering, insults, accusations, name calling, dont think so!

tiredsville · 14/11/2008 12:16

(Runs back to kiss and make up)

Lets all put closure to this thread.

jumpingbeans · 14/11/2008 12:21

Good on yer, tiredsville

QuintessentialShadow · 14/11/2008 12:27

I shall go now. Such things make me very irrational.

daisy5678 · 14/11/2008 18:37
Hmm
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daisy5678 · 14/11/2008 21:35

Wow. It really is a different world over here.

How can I be accused of KEEPING going on about it - I started A thread about MY feelings are were they reasonable. It wasn't a let's rehash the details of the case thread. It wasn't a oooh it's so awful thread, or a let's gossip about it thread.

Response?

oohh fuccking sicko fuck off twat you're so awful to start a thread which doesn't fit in with what the unspoken rules say that you didn't even know. how dare you ask a question sicko fuck off.

How weird.

Again, I started ONE thread about the issue. If you've read others elsewhere, I'm not responsible for them. I only read AIBU and SN.

I'm buggered if I'm going to search all of MN to check there's not a similar topic before I start one! I couldn't see any others on the front page of AIBU. It's up to me what I post and up to you what you read and post on.

I wasn't after validation in particular - I was genuinely interested in what people thought. It seems most think IABU - that's fine - that's what I wanted to know. What does make me is the 'how dare you post this here' bollocks. I maintain that you don't have to post on things you aren't interested in, that you can't have a paddy just because you don't like a topic that someone posts, you don't need to swear at someone just because you think they've asked something that you don't think is a good topic.

Thanks to those who actually answered my question and to the rest of you...perhaps there should be a thread about the unwritten rules of the AIBU board for those who aren't 'in the know'... or, better yet, you could just form your own board and talk to each other so that nobody breaks the rules that don't even exist .

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blueshoes · 14/11/2008 21:54

givemesleep, FWIW, I am hoping the same as you. I don't think it will happen though as such scum are put in safe units. Nonetheless they got to Ian Huntley ...

There will be those on mn who will be precious about seeing the subject matter in a thread title. There will be the PC brigade who could will say you could not possibly entertain such a barbaric thought. There will be those who will call this a train wreck rubbernecking thread. This is mn, not the real world. Sorry you are having a hard time.

2shoes · 14/11/2008 21:58

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southeastastra · 14/11/2008 22:00

i read quite a good book about a drug smuggler who was sent to durham prison and did time with rose west. wasn't nice.

don't underestimate how people get treated inside

Vev · 14/11/2008 22:13

Givemesleep - sorry you've had such a hard time . It is all over the news so I don't know why some folk are being precious over it. There's a facebook group with hundreds of thousands on it. It's in the news, it's life, which makes it a topic of conversation however horrid.

And I do hope his mother and her friends get some sort of comeuppance the nasty, evil fekkers.