MADELEINE MCCANN - News Updates (please try not to argue)

[MrsSpoon]

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Lets hope this is the one that contains the good news that she has been found alive and well.

"Have they nothing better to do? "

Coming from someone who posts on these bloody threads? Are you taking the piss?

I was trying trying to let the thread die down.

There is no NEWS

This is not a fecking soap opera with you vultures picking over every bloody episode.

Have I got anything better to do?

POT? HI IT'S KETTLE HERE YOU'RE BLACK

respect

so it was you WB?

who are the vultures?

The ones who keep posting on these threads, picking over nothing

There is no news.

And yes it was me. I was, briefly, MNHQ.

YOu wish

Well, for your information young lady, they've asked me to move to London and work for them as WelshBorisMumsnet. That would be my title.

I would sort out the farking newbies, get rid of AIBU, and come down on the vultures from a great height.

Whilst eating a panini and looking fabulous.

Durrr. Boris - they'll tell you anything to stop you from causing trouble you dope.

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Cod you're my roving reporter in the South.

On crocwatch

That would be "the deep south" would it?

Yes, Cod lives in Alabama.

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If you really think that there is NO NEWS, what are you doing on this news update thread? Ho ho.

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I'm shaking my head in disbelief at someone like you and your cronies.

And why have you bumped this today mumof2monsters?

To talk about more non existent news?

Don't have any cronies...thanks.
Just wanting to keep madeleine in peoples minds because some people care. Why do you bother coming on these threads if all you do is make these sort of comments.

Welshboris and all who get naffed off at people posting: from a Cronny (?)

Please have respect for the people who want to post. Mumsnet is a public/open forum, for everyone to post and discuss what they like.

Nothing sinister, harsh or nasty is being posted.

I for one am interested in the Madeleine case, but dont always get time to catch the news on TV or google the web; so coming on a thread like this is good for me. And I like to contribute and discuss in return.

Please, Im asking you all nicely, to stop throwing out really unneccesaary rude insults to people. Just pack it in, please.

Hi Wolfgirl
Could not have put it better myself. I too am interested in the madeleine case and have posted some things on this thread and another and in one of the threads today it turned to people being nasty to me and joking about madeleine and the situation. Being a mother of a DD the same age I for one do not think this situation is in the least bit funny. Also yes I may have bumped this thread but just worry people may forget madeleine and hoping to keep the thread going for when there is news. I agree that this is a great way to discuss issues but discuss yes not be rude and nasty and ridicule. I am sorry if it seemed that I said anything bad to Welshboris but if she feels p**d off that people are bumping or adding to thread when there is no news then don't come onto this thread if it bothers anyone that much.
I am just a concerned person who has a DD and cannot imagine what it must feel like.

mumof2, I don't think anyone will ever forget Madelaine, I don't think of her when I come on MN, I just think of her a lot generally

can't understand what WB is getting so worked up about though, its an open forum

I was the one making jokes on the other thread and the reason why is because some of the postings on there are laughable and only worthy of being mocked.

It is one thing to discuss the news, to talk about what has been reported in the media, to talk about the efforts being made by some to spread the news of Madeleine?s disappearance. Personally I don?t see the point any more but each to there own and all that. But when people start posting references to psychics, talking about how they might have found Madeleine, how the interpretations of the dreams of some unknown from syber space could hold the clue to Madeleine?s whereabouts, the thread moves way beyond serious discussion and into the relms of fantacy.

With your talk of psychics and dreams and google you have turned what should have been a thread to help the family, into a joke.

Brian?s predictions is a load of crap, and IMO it should be treated with the contempt it deserves.

Madeleine?s abduction is not funny, but the references to psychics etc is.

I agree WannaBe though I don't want you to think I'm following you about. Laughing at psychics is a form of public education. Personally, I feel I should get a grant for my sterling work in this matter.

Nothing to add re: news only that my dd (5) has been extremely clingy in the past few weeks, frightened of me going downstairs when she is in bed, trailing me literally from room to room and waiting at the door whilst I am in the bathroom...it is only tonight when I put her to bed she cried and said she was terrified of someone climbing in the window and stealing her "like what happened to the girl in Portugal" (we are going on holiday to Portugal in two weeks thus she's familiar with the country's name IYSWIM). I've been careful not to let her overhear news castings etc but I think they may have mentioned it at her school in prayers or whatever. Now I feel dreadful that I can't reassure her. In some ways I wish (in a very selfish way I know) that as there is literally no real news that it would go into obeyance until we get some hopefully good news about it. The minute my dd said this it took me back to when I was little and I remembered being absolutely petrified of the Yorkshire Ripper -lying awake fretting whether my dad had locked the back door properly, so I guess I really get where she is coming from. Anyhow, not really relevant I suppose, other than just to say that I understand completely why the Mccanns want to travel around to keep awareness up (I dont think I could rest for one minute either) , but I do think the media is reaching saturation point mostly fuelled by speculation (from media and their sources) and that it's seeping into everyone's everyday lives in perhaps a not very healthy way.

When I say I can't reassure her I mean from her viewpoint - obviously I have told her the many reasons why that wouldnt happen to her here

Again I say, people can discuss what they want - if people believe in psychic clap trap as you guys put it, then so be it, I have no idea why you guys takes such umbridge tbh - but there we are. Its an open forum.

For my part, Im just interested in facts and the news.

binkleandflip Im so sorry to hear about your DD. Its really hard for a child to push monster images out of their head, or dismiss what are very real fears to them. Their little brains are still developing and so cant always grasp reality from pretend to perhaps and maybe's. iyswim.

My DS has and still is, going through really bad night terrors. Even characters from the 3 bears is a problem at the moment, he see's bears on the ceiling, or thinks that the chink of light from the street, coming through the curtain is something sinister.

We have a christian faith in our house, and so all we can do is pray that the 'demons' (if you like) will leave him alone. We talk to him about nice things, like angels, and tell him that there are angels watching over him, and protecting him (which we believe to be true anyway). But still....darkness comes and with it images of all the nasties in the world. You are doing really well with your DD; just stay with it hun, lots of comfort and assurance that she is soooooooooooo special, that no one would ever dream of coming through her window!

I used to get really scared as a kid. But my dad was a copper, and I used to tell myself that NO ONE WOULD EVER COME INTO OUR HOUSE! self-managed meself tbh, as I had parents that just said 'oh dont be silly' - that really didnt help!!