Madeleine McCann info shown before Shrek, anyone else cross about this?

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I was. I have chosen NOT to tell my nearly 4yo about this. I haven't discussed it in detail with 9yo ds either I CHOOSE not to put the news on in our house. I really resent this being shoved at my children before a U cert movie. Completely inappropriate imo.

orry misspelling there, yes.

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OK, this thread has convinced me that I am not alone in being shocked by this, so I have now emailed Cineworld Cinemas to complain ([email protected]).

[Am totally with cod on that other ad too, btw. But then, the fact that it's an ad for the Mail says it all, really!]

women are into make up and small shitty gods?????

small shitty gods ?

[looks blank]

I was once the proud owner of a slightly iffy looking Buddha statue

one of his knees was chipped off.

Does that count ?

I'd be seriously pissed off if i'd taken DD aged 4. She'd would've noticed that a girl the same age had been snatched (what's snatched, she'd say) in Portugal, which is where we're going in 2 weeks. Questions I wouldn't wish to be answering ATM.

haven't read the whole thread, but would be livid. It would totally freak ds1 out, and possibly dd as well. Ds1 is nervy at the best of times, has been known to refuse to leave the house for 2 days on account of dreams, no way am I telling him about Madeleine McCann.

Same here, we are going to Portugal 19th July. My dd is aware of Madeleine (think they prayed for her at school) she asked me what happened - I told her a little girl had gone missing from her room whilst her mummy and daddy weren't there and they don't know yet where she has gone. Didn't mention her being snatched (as we dont yet know for sure that this even happened although it seems likely) but it has hit her hard - her daily question is "Will you ever leave me?" Dont think it has hit home that we are going to the place where it happened and I'm trying to keep that from her so it doesnt heighten her anxiety.

Would be fuming if it had been shown here before Shrek (it wasnt)

NDP -yes, I'm sure that counts but I think it makes you a stereotype.
I had a small souvenir model of that greek god with the very large penis...

(it's from Cods post 21.19)

ah well

Your Greek fella sounds interesting.

OK, just sticking my oar in here - MrRuffalo, I can't believe you think this is OK for young kids. Yes, it's awful that the parents don't know where their child is. Yes, people should know what she looks like - but that means adults, no toddler is going out on their own and hoping to spot her - so show this at PG and upwards where the parents will already be aware that there may be topics in the film which are not universally suitable. U means suitable for EVERYONE.

My 4 year-old saw the adverts on Nick Jr at a friend's house. Whilst she understands that stories are made up (she doesn't believe Sportacus is real etc), adverts are presented as truths - she asked me if she could clean her coins in Pink stuff (Cillit bang advert), told me I should get car insurance because I could have a pink car (Sheila's Wheels) and that I could phone up if I needed some money (any number of loan companies). So goodness knows what questions I will have from her if they are still showing this next week. I saw a public service broadcast about fires when I was young and cried myself to sleep for weeks thinking my house might burn down.

Yes, Housemum... My primary school backed onto a train line, and they used to show us those public service films about kids getting squashed by trains on a regular basis. Proper freaked me out. I used to cycle miles out of my way in order not to have to go across the level crossing that crossed the main street of our town (used by approx. one train a day)! And I was about 9 at the time...

I think sympathy, if that is the right word, in the UK is .. waining.
My SIL saw it today when she took her children to see Shrek. She too was LIVID. She told me that her IT dept at work has put a ban on all McCann related e-mails received. Her colleagues apparently are "just fed up with it" .
I think many people feel differently about the McCann case now.

PS Sportacus isn't real??? [disappointed emoticon]

I'm not sure it is 'sympathy fatigue' as such, but there is a sense of 'what more can we do'.

I think that it has reached saturation point in terms of public interest in the face of no developments in some respects. I know what this little girl looks like. If I happened to see her of course I would report it. Above and beyond that, what more can anyone say or do?

I won't be taking my dd to see Shrek so hopefully I can avoid this particular. No lack of sympathy for the McCanns.... but I don't see how my dd can help look for her when she's never been abroad.

She thinks Madeline is a little girl who lives in an old house in Paris (all covered in vines). Long may it stay that way unless or until Madeline is recovered.

I think that a lot of people are genuinely fed up with seeing/hearing about it now, because there is nothing to tell. There have been no developments. None. So the only things that we?re being told are that the Mccanns went to see the pope, that the Mccanns went to church, again, that the Mccanns have written in their blog/are moving out of their apartment etc etc. And all that?s doing is reinforcing the fact that there?s no news. The Mccanns going to see the pope isn?t highlighting Madeleine?s disappearance, so we don?t really need to know. And rightly or wrongly I think that a lot of people feel that it?s wrong for this one case to receive so much publicity when there are millions of missing children in the world that will receive none.

But the reality is that while this story is reported in the news, people will discuss it. I?ve just come back from two weeks in Majorca, and there is no discussion, no news, no posters, nothing. And because there?s nothing, people obviously don?t talk about it. So maybe what is required is for this story to drop out of the news altogether, because once that happens the discussion will stop. The more mindless news we receive about this, the more room there is for speculation. If the media weren?t reporting that there was a potential sighting somewhere/that someone has started a discussion aledging that it?s all a hoax/that an online petition has been started for social services to investigate, people would just move on with their lives and the story would drop off the radar within days. But because we live in a society where people seem to have this need to know every intimate detail, and the media seem to have this need to annallise every snippet of information, however trivial, there is no escape.

Well said, wannaBe

I dont really know what I feel about this.

So, would you be fed up of hearing about it if it were your child that were missing? sympathy fatigue?? modern misnomer for - it doesn't directly affect me so its not my problem.

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I was annoyed too. I should have liked some warning.
I don't know who to complain too, otherwise I would.