I am disgusted at the Madeleine McCann/Shrek debate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bigmamie]

I have joined this site solely to remind all you thoughtless, forgetful, selfish ba#@ards that Madeleine McCann is missing!!!!!!!! I cannot understand how anyone can sit with their arms around their own children, in the comfort of a cinema whilst feeding their children popcorn and Coke that there are lots of mothers in this world who cannot do this. Their children have been taken from them and I wonder if any of you had the money or the resources available to them, I wonder if you would have campaigned this long or this hard for their daughters return. I wish the McCanns every success and only wish I could physically find their daughter for them. I am taking my 6 kids to see Shrek tomorrow and I hope my cinema is still showing the Madeleine film. I hope the publicity generated stays in your faces for a long time to come. Tell me, if she passed in front of you down at the shops or at the park could any of you be bothered to actually tell someone. Or are you all just to happy in the knowledge that its not one of your children. There but for the grace of God............

Freaky, why don't you read the thread before you jump in shouting the odds?

The child's name is Madeleine, not Maddy or Maddie. I think it is only right to use her correct name when discussing her.

freaky, read tyhe thread, theres a love.

Freakymum - wow I am a ymuumymummy. Thanks for that.

Oh and if it was such an unreasonable a request to make regarding the advert not to be screened for U/PG shows then why have several companies pulled the advert. Ooooooo I think it is because they arent hysterical women scrambling on the band wagon of grief.

Not a case of I'm alright Jack, but more a case of let us tell our children in a way they will understand. Which many of us did without using terminology such as snatched from bed! Secondly many mumsnetters are involved in many charitable socieities both personally and professionally and thirdly your views lose all respect when you voice them in such an agressive and abusive manner.

Very well FM but it was a choice that you made before going to the cinema. How fucking dare you tell me or anyone else what is good or not good for their child to know.

I will decide what to tell my child, how much to tell her and at a time that is appropriate so that I am in a position to answers questions at that time.

As for the 'what if it was my child' inference, yes I would do anything to get the general adult population to hear, understand and help me not little children.

You take yourself and your nasty comments and take a long walk off a short plank, you plank.

Would those who think the ad is a good thing to show before Shrek want to see an ad for Warchild, a charity that works with abducted children in places like the Congo? Or something about children who live on rubbish dumps. Even if it was sensitively worded?

shellandjessica - what a well worded post.

3andNomore - PMSL laughing at your post.

I was talking to my stepdad about this today. His friend at work took his 4 and 5 year old dds to the cinema and they saw the ad. They were both really worried and upset by it. They keep asking their dad if they will be snatched, if someone will steal them, who the bad man is who stole the little girl.

Do you think that any ADULT in that cinema did NOT know the plight of the McCanns? Do you think that ad shown to a bunch of children in Norwich has helped to find her?
No
and No

Do you think that there were a couple of hundred small children scared by that ad.

YES.

Aggressive newbies - if you look on MN, you'll find mnetters running poster campaigns, lighting candles, and trying to find ways of helping. Don't leap on here and scream your ill thought out opinions before actually finding out what you're arguing against.

My DD who is 4 came up to me today and said "Mummy, when do burglars come? Do they come when you are asleep?"

I thought this was a bit odd but I reassured her and a few hours later I had a moment - she saw Shrek at the local Odeon last weekend.

ShellandJessica - have you managed to check out other areas in mumsnet yet? Is a very good site Oh and welcome btw

people are burnt in house fires every year
but i would'nt want a 4 or 5 year old seeing an image/film of freddie krugar.
its all about choices.

morningpaper - had to explain to DD about burglars the other week - ORT stage 4 books introduce them!

Yes, FreakyMum, because if you write most of your post in CAPITAL LETTERS it makes it mean more. Or maybe you think it makes it less rude.

It doesn't, by the way.

A missing child, who has nothing to do with you, does not give you any right to come here, accusing posters of being all sorts of things from not wanting to see an advert.

Calling people selfish? So tell me, what are YOU doing to find Madeleine McCann?

Get of your high horse and fuck right off.

Is this the thread for us to come and deliberately miss the point?

cannot understand how people can read the thread and still churn out such rubbish.

At least I don't resort to using the 'F' word in my post...and you have the cheek to call me rude!

Is this the thread where a lot of posts ended with the words "up yours". For a while, i thought I'd strayed on to the bumsex debate.

well you did say Bloody and you are missing the point.

another new one with attitude! saw the news and thought you would join in did you love?

pmsl at ab's bolloxology

Suspect the freak only turned up to shout at us and has now hopefully pissed off back to wherever it came from.

lol NKF