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

1013 replies

Bigmamie · 03/07/2007 15:57

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............

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LazyLine · 04/07/2007 22:12

Well boo-de-hissin'-hoo.

I called you rude because you were. I never claimed not to be. You threw the first stone. Don't give what you can't take.

edam · 04/07/2007 22:12

Oh Lord, spoke too soon.

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 22:13

Freakymum I didnt use the F word in mine which was directed at you. But then again it doesnt appear that you are particularly reasonable so dont expect you to respond.

Tamum · 04/07/2007 22:13

If I can just get this right for a moment the main argument from the many new posters is as follows:

  • We are all smug selfish mums for not wanting to help the McCanns in any way we can

  • If we had any sense we would have warned our children about strangers and danger

  • This would protect our children and then we would have no need to worry about them seeing the advert

  • Ergo (and this is the bit I have a problem with) if only the McCanns had taught their children about stranger danger then this wouldn't have happened

How exactly does this equate to supporting the McCann family? Doesn't this seem a teeny bit self-contradictory to any of them?

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 22:15

you are very welcome shellandjessica. Plenty of us opinionated types in here. Just have to develop a thick skin or be able to flounce well If you wonder what all the acronyms mean there is a link up top to them

quadrophenia · 04/07/2007 22:15

It would seem contradictory tamum if any of these posters actually read and absorbed the information posted in response to their rants.

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 22:16

can trolls read?

edam · 04/07/2007 22:17

I doubt any of them can grasp the concept, tbh, Tamum.

elesbells · 04/07/2007 22:17

who has the can of troll spray handy?

Tamum · 04/07/2007 22:18

Shall I try again with lots of exclamation marks then?

LazyLine · 04/07/2007 22:19

I think that the main point is that these posters seem to be under the impression that having a go at mumsnetters actually constitutes helping the McCanns.....

NKF · 04/07/2007 22:20

Yes. And so does the ad. Because obviously the natural audience for Shrek is also the world's finest detective force. When they can get their snouts out of the popcorn that is.

LazyLine · 04/07/2007 22:20

here you go, elesbells

Troll Spray

moo · 04/07/2007 22:20

Worth a try, Tamum - rewrite it in txt spk with lots of exclamation marks, oh, and use CAPITALS!!!!!

May get through then...

LazyLine · 04/07/2007 22:20

NFK

elesbells · 04/07/2007 22:21

ta very much

fanella · 04/07/2007 22:21

Geez this is winding me right up now!

I can just imagine freakymum hearing about whatever they're saying on sky news and deciding to ...jolly well... come over here and give us a piece of her mind!

Well how very dare you jump on here, accuse all these parents of being INSANE and SELFISH and lecture us on how to deal with our own children?

You obviously know FUCK ALL about the parents on this site and I for one would thank you to keep your gob shut.

What the hell is a yummy mummy anyway? Pretty sure I'm not one tbh...

elesbells · 04/07/2007 22:23

yummy mummys dont give their kids fruit shoots.

fanella · 04/07/2007 22:23

Ah, definitely not me then.

tiredemma · 04/07/2007 22:23

'backlash' apprently...

backlash against ad pull

superchoccycake · 04/07/2007 22:24

am i a yummy mummmy ooooooooooooo

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 22:24

wow - so that makes me a yummy mummy then

elesbells · 04/07/2007 22:25

haychee went to sky to complain

LazyLine · 04/07/2007 22:26

Quote from the backlash article:

"I can't believe that these parents are quite happy to let their kids sit through junk food ads but then complain when an ad is shown which educates their children to real dangers," added Mac from Ipswich.

....she says as he 4 year old son is snatched away by a rogue KitKat...

MamaMaiasaura · 04/07/2007 22:26

Fecking 'ell. We apparntly support junk food adverts now. Also didnt realise shrek = child abduction.

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