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

I am just really looking forward to the time when all the 4 and 5 year olds who have seen this advert get together and turn detective and find Madeleine.
I am thinking a sort of 1970s Children's Film Foundation type film featuring bumbling policemen and incompetent crooks.

Only unfortunately real life's not like that.

at kitkat abductors. And child detectives.

i have never been to disneyland.

FGS that article is pissing me off.

there is a reason i havent told my kids details about Madeleine. because they are too upset enough already. its not wrapping them up in cotton wool, or i na bubble. they are kids and deserve to have some innocence, they have already had too much trauma in their lives.

quote from 'backlash'

"I find it quite naive of any mother who thinks they need to shield their child from this awful truth. We live in a dangerous society, and unfortunately, stranger danger is a real fact of life."

its her i tell ya

How styooopid is that 'backlash'. Saying that it educates our children about stranger danger!!
No
It
Doesn't.

It terrifies them with a scenario they would be totally powerless to do anything about.

What terrifies me is the thickness of the very thick people who think we need to dump our own terror onto our children!

Do they really think by forcing their kids to hear about a child being snatched that they're somehow bravely crusading for the plight of the McCanns?? Wrongo.

My god...just have to add my two penneth in now as this really winding me up...

I feel like some idiot has just come in a shouted at me and a group of my girlfriends while we sat chatting in the pub. Bloody marvellous that our discussions provoke action, can't say that happens too often over a coffee morning (as a yummy mummy I attend 4 of these a day)

If all these angry newbies who have come to wave their fists at us want to stay a while, listen to some conversations and maybe join in a few (without caps lock on) you may learn a few things...

Then again, your probably all busy teaching your kids what the real world is all about...enjoy your fruit shoots...

Yes may you all burn in hell you filthy muthas - we must all neglect our childrens needs at a time like this! It's what the McGann's would want

Oh Sky are taking this tack because they love competitive grieving

It gives them loads and loads and loads of cheap film and cheap copy.

Money money money

BEWARE this image may be disturbing.

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What, I wonder, was the actual POINT of this ad in the first place? Every sentient adult knows of the McCann case as it is, and the Evil Mystery Abductors are probably a bit too busy to take the kid they stole to some suburban cinema anyway. It's very unlikely that Madeleine McCann is still alive, and the money spent on some of these campaigns could surely be put to better use - such as helping children who are suffering from poverty, hunger or illtreatment worldwide but who don't happen to have well-connected photogenic parents..

why has a troll been allowed to stir a 500+ posted discussion? i thought that we didn't feed the trolls round here?

she is the apparant mother of six children....she should be busey careng for them instead of trying to stir up ill informed arguments.

why have you given her your time?

Maybe there will now be a backlash against the backlash. A frontlash?

These people are thick as shite. The point is that WE as parents can choose when to tell OUR children about stranger danger in a way that suits us and in a digestable form for our individual childrens needs. It is not the job of the cinema to educate my child.

I will choose when to tell my child the facts of life, I don't need a surprise close-up big screening of 'the act' before a U-rated movie to help me ffs.

This is about our rights as a parents to decide what is appropriate for our child.

I've never seen, on display, such utter horse shit and deliberate avoidance of the opposing POV in all my life.

Can't you just all fuck off? Really, you are depriving many villages somewhere of their idiots!

Because DP was watching shite sci fi stuff and I think we found a non troll Yay a newbie. ShellandJessica - you should start a thread to introduce yourself.

Also I like to taunt the trolls

Why do trolls troll? Does anyone know? Is it like playing knock on the door and running away?

Abroller, unfortunately that's what debate outside of mumsnet is so often like.

That's why some of us are sadly addicted.

just sprayed screen with wotsits

NFK i think that they think that they are the first to do it iyswim?

Trolling can be fun. It's a bit like kicking an anthill- stand back and watch everyone go bananas.
Mind you, to troll properly you have not to give a fuck about the subject, because otherwise you end up piling back into the conversation and forgetting to enjoy the view.

I must give it a go sometime.

Aaaarghhhh

Just spent ages writing a reply to the people on the Times website trying to state exactly why showing the ad to very small children is a bad idea and the laptop died just before I was about to send it.

I am so annoyed about this whole thing - how dare anyone else assume that my 3 year old son deserves to know that he might be 'snatched from his bed' - I know the trauma that would cause. I KNOW my son and how he will react - after trying to delicately introduce the notion that maybe running off when we're out isn't quite such a good idea as there are one or two (not ten a penny on every street corner waiting to pounce) not so nice people in the world, he was pretty traumatised. This was weeks ago, when MM was first taken and the other night after I thought he was asleep, I put the milk bottles out. He heard me open the front door and was in some state fearing I was leaving him alone.

I'm very thankful the ad wasn't shown on Saturday when we took DS and his two friends (4 and 5 years old) to see the film - I really would have been livid.

May try the Times thing again if I can summon up the energy but at least they posted my comment yesterday trying to explain the simple concept that it's the loss of control us parents are objecting to. I'm just so angry at the assumptions all of these people are making, that we are cold and heartless for not wanting to subject our children to trauma.

I am with the McCann. If it were my daughter I would do anything to get her back. This is an horrific thing to hapen to a little girl, all the world shoud try to do something to catch such pervertes who did that.