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Madeleine McCann

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morningpaper · 11/09/2007 20:49

Instead of starting lots of new posts about Madeleine, could I politely request that anyone who wants to post on the subject please post on this one thread? (N.B. Duplicate threads may be flamed hysterically.)

Please note that this thread is not to criticise Madeleine's parents or family, as this is not in the spirit of Mumsnet.

Please can I take the liberty to quote from this article:

"This is the real life of Kate and Gerry McCann, and it must now have become a place of agony beyond all understanding. Pity them, if you have any compassion at all, and demonstrate the minimum of grace: the ability to desist from judgment."

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Kathyis6incheshigh · 12/09/2007 21:28

Rhubarb would a pixie be the same size as me, or much bigger, cos I would like one but don't think I can handle it if it is twice my size.

beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:29

We used to have that too. Butlins had someone going around on a bike while our parents went and drank babysham and Watneys.

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:29

so ner

although Sky would report it as 'mother slobs on sofa ignoring dd in distress'

Pedanticandproud · 12/09/2007 21:30

Rhubarb and Co - I thought the deal for having one McCann thread was that the old-timers were not going to sabotage it? Was that not the deal?

haychee · 12/09/2007 21:31

prettybird

we do realise no one knows what happened that night. We also realise that speculating does no good. But its just in our nature to want to/feel the need to discuss it. I cant explain why i feel the need. Maybe because both my dh and my mum are adament they are guilty. Maybe its because everyone is talking about it. Maybe its because the whole world is talking about it. Its a HUGE story. We are all parents and can all relate to the case just because we have children, some of them the same age as MM. Its shocking and nasty and upsetting which ever way you view it, but some of us deal with that shock by discussing it with others.

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:31

Kathy, if you are truly 6 inches high then I think you are in denial. However one of my pixie-men is looking for a little 'lady-love'.

amidaiwish · 12/09/2007 21:31

surely Bubble's post sums it up and we should leave it there unless someone has anything USEFUL to add?

"I have no idea if Madeleine's mother is guilty or otherwise, but until it can be proved either way, she must be given the benefit of doubt, IMVHO. Because if this little girl's mother is innocent the pain and anguish she must feel at being accused without cause is just to awful to imagine."

DarrellRivers · 12/09/2007 21:31

My mum who is seriously the most neurotic mum in the whole world and who can see a horrible accident in a bucket of water or a patch of grass used to leave us in theire room and pop back every 1/2 hour when we went on cruise !

beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:31

We are not sabotaging it. A discussion about the rights and wrongs of them going out is hardly furthering the debate now, is it?

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:32

Sorry Pedan, I'm just chatting to OliveOil, www and Kathy. I'm not posting rubbish just for the sake of sabotage. I'm having a conversation in a conversation.

'Tis entirely different I think you'll find.

Now this flange of pixies is actually quite serious if you don't mind thankyouverymuch.

Blu · 12/09/2007 21:32

Haychee - but many many papers and the BBC -have journalists (who probably compare well as professionals alongside many other news sources) who have also been on the spot, watching every move the McCann family have made since May, and nevertheless their reports play down the importance of the DNA findings. Both the Guardian and the observer published reports from the Portuguese police and DNA experts which play down the impact of the snippets of half understood info that has led to wild speculation from other broadcasters.

But my comment to wannabe was soley in response to Wannabe's oberservation that their profession has been so often referred to.

HorribleHorace · 12/09/2007 21:32

my mum also used to leave my baby brother sleeping at home when she came to collect me from playschool

beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:33

Haychee - is a deep emotional need to discuss or just a desire to speculate in a lurid way? Hmmm? Some honesty might be useful here. Consider your motives.

oliveoil · 12/09/2007 21:33

well excuse me pedantic but I made some valid posts

so you can piss orrrrf

ScoobyDooooo · 12/09/2007 21:33

Well what a surprise here comes the clan in all there mighty, i also thought there was no slaging off the Mccanns & we could discuss the developments not sit here going over things which has been done a million times

Why do people feel the need to ruin a thread which was going so well with attitude?

It seems to me many people do not want to look at the facts in this case they just want to rant on & on & on & on & on and you know what....

It's F-ing boring!

lucyellensmum · 12/09/2007 21:34

ok fabby i take that back, i'll not tell you to fark off, now hold still while i get my salmon. I'm sorry but i find posts slagging off the Mc Canns petty and offensive. They fucked up, they know that, now get over it

WideWebWitch · 12/09/2007 21:34

Haychee you say "But its just in our nature to want to/feel the need to discuss it. I cant explain why i feel the need."

Well, may I suggest there's something missing in your life if you feel such an unstoppable need?

WideWebWitch · 12/09/2007 21:34

I'll probably be deleted for that but I don't care.

wannaBe · 12/09/2007 21:34

I don't think it's wrong to have the debate on whether it is acceptable to leave children alone. The issue wasn't allowed to be debated in the beginning, so when?

Rightly or wrongly, this family is now back in the media, and there is a chance that they had some involvement in their child's disappearance. While speculating about their guilt/innosence is not necessarily appropriate, I don't see why it's wrong to now be able to debate the rights/wrongs of leaving small children unattended.

or will this subject for ever be a no go area?

haychee · 12/09/2007 21:34

My motives are not lurid nor distasteful. And thats honesty for you!

DarrellRivers · 12/09/2007 21:34

I thought it had all been reasonably civilized in contrast to previous threads

beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:35

But it has been debated. Ad nauseum.

amidaiwish · 12/09/2007 21:35

here's a question:

at New Year (booked of course well before MM issue) there are 7 families going on holiday together in Cornwall as we do every year.

This year there are 2 houses, one main house and another "1 minute" apart - a separate house though adjacent. There will be about 6 children in the small house, age 1.5 to 4.

Before MM, we were intending to all eat together in the bigger house, leaving some of the children asleep in the small house. Hopefully baby monitors would work, obviously we would check on them AT LEAST every half hour.

now i feel very uncomfortable about this.

what would you do?

beansprout · 12/09/2007 21:35

It's not really honest though, is it? You enjoy it, that's why you continue to do it.

Rhubarb · 12/09/2007 21:36

Oh well, just thought I'd pop in to rescue a couple of oldies.

I'll take mi flange of pixies elsewhere then! Huh!

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