Mumsnet - please can you sort out all the Jade posts?

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Its horrible. Regardless of what she did/didn't do, she was a mother. We are all mums and God forbid we will ever have to go through something like this, knowing we will leave our kids behind and not see them grow up.

Threads like this are not in the spirit of Mumsnet and yes, I can hide them if I want, but to be honest, would like to see them deleted. I know policy is to let the debates run with minimum intervention, but tonight its going too far

Thanks,

Puss

who has introduced the word devastated into all this?

I was actually expecting someone to say that this isn't a film, that this is really happening. But I know that it happens to people all over the world all the time. I have no right to be more upset about Jade (as no personal involvement) than any of those other people.

ah - I used teh word devastated but I wasn't suggesting anyone should and can't see why anyone would think I was!

No one is going to admit that they are "getting off" on reading all the details in OK etc though are they? We know that a significant proportion are, and that's what makes us feel ick about it all. Try explaining that on a Jade hagiography thread, though.

and yet we all have a fascination with the plight of other people. How many people slow down past a car accident and have a look, or watch documentaries about how gruesome murders are solved, or about someone's battle with life-changing surgery or a terminal illness.. In most cases there is a suffering person in the middle of it all, and yet we still have a morbid fascination with it.

Oh Wannabe - people who slow down at accidents really annoy me. I hate it. It's pointless. A work mate of mine deliberately walked the long way from the work car-park the other day so she could 'see the accident' that had just happened. I think that's just terrible but a lot of people do it.

Dittany, I am thoroughly tired of your attempts to regulate what other people post about, with regard to a whole range of topics. You choose to ignore things that you find distasteful, bully for you.

I find it interesting to try to analyse my reactions to the world around me, and to understand why other people may respond differently. I am allowed to do that. I see from your other contributions on this subject that you consider you should have the right to dictate what goes on a thread and what doesn't, but tough luck lady, if you want that kind of control, start your own forum.

The only person trying to start a fight as far as I can see is you. We were having a civilised discussion.

georgimama I think you have a point. no one can controll a thread.
yesterday I started one asking a question about ema, rather than answer the question people just posted about their thoughts on ema.
I can't tell them not to, so I just have to go with it.
why should these threads be any different?
personally apart from aggreeing with someone I left the sad thread alone yesterday.

lol at 'tough luck lady' but yes, dittany, i do think that you're having trouble ignoring things that you find distasteful right now, and indeed are doing quite a bit of posturing yourself. surely you're as capable of pressing 'hide' on this as the rest of us?

could someone please tell me how you can ignore the jade stuff, it is on the news, GB and the archbishop are making comments, all the papers are going on about it......it is everywhere

Well, at last, something approaching an interesting conversation on Jade Goodey. I must say that mumsnet reached a new low for me last night, especially with the threads suggesting it was all a moldie conspiracy. I was waiting for someone to suggest Cod had bumped Jade off.

However, I thought it best to ignore it - not much point in going on threads and saying: ladies, you are all disappointing me tonight, is there?

I do have the benefit of not being able to see the papers.

ut yes, Jade is currently in every news bulleting and the headline I woke up to this morning was "Jade's family are making preparations for her funeral." Why? Why is that news?

2shoes, was that exaggeration or has the archbishop really...?
[waits to be called gullible!]
I have to say I think this sort of stuff is more news that my own pet hate, football. Headline news (not the sports section) "The fans are excited as Middlesbrough prepare to take on Newcastle tonight". It's a scheduled match. It's a sodding sport. That to me is not news.

But thatwas just my own pet rant . I agree, her dying was news. The fact that her family are arranging a funeral isn't. It would be strange if they weren't.

"could someone please tell me how you can ignore the jade stuff" to be fair, today I have only heard it mentioned briefly on the radio news every hour or so. I just bought a paper and there's about 6 pages (tabloid) and some of it is a bit mawkish.

There's some stuff about Jeff Brazier (Her exand father of her kids) in there which is a bit weird and there's a piece about Jack going for a chinese meal yesterday which seems a bit weird (I think they think it's odd he would have gone out with friends to get food) but I had to seek those stories out, they weren't in my face much.

five live had a phone in about her this morning and there is apparently a sixteen page tribute in the sun. The editor said the only other time there had been tributes like that were for the queen mother and diana.

Jack tweed will most likely be back in jail by the end of the week so presumably we won't have to hear about him again, as this will all have blown over by the time he gets out

Don't think an archbishop has commented, but the local vicar has made some, frankly, astonishing comments, about her being 'an exemplar of biblical proportions' and a 'genius deep within'.

I'm fairly WTF? about that sort of thing, tbh.

And a saint, Kay, don't forget he said she was a saint.

So my use of the word "hagiography" wasn't posturing, it was completely accurate. The world has gone mad.

An 'examplar of biblical proportions?'

What, like the Temple of Solomon, or something?

weeelll, I can accept saint in purely theological parlance, because technically speaking, as she was a baptized Christian, she qualifies.

But only if we're prepared to say Jonathan Aitken is a saint too, which I rather doubt.