Did anyone else sob and sob through Natasha Kaplinski's Who Do YOu Think You Are programme tonight?

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Because I did, and dh was suspiciously silent. My god, how those people suffered
Her cousin was so charismatic too.

lol 100x.

I watched it thinking this woman will get up my nose,but ended up liking her more.I am a sucker
Did notice the terrible coats though,aswell as the tragic moments.

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You sound disgusting callous. You really do.
If you could look at that photograph of that murdered child and hear about babies being strangled and just sneer at someone's taste in coats, well, words actually do fail me here.
You know nothing about what she knew or how the programme was made.
Both my grandparents were alive during the war. My maternal grandfather was in the trenches during world war one. He was, I believe, at Ypres. He never spoke a single word about to his children his entire life.

I went in February Des, it was minus 14 out but it gives you a perspective of what it was like, I did not want to go on a waarm summer's day IYKWIM.

Fuck me, if you get abused for crying for dead children, I think MN has really lost its charm.

I think I may have to warn you off insulting aloha littlelapin (speaks sternly, and stands up straighter) she has more than earnt her stripes on MN!

I agree. We live in different times. Nowadays, and hopefully temporarily, the violence is on the streets.

Our grandparents lived through much worse. This is an interesting thread. I would be pleased if we could play nicely on it.

What happened during the Holocaust is beyond comprehension. Similar atrocities are happening in the world today (and I guess they always will), but this was the most precise and orchestrated annihilation of human beings that modern history has yet seen.

That there are people with skeletons in their cupboard is not surprising. You had to be childless and with born heroism to get through it without besmirching yourself in some way. If Kaplinski came out all wrong (and I haven't seen it yet), then it's all par for the course, isn't it?

to show a sort of good natured intention behind the veiled warning

what does that mean, HMC? there isn't an official MN hierarchy, is there?

I believe I have made more remarks about the programme than just her taste in coats. Have I not?

Look. Pull back for a moment. Her father intimated to her at the start that they were victims of the Nazis - it was 1942 in Poland fgs - and so did her Uncle, him with the photograph.

The cousin found out the story about how and why his father survived. That was good. (Would have been better without her reading it out in the hood though).

LittleLapin is right. It is TELLY and I am forgetting that, but it drives me mad when they make such appallingly manipulative television and everyone falls over themselves in delighted shock at the end of it.

No, just carry on. I love being called names, you have my full permission. All abuse welcome.
I hope you all have a really fun time.

In answer to your post Littlelapin, you are appropriately empathetic with just the right amount of sartorial style, but probably need a good nights sleep

I know what you mean, BGD. I know that the summer's are gloriously hot, but I've always preferred the atmosphere of the cold.

I called you pompous. You called me disgustingly callous.

I say tomato, you say tomatay.

"delighted shock"

Umm - okay I am now getting cross

Any way I am off now. Can't stand all this fighting malarky.

Sorry. I don't mean to fight. I probably came in a bit heavy. It was a reaction to the programme. I threw a shoe at the television.

There was nothing wrong with LL's posts. There rarely is.

... even though she says facilities instead of faculties.

lol @ shoe throwing.

I do that a lot too, 100x

Feels good.