The McCanns...

[Chris]

Clear to me too. Some people are chippy, cynical and rude and some aren't. Hence I understood your post.

 

After an almost 3 day barrage of slightly unwarranted abuse, I guess I'm a bit on the defensive

[Remmie]

Why can't they?

 

What bit about people dying and if you give them a few quid they won't is too hard to conceive? When you see little kids dying in news footage how can you not feel empathy for them? I thought I was meant to be the one who didn't think much of the general populace.

 

I repeat what I said before, one million pounds given to find one little girl is obscene given the need of others.

Which makes fees for footballers even more sickening...

[Paul]

After an almost 3 day barrage of slightly unwarranted abuse, I guess I'm a bit on the defensive

 

Welcome to the wonder that is the internet. It's a whole new world of hostility, aggression and bad manners.

[RedKnight]

Fuck off.

[RedKnight]

Oh man, I couldn't resist then. Even if it is one of the best posters on here.

Sorry Paul.

[Paul]

Fuck off.

 

Very, very good. It's all in the timing.

[Paul]

Oh man, I couldn't resist then. Even if it is one of the best posters on here.

Sorry Paul.

 

Don't be daft Jules - that didn't need an explanation. The best humourous posts never use the smiley get out card.

[Chris]

Welcome to the wonder that is the internet. It's a whole new world of hostility, aggression and bad manners.

 

Have you seen that Dave Chappelle sketch where he imagines what the internet would be like if it was a real place? It rules.

 

http://thatvideosite.com/view/155.html

[Paul]

Which makes fees for footballers even more sickening...

 

Why does everyone always cite footballers' wages as obscene, but never film or pop stars'?

[RedKnight]

Don't be daft Jules - that didn't need an explanation. The best humourous posts never use the smiley get out card.

 

I know that, man. But I don't like offending people I like even in jest.

[Anubis]

That Dave Chapelle sketch is ace.

[Remmie]

Why does everyone always cite footballers' wages as obscene, but never film or pop stars'?

Because footballers are uglier?

[Paul]

Because footballers are uglier?

 

Could be.

[Spy Bee]

Has anyone found her yet?

[Thants]

Was being dismissive of Thants comment about how much he knows about you because he's been around so long he must know as much as the rest of us. As I say, obviously clear only to me.

Dismisser. Maybe its selective memory. Or maybe I'm jsut a but thick. I dont know about his evening wear, for sure.

[Cardie]

What does Madeline McCann want for her 4th Birthday?

 

Better Parents.

[Thants]

After an almost 3 day barrage of slightly unwarranted abuse, I guess I'm a bit on the defensive

 

I neednt have bothered if others were doing it for me.

 

 

Thats a joke before hell breaks loose.

[Strontium]

What does Madeline McCann want for her 4th Birthday?

 

Better Parents.

 

I wish I'd come up with that one :(

[Cardie]

What does the Pope.....on second thoughts.

[Faustus]

To be honest, I agree to a slight extent with Chris' original post and the "single parent" analogy is one I've used many times. Don't get me wrong, I feel incredible sympathy to the McCanns and losing your child in such circumstances has to be the worst thing in the world but it's the media's portrayal of the parents of the family which does my head in when, as said before, a working class single mum would have got all kinds of shit thrown at her.

 

It's not the McCanns I feel resent towards, it's the fickle media- especially when, no matter which way you look at it, you shouldn't ever leave a 3 year old in a hotel room without a responsible adult, even if the door is locked- especially seeing as the hotel had a creche. It's just common sense.

 

Chris, as I said, I kind of agree with you in one way, but I don't think you did yourself any favours with the tone of your original post, but I like to think that if you had the chance, you'd write it in a more sympathetic manner because you raised the odd point worth debating.

[RedinSweden]

I know that, man. But I don't like offending people I like even in jest.

 

I think you are offending him more by saying that you were joking. Offender!

[Chris]

Chris, as I said, I kind of agree with you in one way, but I don't think you did yourself any favours with the tone of your original post, but I like to think that if you had the chance, you'd write it in a more sympathetic manner because you raised the odd point worth debating.

 

I have apologised for the tone of my original post. It was written in a pissed off tone, designed to piss people off to a certain extent. If youy read through the rest of the thread, everything else is pretty reasoned.

[Paul]

I don't think Paul's easily offended. I expect he's known at school as Mr Twatton, even though the kids know he's not actually a twat* at all.

 

 

 

* Even though he gets six weeks off for summer, before turning in for a few weeks and getting another week off.

 

 

Ha, ha - almost certainly. I was once affectionately (I hope) referred to as The Nattonator. It's pathetic when teachers want to be liked (as opposed to respected) by kids, but I have to confess that that one was ace.

[RedinSweden]

Ha, ha - almost certainly. I was once affectionately (I hope) referred to as The Nattonator. It's pathetic when teachers want to be liked (as opposed to respected) by kids, but I have to confess that that one was ace.

 

I can see it now...

 

Kid: Twatton

Paul: What did you just call me?

Kid: Nothing sir

Paul: I heard you call me something

Kid: I called you.....erm.....wait.....erm...The Nattonator sir

Paul: Ah, OK

*they DO love me after all*

Kid (under breath): Wanker

Paul: What!?

Kid: Thanks sir

[Paul]

I can see it now...

 

Kid: Twatton

Paul: What did you just call me?

Kid: Nothing sir

Paul: I heard you call me something

Kid: I called you.....erm.....wait.....erm...The Nattonator sir

Paul: Ah, OK

*they DO love me after all*

Kid (under breath): Wanker

Paul: What!?

Kid: Thanks sir

 

Uncanny.