PM: To Kate McCaan

[BrilloPad]

Interesting how this thread has not really divided opinion - so much as shown that everyone hates everyone else. In theory this would make the XMAS drinks fun - but I am sure we will all love one another by then.

[Unix]

However lets just hope their daughter is dead as it is that is better than being sold as a sex slave for peado's which is what her other fate would have been.

Is it not better she is alive? She will eventually escape or be dropped from the paedo gang and reunited with her family. Then go on to write trillion selling books have movies made about her. Then with all that money she will train in martial arts and hunt down the paedos live on Sky 1 HD

[MarillionFan]

Is it not better she is alive? She will eventually escape or be dropped from the paedo gang and reunited with her family. Then go on to write trillion selling books have movies made about her. Then with all that money she will train in martial arts and hunt down the paedos live on Sky 1 HD

That sounds like one of the characters from Kill Bill.

[Churchill]

Is it not better she is alive? She will eventually escape or be dropped from the paedo gang and reunited with her family. Then go on to write trillion selling books have movies made about her. Then with all that money she will train in martial arts and hunt down the paedos live on Sky 1 HD

And then leads the fight for Scottish independence!

[DodgyAgent]

What is more interesting than the Mccanns is the reaction of others to their plight. They are close to home - they are - "people like us" . They are not some dysfunctional chavs or foreigners who have fallen foul of their local mafia or dodgy religion.

What happened to them has scared the living daylights out of us fellow middle class (and white of course) affluent professionals. They are doctors - people we trust how could this happen to them? at club Mark warner of all places - we have all been there if for no other reason to get some support for looking after our kids - we need a break from them too.

How we deal with their loss of a child lies between two ends of a spectrum. Many of us accept that these things happen and though troubled by the events we take a position of support and sympathy. At the other end there are those of who cannot confront the fact that this sort of thing could happen to them.

We deal with it by distancing ourselves from the McCanns. Those that are truly scared go so far as to vilify the Mccanns for leaving their children unattended. Others with personal issues about their own inadequacies take the same line with the intention of making themselves feel better because someone else (like them) is worse. What is more the more extreme these inadequacies are the more likely they will play their angsts out on social media.

As I have always said this is not about the Mcanns or their children it is about our reaction to what has happened to them.

[Churchill]

On the other hand, your child[ren] have had to be subjected to your upbringing, without the chance of escape.

Oooh, better late than never, a comment from the board's "failed again christian".

[TheFaQQer]

What is more interesting than the Mccanns is the reaction of others to their plight. They are close to home - they are - "people like us" . They are not some dysfunctional chavs or foreigners who have fallen foul of their local mafia or dodgy religion.

What happened to them has scared the living daylights out of us fellow middle class (and white of course) affluent professionals. They are doctors - people we trust how could this happen to them? at club Mark warner of all places - we have all been there if for no other reason to get some support for looking after our kids - we need a break from them too.

How we deal with their loss of a child lies between two ends of a spectrum. Many of us accept that these things happen and though troubled by the events we take a position of support and sympathy. At the other end there are those of who cannot confront the fact that this sort of thing could happen to them.

We deal with it by distancing ourselves from the McCanns. Those that are truly scared go so far as to vilify the Mccanns for leaving their children unattended. Others with personal issues about their own inadequacies take the same line with the intention of making themselves feel better because someone else (like them) is worse. What is more the more extreme these inadequacies are the more likely they will play their angsts out on social media.

As I have always said this is not about the Mcanns or their children it is about our reaction to what has happened to them.

That's the first thing you've written here that I've ever agreed with. I feel ill.

[Churchill]

What is more interesting than the Mccanns is the reaction of others to their plight. They are close to home - they are - "people like us" . They are not some dysfunctional chavs or foreigners who have fallen foul of their local mafia or dodgy religion.

What happened to them has scared the living daylights out of us fellow middle class (and white of course) affluent professionals. They are doctors - people we trust how could this happen to them? at club Mark warner of all places - we have all been there if for no other reason to get some support for looking after our kids - we need a break from them too.

How we deal with their loss of a child lies between two ends of a spectrum. Many of us accept that these things happen and though troubled by the events we take a position of support and sympathy. At the other end there are those of who cannot confront the fact that this sort of thing could happen to them.

We deal with it by distancing ourselves from the McCanns. Those that are truly scared go so far as to vilify the Mccanns for leaving their children unattended. Others with personal issues about their own inadequacies take the same line with the intention of making themselves feel better because someone else (like them) is worse. What is more the more extreme these inadequacies are the more likely they will play their angsts out on social media.

As I have always said this is not about the Mcanns or their children it is about our reaction to what has happened to them.

You don't half post some tulipe.

"We" do need a break sometimes but you have a child you take on the responsibilities!

[MaryPoppins]

Many of us accept that these things happen and though troubled by the events we take a position of support and sympathy. At the other end there are those of who cannot confront the fact that this sort of thing could happen to them.

Surely there's a middle ground of people feeling enormous sympathy for what these people have gone through, coupled with having an opinion on the fact they left their children more or less unattended, making it easier for whoever took her, to do so.

[Churchill]

Surely there's a middle ground of people feeling enormous sympathy for what these people have gone through, coupled with having an opinion on the fact they left their children more or less unattended, making it easier for whoever took her, to do so.

Sorry but it would appear that if you're not one of the hand wringing enormous sympathy mob you're scum. Oh and for goodness sake do not ever accuse Kate of neglect, that'll really seal your fate!