Runaway to ISIS school girl dead

[MarillionFan]

Exactly, which is why a bunch of balding middle aged jaded IT contractors shouldn't be gloating over the fact that a 16 year old girl was coerced and manipulated and is now dead. Human sympathy really is in short supply on here

Let us know how much Human Sympathy pays per hour and we'll consider it.

[minestrone]

[original PM]

Exactly, which is why a bunch of balding middle aged jaded IT contractors shouldn't be gloating over the fact that a 16 year old girl was coerced and manipulated and is now dead. Human sympathy really is in short supply on here

No one is gloating, no thinks it's great she is dead.

However although a 16 year old is naive in many ways you would struggle to find many who feel running away to marry an ISIS freedom fighter who openly wish to attack the country you lived in and therefore by association hundreds of people you know is a good life plan.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Yep, almost like they've practised.

It's only one plane flight that can be booked online, grab a bag and go. I'm sure it's not hard to convince a 16 year old how much fun it would be. Almost like a holiday.

That's why they're still kids, they don't have the life experience in order to know exactly what's going to happen.

Hell, when I was 16 I thought I was the dogs bollocks and nothing would ever happen. I'd never get fat and lose my hair. Well, lesson learned.

Oh really, that's almost as bad as that oft spouted lefty, progressive claptrap in which the Bulger killers are touted as helpless victims who didn't know that what they were doing was wrong

[ClothCap]

Can't claim to be ignorant of the consequences if you are/were a 'straight A student' as is reported. Sympathy? Nah, I'll save that for deserving causes

[SueEllen]

Oh really, that's almost as bad as that oft spouted lefty, progressive claptrap in which the Bulger killers are touted as helpless victims who didn't know that what they were doing was wrong

I always wonder what kind of family environment they were brought up in simply because kids that age normally copy the behaviour of adults and older teenagers around them.

I remember going to a wedding where there was a kids table in an alcove and the kids were basically left to it with two adult male chaperones.

It started with the older girls but within 20 minutes every kid over 10 was looking after a younger kid.

Then half an hour later every kid over 6 was looking after or more likely trying to look after a kid younger than themselves.

I only looked in because the guys couldn't cope and one came out looking visibly distressed. The younger kids where running around with their carer(s) trying to get them to eat and drink.

[Mordac]

Yep, almost like they've practised.

It's only one plane flight that can be booked online, grab a bag and go. I'm sure it's not hard to convince a 16 year old how much fun it would be. Almost like a holiday.

That's why they're still kids, they don't have the life experience in order to know exactly what's going to happen.

Hell, when I was 16 I thought I was the dogs bollocks and nothing would ever happen. I'd never get fat and lose my hair. Well, lesson learned.

Something to bear in mind next time some idiot starts calling for the voting age to be lowered.
And as for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary between sh1t and syphilis

[minestrone]

And what's the deal with the YouTube embed being fecked?

The clip was Morgan Freedman in Shawshank Redemption at his parole meeting.

There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him -- tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that.

[barrydidit]

There was a young girl called Sultana
Who thought that IS was nirvana
But that was just shyte
And so leave! She just might
Till the Russians turned up and napalmed her

[cojak]

I'm not very impressed by many on this thread.

The young girl was 16, she was naive and impressionable, as I was at that age.

My mistakes were not as large or as fatal, and I'm saddened that there are many on this forum who are happy to say 'good riddance' to such a young life.

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