Madeleine McCann: Paedos From Lamp-Posts, Hating Fiona Philips And JonBenet Ramsey
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann
QUEENSFERRY GAZETTE (Scotland): “We’ve been ad”
A CONCERNED mum has spoken out about the potential hazards posed by new outdoor advertising boards. Janette Sheppard is also worried that other parents may think the boards are simply lamp-posts.
Lamp-posts, for paedos to hide behind… Like those (G)litter bins…
She said: “These have just sprung up – one is outside my son’s primary school. At first glance it would be easy to mistake them for lamp-posts, but they are actually advertising boards.”
The wonders of modern technology. Who would have thunk it. Go on…
“There is a small electronic strip at the top which could be used by the council to post information if a child goes missing. I believe the council also gets some revenue from the boards.”
Making money from missing kiddies. For shame!
“My concern, as a parent, is if the council thinks it’s appro-priate to put one of these boards outside a primary school. Our kids are already inundated with advertising – do they really need more? And what kind of advertising is it going to be?”
Sweets. Peados. Guns. Snuff movies. You know, the usual kids’ stuff…
A West Lothian Council spokesperson said: “The new signs are part of the Amberwatch system, which is designed to allow urgent safety messages to be relayed instantly to the local community. The similar Amber Alerts system in America has been credited with helping locate over 100 missing children, and the parents of Madeline McCann have campaigned to have such a system installed across Europe.”
So there it is. It’s there to advertise when a child goes missing; and when a child doesn’t go missing…
DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates”
Review: My Sister, My Love by Joyce Carol Oates - The unsolved murder of a child star is too close to real events for David Robson
A child star… Get ready to be entertained…
Novels based on real-life crime stories always leave a slightly queasy taste. Novels based on unsolved real-life crime stories leave an even queasier one.
Hands over mouths; heres it comes…
There are probably writers already working on fictionalisations of the abduction of Madeleine McCann, but it is hard to feel much respect for them.
They don’t do it for the respect. They do it for the money; like the newspapers…
The same applies, mutatis mutandis, to this ethically questionable piece by Joyce Carol Oates, inspired by a crime that was the talk of America in 1996, when a six-year-old child beauty pageant contestant called JonBenet Ramsey was found brutally murdered in the basement of her parents’ house in Colorado.
DAILY STAR: “THAT’S VERY IRRITATING - FIONA IS BRITS’ MOST HATED CELEB”
IT’S Fiona Philips, GMTV’s soon-to-be ex-self-righteous-Labour-cheering-ultra-violet-toothed-baby-boasting-braying-nodding-head.
FIONA Phillips is more annoying than the washout summer, chavs and Heather Mills.
Mills isn’t annoying; Mills is entertaining.
Her on-screen gaffes include telling the parents of missing Madeleine McCann: “There are light moments. You’ve acquired this odd celebrity status.”
A gaffe? No way. This is the highest praise possible in the GMTV lexicon. GMTV renders everything it touches a celebrity: car crash victim, prime minister, doctor etc. are all touched by the GMTV celebrity wand. A celebrity… nothing bigger, nor better…
100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS FOR 2008
1. Benefit scroungers
2. The credit crunch
3. Tailgaters
4. Cold callers
5. People reading over your shoulder
6. Gordon Brown
7. Fiona Phillips
8. Being bloated
9. Rising fuel prices
10. Falling house prices
11. The wet summer
12. Middle lane drivers
13. Constipation
14. Bossiness
15. Slow internet connections
16. Being put on hold
17. Pregnant women smoking
18. Someone nicking your parking spot
19. Stepping in dog poo
20. Jehovah’s Witnesses
21. Debt companies advertising on TV
22. Skinny people who complain they are fat
23. Queue jumpers
24. Bullying
25. Noisy neighbours
26. Nosey neighbours
27. People parking in disabled bays when they aren’t disabled
28. Junk mail
29. Snobs
30. Noisy eaters
31. Dog owners who don’t clean up after their pets
32. People putting our Olympic achievements down
33. Novelty ringtones
34. Automated phone systems
35. Chavs
36. People who walk slowly
37. People who take their kids to shops and let them run riot
38. Amy Winehouse
39. Sienna Miller’s love life
40. Rude shop staff
41. Wasps
42. Diarrhoea
43. Cristiano Ronaldo
44. People who have their mobile turned off when you really need to get hold of them
45. Dannii Minogue
46. Mosquitoes
47. Kids kicking the back of your chair on a plane
48. Hangovers
49. The hot water running out when you want to take a bath
50. Buses not arriving on time
51. Heather Mills
52. James Blunt
53. Reformed smokers
54. People talking on their mobile on public transport
55. Headaches
56. The smoking ban
57. Toothache
58. Litter bugs
59. Spots
60. People who write “text back” in texts
61. Scientology
62. Russell Brand
63. Screaming kids
64. Alistair Darling
65. Traffic wardens
66. Americans
67. Roadworks
68. Big Brother
69. Pete Doherty
70. Runny nose
71. PDAs (public displays of affection)
72. Flat tyres
73. Ashley Cole
74. Tax returns
75. Finding out that you’ve run out of toilet paper when you really need
the loo
76. Boasters
77. Not having change when you really need it
78. Carol Vorderman
79. Paper cuts
80. Stepping in chewing gum
81. Bad hair days
82. Charley Uchea off Big Brother
83. Mothers-in-law
84. Cashiers giving you your change on top of a receipt
85. Posh Spice
86. CDs that jump
87. Stubbing your toe
88. Getting something in your eye
89. Losing your glasses
90. Cat hair that sticks to your clothes
91. Children who cough in your face
92. Losing your passport
93. People ramming the back of your heels with trolleys
94. Rubbish opening times at doctors and dentists
95. Kate Garraway
96. email spam
97. People using mobiles in the quiet carriage on the train
98. People who don’t remove their shoes in the house
99. Naomi Campbell
100. Troublesome computer printers
And so on…
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Comments
October 6th, 2008 at 1:47 am
Night Sam, I will need it with my mother - an 87 year old crank who thinks that she is th only person on the planet with a hernia!!! - lol
October 6th, 2008 at 1:45 am
good noight annie, good luck for tommorrow
October 6th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Anyway folks, I must away to my bed - I have to be out early in the morning. Believe it or not - I have to get my mother to the hospital by 10am - and I have a 50 miles trip to get to her house, so I need to leave home around 7am. Thank the Lord she aint in Leicestershire!!!
Good night
October 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
yes annie, he looks at scans all day. kate is the better qualified of the two from what i have read.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:42 am
You must let us know meercat where your surgeon friend operates from, and we can all avoid that area.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:39 am
Sam, G is not even a heart consultant - he is a cardiologist. The do the MRI and CT scans. Maybe he is a fund consultant, who knows?
October 6th, 2008 at 1:37 am
annie, yes, i think they knew she would not be found alive and it is or was all smoke and mirrors.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:36 am
Big Brother
October 6th, 2008 at 1:33 am
Or they could raffle if off - that seems to be the trend today!!. But anyway, why should they when they can keep on taking from others to maintain their lifestyle and expect everyone else to find their daughter….It is all so very unnatural. NOBODY unless they knew that they wouldnt find her, would not be out there looking, would they?
October 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am
meercat, manuel is from pdl ? it’s not the same as barcelona though is it
October 6th, 2008 at 1:30 am
annie, when my husbasnd got sick i thought we were insured for that but we weren’t and we struggled quite a bit. maybe i shouldve set up a fund eh ?
yes, it’s strange, people manage somehow and yet the mccanns set up a fund just two weeks or so after her disapearence and it is set up so to ‘help’ the family too.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:28 am
Maybe a new version of Faulty Towers, with a Portugese waiter instead of a Spannish one!!
October 6th, 2008 at 1:25 am
If the McCanns had taken out a fully comprehensive insurance, then yes, it probably would have covered their extended stay in Portugal. But, given the breadline that they appear to be living on, having been skint enough to use the fund set up by the public to find their daughter to pay their mortgage, they probably relied on the free insurance given by their gold star - overdraft included- mobile phone and AA included - Bank cover. I would have sold my big house by now, and be giving my every waking hour to finding my daughter - and please dont tell me that it would be hard to sell it - a TV company would have taken it off their hands as the basis of the next soap opera
October 6th, 2008 at 1:21 am
hi meercat
annie, gerry is not a surgeon, he’s a glorified heart consultant who started off with a sports medical degree, and i think appearences as in climbing the ladder were very important.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:18 am
Gee Annie1 don’t check out the carpark at the private hospital - or you’ll need a heart surgeon
October 6th, 2008 at 1:16 am
anni, as i recall gerry did get the research grant and is back at work now, so no, i don’t think they are flapping re money and yes i would be interested too in how the publics money was used in this search for madeleine. re insurance, would a missing child/family crisis be covered by such ? i suspect not.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Well god forbid I will every need a surgeon - if I did I would hope that I had one with a smittering of intelligence and not one who was hell bent on keeping up appearances. For a start with such a financial strain, what doctor or surgeon could concentrate on the job? My grannie used to say “fancy hat and no bloomers” - I think that sums up the McCanns absolutely
October 6th, 2008 at 1:11 am
A friend of mine says be neither a lender nor a borrower. There’s money to be made doing either with regard to investments, but boy is there money to be lost if you don’t know what yr doing, can’t read the signs or trust the wrong mobs. Lehmans, North Rock for example
October 6th, 2008 at 1:08 am
Annie1 I think that the current financial crisis has highlighted the extent of middle class debt levels. The proportion of income that is spent on accommodation is greater than ever. I have a friend who is a surgeon and even on a whopping income I don’t know how he sleeps at night - massive mortgage, fancy cars, 4 kids at expensive schools etc.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:07 am
the fund’s wording is also to help their family, –that is, in the fund setup it was worded that the fund was also to help the parents, then they used the fund to pay the mortgage instead of using a credit card and there was a hullabo about it. i think when people collected and gave they did not realise what the wording of the funds setup was, and then it looked bad, which led to them not being ‘able’ to use the fund for solicitors fees, quite rightly so i think.
October 6th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Right Sam, but they aint very secure now, are they? Not in their doctoring roles anyway. Maybe as celebs they will earn a few quid, but I was just making the point that even though G was earning 75k a year, they had nothing to buffer them, unless of cours they considered the Madeleine fund as a buffer to pay their mortgage, which they probably did. I would like to know how much more of the fund has gone towards providing them with a good living. Also, I wonder if they made an insurance claim? They must have had an insurance, and any good one would have covered them for time off work due to the unforseen circumstance. The reports lead us all to believe that everything was paid for out of their own pockets
October 6th, 2008 at 1:01 am
anni, i think doctors are fairly secure when it comes to employment aren’t they. and gerry had prospects too if i rember rightly he had applied for a research grant.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:59 am
anni, they were both earning. and even if not, they’d still have 2.5 grand a month, i think that’s a lot of money. i think he was earning more than that as well, 75 grand is the bottom line.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:56 am
You only have to look at a supermarket trolly to spend 50 quid these days. I consider myself to be fairly well off - no mortgage, etc. but looking back I would have never taken on such a huge debt if with just a couple of months without income I would have been strapped to find the mortgage payments. Anyone with any sense would have a buffer of at least 4 or 5 months in the bank to enable them to keep a roof over the family? Or am I wrong here? I am talking here about proffessionals with above average salaries. Or do they all live on the breadline? I certainly would not have entertained the idea of a MW holiday without having enough money to pay my mortgage for a few months if things went pear shaped.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:51 am
mods and admin
can you delete the link I posted earlier?
i think there’s something iffy about the web page that i didn’t see earlier.
the download links on it are ok, but the site they’re on seems to be doing something it shouldn’t do, although i’ve no idea what it is.
may be nothing.
thanks.
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M&A
Artemis
Since I am suffering from the Mother of All Insomnia, I’m back to do some routine chores in the hope they were going to put me asleep.
Consider it deleted.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:48 am
Just been reading a few facts and figures. If 2 mortgage payments were made from the fund amounting to £4,000, thats 2,000 a month, and G is only earning £75,000 (I say ONLY - he should be so lucky) but that is around - well say 4,500 a month after tax? Then you got council tax, general living expenses, fuel and the rest of the utility bills, it was rather pushing it a bit to take on such a huge mortgage with 3 kids, dont you think?
October 6th, 2008 at 12:43 am
anni, no i don’t think there is anything new and afaik the case won’t be re-opned until or unless there is.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:42 am
chatelaine it is odd that some of the woman in that group were named with their married name, and some with their maiden name and one, though i havent seen it, maidenname was made illegible.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:37 am
Sam, that’s not a real mystery [for me, at least]. Women are either known by their maiden name or by their husband’s name. That may be either personal choice or national law as regards official documents. What does puzzle me, though, is WHY Dianne Webster’s mother’s name is made illegible…
Well, enough for today.
I wish you and “all” a good night
October 6th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Can anyone please up date me - is anything likely to be pending with regard to the McCase? Is there any likelihood of the case being re-opened again? I seem to remember Matt saying that further developments were forthcoming _BUGGER, I just squashed a gnat on my screen, does that exempt me from being on here as I am a self confessed murderer? - Anyway, back to the business in hand, Anything new?