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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…
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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…
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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 4th, 2008 at 8:46 am
101 The Mc Canns
102 The media
103 The tappas9
October 4th, 2008 at 8:47 am
104 mc cann supporters
October 4th, 2008 at 9:09 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 8:39 am
“”I cant believe they’re not on the list””
I think they are on the list…….but unnamed.
They have after all benefited from their scrounging off other people.
October 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 7:53 am
tappas restaurant booking forms 1, 2, 3, May 08 with wine
the mc cann nannys statement from rothley.
are now available
October 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
matt
25. Noisy neighbours
26. Nosey neighbours
63. Screaming kids
100. Troublesome computer printers
44. People who have their mobile turned off when you really need to get hold of them
October 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 10:03 am
List is building up nicely.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:33 am
The fact that in this affluent age that there are still children living in poverty.
http://www.endchildpoverty.org.uk/promise
October 4th, 2008 at 10:38 am
saul
Did you see the jamie oliver new campaign programme.
There was a single mum who fed her kids kebab and cheesy chips every night, she had a 48 inch tv, wall to wall flooring, all the latest gear, dripping jewelry, and an 8 burner stove. She got £80 a week benefits, and spent £70 on takeaways.
her 5 year old had teeth removed.
October 4th, 2008 at 10:39 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Who is Irwin ?
October 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
http://www.channel4.com/video/jamies-ministry-of-food/series-1/episode-1/a-kebab-a-day_p_1.html
heres a clip of child poverty in uk today
October 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
matt
the other table on the tappas 8.30 booking
October 4th, 2008 at 11:02 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 10:49 am
It indicates that they were part of the party though.
All bracketed together.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Cancel that above.
My error.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
tut tut matt
read/ digest /read again / comment
You’ve been told by brandon
October 4th, 2008 at 11:20 am
brandon flours Says:
October 4th, 2008 at 11:12 am
My glass eye had gone foggy.
October 4th, 2008 at 11:23 am
I’m going to make coffee.
Maybe I can use the coffee grounds to see what’s going one here …
October 4th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Two articles on Duarte Levy’s site Sos Madeleine Mc Cann (in French).
The first one, published 2 days ago, says that Clarence Mitchell is invited by the Society of Editors at their annual conference, Marriott Royal Hotel, Bristol, from 9 to 11 NOvember 2008. He is invited as an “invité d’honneur” (I don’t know the English translation for that : guest of honour maybe? ), and will speak. Will also speak : Sly Bailey, boss of the Trinity-Mirror corp, Carolyn mc Call, general manager of the Media Guardian group, Paul Diacre, redactor for the daily Mail, Christopher Meyer, President of the Press Complaints Commission. According to their site, The Society of Editors defends the universal right to freedom of information, and the rights of the public to be informed.
The second one, dated October 4, is about Gonçalo Amaral holding a conference in Vigo, Spain, and stating that it is still possible to make justice for Madeleine, in spite of the political pressures. At the end of the article “à suivre” means that the article isn’t finished, and will be followed.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
There will always be child poverty. Because there will always be parental poverty.
It is the definition which is so interesting.
The Labour Party invented permanent poverty by defining it as meaning that you earn less than half the average wage. So as the average wage rises, MORE people are deemed to be living in poverty, not fewer.
Pure socialist nonsense.
Even if you have a lifestyle which includes take away meals, fitted carpets, a TV, a car, foreign holidays and a computer you can still be deemed to be in poverty, which means that your children are also officially poor.
Poverty is an absolute term, not a relative one.
October 4th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
afternoon all :), let me know if you work it out chatelaine.
October 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
105- Justice and Truth deleted …err..from various dictionaries and cultures
Hi
October 4th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Marie Nicholas
“A suivre….”
October 4th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
“I have no doubt we will be able to sustain a high profile for Madeleines disappearance in the long term.” (June 28, 2007) said the mccannman
Watch out,mate! you”ll get caught in the long run
October 4th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Hi Brandon,
Was banned from 3 Arguidos last week for starting a thread questioning who had been banned of late.
Rather strange, no warning, just when I tried to post a message came up that I had been banned for troublemaking.
As I have no way of letting anyway know, it feels like losing family.
I can still read what is there but can’t connect.
Strange but true.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
hannasus , you know this halo3 trailer thing ? my son’s got banned from the site just about the same time as that ‘wheres maddie’ thing was, and we don’t know why and the webpage doesn’t give a reason and just says he has to wait.
October 4th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
well it was strange but true as it happened at the same time as that trailer thing, that’s weird isn’t it.
October 4th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Hi Sam
I’ll try the tea leaves now
October 4th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
hi chatelaine, the coffee dregs were no good ? oh dear, yes, give the leaves a go
i’ve got a crystal ball somewhere if you want to borrow it…
October 4th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
If all else fails, I’ve got a quarter bucketful of elvers.
Will have to be quick to get a “reading” though.
They sure do a fast wriggle.
October 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
matt, i just went and found out what they are, ewww, not my cup of tea at all.
October 4th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Those photos given to PJ with Madie in long frizzed hair, reminded me of JonBenet as soon as I saw them. Someone worked out they were taken in the holiday appartment and were in fact the last photos. She looked as if she was entering a mini beauty pageant.
Very weird for a 3 year old. I was 7 going on 8 before I asked for crimped/ ringletted hair, not 3 going on 4.
Could explain why she was described as obedient but sometimes very sad while not wanting to communicate why she was unhappy. (testimony of one of the creche girls)Too afraid to mention what was going on? But why pass on photos like that anyway. Had she had a home perm that went wrong and she got a severe allergic reaction maybe?