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« Reply #22815 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 11:46:13 » |
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Reading that Cheryl Cole intends to record and release more 'music' (sic).
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #22816 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 12:41:26 » |
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How did it come to this? I feel terribly sorry for them.
I reckon it's a class thing. There's a perception that they have gotten away with something because they are high flyers(doctor and a lawyer is it?). Not a perception I share btw. They made some stupid choices that I wouldn't have, and paid the ultimate price.
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« Reply #22817 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 13:00:03 » |
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I reckon it's a class thing. There's a perception that they have gotten away with something because they are high flyers(doctor and a lawyer is it?). Not a perception I share btw. They made some stupid choices that I wouldn't have, and paid the ultimate price.
If it's class, then people lack it. What the fuck are they supposed to have got away with? I know we've done this before on here but I'm constantly appalled at people's rush to judge others' perceived mistakes. The reaction's fucking medieval. Where's the humanity ffs?
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Tout ce que je sais de plus sūr ą propos de la moralité et des obligations des hommes, c'est au football que je le dois. - Albert Camus
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« Reply #22818 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 14:01:49 » |
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I think a lot of people think they are guilty of child neglect/some sort of cover up, rather than being desperate grieving parents who paid the heaviest price after they left their children alone..
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« Reply #22819 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 14:13:59 » |
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They get too much media attention in my opinion and I don't think they deserve it. Gerry today for instance, hence the reason for my post.
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« Reply #22820 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 17:28:09 » |
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They get too much media attention in my opinion and I don't think they deserve it. Gerry today for instance, hence the reason for my post.
When was the last occasion you heard them speak then? They were legitimately on the radio this morning - not talking about their own case - but about how the government has thoroughly reneged on implementing the recommendations (which it entirely accepted) of the extensive enquiry it set up to equip a proper press complaints procedure with teeth. Thought you might have had more sympathy with the point they were making instead of jumping on the tabloid "Bash the McCanns" agenda, which was part of the original problem. Expected better of you Arriba.
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« Reply #22821 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 18:01:32 » |
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There is a massive irony in Gerry McCann speaking against press intrusion as someone who has massively utilised the press to publicise the search for his daughter. I don't have an opinion either way but it's hard not to find that a little baffling.
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« Reply #22822 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 18:25:41 » |
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Perhaps he just finds them annoying, like most of the TEF finds you annoying Red Frog 
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jayohaitchenn
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« Reply #22823 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 19:12:40 » |
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Only most?
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« Reply #22824 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 19:13:22 » |
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When was the last occasion you heard them speak then? They were legitimately on the radio this morning - not talking about their own case - but about how the government has thoroughly reneged on implementing the recommendations (which it entirely accepted) of the extensive enquiry it set up to equip a proper press complaints procedure with teeth.
Thought you might have had more sympathy with the point they were making instead of jumping on the tabloid "Bash the McCanns" agenda, which was part of the original problem. Expected better of you Arriba.
Blimey. Think you're reading more into it than my intention. I don't feel that strongly about it and I'm not jumping on any tabloid bandwagon. I just saw Gerry on tv and it annoyed me trivially.
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« Reply #22825 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 21:14:12 » |
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Perhaps he just finds them annoying, like most of the TEF finds you annoying Red Frog  And how does the TEF feel about you appointing yourself its spokesman Si? 
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« Reply #22826 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 21:18:35 » |
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And how does the TEF feel about you appointing yourself its spokesman Si?  We all had a vote actually, you just weren't invited
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« Reply #22827 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 21:29:22 » |
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« Reply #22828 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 21:31:35 » |
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I second Si as TEF spokesperson on this matter. 
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« Reply #22829 on: Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 21:32:12 » |
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I reckon it's a class thing. There's a perception that they have gotten away with something because they are high flyers(doctor and a lawyer is it?). Not a perception I share btw. They made some stupid choices that I wouldn't have, and paid the ultimate price.
But the class thing has worked two ways throughout the case, imagine the absolute shoeing they would have got in much of the media if it was a working class/immigrant/Islamic family (delete as appropriate) who had left the kids home alone and gone out with their mates, but as they were middle class doctors they got a much lighter ride (at least at first).
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