Comments | paralinguistic: 027; On Madeleine McCann. [PUBLIC]

paralinguistic

027; On Madeleine McCann. [PUBLIC]

May 19, 2007 09:47

If you live in Britain or Europe, you will have already heard about the story of Madeleine McCann, the four year old toddler who was mysteriously abducted from an apartment in Portugal while her parents dined elsewhere. I don't know whether this story is swarming all over America as well, so if not, here's a round-up of the tale on the BBC News ( Read more... )

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bubonicplague May 19 2007, 10:28:20 UTC

Wow. Glad I wasn't in a good mood or anything. ;)

Seriously, excellent summation.

paralinguistic May 19 2007, 10:37:15 UTC

I have to pretend I'm a literate and newspaper-reading human being sometimes. Apologies. ;D

Thanks very much. How are you, by the way? Haven't spoken to you in a while.

bubonicplague May 19 2007, 10:41:43 UTC

I sorta forgot who you were due to the name change, to be honest. *blushes* I know, it's been ages! Been up all night making posters for the Public Works open house. That would be a favor to my mom, who works in the engineering department there. I had to make up big colorful signs indicating how engineers use MATHEMATICS and posing fun math problems that kids can try to solve.

The result of this is that my hand fucking hurts. Fuck those kids.

paralinguistic May 19 2007, 10:46:11 UTC

That's cool, the name change confuses even me. I am amused however that it's the most depressing post I've made in this journal or indeed the other one that helped you to work it out. ;)

I recently had a job which involved painful hands all day. I solved that problem by quitting the job and swearing at my hands a lot until they decided to behave. You should try this method.

So, did you ever get over your fear of Doctor Tennant?

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paralinguistic May 19 2007, 17:35:25 UTC

And then what inded?

It's very sad. :(

audiodrops May 19 2007, 20:22:46 UTC

It's all over the news here as well - And they said her parents left her alone with her little siblings in a hotel room while they went out and they checked on her periodically? That doesn't seem entirely... responsible.

It seems like there's a huge deal being made out of this, and a lot of times similar things happen and there's not this level of attention being paid to it.

evilbo May 19 2007, 21:06:22 UTC

I hadn't heard about this case before (I don't keep up with the news very well, er) but now I have to agree with what you said. The sad truth is that the media in general is prone to circus-like antics, and when a case gets that popular, everyone wants to be associated with it because of the popularity.

It makes me wonder if getting the word out about missing children to such a huge degree is even helping with getting the kid found. It sure doesn't seem like it.