I was pretty sure the Mail/Express couldn't get much lower

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:49 pm

and then I saw this article on the Daily Express website, condemning the behaviour of the survivors of the Dunblane massacre, a mere 156 months after the event which as 5 year olds they should have engrained into their heads by now:

http://tinyurl.com/dduh72

Bloody hell, excessive drinking? Swearing? BOASTING?! Crikey, how do we let our children get away with this, Hamilton should have finished the job.

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It's been a while since a newspaper article has made my jaw actually drop, but Paula Murray, I salute you.

Enzo Gambaro · Post by **Enzo Gambaro** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:53 pm

They should all be ashamed for having grown up to be....gasp....teenagers.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 6:57 pm

Enzo Gambaro wrote:They should all be ashamed for having grown up to be....gasp....teenagers.

I know, they're drinking? ALCOHOL, ENZO...ENZO...ALCOHOL! This is horrific. And having sex?! Oh my days, god forbid they do get on with their lives when they should be locked up in a room rocking back and forth.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:01 pm

Wow. Surely that is just illegal? I'd be pretty pissed off if some hack picked off my facebook page and analysed it in a national paper for all to see.

Wasn't Andy Murray a Dunblane survivor anyway?

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:05 pm

Absolutely with you on this Verbal. Being survivors of a tragedy does not make you public property. What the hell does she want them to do? They were lucky to survive a horrific incident, and have grown up. As Enzo says, they are....teenagers. Those bebo things could be representative of so many people nowadays, but these kids are a 'disgrace' because their classmates were victims of tragedy, and they werent. Surely the fact they have turned out vaguley normal, as opposed to having a huge suicide and mental health rate is to applauded, not sneered on by those stupid fecks.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:12 pm

jimbo wrote:Wow. Surely that is just illegal? I'd be pretty pissed off if some hack picked off my facebook page and analysed it in a national paper for all to see.

Wasn't Andy Murray a Dunblane survivor anyway?

Front page article as well apparently

http://enemiesofreason.blogspot.com/200 ... press.html

He was, indeed.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:25 pm

Prufrock wrote:Absolutely with you on this Verbal. Being survivors of a tragedy does not make you public property. What the hell does she want them to do? They were lucky to survive a horrific incident, and have grown up. As Enzo says, they are....teenagers. Those bebo things could be representative of so many people nowadays, but these kids are a 'disgrace' because their classmates were victims of tragedy, and they werent. Surely the fact they have turned out vaguley normal, as opposed to having a huge suicide and mental health rate is to applauded, not sneered on by those stupid fecks.

The thing which sits with me is that it explicitly indicates they are 18. It makes me think they have been sitting on this story for a while after finding their bebo accounts, waiting till all of them were of adult age and then...bam, come out with this tripe.

It would be funny if it wasn't true, and is instead just plain revolting. As you say, it's encouraging they've come out vaguely normal in terms of 18yr olds with social networking accounts, instead of harbouring mental health disorders (or worse) due to this. So what if they're not exactly living like monks, most 18 online profiles I imagine are like that. And if they're worse than most, which they aren't, then...hmmm, could it be something to do with that thing that happened 13 years ago? I'm not sure. Fecking disgraceful.

InsaneApache · Post by **InsaneApache** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:41 pm

Disgusting. I never drank, swore or fornicated when I was a teenager.

and if you believe that, you'll believe anything.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 11:29 pm

Sickening. Makes me wonder if - and apologies if this is too fresh to make such a statement - they'd do the same if Madeline McCann was found and she boasted of drinking when she was at an age to legally do so.

ratbert · Post by **ratbert** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 9:39 am

Just don't have anything to do with judgmental, knee-jerk sh*trags like the Express and Mail. I don't.

bobo the clown · Post by **bobo the clown** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 10:12 am

I was all set to try & defend this.

I can't.

Shit ... I must be getting past it.

fatshaft · Post by **fatshaft** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:06 am

Had to laugh at this bit though...

Among the blogs on his site is a list of the 23 best chat-up lines – but he is still single.

Funny, but also misses the point that he may be out there shagging for Scotland, after all if he was in a relationship hhe wouldn;t be using chat up lines now would he?

a1 · Post by a1 » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:42 am

arent the mail and the express owned by different companies ?

did the mail newspaper even mention this ?

isnt this just as random a knee jerk in blaming another paper altogether ?

drinking kids ? , pfft, they'll be wanting your liver next..

potter1989bwfc · Post by **potter1989bwfc** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 11:54 am

Whats the picture i cant see it ?

What has happened i don't follow ?

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:05 pm

a1 wrote:arent the mail and the express owned by different companies ?

did the mail newspaper even mention this ?

isnt this just as random a knee jerk in blaming another paper altogether ?

drinking kids ? , pfft, they'll be wanting your liver next..

Same ilk, as they are rivals for a market.

And i was just saying that articles which appear in the Mail and Express such as these have never made me go

in such a way like this one.

Psh

Raven · Post by **Raven** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 12:05 pm

What a load of nonsense, who buys these crap papers?

No real news?

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:02 pm

bobo the clown wrote:I was all set to try & defend this.

I can't.

Shit ... I must be getting past it.

Haha

When bobo cannot even go against the opinion of the spineless liberals, you know something about the article is wrong!

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 11:25 pm

This is just getting worse...condeming kids for leading vaguely normal lives, now lying to interviewees...come on Paula, one more for the hattrick!

Shameless link to my blog on the latest developments

seanworth · Post by **seanworth** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:11 am

Since this is your blog Verbal. The Joe Frazier fight (Red Riding Story) was known is the Thrilla in Manila. The George Forman fight was the Rumble in the Jungle.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 11:14 am

seanworth wrote:Since this is your blog Verbal. The Joe Frazier fight (Red Riding Story) was known is the Thrilla in Manila. The George Forman fight was the Rumble in the Jungle.

Ah cheers man. Must have been not paying attention when I wrote it as the source I got it from does indeed say the Foreman fight was TRITJ. Edited, thanks again mate.

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