Why not report the abduction at the Tapas Bar rather than Main Reception?

[AnneGuedes]

So The Waiter didn't understand your Portuguese.  That much is obvious.

This is argumentum ad hominem, if by chance you understand my Latin !

[gilet]

So The Waiter didn't understand your Portuguese.  That much is obvious.

This is argumentum ad hominem, if by chance you understand my Latin !

I understand your Latin and you are talking absolute cobblers.

It was you who posted that the waiter did not catch your drift and you had to repeat yourself.

How can Eleanor be abusing you as a person when she is merely re-iterating what you yourself said?

[Mrs. B]

Totally ridiculous, has anyone ever been to a hotel where it says "If you need assistance, please pop down to the bar & ask the waiter" rather than "kindly contact reception"? I'm sure that's not the procedure at the OC either - & we already know that one of the waiters did just that, contacted the reception.

[Eleanor]

Your claim unbelievers should have empathy has been memorized, don't worry. You'll achieve nothing by repeating it, except for hurting people you don't even know.

the idea that I have memorized something regarding empathy is quite mystifying.

So egocentric ! Obviously the agent isn't you !
BTW "mon cher" was rhetorical..

There is nothing even remotely rhetorical about, "Mon Cher" because it is an endearment.  Unwanted on this occasion.

[Eleanor]

The natural thing for any holiday maker would be to head straight for reception, where the only staff in the resorts, who have received some type of training to deal with emergency situations, are at.

25 minutes ! Bravo !

Don't be ridiculous.  And why are you so keen to enforce the idea that it took 25 minutes?  It didn't.

Believers shouldn't be rude if they hope (but do they ?) to convince unbelievers.
Why don't you say how long it took to call the police at 22h41 ?

I am not trying to convince anyone.  I am just having some difficulty with the fact that you are.  Especially since it is irrelevant.

[Eleanor]

So The Waiter didn't understand your Portuguese.  That much is obvious.

This is argumentum ad hominem, if by chance you understand my Latin !

I understand your Latin and you are talking absolute cobblers.

It was you who posted that the waiter did not catch your drift and you had to repeat yourself.

How can Eleanor be abusing you as a person when she is merely re-iterating what you yourself said?

Thank you, Gilet.  No, I didn't understand her Latin, except that it is normally followed by "Attack", so in full I would have understood what Anne Guedes was accusing me of.
But as you say, she said it herself that The Waiter didn't understand her.

[gilet]

Your claim unbelievers should have empathy has been memorized, don't worry. You'll achieve nothing by repeating it, except for hurting people you don't even know.

the idea that I have memorized something regarding empathy is quite mystifying.

So egocentric ! Obviously the agent isn't you !
BTW "mon cher" was rhetorical..

Nothing egocentric at all. Just a statement of fact unlike your idiotic presumption about me memorizing something.

Are you now in the realms of David Icke and conspiracy lunatics? What agent are you referring to? For everyone's information I am not 007 though I share with him a love of Martinis.

And to try and excuse your use of the term "mon Cher" within that quotation is to make a laughing stock of your claim to linguistic expertise.

[gilet]

Totally ridiculous, has anyone ever been to a hotel where it says "If you need assistance, please pop down to the bar & ask the waiter" rather than "kindly contact reception"? I'm sure that's not the procedure at the OC either - & we already know that one of the waiters did just that, contacted the reception.

Can't say I have but Anne Guedes must have. She is so convinced that the McCanns should have used some random waiter to be the conduit of this vital call to the Police even though she admits the waiters didn't even understand her Portuguese first time round (can it really be that good I wonder?) never mind their English.

[Eleanor]

What with her Portuguese and his English, I can well see why it could have taken 25 minutes.

[AnneGuedes]

Totally ridiculous, has anyone ever been to a hotel where it says "If you need assistance, please pop down to the bar & ask the waiter" rather than "kindly contact reception"? I'm sure that's not the procedure at the OC either - & we already know that one of the waiters did just that, contacted the reception.

Is it ridiculous to ask a waiter to kindly contact the reception in order to alert the police on a missing child, moreover if there is suspicion of abduction ?
I'm dreaming !
It's amazing in 2013 that you, in need of assistance (and what assistance ! A missing child!), would choose the marathon instead of that so useful device, the telephone.

[Mrs. B]

I think you may have been misinformed about the length of a Marathon but never mind. The waiter did use the phone, didn't he? It's in the witness statements, they used it to phone RECEPTION, as any normal person would.

[AnneGuedes]

I think you may have been misinformed about the length of a Marathon but never mind. The waiter did use the phone, didn't he? It's in the witness statements, they used it to phone RECEPTION, as any normal person would.

I was kidding, Mrs B. As you know the original length is the distance between Marathon and Athens, run to announce the victory against Persia. No telephone in the 5th century BC.
Do you have a link to the waiter who was asked (by a member of the group ?) to call the receptionist in order to call the police about a missing child ?

[gilet]

Totally ridiculous, has anyone ever been to a hotel where it says "If you need assistance, please pop down to the bar & ask the waiter" rather than "kindly contact reception"? I'm sure that's not the procedure at the OC either - & we already know that one of the waiters did just that, contacted the reception.

Is it ridiculous to ask a waiter to kindly contact the reception in order to alert the police on a missing child, moreover if there is suspicion of abduction ?
I'm dreaming !
It's amazing in 2013 that you, in need of assistance (and what assistance ! A missing child!), would choose the marathon instead of that so useful device, the telephone.

Neither a marathon nor even an 8 minute jog.

Two minutes maximum.

[Mrs. B]

We know that the receptionist was contacted by someone from the Tapas Restaurant

"That on the day in question (03/05/2007) he was on duty and was contacted by a member of staff from the Tapas Restaurant between 09.30 and 22.00 who informed him that the daughter of some guests who were dining there had disappeared."

Whether it was someone from the Tapas group who asked them or not isn't mentioned.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/HELDER_LUIS.htm

[icabodcrane]

We know that the receptionist was contacted by someone from the Tapas Restaurant

"That on the day in question (03/05/2007) he was on duty and was contacted by a member of staff from the Tapas Restaurant between 09.30 and 22.00 who informed him that the daughter of some guests who were dining there had disappeared."

Whether it was someone from the Tapas group who asked them or not isn't mentioned.

http://www.mccannpjfiles.co.uk/PJ/HELDER_LUIS.htm

How can that be though  ?

How can the receptionist have been alerted from the tapas bar sometime between 9.30 and 10.00pm ...  when Kate herself was still sat at the table during that time  ?