Netflix launches new 8-part documentary about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

[Eleanor]

It could be any of the three.

It could have been the LP officer attempting to reformat it for his PT colleagues and made a mistake, but I find it just as likely that whoever translated the LP statement into PT could equally have made a mistake in converting what may have been written in English to Portguese: she could have said "between five twenty-five and six", and the translator reformatted it, but missed correcting "5" to "7". Easily done in a rush.

If Cat had broadened the time frame, there's no explanation given, which would have been a point to clarify.

Some people simply don't understand the 24 Hour Clock.  If you do you tend to wing the mistakes.

[Carana]

Some people simply don't understand the 24 Hour Clock.  If you do you tend to wing the mistakes.

Easy to do though. It's relatively easy to read "five" and type "5" without thinking.

[Carana]

Especially if you're in a rush.

A little test: :)
https://www.color-blindness.com/2007/06/27/stroop-test-can-you-read-the-colors/

[Eleanor]

Easy to do though. It's relatively easy to read "five" and type "5" without thinking.

Of course it is.

Incidentally, there is no midnight in the Naval Clock.  It is 23.59 and 00.01.  I thought you all would like to know that.  Woe betide anyone who wasn't back on board by 23.59.  You had to walk the plank.  This was difficult on a shore station.

[Erngath]

Easy to do though. It's relatively easy to read "five" and type "5" without thinking.

That's true.
Recently I was trying to find the follow up episodes of a series I had begun to watch.
Using the catch up facility I typed in Fifteen Days.
Nothing!
Tried again and still nothing.
 I gave up !
Later I realised the programme was 15 days but I had typed fifteen automatically !

[Miss Taken Identity]

Why do I get the feeling supporters are trying to re write any  errors the Team McCann made...
making up excuses  for them is hilarious!

I have explained- it was deleted- UK citizens use the 12 hour clock stiil more often, and EU citizens  More than likely use metric measures and and 24 hr Clock.

[Carana]

Why do I get the feeling supporters are trying to re write any  errors the Team McCann made...
making up excuses  for them is hilarious!

I have explained- it was deleted- UK citizens use the 12 hour clock stiil more often, and EU citizens  More than likely use metric measures and and 24 hr Clock.

Who isn't in "Team McCann" in your view?

Would nannies of her age specify a time in that way?

It was a laid-back holiday resort, not an emergency ward.

[jassi]

Why do I get the feeling supporters are trying to re write any  errors the Team McCann made...
making up excuses  for them is hilarious!

I have explained- it was deleted- UK citizens use the 12 hour clock stiil more often, and EU citizens  More than likely use metric measures and and 24 hr Clock.

Isn't that something that's gone on from the start - a glib excuse for everything?
I agree the inventiveness can be entertaining.

[Brietta]

Why do I get the feeling supporters are trying to re write any  errors the Team McCann made...
making up excuses  for them is hilarious!

I have explained- it was deleted- UK citizens use the 12 hour clock stiil more often, and EU citizens  More than likely use metric measures and and 24 hr Clock.

I do not think "supporters" are the least bit bothered ... as I see it no-one is at all interested in the minutiae of twelve years ago least of all the police ... the focus is on the here and now and the continuing live investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

[Miss Taken Identity]

I do not think "supporters" are the least bit bothered ... as I see it no-one is at all interested in the minutiae of twelve years ago least of all the police ... the focus is on the here and now and the continuing live investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

I disagree. The supporters spend an awful lot of time 'not bothering' and making excuses to justify the parents behaviour is bizzare IMO. Especially as it is Madeliene who is the eral victim in this discussion.

[Erngath]

I do not think "supporters" are the least bit bothered ... as I see it no-one is at all interested in the minutiae of twelve years ago least of all the police ... the focus is on the here and now and the continuing live investigation into Madeleine's disappearance.

Some sceptics cling to the irrelevant minutiae of details from the files much like fundamentalist religious zealots cling to the Old Testament.

Do these sceptics never consider that twelve years on these irrelevant details will have been considered and discarded by the.current police investigation

[Erngath]

Who isn't in "Team McCann" in your view?

Would nannies of her age specify a time in that way?

It was a laid-back holiday resort, not an emergency ward.

Indeed.

[jassi]

Some sceptics cling to the irrelevant minutiae of details from the files much like fundamentalist religious zealots cling to the Old Testament.

Do these sceptics never consider that twelve years on these irrelevant details will have been considered and discarded by the.current police investigation

This is an on-going case. In the absence of a culprit, I doubt anything has been discarded, merely put to one side.

[Erngath]

This is an on-going case. In the absence of a culprit, I doubt anything has been discarded, merely put to one side.

Some of the minor details which cause concern  to some sceptics must have been decided as irrelevant by now IMO.

[Miss Taken Identity]

Some of the minor details which cause concern  to some sceptics must have been decided as irrelevant by now.

The circumstances of the disappearnce and the claims made by the parents is cause for concern, so much so 12 million pounds worth of reasons say it is worth discussing.

Of course you don't have to take part in the discussion, but could you stop your moaning because others care.

Thanks.