Wandering Off Topic

[faithlilly]

Why do you?

Is it you don’t know or aren’t willing to share?

[faithlilly]

Unlike of course all the pearl clutching that occurs every time the issue of the McCanns leaving their kids unattended you mean?  Actually that's less pearl-clutching, more flaming torches and pitchforks.

Never owned a pitchfork, or indeed a flaming torch in my life.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Never owned a pitchfork, or indeed a flaming torch in my life.

And I've never owned a string of pearls, so you point is...?

[faithlilly]

And I've never owned a string of pearls, so you point is...?

A likely tale !

[Vertigo Swirl]

No problem.

I know it’s hard for you to not be swept along by the hysteria, you’re not alone. Thankfully though there are people who look behind the lazy headlines and actually do some research.

Great, you have decided that a convicted murderer is innocent based on your "research" into a really nasty brutal crime but according to you that doesn't mean you have a morbid fascination with and desire to help a convicted murderer.  However you've decided I do have a morbid fascination with and desire to help and support such individuals based on what evidence exactly? 

[Vertigo Swirl]

A likely tale !

But you're not judgey at all, no sirree.  You've decided I'm the kind of person who wears pearls.  I suppose it's an upgrade from the days when you thought I was an old bloke dribbling down my cardi. 

[The General]

Never owned a pitchfork, or indeed a flaming torch in my life.

I can understand why angry mobs turned to the pitchfork as a secondary use, they're almost useless as a gardening implement. If you lost it in the melee, or got it lodged in a skull, then there's not much lost.

[G-Unit]

Unlike of course all the pearl clutching that occurs every time the issue of the McCanns leaving their kids unattended you mean?  Actually that's less pearl-clutching, more flaming torches and pitchforks.

I couldn't care less if the McCanns decided leaving their kids home alone was OK. What I object to is them trying to pretend it was a responsible decision.

[faithlilly]

Great, you have decided that a convicted murderer is innocent based on your "research" into a really nasty brutal crime but according to you that doesn't mean you have a morbid fascination with and desire to help a convicted murderer.  However you've decided I do have a morbid fascination with and desire to help and support such individuals based on what evidence exactly?

Ah see, you’re presuming again. It’s not on my ‘research’ but on others, much more knowledgeable than me in the way of these things. People like barristers, psychologists, police officers and, in the case of Luke Mitchell, the FBI’s world renowned Behavioural Analysis Unit.

Does ‘convicted’ always mean guilty and, if there is doubt that that a conviction is unsafe, shouldn’t that conviction be corrected?

Why do you care so much what I ‘think’….if indeed I do?

[faithlilly]

But you're not judgey at all, no sirree.  You've decided I'm the kind of person who wears pearls.  I suppose it's an upgrade from the days when you thought I was an old bloke dribbling down my cardi.

You really are rather easy to trigger, aren’t you?

[Eleanor]

I couldn't care less if the McCanns decided leaving their kids home alone was OK. What I object to is them trying to pretend it was a responsible decision.

Based on known facts at the time since The PJ weren't even investigating known Crimes in the area.

I have never denied that I sometimes left my children alone under similar circumstances.

What really pees me off is the sanctimonious clap trap from supposedly Perfect Parents.  There is no such thing as a Perfect Parent.  Everyone fails in some way.  No Parent gets born with a Master's Degree.  Some of the mistakes are hidden in the eons of time.  Mostly emotional, of course.

But if all you managed to teach your children that no one is perfect then you might have achieved something.

[Eleanor]

Ah see, you’re presuming again. It’s not on my ‘research’ but on others, much more knowledgeable than me in the way of these things. People like barristers, psychologists, police officers and, in the case of Luke Mitchell, the FBI’s world renowned Behavioural Analysis Unit.

Does ‘convicted’ always mean guilt and, if there is doubt that that a conviction is unsafe, shouldn’t that conviction be corrected?

Why do you care so much what I ‘think’….if indeed I do?

I only ever really cared about The Death Penalty.  Once that was abolished my day was done.

[faithlilly]

Based on known facts at the time since The PJ weren't even investigating known Crimes in the area.

I have never denied that I sometimes left my children alone under similar circumstances.

What really pees me off is the sanctimonious clap trap from supposedly Perfect Parents.  There is no such thing as a Perfect Parent.  Everyone fails in some way.  No Parent gets born with a Master's Degree.  Some of the mistakes are hidden in the eons of time.  Mostly emotional, of course.

But if all you managed to teach your children that no one is perfect then you might have achieved something.

Parents make mistakes….that’s a given but what singles the parents and their friends out is that this wasn’t a mistake…this was a calculated risk, and a risk with no mitigation. The parents not only left the patio doors unlocked on an apartment which bordered a main road but also failed, if they are to be believed, to check if the windows or front door was also locked. That was not a mistake but a calculated risk.

[faithlilly]

I only ever really cared about The Death Penalty.  Once that was abolished my day was done.

Unfortunately some would like to see it return and, in the case of Luke Mitchell, that would have meant a state execution of a 16 year old.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I couldn't care less if the McCanns decided leaving their kids home alone was OK. What I object to is them trying to pretend it was a responsible decision.

You do realise your two sentences directly contradict each other don't you?