SaintSam

You can't buy alcohol in Tesco after 10pm. Or indeed before 12.30pm on a Sunday - something a lot of people don't know.

She sounds nuts! Was she really doing 20mph? I hate folk like that.

They won't be thinking that you fell on your bum... They'll be thinking something else!

You been feeling on your bottom today?

Being called into work when you are on holiday to cover a shift for someone who has phoned in sick. Even worse when you consider that you worked a shift for the same person on Monday - again, during your holiday - so they could go to a university interview!

I think you are right, it's definitely something that comes with age. I used to get bullied at school and for a long time it really affected me. It stopped around fourth year but I hadn't forgotten about it and thinking back made me feel bad. Now, looking back, even when I imagine the worst comments and the worst situations I found myself in, I can't evoke any sort of feeling from the memory whatsoever. You get to a stage where you realise that everyone is different, no-one is perfect and everyone has their faults. You also come to appreciate that there are people in life that are in much worse situations than yourself, no matter how bad you may feel it got or gets at times. In turn I think you come to appreciate yourself and what you have that little bit more.

Why don't you transfer then, instead of moaning about it?

Or looking at it in a rather less cynical manner, perhaps due to the fact that the exposure of her disappearance had dramatically decreased in the press, they felt it was appropriate to conduct the interview to keep her at the front of our minds?

I do apologise. I was under the impression it was innocent until proven guilty. Clearly, on the basis of this thread, I'm mistaken.

Because you know them so well? Or because you believe everything you read in the papers?

Gerry McCann is a heart specialist, so I'd imagine he's being paid considerably more than his GP wife?

My mum was 28 and my dad 30 when they had me, and I was always put to bed really quite early. 7:30pm was about the usual time for bed when I was younger. When I left primary school at age 12, I was allowed up until 9 and it wasn't until I was about 15/16 that I really took control of my own bed time. Lights out was always at 10 at the maximum until then. On holiday I suspect I would have been allowed up later, but I sincerely doubt it was much later. My parents were generally very strict about bed time. My dad also agreed that he would never have left us on our own at that age so that they could go out and enjoy dinner however he didn't judge the McCanns for doing so. He said the whole reason we were always put to bed at 7:30pm was so that he and mum could enjoy some "them" time.

Is DNA between siblings not also similar? The only place I've heard it reported as being blood is on this thread. All of the newspaper reports reported "possible bodily fluids" of Madelines.

Blood trace could've come from anything that belonged to Madelaine that was in the car, I'd imagine? I wonder if they found it in the boot!

Good post. To me, the fact that the McCanns are now being interviewed again and treated as suspects suggests that the police in Portugal have no idea what happened to Madelaine and are no further forward now than they were when the case first opened.

Of course you are right, Fudge. I apologise Ochil Clyde. They must've dumped her body afterall.

Basically.

I haven't kept up to date with the press coverage on Madelaines disappearance due to how extensive it has been. I didn't realise the car was hired 25 days after she disappeared.

Yeah, I don't find it particularly funny, myself. This thread and the one about Diana only reinforce the reasons why I rarely frequent this section of the board anymore.

What? She cut herself and that's how traces of blood got into the hire car?

I believe, for the McCanns, coming home to the UK and resuming the lives that Madelaine once filled is going a long way to accepting the reality that they might never find their daughter. And I don't think anyone on here has any right to suggest that's what they should do. I can't even begin to imagine how difficult it must be for a parent to not know what has happened to their child, and to then accept the possibility that they'll never know and will never see them again.

How can anyone know that they did it? People suggesting that they knew from the start that the parents killed Madelaine is stupid for two reasons. Nobody actually knew to begin with, and nobody knows now. People can think that they did it, if they feel so inclined. However, to come on and pain the rest of us who want to keep a little faith in humanity with their insistance that they did do it, is infuriating. Then there's the seeming enjoyment people are now deriving from the fact that they are being made suspects and that faith I wanted to keep in humanity is slowly draining out of me.