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@pete wrote:
I was just sharpening me tongue ffs :evil: :lol:
lol me too……can we bring him back please? joke!
Nope, keep him inside, to protect society from him and him from society. If he was released, it would only be a matter of time until he killed again or someone killed him.
@quiet_man wrote:
So why, when Jade Goody did it, does she get all this? I’m fed up of watching it and seeing it in papers.
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Ladies, go for your smear tests. Yes, they’re unpleasant but they can save your life.
Men, give yourself a fondle and check you’re okay for lumps and bumps.Enough of the faux outpourings of grief. I know you’ve had nothing since Diana, but really. Enough.
Then don’t watch it or read it? you have the power of the off button or turning the page….I use that power often :wink:
I assume that she gets all the coverage because she started out as an ordinary person, coming from nothing, then by a series of “right place right time” opportunities presented to her, she was thrust in the public eye and given lots of opportunity to make money that she never expected to make – and who can blame her for grabbing that chance with both hands. Like her or loathe her, she has always been just herself, and there seems to be a morbid fascination in watching her.
It’s really no different to all the coverage that Kylie Mynogue got when she was diagnosed with breast cancer – celebrity and illness sells papers, regardless of whether the celebrity in question wants the attention. Is that a good thing? Mixed feelings on that one, but when Kylie Mynogue was in the public eye the overwhelming response from the Breast Cancer Support Group that I work with was positive as they believed that any publicity that got women – particulary young women who don’t fall into the NHS screening target group – checking themselves was a good thing.
The sad fact is that people are more likely to get checked or check themselves when they see someone who is in the public eye (or a character in a soap) suffering an illness than they are as a result of any advertising campaign by the various health groups, be it cancer, heart disease, diabetes or any other debilitating illness. If all the publicity saves lives of others, then it’s worth it getting up some peoples’ noses for a while.
Personally I neither like or dislike her, I do not feel grief, faux or real, just a compassion to a fellow human being who is facing a painful end. Many who have survived cancer will look and think “that could easily have been me” and count their blessings, but it may also bring all the old emotions from our own experiences flooding back.
Shame…I was just starting to enjoy myself…. :wink:
Might we not be seeing Sir Actor for a while? Or am I reading too much into your words and his silence?
I won’t hold my breath….
It ran? Can’t be my siggy then, I haven’t run since I was 14…… :lol:
Oooooh it’s back – thank you, I feel complete again! :D/
Nope, can’t see a siggy… [-(