The media circus continues...
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Hang on a minute...
A Reverend calling her a saint?? WTF? Have they reduced the qualifications required for canonisation while I wasn't looking?
I read somewhere the other day banging on about how much she's done for women. But I don't really see that she has, other than by promoting *herself*. Not "get smear tests", not "please don't let this happen to you, get yourself checked". Just "I want money for my boys". While this is an admirable sentiment and I understand why she acted that way, it isn't exactly championing the cause of all women.
It's terribly sad that two small children have lost their mother, but let's not get carried away here. Televising the service? This should be a private time for the family. Not another media spectacle. The papers should do the decent thing and leave them alone. And the family should have the decency to request privacy.
The cult of celebrity really is obscene.
A Reverend calling her a saint?? WTF? Have they reduced the qualifications required for canonisation while I wasn't looking?
I read somewhere the other day banging on about how much she's done for women. But I don't really see that she has, other than by promoting *herself*. Not "get smear tests", not "please don't let this happen to you, get yourself checked". Just "I want money for my boys". While this is an admirable sentiment and I understand why she acted that way, it isn't exactly championing the cause of all women.
It's terribly sad that two small children have lost their mother, but let's not get carried away here. Televising the service? This should be a private time for the family. Not another media spectacle. The papers should do the decent thing and leave them alone. And the family should have the decency to request privacy.
The cult of celebrity really is obscene.
Edited by SGirl on Monday 23 March 09:16
I am not going to make any more comments on this because, apparently, even if you feel sorry for her and her children, you are still an insensitive b*stard for suggesting the media coverage has been completely and utterly over the top for a person who contributed nothing of decency to society.
10 Pence Short said:
I am not going to make any more comments on this because, apparently, even if you feel sorry for her and her children, you are still an insensitive b*stard for suggesting the media coverage has been completely and utterly over the top for a person who contributed nothing of decency to society.
now thats a lie.i couldn't stand the women, yet if one of your closet female friends gets her self checked because of the increased light on cervical cancer, then i think it will have been worth it.
_Batty_ said:
10 Pence Short said:
I am not going to make any more comments on this because, apparently, even if you feel sorry for her and her children, you are still an insensitive b*stard for suggesting the media coverage has been completely and utterly over the top for a person who contributed nothing of decency to society.
now thats a lie.i couldn't stand the women, yet if one of your closet female friends gets her self checked because of the increased light on cervical cancer, then i think it will have been worth it.
I am very sorry for her children that she's dead, but I will not be writing to the Vatican asking for sainthood on her behalf.
SGirl said:
Hang on a minute...
A Reverend calling her a saint?? WTF? Have they reduced the qualifications required for canonisation while I wasn't looking?
I read somewhere the other day banging on about how much she's done for women. But I don't really see that she has, other than by promoting *herself*. Not "get smear tests", not "please don't let this happen to you, get yourself checked". Just "I want money for my boys". While this is an admirable sentiment and I understand why she acted that way, it isn't exactly championing the cause of all women.
It's terribly sad that two small children have lost their mother, but let's not get carried away here. Televising the service? This should be a private time for the family. Not another media spectacle. The papers should do the decent thing and leave them alone. And the family should have the decency to request privacy.
The cult of celebrity really is obscene.
I agree, I can only hope that, with the demise of its figurehead, it will act as a swan song to the obnoxious ‘cult of [anti] celebrity’ Perhaps with the hard times ahead, and people are forced to revaluate what’s important in life, it may well be – one can only hope…. A Reverend calling her a saint?? WTF? Have they reduced the qualifications required for canonisation while I wasn't looking?
I read somewhere the other day banging on about how much she's done for women. But I don't really see that she has, other than by promoting *herself*. Not "get smear tests", not "please don't let this happen to you, get yourself checked". Just "I want money for my boys". While this is an admirable sentiment and I understand why she acted that way, it isn't exactly championing the cause of all women.
It's terribly sad that two small children have lost their mother, but let's not get carried away here. Televising the service? This should be a private time for the family. Not another media spectacle. The papers should do the decent thing and leave them alone. And the family should have the decency to request privacy.
The cult of celebrity really is obscene.
Edited by SGirl on Monday 23 March 09:16
10 Pence Short said:
_Batty_ said:
10 Pence Short said:
I am not going to make any more comments on this because, apparently, even if you feel sorry for her and her children, you are still an insensitive b*stard for suggesting the media coverage has been completely and utterly over the top for a person who contributed nothing of decency to society.
now thats a lie.i couldn't stand the women, yet if one of your closet female friends gets her self checked because of the increased light on cervical cancer, then i think it will have been worth it.
I am very sorry for her children that she's dead, but I will not be writing to the Vatican asking for sainthood on her behalf.
all i was mentioning was that if as a tangent to the media whoring, friends/family are saved, then i'll happily turn over/ignore the papers while it continues.
Someone calling her a saint would IMHO be a *gushing fool* copyright Munter
Holy moly. How many more threads on a unfortunate girl who has died.
People!! GO out for a walk, read a book, take your kids to the park or fire up the motor and go for a drive.
Either way stop reading the bloody papers and watching the bloody TV. Who knows, folks on here might get a bit more chilled out, have less to complain about and live longer.
People!! GO out for a walk, read a book, take your kids to the park or fire up the motor and go for a drive.
Either way stop reading the bloody papers and watching the bloody TV. Who knows, folks on here might get a bit more chilled out, have less to complain about and live longer.
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