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Where has the Madeleine McCann AH thread gone?

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  • 08-06-2014 6:41pm
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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭


    After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

    With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again


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    PizzamanIRL
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    We'll have to dig around for it.


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    Mr. Incognito
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    It was buried in Portugal


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    efb
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    And we're sending our love down the well...


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    wazky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,516 ✭✭✭wazky


    Portuguese police lost it.


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    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    The thread has been sighted a few places, but it was mistaken identity.


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    Renegade Mechanic
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    PizzamanIRL wrote: »
    We'll have to dig around for it.

    Heh..


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    kneemos
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    Definitely needs to be repeated all over again.


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    hatrickpatrick
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    This is what happens when you leave a thread unattended


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    IvaBigWun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,368 ✭✭✭IvaBigWun


    I'll go off and catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour ;)


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    Mint Sauce
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    Take your pick OP before they disappear.


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    PizzamanIRL
    Registered Users Posts: 5,148 ✭✭✭PizzamanIRL


    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    I'll go off a catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour ;)

    Don't get your hopes up.


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    genericguy
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    As an aside - I'm firmly in the "the parents know what happened" camp, and have always hated them for actively seeking celebrity status out of the situation. Anyone else find their deafening silence in this case rather odd?


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    anncoates
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    It reached a critical mass of sanctimony and blew up.


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    kneemos
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    I'll go off a catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour ;)

    Go for a meal.


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    fleet_admiral
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    the masons took it


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    ArtyM
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

    With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again

    Why in God's name would you want that thread back?
    It had descended into a beyond-petty bickerfest between a handful of posters multi-quoting, thanks-whoring, and endlessly endlessly arguing.


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    Shakespeare's Sister
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    genericguy wrote: »
    As an aside - I'm firmly in the "the parents know what happened" camp, and have always hated them for actively seeking celebrity status out of the situation. Anyone else find their deafening silence in this case rather odd?
    But I thought people's issue was that they *weren't* being silent about it - and, as you say, seeking celebrity status out of the situation.

    In my opinion they were just using whatever clout they had to raise awareness in relation to their missing child, which anyone would do if they had the means.

    I think their decision to leave their children without a babysitter was just unbelievable... but after that I have absolutely no solid cause to believe they know what happened and I don't understand why there is such eagerness to believe this.


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    maguic24
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    After doing a search there it would seem the enormous AH Madeleine McCann seems to have disappeared. I dont think it reached the "10k posts and forum hamsters stop working" limit did it?

    With the recent developments it would be interesting to get some debate going again

    IvaBigWun, what are you doing?

    IvaBigWun, STOP!!


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    Gran Hermano
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,330 ✭✭✭Gran Hermano


    It was here earlier, then I nipped out for some tapas...


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    Steppenwolfe
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    ArtyM wrote: »
    Why in God's name would you want that thread back?
    It had descended into a beyond-petty bickerfest between a handful of posters multi-quoting, thanks-whoring, and endlessly endlessly arguing.

    Much like every other thread on AH so.


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    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users Posts: 5,641 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    That was an awful thread, I don't miss it.


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    Sulla Felix
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    She'd be 11 now. If she's still kicking, hopefully she's forgotten about her old life and is living in something approaching normalcy.


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    IvaBigWun
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    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    Take your pick OP before they disappear.

    Thanks for that but its none of those threads.

    Things must have got really bad towards the end of that main thread for a full on deletion as opposed to just a locking


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    dark crystal
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    Thanks for that but its none of those threads.

    Things must have got really bad towards the end of that main thread for a full on deletion as opposed to just a locking

    I did enquire about the unexplained closure to the mods, but never got an answer as to the reason. It remains a mystery....

    Unless there's a significant break in the story, I don't see why it needs to be resurrected anyway. The whole topic just seems to go round in circles and can get pretty nasty at times.


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    efb
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    IvaBigWun wrote: »
    I'll go off and catchup on Game Of Thrones, there's bound to be a grownup reply in an hour ;)

    Irony of that comment from that username...


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    hatrickpatrick
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    efb wrote: »
    Irony of that comment from that username...

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4


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    rawn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,093 ✭✭✭rawn


    hatrickpatrick wrote: »
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzC2DRgEo4

    Just noticed the massive spoiler in that! For non book readers/people who haven't watched the new season/hermits etc anyways


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    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users Posts: 4,421 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    So are we saying it was all a conspiracy yet?


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    efb
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    It was Elvis riding Shergar with Princess Di


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    IvaBigWun
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    http://news.sky.com/story/1278274/madeleine-mccann-police-shut-down-search-area



    Police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have closed down their first search area in Praia da Luz.

    Detectives ordered cordons to be taken away from the scrubland site on Sunday evening.

    The area is a five-minute walk from the holiday complex where the McCanns were staying in May 2007.

    Specialist teams spent the past week conducting in-depth searches using victim recovery dogs and radar equipment, while archaeologists carefully dug out holes.
    Members of Scotland Yard cover a hole during the search for missing British girl Madeleine McCann in Praia da Luz. Officers cover a hole dug in the initial search site in Praia da Luz

    The holes have now been filled in, police have packed away their tents and equipment has been removed from the site.

    Paul Luckman, publisher of the Portugal News, told Sky News: "Nothing has been found that the Portuguese police missed at the time.

    "People really feel that enough is enough.

    "(It's) not that they don't have sympathy for the parents or that they don't want the child found but (we have to) be realistic - we're seven years down the road."

    Police search an area of scrubland in Praia da Luz for any clues about Madeleine McCann's disappearance Detectives dropped mini-cameras into drains during the search

    Mr Luckman also questioned the expense of the investigation to the British taxpayer, adding: "£7m in, heading towards eight, and with all the resources the Met have got ... we're just in the same situation.

    "People ask, 'When is this ever going to end?'"

    Portuguese police sources told Sky News the investigation will resume on Wednesday with searches in new areas just outside Praia da Luz.

    The Metropolitan Police has refused to give out any details about the searches or the intelligence behind them.


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