farmerbarleymow
I'm Petee's spirit animal
I've seen her up on the moors when she was still alive, the poor woman.
eta - just spotted this in the Guardian that I'd not known before. The poor family.
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Ian Brady (the Moors murderer) is dead
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I've seen her up on the moors when she was still alive, the poor woman.
eta - just spotted this in the Guardian that I'd not known before. The poor family.
Painful, all of it.
ruffneck23
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good riddance, lets hope thatcher is waiting for him in that special ring of hell and if that doesnt exist just let him rot in pieces
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
If you don't understand it, use a dictionary
existentialist
Tired and unemotional
I don't imagine he killed nearly enough people to be of any interest to Ma Thatcher...
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Liam pa, Liam Brady. Not Ian
not a trot
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Hope someone remembers to put the body out for the bin men.
billy_bob
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Brady was a psychopath in the true sense: unable to emphathise with other people's emotions. So however much bile and hatred and delighting in his death people might pour out, none of it would have cut him up one little bit.
Not that I believe in such crap as him watching us from some Other Place with satisfaction now, but I'd still rather not dignify his death with any reaction at all.
Not that I believe in such crap as him watching us from some Other Place with satisfaction now, but I'd still rather not dignify his death with any reaction at all.
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Starry Wisdom
hope not: hazardous waste
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
I'm sure there will be a few books reissued or revamped sometime soon to catch this wave, too.
What, precisely, do YOU mean by this comment?
mystic pyjamas
Don't call us,we'll call you.
Look at the context and general narrative of the thread.
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Use a dictionary, it's hardly difficult
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RainbowTown
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Well, for some peculiar reason this particular crime has resonated with the UK public for decades (something to do with a fascination for the dark side of our human nature, maybe?). So, yes, those scummy tabloids you speak of will be able to wring some circulation money out of this again; mainly in part because sizable sections of our society want to read about it. Go figure.
NoXion
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RainbowTown
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The market has spoken.
Sadly, it always does when it comes to finance and news. An incestuous relationship if ever there was one.
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It has resonated with the media, who have brought it up time and again for more than 50 years.
NoXion
Craicy the Squirrel
It's like markets aren't inherently democratic or something.
RainbowTown
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I agree. But I think it has resonated, too, with the public. For what reasons, who knows? Maybe like I said, human nature has a general and grim fascination with such dark matters. Death, murder, crime, suffering etc. Because at the end of the day, people don't have to buy the papers, buy the books, listen to the media reports about these things. Yet they do - by their own choice.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
You appear to be putting the cart before the horse, there.
Lets take another '60s example - Mary Bell. Her crimes resonated too, but memory of them would have pretty much died out by the '90s if it weren't for the insistence of the tabloids in hounding her once she left prison, outing her new identity, and plain not letting the families of her victims grieve, or letting Bell herself move on - she had, after all, served her time, and that is supposed to have paid her debt to society, so to speak.
The media feeds prurient speculation because it likes to shock the readership, plain and simple, and knows that the occasional diet of sensationalist "true crime" stories does that.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Quite.
i watched news last night a few times, and was disappointed that none chose to mention Brady's obsession with Adolf Hitler and the third reich. Nazi crimes against children are well documented, and Brady can be seen to follow in similar footsteps. my hope is that Brady might be followed swiftly by other right wing nutjobs and murderers, starting with Anders Breivik.
RainbowTown
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You miss out one crucial word here; "The media feeds purient PUBLIC speculation". Because a sizeable section of the public WANT to hear and read such things. Both them and the media feed of one another, it's a symbiotic relationship. Not a case of either/or. Both, in my opinion, are as complicit. A simple case of six of one and half a dozen of the other.
Are you suggesting that the news of the world conducted a social enquiry to see if the public had an appetite to read about Brady's refusal of food and other shit times whilst incarcerated?
Or does it just form part of their editorial stance?
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