The question.
....Having myself not able to cope with an armada of lawyers, I will not comment. But for us French, the process of opening a commercial site * The online store of Madeleine (Madeleine The Online Store) seems a bit strange. It is hard to imagine parents doing business selling search posters (£ 1.75 for 10), bracelets, or t-shirts bearing the face of their missing child (£ 7) ... This is not really in our culture.
This is probably different in Britain ...
link Not an endorsement.
My answer.
Oi! steady on now Monsieur Moreas, just steady on now lad, a person could take exception if he were so inclined.
But being possessed of a gentle and forgiving nature, I won't be harsh with you, for don't we all employ a little rhetoric on occasion?
Because it is without doubt that we would be in accord were I to say; that from the time when the first organism crawled out of the primordial soup to where we stand today as a species, never, never in those many thousands of years, never in all those millennia has the world witnessed anything that remotely compares to the grotesque, to the obscene, or to the shameless vulgarity that is epitomised by the Madeleine McCann online store. It is unique.
The sale of good quality wristbands and other fine branded merchandise, transcends race, transcends cultures, transcends borders, transcends continents even, but the things that it transcends unreservedly and above all others, are, dignity, taste, and morality, to mention but a few. And this Monsieur you know well, how could it be otherwise?
The Madeleine McCann online shop; nothing comes anywhere close, it is as grotesque as it gets. The McCann's "Madeleine has been abducted" mantra and story had a purpose born out of necessity; to keep them out of goal. but the Madeleine McCann online store, it's peerless, it's head and shoulders above the rest, it is without compare.
And so it stands, tall and proud this this ungodly edifice, this memorial that the McCanns have built to glorify the memory of their departed daughter.
Madeleine didn't deserve many things that befell her during her short life, but she didn't deserve this. she never did anything to deserve being turned into a shop, poor child.
And this unique piece of marketing, brought to you by NHS Doctors Gerald Patrick McCann, and Kate Marie McCann, how proud must their families be?
u⋅nique
–adjective
1. having no like or equal; unparalleled; incomparable: Bach was unique in his handling of counterpoint.
2. existing as the only one or as the sole example; single; solitary in type or characteristics: a unique copy of an ancient manuscript.
3. limited in occurrence to a given class, situation, or area: a species unique to Australia.
4. limited to a single outcome or result; without alternative possibilities: Certain types of
problems have unique solutions.
5. not typical; unusual: She has a very unique smile.
Shameless all!
