Comments on: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dream-Tie

By: drew

drew — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 09:06:54 +0000

no wonder he’s colour blind

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:59:00 +0000

Ah now we know. Thanks to Xewka we can sleep soundly in the knowledge that we are simply using the Armed Forces of Malta as an alternative ETC. I quote ‘But the majority of soldiers join the forces because they have been unemployed.’
Is Xewka saying that we now have incompetent, unemployable people bearing arms; as the fact that they cannot find jobs is very worrying when we are in a full employment situation.
Next he’ll be telling us that we should have a public discussion whether whitewashers should work on the outside of tall buildings. After all, that also is dangerous, and these poor buggers are only doing the job because they are unemployed.
Xewka, frankly, I hope the AFM are truly insulted by your comments, as, if they are not, they should be. Those guys (and gals) want to be soldiers and are very happy to be sharing experiences with their European peers. Otherwise they would have hopped it long ago. I don’t see any mass desertions or resignations going on.
As to the silly idea of holding a referendum on the subject, what can I say? Should we hold a referendum on when the Prime minister calls a cabinet meeting. The PfP is not a national issue. It is an issue between the PM and the AFM (and he’s their boss by the way). And please don’t give me any more rot about neutrality clauses.
Honestly the more I think about it the more I realise that this is a non-issue. Go away Xewka and find some really thorns to play with. Preferably with Peter Muscat

By: Caphenni

Caphenni — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 08:22:20 +0000

Lol @ Amanda – That does seem like I was hit by some sort of love bug. Maybe I have :D Or else I was just smoking a little too much :)

I wonder what Joseph has to say about marijuana. A Facebook group calling for its legalization has almost reached 1000 members. I’m sure it would help Joseph to ask for its legalization and get everyone smoking it. We’d all be singing the coke anthem and licking his poodle paws in no time.

And if he does, well its just another reason for me to vote for him!

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:27:17 +0000

@Hmmm Hmmm – you know, I’m really tired of people like you popping in from time to time to hector me about what and how I should write. I’ve been doing this job successfully for almost two decades, and I think I can trust my own judgement about what to do and not to do, what to write and not to write. If you believe for one moment that I am going to fall into the trap of writing relentlessly ‘serious’ articles to impress people with my intellectual prowess, you really don’t know the meaning of the phrase that it takes a wise man to play the fool. There are enough people around being serious and intellectual to impress others; so go off and read them, then.

By: Xewka

Xewka — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:25:17 +0000

It seems that the list of people who like JM is growing first we had single men without children aged between 30 and 40, now we have teenage girls (who will be 18 by next election) and post-menopausal woman, gay and lesbians, seperated couples who wish for a divorce. The list is really getting longer – this in less than a week – what will happen in 5 years.
@ H.B.Baxter – I’ll tell you what’s wrong with PFP when we start receiving our young men/women in a box and giving them a hero’s funeral. You say some people want to become soldiers – good for them. Others want to join PFP – good for them. But the majority of soldiers join the forces because they have been unemployed. These are not your children, nor mine, nor Gonzi’s, nor Sant’s. These are people who don’t have a say, by the way we were told that they will join PFP on a volontary bases. Volontary bases my foot – all newly enrolled soldiers can be sent whenever and wherever the NATO sees fit.
@Daphne – Does a person have to look like Brett Pitt to be handsome. By handsome I meant easy on the eye, or pleasant to look at. Of course 35 is young. Maybe he is veryclose to middle age but all other leaders are much older.

[Moderator – Stop being demagogic. Soldiers participate in the PfP voluntarily – and they will not be ‘forced’ to participate in NATO missions because the PfP is not NATO. For starters, Russia is a member of the PfP, while NATO is its traditional enemy.]

By: tony borg

tony borg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:26:09 +0000

Daphne. You are right. Add to that the fact that his doting mother had him at 36 and he’s an only child.

By: Hmm Hmm

Hmm Hmm — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:46:42 +0000

Dear Daphne,

I’m sorry to say but your coloumns are really beginning to look and sound childish. Are you in any way competing with Madonna for the best child story book? What with all the rainbows and frogs and dwarves. Why don’t you include Dr.Gonzi in your fairy tales, he would play a wonderful part as Mr.Potato Head (what’s going on under those cheeks?)?

I appreciate you say you being an independent writer and what not, but please live up to your journalistic claims. If you are so independent I don’t think that Labour party’s problems are your only political interest? Have you nothing to say about Gonzi’s sudden disappearance? Where is he, apart from an appearance here and another there, where is our Prime Minister, what is he doing? Aren’t you a little bit wee interested how all of a sudden all communication is lost between the PM and the rest of us? Where is the new way of making politics?

You wrote so so so much about Joseph Muscat, but Gonzi has been in the recent government more than Joseph has been a leader, and still, where is that curious and investigative journalist inside you?

I hope you take due note of my comments and criticism because if you want to remain credible you have some attitude to change, big time.

[Moderator – What are ‘journalistic claims’?]

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:20:50 +0000

Daphne:

I still think he can’t be blamed for a culture which, as you so rightly say, thinks that ‘ginger’ equals handsome (though this has changed: ‘Mediterranean’ looks, whatever that means, are highly prized these days – thank goodness as far as I’m concerned!). If anything it’s his attitude that matters, not the actual goods. With respect to the former you’re spot on (though take my word for it that he’s not half as bad as he comes across); as for the latter, I suggest we might want to sidestep the issue.

My tuppence w. (uff – what has postmodernism done to figures of speech?) was more along the lines of: For ‘ohxon’, ‘ikrah’, etc. ‘political’ commentary, it’s not Daphne I look to. A trip down the grocer’s would be a better bet. Then again, it was an unasked-for comment on my part, so it’s your pick.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:19:05 +0000

Daph – Maybe I should rephrase that. I certainly DIDN’T intend calling ALL post-menopausal women “frustrated”, but I was thinking of that one in particular …

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:16:56 +0000

Caphenni – You said “Look at us, we’re arguing in terribly superficial ways, attacking one another and calling each other names, talking about HATE and LOVE towards a person we know very little about, and so on.”

Have you already got bitten by Joseph’s love bug?