Comments on: Everyone has an opinion, and most of it is junk https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: maryanne https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14087 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:46:25 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14087 mario debono.. You are right. Everybody in the UK has a doctorate in |Queen’s english!

]]> By: Mario Debono https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14086 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:36:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14086 Thank you Gerald and Ethel for pointing out my bloopers. They are inexcusable. Thats what comes of peering myopically into a PDA whilst trying to write a piece :)

Aye promiss aye will do beter nekst thyme……

]]> By: Therese https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14085 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:40:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14085 Michaela, Blogs exist in order to log people’s thoughts and block them, that’s why they’re called blogs. A person who writes in a blog is a blogger, the person who censors the messages in the blog is a blocker, the group of people who hold fundamentalist views are called a bloc, if what they say is rubbish, it’s called bollocs. The purpose of a blog in a computer literate society is to alleviate boredom.

(Daphne – Blog is the truncated form of ‘web-log’, a log being a record of events or data.)

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14084 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:50:24 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14084 The Maltese do not hold the monopoly on ignorance. Cretins flourish everywhere, as I found out much to my chagrin when I started living in what is supposedly, ahem chrrm, “the Mother of Arts, Arms and Laws”. To be fair, we’ve got a higher moron count per square km, and other nations do not have Xarabank, but you get my point.

(Daphne – There is a country with a higher cretin-count, and it’s got Oprah and Jerry Springer.)

]]> By: Gerald https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14083 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:09:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14083 To add to Cikki’s comment, the Maltese seem to be stuck in a 1950’s time warp in some redneck racist town such as in the heart of Alabama or Mississippi. It’s unbelievable what you hear and see nowadays. And this is from the world’s ‘happiest’ nation. Give me a break!

]]> By: Gerald https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14082 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:06:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14082 I think it is the job of the online editor to edit or ignore comments which xenophobic, ill-informed or downright stupid. Admittedly, the drivel being posted on timesofmalta.com is rather hilarious although there are some cases where comments are well written and contribute to debate which is what an online forum is all about.
We are not alone in posting comments smacking of racism or ignorance and stupidity, just access http://www.timesonline.co.uk for a clear example.
Mario Debono – check your spelling its blog not block.

]]> By: Matt https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14081 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:25:04 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14081 Dear Daphne,

You’ve read my mind!!! Reading the comments on the online Times is like sniffing glue – it makes you sick and yet you can’t stop! I find myself checking out the site many times a day just to see if something even more ridiculous or idiotic has been written!

The ignorance (and racism) in Malta is shocking. Empty barrels make the most sound they say … it’s so true!

]]> By: Charlene Gouder https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14080 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:59:56 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14080 The best thing about this opinion thingy is that come 2009 my namesake Charlon Gouder will, inschallah, be sharing his superior wisdom about Europe…from his OWN weekly The Times/The Independent column (with the trademark little photo at the top). How’s that for maddening?

(Daphne – Oh boy, I can’t wait. I’m really missing Lorna Vassallo.)

]]> By: amrio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14079 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:44:39 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14079 Daphne,

I agree with the gist of your article, but I beg to disagree on only 1 point – “that Jesmond Mugliett is to blame for traffic accidents because he ‘put recycled glass inside the tarmac’ and this glass is ‘reflecting’” was very clearly a humorous comment.

(Daphne – I’m afraid to tell you that it was, in fact, made in all seriousness. I pulled it out of a major rant against Di Governmen.)

]]> By: Anthony https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/09/everyone-has-an-opinion-and-most-of-it-is-junk/#comment-14078 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:29:08 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=588#comment-14078 Anybody with at least one neuron inside the skull has an opinion. An educated, informed opinion is a priceless rarity. I earnestly urge owners of the latter commodity to constantly rebuff their very understandable suicidal ideations.

(Daphne – Too many people confuse ‘instant reaction’ with ‘opinion’. What most people seem to have, who comment beneath news stories, is a reaction rather than an opinion. It’s not considered at all.)

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