Comments on: Ma jafux kif imorru l-affarijiet, jahasra

By: jim

jim — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:44:36 +0000

JM knows exactly what he’s doing. He wants to attract the young generation by not going to mass on Sunday and defying the rules.

[Daphne – Well, for every young person he attracts with that one – and they’re not all as inane as he thinks – he’s going to repel a few adults. I haven’t been to Sunday mass for the last 23 years or so, but it doesn’t mean I have any commonality with Muscat. Gonzi is openly religious but attracts young people in droves. If there’s anything that makes a teenager suspicious, it’s an oldie like Muscat – and 35 is old enough to be their biological father – acting rebellious and ‘cool’. I can still remember when I was 18 and there were these two women who used to come to Saddles to hang out, wearing bustiers and short skirts. My friends and I thought they were sad, ridiculous and really, really old. Looking back, I realise they can’t have been more than 35.]

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:36:19 +0000

“Neil Dent: No. But life begins at 40.”
…and here people keep claiming it starts at conception ;)

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:22:35 +0000

Neil Dent: No. But life begins at 40.

By: Michael A. Vella

Michael A. Vella — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 21:11:33 +0000

David Buttigieg: “True enough, but that excrement finally did something good for his country!”

Yep! Mintoff did do just one thing “good for his country”, he forced Alfred Sant’s MLP government out of office at just about the right time to enable us to get back on the road to EU membership.

Not that that just one good thing wipes out the considerable damage caused to the country and its people through 16 long years + a further 22 months of MLP crass ineptitude in government.

By: Antoine Vella

Antoine Vella — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:11:53 +0000

I do not think it was a question of not knowing the correct protocol but of the usual sitting on the fence. The MLP did not want to take part in the Independence celebrations but did not want to not take part either.

What they have done means that they cannot be accused of ignoring a National Day (they did place a wreath after all) but, at the same time, their supporters have not seen them on television in the company of the President and the Prime Minister.

They must have thought it was a very cunning solution but the price was that it made the new leader look like the hillbilly of Maltese politics.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:03:33 +0000

18, 34, 35 or 50! It’s Joseph Muscat’s position not his age that matters.
What concerns me is whether it is lack of knowledge (ignorance) when it comes to protocol or complete and utter indifference.

By: Gerald

Gerald — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:31:23 +0000

I was told that you are still a youth at 35! Joseph is 34 going to be 35 in January 2009.

By: Neil Dent

Neil Dent — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:29:28 +0000

Surely the new Lijder needs a course in protocol, among many other things! There is no doubt!

But that is not my main worry……….

@ Corinne Vella
Ms. Vella! Surely middle-aged starts at the 40+ mark, doesn’t it? WELL DOESN’T IT!!?!?

Neil – nearly 39yrs old ;)

By: FB Aquilina

FB Aquilina — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:42:50 +0000

Incredible! The boundless arrogance of the Labour Party! The same people who accuse the PN of believing in ‘a divine right to govern’!!! An outstanding case of the pot calling the kettle black….

By: David Buttigieg

David Buttigieg — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 11:28:41 +0000

@Corinne

“At 35 one is not young, but middle-aged”

Hey hey hey hey hey!!!!