Tell it to the marines with those strong hands of yours, old boy
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September 9, 2008 at 2:04pm
I think you might enjoy this comment from – where else – the comments-boards over at www.timesofmalta.com. It’s quite amusing.
L Galea (1 week, 3 days ago)@ M. Mercieca
The EU consequences cannot be worse than we are already having old boy. Anyway, a pair of strong hands ought to know how to tell the EU to tell it to the marines, doesn’t he?
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Would you perhaps post the link to the original article, as there is no context to the comment.
I love the cowardly sentiment in the comment though.
Thanks.
(Daphne – I collect these things without context, but I’ll try to trace it.)
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080909/local/eu-confirms-maltas-leading-ict-ranking
Have you read the above? What a great record! Would it have been possible under a labour administration? [Oh yes, probably under Mintoff’s reign! :) :) ]
Can you post the link?
(Daphne – I’ll try to find it again.)
The Times is earning itself a (dis)reputation – I liked the one where someone wrote that ‘you can have it log, stock and barrel’. I suppose the lapse says more on the proof reader/moderator than the writer.
(Daphne – The comments are obviously not proofread and corrected. It would take forever to do that. Also, I don’t think that the language and grammar should be corrected before publication, because it reflects the level of education of the person commenting, and it’s crucial to be able to consider his or her view in that context. Anyway, if it were me, I would just press the delete button.)
Spell-check OK, Hi-ho Silver, away!
There’s enough material in the Times’ comments boards for a sociology conference.
Some of those who comment on the Times website are elderly but most are youngish. Taken collectively, the postings of a dozen or so ‘regulars’ are a shocking denunciation of our education system.
It is depressing to realise that fifty years of compulsory schooling have had so little effect on so many people.
I don’t think the Times of Malta can wash their hands of these racist comments, just because they seem unmoderated.
They are hosting these comments on their server, and under their domain, and they are therefore accountable for such comments, even if they don’t agree with them.
Publish and be damned.
Not a fan of the delete button; it is a type of censorship. These boards should reflect society as a whole, not necessarily one sector that might be more educated or tolerant than the rest.
If nothing else, they serve the purpose of illustrating what the Maltese are all about.
First monitor, then measure than manage….
To those asking for context.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080830/local/unexplained-gaps-in-search-for-missing-migrants
More words of wisdom from the unbelievable L. Galea:
L Galea (2 hours, 38 minutes ago)
@George Caruana
Agree with you 100%. Stories like this as reported in the media are hardening the Maltese population more against the illegal immigrants. We want nothing less than 100% repatriation or sending them on their way on suitable boats with enough food, water and fuel to reach mainland Europe.Or better and quicker still buy some old ships, put all the illegal immigrants on them and send them on their way with a warning never to come back to Malta. They must never be allowed to settle here.The majority of the Maltese population neither wants them to remain here nor to integrate with us. Period.Those who are acting otherwise are acting against the wishes of the majority of the Maltese population and will start getting their answers in the coming local councils and the EP elections. They are also to be held responsible for all the trouble that is going to occur if the illegal immigrants are allowed to stay in Malta. The UK, France, Italy and other countries are perfect examples that a multiculture society is only a very bad dream.
Extracted from:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080910/local/two-infants-in-hospital
When you consider that the comment in question was posted beneath the news item stating that two babies – both under a year old were amongst the immigrants – and that one of them is in intensive care (both of them having swallowed “a considerable amount of seawater”), it just goes to show what scum some fellow Maltese are.
Holland: Those rubbish comments don’t illustrate “what the Maltese are all about”. They illustrate that many of the people who post those comments don’t think, have a poor grasp of the world around them, have no idea of what shape the world is (in political and economic terms, to them it is flat), and are as utterly devoid of compassion and sensitivity as it is possible to be. Their ‘comments’ are badly spelled, poorly structured and often incoherent and yet, their makers believe that those comments are opinions.
Admittedly some of the comments in The Times leave much to be desired. However are we not being a bit too hard on the Times or is it that these comments are increasing the Times’ readership ?
Ethel: I doubt that that type of comment increases readership of the Times’ news. It’s next to impossible to find a plausible, well constructed argument among the torrent of rubbish. What use would anyone who produces that have for a properly reported news story – other than as a grindstone for their collection of axes?