The Maltese – we have no sense of irony

Have you ever made an ironic remark over dinner only to be met by a row of blank faces because everyone has taken you literally? Well, here’s the flipside: a literal remark that’s just begging to be taken ironically. It’s from the comments-board beneath a newspaper story of two babies being airlifted from the sinking boat in which their mother has died.

http://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080910/local/two-infants-in-hospital

C.Borg (7 hours, 45 minutes ago)
Look at Europe how they turned their back on us. Look at some MEP charlatans who criticize us so as to justify their huge and scandalous paypackets while at the same time let us drown. Look beyond your nose and you see that we are only nailing more our coffin. There is no end to this story – a tragic story to these migrants but still more to our nation.

This man speaks of MEPs “letting us drown” – and he means Malta and the Maltese, of course, not the babies and their mum, and the tens of other people on that capsizing vessel. He says that the migrants’ story is tragic, but Malta’s experience, because of them, is more so. And it’s a dead cert he typed that out with a straight face and lots of self-righteous indignation.