Comments on: Toni Abela uses a hackneyed literary device

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:08:55 +0000

Victor Micallef – Are you for real? (Or should I ask “Is that your real name?”)

People like you fail to realise that yes, there are people who do what they do without first seeing what they stand to gain.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:04:04 +0000

Daphne – “It should be obvious even to a lobotomised person that Dr and Mrs Muscat, Toni Abela, Anglu Farrugia and the ‘non-Labour crowd’ in the square yesterday have nothing that I want, need or aspire to. I rather suspect it is the other way round.”

Come on, Daph! Wouldn’t you soooo wish to look and speak like Toni Abela?

[Daphne – I dream about it every day.]

By: Michael A. Vella

Michael A. Vella — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:13 +0000

I M Dingli: “It is more than obvious that since the manifestation was called by the Opposition leader, the Labourites would be flocking for the activity but rest assured that it wasn’t just Labourites who were present.”

My comment was addressed to the ‘Maltese citizens’, I never referred to them as labourites. Getting a bit tetchy aren’t we?

“At least they didn’t bring along the ‘Torca’ flags or pictures of Dom Mintoff, KMB, Sant etc.”

Which, no doubt was a relief to Joe. Yet it was still an MLP protest and nothing more.

By: I M Dingli

I M Dingli — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:18:30 +0000

Whatever my queen! I feel like a peasant when talking to you, my mistakes are always out of ignorance while yours can be justified plausibly. The thing is that both of them are mistakes, period.

[Daphne – You don’t have to be so touchy. They may both be mistakes, but they’re mistakes of a completely different order, and to put them in the same category is yet another mistake.]

By: I M Dingli

I M Dingli — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:34:19 +0000

Really Daphne, now you listen….. In your reply to Stanely J A Clews, what did you mean with ‘to live under under a violent, corrupt and dictatorial government…’ did you mean just one under or you wanted to emphasis it and thus wrote it twice? ugh

[Daphne – A typographical error is not the same thing as a grammatical error. The first is the result of distraction, the second of ignorance. Grow up.]

By: tax payer

tax payer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:18:42 +0000

ABOUT THE SALESGIRL AT THE AIRPORT

[Daphne – No, it wasn’t a joke. It was a true-life anecdote.]

By: I M Dingli

I M Dingli — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:08:02 +0000

@ Tim Ripard

Oh, so you are telling me that the PN supporters done that because of the provocation by MLP supporters. Oh, now I understand everything!!

Mr. Ripard, did you see any MLP flags during yesterday’s manifestation? No, so why jump to conclusions that it is only the MLP supporters who are complaining. Do you complain about the new measures?

[Daphne – Listen clearly, and perhaps all the Maltastar elves lurking here should do the same: ‘DONE’ IS NOT THE PAST TENSE OF ‘DO’. The word you’re looking for here is ‘DID’. Madonna, x’attakk nervuz.]

By: tax payer

tax payer — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:06:19 +0000

Surely Daphne that was a joke

[Daphne – What was?]

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:57:50 +0000

@ IM Dingli. If I remember correctly when the EU Referendum results were announced a lot of Labour supporters went around waving Labour flags because their leader told them the result was ‘No’ to EU membership.

Isn’t it obvious that people waved PN flags? Who managed to persuade the people to vote in favour of the EU, despite a campaign by the MLP demonising the EU? Certainly not Alfred Sant or Joseph Muscat. The latter has since made a 180° U-turn on both counts and now believes a) EU membership is good for Malta and b) the ‘yes’ votes outnumbered the ‘no’ votes. Amazing how a person with a doctorate can take four years to work that out.

[Daphne – I suspect Joseph Muscat is something like the woman who rang up my purchases at the airport cafeteria a couple of days ago: two bottles of juice, two packets of sandwiches and two wraps. Counting them visually was clearly beyond her, even though they were lined up in three groups of two each. She tapped each item and moved it aside as she counted it, got a total of seven, counted them again, again got a total of seven, then gave up and called her colleague. Meanwhile, the entire exasperated queue stared in disbelief.]

By: Stanley J A Clews

Stanley J A Clews — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:39:31 +0000

Daphne
Thank you for your excellent write-up on Remembrance Day, As a World War II veteran I was disgusted to see that Joseph Muscat did not have the decency to turn up at the War Memorial to lay a wreath.At least Alfred Sant was always present. For the first time in the last 20 years I was unable to attend myself for health reasons, but the Malta Branch of the George Cross Island Association of which I am Chairman, was fully represented and wreaths were laid on behalf of all Maltese civilians and allied servicemen and women who died (around 7,000 of them) during the Siege of Malta between 1940-43. You might like to note in your diary that on April 15th next the GCIA will hold its annual wreath-laying ceremony at the Siege Bell in Valletta, presided over by the President of Malta.
Thanks again – “we will remember you, too”

[Daphne – The only siege of Malta they know about is the one that took place in 1565. Strangely, that isn’t described as a gwerra tal-barrani, but as a manifestation of Maltese courage and heroism, even though it wasn’t Malta per se that was being attacked, but the headquarters of the Ottoman Empire’s arch-enemy, the Order of St John. The Ottoman fleet didn’t give a damn about the starving farmers and beggars who made up the majority of the Maltese population at the time, except in terms of possible slave material. But then we’re talking here about people who have shown themselves to be unperturbed by having to live under under a violent, corrupt and dictatorial government which stamps on human rights and quashes freedom of expression, so one imagines that it would all have been the same to them – Axis or Allies, mhux xorta. They would have been quite happy with Mussolini, which is quite ironic given the history of Malta’s political parties. Amazing how the Labour Party has shifted from far left to far right.]