Comments on: Pants on fire

By: Sybil

Sybil — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 23:53:47 +0000

Pardon me if I am mistaken , but I distinctly heard the prime minister saying on a news item on PBS , a week and a half ago, that he knew nothing of the project. Maybe he does not read The Times then? But is he not MEPA minister anyway? So how come he did not know? What counts is that at the end of the day, he took, what most people truly believe, is the right decision.

[Daphne – Your track record on interpreting language isn’t that great, Sybil – neither the written word, nor the spoken word. I imagine that what you heard the prime minister say was that he didn’t know THE DETAILS of the project. I hardly think he’s the sort of person to tell a lie and say that it was never announced. That’s the sort of thing our Astrid does.]

By: Tim Ripard

Tim Ripard — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:23:41 +0000

Who wrote this article? (I was preparing for an emotional farewell to my children (and Malta) at the time and can’t say I remember it.

[Daphne – Ivan Camilleri]

By: me

me — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:58:01 +0000

I will only believe these NGOs especially the ‘greens’ when they do as Gandhi did – that is, live in a one-room unfurnished house; weave the cloth they wrap around themselves and move about barefoot.

[Daphne – Actually, the ones who are most obsessive and impractical are precisely that way, because they have no understanding of human nature. They think everybody should live as they do, in a state of self-imposed deprivation. I don’t think Gandhi tried to impose his ascetic existence on others.]

By: me

me — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 16:36:00 +0000

I believe the poor sod used to stitch tapestries in her childhood and thinks of these Flemish tapestries as some A4 bits of cloth with nicely multi-coloured stitches worked in.