Comments on: The wisdom of The People (7) https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:34:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22680 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:34:58 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22680 http://stocks.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080908/local/what-lies-beneath

]]> By: Carmel Said https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22679 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:04:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22679 At least Parliament was not part of the list of proposed items!

]]> By: jim https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22678 Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:51:35 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22678 The FAA wants it open for the public, maybe to be used as a public latrine. The problem is actually with The Times. Sometimes I have the feeling that some reporters have quite an agenda.

]]> By: John Schembri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22677 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:53:42 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22677 @ Mario Debono , they didn’t have pvc pipes but they had those made of clay.
Kaptelli are not placed in a triangular position; they are placed horizontally, a sewer leads to a cesspit or to the sea and it should be on a gradiant (pendil).This one is level and leads to a street. My question is: “If parliament is moving to City Gate with the probability of the Yellow Garage being its parking place, why should we disagree with Renzo Piano’s grand plan of a car free Valletta, and build a car park right in the middle of the city? I wouldn’t be surprised that it was an escape route from the palace. Let’s wait and see what the experts have to say.

]]> By: NGT https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22676 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:42:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22676 @mj: I’ve got an even better idea – put all the infidel invaders underground where they can be forced to work (taking AN’s advice) without ever having to be seen – that’ll keep the population happy.

]]> By: Mario Debono https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22675 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:46:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22675 Handy passage that. Complete with kaptelli on top so that you can clean it up to clear any blockage of accumulated sh**. What passage? That looks like a drainage gandott to me. The ceiling says it all. They didn’t have PVC pipes with rodding eyes in those days.

But I can understand the FAA getting all orgasmic about it. Why, these secret passages are just like the ones we used to read about in Enid Blyton! Whoever knows what might have gone on in them – maybe some damsel with hoop skirts and ants in her pants running to the palace from some connected house to comfort a grandmaster or even Romegas, that seafaring rogue himself. Or maybe they could have smuggled in some angel dust and had a party and been naughty and played doctors and patients, or strip spin the bottle, or ….who knows? Never has a common or garden drain (worth preserving, I hasten to add) been imbued with so much romanticism and mystery.

]]> By: mj https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22674 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:20:50 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22674 While we’re at it, we can build Gotham City as well (we have a number of colourful characters who will give Batman a run for his money). In a true Ed Debono fashion, let’s think outside the box – er rock – and we can also go ahead with underwater city. This is cool. I like it. It’s like playing Sim City on a PC.

PLUS, there’s the added benefit. With all these cities, we will have enough place to breed and outgrow the number of . . . what do they call them? Ah yes. Invaders sent by the infidel.

]]> By: Harry Purdie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22673 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:59:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22673 Gerald,

Don’t you find these ‘selectively’ reproduced comments amusing? No one is attempting to be vindictive. Mr Spiteri commented in an amazingly funny and naive way. So, in agreeing wirh Corinne, what’s got up your nose?

]]> By: P Shaw https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22672 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:38:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22672 Gerald, the problem with the volume,low quality and nonsense of the http://www.timesofmalta.com comments is that they have become off-putting and tedious.

It’s always the same people who either want to express themselves even though they have nothing substantial to say because they are so bored with their lives, or a bunch of big-headed egocentrics who want to suck up to Doktor Muscat to impress him.

At the end of the day, people who can contribute and add value to the article in question do not comment at all, since they do not want to be associated with these idiots. Nobody reads these comments anymore, unless one wants to amuse himself for a couple of minutes.

]]> By: Charles Cauchi https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/02/the-wisdom-of-the-people-7/#comment-22671 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:02:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=1979#comment-22671 I know the connection is tenuous but somehow this reminds me of the FAA/Astrid Vella & Co.

For some light relief

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1IJiAXjj7k

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