I am not denying that there are 15-year-olds who may have a cocaine habit. What is the head count of these underage drug-users? Elsewhere one person is 0.0001% and in Malta the same increase would be reflected as 0.01% or more.

I, like all self-respecting Italians, use noce moscata in meat dishes. Maybe that’s why people enjoy Italain food so much then.

Fully agree with the comment that there is “a huge sense of entitlement without responsibility.” This trait is all the more evident amongst certain expats who adopt a colonial attitude to tell us what is right or wrong. For example, a certain Lesley Gail Kreupl from Gharb wants to teach us what ODZ means. In today’s Independent she states; “In supporting such cases, it is about time that the Government realises that it is ruling a country which is a member of the European Union, i.e. a westernised, ostensibly civilised, country and not a 3rd world dictatorship!” What this patronising git fails to tell us is that in many parts of the EU, development in the countryside is rampant.

Sorry, but that is ridiculously naive.

Muscat nuts = noce muscata= nutmeg? Can anyone illuminate.
I use it for the bechamel sauce.

[Daphne – Yes, the English name is nutmeg.]

Muscat nuts are a cheaper choice of drugs:
http://thenorwaymail.blogspot.com/2008/09/muscat-nuts-are-latest-drug-of-choice.html
But then…!

http://euobserver.com/?aid=19587

this was a while back.

This sense of entitlement is compounded with the problem of small communities: everybody knows everybody or someone who does. So we all feel terribly important, like the goldfish that swims from one side of the aquarium to the other and thinks it’s a whale that has crossed the ocean.

It warps our mind. You see it everywhere – we have to have at least two rival organisations or more doing the same thing so that everyone can feel they’re notable. Pompous pretentious twits heading all kinds of could-be-useful organisations. The most ludicrous of arguments that pass as public debate in Malta usually targeted at a person, and not at an action or idea, or criticising minutiae.

When we eventually realize that life cannot be as fabulous as we expect it to be and that we’re not as eminent as we pretend to be, then we have to take our kicks otherwise…

The government should make (or help) every Maltese spend at least three months in a big anonymous capital somewhere. Then, for a few weeks, visit moribunds at hospital. Then we can get some perspective on life.

I don’t know what sort of cookies you’re eating, Mario, but if people are financially stressed, where are they getting the cash to pay for their cocaine?