Where's an interfering foreigner when you need one?
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January 3, 2010 at 11:54am
I think a European Court of Human Rights ruling is called for – don’t you agree?
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yes I do
Will have a gold digger around his neck pretty soon.
Looks like a ‘cross’ between Captain Ahab and Moby Dick.
“Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian”
(Herman Melville / Moby Dick)
‘When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion’. (Daniel Defoe / Robinson Crusoe). Andrea, please don’t join dangerous cults, practice safe sects,
Harry, I am glad that you still seem to join your Cowboy church prayer group.
Andrea, got a ‘ticket to ride’.
Is this in Malta?
[Daphne – No.]
I would say he looks like a Lebanese Christian.
Seems he is trying to stress a point …. in a very subtle way
Daphne, why so cynical? Can’t you see if he jumps in the sea, he needs some weight to counter the fat round his stomach?
He’s commiting suicide if he thinks he can swim with that heavy crucifix round his neck.
Commit suicide? How can he drown with such a huge cross? If he does, that will be the best proof after Galileo Galilei and Darwin that there is no god watching us.
[Daphne – I don’t think Galileo or Darwin sought to prove anything of the sort, nor did they.]
I wonder what the psychology behind this is. May he wants to compensate for the little thingy few inches down, or maybe he wants to show his ex that he is now a converted saint, or maybe he is a naked priest.
You are right they did not seek to prove that, however they showed the insignificance of our existence which conflicted with scriptures.
In a handful of soil one finds as much as four times the amount of the entire human population of other living organisms. We humans are tiny fraction of life on earth. In perspective of the universe, the vastness of geological time we are insignificant.
These were all proven science and the insignificance in itself is the proof. Other than that it’s an argument from personal incredulity.
Len, he won’t drown. He’ll sink.
Leonard. Go tell that to Labour. Make sure you emphasize that Galileo is not a galaxy and that Darwin is not a city in Australia.
I wonder how much that cost him?
Was that picture taken in Malta? I’d love to know.
Also, that isn’t Vincent Agius of the Istitut Socjo-Kulturali San Pawl, is it?
Where was this photo taken? Do you know? Is he a Maltese man? It looks like some sort of parade – a gay obscure fetish one.
Daphne says it’s not Malta. Yet if we don’t know where it was taken we cannot exclude the possibility. I say this because that could be the AG in his finer years.
In any case, I believe the chain wins over the crucifix.
Yes, against bathing briefs like those above, on aesthetic grounds, especially when they appear underneath a load of lard like that. Well, I don’t actually mean that but, boy, this guy is THE definition of bad taste.
Maybe the guy wanted to make some kind of statement. That cross certainly looks heavy to me. But glad to see you are back to usual form.
Can I ask what readers feel about the fact that the main problem of the Gonzi government, besides the obvious one seat majority issue, is the fact that it takes time, much time, to achieve anything at all. It seems that the government is in constantly battling the red tape minded civil service mentality. Would be grateful for comments .
Wishing all a happy New Year.
It takes time and money. Things are badly planned, take longer than budgeted for and cost more than expected. Take a look at the sewage treatment plants – badly planned (the water removed from sewage isn’t re-cycled) years late, over budget and what’s more the one in Mellieha (Ic-Cumnija) has probably damaged the aquifer irreversably.
Let me be clear, the same sort of thing happens here in Austria, where state-owned companies are still a workers’ paradise. Employees of the ÖBB, the national railway company, for example, retire at an average age of 52. Of their 28,000 company mobile phones, some 12,000 are ‘missing’ and unaccounted for. Their former CEO at the end of his €1.8 million per year term wrote himself a contract to act as a consultant for some €20,000/month which consultancy could be done ‘over the phone’. The national airline amassed some €800 million in debts before being ‘sold’ (given is a better word) to Lufthansa. I’m not surprised – I’ve known Austrian airlines employees to take several months of sick leave due to ‘stomach pains’ – well, at least one anyway.
The basic problem is that everyone thinks of number one, first, last and all the time, with few exceptions. Despite the veneer of civilisation, we’re still jungle animals, grabbing what we can – from a ‘father-unknown’ pension, to juicy contracts, to land, to cushy sinecures, whatever.
Ultimately, since we’re a democracy and self-ruling, there’s no WILL to change the situation. We let it ride in the hope that we can get to the trough and swill longer than anyone else.
Which is why it bothers me so much that Daphne always makes things out to be particular Maltese problems!
Sarcasm is difficult to convey on the Internet. I’m eager to read the replies that are yet to come.
Looks a bit like Anglu Farrugia!
Maybe it’s just to protect him against jellyfish, given what happened to that dork who supposedly has the best job in the world!
With that body volume he needs a larger “protection” statement.
@Tim Ripard
Thank goodness for those briefs. I shudder to think of what else could “appear under a fat load of lard like that “.
How convenient using ‘Our Lord’ phrases to build up arguments then goes on defying him and the church the rest of the year. For me the cross is just an ornament big deal. I think you’re more disgusted of hairy guys rather than the cross.
[Daphne – I married one, darling.]
Is he on the next cover of ‘Taste’, Daphne? So the ‘Colombian druglord’/’Maronite warlord’ look DOES work with the fillies! I’m off to get myself a five kilo gold crucifix, a moustache and some hair implants on my chest.
Baxxter. Possibly a penis extension? (Dare you Daphne)
I don’t need that, thank you very much. Not that the old chap has seen much action, mind you.
Hey Baxxter. It’s all in your hands. Take charge and don’t give up.
Hot cross bun anyone?
From the way the cross is designed it seems a Slavic one. However put on in such a way is as inappropriate as having taken away from European classes for the whim of some secularist wiseacre. The cancer of 1789.
In a previous post, Daphne had said she was genuinely scared by a crucifix – heck, surely the bloke in the pic is what we should be afraid of?
Yeah, especially if he’s coming straight at you wielding that crucifix.
Well, as the Americans like to say, he’s a big fat hairy brute with a dubious taste in fashion, but he is our big fat hairy brute…
Daphne, please put us out of our misery and tell us the story re this photo.
[Daphne – I don’t know where it was taken. Somebody sent it to me.]
I hadn’t seen such a gross photo for some time before this one. It’s not a Slavic cross – that would have three horizontal bars, the bottom one slanting. I’m terribly curious to know whether this is some form of protest against the Strasbourg judgement. Looks like the guy to his right also sports a heavy chain round his neck which may have a crucifix attached to it.
Could this be a photo of a demonstration at Borg in-Nadur perhaps?
It looks like a Greek Orthodox crucifix. Greek Orthodox Christians hold a blessing of the waters festival every January to commemorate Christ’s baptism and some hardy souls take the plunge. Maybe it’s a Greek community in Australia.
Daphne, another one who did not manage to get on the gravy train and so….
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/ms09dart.asp?a=6441
With the price of gold being what it is, he is probably carrying the equivalent of Malta’s GDP around his neck.
Off-topic, but thought you might want to have a look at it anyway …
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1241051/Breast-milk-NOT-better-baby-formula-scientists-claim.html