Ara, mela wasal il-leader?
Nice tie, but Michelle picked the wrong colour.
Is Joseph Muscat back from Australia? I think that’s him on Super One’s TX right now with Miriam Dalli. And they’re trying a little bit of subliminal – ahem – communication. He’s sitting against a cobalt blue background.
Cunning, eh? Kemm ahna smart.
He’s just repeated that total hogwash again – that myth about long-term lovers not being allowed at the hospital bedside in times of emergency because they don’t have a marriage certificate. And that’s why it’s important to give them one: so that they can visit in times of emergency, when only next of kin are permitted access.
What idiocy – I mean, honestly, did he bother to check before repeating this rubbish? It’s not as though the head nurse asks visitors for their marriage certificate. ‘If you’re not married, then you’re not allowed in to the intensive care unit.”
Times have changed a little since he last looked, and even way back when, nobody threw lovers out or refused to allow them in.
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Ma xi dwejjaq ta’ nies! Cannot bear listening to this guy’s inanity. Please shoot me if he becomes Prime Minister.
Possibbli li nofs Malta tivvota ghal dal-Gahan? Veru idjota, vojt u bahnan, biex nuza ftit aggettivi prudenti!
I wish I could, but I would have been shot before too!
Michelle should have picked him a beige one, God knows it would reflect his dull personality better. Or maybe a darker brown, perhaps?
How about slime green?
Or maybe a lovely culmination of vomit orange and snot green?
M’ghandekx x’taghmel Daphne? Veru li kien hemm xi kumment fuq l-ingravata li ma’ kienetx orango, u wara beda jitkellem fuq Cameron …… u qlibtlu u issa tfejtlu.
Dal-bniedem vojt u superficjali – ara ahna x’nigu naqghu w inqumu jekk hux ‘colour blind’ u li ghadu ma xtarax ingravata dawn l-ahhar xaharejn.
L-uniku kumment ‘light’ li qal il-Prim Ministru fuq ta’ Bondi Plus kien fuq ir-rebha ta’ l-Inter u xorta silet taghlima minnha.
Wiehed hsiebu kif se jiskansa lil-pajjiz mill-inkwiet ekonomiku u l-iehor b’halq imcarrat jiccacra fuq it-televixin ma’ Claudette fuq iz-zubbara t’ingravajjet!
Meta Eddie Fenech Adami mar l-Awstralja kienu tawh kelb tal-puwdil. Issa mar il-puwdil naqa’ tard bhas-soltu u rega fegg puwdil jidhaq f’wiccna.
Biex se jkollna nghabbu wkoll!
A good six inches of cuffs showing. Are the arms short or the sleeves long?
What is the point of letting the loved ones into hospital without the marriage certificate if then, the Church won’t let them in at the funeral?
[Daphne – Did I hear anyone say the church won’t allow them to the funeral? Where did you get this piece of rubbish?]
U le, u le. They CAN go to church, but they can’t receive Holy Communion. Then again, why would they want to, given the circumstances?
My friend, I’m atheist and public about it (sometimes annoyingly so).
My daughter had her holy communion a few years ago and I had agreed with the archpriest that I’ll go up with the wife and daughter up the aisle but to remind him not to offer me the host. Her godmother is a god-fearing creature, as it should be. Eventually she’ll make her own choices.
My father died a few weeks ago and I was at mass and cemetery like anybody else and felt part of the proceedings. Naturally I didn’t receive the host.
What’s this necessity to receiving the host at all costs? If you believe what’s in the bible, then you can have your communion with Jesus in many ways. AFAIK, receiving the host is called ‘being in communion with the body of Christ’ — the church. So the church has a say when and where to share it.
If you have sinned according to church precepts you’re not in communion with the rest of the church. Doesn’t mean you are prohibited from participating in the rituals, simply that you cannot receive the sacraments. Many still treat their catholicism like some voodoo fetish. We should be well past that now after VCII. Let’s move on.
Well, this contained a bit of sarcasm, but, with all due respect, it is based on the argument that “you cannot have the ostja and eat it.” I probably should have said more clearly “the funeral mass,” intending that the central act of the mass is, in my opinion, the holy communion.
[Daphne – Oh, that’s rubbish. Anyone can go to mass. You don’t even have to be a Catholic. You go out of politeness, out of respect, to participate in the ceremony, for those who died and those who are left behind. Using your argument, I would never go to a funeral or wedding, because they take place in Catholic churches.]
Was it not the Bishops who recently emphasised that those in a sexual relationship but not married cannot receive the holy communion?
The bishop’s statement should be that they should not receive Holy Communion. We are not in the sixties with the ‘bulettin’. Anyone can go to mass and anyone can queue up to receive Holy Communion.
Ok, Daphne. You do not have to send me to hell about that!
Whilst respecting your point, I stick to my point. I still think that there is some hypocrisy in the fact that people turn up to funeral masses when in their actual life they do not comply with the Church rules. Then, suddenly, when confronted by death, they realise that the Church and God are important.
[Daphne – People don’t go to funeral masses because they agree with or despite disagreeing with church rules. Nor do they go because they have been confronted by death and understand that the church is important. They go to pay their last respects. Full stop. It might as well be a civil ceremony or a funeral at an Anglican church. Those are packed too – with Maltese Catholics.]
gosh, that can’t be true !!
Give him a break, ghadu bil-jetleg.
Mela l-Awstralja mhemmx Keune Mill-Isfar?
Hemm hemm, but it comes with a warning…apparently it clogs your follicles…
One can’t carry it through customs in one’s hand luggage.
People need to know about the truth about the poodle story that has again cropped up in this blog.
The truth is that prior to Dr. Fenech Adami’s state visit to Australia, the whole idea of such an innappropriate gift was suggested to the Maltese High Commissioner in Canberra who passed it on to the OPM.
The OPM politely suggested that the offer and acceptance of such a gift would create practical problems of quarantine and cost of animal transport to Malta.
But the idea of a freebie pedigree poodle caught the fancy of the High Commissioner’s wife and it was decided that the dog could be overtly accepted by the PM and then immediately passed on to her.
During the visit, when Dr. Fenech Adami saw the gift he handled the embarassment of the moment with grace not wanting to offend the donors in the host country.
The legendary poodle never left Australia, and remains unaware of his public persona in Malta. Woof woof.
[Daphne – Yes, it was called Sunshine. I remember being in fits. It was so long ago – what, 20 years?]
And what I remember clearly from this story was Hector Bruno singing a satirical song about the poodle during one of the shows organised by the PN Fuq il-Fosos in celebration of Independence Day. Talk about people knowing how to laugh at themselves!
I thought that Sunshine was a Maltese terrier not a poodle. It was, I suppose, suggested as a light hearted gift to the visiting Maltese Prime Minister. It carried the name Sunshine because Sunshine was a suburb of Melbourne preoccupied mainly by Maltese migrants at that time.
But such is the Maltese’ (in Malta) penchant to turn such gestures into political mileage it was deemed inappropriate to take Sunshine to Malta … ara x’ġabilna mill-Awstralja, kelb tal-pudil.
That’s why Sunshine never got to Malta, not for questions of quarantine or transport costs. At that time (post Mintoff) the success of a visit to another country was measured by such silly “gains”.
Being the proud owner of a Maltese terrier called Pupa I say that the High Commissioner’s gain was Malta’s PM loss. They are such loveable and loving creatures. Doesn’t every PM need them when their own popularity plunges?
If you keep on insisting on calling Sunshine a poodle, please bear in mind that a cross between a poodle and Maltese Terrier is called a Moodle. But I’m sure that Sunshine was pure Maltese.
I meant occupied not preoccupied.
Insejt inwahhlilha bolla u baqghet Malta.
Ghaziza ohti Lukarda,
Qed niktiblek dawn l-erba’ kelmiet biex nghidlek li ahna ninsabu tajbin kif nispera li din l-ittra ssib lilkhom hemm l-Awstralja qawwijin u shah u fil-grazzja t’Alla.
Ghadu kif wasal Dr Muscat hdejkhom, ara ma’ jmurx xi hadd jipprezentalu xi kelb tal-pudil ghax jehodha bhala insult. Sellili ghal-Guza u ghidilha li meta terga’ tigi insajrilha torta ta’ l-irkotta kif thobb hi.
J’Alla l-Bambin izomm idejh fuqkhom u fuq il-familja tieghek u ta’ uliedek Karmena, Grezz, il-filjozz tieghi Karmenu, Guzi, Pawlu u l-ahhar imma mhux l-inqas iz-zghir Clayton.
Inselli ghalik
Huk l-ghaziz
Gahan
Ghaziz Uncle Gahan,
Wasluli it-tislijiet tieghek, mate. Tathomli Lukarda.
Nibghatlek best regards minn-Down Unda, u ibghatomli anke lil cousins tieghi f’Malta, namely: Derston, Jason, Charlon, Brendon, Gordon u Anton.
Guza tibghatlek many kisses, u she looks forward for the torta tar-rikotta (or is that irkotta?)…
Sorry jekk ma nafx haffna Maltese.
Clayton
So Joey and his Sheila are back from downunder- how sweeeeet.
Poodle or no poodle, when Eddie and later Lawrence went overseas they did not go with cap in hand begging for charity like Mintoff did.
Joey thinks that by following Mintoff’s practices, he can go to these countries with an air of entitlement (should he ever become PM) and expects favours without giving anything in return.
He will ban illegal immigration, cut the electricity rates in half, reduce taxes, convert Delimara station (and extension) to gas and buy back the shipyard from Palumbo so he can hire back 2000 workers and cut the number of unemployed.
Too bad we have to wait almost another three years for the new ‘salvatur’!
If the patient is unconcious, parents can insist that a boyfriend or girlfriend is removed from a hospital room, and in the case of homosexual relationships this is more likely to happen than in others.
[Daphne – That’s certainly not the case. It’s an urban legend. Maybe if you’re a drug-addled, 17-year-old boyfriend, but definitely not if you’re an adult in a relationship with the patient.]