I hope it wasn’t for advice on pyrotechnics. WE DO HAVE CONTROL OVER EXPLOSIVES. Well done, Father. Pile on the idiocy.

This is Gonzi’s most worrying trait. This pandering to the sentiment of the proles. I didn’t join the EU so we could further entrench this turn-of-the-century Sicilian way of doing things.

“Update: During his homily, Dun Gorg explained how the accident was one of those circumstances in life that one cannot have any control over.

Dun Gorg explained that, as being the head of the Fontana Church, he would organise many religious activities with the family and was even raised with four of the victims.

He explained how for 17 years, two of them, Raymond and Noel, where altar boys.

The parish priest went on to explain how many of the victims came to him for advice throughout the year.”

http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=11903

Personally I was not aware of that particular Latin saying. However, I would expect that after I am gone, there would be some immediate reactions.

Some would honestly shed a tear or two.

Others would know about me perhaps because the hearse carrying me would be stuck in traffic, and that would be the appropriate time for them to play a guessing game of who it might be.

Lastly I have a notion that others, on being asked about my ‘departure’, would answer ‘oh really’, to put it mildly.

Just live this extraordinary experience called life. Love your country, ‘la patria’ Don’t bother much about heaven, do good, if there is heaven than you will gain much, if there isn’t you will lose nothing.

The fundamental issue is: picking up dangerous hobbies will increase the risk of an early departure, but, and this goes for the living, no one has the moral right to jeopardize the life of innocent victims. We are moving towards a tragedy of massive proportions.

Using the same yardstick, if someone dies in a traffic accident or while practising his/her favourite sport be it skydiving, abseiling etc then the MPs, president, prime minister and leader of the opposition must turn up to the funeral.

Hloqtu precedent, sinjuri!

There was no event, big or small, private or public, that involved a TV camera, the cheesy bugger hasn’t shown up at. He was also present at that skateboarding arena opening at the Msida roundabout a few years back (coincidentally a couple of days before an election). I mean, a prime minister opening a skateboard arena inside a roundabout for crying out loud! As you say, “Lie down and weep”

…with more status than her son, eh!

Mela, p dimech! U qed jghidu wkoll li meta ssellifhom Kurt ghal gita f’Paceville qabdu l-vertigo.

Pajjiz tal-imgienen. Don’t even bother trying to understand. All the trappings of statehood and the thinking and behaviour of a medieval hamlet, with the kbarat paying homage to those who blew themselves up making fireworks to be let off in honour of a biblical figure who has been turned into a pagan goddess, with more status than her son.