A man who doesn't know what a 360-degree turn is wants to run the country
This is the sort of thing that performs 360-degree turns
It’s becoming increasingly obvious (to me, at least) that Saviour Balzan and Joseph Muscat are reading from the same hymn-sheet.
Last weekend, Joseph Muscat talked about the prime minister’s “360-degree turn” on the matter of a referendum. Here and there, people pointed out the glaring error, but apparently nobody laughed about it in the Malta Today newsroom like they did in my kitchen, because now Saviour’s made the same mistake.
The prime minister, he says in his latest ‘videoblog’, has performed a 360-degree turn on, yes, the matter of a referendum.
Neither the Poison Dwarf nor Marisa Micallef must have been any great shakes at geometry. Perhaps by the time the Poison Dwarf got to secondary school, geometry had been scrapped. But still, that’s no excuse for not knowing that turning 360 degrees brings you back exactly where you started because it’s a full turn.
Psssst, Saviour, Muscat – I’ll let you in on a little secret: it’s a 180-degree turn that gets you facing the other way.
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By now Saviour Balzan must be “saliviating like a rabid dog”.
A real case of when superficiality and the mismanagment of anger meet their foregone destiny.
So, would they also call it an ‘o’-turn I wonder.
I would just call it a Freudian slip.
To Joseph and Saver
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2 u turns of 180 degrees make a turn of 250 degrees, ie – referendum yes, then yes maybe, and then again yes.
2 x 180 = 360, not 250.
Why did you say the geometry would have been scrapped? I don’t understand this….
[Daphne – We had distinct geometry lessons and a separate geometry paper for O level maths, but I believe the syllabus changed.]
After all these years, I still have nightmares about trigonometry, Pure Maths, Applied Maths.
But then you don’t publish your erroneous geometric calculations, do you?
The content of the syllabus has not changed that much. They may not know it’s geometry nowadays, but any 13 year old student of average numeracy skills will know that 360 degrees is a complete revolution.
I wish someone would be kind enough to explain the government’s position on divorce. Personally I can’t make head or tails of it, neither can I understand why this is of such utmost importance as to deserve a referendum. Is divorce as important for Malta as was EU accession? Oh… noes… heaven forbid it’s so.
Whether one should divorce and remarry (or separate and cohabit for that sake) is just a question to be answered by the morality of the conscience of the person concerned.
How on earth can the introduction of divorce affect the Roman Catholic Church and all the faithful Catholics residing in these islands?
They’re Catholics – they’ve got the choice still left to adhere to their religious beliefs and remain celibate whether divorce is introduced or not, no one will be forcing them to do anything.
This is like Muslims prohibiting pork and alcohol. Do we want our country like that?
Heck a couple of years ago I was in Germany… stopped for a quick snack at a kebab place in Frankfurt. I asked for a glass of wine with my meal, and got refused because of some Ramadan issue. I pointed out that I wasn’t Muslim yet they still refused to serve me my wine “out of respect for THE religion”. Needless to say, I just left the table and went to a proper restaurant.
Any country which regards any religion as THE religion is wrong.
The Times has interviewed passers-by in Valletta to see if people know the difference between separation, divorce and annulment.
Star Comment :
Carmel Zammit, 68, of Żebbuġ
I don’t really understand or, rather, I’m not really interested. But I don’t agree with divorce. The difference between divorce and annulment is that one is through the Church and the other through the court. With annulment you can remarry but with divorce you still have many problems.
Most of the other comments are not all that much better.
Referendum, my foot. What a waste of money.
Qatta bla ***** we have in parliament, leaving the blind to lead the blind, and they know it.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando has said that he will vote ‘No’ if the referendum question is a simple: do you agree with divorce? His ridiculous stance reminds me of Alfred Sant not having voted in the referendum for joining the EU. It stinks.
If he wants divorce on his terms, then he should at least vote ‘Yes’ and then if the majority agrees, he should discuss and persuade the government on the finer details of divorce at a later stage.