First and foremost please DO tell us how old you are. You either have a selective memory or your family fed you a load of bull****

Let me run you through my family history. I am 45 years old.

1. Properties confiscated and never compensated financially.

2. Home raided 3 times to look for contraband TVs and video players under mattresses.

3. Father had to leave Malta to earn a decent living for his children.

4. Beaten up outside my church school for standing up for my right to education.

5. Another family member who chained himself to the railings at the Office of the Prime Minister, in protest at being denied a university education, was beaten up.

6. Strip searched on arriving in Malta from Sicily twice.

7. Not to mention myself not going to University because I refused to study Arabic and physics.

8. Running for my life aged 16 at Tal-Barrani and Rabat mass demos.

9. Buying Mars bars for Lm1 on the black market as an alternative to maggot-ridden Dezerta.

10. Shopping from a particular stall at the old Valletta market from where everyone bought contraband chocolates, pasta and decent cheeses and hams.

11. Paying Lm500 in 1981 for the privilege of having a Grundig colour tv to watch Olympics and the royal wedding.

12. Cordless phones were illegal.

13. Home computers also illegal.

Is that enough, ChavRUS?

You are not mistaken

http://www.planetsoftpages.com/?body=entry%2F6297

@chavsRus…….jekk int ma tafx b’dawn l-affarijiet mhux ahjar tiffacja lill genituri tieghek jew zijiet u issaqqsijhom?

Iva, konna imjassrin. Jiena batejt hafna taht Mintoff, minghajr ilma, ghax ma kienx ikollna ilma kuljum, b’tfal zghar ta’ ftit xhur, sena u nofs u 3 snin – kollha bil-harqa ta’ dak iz-zmien qisha xugaman.

Sahansitra l-bajd ma konniex insibu u imnalla missieri kien jara kif jiddobbalna halli inkunu nistaw nghatu xi wahda lil uliedhna.

La ma kontx ghadek twelidt, mhux ahjar taqra ftit l-storja halli tara dak il-mishut gvern Laburista ta’ Mintoff kemm gieghlna inbatu.

U ma kienx wiehed mill-helwin lanqas. Xi bicca xoghol minn taht u kerha kien jidhol ghalija ukoll.

It-Tunny Net ghall-affarijiet skabruzi xtrah John Dalli ta’ dak iz-zmien.

U kafe, Conforto biss… Tiftakruh?

Today we witness graduates going round in buses to celebrate their success after long years of study.

I was lucky to be one of those 700 students graduating under Mintoff’s rule. However there were no bus-cades then. When we graduated we were met by Lorry Sant’s thugs who came over to beat us because we dared to chant anti-government slogans during our graduation ceremony.

Those were Labour’s democratic credentials back then. Young people had so good for so long under the PN that they take life for granted.

I also clearly remember my dad coming back from a sporting event held in Luxembourg. He had brought with him a digital typewriter and a cordless phone.

I vividly remember the tension on his face passing customs, and the strictest instructions to us kids not to tell anyone at school that we actually had the phone at home.

Today I can buy 5 cordless phones from an ironmongery.

Well, I wonder why ChavsRUs has gone quiet. Has he/she realised that all the people writing on this thread are not drinking anything, and all the comments are similar. Incredible how parents would hide this from their kids, know it is wrong, and still keep them in the dark.