I know exactly what you mean. I remember one such couple at Gianpula. We were in our early twenties, and “out-danced” by the (married) parents of one of our friends.

Then there was the even older mother of one of our contemporaries, with her then lover on the dance floor.

Hear, hear. Next we could be hearing that he’s got a lover younger than his son. Ridiculous old man.

Ihoss mohhu imma taghtih rasu.

It’s embarrassing for his kids as well. Poor kids.

Bil-Malti tista’ tghid u tikteb kemm ‘ihoss mohhu’ u kemm ‘ihoss rasu.’

Stiefnu: ma nafx ghalfejn trid tikkoregi meta int stess ghandek bzonn titghallem.

Once upon a time, the kids’ behaviour used to shock and dismay the parents. Nowadays, the parent’s behaviour shocks and dismays their watching children.

Attacked by a harridan?

Lol. they will be throwing their knickers and bras at him next.

Aaaaaaaaahh, the handicaps of being so handsome and available.

Although I still don’t agree with Lawrence Gonzi’s decisions over the divorce issue, the more I look around me, the more I understand him.

Maybe the problem is not that Lawrence Gonzi is not liberal but that he believes the Maltese cannot be trusted with having very liberal laws. Sure, people will accuse him of creating a nanny state, but just because children might not want their nanny, it doesn’t mean that they don’t need one.

According to these ‘new liberals’, if it’s not illegal, it’s perfectly fine. Anything goes regardless of how ridiculous it is or who gets hurt.

Everybody conveniently forgets that those old-fashioned. conservative laws had sound foundations, and were developed over thousands of years of human civilisation.

Anti-sodomy laws protected women from their husband, anti-adultery laws protected families, and so on.

These ‘new liberals’ are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. They don’t only want to throw the laws into the rubbish bins of history but even the foundations on which they were based on.

Going by their reasoning, next we would be decriminalising peadophilia and rape just to be liberal.

Besides, I keep getting the feeling that this new found ‘liberalism’ by the Labour folk is only being used to strengthen the patriarchal system. Women and gays are ghettoised and need special quota to get into important positions.

[Daphne – I’m glad you brought that up. The men and women in the ‘swingers’ crowd’ who describe themselves as liberal actually hold archaic views about women. Women are there to be sexy, glammed up and available, and even the women with brains and careers end up behaving like silly tarts. Liberal now = idiot/tart/chick.]

I wonder how all these folks who can’t stop going on about gay matters and how Labour decriminalised sodomy would react if their girlfriends/wives tell them that it’s a real kick to shove something up their (the men’s) butt.

Our neo-liberals give such a bad name to liberalism, it makes you want to become ultra conservative just to thwart their stupidity.

[Daphne – I did say it. I got a barrage of texts from Jeffrey saying that he was ‘attacked by a harridan’ (yes, right, they’re all throwing themselves at him), that I shouldn’t mention his children (this because I said that he shouldn’t give interviews to the national press telling the world how much he is looking forward to divorcing their mother) and that his girlfriend was hurt because of my comments. Indeed. Can you imagine, fran, back when we were 20 years old, what we would have thought if we had seen some ‘parents’ dancing around and drinking at Club 47 then getting into a brawl the bar? I can still picture a couple of parents (and they were married to each other) taking to the dancefloor at a club opening where everyone was 28 max, and my friend leaning over to me and saying ‘Those are X’s mother and father. They’re perverts.’]