My favourite comment today….so far
Posted on this site’s comments-board just now:
c.sammut
The more I read your blogs Daphne, the more I realise what a senseless life you lead. You spend your day, writting things which are not to the people s interest about politicians, no need to add, most of them from the Labour Party. For everyone who watched Bondi + yesterday, I hope that we can all agree, that your beloved friend Lou Bondi was lost for words, not knowing what to ask next, and surprised how the opposition leader was finding a very sensible answer for all his questions. Speaking of his tight schedule is none of your businees, surely you can’t understand what a busy schedule is. He was invited for only 25 minutes of the programme and lucky Lou that Joseph did not attend for the full programme. He (Lou) would have ended up crying by the end of the programme. I suggest you get a hobby Daphne which will give you plenty more satisfaction.
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If Daphne’s blog makes c.sammut angry he can find a hobby and stop reading it.
Your “blogs” (sic) are so much “not to the people’s interest” that he keeps on reading them.
Do people like “c.sammut” live in another galaxy or what?
If there’s life in another galaxy, we should be hoping that it isn’t as thick as life on earth.
Less oxygen, perhaps. Tough on the brain.
I just want to cry. What planet are these people from?
‘You spend your day, writting things which are not to the people s interest about politicians’.
Enough of an interest for you to WRITE a comment. If you don’t like the site DON’T READ IT.
Politicians are by default of public interest. You, C.Sammut, are the worst type of person as you believe politicians are above question.
‘Speaking of his tight schedule is none of your businees’.
Oh god forbid our possible future prime minister might be questioned about his schedule. Don’t you realise Joseph Muscat chose to be in politics? How is this guy supposed to lead an EU country when he can’t handle criticism on a blog?
‘He (Lou) would have ended up crying’.
I think Lou is old enough and experienced enough to handle any situation.
And regarding Daphne’s ‘hobby’, what do you think this blog is?
Keep up the great work, Daphne.
I think I must have been watching a different programme to the one C. Sammut watched.
Daphne, here is an “agony aunt” problem.
On Saturday in Swieqiland we will be celebrating Halloween.
We will have parents kerb-crawling supervising their sprogs as they annoy people ringing doorbells to trick or treat.
Should I grin and bear it and hand out jawbreakers, or should I dress up as, say, Nosferatu and give them the fright of their young lives?
Then we have the teenagers (is this word still in use nowadays?) who are bored and become nasty, pelting cars and front doors with eggs, flour and water -filled plastic bags.
This problem has given me many sleepless siestas and any input from your end will be of comfort.
[Daphne – Just deal with it. It’s not the end of the world. And children are a whole lot more attractive than politicians knocking on doors for your vote, even when dressed up as witches and skeletons.]
I’m dressing up as Joseph Muscat for Halloween this year. Enough to make anyone crap their pants.
MoBI, all you need is a pumpkin with holes for eyes and a split smile, and you’re sorted. Why, it’s even the right colour.
Hair management will not even be a problem.
Handing out free candy doesn’t go well with the Maltese. “Why would I spend money on candy just to hand it out to random kids? Absurd. Unheard of.”
@ C.Sammut – Do you blame Lou for being lost for words?
I think it was either that or kicking Muscat out of the show. Talk about a top scholar trying to reason with an obnoxious kid (’cause lets face it, that’s what JM is).
I’d be lost for words too. As a matter of fact, I couldn’t help thinking what a prat Joseph Muscat is.
And very much like Lou Bondi, and the so many other PN voters, I am very frustrated that your Leader is supposed to be presenting me with an alternative but, he isn’t.
The boy has no substance. He beats about the bush without ever coming to a concluson.
I felt even more perplexed after the show than before it started.
I shall be voting PN again not because I believe in the party but because Joseph Muscat has said nothing of substance in the past three or whatever years he’s been your party leader.
He’ll have to change more than the name of the party and the logo to attract my attention.
Therefore, like many others, I’ll stick to what I know.
Muscat is not an obnoxious kid. He is an adult, with adult responsibilities, acting like an obnoxous kid, making it so much worse.
Muscat is like a scheming conniving spoilt brat who started yelling and stamping his foot in protest when he was caught red-handed with his paws in the cookie jar.
Daphne, you lead a senseless life. Repent. Ashes, sackcloth and the kitchen sink for you.
‘…the opposition leader was finding a very sensible answer for all his questions.’
If one had to take his answers at face value, the picture becomes rather bleak.
Joseph’s personal initiative denotes an absence of cohesive policies, valid proposals and firm support, leaving him with no alternative but to try to gather approval for his leadership from outside the party itself.
The leader shouldn’t allow this to happen in the first place, as much as a CEO wouldn’t put in writing certain instructions which could damage him later on. It’s the CEO’s skill and leadership however, which makes him choose executives whose loyalty is undoubted, taking on personal risks on his behalf.
Now look what happened, the leader making a fool of himself, and the party exposed for what it is; a number of factions, silently waiting in the wings.
People like c. sammut clearly do not understand that pretending you haven’t heard is the way people from a certain background are trained to respond to rudeness and vulgarity.
At root, this is all about a culture gap, not political differences.
c.sammut is clearly delusional
I travel an hour each way for work and I put in a strenuous 58-hour week. In spite of being the head of household, I try to never miss your articles because they are highly informative. Every citizen should read them.
The more I see the Labours’s station the more I fear it.
As far as I am concerned the email story is very revealing of what goes on in Joe’s mind- infantile thinking.
Joseph Muscat ruined Sabrina’s future. His manipulative thinking cost her her job and that is sad and very bad.
Your last sentence is dead on but Sabrina has no recourse against Joseph because she is his accomplice.
It was very obvious that Lou Bondi was lost for words.
It would not have been nice for him to throw the Abela Garrett expletive at the leader of the opposition on his own programme.
I really admired Lou for maintaining his composure and for keeping his mouth shut.
In the circumstances, silence was golden.
Lou Bondi’s perceived arrogance pales into insignificance against Joseph Muscat’s real arrogance. He’s the kind of person you just want to slap when they’re sitting next to you and holding forth at a social occasion.
Kif jghidu bil-Malti, il-vera tad-daqqiet ta’ harta.
He’s the kind of person who’s always vying for attention, bossing everyone in the team, portraying himself as indispensable.
The moment he’s kicked out of the office, colleagues realise how their negative personal opinion was, in fact, a shared one, and how senior management wasn’t so taken in after all.
Explains the deafening silence from the ones with a modicum of experience.
Joseph is a hack and Joe Grima leaks.
Joe Grima leaks? I didn’t know you could get adult diapers in that size.
That’s why!
The more I read the more I realise.
Yes, c.sammut and the more you read the more you learn.
So keep on reading Daphne’s blog and keep on learning.
C.Sammut’s preposterously asinine comment is unfortunately part of the price one has to pay for freedom of speech.
Kulhadd jara biss dak li jaqbillu.
All I saw on Bondi + was Joseph Muscat beating around the bush, with that sarcastic smile of his.
It’s not sarcastic. It’s self-satisfied, which is worse.
What I saw on Bondi+ was a very well prepared Leader of the Opposition beating Lou at his own game.
Lou was put on the defensive many times during the programme, even falling for small provocations from Dr Muscat, like when Dr Muscat called him “Lou Bondi” and the presenter couldn’t help exclaiming “why call me Lou Bondi, I am Lou!”.
[Daphne – I think he did well to point it out and that it had nothing to do with defensiveness. I don’t even think Muscat did it deliberately or strategically. It was a major Freudian slip, revealing how he thinks of Bondi, as an object or entity ‘LouBondi’, like RedBullPub. What would you think of me if, when we met, I were to address you repeatedly as AlbertFarrugia? At best you’d think I was totally unschooled; at worst, mentally deficient.]
Exactly – there was no intention, it just tripped off Dr. Muscat’s tongue as any other much-repeated phrase would.
Lou Bondi is always just a rushed, single-worded ‘loubondi’, never (or almost never) referred to as Mr/Sur Bondi or Bondi in the Labour media.
Another example would be Jason Micallef’s infamous, ‘Kemm hu pufta loubondi!’
I think I may actually be starting to miss Alfred Sant.
c.sammut is right in his saying. He probably reads same as me to see who she will libel next.
So now we have two: Sammut and Attard.
As soon as we have three, Daphne will have to give up her blog and find herself a hobby.
This is getting scary and interesting.
I hope JPO is keeping his fingers crossed.
One person……….1,2,3 different nicks; you would know from IP address.
But it’s done on timesofmalta.com as they tend to post all together, blitzkrieg fashion.
May I direct these two ‘gentlemen’ to:
NEWS FLASH!: ‘New Maltese Decoy Website Launched to Lure Away All Moronic Labour Internet Commenters.’
Joe Attard, please translate.
The more Lay Bear comments I read the more Nationalist I become, if that is possible.
I share your sentiment, although I tend to become even more anti-Labour, if that were possible.
Same here Pete.
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
and drinking largely sobers us again.
How very right Pope was.
I wish some people would “drink” more. Perhaps they wouldn’t be so gullible then.