Glanville Goodlip
The B. Commerce (why am I not surprised) graduate charged with GBH on the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences is called Glanville Goodlip.
Exactly how does somebody get through life and work in Malta with a name like that? In fact, he doesn’t. Apparently, in his social and ‘soundcloud’ life, he’s known as Il-Goodlip.
I have enough trouble myself, though my surname is non-alien and things have been much improved since I achieved nationwide fame as the witch of Bidnija, and so no longer have to deal so much with Stefni, Dafani, Daphanie, Daphenie, Daphnie, Stafani and many other variations on the same theme.
But Glanville Goodlip. Miskin.
I would sue my parents. It’s like a named dreamed up by Jane Austen – Sir Glanville Goodlip – which means that you expect the character, looks and personality to match, not some B.Commerce graduate from L-Iklin who looks like this.
Glanville Goodlip, aka Il-Goodlip
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L-aqwa li bis-salib fuq is-sodda. U le.
Only in Malta and Sicily. Where else could you do the “I’m a hot stud and available” pose AND have a crucifix in your loveshack?
xandu xjaqsam is salib bahnan… gifiri min andu salib fuq issodda perfett?? ahjar thalluh bi kwietu tifel..eja nejdu vera 100% tort tiju (li had ma jista jejda jek ma kinx em inkluza dil brava daphne)..flok bnidem tejnu bix jitallem darbohra jimxi sew tkomplu tkissruh….fkin pajjiz tan nejk u tal misthija.
1. X’ghandu
2. x’jaqsam
3 is-salib, bahnan
4. Jigifieri
5. ghandu
6. is-sodda
7. Two question marks is one too many.
And that’s just the first sentence.
“The B. Commerce (why am I not surprised) graduate ….”
Why are you not surprised that he’s graduated in Commerce? Are commerce students inclined to cause GBHs?
[Daphne – No, but it’s a bit of a dumping ground for people who want a degree but don’t have much up there, like Joseph Muscat and Aaron Farrugia.]
so how come you re not a commerce student daph??
Excuse me Daphne but it really isn’t a surprise that they call you the witch of Bidnija!!! Generalising in such a ridiculous manner!!! I think you’re then one who doesn’t have much up there making a comment like this… at least I know I’ll end up doing much more with my life than you ever will wasting your time posting an article on a guy called “Il-Goodlip”!!
Yes Mr Catania, but you’re the one wasting your time reading it, no one forced you to.
As long as the author has the right to free spech, she can write whatever the hell she pleases, (although there may be certain legal restrictions? I wouldn’t know). You, sir, are equally free to read anything you want. Assuming that this blog, or rather, this particular entry is not to your taste, why, I’m sure you can find countless others on which you could gainfully spend your time.
Since I might as well throw in a comment about university since I’m here, as a BSc student, I would suggest the introduction of a numerus clausus, for every course. It is incredible how there are people, in any faculty, who cannot distinguish their rear end from their anterior one.
While the tone in which it was said could have done with some mellowing, I agree with the author – some courses are indeed “dumping grounds” for people who just want the “uni experience”, but on easy mode. Communications/most liberal arts and the easier commerce ones do spring to mind. One just has to look at the course description. Sure, there might be one, two, or even three demanding credits, while the rest can be breezed through. I doubt most of those courses ever get people breaking down mid exam after having a 4 page calculation yield gibberish.
The numerus clausus principle has been tried to disastrous effect. It is not necessarily a guarantee of quality. Raising standards means rigorously applying entry requirements, and continually assessing performance. That includes rigid application of the correct use of grammar, spelling and vocabulary, and the rules of academic research- and I’m not only talking about students here.
Daphne you should get a life and if you are not successful at that just let people get on with theirs peacefully! You really have nothing to do given that you had the time to write a blog based on a name! And may I ask what graduate you are? Because whatever you are you do not sound professional at all!
Simple statistics are enough to show that in such incidents the highest probability is that the person involved will be from FEMA or the Faculty of Laws since these are the most populated courses in UOM. And if I may add, comments like that on Joseph Muscat and Aaron Farrugia are very childish. I am PN follower and do not agree with most of Muscat’s statements. However, I do not think that this has to due with his line of studies! After all even the PN candidature also includes lawyers or accountants/auditors.
You people complain a lot.
“I am a PN follower” is Elvish.
Whole article written in English, then with the “Miskin” at the end.
At least Joseph Muscat can stick to one language, having a higher vocabulary then you definitely do.
[Daphne – To assess a person’s vocabulary, you must first have some yourself.]
1. A whole article – that ‘A’ is called an indefinite article
2. ‘Miskin’ is not a proper noun, so the word starts with a capital letter only at the beginning of a sentence. No article should precede, and certainly not the definite article.
3. Joseph Muscat does not figure in the debate here, so why mention him?
4. Vocabulary is better or more extensive, not higher.
5. ‘Than’ is comparative. ‘Then’ is not – it signifies logical consequence or chronological sequence, neither of which is relevant here.
inti f’hix gradwajt daphne mela? mhux xi communications tghid???
Ma tantx ghandhom biex jifirhu bik il-gurnalisti jekk inti meqjusa bhala gurnalista wara kollox!!
eee bdw daphne, inti kunjomok jurik minn fejn giek!!! GALIzia – mill-gali, minn fejn jinzel id-drenagg u l-ilma mahmug
The spelling’s ‘gully’ and it’s a natural landform, not a man-made drain.
[Daphne – Imma bil-Malti ‘gali’ jighidulu.]
@ Daphne
I’d expect a “journalist” to spell words correctly … it’s jgħidulu not jighidulu
[Daphne – Were you a regular reader of this blog, rather than somebody who just popped in after hearing on Facebook about some live sport,l then you would be aware of my ability to spell rather a lot more than jghidulu. It’s a typo. I touch-type, you see. I don’t ploddingly use my index finger and thumbs.]
Hey! what’s wrong with Bcom? :P
I disagree, Daphne. It’s more like a Terry Pratchett name.
…and what is so cool about Galizia?
Galizia is non-alien, meaning its more common than Borg and Sammut…. lol
1. “it’s” not “its”.
2. It isn’t.
Daphne, I’m a B.Com graduate and I passionately love to read your blogs, but this time I must say that I completely disagree that you were unsurprised that it was a B.Com graduate to perform such an act.
This week too a graduate from the law course (a notary) was arrested for having an argument and according to unconfirmed reports trying to punch a policeman.
So is this latter case an unsurprising one as well?
[Daphne – Yes, in fact. Half of Super One and much of the current trash in New Labour are struggling through, or have struggled through already, the law course. The law course, and B. Commerce.]
In my honest opinion the main reason why acts like these usually come from graduates in such courses is that, these courses have the biggest number of graduates.
[Daphne – Because they let in all the trash and let them out again the other side, spoiling it for people like yourself. And because trash (I exclude you) are naturally attracted to courses which they think will give them status, but the only ‘status’ courses which they are capable of getting on and getting through are law and B. Commerce. You don’t find many Charlon Gouders or Glanville Goodlips in engineering or medicine. I wonder why. And they won’t take an arts course ghax dak muhiex professjoni jew degree serju.]
Thus either in these courses one will find all sorts of individuals and/or when being in a buscade in such a large group one will feel that he has become an untouchable.
I fully agree, I think some courses do need to have either their entry requirement updated.
With regards to the law course this is more crucial as there are fewer opportunities in the labour market.
[Daphne – I think you have misunderstood me. Universities should not tailor their entry requirements to job opportunities in the labour market, but to the standards they wish to maintain and to the reputation they wish the university to have..]
On the other hand with regards to the B.Com course I believe that there are also external pressures on University to graduate as much individuals as possible, sometimes at the detriment of quality, since the financial sector is expanding at a high rate. – my two cents
It could be that my business mindset leads me to think of a demand-driven University but your point is very valid too.
[Daphne – My point is not very valid. It is the ony valid point while yours is not valid at all. It was, in fact, the driver of Mintoff’s deeply misguided university reforms. Universities do not exist to feed the labour market – that is a by-product of their activities, but our political thinking has led us to approach it from the other direction. They exist only to achieve academic excellence and to provide a fulcrum for research. All else is incidental, labour market included..]
Furthmore society brainwashes students to go to university to find a decent job rather then to learn the appropriate skills that will remain valid throughout life e.g. analytical skills, learning how to learn, etc.
[Daphne – Those skills are best learned at university, but sadly they are now only learned on the University of Malta’s more demanding courses. One goes to university not get a ‘professjoni’ but precisely to acquire those invaluable skills.]
Unfortunately, I think our education system is highly work-oriented and does not give much regards to reputation, high standards and culture as other educational systems(/universities) do.
Though things are slowly changing as well on this matter, example the opening of a sports-oriented school, which is a step in the right direction from the usual job-oriented education.
…and there are giants in Labour’s coterie who start a course in Law after finishing a run on one of the ‘lighter’ B.Com areas.
As another B.Com graduate, I must say that incidents like these highlight the lax entry requirements into the University of Malta. It is not about punishing prospective entrants, but about ensuring candidates are at least able to string a sentence or two together.
It’s not a coincidence that the cases mentioned here occurred in the two largest faculties at that university. Whether that’s because of the law of large numbers or declining standards is another matter altogether.
I think the way the incidents were portrayed by the media, especially The Times, has been particularly skewed.
The first version of yesterday’s report only included the lecturers’ union claims, without any mention of the university’s claims or those of the students themselves.
It was only after students began commenting on the article that the whole story began to shift.
In fact, UMASA’s claim that the dean was manhandled by 40 students was absent from today’s published article.
I cannot but think that The Times is searching for some kind of news cycle to fill in after this summer’s Arriva overdose.
Daphne, they’re letting in trash in all the courses. I work daily with B.Educ (Hons) graduates and believe me some of them, though not all, are the pits as well.
My son is a B Com student and I can assure you that it is not a walk in the park, much less so than an arts course in fact.
You’ll find deserving students and others which are much less so in every faculty, although I will agree with you that the medicine and engineering departments will take up the most gifted students.
As a university student I must say that everyone which enters a faculty needs to be of an A level standard but not for b.com which some of the courses do not even need A levels at a grade c, that is one fact which diminishes the value of such course.
Although medicine and engineering students are obviously very gifted, it does not mean that gifted students don’t belong in the Bcom course. I, myself in fact was accepted into engineering and am pretty sure that I would have been accepted into the medicine course too if I tried, but I chose the B.Com course as it guarantees me a well paid job.
[Daphne – What a mentality. Says it all. If all you’re interested in is a well-paid job, train in joinery or tile-laying.]
What is it with this stupid Maltese mentality that the ‘clever’ students are only to be found in these so called ‘vocational’ courses and the not-so-clever ones choose law, Bcom and arts??!! Has anyone ever heard of the fact that different kinds of intelligence actually exist, as well as the fact that people, gifted or not, have different academic interests?!?!
And regarding your comment, Daphne,
‘No, but it’s a bit of a dumping ground for people who want a degree but don’t have much up there, like Joseph Muscat and Aaron Farrugia’
Its so ironic that you constantly criticise the labour MP’s, when, through some of your comments you show the same level of narrow mindedness yourself!
Before you judge, why don’t you try and sit through a few B.com economics and banking lectures, and then feel free to comment about the lack of intelligence B.com students have all you want!!
[Daphne – Maaaa, are they difficult because they involve NUMBERS? Honestly.]
“MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” (as you put it), doesn’t engineering and medicine involve numbers too!? And yes, where numbers are involved things do get difficult.. If everyone was as narrow minded and critical while lacking the required knowledge on the subject as you it would be a pretty sad world..
When you criticise the arts and business courses you are actually criticising yourself too being that you have a degree in one of those fields. But you probably don’t notice, being that your entire life scope involves making others look bad in order to hide your flaws..
And yes, Bcom does actually guarantee a well paid job. Don’t tell me that people do not look at this aspect when choosing a course.
[Daphne – Well, yes, if they’re people like you. ‘Guarantee a well paid job’ – nothing does that, my dear. And sensible people go for something they enjoy and which they are good at, to avoid the inevitable midlife despair that comes from not having done so. You manifest mittilkless traits: professjoni u paga tajba.]
“And they won’t take an arts course ghax dak muhiex professjoni jew degree serju.”
What’s wrong with the art course..muhiex professjoni jew degree serju?? more details pls
[Daphne – Clearly, you are one of those who can’t read. That’s not what I mean myself. It’s what I’m quoting others as saying. I read for a bachelor of arts degree, so why would I think poorly of it? And please don’t come here with double interrogation marks, exclamation marks and Facebookese, because I can’t stand it. ]
Mela ‘facebookese’ ma tistax għalih imma imbagħad li titkellem Ingliz mgħaffeġ mal-Malti hemmhekk kollox sew!
Barra minn hekk ikolli ngħid li vera waqajt fil-baxx li tikteb artiklu sħiħ għax ma jogħġokx isem dan l- eks-student. Ma kellekx argument wieħed sura ħlief opinjonijiet personali bla bażi. Int minn xiex int gradwata biex tħossok daqshekk superjuri għall-bqija tan-nies?
the engineer graduate asks: how does it work?
the science graduate asks: why does it work?
the arts graduate asks: do you want fries with that?
cracks me up every time ;)
If I’m not mistaken the number of graduates increased tenfold from 1987. This was one of the statistics given by Dr Gonzi during the budget speech.
While I acknowledge that opportunities (especially course options) have increased and students nowadays are encouraged to further their studies, I do not think that this alone would have resulted in a tenfold increase in graduates if the same high quality standards were kept.
Unfortunately, we decreased the quality standards of many courses to accommodate more students. It is quite common nowadays to find university students attending private lessons! University should be the place where you teach yourself how to learn! Sadly, most students just want to get a degree and find a job.
Chinese proverb: One picture is worth a thousand words.
The person you refer to as “a graduate from the law course (a notary)” is not a graduate at all.
He did not pass his exams and therefore did not pass the fourth year and did not graduate as a notary although this might be what he is trying to convey.
The point is he should not even have been celebrating as he had nothing to celebrate.
What on earth was he doing on the ‘buscade’ in the first place?
how dar you make such a statement!!! and you call yourself a professional and superior to us B.Commerce students when you where not even capable of continuing your argument in one language!!!
How dare you call yourself a B.Com student when you are
1) Unable to distinguish between *where* and *were*
2) Starting a sentence with a conjunction
You managed to get into university with that level of English?! Atrocious!
1. ‘How’ takes a capital letter when it’s at the start of a sentence.
2. ‘dare’ is the correct spelling.
3. One exclamation mark is unnecessary. Several are superfluous.
4. ‘And’ starts with a capital letter, when it is preceded by an exclamation mark.
5. ‘where’ denotes place. The second person singular past tense of ‘is’ is ‘were’.
6. Arguments are presented, not continued.
No one in my opinion is to be declared as trash forgetting your political views, and talking about someone’s name doesn’t really make sense either you cannot judge a degree just by the name you have. Honestly its the first time I read your blogs, and discussing topics like these reading them is a waist of time.
I have no degree nothing fancy in fact i only have got o level standard of education, BUT I make a change in people’s lives i get the thank you and the smiles and the occasional people who cry due to that something extra you put in. So any degree you might have i would not like to get because i would feel just like a pinjata being hit all the time until one day i crack open and realize that the only thing people will like out of me is the sweets not the shape or the name I have, what good can I deliver.
sorry but, i don’t get the point of your article at all.. so you don’t like his name…big deal! it really looks like you ran out of things to write about..
and another thing…do you need to be ugly to be a believer? just because he’s posing for a picture does not mean anything wrong..every teen / youth does it!
and one more thing, no one is guilty until the magistrate says so.. if you weren’t there, you can’t judge! the media made a big deal out of it!
Yes, there IS something wrong.
He isn’t 12 anymore. He is a university graduate and if I were an employer and checked him out on Facebook, I would certainly not employ him.
Imnalla m’intx employer mela kid ;)
trust me, there are employers who have facebook, who post pictures of themselves doing much worse tings that just posing! we are humans after all!
X’bicca hobz fih.
Has all the makings of a future Parliamentary Secretary.
so Daphne, basically you are saying that you are trash too.. because you can’t even write in one language! i’m so sick of people like you! you have to loose some of your attitude, who the hell do you think you are?!
Are you a B.Com graduate too? if yes, perhaps this blog may be a tad difficult for you to comprehend.
i’m a BSc Business and computing graduate.. am i trash too? give me a break!!
No you’re not trash. But you certainly don’t know the difference between loose and lose.
Imbagħad għax naqbeż għall-Malti waqt lecture , jaqbżu kontriha u qaluli ngħalaq ħalqi għax ma ngħaddix ! Attakk ta’ nervi tani x’ħin rajt dil-kitba mgħafġa u bla sugu !
Mill-mod kif ktibt hawnhekk jidher li hija l-ghazla tal-kliem, l-argumenti li tqajjem u l-mod kif tesprimi ruhek li qeghdin ifixkluk.
Matt, just a little tip. Your chances of being taken seriously are significantly improved if you actually pretend to be educated by capitalising your “I”s. And while you’re at it, you might want to try your hand at capitalising the first letter of every sentence too.
I can’t really comment about B.Sc Business & Computing. Isn’t that a 3-year course though?
As for B.Com, I think Daphne hit the nail on the head.
I was always under the impression that people only take B.Com because they weren’t clever enough to take a REAL degree.
My impression was further reinforced during my time as an undergrad mechanical engineer, when I spent my time either in lectures or trying to cope with assignments whilst the B.Com people (and those taking other soft subjects like drama and music) would have half-empty timetables and spend their days chatting in the canteen or joining some student organisation or other.
Maybe that’s why nowadays most B.Com graduates can be found working as clerks or secretaries (well, if the distribution of employees at my dad’s company is anything to go by…)
“i’m a BSc Business and computing graduate.. am i trash too? give me a break!!”
Look where he used capital letters (and where he didn’t).
It says it all.
Take a break. You need it.
What a loser! He definitely needs a break! Good observation Stacey…
Daphne, you’d be surprised to find that a modest amount of people like him are to be found in every course at the University of Malta.
[Daphne – I don’t think there are many in archaeology, anthropology, philosopophy or the languages, somehow. I might be wrong, of course. There certainly were none in my time, the dark ages of the mid-1990s.]
I know people who graduated in science, engineering, ICT, medicine and pharmacy and who are exactly like him or worse.
These kind of students’ sole aim is to get their degree and find a job.
They do not want to invest their energies and talent to become experts in their field and excel in their career.
I remember when I was a student, that one particular pharmacy student left me with my mouth wide open when she couldn’t do a simple mathematical proportion in a laboratory practical session. Now she sells medicines to patients for a living and I pray that she hasn’t sent anyone to the grave before their time.
You find these people everywhere not just in B.Com or Law courses. You can also find them also on both sides of Parliament.
Yeah right, tal-ligi u tal-BCom huma l-iktar renomati li jaqlaghu it-trouble.
From one old Aloysian to another: hear hear! You have just described my university experience too – the number of inadequate people allowed to flood university courses for the sake of statistical bragging rights is disgusting.
Most don’t even deserve to have passed their O levels, let alone be termed “university students” – these days it’s just a glorified secondary school.
I graduated in the early naughties, having quit law after a week and chosen to read English instead. Eight years on I don’t regret it – I’m constantly swamped with fulfilling work related to literature, writing and the theatre and, to Mr Reuben Scicluna: I have NEVER asked anybody whether they wanted fries with anything – I don’t do fast food, much less serve it.
I hate it when you generalise!
I love it, because she’s always right.
Always? often, but maybe not always.
As far as I can remember Daphne was only wrong once, when she called an automatic pistol a “revolver”. That’s how I ended up commenting on this blog, and I haven’t looked back since.
Generalisations are extremely useful, if only we’d make them more often. Here are some examples
1. The Maltese are fat.
2. The Maltese have no taste in clothes.
3. The studio audience in Xarabank is mostly hamalli.
4. The University of Malta produces subliterate graduates.
5. The Maltese cannot speak English properly.
6. The core vote in both parties is mostly made up of the working- and underclass.
Mr Baxxter, may I add that the Maltese in general have a cavalier attitude to good and functional design ( kollox jghaddi)?
BAXXTER – I wonder – you are a core voter – so would you be a member of the working class or the underclass.
[Daphne – He’s told us repeatedly already that his family’s origins are working-class.]
That grad could have come from any faculty at university. After all it was PN who encouraged everyone to attend University, so you are bound to get glanvilles in any faculty! I know some pretty bad sods in Medicine, BEd and ICT courses.
Qabadni l-Bard, examinations alone do not filter people out like these, as anyone can memorise by heart (even if it takes them a year of continuous studying to memorise all their books and notes).
[Daphne – That’s where you’re wrong about it, Old Aloysian. You might be able to pass a school examination or even one of the national examination board exams through learning things by rote, but at university level, you should not be able to do that because you are not examined on the facts so much as on your interpretation of them and your ability to write a civilised essay-answer under pressure. Any examiner who notices that a student is regurgitating notes is – by the standards of a good university – obliged to mark down the student as failed. But that doesn’t happen any more because standards are so lax. No, at university you do not learn things by heart to pass exams. More is required.]
The real problem why such people are allowed to study at university and even worse, graduate, lies in the fact that students are not assessed on their social skills, presentation skills, general knowledge, logic and an array of other cognitive abilities that a university student is supposed to have.
[Daphne – I can’t see how social skills come into it. If they did, the world’s most brilliant scientists and many people involved in IT and related subjects would fail. Interviews are that level are actually held to assess the determination and interest of the candidate, and his or her intellectual abilities. Of course you need basic manners and charm because they help in most situations in life, but they’re not the deal-breaker. Good universities are looking for the most brilliant candidates, not the most charming ones.]
Hence, students should be interviewed apart from being assessed via examinations (A-levels) and assignments before they’re admitted to a university course. In addition, each faculty would do its own specific interviewing and aptitude tests to determine if the candidate has the necessary intelligence and mettle for a particular course and profession.
If this is done, I’m sure that the university population would dwindle to around 2000 or 3000 from the current 10000+.
It’s true that a good number of mediocre students take B.Com. However these normally don’t succeed in specialising in economics or accountancy. This was the case in the 90s at least.
[Daphne – Oh, so that’s why Joseph Muscat took the easier option of Public Policy instead.]
Joseph Muscat can boost that he was one of the selected few who ended up in Public Policy.
In the 90s, out of a B.Comm intake of 140, around six students ended up taking Public Policy.
As Nicky said, those who did not obtain the right grades to proceed and specialize in accountancy or economics, ended up either taking public policy or PGCE (one-year course for teaching).
BA management had a mixed crowd – those who failed to obtain the right grades and those who wanted to specialize in management.
Fyi, this week only 4 students graduated with specialisation in public policy
Hello, I was one of those 4 student who graduated in Public Policy last Wednesday.
Please to meet you k farrugia.
Just because few take this course does not mean that it has something wrong or anything less than the rest .. it is just different. The Public Policy Dept only showed us respect in these years.
For all those who do not know how BCom works, Bcom has 7 different areas. So that is one reason why BCom is one of the largest courses on campus. This does not mean that they .. we have “not much up there”.
For all those who would like to know all the work we did together with our lectures in these years, especially in our last year, go ahead and make your own homework..properly.
Daphne … just for the record, as far as I know, Muscat did not graduate in Hons Public Policy, yes he had it as major, but opted to Hons in Management instead.
[Daphne – While I congratulate you on your graduation and wish you the best of luck in your career, Francesca, you have most unfortunately illustrated our point. You might very well have rather a lot up there, but lack of eloquence, inadequate knowledge of English and poor writing skills mean that you can’t express any of it. If I were an examiner or a lecturer, or even a third-form teacher, who got an essay written like this, I would slash it right across the page in red and have done with it. I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but it is absolutely intolerable to me that somebody who writes like this has graduated from the University of Malta.]
Daphne, I suggest you do some find outs about what the course of Public Policy entails before writing such statements.
Its a blog…. do not expect Francesca to use academic writing standards when commenting on your blog. Unless you want to blatantly attack the person behind the argument. A tactic which you seem to be a specialist in.
By doing so you have completely ignored the points of the argument made by Francesca.
[Daphne – That was my point, Anonymous. That when you don’t put your argument across with eloquence, it is dismissed. If you want to make an impact, to make people listen, the best way to do it is to write and speak properly. Academic writing standards? I’m talking about proper sentences and vocabulary that ranges beyond that of a 12-year-old. And yes, I do expect her to use proper sentences when writing on this blog. If I bother to do that, so should everybody else. Unless you’re saying, of course, that a university graduate actually has to make AN EFFORT to string a proper sentence together.]
In fact I’m guessing this typical reply of yours is there solely to increase the amount of viewers on the blog then to encourage a mature debate. But that’s my personal opinion.
[Daphne – Another example: ‘my personal opinion’. How can your opinion be anything other than personal? By being, say, your dog’s opinion? But then it would be your dog’s opinion, and not your personal one. Blogs don’t have viewers. They have readers. Yes, you’re getting tetchy, aren’t you. The reason is that you probably never got this treatment where you should have got it in the first place: in the classroom, when you were at school.]
What is for certain it that there is absolutely no substance in your comment…Not that I was expecting any.
As for the entry requirements for Economics and Public Policy, Nick and Shaw, times have changed since the 90s. I don’t know how it was back then but nowadays entry requirements for these subjects is equivalent.
[Daphne – Read that sentence back and work out what’s wrong with it. Go on. How did you get away with this kind of thing in senior school? We would have been blasted to hell and made to write the correct version until our wrist was sore.]
On Accounts there is an additional entry requirement, but it doesn’t take a genius to realise that most students opting for accounts would not go for public policy as a substitute but rather banking and finance. Just go around and ask a couple of Accounts graduates what their second preference would have been.
Francesca, go and ‘make’ some more English homework.
I’ll bet this is a Facebook profile pic………….”arani x God’s gift to women fija “
I would say that with his name he is a walk-in for Gryfindor, but the hat may put him in another house.
Shame on his parents.
I made a typo on purpose, just in case J.K reads the blog and sues me.
The parents should still be ashamed but maybe the Quidditch cup will placate them if they are half-bloods.
I joined B.Com in 1990 and left as BA Public Policy in 1994.
There were only three in that year’s graduation.
One unfortunately passed away; the other is a high-flyer in private industry and I got into the international civil service sector after further studies away from Malta.
Apart from the fact that there would have been more than the supposed figure of six graduates by the end of the decade, by the standards of your contributors, Nicky and Shaw, I should have been an abject failure.
Iva l-ahwa, maybe that’s why I was thinking of schlepping it to City Gate tomorrow to beg with a platter (tal-lira of course).
Ara, ahjar nirroffa kif nista’ ghax zmienu tafx u nispicca fil-kju bil-karta r-roza ghal-kilo zokkor kif konna naghmlu fis-sebghinijiet
I picked this post as the worst example from many badly-written comments posted in defence of il-Goodlip on http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111202/local/science-dean-seriously-injured-by-students-celebrating-graduation.396530
I wonder what subjects this author is reading. I think it might be safe to assume it is not languages though. This is what he wrote [if you approve of reproducing it on your site… no offence if you don’t]. Here goes…
Christian Borg
Yesterday, 02:13
First of all I don’t know who this professor is and neither the student but there were some comments and i’d like to respond to them. First of all the student that talked to the minister about the ARRIVA who someone in the coments said that she did wrong, she talked out of truth and the parliament prooved that as the speaker had to vote to save the minister’s face. But back to the subject if there were no stipends it means that more than 50% of the students including me would not continue studying, not even by a loan. Just to let you know Malta is not the cheapest place to live even if you are too occupied to see this around you that people are making what they can just to keep up. This is done also by the students of the university of Malta and just a side note, a great number of these students are part of voluntary organisation which on removal of stipends would disband as the students have to work just to be able to read for a degree. Also I would like to point out that there are very good lecturers that they deserve funding and titles and really care about the students but there are lecturers which they know their subject but have no idea on how to lecture about it, on the other hand, unfortunately there is also lecturers that do not deserve a penny of their earnings that their only concern is to get funding and don’t give a s*** (sorry for the expression) about the student. I am sorry to say this but these are real. I’d like to end by saying that there is a great difference with material that is covered in different areas of study. There are subjects that one is very relaxed during his studies but there is also subjects for example sciences where a student not even if he wants could afford to buy a book for each topic covered and by the way I don’t know if everybody knows but the university had increased lecture hours to 8 pm making it impossible for someone to work after that time.
I reckon he’s in the law course, destined to graduate summa cum laude.
Written examinations allow students to put their thoughts in order and construct logical arguments in essay form.
I have experience studying in Malta and elsewhere, where examinations are public and oral (classroom packed with fellow students listening into your exam), meaning that unless you know the subject on the tips of your fingers you won’t make it beyond the first 5 minutes.
In some boring subjects the assessment was on memory and knowledge of facts, in others, the most difficult ones, you are presented with a case and the professor picks and dissects your brain to see if you can apply the knowledge and get through the hypothetical case under consideration.
Here in Malta, sometimes I only really studied the night before an exam and scraped through.
Elsewhere, I sometimes started my preparation even a year before sitting for particular exams (not to mention the finals).
Out of 120 students, on average, only nine graduate on time (6yrs), the rest repeat, in most cases taking up to two years, sometimes more, to graduate.
[Daphne – You must be talking about Germany and Italy.]
I had to prepare myself much harder when studying abroad than here in Malta, this experience helped me to get out of my cocoon and change my perspective in life.
I never worked as hard as during my days at university, no parties, celebrations etc., not that I did not long for them, but simply couldn’t afford the time.
There were other fellow students who partied all night, and inevitably fell behind, but eventually made it through as well because the system allowed for indefinite re sits in case of failure.
Consequently, eventually, everybody gets his or her degree.
Whilst I value my degree as a certificate of the most difficult (for various reasons) years in my life, I do acknowledge that it is simply a piece of paper with a stamp on it. It is still rolled in the tube I received it in. Eventually, it is the market, who sorts out the best people from the rest. In every profession, only a few people distinguish themselves, the rest simply add volume.
That is why I would not bother how many imbeciles are graduating in a determined or a number of particular courses. Eventually, the best ones will always make a good name for themselves, even in difficult situations.
Can sombody paraphrase the above, please? I might be old but it is very difficult to understand what this Christian Borg is talking about
How nice of you to insult people based on their names, Ms.Galizia! How unbiased of you not to mention that the dean himself started the fight, and that he is a graduate in Science. Oh oops! Maybe you just have beef with Commerce students because they actually have a valid degree rather than you? What’s your degree in? B.Scarecrow?
Hi daphne,
I am very disappointed to say that you should be ashamed of yourself. Ashamed for the fact that these B.Commerce students also have to study to get their degree.. I am sure you use an Accountant every once in a while or are u better at it yourself? Without these people studying B.commerce we would not have accountants, politicians, bankers, economists… so are they really TRASH… or are YOU trash?
nicely said.
By the looks of it mediocre accountants, politicians, banker and economists.
Who are you to judge Mrs . caruana Galizia ? As if you never posed infront of a camera yourself when you were ( please note were ) in your good old days .Pfffff…disgusted .
I’m not judging Ms Caruana Galizia… you are, sir.
Or did I misunderstand you? Please don’t blame me if I have because you wrote one question and two sentences and managed to “fek” each one up, in one way or another.
Where did you learn the rules on how to type?
How typical of you.. Graze over the facts and draw up conclusion based on half known truths.. You should know that the first start acting aggressive was the dean himself. And judging glanville simply because of his photo.. thats sad. If i do the same all I see is a sad old woman with no prospects on life but all she has to entertain her is ripping on people.
PS: B. Com > B. A
1. Looking down on a course.( every course is what you make of it. )
2. Judging someone you don’t know based on two photos.
3. Mocking their name. ( something a little child would do )
An “article” which satisfies the foolish and gullible, but in reality – lacks substance.
Now I usually like your writing style, but it seems you’re on a gradual descent now. If you do not have sufficient knowledge at your disposable with regards to something, you should restrain from writing/talking about such things.
I have never had any knowledge at my “disposable” and I’m wondering if Daphne ever had.
I have never “restrained” from writing but have often “refrained” after having “restrained” myself.
Is this a cool way to write and does it only prevail among graduates of the University of Malta?
Don’t bother taking me to task if you find mistakes in anything I have written because it would afford you no satisfaction. You see, I left school at the age of fourteen.
JerMakl, you are wrong about who was aggressive first.
Causing a disturbance when someone is trying to work is “aggression”. Blasting a stadium horn in someone’s face is also “aggression”.
Slapping someone’s face doing those two things is retaliation. The boy-child should have been taught r e s p e c t, first by his parents, then by his successive schools and finally by the university.
Unfortunately, if the first fails, the others are perilously close to the edge and will keel over into the chasm, as just happened.
Do yourself a favour and don’t try to defend the indefensible. Glanville is being judged on his actions not on his appearance. Sarcasm and irony seems to be lost on some people.
P.S. No baccalaureate… left school without so much as a school-leaver’s certificate.
Daphne, its not the courses that people take and what kind of people a certain course caters for. You find people like Glanville Goodlip all over Malta, unfortunately. Its not fair to talk ‘trash’ on people who are taking B.Com and Law in University, in that case, you may as well talk trash about all of Malta, since half of the population (if not, more) is filled with these kind of immature people, regardless of what they are studying.
The man at hand was a student at Savio College (deemed one of Malta’s best secondary schools and one of the hardest to get into while we still had the common entrance exam with extremely high SEC grades obtained ), a highly promising football player who was, as far as I know, part of the Maltese youth squad, and as you yourself have said, a graduate from a B. Commerce degree graduate. What exactly gives you the right to judge a person by a picture of him and his name? The first time I ever met the guy was when he saw me all alone watching a football match between him and some friends and he invited me to play along (I was 11 years old and he was 14).
Have you ever gone out of your own comfort zone to give
someone a smile?
Before posting such inconsiderate hate posts about a person, get to know the guy.
[Daphne – Have I ever gone out of my own comfort zone to give someone a smile? All the time, every day, which is why I’m here uploading funny comments in the early hours after working at my proper job for a straight 36 hours without sleep.]
If I may ask, which Bachelor of Arts degree have you read for? Thanks.
[Daphne – Archaeology.]
Ajma hej x’boqqa brodu fih da!
Whoa, where do you get off judging others by whatever the fuck their name may be. Shit, I ain’t justifying what the dude did was right, but clearly pointing him out just cos he’s got a name you don’t bump into every now and again doesn’t mean you have to flaunt your mediocre judgments on your two-bit piece of shit website. Keep in mind that ogre you call your son already made a right tit of himself on national TV trying to get at the cameras. Hah, say what up to the prick. Make sure you keep that glass stomach well cleaned and looked after, cos after all, we all know you get your head nudged real tight up that funky ass of yours. Peace.
Peace, man. Ban the bomb. You’re sucking too much grass.
ur so lame.
You’re so lame, too.
You’re lamer than lame.
He has a goodlip. you have a badmouth. actually not just the mouth. everything.
OMG! i so pity myself for being a fan of this blog. i cant believe what i just read! first of all get ur facts right cuz apparently d dean started it all… “who looks like this,” tkellmet hey tyra banks!!
woow you’re nonsense …. hmm that’s why you got your own website ?
I’m sorry but this is just plain offensive. Making false assumption on B.commerce and law students, saying that its no surprise he graduated in that course is stupid. There are many dedicated students such as myself who take their studies very seriously, and believe me, just because there is a large intake in those courses does not mean that its an easy pass to obtaining a degree. All the majors in b.commerce require hours of studying. Every course is difficult in its own way. Just because a student chooses B.commerce, doesn’t mean they’re lazy. It means they’re interested in that subject and that’s the career they want to follow. B.commerce graduates may not save lives of teach languages, but accountancy firms, banks, economy and government depend on these graduates for its work force. So who are you to call us trash?
Are you really commenting on this guys name?
From when are we judging people from names and from the pictures? Why do don’t comment about that stupid lecturer who tried to show to everyone who’s the BOSS by trying to punch Glanville.
Believe me you are no one to judge people Mrs. Caruana Galizia, you are just showing people how stupid you are. There’s a saying in maltese for people like you ‘ Kulhadd ghandu xi jxomm taht idejh’ and believe eme, this suits you perfectly.
Last note…
GET A LIFE!
Hawn Malta huwa zvantagg li jkollok isem uniku, u l-aghar haga li jista jigrilek huwa li jixxandar ismek fuq il-midja lokali.
“Why do don’t comment about that stupid lecturer who tried to show to everyone who’s the BOSS by trying to punch Glanville” – Jiena konvint li id-Dean tax-xjenza gie provokat min dan l-istudent stupidu li il-karriera tijaw sabet it tmiem qabel il-bidu taghha minhabba bluwha zejda.
Prosit GLANVILLE! You’ve been served!
Tista ‘ tispjega lin-nies kif “kullhadd ghandu xi jxomm TAHT IDEJH”?
a.) What’s in a name??
b.) What’s in a surname??
c.) How can you judge someone, if you have no idea who he is, based on one action which was clearly triggered by a stupid action done by the dean?
Every student like myself studying at uni are aware that this is graduation period, so are lecturers and as annoying as it is to have students whistle and honk horns in your ear whilst you are trying to study….it is a fact that each student graduating from ANYY course, does this whilst getting drunk as a way to celebrate all those years of studying….the dean should have known better
If someone tried to touch you in some way, your defense would be to fight back, regardless of who the person was and having one too many drinks in the system makes you act instinctively and not think beyond that, and thats what happened here
And what about the pictures? these are facebook pictures, everyone who owns a fb page has pictures of the sort ‘posing’ and what not… they r just goofy pictures of a handsome guy !
I disagree with this post. The dean was perfectly within his rights to tell Glanville Goodlip to desist. He did NOT need to know better because he probably felt duty bound to protect his students and his seat of study.
Goodlip, on the other hand, SHOULD have known better, as should all of you writing here in his defence. He has caused you all some considerable embarrassment. None of you are of tantrum age but that is exactly what he threw… a tantrum. I hope he is regretting it because he will not be forgiven if he does not show a lot of remorse.
It is fine with me if you approve of this vanity, not because of his published photographs, but of the fact that he was so vain that he could not accept an authoritative word from a representative of his “alma mater studiorum”.
“they r just goofy pictures of a handsome guy !” WTF….You either need a pair of glasses or you’re sexually frustrated qalbi!
“To Generalize is to be an Idiot” – William Blake
I’m sorry Daphne. I’m usually a very supportive reader of your blog, but while I most certainly do NOT agree with what happened at the University and that this was a mistake from both ends (the Dean of the Faculty of Science and Goodlip himself), the end of the article failed. The article stopped being about this mistake, and more about a personal attack at Goodlip. What did you achieve? Not much, except perhaps a couple of (angry) readers. Are you one of those people whose respectable nature is in the pits and whose writing follows the same course as ‘there’s no such thing as bad press’?
I’m an Arts student. Might I suggest the following course in article-writing: constructive criticism. You speak so much against the Malta Labour Party, yet you seem to lack the same thing they do; precisely, constructive criticism.
Now, moving on to stereotypically-driven people who clearly seem not to have a mind of their own. Yes, I agree that University standards ought to be higher (peering down at the comments here and seeing the irreducibly vulgar standards of language…). However, bluntly describing the BA courses as pointless is an incredibly unfair generalisation.
Language and rhetoric are AS important as the numbers you work with. If you’re not able to make such a connection, then you might want to rethink your degree.
A degree shouldn’t simply be a matter of a couple of letters after your surname. It should represent an area of specialisation and a will for excellence, which is clearly lacking in most courses. This lack is also very representative of the general attitude in Malta; ‘ejja ha mmorru’. Then you wonder why it is so frustrating having to deal with these people. It’s a detrimental attitude. We have the resources but lack the right attitude to exploit them.
Where were the BA courses described as pointless?
Just out of curiosity… has your son graduated yet? and in which area of study?
That would be very interesting to discover after seeing him yelling “fuck you” in Sir Temi Zammit hall bil-bzieq niezel minn halqu… couldn’t expect anything different from a son raised by such a mother.
[Daphne – I’ll satisfy your curiosity then, with the specific facts. Yes, he graduated at 20 from the University of Malta with a first in geography (BA Hons), then at 21 he graduated with distinction in economic history (MSc) from the London School of Economics, and then, also at 21, he was offered a fully-funded place on the doctoral programme at the LSE, where he is currently engaged in research while working for an asset management firm after having worked at Facebook (the real thing). But then you couldn’t expect any different from a son raised by such a mother. ]
Kif jghid il-malti, bil flus taghmel triq fil bahar. U nghid li jmur jistudja barra t-tifel tieghek daphne bid-drogi li kien ibiegh vicin l-iskola. U hallina :)
[Daphne – I imagine you’re too stupid to see the inherent contradiction in your statement. People who sell drugs outside schools don’t do so to raise funds for their university fees. Another point you are too ignorant to see is that you don’t get into good universities by paying the fees. It doesn’t work like it does in Malta: all-comers welcome. You have to make the grade, and see off the competition for limited places. But in your gutter, you would be unaware of these things. Stay there, like your forefathers before you. Maybe one day you’ll evolve forelimbs and be able to haul yourself out of the swamp. I don’t know why I bothered. You probably can’t read or understand a word I’ve written.]
Proves my point… you don’t necessarily need to graduate from any particular course to be a brat. It all depends on one’s upbringing. In your case your son might be a first class student but he still looks and acts like shit
[Daphne – He doesn’t actually, and the results speak for themselves. Try not to be so jealous and to show that it’s eating you up.]
The correct spelling is ‘anonymous’.
How convenient giving the “you’re jealous” answer :) My judgement is based on what I have actually seen, which ultimately proves my point that I would never have expected such a behaviour from a person with all the honour degrees you have mentioned above.
According to you… only people who have graduated from a law course or Bcom are prone to act that way
[Daphne – When you are subjected to the kind of treatment we were that day, then speak. Perhaps you need to be told that I won a thousand euros in damages from Kurt Farrugia over that incident. And yes, you are jealous. I’ve been around long enough to know how to detect it, and to know too that people like you are, despite concealing it well at times, consumed with envy for those they consider their betters, and are forever looking for ‘proof’ that they really are not their betters after all. ‘He told the reporter to fuck off! Imbasta tal-pepe!’. It is a self-soothing mechanism, like the one that says money doesn’t buy happiness. In fact, money does, and the lack of it is the root cause of most misery. People who are tal-pepe stay tal-pepe no matter how many times they tell you to fuck off, Graziella. Deal with it. Life’s unfair.]
Kurt Farrugia? Do you mean that short, pudgy one without a neck and a smile like the crack in a baby’s bottom?
Tell us more. Has he paid you yet? I thought the PL was broke.
[Daphne – No, he hasn’t. I should ring my lawyer tomorrow and slap him with a warrant of seizure.]
Don’t slap too hard, though.
Daphne, you can never judge a person without knowing that person. I could describe you in soo many words after reading some of your blogs, and most probably I would be right, but at the end of the day I do not know you and you could be the opposite of that.
I know you take comfort in insulting anyone who crticizes you becase you are not capable of dealing with it, so I do not really take this personally
You must be joking. The comment about not being surprised that he is a B.Commerce student is both ignorant and unacceptable. You seem to be one of those people who is influenced by outside opinion and cannot be bothered to form one of your own, therefore has decided that it is somehow an unimpressive course. I am a B.Commerce student myself and I chose it for the simple reason that I am neither inclined nor interested in any other courses except for B.Com.
Just because it doesn’t require an A or B pass in every single subject studied at A-Level or Intermediate doesn’t make it any less important and it is probably the course which offers the most career opportunities whilst still attending the course itself. People like myself shouldn’t have to sit here and have their intelligence insulted for studying something they are passionate about because of a mistake someone else made.
I do not approve of Glanville’s behaviour yet it doesn’t mean that myself and any other B.Commerce student should have to be disrespected and generalised because of it. Any student who is at University has gotten there through his or her own hard work and not one course should be considered ‘easy’ and you certainly don’t have any right whatsoever to say such things.
You should be ashamed of yourself. You should realize that by writing this article you could make Glanville’s life miserable and without any basis. Brilliant University students (as you claim you were) would never have fallen at this level as you did. You know how to write an essay? Good for you! but you are surely as sad lonely women.
This ^^
Get a life and start to speak about something interesting. Making fool about someone who acted like a fool is not gonna make you professional!
You should be ashamed of yourself. You should realize that by writing this article you could make Glanville’s life miserable and without any basis. Brilliant University students (as you claim you were) would never have fallen at this level. You know how to write an essay? Good for you! Apart that, you are a sad lonely woman.
“Don’t Judge a book by it’s cover” How can you judge a person by his photos or by his name and surname
int bis serjeta??? eda sew malla e!! ismek aq allec sabih u xjidholok u johroglok jeminx jew le? bicca tijek? LE! mela tindahalx u hali l min jejx! alek aw malta dejjem lura ax nies bhalek ax tahom biss tajjeb!! u nahseb int aqta kem tilbes sabih liktar tamel xi kilo make up qabel tohrog!!
so what your saying is that you can judge others by simply knowing their name or what ? how could you say those things about him if you didn’t even know him before this incident !! personally I don’t think how anyone would want to get to know you beacuse nobody likes trash…and i know you like the fact i am calling you trash beacuse that’s probably the only compliment someone like you ever gets….i suggest you get a life of your own
Kemm tiflah tkun bla sens u kemm minalik li int xihaga sinjura daphne nies bhalek jgelu nidru kemm ahna pajjiz injorant u bilhaq nipreferi goodlip wara ismi (li qatt ma rajtu tad dahk jew tan nejk billi qatt ma smajt bih int) milli ghandi galizia….. galizia x jahbat ? qisu gledis ta deceduti
Wow, there does seam to some tension in the air. Yes, reading for a degree in any section of bB.Com is simple and not stressfull to achieve.
Been there, done that myself. Having a full degree in accountancy with honours will only exempt you from doing a small percentage of a much more recognised qualification such as the acca which in its nature is equivalent to masters level 7 or reading for a similar degree in a foreign proper university.
You’re being sarcastic right? If it wasn’t stressful for you, good for you, but don’t generalize and assume its easy for everyone because if you;ve already graduated, its important for you to know that many subjects have been introduced these past couple of years. We still have to work hard, its not really a walk in the park. And I’m sorry to inform you, but since ACCA has become so common among people that is no longer holds that quality standard it used to.
ha nghidlek vera li glanvillie goodlip refa idejh fuq haddiehor, imma skuzani nghidlek li int bhalu qed taghmel ta, minflok bidejk bilsienek!!!
who do you think you are ??? I would sue you if you wrote anything like that about me … do everyone a favour and shut up daphne
Well you can do yourself a favour and read some other blog if you don’t like this one. Or maybe your friends’ posts on Facebook; those might be highly interesting.
Please note that it’s not nice to write something like this on internet about someone else, even more if you post pictures too.
I know Glanville and I’m really not happy of what was written here. So please start writing something about yourslef or about your child if you want but not about someone you never met.
Try to imagine this ‘WANNA Be REPORTER’ writing something about someone you know and care about.
So Shut Up my friend!
Maaaa.. you really sucks !!! Get a life witch!!
Congratulation Ms. C. Galizia.
You are becoming the exact equivalent to those wasting their time talking about other people at the local grocer’s shop.
What’s your major exactly?
*Congratulations
You call yourself christians ? and at the same time you judge someone from just a photo and one incident ? … btw, your name might have gone nationwide, however your mind is still as narrow and shallow as the 4 walls arounds you can hold… you write just to make people put stupid comments like these. what’s the fun in that ?
Really now? Get a life!
Hi Daphne,
this is a non-exhaustive list of services that B.com graduates do to the country:
Assist engineers to help keep costs low/efficient logistics in place
Assist all types of companies and SMPs to record their accounts, provide marketing opportunities/research, insuring, liquidation, underwriting and financial management
Assist lawyers and the courts in determining valuations, ownership and obligations
Assist architects to remain within budgets
Basically the B.com degree makes the world go round. What can a B.A degree achieve apart from letting its holder becoming a cultural snob?
*Letting its holder become.
It also lets us write correctly.
Degrees achieve nothing as they are incapable of acting. It is the holders of degrees who achieve things. It usually helps if they can express themselves correctly and coherently – assuming their views are cogent, in the first place.
The Only good thing you said in this article is that you’re a witch from Bidnija.
‘Only’ is not capitalised unless it is at the beginning of a sentence, as it is here.
People like you are ruining this bloody island. Your arrogance is beyond imagination. You can write what you want cause that is your right. But I have every right to say that this is crap and that you are disgusting!! Find a new hobby and btw .. Xi darba jew ohra kulhadd jsib kappell jigih ;)
1. ‘because’ – ’cause’ has a different meaning.
2. Avoid the use of exclamation marks. If you choose the right words, no exclamation mark is necessary.
I would just like to say that making fun of a person’s name and judging someone from simply a couple of photos is a very unprofessional thing to do which most certainly was unexpected from you Daphne, it was like I was reading a facebook status of a bitchy 16 year old.
I would like to point out that I do not know Glanville and I do think his actions are unacceptable but still, this was a pointless commentary.
i know goodlip hes not a bad person qabel ma nippuntaw nxommu taht idejna please kulhadt> alek malta qatt ma nimxu il quddiem ax nies ta isem bhalek jiktbu dawn lartikli . dont know u but im very disappointed about this article u by the way ha nejdlek il facebookers zaghzah kolla andhom pics bhal tijaw mem xejn hazin fijhom just joking come on ma nkunux nies hziena
Ignorance at its best. The more you talk the more I puke. Who the hell do you think you are??you probably are so low self-esteemed that you try and make others miserable. As you’ve already been told…get a life!!
1. Self-esteem is a noun not a verb.
2. Sentences begin with a capital letter.
What about your son Daphne? what is his degree?
[Daphne – I have three sons, not one (or three conflated into one). The information you request is as follows: MA with distinction (financial journalism) – City University; MSc with distinction (economic history) – London School of Economics; MA with merit (diplomatic studies) – Mediterranean Academcy of Diplomatic Studies; MA with merit (EU and international relations) – College of Europe.]
that’s why it helps having your mother with the name daphne caruana galizia.However, these are great results indeed
Regards
[Daphne – What was that I wrote earlier in response to somebody else, about self-smoothing mechanisms? This is another one: they got where they did because of their mother. Indeed they did, because intelligence is a genetic inheritance (just like stupidity) and drive, motivation and determination are in part genetic and in part the result of being brought up in a particular way. And that’s where it ends. You don’t get on the LSE’s doctoral programme or a good job in London within weeks of graduating (in the current climate) by telling them who your mother is in Malta. I am tempted to call you an idiot, but I sympathise because I realise you are just trying to make yourself feel better by saying that if you had me for a mother you’d have the same achievements. Probably, yes, you would, because it’s not a coincidence that all three of them are the same – but it wouldn’t be for the reasons you console yourself with. What’s most conspicuous in the comments here is the intense jealousy and hatred of people you lot clearly resent for all manner of reasons that remain completely unchanged from the days when your great-great-grandfathers ransacked the houses of is-sinjuri during the so-called ‘bread riots’. And you don’t even have to beg for your food or bust your gut in some field, which tells me it goes way, way, way beyond money and opportunities.]
I am very happy that you had a chance to answer me back, however your answer was too long for my likes and i didn’t evern bother to read it all. I stopped when you said that you were tempted to call me an idiot (therefore you didn’t.) Thanks, it’s much appreciated :)
How do you cope with reading books?
Or is that no longer necessary at university these days?
X faqar ta blog dan. Halluh jejx guvni.
1. X’faqar.
2. ta’
3. jghix.
AHJAR TARA IT TIFEL TIJAK!]
[Daphne – LIema wiehed, sabih?]
Is this Daniel Brincat?
https://www.facebook.com/daniel.brincat?sk=wall
1. it-tifel
2. tighek
Fil-Malti jezistu regoli ta’ grammatika u ortografija.
Nitpicker…
Fil-Malti jeżistu wkoll dawn: ħ, ż, etċ, jgħidulhom ittri analfabeti Maltin. Mela niktbu ‘tiegħek’ mhux ‘tighek’, niktbu ‘jeżistu’ mhux ‘jezistu’
Qiegħed tagħmila tal-għaref, tikkumenta wara kull kumment, meta m’int xejn għajr bniedem bla skop. Jekk tħossok xi oraklu Malti, għamel daqsxejn sforz imqar. Inkella, m’int xejn ħlief Ġaħan.
Rigward il-kitba ta’ Daphne, għadni qiegħed infittex nitfa sugu.
Please tell me you’re not a communications student… because if you intend on making a living reporting on your definition of a stupid surname you need to dig a little deeper.
I only came across this blog (because let’s face it, this is nothing more than that) because a friend of mine – whom i will be having a word with for spending time on here – posted a link to here on facebook.
Very nice reporting… such depth… i awestricken
not!
Please tell me you’re not a communications student… because if you intend on making a living reporting on your definition of a stupid surname you need to dig a little deeper.
I only came across this blog (because let’s face it, this is nothing more than that) because a friend of mine – whom i will be having a word with for spending time on here – posted a link to here on facebook.
Very nice reporting… such depth… i awestricken
not!
i awestricken too, Simon.
Meri me.
Can you swear on your sons that these comments are genuine, and that you haven’t doctored a single one of them?
If you give me an affirmative answer, I swear I’ll have to bang my head against the wall. Ten thousand times.
I can’t believe my eyes. These are UoM students?
[Daphne – Of course I will not swear on my sons, and how can you ask that. You can take my word for it. Solemn oath, like in court.]
The UoM should introduce TOEFL admission tests.
” Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.” John 8:7.
that is what all I have to add to all your posts and comments
thanks
John who?
It’s one of my comments from some time back.
St John.
shame on you for judging a person based on his name and degree, simply comes to show who is the childish person. you should use your “knowledge” to write about something intelligent . Used to enjoy following your blogs but this is disgusting , you should be ashamed a women of your level!
Maybe the U of M should consider doling out punctuation marks (exclamation and question marks not required) along with stipends, as they seem to be in short supply.
This post went viral on facebook, and I had to comment.
How dare you accuse someone of bad grammar and punctuation? Its a blog, and if I wish to write “klsdbfjklsdb” in the middle of a sentence, I am allowed, as the internet has its entertainment value, however it’s still loaded with ethical problems which unfortunately you have breached severely, and in my opinion, lost your credibility as a human being.
Everyone has the right to entertain themselves with their surroundings. If someone sees something funny, or hilarious, they have all right to joke and make fun of that in their own space and time, however – to humiliate an individual for his name, being someone well known as you Daphne, I’m sorry but this is quite offensive. You take the concept of Freedom of speech too far… to the extreme end of Bullying.
Yes, you are a Bully, and you shouldn’t have done this. ESPECIALLY since you have in the past suffered from many ‘nomenclatures’ such as ‘Stefni’ and so on and so forth.
Do you seriously expect this post to reflect positively on your career as a journalist? Do you think people would take you seriously after this post? and most importantly, did you re-read what you wrote?
Attacks on things people DO, I would agree with, being their own consequences. But Attacks on things people Have? Shall we start offending your surname? No. Why? because we have more important things to do in life then bitch like little daddy’s girls.
You’re a bully. I really hope and honestly wish that your failed attempt to ‘infamy’ sinks just as well as your credibility just did.
Spot on Stephen! I honestly believe that while DCG has temporarily got more readers for this cheap post, she will permanently lose a lot of regular followers due to this kind of childish writing.
qabel ma titnejjek bin-nies ahjar thares sew fil-mera daphne. Ghadek ma ndunajtx li qed taqa ghac-cajt ma nazzjon kollu minalik qed titmejjel bin-nies u kulhadd jitmejjel bik. qed titnejjek bih ghax ghandu isem ingliz? qatt ma qalulek kemm ghandek kunjomok tan-nejk lilek? live and let live daphne and mind your own business!!!
1. Qabel
2. ma’
3. min ghalik
So what if he’s called Goodlip? It doesn’t have to do anything with graduating and stuff. I mean the whole story has no argument. You’re the TRASH not him and you proved it ! Only TRASH people make TRASH talk about others and for no reason. Good luck trying to make fun of people..
What do you call new graduates who TRASH their deans?
kemmmmm awwwwwwww min anduuuuuuuuuuuuuuu hin xjitleeeeeeffffffff wwwooooowwwwwww
Let’s all think a bit…and here I urge my fellow course colleagues who graduated in B.Commerce like me. Daphne’s description is… but it’s a bit of a dumping ground for people who want a degree but don’t have much up there…and really and truly, think a bit guys, it is ta. We start the course with lectures in Sir Temi Zamit Hall because we are 500…and from then till the graduation its like that ‘Nine Green Bottles’ song, because so many people drop out.
So really aand truly these people would have not had much up there. Some of them camouflage all this and go all the way to graduation, and then they end up being either a deliveryman or some waiter in some posh place, which, once again proves what Daphne said.
And the word ‘bit’ has a lot of weight in what Daphne said, because YES, being a B Commerce graduate, it is a bit of a dumping ground…it is not the first time that we have heard the words ‘Ma nafx xha niehu korss!’ and the other person would reply ‘U ijja hu Commerce jew Communications’. So we cannot jump on an offending spree just cos Daphne said it. I do not always agree with what she writes, but I never resort to offending. She is a blogger and she is doing what she does best…BLOG about daily happenings!
We have to learn to take this person with a pinch of salt. Keep them coming Daphne!!! :)
Don’t you think its very rude and mean of you to do such an article?
This is honestly bullying, you’re ridiculing him nationally just for your pleasure if i were him i would sue you (not my parents) on emotional damage grounds.
He ridiculed himself when he ended up in a no-holds-barred with the dean.
I have worked with Glanville for couple of months and I would say this is not quite like him punching people for no reason whatsoever. I am sure that this is just a big misunderstanding.
He might not look like a person that goes to church every Sunday but I can say that he is very kind-hearted and fun person to work with.
He used to talk a lot about his family and how much he loves them. And remembers his sister’s b-day days before and asked me to remind him to get her a b-day card.
[Daphne – So do the Mafia. Not that I’m suggesting anything, of course. But ostentatious ‘love of family’ is just part of this subculture, isn’t it. He loves his sister so much that he asks A FRIEND to remind HIM to buy her a BIRTHDAY CARD. Wow. Birthday cards are there for when you can’t transmit your greetings in person. Bit pointless handing somebody a card saying ‘happy birthday’ when you can say it yourself, unless it’s accompanied by a PRESENT.]
What I am trying to say is, he is not as bad as what some people here are trying to portray. He is just like one of us who has loved ones that read this article and getting hurt by our judgemental comments.
TO GLANVILLE – Take care & remember that things can only get better.
[Daphne – We all haved ‘loved ones’. I think you forget that.]
Yes everybody has loved ones… including the dean he assaulted.
He caused serious injury and, by all accounts, has expressed no remorse, or at least not in the right places and to the right people. Forgiveness should be preceded by remorse, no matter what anybody says.
I am sincerely saddened by this whole event and by the lacking intuition of these newly-graduated ‘adults’. The alcohol-fuelled assault, not by one but by many revellers, is inexcusable.
Yet, how many witnesses have come on this blog or ToMdotcom to express regret?
They try to justify the unjustifiable purely because they want the last word.
These are university graduates, for heaven’s sake, who have changed their original story now that it is provable that the dean threw no punches and broke no noses.
Notwithstanding, some still wrote here that the dean had assaulted Mr Goodlip. Of course, on this blog they are not under oath, and that is to their advantage.
They take Ms C.G. to task for having chastised Glanville for his actions, using a “che_pensi_di_essere, non_sei_nessun_gran_che” approach based on his self-projected public image. I think that was a stiff pseudo-parental chastisement that should have made him aware of how out-of-order it was to challenge Prof Sammut.
Instead, it revealed the lack of insight of those universitarians reacting to her comments. Bear in mind that, in labouring her for her remarks, they throw in worse ones including some despicable ones about uninvolved third parties.
I, like others who lacked opportunities, feel aggrieved by this lucky guy letting down his co-graduates and his “alma mater”.
I have no wish to chastise him any further and hope the court and the university will be lenient when the time comes. I still think it is ungainly that he has shown no remorse. Is he (and are his defenders) mature enough to regret this bad-hair day?
hanina how sexy! I’m looking him up!! :)
Thanks Daphne! ^_^
(in no way is this comment Sarcastic) ;)
http://www.georgescintilla.com/daphne.html
DID YOU EVER LOOK IN A MIRROR? stop making fun of other cause you’re uglier than a duck
[Daphne – I’m 47, sweetheart. Compare me to your mother, not to your 20-year-old friends. Your 20-year-old friends wouldn’t have stood a chance 27 years ago. But we’re not going into that.]
be sure that if I compare you to my mother you would go in a shalter and never get out again
Daphne,
Believe me, if you knew his mother you would suck that comment back. Admit it that you are ugly and 99% of the Maltese hate you, if not everyone. You wouldn’t even stand near her left toe.
[Daphne – Why not, given that I’m almost certainly twice her height? Your class’s definition of what is attractive in a woman is not the same as mine, Lex. Too much make-up, very high heels, ultra-tight clothes and hair blowdried to extinction are definitely out, for instance. But you wouldn’t understand that, so I’ll drop the subject.]
Well said!
be sure that if you will be compared to my mother, you’ll det into a shelter and never get out of it. Don’t ever dare to call me sweatheart!!!
[Daphne – I can just imagine what sort of mother you have. I see them walking down Republic Street looking oh-so-fabulous, ‘sweatheart’.]
well if you see my mother walking down republic street i would definately see you waiting at the door in Testaferrata Street. I won’t post anymore because i’m losing so much time replying to a “lady” who would ruin other’s live just to be famous
1. ‘Well,’ not ‘well’ – it’s at the beginning of a sentence, so a capital letter is appropriate, and the word should be followed by a comma.
2. Republic Street is a name. That makes it a proper noun, therefore it should be capitalised.
3. ‘I’ is a proper noun. It too should be capitalised.
4. The correct spelling is ‘definitely’.
5. Testaferrata Street is not in Republic Street.
6. I’m not i’m – see 3 above.
7. ‘the lives of others’, ‘others’ lives’, or ‘another person’s life’ – the first two are plural, the latter is singular.
8. A paragraph should end with a terminal punctuation mark – a fullstop or questionmark, but not multiple question marks or exclamation marks.
Daphne,
My point is you are not just hurting Glanville here with your comments but his family as well. His parents (just like you) in particular…. Put yourself in their shoes. What if one of your children get into something like this?
They might have all these qualifications you repeatedly mentioned but surely that’s not everthing in life.
[Daphne – You can NOT be serious. All my sons are targeted repeatedly by the Labour Party for the simple reason that they are my sons and not because of anything they’ve done or haven’t done. And you say this?]
And about the b-day card. Surely he must have greeted her in person. We cannot expect a 21 year old student like Glanville to spend a lot of money on gifts. I guess it’s the thought that counts.
[Daphne – He seems to have a lot of money for sunglasses and music. And presents don’t have to cost a lot of money. Sometimes, they needn’t cost any money at all.]
Anyway, it’s my opinion. As far as I know Glanville not only is a good friend but a good person as well.
And perhaps you should have chosen the photos from his fb where he took photos of his diploma along with his parents gift and wrote thank you to them. And how he dedicates his ‘achievement’ to them.
[Daphne – If any of mine had done that, I would have died of shame. Fortunately, they’re not that naff.]
How did you conclude that he didn’t buy her a gift?
[Daphne – You’re right. He might have asked some other friend to remind him to buy her a present, after askng you to remind him to buy her a card.]
Sry ta, int x’jidhollok u x’johroglok xi ssemih ommu persuna ghid ? Lil Glanville nafhu sew u int qed tiggudikah fuq azzjoni wahda hazina li ghamel ? Min tahseb li int biex tiggudika ? Perfetta Int ?
No comments Galizia ?? .. then why don’t you f**k off and leave people live there life the way they want to and not use it to make a living out of it or a name for yourself..
Bitch
You’ve gotten far with your eloquence.
[Daphne – Yes, I’ve built a career out of it.]
Coupled with a network of loving fans. Well done indeed, you’ve succeeded graceful manner.
It proves that the pen is a mighty fine weapon.
daphne…
im sorry…but you are probably as immature as Goodlip himself!! writing an article about his name?? seriously?!?!?
And no…B. Commerce is not “a dumping ground for people who want a degree but don’t have much up there, like Joseph Muscat and Aaron Farrugia”!!!
if you wanted to comment you should have commented on his repulsive behaviour…not his NAME!! (which i still cant get my head around)
and one last thing…cos im reading your comment to ‘danny’…if you really are 47 you are acting like a 16 year old!!!!! really?? defending your appearance at 47??
Grow up…there are teenagers more mature than you!!!!
[Daphne – Defend my appearance? I never gave a damn about my appearance and am not going to start now. You will notice – if you are capable of doing so, that is – that I don’t defend anything. I just state the facts, which speak for themselves. And no, I am not one of those adults who refuses to communicate with people a generation younger in anything other than a kind and patronising manner. If you’re looking to me for that, don’t bother. I speak to everybody in the same way, whether they are 20 years my junior or 20 years my senior.]
You look at not look to Dear Daphne knows everything and proud of herself. I mean, it’s like the ugly duckling being proud of her appearance. You’re proud of your so-called career, and it’s not even called a career. It’s called having so much time to waste to write about stupid biased stuff. Just saying.
Daphne used the correct preposition. Your suggested one would be incorrect, within this context.
Il-misthija ta’ dan il-pajjiz hi li ghax student, wehel kollox, meta ghax l-iehor professur hadd m’ghed jazzarda jghid xejn.
Blog fqir, bla argument pero m’hemmx x’nistenna iktar mis-sahhara tal-Bidnija. S’hemm taf. U ma nafx xi trid tghid biha meta fuq Glanville tghid “who looks like this”. Ma nimmaginax li hi persuna li tghati hafna l-aspett estetiku, ghax jekk tghati, ghandi mistoqsijiet kbar kif jirnexxilha tghix biha nfisha.
kif alla jridek qeda galizia jew xtahbat.Qed toqod titnejjek bih meta int andek iktar alxix tisthi.jin nafu sew u naf li mijux tekk.sippost mara serja int imma qed turi kemm int bela u mara arroganti bix tikteb dawn laffarijit fuqu.jaqaw dak ir ragel li igilied mijaw kin idahaluwlek kemm qijsek taf affarijit.
[Daphne – ‘Maria’, if you wish me to think that you are somebody other than Glanville Goodlip’s mother, I suggest that you don’t enter your email address as ‘[email protected]. Mhux ta’ b’xejn hariglek hekk, Mrs.]
Mela vera Glanville Goodlip iggieled ma’ Professur Sammut? Ma qalx li mhuhiex hati?
Is she really his “mami”?
Wow! Good manners.
If she really is his mother, yes perhaps she’s not polite but yet again so as Mrs. Daphne here who says e-mail will not be published but required but yet again she published the e-mail of Maria (whoever she is).
[Daphne – I suppose it’s better to laugh than cry in these situations. Do you mean to say you actually think that Goodlip’s mother’s email address is REALLY [email protected]? When was the last time you sat for an exam without learning everything off by rote?]
Interessanti kif daphne tikkummenta dwar il-qziez ta’ certi persuni izda ma taghtix kas il-qziez u l-arroganza fil-personalita’ taghha. Nies bhalek huma ta hsara ghas-socjeta’!!
Li ghamel hu ma kienx sew, imma li qed taghmel int qas m’hu sew….int x jidholok u johroglok x’semmewh ommu u missieru, la kuntent int kuntent kullhadd…u thossokx hafna ahjar min nies tal BCOM int ta, ghax omrok u zmienek tghid u tparla fuq in nies!
Jahasra mintomx tindunaw li dil wirdiena toqod tikteb artikli kontroversjali biex tispicca fuq l-ahbarijiet… iktar Jeffrey pullicino u tal PL joqodu jaghtu kasa… u l-erba ti qtates li joqodu jifirhu ma kull artiklu li tikteb..
and btw DAFNI DUCK
DID YOU EVER LOOK IN A MIRROR? stop making fun of other cause you’re uglier than a duck
[Daphne – I’m 47, sweetheart. Compare me to your mother, not to your 20-year-old friends. Your 20-year-old friends wouldn’t have stood a chance 27 years ago. But we’re not going into that.]
nista nara pic tijak meta kellek 20 pls… bil burka jekk jista jkun ghax adni niekol…
Tista tghdilna fejn nistaw ritratt tieghek, jekk joghgbok? Naghmlek wiehed proprju ‘hensim’.
Coupled with a network of loving fans. Well done indeed, you’ve succeeded in a graceful manner.
isma gbin tridx talaq halqek u ma tparlax ohra fil vojt.. ghal informazzjoni tijak jina b comm student u qlajt fwidi bix amilt daw l 4 snin.. u jekk ridt nidhol avukat stajt ukoll , ax kelli bizzejed requirements. imma jina bcomm ridt ax nixtiq il quddim nahdem il bank… nis TRASH huma int u mux goodlip, ax hadd mandu dritt jitkellem bdan il mod fuq in nis..u sew amel , sinjal li tal gatz bix amila..zgur ma tajilux al xejn.. u ha najdlek hassra li ma tahix lilek Daphne u fractured admek kollu….jaqqqqq kemm int kisha
Lil Xejn xejn xejn:
U ejje! Ent vieriw qieghid l-universitu’ jew? Qas tuf tikteb bil-Muhlti, kif jista jkiwn? Mele dezmien jidhlu bil-metsex minfluk bil-Matsec, jewwille?
Stajt ghall-inqes ivvintajt isem minfluk ktebt “Xejn xejn xejn” Jew, tabilheqq jismek “Shane” gbejn?
Ma nufx jien, dawn iz-zoghzogh ta’ llewm. Geddiwmhem fix-xejr ghomurhom u zmienem u mank jufu jarfu xurtihem, u ghall-inqes jippruvaw jitghallmiw xi huga.
Ahjur immur l’hemm ghax ghandi maghze duhri dbeqqi, li ma’ jfettilliwx jidhol xi hadd biex jisreqieli miskine.
Isma gbejn, issa taqbezx fiwqi tu’ ghax ghandi l-kompjuter ma jufx bil-muhlti ghax bla tikek u bla tse u bla ghajn. Nixtieqlek affurijiet zbiegh tu, imma tghallem deqxejn bil-muhlti wkell, la qieghed hemm ussa.
Maybe you’re not ugly as a duck but i’m sure that at some point in time you’ve done a very long time out there exploring space till the time you turned 47.
Mentioning that you said that you barely find students like these in those studying medicine, I think that you need to get more up-to-date with what happens behind the scenes when concerning students studying medicine. Got the point space girl?
I am impressed. Well done. Youve managed to make your ass jealous of your mouth because of all the shit thats coming out :)
Brava keep it up!
Are these university students? They can’t even string a few words together to form a proper sentence.
If this is the way they think and write, I’m not surprised they got the wrong end of the stick when they read Daphne’s post.
As for not wanting a name like Glanville Goodlip, who would?
He should just thank his lucky stars that his surname isn’t Glanville.
Imagine that, Glanville Glanville.
Just get a life daphne and let others live theirs !! plain and simple !!
shame on you for judging people! this is disgusting , you should be ashamed of yourself…witch
And what do ‘witch’ and ‘you should be ashamed of yourself’ amount to, if not judgement?
You really like to entertain. You prove the point that there is no need to be from B.com or law faculty to be RUDE, BRAT,SHIT AND TRASH like you said cause your son is a typical example of a university student who behaved like one of,at the university premises…but that’s what you expect from a son with a mother like you who spends her life insulting others and don’t see the worst that is in her.
Keep it up Daphne qalbi. Happy Christmas and give yourself a life as a Christmas present and try to live a better life as this year could be the end of the world..
Enjoy
[Daphne – My child (well, if you WERE my child you’d know how to write and think), I am well pleased with all my sons and hope for her sake that your mother is well pleased with hers, because I certainly wouldn’t be, unless, of course, you are nine years old.]
Galizia, in my opinion you are using this once-in-a-blue-moon occurrence to get somewhere else in politics. This has nothing to do with politics, yet you are mentioning it in every single comment which is quite immature
In my opinion, Dear Daphne, you are the only trash in this sinario.
I have never in my life heard such a ridiculous surname as Galizia, so if I were you I would think twice before calling anyone else, as you only make yourself look very unprofessional
The spelling’s ‘scenario’. Why are you lot doing your damnedest to undermine your own arguments? You’re only proving that some (I’d have said ‘all’, if you were typical) are not worthy of entry into university, let alone graduation.
Ara daphne alaq halqed darba al dejjem gieli harist fil mera int ax nahseb jien mhux ta bxejn jadulek il sahhara tal bidnija qalbi, bniedma bla sens bhalek Malta ma ghandiex bzonn zgur alekk go dan il pajjiz jezisti hafna bullshit meta tmur al xi job interview ax issib nies bhalek injoranti socjalment imma umbad kollom grades u x naf jien, minalijom jafu hafna ax jiktbu bl inglis umbad tismahom jitkellmu bl ingliz u qisom gejjin mil conqo wtf ma nafx x jahsbu certu MALTIN BHALEK, tahsbu li qedin l- AMERICA jew hafna bullshit go bicca pajjiz zghir, fejna il qalb tal Maltin li tant niftahru bija, U btw il Labour u in Nazzjonalisti x andom jaqsmu hawn??? u fuq comment ta xi hadd li qrajt imma ma nistax insib xi hadd kiteb li irrid ikollok certu standars u hekk gholjin u halluna bil kwiet pls allahares nofskom issifru barra bl inglizati kolla li andkom alla hares issifru barra lejn xi pajjiz bhal America u tiddecidu li tghixu hemm ax taf kemm iccemplu tigru il Mummy ax il Maltin imdorrijin b certu mentalita injoranta, li al naqra pajjiz taddi imma al barra jiklukom hajjin belive me, GROW UP PLS U STOP BEIGN Wusses.. U btw daphne sibu u ajdlu f wiccu lil dan il bniedem forsi jamillek bad lip lol
Jaqq Daphne Kemm int bla sens, ahjar issib xi hadd u jifqak forsi talaq halqek u jimlijiulek bil-L**** sorry just an opinion…..
You’re blog is a dumping ground for verbal diarhea. However; seeing as you’ve found yourself a little niche in the market let me help you out: I’ve met people named Pearl Harber, and Jurassic Pace. This should keep your bog going past the new year!
[Daphne – It’s Pearl Haber, not Pearl Harber, and I’ve known about her longer than you’ve been alive. And it’s ‘your’ not ‘you’re’. Diarrhea has two Rs. ]
Diarrhoea also has an O.
[Daphne – It does not.]
Though either will do, I was brought up on diarrhoea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea
“Diarrhea (from the Greek διάρροια meaning “flowing through”[2]), also spelled diarrhoea, is the condition …..”
It is not often that an assertion is aggressively proved wrong by its own author.
Dee… you just defeated your own assertion that it has an “o” by pasting its Greek etymology which shows it as secondary. If you had looked it up before, you would have been perceived differently since you would not have tried to upstage your hostess by pointing at an error that never was.
Are you at university also?
Diarrhoea is the English form of the word and Diarrhea is the American. The source is Oxford dictionary. Seeing how we live in Malta it correct to say Diarrhoea not Diarrhea, just as it is lift and not elevator here.
Seems like being very old isn’t everything Daph(t). :)
Oh and Peppi . “If you had looked it up before, you would have been perceived differently” as it is you are percieved as a dumbass. Kudos though on using ‘etymology’. Big word.
I hadn’t realised that I had been honoured with a response from Samaritan. Thank you for even noticing my presence.
However, I would have written “dumb ass” rather than “dumbass” or, if I had wanted to be subtle or cryptic perhaps, I would have written “Dumas”.
Samaritan: There I was perceiving Dee as being assertive, aggressive, and mistaken and there you are perceiving me as a “dumbass”. Touché monsieur/madame.
good thing I’m writing on the internet where writing garbage seems to be the norm :)
By the way, having people comment about your personal life isn’t very nice, is it?
[Daphne – I was a household name already at 25, my dear, so I am completely immune. Don’t measure me according to your set of standards, because I’m not the same kind of person. What would bother you leaves me indifferent.]
During Dom’s Golden era, a degree like B.Com was useful only to “tqartas l incova fih”.
I think you really need to do a self conscious analysis. I am all out for the freedom of speech but speaking recklessly about someone who is still so young, a newbie in life just out of university trying to build a career….with a name which easily recognized in such a small country…its completely unprofessional and yes…stupid i may say. Give him a chance come on, he is not 47 with a great career behind like you. Im sure you have done all your homework prior posting this and have gone through it quite a number of times, ensuring that the law won’t “touch” you, because i would’ve personally gone through court with you on this, because whilst I’m not here saying that the guy didn’t do a mistake…you had no right in posting this…i think the court did enough in expressing her judgement. The first sentence i wrote started with an advice…do it and improve you can do better than this Daphne. Unless, it’s some sort of new marketing initiative…
What is it with these people?
Francesca says : ‘MAKE your homework’
YK says: ‘DO a mistake’
It’s the other way round.
… and how many people do you know who “make” a decision instead of reaching one?
Good on you for noticing the transposition, albeit by different authors.
If you can explain yourself better, maybe i can reply. But if it is a correction (i noticed that you like them) then i thank you for your support, issa nghatik medalja.
Decisions are taken. Conclusions are reached.
You are not necessarily right, Nitpicker.
A judge will deliberate and reach a decision.
An author might “come the the conclusion that…” ergo, ‘come to’ is ‘reach’.
Conclusions are decisions are conclusions, sir/madam. They are both reached. That is the normal parlance, at least.
Just as a matter of interest, when you go to your local shop, how do you get there? Do you go by car?
erratum corrigendum: “come to the conclusion that…”
Psychological projection or projection bias is a psychological defense mechanism where a person subconsciously denies his or her own attributes, thoughts, and emotions, which are then ascribed to the outside world, usually to other people. Thus, projection involves imagining or projecting the belief that others originate those feelings…
Yes. I’m quoting Wikipedia, but you get my general idea feeling about the article.
On the other hand though, I do agree that University courses should not be moulded according to market-demand. I believe that is a death sentence on innovation and standard.
Ah, yes standard! I cannot comment on how UoM standards have changed through the years, but yes I do believe that they are not at their best. I am not referring to behaviour, it’s mostly certain basic academic skills and the inability to actually use the brain to apply or at least reflect on knowledge.
[Daphne – Cod psychology is the particular fascination of new adults, Stephanie. By the time you’ve reached my enormous age, you’ll have worked it out for yourself, with no need to look it up on Wikipedia.]
Have you heard about denial as well?
[Daphne – Not just heard, Stephanie. I’ve been around long enough to have actually known people who live it.]
Well I could list a whole lists of defense mechanisms if you want, though your continious stress on your age tells me you have met them all – in other people of course. But that’s hardly the point, I don’t care about what you actually resort to eventually. My point is that there seems to be little point in the article above except that it feels like projection. Your thoughts, your right. At least you are giving us what some of us like; a chance to argue!
[Daphne – You might as well say that everything I write is projection, Stephanie. But it isn’t. It’s observation. And that’s quite apart from the fact that I can’t see how you think of it as projection. I am not a 22-year-old man, I do not play football, I am not called Glanville Goodlip, and nothing in my life or experience is any way like his. This projection business is so very ‘Labour girl’. I remember receiving a horribly rude email accusing me of something similar from the ‘TV personaliity’ Moira Delia a week or two before the last general election – you know, when she thought Labour was going to win.]
Bad reputation, bad University student behaviour.. Not similar?
[Daphne – The fact that Labour supporters, most of whom have never read anything I’ve written or even know where I write it, don’t like me does not translate into my having a bad reputation. Learn how to dinstinguish between the two. I can think of several people who are well liked, but who have a lousy reputation, and vice versa. Bar turning up late for lectures, I behaved very well while at university.]
Well to quote what I said, I was mainly comment on my “general feeling about the article.” I was not accusing – as I am sure, the comment “labour girl” is a feeling of yours.
We are both passing observations. We both do not agree with these observations.
Observations are made, not passed.
A Christmas gift idea.
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hasra li b’certifikati li gibt mil universita, kull ma taf tamel tikteb go bicca blog tinsulta lin nies, jew tikteb go bicca gazetta, tider li ma jkollokx xtamel let people live their own lives bi**h, sorry i mean witch
Is this a blog where people discuss or show off? bit sad ‘cuz it seems like it is the latter. And it seems like my point is right, education is not producing people who know how to think but fact-books
You sorry excuse for a human being DCG. But then again, trust you to stoop so low :)
post my comments you scum! mela m’ghandekx x’tirrispondini?
Nispera li ma tigix bzonn xi accountant ghaziza Daphne fil hajja tieghek ghax jekk fil kaz li tigi bzonn ara ma jkunx ha il course tal B Com u honours fl accountancy! U fuq kollox min ha Geography ibrilla hafna fl-universita? ha ha
Ignorance is bliss.
Woosshhh. Managed to skim through the above comments. Yeah..must admit that I do find the name Glanville Goodlip rather funny and amusing however I didn’t expect so many comments on such a trivial matter.
To La Redoute, this message wasn`t sent to you, The point is what has his name or surname, have to do with anything that happend. I`m sure miss Galizia is perfect ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
this guy really needs to grow up!!!