You know the solution – disallow my comments.

[Daphne – No, I’d only do that if you were extremely obnoxious or slanderous. Your comments don’t bother me. I just find it interesting that life changes but life situations don’t: from the bitchy but fascinated boys hanging about on the Ghar id-Dud railings to the bitchy but fascinated men hanging around my website around 35 years on. Ho hum.]

But you won’t, cos this site would be pretty damn boring if you only allowed comments by the usual sycophants who wait breathlessly till you tell them what they should think and then trip over their little feet in their eagerness to be the first to say that it was what they had been thinking all along.

[Daphne – Quite obviously a category to which you long to belong, but feel yourself above it and too special, thinking I’ll notice you more if you’re nasty. Didn’t work then, doesn’t work now. Niga naqa u nqum.]

I am impervious to personal jibes and slurs – water off a freaky boy’s back, as you might say.

[Daphne – Yes, well, I imagine you’ve had a lifetime’s practice.]

The Ombudsman is precisely intended to ensure openness and transparency. He should know better than to try and do things under wraps.

[Daphne – He didn’t “do things under wraps”. He followed the rules, a concept that you Laburisti with your people’s kangaroo courts and your Chinese Cultural Revolution view of transparency and openness just fail to understand.]

[Daphne – Martin, you are one of the most tiresome people I have had the misfortune to encounter through this website. You use prejudice and bitterness in place of argument and you are forever squatting here sniping. Do you know what you remind me of? One of those freaky boys who used to sit around glued to the sight of the girls they considered out of their league, bitching about them and calling them whores and so on, yet unable to pull themselves away and go and spend time with the girls they ‘respected’. You’ve got a bad case of that, in a different context. You’re Labour, you claim to despise me and my views, but still you hang around here and not with your Labour friends on your Labour sites. Now toddle off, do yourself a favour, and find some nice Labour lady to hang around and chat with. And if you’d like to stay, cut out the sniping tone and use proper arguments, or at least develop a sense of humour.]

Joe Grima transparent?

Please, do not insult us with Joe Grima’s logic and ‘trasparenza’

I appreciate where you are going with your sensible remark, but Grima is the pits.

Would you be interested in writing about this subject?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120729/local/New-Maltese-road-signs-that-are-lost-in-translation.430509

Quite frankly I think that, as usual, in typical Maltese fashion, we have taken things to their extreme and the Kunsill Nazzjonali tal-Ilsien Malti (who are nothing but a bunch of time-wasters pining for the days when we carried clubs and slept in caves) are trying their utmost, yet again, to take our standards down a few notches!

Anyway, I would very much value your views on this, as I am sure would many of your readers.

The MEPA auditor is behaving like a little child, and this is not a good reflection for his position and the work he is supposed to do.

With hindsight, it is a good thing that Mr. Falzon is not being appointed as Commissioner for the Environment.

But maybe if we use the logic of Joe Grima on Inkontri, where he built an argument about statements made by Norman Vella and guarantees to Xarabank, then maybe we too can build an argument and question whether Mr. Joe Falzon is throwing this hissy so that he would be given guarantees by Labour for a future cushy job.

I believe that he should have addressed the problem behind closed doors with dialogue. I admit that he was a ‘constant thorn’ in MEPA . That, I have admired…..As individuals, the likes of Mr. Falzon and his integrity at the place of work, are few on this little rock.

Yet, he lost kudos with me as he should NOT have revealed the meeting and it’s contents with the Ombudsman to third parties. That’s a no no Mr. Falzon, and you know that.

If no agreement is reached, the Ombudsman gets to decide.