He’ll get lost somewhere in 2009.

Most people in Malta have no idea what linguistic register is.

Old people who have had careers and titles are talked to as if they are children, people talk about each other in front of each other using terms like ‘dik’ and ‘dak’ instead of using names, people address others they don’t know by using generic names like ‘Challie’ or some idiotic title like ‘kugin’ instead of ‘Sinjur’ or ‘Sinjura’, people say ‘Ersaqli wahda hi’ instead of ‘Skuzani’, few say ‘Grazzi’, people use informal language in formal meetings and Maltese is butchered in the process: ‘Aw’ instead of ‘Hawn’, ‘Iwa’ instead of ‘iva’, ‘gOnZiPN’ instead of ‘il-Prim Ministru’.

Nothing is sacred.

If you point out their mistakes, you get the Maltese people’s favourite expression, ‘U iwa, mhux xorta.’

It all makes you want to tear your hair out in exasperation.

Picture of your face was repeated several times.

As I said somewhere else, the police – whatever rank- cannot be trusted. They will swear falsehoods under oath.

U INT nehhejt il-blog rigward il-kaz. Tghid halli ma jidhrux il-mistoqsijiet li ghamiltlek , li jikxu kemm int qed tipprova titfa l-htioja tieghek fuq il-vittma, u anki fuq il-laburisti ! Issa nara jidhirx dan il-kumment ! Imma nisfodak iggib dak li ktibtlek il-bierah. U rrispondini !

[Daphne – No, Eddy, I didn’t remove it. Posts automatically move into the archives as new ones come on stream. It’s still there. There’s a search box at the top of the page. Learn how to use it.]

Wait until May 10 when, under Labour, Daphne is tried for treason and hanged, drawn and quartered live on SuperOne.

The police force in any decent country is there to (as the Americans put it) “protect and serve” the public, not to harass and abuse.

Any decent police commissioner would take immediate action in this case, and make sure that the morons are held responsible.