One jumps over the cliff and the rest follow .

Her main complaint about the sermons delivered by several priests over the years is that they are all so infantile.

The explanation of the gospel is very simplistic and in spite of an abundance of social issues that the priests can choose to talk about, the only thing she has ever really heard them talking about in depth is divorce. Everything else either gets glossed over or ignored altogether.

One of the reasons she enjoys going back home to see her family every now and then is to go to mass and listen to well thought out and presented sermons addressing adults about real and apposite topics.

I didn’t mean that I don’t go through the newspaper websites myself. My browser has my favorite news websites bookmarked and ever morning I can automatically open all of them in different tabs. It’s easy to go through the tabs one by one to get all the news I’m interested in.

And still, I find facebook useful in keeping up to date with the rest of the world. If I’m not one timesofmalta hitting refresh constantly and happen to be on facebook and I see an interesting news article, it leads me to the website in a time when it is out of my routine.

Sure, I may set up RSS feeds or the like and get the full feed.. But I don’t care to do that really, I enjoy facebook.

Moreover, the people who now only get their news from facebook are people who previously probably never kept up with news. In my view, it’s better that they now know “something” of what’s going on than nothing at all.

I do agree that most Maltese are irresponsible voters. Friends of mine who voted labor voted with the only reasoning being “I want a change” and “I want to try them”. Just as if we’re changing clothes, you know. Yet, it’s difficult to change their minds. I have a friend who did not even know any of the names on the ballot in his district and no idea that you have to number the candidates. Then when I said “just make sure you put numbers in the blue boxes” he said something of the sort “we don’t believe in red or blue”. I said “Oh, wait till you see the ballot” then I get a “REALLY?!?! :o”

In the end, the only way to maintain sanity was to get these individuals down to size.

It was untenable, I was mistaking these people for a sample of the population. Given my activity, it distorted my idea of any potential audience and subsequently my work.

A rut, indolence that comes with stability, horrible.

Imagine dreading being invited to a birthday party.

I noticed that on a one-to-one basis there’s still an amount of curiosity, but why it’s not socially fashionable, (you couldn’t put it better) is troubling.

I think social networks have accentuated the density and the resulting claustrophobia might cause their collapse.

In a bigger place, people don’t use Facebook like kids. Their life would be made of relations across hundreds of miles.

Teens wouldn’t have that developed yet.

Given that Facebook is an interface designed with seventeen-year-olds in mind, Maltese ‘adults’ gladly obliged.

Is there anything more insipid than having the faculty to ‘like’? I bet any study will conclude its abuse in Malta.

May I add something else, the silliness and boredom can be defined by the challenge posed by the outgoing administration.

Gonzi posed a major upset, an extremely destabilising one, to be countered at all costs. He had the gall to define quality outside this place, ‘world class’.

Remember the shrill panic once Piano came to stay?

It was the decision itself which ruined their pretence to have their neverending say. It was taking the decision which made him perforce guilty notwithstanding anything else.

If they thought they’re qualified when most definitely they’re not, it was necessary, respectful, to tell it to their faces where they belong.

The problem they have now is if it makes the ‘others’ like me intolerant or arrogant. I’m afraid it’s not causing me any serious problems, I thought it would.

Shocking really.

Adults living at home until they’re almost in their 30s. Gee whiz.

We go to university and get paid for it whilst living with our parents and (most of us) not paying a dime.

There is no necessity to get a job, think tactfully about how one is going to cope with rent + paying for their studies + working + doing all the other things when living on your own. These things mould people into adults.

And to think that in other countries, parents *ask* their children to leave home at the age of 18.

Malta Taghna Lkoll.

Jigifieri, il hobby tieghek nirrispettah imma ahna ghandna l-interessi taghna wkoll ghax Malta ma ddurx bil-rota tal-kacca biss.

I too made similar observations that the Labour Party fabricated an anti-establishment wave, which is actually an easy job against a government which has been in office for so long.

It makes people paranoid as to how and why they want to keep governing. It’s an easy button to push.

That and corruption theories – which again are a consequence of paranoia because we all know that corruption will always exist and to think otherwise or believe that it will be diminished to almost negligible levels, is totally naive.

I’ve been thinking that if this is an easy consequence of a long-serving party, how can that party avoid the perception? Does it need to change its faces (almost totally) “often enough”?

It’s an interesting study indeed.

Some people I know should really not be wearing mini skirts, no matter how much of a killer body you’ve got. Being over forty with two teenage children should give you a clue.

Or fifty-year-olds wearing those horrible tight tops that are meant for twenty-year-olds.

And some of my friends look at me funnily when they invite me to Paceville every week and I politely decline. It’s no longer the place for me to socialise, but I’m looked at as the fuddy-duddy.