How long is it going to be before people finally understand just what a nasty piece of work Muscat is?
Lawrence Gonzi, speaking in parliament tonight with the right tone and with all the seriousness due to the budget debate, pointed out that the president’s speech about the government’s programme included no mention at all of job creation or of the key sectors, like financial services and i-gaming, which keep Malta’s economy strong.
The prime minister, with that insufferable clever-Dick expression and tone of voice which in my day got boys slammed up against the locker-room wall in a Chinese burn before having their head dunked in the lavatory by their schoolmates (shame his parents didn’t send this dreadful only child to St Edward’s rather than to mummy’s-boy-land St Aloysius, because it would have sorted him out), responded by cracking a joke with a smirk and a chuckle.
“My government is going to create new jobs”, he said. “We’re starting with the Leader of the Opposition.”
This man is the master of the spiteful remark. Everybody who knew him and worked with him knew it long before he entered electoral politics. He was in his element at spiteful and nasty Super One. Those who think how wonderful and charming he is, because they were never exposed to his routinely malicious and unpleasant nature, had better prick up their ears and start taking note.
Charm is going to be in very short supply now that it has served its purpose and got him where he wants to be. From here on in, it’s going to be the full-on malice that all of us who knew him in the media between 1992 and 2004 are all too familiar with.
You might crack a joke like that over dinner, Mr Prime Minister, but you don’t crack it in parliament during the budget debate. And when a joke has a strong, sharp edge of malice, it is not a joke because it is completely lacking in bonhomie.
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Right. Is PN still thinking of appeasing this bastard?
NO SURRENDER.
The PN are proving to be a bunch of pussies. They should have stood up and told Joseph Muscat just where to get off when he thanked them for their vote of confidence in his government.
They should have told him that they voted for their own budget and are now hoping against hope that he doesn’t cock it up.
They’re just a bunch of fat, comfortable lawyers in the end. Raking in it, in opposition this time.
I look at the faces in PN’s line-up and I cannot find that SPARK that turns the wheel of history, that eye like Mars, to threaten and command. Then we console ourselves by mentally wanking over Maggie, Churchill, Adenauer, Schuman or, er, Hitler.
mojomalti why not go yourself and stand for election so that you will do exactly what you are saying. it’s easy preaching.
Quite right! That was never a remark that should have been passed in Parliament.
Moreover, it exposes the hollowness and insincerity of his earlier statement thanking Dr. Gonzi for being a loyal and correct adversary who sought the best for his country.
If that’s how our Prime Minister expresses his thanks, then he’s not much of a gentleman at all. But then, we knew that, didn’t we?
A typical Mintoffjan
When you think that Muscat can’t go any lower, he always manages to find a new bottom. Disgusting.
Li kieku l-prim ministru jaf kemm hu antipatiku meta jghid xi ‘cajta’ li biha jipprova jwaqqa’ lil dak li jkun ghaz-zuffjett, ibqaw zguri li ma jergax jghid ohra.
U mela ma jghidiex xorta wahda meta ghandu qatta balali icapcpulu kull meta jboss.
Il-Prim Ministru tifel uniku u sfortunatament isofri mid-difetti kollha assoċjati – ħafna drabi inġustament – mat-tfal uniċi.
Jemmen li hu l-aqwa, l-aħjar, li kull ma jagħmel ħaqqu applawż; m’għandux empatija; ma jintebaħx meta jkun mar oltre; ma jindunax meta n-nies ikunu qegħdin biss jistaportuh għax m’għandhomx għażla; irid bilfors ikun iċ-ċentru tal-attenzjoni anki jekk għal raġuni negattiva.
On listening to both speeches it was very evident that the Prime Minister will never match the Opposition leader’s standards of intregrity and decency.
As we have now, undoubtedbly heard or seen, Margaret Thatchter has gone to meet her maker. Don’t know which one will blink first.
I guess it’s too soon, or unfair, to compare our new PM to Thatcher. However, I feel that they will be at opposite ends of positive accomplishments.
I remember reading, at one long cabinet meeting, they decided to have dinner while still working. Everyone ordered steaks and when Lady Thatcher was asked by the server, ‘and for the vegetables?’, she answered, ‘they’ll have the same’.
I hope she finds The Saviour, wherever he is, and gives him a good thrashing with her handbag.
To be perfectly honest, St Edward’s has produced far more dicks than any other school in Malta.
[Daphne – That might be so, maws, but with some notable exceptions who ended up in prison they’re dicks who know the meaning of esprit de corps and dicks who don’t snitch and smirk. This is because tantrum-prone, attention-seeking, spiteful mummy’s boys have very little chance of coming out of that rough environment alive. A liar and a cheat will survive but a male bitch who spites his classmates will not.]
And now, the ultimate male bitch, who was meant to join St Aloysius College in September 1984, but who didn’t actually start there until November 1984, thanks to the Labour government of the time, is to make an official visit to the very same school (presumably as an “old boy”, besides prime minister) on 17 May, the anniversary of the day PN gained power in 1987.
Insomma, koccut tal-prima klassi.
The “male bitch” will visit St. Aloysius College on the 17th of April, “koccuta”.
[Daphne – How nice for him. Lucky for him, wasn’t it, that the government for which his Mintoffian family voted did not succeed in closing it down. No wonder he’s so unpleasant, having grown up with all those mixed messages. It must have been so confusing for the child.]
Are your kids old Edwardians? I think a ‘male bitch’ would not survive any class environment, irrespective of school.
[Daphne – My sons were at San Anton School, which was by far the most civilised option. You are wrong about ‘male bitches’ not surviving any class environment. You don’t honestly think that Franco and the prime minister became that way in adulthood, do you? That kind of bitchy personality is evident from schooldays.]
You’re right both would have received a good beating in my class. On a different note one of my classmates used to walk into class proudly holding L-Orizzont – it would be torn to shreds by 0815am by the rest of the class every single day.
St Aloysius Collegeproduced the greatest man that Malta will ever know – Eddie Fenech Adami. No need to say more.
I agree. We used to annihilate bitches at our school.
your son is civilised Daphne? is that’s why he blatantly started insulting everyone in the leader’s debate at university last election?? qisu xi bejjiegh tal-monti beda jghajjat!
[Daphne – http://www.neptunefunds.com/Navigate.aspx/Private-Investor/1/About/Investment-Team%5D
So, depending on your comments about St. Edwards and San Anton, am I right if I say that according to you, the only good “civilised” schools are those which you have to pay thousands each year to attend? What poor mentality.
[Daphne – Unfortunately, yes. That is so. This is not necessarily because of the schools themselves, but because of the pupils. Tough, but true. Not all of schooling is academic, and day schools nowadays are not able to produce well-rounded individuals because the home has too much influence and certain people don’t see themselves as being in need of improvement but as being different and just as acceptable – which, of course, is a total delusion. The prime minister and Mrs Muscat clearly agree with me, because they have sent their children to the same school I did. Being a socialist of sorts, he should have sent them to a state school. Alfred Sant’s daughter was at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, KMB had no children (fortunately) and Mintoff’s daughters were at boarding school in England. There go the socialist premiers of Malta.]
‘To be perfectly honest, St Edward’s has produced far more dicks than any other school in Malta.’
What a sad comment… you clearly either don’t know many old Edwardians (if any) or have an inferiority complex.
Mummy’s little spiteful brat is now leading the nation.
LORD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL.
In his speech in Parliament tonight, the Prime Minister was acting like a clown.
I watched for 10 minutes – got as far as that remark about creating a job for the Leader of the Opposition, thought to myself ‘what the heck’ – and then switched to another channel.
Not a good sign for things to come during this legislature.
“Not a good sign …” As if we needed any more proof.
The least that Joseph Muscat could have done tonight is not to mention the arlogg tal-lira and the increase in salary for ministers.
It would have been a small way in balancing out the disastrous speech by the President. But he just doesn’t get it.
Oh get it he does, but from his level he can’t rise beyond indulging in it. This particular thrill isn’t over yet.
To give you an example: a snake-oil artist who is into charming females will never will never enjoy being at the same table with another male who shows him up… so he provokes him, by snide remarks, very rude comments, having first taken care to up the stakes with the females at the table to ensure commitment, for that short testy period, for whatever extreme he decides to take the game to. His objective is to get the other male to leave the table early, possibly to excuse himself politely after the main course, so that he remains unchallenged, and the attention remains on him.
It’s my party and I’ll do what I want to…
The table: there for the pickings, gone shortly thereafter.
Small thrills, no respect, pushing one moral limit after the other so that you hardly see the next game coming… sanity hanging by a string. Not cured by any duration. It only becomes taut when the umbilical link no longer provides comfort, then snaps.
The parrot’s genes outlive those of the peacock. Confusing at first?
All men are not equal. Flawed genes will out.
The biggest joke Joseph Muscat has cracked is against Franco Debono. He has made him his lackey, a puppet dangling at the end of his string.
People who are unable to discuss or keep up a healthy debate will only end up insulting others. This behaviour, in their void and useless minds makes them feel victorious and dominant over others.
Pity is that over 50 percent of this island take such insults as clever replies.
Ara biex se nimxhu il-quddiem.
I left the room as soon as he cracked that ‘joke’. It was completely out of place and totally disrespectful.
This comment was in such bad taste that I’m positive that even a number of Labourites where not amused with his remark.
As it stands, there are about 1825 days till the next election and 20 lost votes per day will nullify the 36K gap. As hard as it may feel, let’s enjoy each of his screw-ups and translate them into another 20 lost votes.
“My government is going to create new jobs”, he said. “We’re starting with the Leader of the Opposition.”
As they say in Maltese triq tkun veru bzieq to talk that way.
By the way Michelle arrive late for a fund-raising launch today – Net showed her seat empty than arriving late when all had started.
In this case, the position of Leader of the Opposition exists already and has existed for decades. It’s only the holder of that position that will change, and the one who currently holds it will become, so to speak, “unemployed.” Therefore, this is no example of job creation.
In my view, this stupid joke was not only a further unnecessary insolent remark but it also shows that this ex-Super One hack has no idea what job creation means.
This ‘joke’ was not written by his speech writer, it was obviously off the cuff.
He made everyone laugh, the stupid thought it was a good joke, and the smart laughed at him.
Aktar ma jipprova jitnejjek b’Gonzi, aktar juri kemm hu mwerwer li lanqas jibda’ hdejh.
Ghandu ragun jibza’, ghandu l-poter u awtorita’ ma jafx x’inhi.
J’Alla jibqa sejjer hekk. Paxxina Joseph, urina min ghandu xibru bin-nieqes.
Anyone got links to videos of the remarks?
The Picture:
Joseph could have kissed Anglu instead of the Crucifix.
Anglu was shot six times by his best friend Joseph and risen from the dead like the Lord himself.
What worries me about this prime minister is that he is so keen to make his nasty remarks that he does not think beyond the satisfaction of the moment.
Truly far from the composure of a statesman. His insulting remarks to Lawrence Gonzi and Tonio Fenech are yet more proof that the gimmick (slogan) for national unity was just a means to overthrow the PN government.
His remarks were a continuation to the squirming feeling we got when the President read his speech last Saturday.
The endorsement of the PN budget by the PL is again proof that the PN were taking us in the right direction. The only change in direction the PL made was in the way they addressed the speaker of the house.
They’re now looking left instead of looking right. Yes, the pun is intended and in no way was I impressed about the castles in the air presented in the announcements for public-private projects.
When are they going to realize that they are now the government? Muscat’s speech was tantamount of pre-election mass meeting. Why all the pomp on what he plans to do? Just do it, sir. Then when it’s ready come and tell us about it and we will decide whether you wasted your time and our money.
One thing though. Malta is not the PL’s casino. We have enough of those and frankly do not really need any other.
Yes, the man is spiteful and mean.
Some say that he takes after his grandfather (the Mintoffjan).
Ahjar jitghallem kif jitkellem, jimxi, u jilbes sura ta’ nies l-ewwel, qabel ma jipprova idahhaq in-nies b’haddiehor.
Aktar ma jipprova jitnejjek b’Gonzi, aktar jispicca jitnejjek bih innifsu u juri kem hu verament cheap u redikolu.
I hope he is not planning to behave like this during the meetings of EU leaders in Brussels. The reputation that Malta built in Europe since 1987 will go down the drain in a few weeks.
Joseph’s behaviour only shows his jealousy for Dr Gonzi. He tries to hide his inferiority complex by these snide remarks.
Today’s speeches in Parliament confirmed the already obvious – Dr. Gonzi a gentleman and Joseph Muscat a sorry excuse for a human being.
Shame on all those who could not see through him from day one and brought Malta in this pathetic situation!
Ridicuous comments on St Aloysius’ College, especially when one considers how many prominent persons studied there.
[Daphne – They are not prominent because they went to St Aloysius College, David. They are prominent because, being men who didn’t come from business families, they had to seek other avenues of power, influence and acclaim, and so went into politics. Simple as that. There are exceptions, but they tend to be the ones who prove the rule. Malta has very many prominent people who did NOT go to St Aloysius College. I am one of them, I suppose – albeit I did go to Sixth Form there (on paper, because I couldn’t stand it and did a lot of skiving). The people most prominent in business went to St Edward’s or to state schools. I can think of only one or two who went to St Aloysius, though if I think really hard I shall probably come up with more. The people prominent in medicine went to all sorts of schools.]
Having spent four years at St Edward’s College and four at St Aloysius College, I think I’m pretty qualified to tell you that the former produces people with more ‘character’ ie people who live and function in the real world.
St Aloysius College produces, well, people like Joseph and Franco for starters. But essentially, people with very little imagination, since the Jesuits had this hang-up about their charges not being allowed to think anything except the Jesuits’ greatness.
Eddie Fenech Adami was a prime example. Sure he grafted long and hard and did a brilliant job in the circs, but there simply wasn’t any pizazz, star quality, call it what you will.
This is why PN need to recruit a few more non-lawyers to the upper echelons. To most of us, a lawyer has all the attraction of a mushroom. No offence, Daph!
[Daphne – Absolutely none taken, Chris, because I share your sentiments. My husband knows I went out with him DESPITE his being a lawyer who went to St Aloysius, and I was relieved when our sons grew up to feel the same way and did entirely different things. In Malta, lawyer is a cipher for all sorts of things and none of them appeal to me. And yes, you are right: lack of imagination is a real problem because St Aloysius College wiped the tendency to imagination out of its charges, most of whom were handicapped already in that department because they came from deeply unimaginative homes in which they were raised by highly conventional parents, and the law course simply went on to reinforce that.]
Been here before. Nothing to add. St Edward’s rules.
I would add the old Lasallians from the 70s and 80s to the business community. Joseph and Franco would not have survived there.
It’s a pity the school ethos has changed so much in the latter years.
What rubbish.
People prominent in business went to St Edward’s not because St Edward’s turned them into prominent businessmen, but because by and large St Edward’s students were sons of businessmen, who then went on to work in and run their family business.
[Daphne – Touchy touchy. That was just a statement of fact. And incidentally, one of Malta’s largest businesses, Alf Mizzi, is run by somebody who went to St Aloysius, became a lawyer…and joined the family business. There are a couple of others I can think of. Then of course we had people who went to St Edward’s, became lawyers, joined the family business and became judge and chief justice, but we won’t go into that. The point is that yes, up to my generation at least (I don’t know what’s happened since because I’m not close enough to observe), people coming from school X or school Y were definitely shaped differently. This was partly because of the school but also because type X parents chose to send their children to school Y and not school Z and so on. There are exceptions, but in general there is definitely a marked pattern. Somebody (a man, obviously) once said to me over supper: “You St Dorothy’s girls are all bloody ball-breakers, just like my sisters.” I was really annoyed at the time, but when I thought about it, it’s probably true, if you define a ballbreaker as somebody with a very definite personality. Claudette Pace, Marlene Mizzi, Giannella de Marco, Ann Fenech, Arlette Baldacchino of Norman Lowell’s far right group, Claire Thake Vassallo who chaired PBS – all St Dorothy’s girls. Even Graziella Attard Previ, who seems so reserved and graceful, has a very definite personality and strong character (we were in the same class).]
I don’t think that one can generalize and say that Franco Debono and Joseph Muscat are typical St Aloysius boys. They are just Franco and Joseph, two warped individuals who happened to go to St Aloysius College.
[Daphne – This is where you are wrong as well as right. A school like St Aloysius College does (did?) absolutely nothing to iron out the negative personality traits in boys like those. On the contrary, the particular ethos of the school enhances personality problems like those. This is not helped by the school’s social culture and the general social profile of the boys who go (went?) there. Those two are marked by a sense of superiority and entitlement. At St Edward’s, especially if they were boarders but they are too young to have been, that would have been steamrolled out of them by the system, which included both teachers and fellow pupils. In an environment like that, you are forced to become a team-player. St Aloysius, on the other hand, focusses (focussed?) on getting boys to compete among themselves. Re my reference to St Dorothy’s above, you had something similar (but different) going on there. I don’t know enough about St Joseph Convent, because not many girls I knew went there, but the Convent of the Sacred Heart exerted a lot of pressure on its pupils to conform to a certain ideal. Some ‘got away’ but lots didn’t and suffered the need to conform well into late adulthood, when it was easier to break away from expectations. St Dorothy’s Convent, either through negligence or intent, probably negligence given the kind of school it was, did the opposite, with the result that lots of ‘St Dorothy’s girls’ have very big personalities and a highly assertive communication style (and persona) that can sometimes be wrongly interpreted as bossiness.]
If I may, Franco and Joseph belong to the time when voluntary work, either in Palermo or Cottolonego in Turin would have been discontinued.
Selfless dedication was key.
One thing is sure, when it comes to teamwork Aloysians tend to lead out of conviction, believe me, those two are absolute nonsense by college standards.
Regarding teamwork at St.Aloysius’, it was either the scouts, Marfa or the relay team. What’s certain is that all old boys somehow recognise the opportunity to engage argument, politics soon follow. It’s what the Jesuits do.
As for creativity and convention, that rests primarily with the parents, what I can affirm is that St.Aloysius left us free to think.
Both Muscat and Debono denote a difficulty with logic, they refuse to be challenged and when they will, it soon degenerates into the personal. .
And that is their most serious failure as Aloysians.
Just a quick reminder, at St Edwards you get in according to your wealth, at SAC you get in according to your grades. Not so ‘mummy’s boy’ is it now?
[Daphne – ‘At St Edwards you get in according to your wealth’. Bollocks. Anybody can go there if their parents stop smoking for the duration. ‘At SAC you get in according to your grades’ – more bollocks. That’s only with sixth form, and even then I remember there being some exceptionally dull-witted individuals in 1980-82, whose parents had obviously pulled some strings, though of course I shan’t mention any names as it wouldn’t be fair. Also, grades and IQ are not interchangeable.]
He clearly never heard the expression – sarcasm, the lowest form of wit. How true.
I knew it from day one that he is a phony.
If the people working in the media knew him as a malicious person during all those years, then why did the vast majority of journalists ‘campaign’ for him, either directly or indirectly? Either they’re sadistic or utter morons.
I just can’t wait for him to crack a joke while meeting foreign dignitaries. They’ve been offended by much less.
Miskin if he thinks that he’s attracting and appealing to the people by those spiteful remarks he really turns you off.
As a Prime Minister I imagined he would comport himself with more dignity and maturity, and not take the role of a joker.
The occasion did not warrant for such shows of sarcasm and spite.
Josephdotcom ipprova jitnejjek bl-Lawrence Gonzi u waqa’ ghan nejk hu stess, ghax veru trid tkun tan-nejk biex tikkonsidra bidla fil kap ta’ partit, post tax-xoghol gdid.
Ingazzat ir-ragel Daphne. Xejn inqas u xejn aktar.
Tixtieq li kieku t-tfal tieghek kellhom nofs l-intelligenza li kien hemm bzonn biex jidhlu San Alwigi.
[Daphne – Nothing to do with it, Borg. They have far greater intelligence than that. And also a mother who had (still has) enough intelligence not to send them there as children. The boys who get into St Aloysius don’t do so because they’re intelligent, but because they prepped. Truly intelligent people are actually quite unusual – certainly not enough to constantly fill a school of hundreds year on year.]
Qed tghid li Franco Debono intelligenti?
Qed tghid li m’huwiex?
With all due respect, your negative attitude towards these people is harming your party itself. Countless Nationalists are complaining over these derogatory comments.
[Daphne – ‘My party’. I am not a party leader or a politician. ‘Countless Nationalists are complaining over these derogatory comments’. I almost certainly don’t like them either, so the feeling is probably mutual. Also, I am not an elected politician so I don’t give a stuff what the people who don’t vote for me think. I have readers, not electors. Please understand the difference. Also, do read my column in The Malta Independent tomorrow morning about how Malta is more Middle Eastern than British when it comes to social culture and freedom of expression. And it’s complaining about, not complaining over.]
As for SAC people not being important, well, they have been taking decisions that affect your life for about 30 years now. On the other hand, ‘Edwardians’ are sitting tight right now waiting for the goverment to announce taxes, new powerstations, etc. Seems pretty important to me.
[Daphne – ‘SAC’: you care so much about your old school that you can’t even be arsed to write its name down. Also, it taught you so well that you think power station is one word. The culture in schools, the way they shape their pupils, what those pupils end up doing, and swallows which don’t make a summer are very complicated issues and former pupils of St Aloysius who are touchy about it just prove my point (whatever it was). I don’t give a damn when people take St Dorothy’s Convent apart. I’m quite happy to do it myself. I never said that ‘SAC people’ are not important. I would never say anything like that. That’s your chip talking. An Old Edwardian who took no decisions that affected our lives – except for getting us into the European Union and then negotiating Eur 1.2 billion for Malta last February AFTER resigning, that is: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130410/local/gonzi-defends-richard-cachia-caruana-s-severance-package.465018 ]
For what it’s worth and I’ll probably get shouted down, Sacred Heart girls in my time left school with a guilt complex (everything was a mortal sin) which took years to get rid of.
St. Edward’s boys were Malta’s version of English public school boys, they played cricket and wore cravats. Lyceum boys were the brainy ones but also broke most rules – they were the ones who taught me how to swear in Maltese. As for St. Aloysius boys I don’t remember them for anything in particular.
Daphne, how can you set up such discrimination between 2 such prominent schools in Malta? Have you ever attended St. Aloysius or St. Edwards? No, you yourself admitted this, then how can you comment on the values that these 2 schools bring you up in?
[Daphne – How could I go to either of those schools when I wasn’t a boy? But I did go to sixth form at St Aloysius, which doesn’t count. How can I comment on the ‘values’ imbued by those schools? Simple: practically all the men I know, and all the male members of my family went to either one or the other, bar my father who was at the Lyceum and my sons who were at San Anton.]
Or are you just saying this cause its just rich kids that go to St. Edwards? St. Edward students only inherit the business they succeed in, since of course their fathers are businessmen. You know, students get into St. Edwards cause of their parents’ money, whereas students get into St. Aloysius cause they’re intelligent, and no, not just cause they prepped enough.
[Daphne – Absolute rot. There are not enough ‘rich boys’ to fill St Edward’s College year on year, and there are not enough ‘intelligent boys’ to fill St Aloysius year on year. Plenty of intelligent people went to St Edward’s (one of them was in the news today) and plenty of stupid people went to St Aloysius. I remember several of them, because I was at sixth form with those who came up from fifth form. Most St Aloysius boys are just average, like everyone else, but from home backgrounds where they were made to study, which would never happen in more liberal homes back then, though apparently it does now.]
“Truly intelligent people are actually quite unusual – certainly not enough to constantly fill a school of hundreds year on year.” A school of hundreds? Only around 250 students get in every year, compared to the thousands attending all the sixth forms together.
[Daphne – At any given time, Steph, there are hundreds of boys at St Aloysius. Are they all intelligent? Are all intelligent boys at St Aloysius? Clearly not. Look at the results and work it out. And I don’t mean the exam results, either.]
And yes, it’s cause of intelligence that they get in, unfortunately not everybody is able to get enough points to do so.
[Daphne – I’m afraid you really have no idea what intelligence is or how it is best assessed. The most effective way to assess a childn’s intelligence (as with an adult) is not through examinations but through conversation. That is why the best British universities, the ones that are toughest to get into, base their decisions on intake on an interview, not mere exam results. Give me five minutes of conversation (even less, really) with a child or an adult, and I’ll tell you whether he or she is intelligent or not. Exam results tell you nothing, unless they are in complicated mathematical formulae, and even that, that is a very particular sort of intelligence.]
I believe both schools give you different important values. Both schools have a good name, where do you think the good name of St. Aloysius came from? And you’re sitting there, behind a monitor, downgrading it. This is a new low Daphne, even for you.
[Daphne – Oooooooh. Tsk tsk. Where do I think ‘the good name of St Aloysius came from’? That’s a subjective view. I happen not to think that the actual school, as distinct from sixth form, has a good name. I was in my early 20s when I made the decision that my sons were never going there if I could help it – close enough in age, in other words, to have seen among my own age group a great deal that I didn’t like at all. I feel the same about my own school, if that helps your mood. In general, I think gender-segregated schools are a lousy idea and a breeding-ground for all kinds of misery.]
bir-rispett kollu st edwards hlief tfal kolla imgebdin u kishin u bzieq m hemmx u san alwigi hija skola tajba minajr il hafna inglizati u cucati. fejn ma tifimx natik parir ma titkellimx. grazzi.
bir-rispett kollu st edwards hlief tfal kolla imgebdin u kishin u bzieq m hemmx u san alwigi hija skola tajba minajr il hafna inglizati u cucati. fejn ma tifimx natik parir ma titkellimx. grazzi.
ps. jien student hemm.
[Daphne – A great advert for the school, if you are telling the truth: you can’t communicate in English, your Maltese spelling is rubbish and you don’t know what capital letters are. You are not helping matters.]
You do realise that Eddie Fenech Adami and other people involved in the Nationalist party were so called “mama’s boys” at St Aloysius as well?
[Daphne – They are not. Why the past tense, when they are still alive? There is nothing remotely ‘mummy’s boy’ about them. The fact that they went to that school does not make them mummy’s boys. Mummy’s boys are made at home, not at school.]
You have kids? wow, there is hope for everyone to get laid after all.
[Daphne – That I ‘have kids’ is one of the better-known facts about me, and has been for the last two decades or so. That you don’t know even this speaks volumes. Standards at St Aloysius must have really fallen. Yes, there is indeed hope for everyone to get laid. If that were not the case, ugliness and stupidity would have been bred out of the population. But you do have to ask a girl out first. I wish you luck.]
Returning to the subject of the sarcastic remark in parliament.
Is this another way of saying “Hudha go fik”?
This is so stupid , i’m a St Aloysius college student , and all i can say is that SAC is probably the school which offers the most for its students , it leaves the students free to express their creativity and let’s just say that most of the top political figure heads in Malta all emerged from St Aloysius. With all the fuss you’re making about St Edwards i think many would agree that what you’re saying is absolute stupidity , never judge an educational institution , you don’t know half of what SAC offers it’s students nowadays. Oh and also , i don’t think you have the right to generalize by saying that students are all like Franco and Dr Muscat , most of the people their are open-minded unlike you , they’re intelligent and value others’ opinion , so think twice before you judge.
[Daphne – You are a very poor ambassador for the school, I’m afraid. The whole point of a school is to teach children what they can’t/don’t learn at home. Thinking, speaking and writing effectively in an internationally-effective manner should be topmost among the requirements. Too many St Aloysius boys think, speak and write ‘Maltese’, and I don’t mean the language, either. I would never have sent my sons there, and in fact, I didn’t, though one of them was there at sixth form, as was I. And you are probably not a St Aloysius boy anyway, because you’ve given me a girl’s name in your email. Ah, I see – you’re probably at sixth form there. Not the same thing at all. It’s the years 9 to 16 that make the man, not 16 to 18.]
Though I am an avid reader of this blog, and I congratulate for the way you approach certain issues, I must comment that one must not generalise when it comes to criticising such an institution.
I come from a middle class family, and I gained my way to Saint Aloysius’ College, (got the grades needed etc). I also represented the students in the Sixth Form Council, so I admit I have an insight to what the administration of the school is up to and what the students’ expectations are and the actual “product of the school”.
SAC gave me the opportunity to further develop what I’ve learnt / the values instilled by my family (and I do not come from a pampered environment). There are a lot of intelligent and critically minded people, who do not just endorse the name, thus the ‘status’ of Aloysians but gain it. As to the ‘espit de corps’, I believe the new initiatives taken by the council and administration prove the unity and teamwork described above.
On a final note: not all students internalise this, and obviously it is up to each and every student to build up his/ her own personality molded on what the school teaches, but since we all have our individualistic opinions and beliefs one cannot generalise and state that the doing or wrong doing of a person (depending on your opinion of him/her) makes up for all the students who attended or still attend SAC.
St Aloysius’s vs St Edward’s.
I think we’ve got a candidate for third place after “Mintoff” and “rikotta”.
I cant believe what I’ve just read. St Aloysius college produces the best students in Malta and their attributes are unique in a positive way. St Aloysius was never a so called “school for mummy’s boys”, In fact it is the most disciplined school one can attend. Please don’t say something that isn’t true and quite frankly don’t say anything at all because every time you post something you insult someone in a vulgar manner!!!
[Daphne – Schools are not there to produce the best students, but the best men and women. In any case, the ‘best students’ are not necessarily at St Aloysius and your statement is inherently insulting to all girls. When it common knowledge now that girls are performing much, much better than boys, it seems to me obvious that the best students are probably at a girls’ school. But they’re probably at the independent schools nowadays, anyway.]