As they say”” Ït’s the sugar that attracts the flies””

Have you ever tried wearing decently and behaving in a lady like manner?
I can assure you men are only doing what you say ( cat calls hooting horns etc) to those girls who are making it obvious that it is exactly what they are expecting.
Take my advice, behave like a Lady and you will see what I mean .
And just keep in mind that to-days youths only hunt where the pasture is good,they don.t waste time where they don’t expect good results.
There are so many fish in the sea so why waste time.

@ Chris Ripard. Yes Chris Compassion and Ethics were the basis of my Aloysian education. Traits of which I am proud. The sins of a few will never outdo the good of the many Jesuit educators that have graced St. Aloysius College over many years. I don’t know where you received your education, if at St. Aloysius you should be ashamed of your statement. If you received your education elsewhere then get your facts right.

As a matter of fact, it always interested me to know the meaning of the expression you use.
Maybe you could help me by explaining it to me.
You sound so well educated and well mannered
I’m sure your mum did all that was possible to bring up such a person. You owe her so much.

Tutto il mondo e’ paese!

@Chris Mifsud

You seem to be arguing that this refugee emigration should be confined within the African continent itself because it is big enough – undisguised racism at its worst and which would have rendered impossible the useful mass emigration of Maltese to Australia, Canada and the USA.

Refugees need asylum preferably near to their country of origin but above all in a safer place with better prospects, without being restricted to their continent on the ridiculous pretext that it is not all of it poor and that its constituent nations are not all simultaneously at war with each other.

Are you serious ?

PN have been “negotiating” with the E.U for the past 9 years and look what that got us.

Negotiations are a waste of time which will ultimately lead to nothing, whilst in the mean time Malta receives more and more boatloads of illegal immigrants.

The only effective measure is a push back policy.

Like I said, Africa is a massive continent and not all of it is at war or poor. So yes these are all excuses and nothing can be said that would convince me otherwise.

Look at the local news this morning. Another 100 have come to Malta. Drastic stituations call for drastic measures and the sooner we have a push back policy the better.

If they need help, if there are sick and injured bring them in, keep them for a couple of days, give them food and water and some fuel and send them away.

The Jesuits teach the national minimum curriculum. Just like everyone else.

Lorna, I clearly remember walking down Dingli Street in Sliema one summer evening in the mid 80s, only to be accosted by a Maltese man telling me ‘ghaw trid taghra xi haga?’ as he brings his member out.

[Daphne – Oh, he was a permanent fixture for years. He actually lived in Dingli Street. We all knew about him. Turned out he was the reason our mothers, when they took us to the swings near the tower, would warn us not to go anywhere near the lavatory building on the edge of the playground. Back then, that was how you dealt with flashers. I’m still surprised nowadays when I read about men who flash children and girls being prosecuted and ending up in jail. Nobody even considered going to the police in those days. They would have laughed. “U imbilli!”]

Unfortunately for him, I was blind as a bat, and was still too vain to acknowledge that I needed specs. He was therefore greeted with my very innocent ‘naghra x’hiex?’

I also clearly remember being accosted by a number of Maltese workmen on the Sliema front on an early summer afternoon and being grateful for the fact that I could protect myself with my tennis racquet.

To be fair I also do remember encounters with a couple of Libyans also, but if you are Daphne’s age as you say you are, you will surely remember that they were legal immigrants.