[Daphne – God, how boring and stupid you people are. So because it’s the 21st century, people with grey hair and wrinkles dance ‘until the wee hours’. How unusual, because back in the 20th century they were at home, waiting for the 17 to 23 year-olds to come home after doing just that. Now, the 17 to 23 year-olds go home at 4am and wonder whether their parents are down at the station, answering to police questions about a fight. Grow up, why don’t you. If you’re an adult and still writing like this, il-vera ghandek problema, because it’s the language of a kid.]

I recommend the following series, but only for the few people who can understand it. It is silly and funny.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrested_Development_(TV_series)

[Daphne – That’s the idea. If all the trash goes there on a Saturday night, the rest of us are safe elsewhere.]

FFS, this country is a joke.

The video takes great care to focus on VIP, RESERVED, Guest List. This is what these kinds of people are looking for. Everyone wearing white – minghalihom qedin San Tropez hey.

They get to park their ‘BM’ anywhere they like, skip queues, enter restricted areas … well you know the rest.

The real them comes in the early hours of the morning, when they are so wasted that they end up going for a ‘pastizz kif imiss u tazza kafe’ at is-Serkin.

Xi dwejjaq. Il-vera imsieken.

Franco might well be a cockatoo.

“Cockatoos are recognisable by the showy crests and curved bills. Their plumage is generally less colourful than that of other parrots, being mainly white, grey or black and often with coloured features in the crest, cheeks or tail….. They often feed in large flocks, particularly when ground-feeding. Cockatoos are monogamous and nest in tree hollows. Some cockatoo species have been adversely affected by habitat loss, particularly from a shortage of suitable nesting hollows after large mature trees are cleared; conversely, some species have adapted well to human changes and are considered agricultural pests.” (Wikipedia)

Facebook is littered with single and married 40-year-olds behaving like teenagers with their hormones raging out of control. JPO and Franco Debono are just two of the many who happen to hold official positions.

I suspect that this is merely symptomatic of the late 70s and 80s. These people would have been going through adolescence at that time, and from what I hear and vaguely remember, it wasn’t a great time to be a teenager.

[Daphne – I was a teenager then and I feel absolutely no urge to behave like a 15-year-old on Facebook or an 18-year-old at Gianpula. None whatsoever. Deprivation in the 1970s and 1980s is a part of their behaviour, yes, especially of people like Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando who were complete nerds back then. But then there are many others who were not nerds in the early 1980s and who are now worse than he is. It’s what I call ‘foot-binding of the mind’ – they grew up completely unchallenged, and growth only comes through challenges, intellectual and emotional.]