Comments on: “The Maltese are content with simple pleasures like going to the village square in the evening for a chat.”

By: Rumplestiltskin

Rumplestiltskin — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:35:00 +0000

The feathered kind are also two-legged.

By: Galeforce

Galeforce — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 20:02:00 +0000

In reply to Sowxal. Just spend Sunday morning at the kazin nibbling horse meat canapes downed with beer.

By: John Tonna

John Tonna — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:34:00 +0000

I think he was speaking about an episode from Don Camillo e Peppone from a village square scene.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:14:00 +0000

You need to get out more. Delia himself is from that background, and he prefers Swiss holidays and tinkering with birds who have no feathers.

By: La Redoute

La Redoute — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:05:00 +0000

I walked through a village square today. If those are the only real Maltese we’re all old men, vegetable vendors, or both.

By: Sowxal

Sowxal — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 17:15:00 +0000

And what if we do not have a square in our village? Kif se naghmel issa biex inkun semplici?

By: Spiderman

Spiderman — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:03:00 +0000

“What I meant is that the Maltese are content with simple pleasures like going to the village square in the evening for a chat.”

Does Delia know we are in 2017? The type of life he depicts may have been valid 50 years ago. Today life is completely different. He definitely needs to go out more.

By: Odyssey

Odyssey — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 11:57:00 +0000

Adrian Delia is going for your typical Labour vote, given that the socio-economic group AB will be abandoning the PN.

By: L Borg

L Borg — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:50:00 +0000

Christ, I don’t know anyone who goes to the piazza in the evening to have a chat, except those men who are running away from their wives and/or other problems.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:34:00 +0000

Yes: that most of them shouldn’t have been put on the payroll in the first place and don’t have grounds for complaint – except for the pilots, who are actually required to fly the planes.