Malta was a better country when it was mostly fields, according to a bare-faced liar.
The liar was commenting on an aerial photo of Mriehel in the 1950s that shows the Farsons brewery surrounded only by farmland for miles around.
“Kemm konna aħjar meta konna agħar!” (a Maltese expression which translates to “We were better when we were worse off,”), wrote liar John Zerafa, while ignoring the material deprivation, gender inequality and complete lack of Thai restaurants faced by Maltese people at the time.
“People were nicer back then,” chimed in another commenter, overlooking the homophobia, sexism and racism that would have been rife in 1950s Malta.
“Back when Malta belonged to the Maltese,” added another, forgetting that Malta was still a crown colony of the British Empire when the photo was taken.
Speaking to Bis-Serjetà, Professor Imona Jetski of the American University of Malta said the country would have been better in some ways back then.
“The local flora and fauna definitely had it better 70 years ago, no doubt about that. If you were a chameleon, you would have been living your best life. But chameleons famously don’t require a lot to be happy. They don’t need entertainment or fulfilment or a place to live bigger than a rock in a rubble wall. So unless the people commenting are chameleons pretending to be people, they are, if you’ll pardon the scientific jargon, talking a load of absolute shite.”
