Quick, quick! Turn to Super One TV!
Oh my god, this really proves that the division in the country is not political. It’s cultural.
The Labour Party seems unable to do anything without teatrini. I have in mind the superb spectacle in the Hotel Phoenicia’s ballroom in 2003: with Frans Sammut’s strange son (the one caught by airport security with a gun in his handbag) reading out, in his capacity as a nutar, a patt mal-poplu written in Gothic script on parchment, like a treasure map from Pirates of the Caribbean, with lots of solemn oaths and serious faces. And there have been many more, including all that kissing and crying with Joe Debono Grech.
Oh, and the twerp who leads the Labour Party has made the most massive historical error as I type this: he’s just said that this is the first government since 1964 to govern without an absolute majority of votes. He’s made lots of mistakes before, but this one just takes the biscuit. What does he think the 1981 crisis was all about? What an ill-informed idiot.
Listen to him: he sounds like the most unbelievable prat, like some Johnny-Hamill (that’s what we used to call them at school) speaking at a band-club’s AGM. Jaqq. How don’t they ever get it right? It’s always some half-assed attempt at a man, not even a half-assed attempt at a leader. Look at the list of them: Joseph the Capon, Alfred tal-Parokka, KMB l-ghazeb. And Mintoff the little shit. Unbelievable.
One of my sons has just summed it up, laughing on the sofa (and he’s one of the young generation that Muscat thinks is mesmerised by him – well honey, it depends what sort of background they come from): “The Labour Party never manages to find a leader who’s statesmanlike.” Well, not in his lifetime, at any rate. And not in my lifetime, either.
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More embraces than a Corleone limoncello party, I presume …
I quite like the backdrop. The statue is as rigid as JM, as equally pointless.
Gosh, he is SO annoying.
[Daphne – When even 21-year-old men are laughing at him, he should be seriously concerned.]
LOL No comment necessary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olX30mx515Y&feature=related
Calling people oxx and such words was whom we called “Mary hamalla” by our standards at school even if her name was Daphne!
[Daphne – Oh, grow up. Comparing the leader of the Labour Party to an ‘oxx’ is a damn sight better than being one and voting for him. I doubt there was anyone called Daphne at your state school, where you failed to learn how to construct a simple sentence.]
and I guess that Gonzi is very statesmanlike ehehehe especially when he said that now that Malta is an EU Member State he gets the chance to have a coffee with the PMs of much larger countries … hhhehehheehehehe
By the way – talking about hamallagni, ever watched the IndyFest song contest??? Here’s a link to last year’s winning song … not much different from warda kanta!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQG_fSW13L0
and the Flimkien Kollox possibbli song … a trip to North Korea …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLv9oQw4lBc
and the cherry on the icing…. Gonzi’s admirers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOaCqJmbDJM
[Daphne – Gonzi’s admirers? Since when do they lead the Nationalist Party?]
Depends on what sort of background they come from – seems that class divisions are again sprouting up…..
[Daphne – Gerald, don’t confuse class divisions with class distinctions. The former are undesirable; the latter are an inescapable fact of life, acknowledged by pollsters, advertisers, corporations, those who plan marketing campaigns…]
Hi All,
Sorry, got this joke and had to share!
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word.
An earlier discussion had led to an argument and
neither of them wanted to concede their position.
As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats, and pigs,
the husband asked sarcastically, ‘Relatives of yours?’
‘Yep,’ the wife replied , ‘in-laws’
@Anton Agius
While mentioning IndiFest and ‘Iva, Flimkien kollox possibli’, you failed to mention this year’s winners…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRm5hRlVYbY
Just spot the difference.
[Daphne – The difference is easy to spot. The Labour Party is redneck from top to bottom. The Nationalist Party, cleverly, is not. It knows that Maltese society is not made up entirely of rednecks. The Labour Party deludes itself that rednecks can communicate effectively with non-rednecks who are not Marie Benoit or, jahasra, Mary Darmanin.]
what about Joe Saliba, Gordon Pisani, Angelito Sciberras, Frank Psaila, Peter Darmanin, David Casa and … (Fr) Tonio Borg????? … get a reality check!!!!!!!!
[Daphne – They’re far from being rednecks, Mr Exclamation Marks.]
oh right, just because they happen to be blues … got used to your logic (sic)!
[Daphne – No, just because they don’t happen to be rednecks. Look up the word. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck%5D
don’t need to look up the definition of redneck, but thanks.
What i meant was, that according to your logic
X = labourite
labourites = rednecks
X = redneck
if on the otherhand
X = nationalist (where X is exactly the same person)
nationalists not = rednecks
X not = redneck
[Daphne – Deep sigh. Spare me the basic logic from 6th form philosophy classes. Logic has nothing to do with this. Simple observation reveals that the majority of Labour politicians on constant public view are rednecks, behaving in a manner that appeals solely to rednecks. There are some Labour politicians who are not rednecks, but they are either (a) kept hidden from public view and held at arm’s length from the centre of power or (2) they behave like rednecks when confronted with a microphone and an audience of rednecks. Meanwhile, the Nationalist Party has a social mix that more accurately reflects Maltese society, and its front-runners are anything but rednecks, a wise choice made on the basis that a non-redneck will attract rednecks and others, but a redneck attracts only other rednecks. I hope you understand now.]
I beg to differ re: the Nationalists … but anyway
[Daphne – Where did this idea come from that there is no distinction between facts and opinions? A fact is a fact, Anton. It makes no difference what you think about it, or how much you may beg to differ. If a car is red, then it’s red – even if you say it’s blue. Social background is a non-contestable fact, not an opinion.]
Daphne you just paid me a compliment, by not showing my reply to your footnote. It just goes to show that I am right: you are ashamed of being a hamalla tal-high class.
[Daphne – No, Grace, I didn’t publish your comment because I don’t want to be accused of unfairly besmirching the Labour Party by inventing unbelievably crass comments from pretend Labour supporters. Incidentally, only those who are anything but say ‘high class’, no doubt with a short, flat a. You don’t even need to tell me who you vote for, I’m afraid.]
not contesting that social background is “a non-contestable fact, not an opinion”
However statements such as the one below are generalisations based on an irrational hatred of anything red.
“Labour politicians on constant public view are rednecks… Meanwhile, the Nationalist Party has a social mix that more accurately reflects Maltese society, and its front-runners are anything but rednecks.”
I agree that some Labour politicians behave like rednecks (vide the fejn huma l-iljuni tal-bidla stunt)e.g some others don’t e.g. Leo Brincat, Evarist Bartolo and others
Secondly the nationalists have their own posse of redneck front runners …
[Daphne – It’s not a generalisation but a fact. I did not say that the Labour Party consists only of redneck politicians, but that those on constant public view are rednecks. And that’s definitely a fact. Forget the boring articles penned by Leo Brincat, Helena Dalli et al for the English language newspapers. What counts is what happens on the stage when there’s a Labour ‘happening’, like yesterday’s on Super One. That’s the public image of the Labour Party, and please don’t seek to hector me on this because it is, actually, part of my work.]
Rednecks are usually associated with white trash from the Deep South who used to enjoy stringing Negroes up trees and burning them alive. Visit http://www.withoutsanctuary.com for further graphic descriptions on the subject.
With some of the words I hear everyday about irregular migrants both from Labour and Nationalist supporters I sometimes feel that I’m living somewhere in 1920’s Alabama.
Your mention of rednecks reminded me of the American comedian Jeff Foxworthy, famous for his redneck one-liners. Just for a laugh check out this link:
http://www.countryhumor.com/redneck/mightbe.htm
I enjoy Helena Dalli’s writing style.
Dear Daphne
If you are so concerned for those people that you consider as Rednecks, you should give your contribution and advise the govenment(on the little leaflet that was sent to all)on how to improve the quality life of these Rednecks. The existence of poor or low income people is another proof that the country needs to do a lot more. Unfortunately children that come from poorly educated people are grown up with many disadvantages unlike other children. What shall we do with these peolple burn them alive, kill them put them into jail simply becuase they are poor & uneducated? Shame on you and all those who share your views!
[Daphne – Being a redneck has nothing to do with the presence or absence of money, as more than amply demonstrated by the leader of the Labour Party, a classic redneck who has learned nothing during his rapid evolution from Super One ‘reporter’ to party leader via a four-year stint as an MEP with, or so we are told, a lifestyle. Lots of rednecks have money, and lots of non-rednecks don’t. It’s not money that can cure this problem, sadly.]
OK Daphne
I got your point.
I guess the meaning of Redneck depends in which context it is used.
@Arnold,
Some of the richest people in Malta are rednecks (not all of course)!
Hi David
I saw the articles about Palin which Daphne is referring to as a Redneck. What do you think about McCain? I suggest you visit you tube and type in “McCain on economics” it is incredible how a possible President of the USA has no knowledge on economics. The best part of his interventions is where he states that he would wish that the interest rates are zero!!!!