Comments on: "I tell people what to do with their money" https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24250 Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:58:33 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24250 In reply to kev.

Kev – I may not be “riche”, but am certainly not “nouveau”. The same cannot be said for some.

]]> By: matthew leonard https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24249 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:32:21 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24249 A workaholic, eh? Well, fast forward a few years and he has missed seven out of ten official state functions. I am no addiction counsellor but I would say that he has pretty much weaned himself off that workahol stuff. Glad he`s got that monkey off his back.

Which is not to say that he`s necessarily lazy, but it does seem to at least suggest that he did not take on board the realities of raising a young family as Leader of the Opposition when compared to the allegedly less arduous duties of being an MEP.

The rich-man-in-a-tracksuit-proving-Muscat`s-unified-theory–of-weekend-clothing “incident” reminds me of the exchange between Homer and Lisa Simpson:

Homer: Not a bear in sight. The Bear Patrol must be working like a charm!
Lisa: That’s specious reasoning, Dad.
Homer: Thank you, dear.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn’t work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It’s just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don’t see any tigers around, do you?
[Homer thinks of this, then pulls out some money]
Homer: Lisa, I want to buy your rock.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24248 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 21:14:22 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24248 In reply to kev.

And what are you kev, a nouveau chav?

[Daphne – Right on.]

]]> By: Tony Pace https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24247 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:22:45 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24247 What was that saying ?
”watch what you say because words will come back to haunt you”……………ah well.

]]> By: kev https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24246 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:13:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24246 In reply to Amanda Mallia.

“Has he never heard of the nouveau riche?”

Thus spake ancient nobility.

[Daphne – Well, kev, we may not be ancient nobility, but we’re certainly not nouveau-riche, which is why we don’t think that men who wear jackets and ties in restaurants are blue-collar workers in disguise.]

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24245 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:42:05 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24245 “Of course, this means that we never get to eat at a decent hour, not before ten. It can’t be very good for our digestion.”

That explains the permanent constipated grin.

]]> By: Amanda Mallia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24244 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 19:35:34 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24244 “On the other hand I’ve seen a very rich man wearing a track-suit in a smart restaurant. ”

Has he never heard of the nouveau riche?

]]> By: Unexpected Traveller https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2009/03/i-tell-people-what-to-do-with-their-money/#comment-24243 Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:11:48 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=2226#comment-24243 I remember going to the Crystal Finance offices in Valletta in 2002 (they were sandwiched in between the WSC offices and a shoe shop if memory serves) but I don’t recall seeing Dr Muscat. Perhaps he was keeping his filing skills honed.

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