Repeat after me: Jiena zaghzugh
Jekk trid nista nirrangalek ma' dak Chetcuti ta' Arani Issa
This is one photograph that Labour’s communications coconut will not be releasing to the press.
And guess where it came from?
That’s right. Facebook.
The progressive leader appears to have progressively lost his hair since June 2008, which would explain why all stage-managed photography and filming are now taking place from strategic angles.
Marisa Micallef had better ring in Arani Issa and a couple of hair transplant clinics, because from what I know of that typical male pattern baldness he’s going to be facing the electorate with a head like Louis Galea’s within three years.
It wouldn’t matter ordinarily, but it does put a bit of a rocket under any campaigning he plans to do on the Jiena Zaghzugh ticket.
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There’s nothing wrong with having a clean bonce. It saves on barbers’ bills, which in these straitened times is not a bad idea.
[Daphne – Ah, Andrew, but you don’t keep right on telling us you’re young.]
Well he’s young at heart, Daphne, why do you have to resort to insults?
[Daphne – Touchy, touchy. Balding too, are you?]
e-n-t-e-r-t-a-i-n-m-e-n-t, not insults.
BIG difference.
Could have been something about our current PM for all I care.
I’d still be in stitches as I am with this.
Not really Daphne. You’re way off.
Even Reno Calleja looks young. Have you read his letter in today’s The Times?
In it he also admits that his writing can cause heart attacks to some. Imma dak mhux Daphne and he can do it.
That’d be the day.
By today’s standards Andrew looks younger than Joseph, many young men are doing what Andrew has been doing for years.
Grass doesn’t grow on busy places.
The other good thing about balding is that when you’re 30 you look like you’re 50, but for the next twenty years people will be coming up to you saying, “Il-listra Len, you haven’t changed at all since you were 30”.
was the “progressively lost his hair ” – an intended pun?
M Pirotta, I found that a rather “moderate” way of putting things!
Jigifieri jekk taqalek xaghrek ta 20, tkun xih Daphne?….U ta 35 xi tridu jghid, li xih?
Mela l ewwel tghidu li m’ghandux esperjenza,u Gonzipn ikellmu qisu xi student,u issa ghax waqawlu 4 xghariet,qed tghajruh xih?
kULTANT ikollok punti tajbin Daphne,imma kultant taqa naqra fil baxx ukoll…Kieku jien nibbaza l punti tieghi fuq is sustanza
U wara kollox,ma tistax ma ssemmix kif il kampanja ta Gonzipn kienet imdawwra ma ‘Par idejn sodi’…Seta’ kien iktar zbaljat f’din ic cirkostanza…
Jiena ghal grazzja t’Alla,4 xaghriet f’rasi fadalli mhux hazin,imma jekk noqodu naghmlu dawn it tip ta comments fuq id difetti fisici,xi hadd minn min ikun qed jaqra,se jiehu ghalih,u f’din m’hemmx politika…
Jean, dal-pajjiz ilu hamsin sena jibbaza l-punti fuq is-sustanza, u ara fejn spiccajna. Daqsxejn spirtu “Private Eye” ikun ta’ gid ghal kullhadd.
Jean, u mela din kwistjoni ta’ “difetti fisici”? Mela li ragel jaqalu xaghru huwa difett fiziku?
Allura li tkun ixjeh mill-opponent fil-politika huwa difett fiziku?
You bet your last cent that the Labour Party will play that card ad nauseam at the next election…whether you think it is offensive or not.
What Daphne means is that for the purpose of political propaganda, where appearances count, this will not look good.
Ejja nghidu li din jiddependi kif taraha: either you see it as grass does not grow on busy roads, or, what’s the use of putting a cover on an empty pot.
Jean, ma’ rridx nonqos mir-rispett lejn hadd, imma hu ovvju li il-partiti dejjem jippruvaw jigbdu il-vot taz-zghazagh, u m’hemmx ahjar li turi li l-kap jew mexxej JIDHER zaghzugh.
Zaghzugh normalment ikollu hafna xaghar, mhux bhali. Mexxej jigi ipprogettat li hu zaghzugh; Fenech Adami ghamilha lil Mintoff, Sant ghamilha lil Fenech Adami, u issa Joseph qed jaghmilha lil Gonzi.
Jintuzaw hafna tattici; bhal xi mixja Paceville, parrokki, zebgha tax-xaghar, xi laqgha l-boghod mil-kwartieri, xi mawra l-Universita, kliem bhal ‘skadut’ jew ‘xih’, l-ghazla tan-nies ta’ madwarom u l-bqija.
“The progressive leader appears to have progressively lost his hair since June 2008.”
Well, my first boyfriend started losing his hair in his early twenties (he looked like Joseph Muscat did a year ago). That didn’t make him any less of a ‘zaghzugh’ though.
What makes one a ‘zaghzugh’ is the mindset (brains) inside that little head, irrespective of whether it’s covered or not by hair.
Now I’m the type of person who gets confused by such comments.
Going straight to the point is that you used to criticize Sant for wearing a wig to cover his baldness, you used to state that he should accept what he got without hiding it. And now you attack a 35 year old for genetics dictating his present baldness?
Personally I’d more prefer a bald guy with stuff inside his head anytime over a handsome full-head-of-hair-guy pouring out bleats from his mouth. At this moment in time I can’t decide which to prefer over what’s inside Jowsef’s balding head.
[Daphne – I come from a family where all the men start losing their hair in their 20s and are bald by 30. I’m hardly likely to ‘attack’ anyone because they’re bald, or see it as a defect. But going bald in your late 30s when you still pretending to be a zaghzugh and selling yourself as young – now that is one hell of a reality check. When you’re 20 and bald, you’re young. But when you’re pushing 40 and bald, you’re clearly up there with the grown-ups. No new voter is going to see a bald man of 40 as young.]
Well compared to his opponent he still looks fresh and young.
Guys and girls,
You’re missing the point here. What Daphne is trying to say is (Daph correct me if I’m wrong) trying to win an election by saying how “young” you are is a wrong move, even if you’re blessed with Johnny-Depp-frozen-in-time looks, let alone if you have the misfortune to be balding at 30.
It is wrong also because I do not believe he has any cutting edge advantage over his opponent. I mean its not like he’s competing against Eddie or Mintoff.
Lastly (and this is a personal opinion) I am in my late 20s and feel much safer having a PM who is out of his diapers. 35 is indeed young….far too young an age at which to take a country’s reins in one’s hands.
Well, we all have our personal opinions. I’m also in my late 20s and would like something new from Maltese politics, to decrease any chances of deep-rooted corruption (which is more probable after years in politics than someone new), not the same old faces. I’m fed up of them.
Just a list of new faces
Sciberras Trigona
Reno Calleja
Anglu Farrugia
Maria Camilleri
Joe Debono Grech
Louise Coleiro
Joe Grima
Philip Muscat
Manuel Cuschieri
Manwel Mallia
And the list goes on, and on, and on, and on.
@ C Galea
“Personally I’d more prefer a bald guy with stuff inside his head anytime over a handsome full-head-of-hair-guy pouring out bleats from his mouth”.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. Shame that what we have here is a bald guy without stuff inside his head.
Mhux ovvja li Joseph se jidher iktar zghazugh..L ewwelnett,bhala avversarju ghandu bniedem fuq il hamsin li ghandu mentalita’ konservattiva ghall ahhar……It tieni,Joseph jigi ibnu bhala eta’,u t tielet,Joseph ghandu mentalita’ zaghzugha hafna iktar minn Gonzi…Jigifieri din l issue se tintrebah hands-down minn Joseph,lanqas jekk jaqalghu xaghru kollu
Li hemm bejn Joseph Muscat u Sharon Ellul Bonici huwa ex-Surgent fiż-żmien ir-regim Laburista ta snin 80 maghruf bhala iż-Żubina miż-Żejtun u illum imexxi restaurant Wied il-Ghajn. Probabbli huwa l-bodyguard ta’ Muscat ghax dejjem hdejh f’kull okkazjoni li jkun hemm.
Gdid u nadif ukoll mela!
What’s all this fuss? Who knows, he might spring a golden toupee for us in time for the general election campaign.
Jason and the Golden Fleece? Maybe, now that he’s been kicked sideways to Super One.
“Kieku x-xaghar kien zina, ma jitlax fit-tina.”
Jien ghadni qatt ma rajt hmar fartas.
Is-soltu qwiel imbecilleski. Allura skond “kliem ix-xih”, Einstein kien cuc totali.