Comments on: Give a chav some cash, and….

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:40:22 +0000

The amount of sexual posturing in this country is beyond description.

Speaking of which (cf. “wld lv 2 cum”), here’s a little clip to ease the national tension.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALP3G0kAoMY

By: Pat Zahra

Pat Zahra — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:52:36 +0000

Does he know that ‘come’ and ‘cum’ have completely different meanings?

By: Chelly

Chelly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:27:12 +0000

In reply to free falling. Maybe it's Zorro.

By: Chelly

Chelly — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:24:51 +0000

In reply to pippo. Sa' kemm m'ghandhiex tewmija (li sa fejn naf jiena m'ghandhiex), dik fuq il-lemin tar-ritratt tahdem il-qorti, fl-awla tal-Magistrat Micallef Trigona.

By: free falling

free falling — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:15:25 +0000

In reply to Reuben Scicluna.

Maybe this will help:

You are lucky and not unlucky as every experience in life is beneficial, be it good or bad.

Class goes beyond a level of management, money, dress-code or the pronunciation of English and is subjective.

It is the ambience in which people are brought up (often topped-down from the parents and grand parents) to appreciate the better and often simple things of life.

By: The Bus Conductor

The Bus Conductor — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:39:14 +0000

In reply to free falling. No, a hairdresser.

By: free falling

free falling — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:45:11 +0000

Eyes wide shut – is the blonde Nicole Kidman?

By: il-Ginger

il-Ginger — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:43:26 +0000

In reply to The Bus Conductor. Naqbel mieghek imma hemm limitu ghal kollox.

By: Reuben Scicluna

Reuben Scicluna — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:52:09 +0000

I’ve been wanting to ask this for a long time and this post seemed the right place to ask …
I’ve worked at 4 – 5 places. In every company I’ve been, I met a manager (typically middle management, but in one case top) who comes from what many would probably call working class. (But what I really mean is “coming from a family where the breadwinner’s contact with management was bottom to middle management”)
For some reason such people tend to quit education before they take their A levels. For obvious reasons they start their working lives in the bottom rungs.
A common feature of these people is that they can sell themselves well and climb up the ladder in a very identifiable pattern, which is:
bottom level at company A
(bottom level+1) at company B
(bottom level+2) at company C
and so on…
The interesting aspect of all this is even though they have become middle managers themselves, they still perceive a manager as “someone who issues orders” rather than “someone who processes information reaching him from various sources”
I put this down to their poor education level.
Further identifying features:
a) car: some biggish Peugeot, Alfa, VW or an Audi, BMW from the UK
b) accent: their Maltese becomes “cropped” – short vowels and barely moving lips
c) English: I can’t explain this, but their English is very “affected”, but it’s not spoken with a “Maltese accent”, if you know what I mean
d) attire: shirt, tie, no jacket
e) they have to have an underling to whom they write/dictate letters for the underling to key into a word processor
f) ditto emails

Is this something I have been very unlucky to experience alone, or does such a “class” really exist?

In case you’re wondering I’m outside the management loop. I work in QC so …

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:16:14 +0000

how much is the ticket??