Comments on: Malta's Akbar Zib makes the BBC News (no, not Saviour Balzan)

By: Caz Crutchley

Caz Crutchley — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 17:22:56 +0000

Remove it and place it on top of the new parliment building once finished. It would be a fitting topping out ceremony.

It would symbolise much of what PMs think of the PEOPLE

By: Stefy

Stefy — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:28:04 +0000

I don’t think that is art, sorry – for me it is a waste of money, not that I think it is vulgar. It’s just a column so if you see it in another shape maybe it is your mind which is vulgar, and so what if it is seen as a phallic – boys were born with it. It’s nature.

What I think is that with 57 000 euros we could have done something more to help ease the life of poor people or started a programme to save our environment.

Think about the world. All that it is will be no more if we don’t take care of our environmental issues, and if everything is lost even the phallic monument will be. Hela ta’ flus.

By: H.P. Baxxter

H.P. Baxxter — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:03:40 +0000

It had to happen sooner or later. Has anyone seen this?

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcyt0g_il-waqgya-hitler-jipprepara-gyay-yj_fun

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:01:13 +0000

Malta is a country of extremes. Either we litter it with horrendous, old-fashioned monuments to local nobodies (folk singers [aaaarrrrgghh], poets, writers, footballers, priests…) or else we go for some ‘modern’ nonsense.

By: Malcolm Boura, British Naturism

Malcolm Boura, British Naturism — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:43:08 +0000

In reply to Aristocrat.

Sorry Aristocrat, you are wrong. There are several European country where going nude is a right. Indeed in Spain a couple of years ago a police officer was prosecuted for telling a man cycling through a city centre nude to get dressed. I was at a meeting this afternoon with one of the UK police forces and they agreed with us, there is no offence of nudity in UK law. Using nudity to shock, offend or frighten somebody is illegal but not nudity.

Malta is one of the most body phobic societies in Europe which is why a lot of tourists do not even consider it as a possible destination.

[Daphne – It’s always a surprise to me what sorts of people read this blog. Yesterday we got a comment from a missionary in Brazil and now here’s the spokesman for British Naturism. I love it.]

By: Jon Shaw

Jon Shaw — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:18:56 +0000

…… let’s say that this monument represents that portion of local males that have their penis always erect and ready to welcome tourists to Malta!

On a serious note, it can now also become a revenue generator for the local council with prime rates for advertising on this roundabout and a tourist attraction in itself.

By: lino

lino — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:36:11 +0000

Illiterates who ‘ridiculise’??

By: Loredana

Loredana — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:20:22 +0000

http://cantate-domino.blogspot.com/2006/09/photos-benedict-column.html

This is a good one!

By: Joe Fenech

Joe Fenech — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:35:35 +0000

This is a pity. I remember knowing some smart people in Luqa over 30 years ago. They were highly educated engineers, architects, teachers… I am sure that today there are more of these people. Or can it be that cultured people don’t give a woo-woo about councils? Is it a sort of silent protest in the form of ‘je m’en foutisme’?

I don’t want to see mini-bus drivers, parish-involved housewives, factory machine operators, ex-tarzna workers, mechanics…in POLITICS. It’s serious!

By: Orion

Orion — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:34:27 +0000

Min jaf x’ ras ghandu is-sindku John Schembri issa li semmewh fuq il BBC.