Russian women more likely to fall off Maltese balconies, Labour says
Careful with those Maltese balconies, girls! Kurt Farrugia thinks you might fall off.
It has to be the Labour Party’s finest hour. Its website, Maltastar, today asked the immortal question:
Why does it seem to be so much more statistically common for Russian women to fall everywhere, and off balconies in particular than anyone else?
I can’t believe that these people will be running the country in three years’ time. It’s enough to make you gnaw the carpets. Jahasra dawk ir-Russi m’ghandhomx stebilajzers.
Maltastar
Feature: Falling off balconies
10 July 2010
The tragedy of yet another Russian young woman falling off yet another balcony will hopefully galvanise the authorities into action. Obviously and until we know otherwise we can all safely assume this is yet another tragic accident. This young girl’s family must be devastated beyond words at the loss of their child who may have been holidaying here.
Our heartfelt sympathies go out to them and to all this young girls friends too.
Yet how many women live in Malta? How many Russian women and young girls live in Malta?
Why does it appear to those of us who have lived here continually at least,to be so much more statistically common for Russian women to fall everywhere, and off balconies in particular than anyone else? Do statistics verify this impression?
These are very very serious matters indeed and should concern the minds of all of us who think womens lives are as valuable as mens.
Foreign womens lives as valuable as Maltese womens lives too, undoubtedly.
Don’t the leptups at Maltastar have an apostrophe key?
This is the liberal party, no mistake. They think women’s lives are as valuable as men’s, and that foreign women’s lives are as valuable as Maltese women’s lives (but not as men’s) – ‘undoubtedly’.
Lie down and weep.
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Dan x’gurnalizmu hu?Apart from the usual nonsense, they always, dictate that the authorities, should do this and do that etc…etc, maybe they suggest that the government should hire security men to accompany these Russian girls once they land in Malta.I will opt for such a vacancy.
“Don’t the leptups at Maltastar have an apostrophe key?” – I suspect they have the question mark (“?”) in place of each of the punctuation marks.
I understand that Maltastar may find it profitable to publish a manual on “A woman’s guide on how to use balconies in Malta” – in the Russian language, of course.
They seem to be hinting that this was not an accident. Rather than coming up with the facts, they seek to raise doubt by asking rhetorical questions.
Anyone would think it’s raining Russian girls instead of men! Honestly!
Must be very comforting for the girl’s parents to read about the report on the tragic death of their daughter – a 15 year old English language student who just happened to be Russian – being lumped in with ‘womens’ caught up in prostitution rackets and who are occasionally bumped off. And of course, no mention at all, let alone any condemnation, of the ‘mens’ – that is, the wholesalers, retailers, and customers who, particularly the last, are the real culprits in these nefarious activities.
Lanqas apostrophe wahda! Nixtieq naf liema gharef jikteb dawn l-artikli. U biex taghqad artiklu li jidhlu hafna apostrophes. Impossibbli m` hemm hadd jerga` jaqra u jikkoregi?
Wisq jirriflettu ikrah dawn l-izbalji. M`jien se nikkumenta xejn fuq l-argument bazwi li qajmu imma, ghax m’ghandiex hin x` nahli.
Maltastar is scraping the barrel for something to dish out.
I recently saw a news report, I believe on the BBC, about a girl who was lured to Cyprus with promises of a good job only to find that she was being forced into prostitution. She died within a few days of her arrival in Cyprus. She fell off a balcony. Her heartbroken father was convinced that she was murdered because she refused to be trapped into prostitution.
The police should investigate such incidents thoroughly.
Learning English in Malta, did you say?
Tad-dahk, kieku ma kenitx tal-biki. Malta “STAR” indeed!
I’m sure 14 year olds would be happy to earn some money in their free time by proof-reading these!
Whoever wrote this comment must have been in some Kazin tal-Labour before and reproduced the kind of illuminating conversation and comment among the ‘rgiel foqra tal-familji tal-haddiema jghixu bir-relief’ (last word pronounced ‘relijf’ not ‘rilijf’) drinking, smoking (outside, usually) and playing cards (for money) who at this time of year are unlikely to be hunting and trapping, the weather being too hot as well for odd jobs ‘bla ktieb’ in the construction industry.
The person who wrote this might be running government communications in three years’ time, so this kind of comment would be the order of the day from around Spring 2013.
parapapapa I’m lovin it!
Maltastar.com is a disgrace.
and I thought “womens” means ‘many women’ ……….
Dawn bis-serjeta?! Maaa..
“The tragedy of yet another Russian young woman falling off yet another balcony will hopefully galvanise the authorities into action.”
What exactly do you expect?! Passing a law – without popular mandate – prohibiting Russian ladies from going on balconies?