Comments on: Progressive Labour: after Stitch & Bitch, it's Books & Looks

By: Reuben Scicluna

Reuben Scicluna — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:35:05 +0000

“il-villa li tleqq” ivvintajtha int jew veru ghandu ktieb li jismu hekk? Jien “Leroy l-eroj” Rajtu (please note the absolute and complete absence of Q – hence the capitalisation)

[Daphne – I got the name off a book cover in one of the photographs on Maltastar.]

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 22:12:34 +0000

In reply to ciccio2011.

“I just can’t take it any more.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6849070.ece

By: cat

cat — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:01:20 +0000

In reply to Lomax. Anzi, Mrs. Muscat has a degree in English.

By: Jason Borg

Jason Borg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:54:34 +0000

Lanqas kunsill mhuma kapaċi jmexxu – aħseb u ara pajjiż.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5zuhGWeve4

By: Patrik

Patrik — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:49:24 +0000

In reply to Lomax.

“Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round”
That’s the folksy version of Sir Mixalot’s Baby got back.

By: ciccio2011

ciccio2011 — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:34:47 +0000

In reply to Hot Mama. Or his White Book. The one Gaddafi threw at Ban Ki-moon in his hour and a half speech at the United Nations, in which, apparently, one of the translators just fainted.

By: Lomax

Lomax — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:03:07 +0000

In reply to Fleur.

She didn’t say “rounded in character” but “rounded”. Then she realised that the words she was was looking for were “all-rounder” and she said something to the effect of “rounded fil-karattru after realising what enormous gaffe she had said.

What next? After the emblem change, will the PL adopt “Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round” as its anthem?

As a professional and career-driven woman, I cry to see that the celebration of Woman’s Day for the PL is done by means of hairdos and beauticians. Am I the only one to find this insulting?

By: cat

cat — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:04:35 +0000

In reply to Fleur.

“L-irgiel u l-generazzjonijiet ta’ qabilna” wanted the women round-shaped not menatally but physically. The more rounded you were the better.

Children were treated the same way. Overweight children seemed so sweet to their mums and nanniet. “Kemm hu helu boccu, qisu tal-Cow and Gate”. Bellalu ha jikber.

By: cat

cat — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:56:53 +0000

Were the promoters distribtuting the goods for free to the women? “Heqq, jghidu li m’hawnx flus fl-idejn.”

By: .Angus Black

.Angus Black — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:51:02 +0000

Is it true that among the ‘hundreds’ who attended the event was a group, headed no less by KMB, fervently praying for the survival of Gaddafi?