Red Ed and red-neck.

Mind you, after my full morning dose of caffeine I really become coffee. And now for a literary interlude:

“The doctor–” I began.

But he broke in cursing the doctor, in a feeble voice but heartily. “Doctors is all swabs,” he said; “and that doctor there, why, what do he know about [office life]? I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes–what to the doctor know of lands like that?–and I lived on [coffee], I tell you. It’s been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me; and if I’m not to have my [coffee] now I’m a poor old hulk on a lee shore, my blood’ll be on you, Jim, and that doctor swab”; and he ran on again for a while with curses. “Look, Jim, how my fingers fidges,” he continued in the pleading tone. “I can’t keep ’em still, not I. I haven’t had a drop this blessed day. That doctor’s a fool, I tell you. If I don’t have a drain o’ [coffee], Jim, I’ll have the horrors; I seen some on ’em already. I seen old Flint in the corner there, behind you; as plain as print, I seen him; and if I get the horrors, I’m a man that has lived rough, and I’ll raise Cain. Your doctor hisself said one [cup] wouldn’t hurt me. I’ll give you a golden guinea for a noggin, Jim.”

But he cannot string an English sentence together…

Andrea, even though I don’t know who ‘Dery’ is ( pseudomyns are cowardly), he/she/it has stupidly overstepped the mark. Apologize on behalf of thinking people.

To me Carm Mifsud Bonnici is a great asset. He handles sensitive issues very tactfully both on an international level as well as locally. On the other hand De Marco continues to give in every time the MHRA, particularly the hoteliers, decide they need a handout. Not leader material for sure.

@dery

It comes from “Ich bekomme einen Kaffee, bitte”, which can be very easily mistranslated.

YAWN. Do they not read Maltastar in Germany?

I do not know if Rita is being sarcastic, but according to the Labour-leaning Guardian, Red Ed is proposing to undo what his predecessors Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did to Britain.
I have to agree with him.

I guess, that’s what you call a blooper!

German:”Ich bekomme…”
English:”I would like to…/ I want…”

What is with “of Marcos”? Wasn’t Marocs President of the Philippines.

It must be something to do with divorce.