A uniform reorganisation: blue overalls and a high visibility jacket
Market traders will undergo a uniform reorganisation
The government is holding consultation meetings with Malta’s 1,600 market-traders about a White Paper on the reorganisation of markets, which was published last month.
The parliamentary secretary who is responsible for this, Jason Azzopardi, spent much of the first meeting trying to convince the traders that they will not be made to wear uniforms.
The Times reports today:
Vendors thought they would have to wear uniforms because the paper stipulates a “uniform reorganisation”.
You know, no wonder Labour finds it so ruddy easy to cream off the support of half the electorate.
“Le, dak Joseph jaghmel sew izomm il-policies gol-komma! Mela x’jaghmel johrog u jghidhom, biex jehduhomlu dawk tal-PN! Policies u mhux policies, ahna mhux xorta se nivvutawlu? Joseph! Joseph!”
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” Policies u mhux policies, ahna mhux xorta se nivvutawlu? Joseph! Joseph!”
.. imbierka il-majistra li gabietu f’dinja u gieh il-halib li reda’
There is nothing wrong with wearing a uniform.
According to Nakita even university students in Malta are forced to wear uniforms on which they have to pay value added tax. We should start getting used to wearing uniforms.
If the NSO business survey forecast comes true, most of us will be wearing one in three years’ time.
It must be a government conspiracy to increase VAT revenue then…that must be how Labour will finance all those ill-conceived policies (e.g. the lifink wejc) they let slip so far.
Nakita must have stolen that from some Stalinist verse while reading Alexander Solzynitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago.
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/muscat-under-increased-guard-after-potential-threats-by-charles-muscat-aka-il-pips
[Daphne – Michelle is probably loving every minute of the drama.]
I despair when I read the comments on Malta Today. What a bunch of hysterical morons. If it weren’t so sad it would almost be funny.
“A 25-year-old sentence”?
I’d love to see the poison sites and newspapers running articles about how “the people’s” money is being used for “unnecessary” security for the likes of the Muscats.
Not that I would like to be in their shoes, but, as some are wont to say, it’s a taste of their own medicine.
If that is the consequence of telling them about a uniform reorganisation, imagine what would happen if the government told them to keep a cool head.
Maltastar’s Pia Micallef (another one with personality problems) defending Nikita Alamango on Facebook:
I’m only trying to make you see things from a different light, maybe you can understand a different perspective to this- a perspective which I believe I and many others share.
Both you and me were in favour of divorce, and I’m sure we spoke to our friends and family about the topic; maybe even debated with a few people on facebook over the matter- just like everyone else.
Everyone else, except the few that weren’t interested, and the few that actually stuck their necks out on the line for the cause- like Nikita.
While me and you and Mark Camilleri sat on facebook debating with the odd conservative or the ultra religious zealot; Nikita was publicly expressing our views on television and the newspapers.
She received the criticism, she received the bullshit, she received the hate mail. And yet, regardless of all of this, she was still the one who continuously fought for the cause we believed in.
This doesn’t make her a saint, neither does it make her a hero or some divine creature sent from above to help combat the conservatism of this world.
But it does mean that frankly, she has the guts to fight for something with all she has.
And I personally think that’s more important in politicians than whether or not they’ve copied or paraphrased an article.
But that’s just my opinion, and the reason why I don’t think she should resign from the Labour Party’s executive or stop being involved in politics.
But morals, ethics, and political priorities are relative to different people- so I can understand if you don’t agree. I just hope you understand that there’s a different viewpoint to all of this.
Sorry this message is long- I just wanted to try and show you a different way of seeing the situation.
Drag over the blank space and you’ll see! It’s a miracle!
I’m afraid it’s not much of an advert for the education system under the Nationalists, but then is anyone really surpised?
I really do not see why the stalls should be uniform as long as there is a neat corridor in between. I am quite keen on flea markets. Several years ago I picked up a couple of Sanguines from Le Marché Serpette( a Paris flea market ) which I treasure. I’ve been to a Camden flea market where I bought a Harleqeuin tea set and to a Hamburg one where I picked up a 1950s twin lens reflex Contax for next to nothing. None were uniform. The word uniform brings to mind communist China.
[Daphne – Oh good, so now I know that you’re a woman, despite all your talk of girlfriends. There’s no straight man on earth that I know of who would go to a flea market to buy a Harlequin tea set, or who would even know what one is if it hit him between the eyes. And there’s nothing about what you say that suggests you’re a gay man, either.]
Ah, flea markets! I remember the bazaar in Cairo, where I picked up a couple of Faberge eggs, a Stradivarius, a 6th century Coptic manuscript, and syphilis.
Baxxter, the fun in flea markets is the feeling that you have got something valuable at a bargain price, beating others to it. Unfortunately the Valletta Sunday market is replete with cheap made in china goods and a very but very few nice things for which you are asked to pay 10 times what their real market value is. It was not always like this and even untill a few years ago I used to go there to get second hand books. The last thing I went there for is cheap goldfish for the family sproggs as I really do not know any other place where to get cheap goldfish from.
Daphne, allow me to put in an advert here for the SPCA bookshop in Floriana which has loads of second hand books for sale at very low prices and you know that the money is going for something good ( if you happen to like dogs).
[Daphne – Sprogs has one ‘g’. No English word that I can think of ends with a double ‘g’. Goldfish – you’re right. SPCA bookshop – I used to go there regularly and clean out their antique books, but haven’t for a while. You know I like dogs and own some (you can push a false front too far).]
‘egg’
I know what a Harelquin tea set is because many years ago my grandmother lent me a book of short stories by Agatha Christie called just that and it was very inteersting to find a real one on sale. Stop using stereotypes for gay men, women and straight men. In any case, using your stereotypes,a woman would not know what a twin lens reflex Contax is. Daphne, I ike sparring with you. Please do not take anything too personally. For me this is just a pastime as it is for you.
[Daphne – Dery, the world is full of women who know a lot about photography. You’re talking to one now. Why, many of them are even photographers. The world, on the other hand, is remarkably short of straight men with any interest at all in tea sets (Harlequin or otherwise), still less an inclination to buy or use one. This is not a stereotype. It is a fact, like that other fact that most straight men would rather be pegged out alive in the midday sun than trawl round boutiques with a woman asking them ‘Do you like this, hon?’. Would a straight man feel any curiosity about the mention of a Harlequin tea set in an Agatha Christie novel? No. Definitely not. A straight man wouldn’t even be reading an Agatha Christie novel, but let’s not get into that. I’m not taking anything personally. I’m just wondering why somebody who uses a false name, false email address and an IP-number-masker (such a lot of trouble) would then bother to conceal her gender too. You’re not sparring with me, dery. You’re standing behind a wall and lobbing stones, then running away. To spar, you have to show me who you are first, like plenty of other people on this website do. The fact that they don’t want to show the world who they are does not mean they have any problem showing me, and they do. You are the worst sort of coward. Stick to Harlequin tea sets.]
Daphne, my email is real. Just because I use a sort of proxy to send messages here does not mean that I have anything to hide. When I draw my blinds at night it is not becuase I am doing anything illegal in my sitting room. It is just that normal well adjusted people value privacy. That is one reasone why I do not have a face book account.
Forgive me if Ihave ever thrown any stones at you, as you say. I don’t think that I ever did. Even behind my ‘blinds’ I try not to say anything hurtful. Please respect my wish for privacy.
I don’t see why my gender or sexual orientation matters but I happen to be a man in his early 40s.
[Daphne – With a special interest in tea sets. I worked out that you’re 41 because you’re one of those people who like sticking the year of their birth in their made-up email. Of course your email is real: anyone can create a hotmail account in the name of, say, gorillalouise@hotmail.com. It’s real, but it doesn’t mean anything. Don’t you see what you’re saying here? That you wish to speak to me several times a day, creating this aura of intimacy in your mind, without telling me who you are, to the extent that you even take the trouble to use a proxy to mask your IP. Only criminals or people who wish to break the law do that, not people who ‘value their privacy’ – because the reality is that unless your normal IP is registered to your employer, which would have to be a sizeable corporation, it is only the police who can trace and find out the identity of an IP-user, and that with the cooperation of the ISP company. What you are doing here is the equivalent of ringing me several times a day from a phone-box without giving your name and trying to have a conversation with me. You are one hell of a weirdo. If your comments were sporadic, then fine, I wouldn’t bother. Just as I don’t bother with the hundreds of anonymous comments from anonymous people. But what you are trying to do here is build a relationship and you actually seem to think you have built one. You have stalker tendencies.]
Daphne: “You know I like dogs and own some (you can push a false front too far” God, the ‘you’ over there was not talking about you – it was just my way of susbtituting the very formal ‘one’. Of course I know you like dogs.
@Dery
“Several years ago I picked up a couple of Sanguines from Le Marché Serpette( a Paris flea market ) which I treasure. I’ve been to a Camden flea market where I bought a Harleqeuin tea set and to a Hamburg one where I picked up a 1950s twin lens reflex Contax for next to nothing.”
Are you suggesting that ‘Il-Monti tal Belt’ or the one at Birgu are akin to lets say Mauer Park in Berlin, Les Puces in Paris or the various London flea markets?
Hallina trid, mister plis….hawnhekk ahna tal-monti inbieghu boxers originali ta he, ta’ Cavin Clein u peduni bojod 100% cotton u polyester. X’inhu…?! Harlekin?! Qisma he, ta. Int jaqaw cikkulatu jew!
Hawn xi spir’tira ta’ tnejn jew ta’ tlieta tal peltrolju he ghanda, mela he… Ehhh xejn ma tidher faqa jekk ghandek xi house of karakter….ghax issa tlajna skaletta w sirna mittleklass….hallik miz z#bb ta sangui.. x’inhi dik il kelma kemm int tqil!?
I know people who live in Qormi close to St.Sebastian church were every Saturday there is the Monti.
Every Friday evening those who do not own a garage should find another parking place away from their residence as in the morning the area should be clear for the stalls.
In case of emergency there is no way that an ambulance or a fire truck could get into the street around the church.
The local council had painted the bays on the road but no one respect the set up as you can notice new hawkers every Saturday. So there are more stalls than parking bays.
No corridor at all between the two sides. Just a little passage for a single file of people. (imbaghad il-pushchairs x’attakk nervuz).
Fiscal receipts? what do you think?
Cheap food stuff being left in the heat of the sun (and you can see people buying it). L-aqwa li nifrankaw.
Same things as in the shops are being sold with the same price. (when shop owners have rent and other expenses to pay).
Not to mention that in the area of the St. Sebestian church there is a huge parking zone that could be used
as a market place but that was not enough and on Saturdays all the roads around the church are all blocked and closed to traffic
Nghid il-verita’ niehu gost naqra certu kummenti ghas-semplici raguni biex nara l-jet set ta’ Malta xi kwalita’ ta’ hajja ghandhom kif ukoll il-gosti u xi haga nitghallem minn ghandhom ukoll.
B’liema dritt il-monti ta’ Marsaxlokk jaghtti l-veduta tal-bahar. Min jixtieq igawdi x-xena tal-port ma jistax. Ikollu jitqanna bil-panties, bras u dvalji. (Mhux qed nirreferi ghall-bejjegha tal-hut, dawk parti mill-ambjent).
So now dery is stalking you too. I thought it was only me who got accused of that. You seem to have an overinflated opinion of your importance Daphne if you think anyone would stalk you!
[Daphne – Oh, James Tyrell! Hello again, Mr Tyrell. Back after the Marching Season, are you? I was just reading your letter (two weeks late) and thinking to myself that your rubber dolly must have blown up because you’re in SUCH a bad temper and I can’t imagine that your efforts at courting your improbably-haired heroine are getting you very far, given that she’s adopted the public persona of a cross between a nun, Joan of Arc and a 19th-century lesbian bluestocking (but without brains). You and George Debono: my cantankerous old man collection – http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=129650 http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=129649 ]
James Tyrell, don’t you think it’s rather silly to keep on posting as Beowulf? Your cover has been blown so why insist on the disguise? And it’s an embarrassing moniker too, straight out of Boys’ Own Paper.
[Daphne – Ah, but you don’t know the half of it, Antoine. He has even bothered to create and give me an email address that begins ‘beowulfireland’.]
On Nikita Alamango’s Facebook wall, there are some Friends who really need to keep up:
Sean Mcgregor
Hey i hope you are ok ,xxx
5 hours ago · Like ·
Raymond Gatt Yeah hope u r ok???…….. i didn’t find u’re blog in THE TIMES?????
3 hours ago · Like
I suspect that Raymond Gatt could easily be taking Nakita for a ride.
A different subject:
I never thought this was about compensation or money…
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=16345
[Daphne – If you want to go through that kind of hell for that kind of money, be my guest. But it’s a little too late for you now.]
Since you see it this way I will stop writing messages (notice that I do not say ‘posting’ because several of my messages which for some reason you did not like were never published). So this wiill be my last message.
And for God’s sake don’t pick on my spelling of ‘sproggs’ if you want to show us how superior your English is. A well known company spells it the same way and in any case you never published comments of mine pointing out deficiencies in your grammar. (Like your use of the cockney ‘what’)
If you din’t publish this it is up to you.
[Daphne – I’m relieved, because you were beginning to give me the creeps. If you mean this http://www.babybirds.co.uk/shop/-c-594_672.html , then it’s a brand name, not the proper spelling. The proper spelling is ‘sprogs’. English does not use double Gs at the end of words. I don’t think it uses any double letters at the end of words, actually – I can’t think of any at present. I have posted all your comments, except for the ones you specifically asked me not to post – particularly those on your fixation with the law, statutory rape and the age of consent. Deficiencies in my grammar? I have absolutely no insecurities in that department and am always glad to seek and receive guidance on the very rare occasions I need it. As for ‘the cockney what’, I have absolutely no idea what you mean. If you mean ‘what’ used instead of ‘pardon’, I have to tell you it’s the other way round. But never mind, goodbye.]
As Mr. Baxxter pointed out above, ‘egg’ is a word that has a double ‘g’ at the end of the word. Not much of a lengthy word, true, but he’s nonetheless correct.
[Daphne – Yes, it is in fact the only one I can think of, and the reason it’s got a double g is because the alternative ‘eg’ cannot really be countenanced. I’ve just remembered which consonant often gets doubled at the end of a word: F.]
and L
“I don’t think it uses any double letters at the end of words, actually – I can’t think of any at present. ”
Double Ls are very common – hell, bell, wall, well, sell, mall.
Several words with other letters come to mind – mass, butt, cross, less, inn, loo, burr, and so on. Quite common I would say but cannot think of any double Gs other than egg unless one counts Dogg as a word.
[Daphne – Yes, I didn’t think long enough, though I was pretty certain straight off about the GG, which is kind of Scandinavian.]
Phew! Dery always came across as an obsessive pedant of a woman with ulterior motives.
If Labour were in, Cyrus would stamp his little feet to get these uniforms for the monti men:
http://www.ticketsinventory.com/images/last_photos/concert/V/village-people/dates_tour_village-people_2011_130288751841.png
Yes, like those of the ‘Village people’
This blog is anything but a pastime.
Painting en plein air is what I call a pastime.
My God, Baxxter! Are you on 24/7?
No. But in my line of work, knowledge gives strength to the arm, what. And Daphne’s the best source of intel on the island.
P.S. “What” isn’t cockney at all. It’s upper class.
[Daphne – Thank you for pointing that out. Imagine if I had said it myself.]
Don’t mention it. You’re something of a hero for some of us, and a perfect illustration of the 20-80 rule: 20% of the Maltese make up 80% of the total IQ.
dery,you messed about and Daf caught you out. Howzat!