Now where's that tin-foil hat?
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August 1, 2011 at 12:15pm
This is too much. Just now I keyed in a request for information on a website I use regularly, and waited for the random three-letter password code to come up.
F-A-G
I’m beginning to think this is a conspiracy.
Now let’s just wait for the mad comments from people who, like Jason Micallef, can never see the funny side.
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Could’ve been worse. Could’ve been K-E-V
Thanks for the cue, Baxxter, but I’ll have to digress…
For the lobotomised sleepwalkers who relate Iceland’s financial crisis to its non-EU membership this article should clear some of the fog:
http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/02iceland
Had Iceland been an EU member it would have been forced to bail out (with taxpayers’ money) the foreign bankster that ceated the mess in the first place. They would have been forced to take in moe debt and even share in the eurozone’s permanent debt mechanism. There would have been no recovery for Iceland.
Compare Iceland to Malta in 2011. They are wide awake and fighting back, we are deep in slumber and sinking fast.
Digress to your heart’s content, Kev. I do it all the time.
Compare Iceland to Malta, you say. I obey and see magnificent desolation vs. overcrowded frustration, Norse descendants vs. the scrapings of the genetic barrel, Sneffels vs. Maghtab, Sigur Rós vs. Clinton Paul…
Had Iceland been an EU member state, what happened there would not have happened at all.
@ H.P.Baxxter:
Ah, Sigur Rós! I just love them.
In a useless effort to prove your constant hogwash you’re becoming paranoid. Did not think being fundamentally against the EU was so dangerously viral.
In the meantime, you may want to factor in the bias of Le Monde before you draw conclusions.
You mean, in the same way it didn’t happen at all in Ireland, Etienne?
What happened in Ireland is not comparable by a long stretch to what happened in Iceland. Your failure to distinguish is abominable.
Kev, Iceland survived due to the UK and Holland bailing them out – both European countries, one a net contributor whilst the other a Eurozone member. You have a knack of omitting anything which doesn’t suit your agenda .
Well, there you are. I did say you are lobotomised sleepwalkers. You think you know so much you don’t feel the need to read the article.
Tal-ghageb jew tal-biki – you choose.
Agree with you on all counts except the scrapings of the genetic barrel. In the case of Iceland they have a couple of forefathers with all the problems of a limited genetic pool – in our case, our founders are quite numerous and thus our genetic pool is surprisingly quite vast – that is a positive aspect.
FAG changed its meaning since South Park season 13, episode 12. It now refers to people driving loud motorcycles or cars :)
Save The Fag. Isn’t that the organisation presided over by my good friend Andrew Borg Cardona?
What with the whole Arriva and gay saga going on, I think this is very apt and funny, ineed.
Or am I off track?
Al, ka chunky
The contemporary version of that advert might be:
Let’s face it – you could get hit by an Arriva bus tomorrow so go on – have two kiwis and what the hell.
OR . . . you could bump into Consuelo (back of a bus) etc….
That’s a fag-hag, John.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag_hag
Hers is called Jason, I believe.
What’s wrong with smoking a fag? Oh, oh! I see what you mean . . . .
Careful, Adrian, you’re going to get this blog banned.
I think the word fag is short for faggot, as gays used to be called faggots before the word gay came into use.
[Daphne – Louis, you think right. But faggot is not what gays ‘used to be called’. It is the British equivalent of ‘pufta’.]
Faggot is American.
Brits used queer before gay.
I think Queer Mediterranean Memories Tome II should include a glossary.
I heard them use the term pooftah as well as pansy.
And then there are the poofters, from Downunder.
Oh, look, the Urban Dictionary has an entry for the Maltese equivalent, but the Akkademja tal-Malti should check their spelling.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poofta
I’ve always known it to be poof/poofter in English, decades before this ‘gay’ business became fashionable.
A friend of mine once turned up late at a party where there happened to be more than their fair share of them (well over 50%). The hostess spotted him looking around for somewhere to sit, and she directed him to the last available seat. “Would you like to sit on the pouffe?” she offered.
“Which one?” he famously replied. Ouch.
[Daphne – Oh dear. Roll on the chick jokes.]
Well, not really. In English public schools in days gone younger boys ‘fagged’ for older ones by running errands. Maybe that’s where it comes from.
Still survives in the expression ‘I couldn’t be fagged to…’
In years gone by gay meant happy. Those were the days.
Ah, the good old days when I’d take Enid Blyton to bed.
Twigs are/were also called faggots.
[Daphne – Yes. I will never forget the frozen silence during a lunch party at home one day, when I asked my husband to please throw a couple of faggots on the fire because it was struggling.]
… and pansy, too.
‘Daphne – Yes. I will never forget the frozen silence during a lunch party at home one day, when I asked my husband to please throw a couple of faggots on the fire’ .
Well, it seems you really have something incendiary about faggots! You certainly haven’t missed the opportunity to burn one or two lately.
As kids growing up in the UK, we used to tease by calling each other a ‘Puff’, or ‘Pufta’. Down South it would’ve been ‘Poof/Poofter’ – hence the cockney rhyming slang term ‘woolly-woofter’ referring to a homosexual male.
http://www.encyclo.co.uk/define/Woolly%20Woofter
Faggot/Fag originated in the US I think, but has migrated accross the Atlantic, even reaching Malta’s shores.
[Daphne – Ricotta Debate Mark II. Thank you for pointing this out because I didn’t want to be the one to do it. Poofter is a British word, and the Maltese got it from the British in pre-literate society. That is why the Maltese pronunciation is poof-tah and the spelling pufta. As with other words taken directly from English (not British) speech during the 19th and early 20th century, rather than from text – like skuna (schooner) and even fayy-ah (fire) before it became fayy-aRR – it ignores the R, just as received pronunciation does in English. Had we Maltese picked up poofter more recently, we would be pronouncing it ‘poof-teRRRR’. Well, some of us would be. And the Maltese spelling would be pufteR. ]
Cockney slang for poof is iron, as in iron hoof.
E.g. Cyrus is a raving iron.
Pooftah could be Australian. It was used a lot in the Private Eye comic strip featuring the Australian Barry McKenzie in pre-political correctness days (60s & 70s). Australia has a very rich vocabulary for gays – eg “back-room bandits” “camp as a row of tents”.
@ Interested Bystander – also correct. Iron (hoof) being the more common these days. Just so happens that it was ‘woofter’ that came to mind in my earlier comment.
Uhuru, I recall Enzo Pacelli the taxi driver in “Home Sweet Home” TV series:
“Daddy, what’s a poofter?”
Enzo: ”A pufta is a man who does not go out with women”.
“So Father Murphy is a poofter.”
Daphne, it is originally the American (not British) equivalent of pufta. The British equivalent is queer.
I think the British equivalent of pufta is poof. Fag is just another derogatory term. Along with queer boy, bum boy, queen, fairy, etc.
Oh wait just saw rest of discussion about it…
Another conspiracy theory: Claudio Grech re-wired the internet so that every word we now type in has this liberal feel about it.
Joseph Muscat badly needs a thinking cap, not a tin-foil hat.
The Alexa rating for your site is 69……
[Daphne – It just gets worse.]
The stars are aligning! 0_o
The stars in the heavens are moving!
Soon they will align!
Thor, God of Thunder!
Let me die with a sword in my hand!
Raise your hands, swords in the wind!
Brothers of Metal together again….
MANOWAR!
Damn you Baxxter – I’m too old to headbang to Kings of Metal again. I could break my neck!
[Daphne – Oh my god, Lord of the Rings fans. Give me a raving iron any day.]
Now that brings me back…
Lord of the rings? Goodness me.
http://www.manowar.com/
Hey, that’s one insult too far. I am NOT a Lord of the Rings fan, and I’ve never watched a single one of the half dozen movies in the franchise, or even read the book.
Besides, Daphne, I thought you knew better. Heavy Metal fans are to Emos what raving iron is to kiwi smoothie.
[Daphne – They all appear to involve scruffy hair, a slouch and bad T-shirts, so sorry, I can’t see beyond that. They’re all VERY Wayne’s World.]
Well yes of course they’re slouching if they’re Maltese.
If you want to see what the standard Metal crowd looks like, go to Germany or somesuch.
The Maltese look ugly under any genre: house (white belts, emo haircut, skintight jeans and gut), trance (same plus waistcoat for the really fat, minus emo haircut), techno (doesn’t exist), electro (actually refugees from “alternative”), hip-hop (barra minn fuqna), Zucchero (already covered), Joseph Calleja (if this is the future of opera, next venue’s Casa Arkati), the works.
Hence my point about the dregs from the genetic cracker barrel.
“They’re all VERY Wayne’s World”
You say that like it’s a bad thing. How peculiar.
[Daphne – They all appear to involve scruffy hair, a slouch and bad T-shirts, so sorry, I can’t see beyond that. They’re all VERY Wayne’s World.]
In the 60s and 70s it used to be a kind of alternative culture. Then in the 80s it was about rebellion. But of course, when “everyone’s doing it”, it fails to impress.
I’m into many kinds of music (excluding much of chart music – which I consider to be the fast-food of music), including many types of rock music, but I can count the “heavy metal” bands I like on my fingers. Too many of them are pretend-macho and sexist for my liking.
He will be at his wit’s end.
My number plate is FAG 696
Yeah right. How amusing you are, Bob. You really light up the party.
Oh, you’ve GOT 001 of those!
A faggot is also a very tasty British bap.
In food terms it’s actually a sort of meatball or patty made from various cuts, largely offal. Very flavoursome indeed, although in current contexts, let’s not confuse things further by referring to ‘tasty, meaty faggots’ on these pages!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_%28food%29
Not in my neck of the woods it ain’t. It is in Wales mind, and you know what they say about the Welsh.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y136zBVjBg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ItF0CcJBN4
Have they found another daisy chain at mile end?
Sunk to the nuts, bumper to bumper.
All welcome here.
[Daphne – Which one of these? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_chain Please, please don’t say you mean the fourth from the top.]
Yes and male only (keep it neat and tidy).
[Daphne – One day I will understand why English-speaking men find homosexual men hilarious but homosexual women fascinating, why there are poofter jokes but no dyke jokes (Maltese-speaking men find neither hilarious or fascinating, but are threatened by both). And no, that isn’t an invitation to send in explanations.]
OK then no explanations.
Do stop pigeon-holing Maltese men. We are quite popular with foreign fillies so we must have something going for us.
[Daphne – It’s the chest hair, apparently. You’ve got the competitive edge over all those waxed metrosexuals.]
There was a queer fellow called Bloom
Who once took a dyke to his room
They argued all night
As to who had the right
To do what, with which and to whom.
Interested Bystander, that is absolutely gross. I’ll have you know that Jason and Ronnie are virgins.
Give Cyrus time, he’s only been there a few days.
Let’s change the subject before things get really out of hand here.
X’dizaztru ghandna Malta! Kemm hawn guh! GonziPn he don’t know what he doin. Ejja nivvutaw Joseph bi hgarna, nies! Joseph Forever! We heart Joseph! Joseph is cool, young and liberal (and tan-n**k)!
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110801/local/unemployment-stable-at-lowest-end-of-eu-scale.378319
Daphne, I think your fairy godmother’s trying to tell you something, like “save me from being to-l-l-l-l-erated by LGBT Labour”. No…wait! Now she’s mumbling something about having been abducted by a group of Teddy Bares who were hiding in the woods at a Labour BBQ, wearing tiny little tin foil jockstraps (to match Michelle).
[Daphne – Friend of Dorothy! I’d forgotten about that. My favourite, by far. And thanks for the laugh. Was Michelle making daisy chains?]
U mela, miskina. Taf kemm ġewha sbieħ id-daisy chains, hux? Really professional end well-formed. End evin di gingerbrett menn she hett, you know? Mejt wit kiwi juice. Għax dik mara ta’ success, u m’għadhiex toħroġ bir-rollers.
[Daphne – Please, I’m dying here, laughing myself sick.]
There is a joke I tell to see if a chap has a sense of humour.
I say ‘have you got any pictures of your wife with no clothes on?’
They say ‘no’.
I say ‘you wanna buy some?’
The reaction tells me all I need to know.
You tell that joke to any red-blooded male and you’d most probably squeak for a week. I would probably pretend to have you lynched just to see your take on the situation.
QED
Banned!!!! NO! Not the ‘C’ word again. (Sorry for the multiple exclamation marks, Daphne.)
here’s a dyke joke…………
A man walks up to the bar, notices a girl at the other end, gets his drink and asks the barman to pour the girl another one.
Barman: Don’t bother mate. She’s lesbian.
Man: What’s the problem?
He walks over to the girl with both drinks, sits down next to her and says:
So which part of Lesbia are you from?
Actually lesbian meant an inhabitant of Lesbos.
Can we have likes, as in thumbs up or down, on this very amusing site?
I would love to give a “thumb down” to KEV.
Careful there, Fleur. He might think you’re making him a pornographic offer he can’t refuse and take you up on it as long as there are no kiwis involved.
Have some compassion for the man. He can’t join in this discussion. Marvic Camilleri has just sacked his brief, Kev’s brother-in-law Andy Ellul.
Daqxejn touchy, is-sitwazzjoni.
I would think sticky rather than touchy.
Inspector Gadget and Spidra are not as complicated as this bunch of weirdos.
My favourite chat up line was this: “Please can you help me? I am a lesbian trapped in a man’s body.”
Faggots are……a pain in the ass.
Stop picking on Jason.
Yes, we know he is not too bright but his mum is a nice lady.
A very active fag, an alcoholic and a heavy smoker are living together. The last two are straight.
They’re back from medical check-ups and comparing notes.
They’ve been told by their respective doctor that one more go at their habit and that’s it.
As they walk past a pub feeling depressed, the fag and the smoker decide they need a drink.
They tell their friend to wait outside. The alcoholic can’t resist – what the hell, doctors can’t be that accurate. But one sip and he drops dead.
The remaining two walk off feeling even more dejected.
They spot a lit cigarette on the pavement.
The fag tells the smoker – if you bend down to pick up that cigarette, we’re both dead.
Who said dinosaurs were extinct? http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110802/letters/Reasons-why-marriage-is-on-the-rocks.378384
Here is some progressive thinking for you http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110802/letters/Reasons-why-marriage-is-on-the-rocks.378384
I wonder what the author thinks about gays.
Not exactly an appropriate thread to post this, but I just couldn’t resist posting it here: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110802/letters/Reasons-why-marriage-is-on-the-rocks.378384
And what about women bloggers? They’re the scourge of Maltese families and should be banished to Mantua or wherever they’re sending them these days. I’m seriously considering sending The Times a letter about how I know for a fact the earth is flat. Just to test the system.
I think the rule is: If it generates lots of response – publish it. Editors are fast becoming redundant.
But if the wife stayed in the home, wouldn’t she be exposed to a host of temptations: the milkman, tal-hobz, the postman, dak li jigbor ghall-festa, some randy priest on a house visit, tal-haxix… ?
I breathed a sigh of relief when my wife told me that she would continue going to work.
That’s not how their mind works. Their reasoning goes as follows:
If the woman is gainfully employed (or has her own business), then she is independent, and so I cannot treat her however I like because if she doesn’t like it, she will leave (or kick me out if the property is hers).
If the woman never earned a cent but depends on me for her subsistence, then she won’t dare betray me, since if I kick her out, she’s doomed. And she won’t leave, since she literally can’t afford it.
That, I believe, is the mentality of men who feel threatened by the prospect of having their wives gainfully employed and independent.
Remember Pat Mustard from Father Ted?