Oh. My. God. 'Kif thott barriera', a play in one act
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August 31, 2011 at 11:39pm
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There’s AST in that crowd. Why wasn’t he on the podium, I wonder.
Nothing serious, he forgot his keffiyeh and since he is so fond of headgear he just couldn’t be seen without it.
And say what? Kif ippruvaw ihottu (almost literally, this time) l-iskejjel tal-Knisja imma l-iskola Musulmana qed taghmel il-gid u sa nghinuha?
Arse-kissers, the lot of them. Currying favour with all and sundry, promising this and promising that, often off the cuff I suspect, with no mention (or knowledge) of how the pledges are to be funded.
Using an expression I’ve recently learnt (ok, I’ve led a sheltered life), vera ghal gol-hajt.
Me guesses: to be on the same level – patronising fool!
Al, ic-chunky
AST was not IN the crowd. He was standing against the wall, right at the back of the hall, no doubt trying to make himself as invisible as possible. One cannot fathom how AST had the gall to even be in the same room as the Libyans there.. Check video at 01.22.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeigosJoo-s&feature=player_embedded#t=82s
Barrieri is the latest buzzword.
Alex Saliba (he of the bedroom) of Forum Zaghzagh Laburisti is promoting it on Facebook: Labour – the party without quarries.
“Alex Saliba
Partit bla barrieri, miftuh ghal kulhadd, tkun xi tkun ir-religjon jew l-orjentazzjoni sesswali tieghek!”
Labour is open to Muslims and gays but Islam is definitely not open to gays.
I see the pudgy little Great Leader is still gaining weight, but losing his new hair. They must have attached the new follicles to his brain cells, also fast disappearing. Never was good under pressure.
Dawn mhux tal-biza’. Dawn HUMA l-biza’.
Next event: a Jehovah Witnesses baptism at a Burmarrad villa with pool.
And a Yom Kippur for the Jews – anything that might bring in even a single vote.
Nakita in a flamboyant kimono u AST in the ‘crowd’ compsed of the same old faces of Laburisti and a couple of Muslim women with their kids.
“Kien hemm ghexieren ta’ nies…”
During the run-up to the EU referendum the MLP HQ was called the ‘house of fables’. Now we can add that it has become also the ‘house of gimmicks’.
Demolish barriers…ihott il-barrieri…Labour Maltese.
“Foreign dignitaries will not be there to witness Col Gaddafi’s narrative of a Libya transformed by the bloodless coup in 1969 that saw him cease power from King Idris.”
“cease power” – Who is proof reading these articles at The Times before they upload.
The Times seems to be turning into a UK provincial paper. The majority of foreign news and articles are all to do with the UK. Very little is reported about happenings in Europe.
The UK news items in the Times are usually stale as anybody who reads British newspapers would have read them 2/3 days before.
The heading alone makes me roll on the floor laughing.
Maa kemm huma tac-cajt!
But the thought that this bunch of clowns will most probably be in government in 18 months’ time sobers me up pronto.
Seeing how they are mingling with the Islamic community, let’s hope that one day, when the Progressive PL is in power, they will throw us a massive gay pride parade and to boost it up, they will import gays from Scandinavia, lesbians from Spain and trannies from South America. What fun; I can’t wait!
I’m soo gonna vote PL!
Al, ic-chunky
They will have to segregate each group at their own party though, nkella ma nurux kemm ħattejna barrieri.
Off topic, but what’s a Byon?
[Daphne – The name of a Super One camera’peRRRsin’, misspelt by his amateur porn star and ex Labour pom-pom girl mother, who had heard the name Bjorn.]
Oh, I see. A ‘Britney’ / ‘Rooney’ of his generation then. With bad spelling.
Hey. What about that wacky group ” Not in our name”? Shouldn’t they also be embraced, nay welcomed with open arms, within the new progressive movement that welcomes diversity and attracts nut cases?
Gaddafi’s Jamahariya used to take out full page advertisements in Maltese newspapers to congratulate the government and people of Malta for its great achievements on Republic Day and Freedom Day, during the Golden Years.
Get your top world news items from maltastar.com … “Is that a snake in your pocket …” http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=16460
Better reptile smuggling than budgie smuggling a la Karmenu Vella…
[Daphne – Some people might need an explanation, Malteser: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=budgie%20smugglers
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Karmenu-Vella-with-Dom-Mintoff-Silvio-of-La-Spiaggia-and-Valletta-footballer-Carlo-Seychell.jpg ]
Some comic relief after a mega stressful day.
I can’t stop laughing!
Besides, how on earth can you demolish a hole – which is, essentially, what a quarry is?
Leonard, as usual, Maltastar’s article is mostly copied and pasted, this time from The Telegraph.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8732173/US-man-arrested-at-airport-with-seven-snakes-in-his-trousers.html
Stephen, you didn’t understand. Gaddafi ceased King Idris’s power by seizing it. They’ve since corrected it.
Super One News Flash:
Kif il-PL jitla’ fil-gvern ihott il-barriera tac-Caqnu li fiha bena il-kumpless Montekristo.
I cannot understand why all the fuss about a purported mistranslation of “barrier” into “barriera” in Maltese.
The word “barriera”, in football terminology, means the “wall” erected when an opposing team is about to shoot a free-kick towards the defending team’s goal.
I see nothing wrong in the use of the quarry word in this context.
Oh these PL apologists!
[Daphne – http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110622/letters/Barrier-not-quarry-behind-wharf-s-name.371866
Fire/fajjar – barrier/barriera]
That’s it, Daphne. Maltese borrows also from Italian, you know. “Barriera” in Italian is “barrier” in English and “barriera” in Maltese, in the context of a “wall” in football, as I mentioned above.
I cannot understand how “fire/fajjar” gets in the picture. That’s a totally different linguistic formation.
[Daphne – Maltese gets ‘barriera’ through English, not through Italian (that’s where we get ‘ostakli’), which is why you will find ‘ostakli’ used except in a British-related context, like the barrier down at the wharf. The simple fact is that in idiomatic Maltese, unlike in idiomatic English, you would never say ‘barriera’ when you mean a metaphorical obstacle. The correct idiomatic usage in such a context would be ‘ostakli’. That’s why Labour’s use of ‘barrieri’ jars in this context, because it’s idiomatically wrong.
And you know this as well as I do, because you’re an (educated) native speaker of the language (like me).
Real native speakers (like me and probably you too) wouldn’t even be thinking in terms of barriers in the first place, because that is an ‘English language’ forma mentis: there are barriers in the way. The Maltese ‘forma mentis’ is one of ‘xkiel’ stopping you from getting there: in other words, something holding you back rather than something standing in your way. I’m being an anorak about this because I know you find it interesting.]
Yes I do (find it interesting), and thanks for your explanation. Recently the PL propaganda machine is making quite a lot of gaffes to my liking.
I only wanted to see whether there was a way out of this one. As you know, in criminal trials the slightest doubt goes in favour of the accused.
I was just suggesting a loophole.
‘Ostakli’ would not do in this case. Perhaps, ‘inhottu l-hitan li jifirduna’, which is what he meant – or simply ‘innehhu l-firda’.
He can’t very well say that, Kev, can he? That would be an open admission that he’s fouled up good and proper by resurrecting all those Mintoffjani.
No offence meant to you, of course.
Joseph said he expected the PL would be criticised for holding this event.
Is he trying to distance himself from what he percieves a liability within the Labour Party, that the criticism is justified?
He has to decide.
What you cannot hide, you have to show. That was damage control from PL’s side.
Some ‘traitor’ told Daphne about this great party for Muslims, and she splashed it on her Running Commentary.
Ara x’tella’ il-bahar;
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110901/local/removing-honours-distorts-history-communist-party.382853
Iva, ghadhom iferfru. Naqra nostalgia ghal Evarist Bartolo.
John,
If that’s the case (and you’re right), he’s relinquishing leadership.
He’s not trusted by the hardcore, coming from Alfred Sant’s fold.
He’s not welcome at ONE either, given Jason Micallef’s presence.
It could explain Mediatoday’s transformation and the late night vigils in Siggiewi.
Problem is, creating a third faction astride a growing north-south divide will simply amplify the aggro.
Having jumped the hurdle of three-score summers, do I have the right to feel like a fish out of water now?
In the first two decades of my voyage, a Maltese Muslim was inconceivable, never mind a Muslim school.
Do I have the nerve to face what comes? Will there be time to adjust?
Do I dare disturb the universe now?
Hbiberija li TGHAQQAD liz-zewg popli? I thought I had found a mooring for my boat. Alas, I shall remain adrift.
I grow old … I grow old …
I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.
Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me.
This is such a cheap shot.
So they remain silent while Muslims are being slaughtered by Gaddafi, do nothing to help them out when things get tough, talk about how we should be prudent and not take sides, and in doing so indirectly admitting that they will side with whoever wins regardless of who that will be, and then, when the winning team has practically won, they come out with this.
It is not damage control at all. It just shows what opportunists they are.
What I read from this whole thing is that if Gaddafi had won the war, they would have come out saying, “We have always had a strong relationship bla bla bla” just to be on the right side of the winning side.
I find it typical. And I bet they are acting like anything said on here is some sort of jealousy, or that it’s just a way of discrediting their efforts to bridge culture gaps. What a joke.
They have got a good cause and used it badly, making themselves out to be cowards.
I wonder, if Gaddafi had won instead, what would they have done?
I don’t want a government that is going to side with whoever has the power. I want a government that reflects my beliefs and values freedom and always stands side by side with those who are fighting for it.
The actions of the PL, to me, show that they are weak in character, they don’t actually believe in anything they are saying and that they cannot be trusted to protect Malta from being influenced by outside powers with bad intentions.
He has no choice at this stage, but to follow the spin.
Underestimating the party’s territorial mindset, playing soft to both sides, made him look weak. That, in Labour’s book, is considered fatal.
The internal squabble, redirected at the Nationalists, is whether the Sant brigade made as much use of Gaddafi’s money as the Mintoff/KMB conglomerate.
Apart from Tony Abela, only Alex Sciberras Trigona and Charles Mangion seem to have attended. They obviously had to.
Alex Sciberras Trigona and Charles Mangion actually seem to have been edited into the footage.
Ghexieren ta’ Musulmani:
Evarist Bartolo
Cyrus Engerer
Nakita Zammit Alamango
Alex Sceberras Trigona
Charlie Mangion
Mons Joe Vella Gauci
Eddie Privitera(?)
wiehed qasir hdejh li insejt x’jismu
l-avukat ta’ kontra c-censura
Leo Brincat
Toni Abela
xi ghaxarti tfal
u l-iskrivani jew l-amministrazzjoni tal-partit
Ikkalkulajt li kien hemm madwar tmien familji , li probabbilment huma iffurmati minn irgiel Musulmani mizzewga lil nisa Maltin.
Li ma’ kienx hekk, kieku hafna minnhom m’ghandhomx vot u Joseph mhux se joqghod jisqijhom il-Koka ghal-xejn.
Il-komunita Musulmana Maltija hija kbira; din id-darba Joseph ma’ rnexxielux jahtaf dan is-settur.
Mill-filmat jidher car li wara li sar id-diskors tal-mexxej (u telqet il-kamera minn fuq l-udjenza) il-kandidati u l-amministrazzjoni tal-GaddafiPL ma ssibomx b’nemes. Il-‘mingling’ sar biss minn Joseph.
I find Cyrus Engerer’s presence quite odd.
The guy expected the PM to vote against his conscience from divorce (although that too might be argued) but it was his expectation. Moreover someone who brands himself as non confessional.
Five hours of orange juice? That must have been painful.
Or did they have a communications room filled with booze, like in that “Yes Minister” episode?