Dress Down Friday at the Labour Business Forum
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September 4, 2011 at 11:57pm
Meeting tal-Labour Business For.....sorry, wrong picture
The Labour Business Forum's top brass, Manuel Mallia (centre - clearly suffering from some sort of acute male menopause) and Marlene Mizzi (left)
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Hilarious.
Anke t tfajliet (bjonda u brunette) hemm fl-istampa.
Kif jirnexxilek issibhom Daph?
Tal-genn man!
Jeez, didn’t know Mallia was one of the Teletubbies.
Ah, a cultural tour of Italy is in order for our friend from across the pond. That’s not a Teletubby. It’s a character from the longest running and most popular Italian TV show, where they basically laugh at the disastrous state of the country and their own backwardness. Much like us Maltese. The red thingy was the show’s first ace reporter (no, really) and its most enduring icon.
P.S. Those two paragons of hotness besides the red character (on the FIRST photo, not the second) are what is known as “veline” or “vallette”. It’s an Italo-Spanish television phenomenon where you get young tarts of the finest quality basically tasked with the same job as a conference hostess (you know the sort, simpering away behind the Raytheon counter). In other countries, they’d just end up on Page Three. In Italy, they end up in parliament.
Thank you for all that enlightenment, Baxxter.
Still like the Teletubbies.
That TV show is the modern equivalent of regime propaganda. Forget the yesman Emilio Fede, Striscia La Notizia’s editor is the true mover of cultural Berlusconismo.
With the rise of Mediaset, italians are becoming more and more like Berlusconi. And it’s not the fixation with ‘veline’ and ‘vallette’ that is the problem. It’s the ‘news’ bit that is the real problem.
Italians should not be aware of Berlusconi’s corruption trials, of his offshore companies and fraud issues, or his purchases of land in questionable Caribbean jurisdictions. If some lawyer, like David Mills, is proven to have been ‘corrupted,’ it is enough – no reason to know who was the corrupter, the final beneficiary of fraud.
Italians should not care about the horse trading in the latest emergency budget. They should not care about the removal of the four measures promised to us, their European partners. They should only care that something is being done, that Berlusconi – who is like them and wants the institutions (the ‘communist’ courts) to leave his people alone.
Those women are the least troubling part of it all. We might have pointed fingers and made fun of Berlusconi before, but now we’re all dependent on Italy’s will to make things right. With Berlusconi there, we have no doubt that he will do the right thing – for his own economic survival. And that is linked to his ability to remain in power. His survival is all that matters. Not that of his people. And definitely not ours.
Viva l-lajbor Viva l-lajbor hey hey! Those were the days my friend we thought they’d never end la lala la…..
Is Mrs Mizzi by any chance a gladiator or a rocker? I’m refering to the arm wrap.
The red character in the first picture is Gabibbo.
Sorry, but which one is the wrong picture?
Who is Manuel Mallia? Is he the one who used to be the top canvasser of Dr Guido de Marco? What happened to this poor chap?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110905/letters/Ratification-process-for-Malta-s-sixth-MEP.383286
“Where did The Times get its information from? Does it research his pieces?
Let me do the work for him.”
So the Times has acquired a masculine gender now? Apart from the simplistic English, Joseph Cuschieri might want to know that if he was intending to embark on a process of literal translation, ‘gazzetta’ in Maltese is actually feminine.
Not fit to write in any language whatsoever, definitely not fit to be “Malta’s sixth MEP”.
X’differenza bejn Marlene u l-Veline! L-istess eh!
i beg to differ. the veline will be like her in 30/40 years time. and prob marlene was like them 30/40 years ago. i think marlene is very good looking for her age
re marlene’s “success” in running two/three shops. her grandmother started the business, her mother continued the tradition and now marlene runs the show. in other words… marlene sabet is-sodda mifruxa. who knows if she would have been “a mara ta success” if her grandmother and mother were just housewives.
You never know. We know plenty of people of success whose parents were just housewives and labour workers.
How can you compare a sixty year old with a 20 year old velina Min Weber? Marlene is still an attractive woman and I’m sure that in her teens and twenties she could compete with all the Veline.
H.P.Baxxter, sometimes they go from page three to cabinet
This is the minister for gender equality in Berlusconi’s cabinet. (the irony)
http://izismile.com/2009/03/30/maria_carfagna_-_the_most_beautiful_minister_in_the_world_25_pics.html
She rebelled against the party last year, refusing to endorse a candidate accused of having connections with the camorra in her Naples district.
In Baltic countries (ah, the Baltic! Immanuel Kant and his salmon!) where the electorate is more enlightened (and Enlightened), the goddess Carmen Kass, supermodel-turned-chess-champion-turned-politician, was not elected to the European Parliament.
In Italy she would have been made Pope.
Mara (not Maria) Carfagna was also accused of having an affair with Italo Bocchino, who had followed Fini out of the PDL to create the FLI.
Beauty, however, is in the eye of the beholder, so ‘the most beautiful minister in the world’ could also be Stefania Prestigiacomo, Italian minister of the environment and protection of land and sea.
Some are more equal than others when it comes to gender quality, sorry, equality.
It would be better for women of a certain age to give up trying to compete with their own younger daughters where age an fashion is concerned.
There is nothing wrong with ageing gracefully.
kollha ghira din ..