The Taxes Chanesaw Massakru
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September 21, 2011 at 12:03am
Take a look at this promotional video for Maltastar editor Glenn Bedingfield’s winebar in Birgu. You keep right on wondering when the unseen man with the chainsaw is going to attack, and then it ends.
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Christ, he couldn’t even get the two ladies to shut. And he has a programme about wine on….One TV.
Great clip. Got the background music wrong however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLIrAswLrhU
Great clip?
Cheap camera, cheap shots, wrong music, poor angles, poor techniques, and a pair of unsteady hands.
Great clip for the garbage can.
‘In a separate case Nadine Cutajar, 26, of Għaxaq was charged with selling the toy characters on eBay but was not charged in connection with the macabre figures. Police will be arraigning the person who assembled the bloody toys.’
from The Times June 16th 2009
Sans paroles
I bloody well hope so!
That’s why Maltastar is in such a mess.
Have you ever checked Maltarightnow?
*ssshhhh*
How can any business owner be in any way proud of a promo video like that one?
There is no hope for us when Labour is elected.
Gabuba di Vino…
F’dan il-pajjiz tal-faqar Glenn Bedingfield minn barra r-restaurant ghandu wine bar ukoll?
For a bunch of socialists they certainly like to dabble in business – some even come across as Republican oil barons with all their vested interests .
Must have been a slow day and quieter night. The name of the place “Angolo Di Vino” : is it supposed to be a play on words or just plain bad Italian? Was this video taken with a mobile phone? Must have been Fright Night.
By the way, the elves on timesofmalta.com have been beefed up with early retired/eased out bank employees/managers. (It’s so difficult to call them bankers although they expect it !). But the reasoning and language still remain abysmal.
Daphne on a different subject. Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a friend from Sydney and we were discussing your court case.
From the looks of it, down under they are eagerly following your case. Do you know your next court date and who is expected to testify next? Is the magistrate done with her testimony?
[Daphne – 25 October for witnesses for the defence.]
Unconnected: Very humiliating article about our judges and magistrates in today’s Times of Malta. I cannot understand today’s behaviour by people in such high and prestigious positions. Shameful, to say the least.
I cannot agree more. What a bunch of petulant children.
Greedy and envious of others’ earnings: The Times report gives the impression that the majority of magistrates and judges are malcontents – is this honest and true reporting or setting an agenda?
yor/malta: You never can tell with The Times nowadays.
If judges and magistrates decide to behave like striking bus drivers or clerks, who are we to stop them?
Their behaviour will do little to enhance the already abysmal view in which they are held.
The irony is that prominent lackeys of Joey’s Partit tal-Haddiema are now seen to be openly supportive of such demeaning behaviour.
In the meantime, Joey has given orders to make some more space in his skip asap, just in case.
It appears that our learned friends get to keep their official car over the weekends. I frequently encounter one of the judges doing his shopping at a local supermarket in his “work” vehicle.
Do they factor the fringe benefits, amongst them the car and driver, into their salary or do they conveniently take them for granted and forget all about them?
Many people I know grumble about their salary in financial terms and leave all their fringe benefits out of the equation.
Retired (against his will) judge Philip Sciberras, who has never made a secret of his pro-Labour sentiments:
http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/boycott-of-key-national-ceremonies-%E2%80%98only-the-start%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-retired-judge
He had nothing to say about the Labour government years when judges and magistrates were routinely intimidated by the prime ministers and ministers of the day, the consititutional courts were closed for a number of years, the cream of the workers’ aristocracy broke into the law courts, frame ups and torture were the order of the day and in a court case involving the goverment/doctors’ dispute the presiding judge was heard blatantly advising the lawyer representing the goverment to which legal articles to refer so as to win the case.
Dear Ms DCG, can you please perform a public service to everyone, especially to those who were too young to remember those dark days, by writing some articles relating to the matter and pointing out the most obvious i.e. that the Socialist politicians of that repressive era have been rehabilitated by Dr Muscat and allowed to rule the roost in his supposedly new modern progressive secular PL and its media.
Also unconnected: you should see Facebook status updates of Labour-leaning individuals (and prospective candidates) saying that we should not celebrate our Independence. Veru kaz ta’ Only in Malta.
It’s actually a pretty sweet wine bar. Quite remarkable how he managed to make it look so creepy in a promotional video.
“The Birgu Witch Project”
Stamp my little feet
http://www.francomercieca.com/lies-half-truths-and-distortions/
Looks like JPO has a fellow professional competing with him in the hog-the-media-limelight stakes.
Well, based on the facts as presented by Franco Mercieca it looks like Gozo Channel have some explaining to do….
The Mintoff fan is coming out of the closet finally.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
George Borg Olivier and Dom Mintoff were two of the giants in the local political scene in the post war years . They both left a profound impact on our nation.
He is not very “Christian” either;
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando @Charles-I really pity her. She wasted her obvious talent for writing by becoming a columnist who is widely despised for her needless personal attacks. Anyone who wastes his/her life in that manner must be very a very bitter person.
14 hours ago
[Daphne – Jeffrey makes the classic error of thinking that I am despised by his circle of losers and perverts (largely because I hold them beneath contempt as Malta’s new demi-monde) ergo I am despised by all. Foolish man. As for being bitter, people from that sort of background are culturally alien to mine, and cannot distinguish between a dry way of writing – I’ll keep the references as simple as possible with this http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061112044422AATAZFw – and bitterness. A bitter person would be, say, somebody like Jeffrey, who found it necessary to embroil the entire electorate in a response to his wife’s admittedly very poor behaviour around 15 years ago, which appears to have damaged his psyche permanently. It would also describe somebody who lied to the prime minister and then never forgave him for pointing this out (in private). A bit more graciousness would be in order at this late stage, I would think. As for the politics, I think he is MOST unwise to subscribe to the current Labour attempt – I am in the business and so notice these things immediately – at equating Borg Olivier with Mintoff, with Gonzi as ‘the worst prime minister in history’ and Muscat as the bridge between Labour and Nationalist.]
Was he not present at yesterday’s Independence celebration on the granaries?
Being old – very old – has its advantages. At 85, I suppose I can speak with some authority of knowledge – because “I was there”.
It is a pity to see such an honourable position as that of a judge or magistrate in our courts fall from such a high pedestal.
Where are the monuments to our respected and admired judges and magistrates? These honourable gentlemen never (repeat) never mentioned money while exercising their impeccable duty towards justice.
Perhaps the present lot are truly scared of what is in store when and if Labour wins the coming elections, and they are playing Jose Herrera’s game.
Strange. How come he didn’t just call in his mates to do a professional job? I mean the same scumbag crew that filmed Joe Mizzi at the Eurovision party. I’m sure a couple of free bottles of wine would have been payment enough.
We were strolling along Birgu seafront once, and came across his other restaurant. Always curious I convinced my wife to have a look at this new place, it looked quite pretty across the water.
As soon as we walked up to the entrance to have a peep inside, Bedingfield walks up to us, greeting us cordially. I told him we were just passing by, congratulated him for the new place and that we would try it out some other time, as we had just eaten elsewhere.
Without even uttering a thank you, he simply turned his back to us and walked back inside.
My wife still brings it up whenever I give Labour some benefit of the doubt.
So Bedingfield is definitely not a marketing expert.
The way he treated Jozef and the video shown here are evidence of that. Bedingfield didn’t even realise that Jozef and the others treated that way would not step again into his restaurant.
May I remind Judge Sciberras that it was Mintoff, his idol, who reduced the pension in 1979 It was Mintoff who decided that new state employees were to receive NI pension only. Surely Judge Sciberras knows that.
It seems Judge Sciberras is now on friendly terms with Saviour Balzan. Gone are the days when Balzan waged an all-out war against him when he increased the sum won by Mintoff because of a libel action against him.
Winebar in a dungeon.
And quite expensive. There seems to be a price cartel of the wine bars in Birgu.
I hope this ‘promo clip’ is a bad joke.
Hanzir taqtalu denbu, hanzir jibqa.
Horrible filming. couldn’t he get someone pro to do it?
I had the distinct impression that the camera had been strapped to the head of an old stray dog who had snuck into the place and was looking around for some scraps.
X’diprexxin dawn tal-Lejber.
The video title’s aim was reached (“l-aqwa li nirbhu l-elezzjoni” attitude). He made you watch the ‘advert’.
May I add that I find the place creepy, hence the chainsaw title.
I noticed that two wall lamps had one bulb each which was not on, that shows the class of this “hanut ta’ l-inbid”.
The judges did it again – how i missed them at St John’s!
Just read this and some Libyan’s enduring loyalty towards Gaddafi reminded me of the same enduring loyalty that many Labourites have towards Mintoff and his stalwarts.
“No generation can leap over its own head” – so true!
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311803
Glenn should call it The Addam’s Family Wine Bar
Or “Nightmare in Elm street” Bistro.
The background music is straight out of the film ‘Casablanca’. He evidently sees himself as Glenn ‘Rick’ Bedingfield and views his dump in the same category as Rick’s classy and lively joint that bristled with international intrigue.
And Glenn evidently still has some considerable way to go to come up with anything like Ingrid Bergman among his regulars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2Lof_5dy4&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt1vQ81jNWw