MARLENE CUP. How totally naff.
Natius Farrugia, the Labour mayor of Zurrieq who makes his money removing fluff and frizz from the private parts of hirsute men and women at his salon, Natius Ola, is organising some kind of marathon with Marlene Farrugia, who used to be married to Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando but ran off (now we have some idea why).
The trophy is called the MARLENE CUP.
Now, where did we put those suicide pills?
This is because the Labour spokesman on Sargas and related matters is a dentist, and banned by the Medical Council from promoting herself by putting her full name to the trophy. She has already been reprimanded by the Medical Council for this sort of self-promotion.
Apparently, her ex husband’s rabid and blatant self-promotion on Facebook is not covered by the Medical Council’s rules. Isn’t that odd?
Marlene Cup, for heaven’s sake.
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Can a local council use funds to help organise an event promoting a political candidate? It would be interesting to see whether this was discussed in a council meeting.
[Daphne – Well done for your stance on this, Antoine: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120510/local/Lecturer-bans-personal-computers-from-classes.419104 ]
In my opinion, the issue of students finding their lectures (and anything related to academic education) boring is not attributable only to short attention span.
Nowadays you get scores of teenagers going into University just for the sake of it – it is the thing to do (biex tasal) and you get paid for it. This does not mean that they are in any way academically inclined, curious about knowledge or have the required aptitude to put in the expected effort. Often, they lack the necessary skills, such as abstract thinking.
Then they end up in lecture rooms bored to hell and expect that their lecturer does some magic trick to tickle their interest. Rather than adapting themselves to the situation and learn new skills, they expect, in true Mintoffian style, that their education is tailor-made to their wishes and level of ability because it’s not fier.
Not everyone is cut for an academic education, be it by nature or as a result of one’s background. I for one, if I’d go back, I would choose a less academic path. But I have always paid attention to lessons, even boring ones, and was generally curious about knowledge, something which many students lack.
Thanks
Antoine,
it’s not the only thing she sponsors. You should see the donations to both band clubs.
Is it 36B?
Why did she put Pulicino and not Farrugia on the poster advert. I thought that she is divorced now. I am guessing she used an old letterhead.
Gozitano, that is yet another example of the incompetence inherent to all that has anything to do with the Partit Laburista.
Alla jbierek, thallas mitejn euro biex tirbah tlieta. Lanqas it-tazza ma’ ttik, ghax wara sena tridha lura.
Tista’ tahseb x’tazza, tghid ippozalha Jeffrey?
Have you noticed that each team has to pay 200 euros to take part and a 50-euro deposit.
The winning team gets 300 euros to be divided between them all – so basically 50 Euros divided by around at least 5 persons (more likely 10) and thus from 10 to 5 Euros each and the honour of keeping the Marlene Cup for 1 year.
What a rip off: you have to PAY to participate in this tournament – 200 euros.
Why have sponsors, then?
Pajjiz fi krizi! Nies imutu bil-guh! Krizi Socjali!
Kollu it-tort ta’ GonziPN! Ara kemm gholiet il-hajja!
But here she’s still Pullicino..
Labour candidates are using any colour (in this case green) EXCEPT red. Are they desperately trying to fool us?