No wonder Sliema has become unbearable: the chavs all want to cram in there, while the natives have left
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May 25, 2012 at 2:54pm
Duru mieghi, tfal, ha nghidilkom storja.
Mela darba kien hemm rahli li mar Tas-Sliema bit-tfal ghax il-playgrounds f’rahal twelidu mhumiex smart bizzejjed, u biex jiehu coffee il-Ferries, u ma nafx kif, sab playground Ghar id-Dud.
Mhux talli sab playground, imma sab playground minghajr wifi.
Jista jghidli l-Onorevoli Luciano Busuttil fejn iz-zummara sab dan il-madoffi playground, ghax jien twelidt u trabbejt Ghar id-Dud u qatt ma rajtu?
Jahasra, li kieku kont naf li qieghed hemm minghajr wifi, u tant ddisprat ghal Facebook anke meta kien fuq l-iswings mat-tfal, kont nghid il-mummy u d-daddy tieghi biex idahhluh ftit s’ghandhom.
Frigging peasant from the ruddy sticks.
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Ghar-Id-Dud’s NEW play ground?
Was there evere an OLD playground to start off with?
Hlief tilaqilhom it-toqba ta’ sormhom m’intix. Vera kollox possibili ghax anka disposta tivvota lil min sirt ma tahmilx wara li vvotajtlu, basta ma tarax lill-Labour fil-gvern.
Ghandek hdura ja demel l-int.
[Daphne – Hit boiling-point, have you, mandango? I can always tell. It’s when you give up posturing in English and slip back into the potent vernacular. Now run along and play with your little peasant friends.]
What’s with these PL diehards? Why do they have to resort to vulgar insults? Oh stupid me, they cannot do any better.
He probably has no friends to play with.
He only has the one and only alternative.
X’kien fiha id-Desserta li kont tiekol taht Mintoff, Mandango, kemm tghallimt titkellmu tajjeb il-Malti?
Tieghi kien ikun fiha id-dud.
Is he talking about the Qui-Si-Sana garden or the Independence playground? Either way, neither of them is exactly ‘new’.
For someone whose world lies between the Mile End and il-Parlament, venturing beyond is ‘new’ to him.
He should crawl back to the Sqaq tal-Qasab across from the red glasshouse.
Let’s ask Cyrus, shall we?
The closest playground would be that at the end of Qui-si-sana seafront, around 400m from Ghar id-dud, but then how would a peasant like him know the difference?
This being Luciano, I wouldn’t be surprised that the sign said “wi-fi free.”
He probably means Qui Si Sana and, for him, the rough approximation is acceptable. Somewhere in Sliema, by the sea, within sight of the Chalet ruins: it could be Għar id-Dud so let’s just say it is.
Around two years ago, I was sitting on Bus 63 at the Valletta terminal when three foreign teenagers boarded and asked the driver for three tickets to Sliema.
The driver said “This is not Sliema bus”, and told them to take the 60.
The girls told him that they have been taking the 63 for the last month.
The driver kept on insisting and so did the girls.
He couldn’t take it anymore, so he just got up, shouted one of those nice Maltese words and in perfect English said “Mela haq il-z………you drive” and just left the bus.
The girls gave up and got off the bus. Back came the driver, got the bus going and off we went.
As I was sitting right behind the driver, after I was sure he had calmed down, I told him, in a very nice way, “I think they were right and this bus goes to Sliema.”
He faced me and in his gentlest voice told me, “E haqq iz………. int ukoll?”
I told him, “Look, I live in Dingli Street and this bus goes there, so where do I live – Hollywood?”
He said in that know-it-all tone: “Mela missek taf Tas-Sliema il-Ferry, jew biex haqq al-M……..trid tahraqni.”
I just gave up.
He means new because the playgrounds in Malta are “not tal-Qamel” anymore as they used to be in the 80s more or less when Luciano and I were children. They’ve been refurbished throughout the times.
[Daphne – The playgrounds were “tal-qamel” in our time because they relied on charity from the Malta Playing Fields Association. Mintoff’s government did not waste money on playgrounds. Children could play with sticks and stones in the street, like he did, as far as he was concerned.]
I think he means the one in Independence Garden, close to the tower. There is another playground closer to St Julian’s always in the same garden. In summer, it used to be invaded by students, chatting via wifi, coming from a language school nearby.
“Insomma il-kosta jafha Luciano ghax kien ikun fic-centru tal-attenzjoni jippassigga ma’ Claire Fabri mbdendla mieghu.”
Do you mean “tal-qamel” as an analogy or actual lice, like physically getting bitten when playing, by lice.
I can’t remember ever getting bitten in the Qui-si-sana play park during the mid 80s. Now there were ants and perhaps fleas from the old ladies’ poodles and stray cats, but no lice.
It’s a very sanitised place now, with the chav and chav-nots mingling, funny enough like lice around the oh so trendy beach clubs, but Daph, the chavs we see in Sliema are merely a by product, just as Thatcher had her children Gonzi has had his.
Luciano Busuttil clearly doesn’t know the difference between Ghar id-Dud and Qui-si-Sana. Look on the bright side. At least, he didn’t call it Tigne’, simply because it’s close to The Point.
He probably thought it was Ghar id-Dud because he felt at home there.
The wifi antenna in his cell cellphone is much less powerful than the one inside a laptop – thus the lack of a usable signal.
He doesn’t know how wifi works, that’s all – he’s not an engineer.
But it takes a stupid man to assume no wifi reception simply because HIS phone did not work in a particular area.
I take my 2 year-old daughter to the swings at Torri and the ‘new’ playground at the other end of Gnien Indipendenza (under Peppi’s Kiosk), and God forbid these were to be renovated and modernised like those of Qui-Si-Sana, because otherwise they would be over-run with the offspring of Kieren, Tayrin, Kayden, Sheznaya and Libyan children who are very aggressive in their playfulness just as is the case at the Qui-Si-Sana playground.
Niskanta kif ma qalx: ‘Mort biex juza t-toilets pubblici u ma sibtx toilet paper’.
X’depression ta’ nies.
Would Dr. Busuttil and all parents who accompany their children to playgrounds forget all about their mobile phones and other gadgets and enjoy some moments in the company of their kids?
It seems that certain politicians use their families only as a means of propaganda.