Kemm hawn rgiel Maltin li jiffissaw b’mod ikrah hafna, hux?
I see that those intellectuals David Friggieri and Alex Vella Gera are still obsessing about me neurotically on Facebook. Do they have no girls in their lives, or do they have only the ones they write about?
The way they go on, you’d think that I was next in line to f**k up the country, like Joseph Muscat. The only balls that Alex Vella Gera seems capable of keeping his eyes on are, well, the ones he writes about.
Npw they want to know why Joseph Muscat’s going on holiday at this crucial juncture is worth a blog-post, and “what I’m getting at”. They certainly live on a more rarified planet, don’t they, if they can’t see the relevance or the news value.
Maybe the reason I know what’s of news value and they don’t is the reason they’re intellectuals while I write things people might actually want to read.
Xi dwejjaq ta’ nies, dejjem fuq xi higher plane mal-angli tal-filosopfija, minghalihom li huma ahjar minn kullhadd. Il-vera tedjanti u boring.
One of them – I forget which – raised questions over the fact that I sometimes upload 25 posts in as many hours. Not too bright, is he? Here’s how I do it, David and Alex: I think quickly, I write quickly, I line up drafts, and then I click ‘Publish’ at regular intervals. The market model I use is that deployed by The Very Famous Spanish Fashion Manufacturer: to keep them coming in, you’ve got to change your stock frequently.
But I’m guessing you wouldn’t know anything about that.
Getting up the noses of these fixated people? I LOVE IT.
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Of course it’s relevant news. He solemnly declares this government to be ‘finished’ the day he takes a two-week leave of absence.
Ifhem, “iffissat” in as much as you are a cultural phenomenon occasionally fascinating to scrutinize. Guilty as charged. Keep it up.
[Daphne – Oh hello, Alex. That was quick.]
My fingers were trembling with anticipation as I typed in my comment. Otherwise I would have been quicker.
‘Pseudo intellectuals’ is more appropriate. Always critical and condescending about what others do and yet have not done anything worthwhile themselves.
“Always critical and condescending about what others do and yet have not done anything worthwhile themselves.”
Exactly.
Facebook is not the ideal place to satiate their intellectual aspirations and leanings but is the means that gives their banal lives a bit of passion.
These people seem to think that being critical is all it takes to be classified as an intellectual.
This comment is a bit rich coming from you lot sneering at and mocking almost everyone you consider inferior.
But that’s par for the course I suppose for people who criticise without first reading the sober Facebook discussion DCG decided to attack us for.
Taking DCG’s word at face value, how very independent minded of you. You’re nothing better than the unthinking popolin you fear so much.
[Daphne – Sober discussion, Alex? I read it. Bit ridiculous, I think. You all have too much time on your hands.]
“This comment is a bit rich coming from you lot sneering at and mocking almost everyone you consider inferior. But that’s par for the course I suppose for people who criticise without first reading the sober Facebook discussion DCG decided to attack us for. Taking DCG’s word at face value, how very independent minded of you. You’re nothing better than the unthinking popolin you fear so much.”
Yawn.
Says the queen of the quick and easy put down. Intellectuals, ridiculous, get a life, too much time on your hands, no balls, etc etc.
You may know how to write and what buttons to push, but you don’t strike me as being very intelligent outside of your little bubble of gripes and tribal battles and whatever it is you do for a living. For some masochistic reason I can’t fathom, you disappoint me.
[Daphne – I wasn’t put on earth to make your day, Alex.]
Mar jiccargja l-batteries:nispera li ma igibx actu biss mieghu?
…u s-sadid.
Pet hate , people who start to make a point with the word “ifhem” or “ifhimni”. As if these pseudo intellectuals who have to make an effort to speak the layman’s language
Spot on, David! It’s absolutely vile.
Good one, David.
Ho hum, another boring gorgeous sparkling beehive of Maltese wannabe stars on Facebook.
Qishom lahqu l-alla ghax hazzu storja.
The author of this blog is something of a media phenomenon by Maltese standards.
It would be a crying shame to give in to the fairly widespread gutter impulse which leads to the “Sahhara tal-Bidnija”-style insult or the more aloof, but equally common, “just ignore her” attitude.
You might be surprised just how many people simply don’t take any of this (politics, this blog and so on) seriously anymore – just utterly disgusted by the charade.
I still think it’s relevant and worth discussing, which possibly makes it as obsessively neurotic as a discussion about Rebekah Brooks or Bruno Vespa.
Why it’s tedjanti to discuss the dynamics at play on Running Commentary but not tedjanti to discuss il-coffee morning u l-gel ta’ Silvio Parnis is a mystery to me.
As for the blockhead put-down lines one often encounters here, it’s the same mind-set used by people who fire the “Sahhara tal-Bidnija” insult to get at the author of this blog.
Too easy, too cheap.
And on Muscat’s jaunt to Italy, the point clearly isn’t his timing but all the other tabloid tid-bits you threw in and their implications for your theories on class and taste and so on. Wannabe, pseudo-intellectual boredom beckons, I’d better get going.
[Daphne – Do you and Alex Vella Gera have a problem using your surname, David?]
I read that ‘sober discussion’ Alex – and many more that you lot have. Che Guevara wannabes, the lot of you.
The bottom line is that you do have too much time on your hands and most of you are cushioned by the safety of your cushy jobs in Brussels and Luxembourg – which allow you the freedom of expressing leftist ideas which are never going to affect your standard of living and to pontificate to the rest of us who have chosen to continue to live here in Malta.
It’s you who lives in a bubble not Daphne. She has single-handedly taken on the PL and is showing them up for what they are whilst the ‘independent’ press ignore stories that stare them in the face and the Nationalist Party wakes up from its slumber.
I’ll agree with you about the cushy job.
I worked hard to get that job in order to get the hell out of Malta once and for all and escape a dismal future working for other people on a paltry salary and being a glorified servant whose only role is helping them make money in fields I find completely uninteresting.
At least here I can pursue my own interests in relative comfort.
“I’ll agree with you about the cushy job.
I worked hard to get that job in order to get the hell out of Malta once and for all and escape a dismal future working for other people on a paltry salary and being a glorified servant whose only role is helping them make money in fields I find completely uninteresting.
At least here I can pursue my own interests in relative comfort.”
Socialist mentality at its best.
UUUUUU…tant ghandek job interessanti Brussell, li mohhok x’qed tghid Daphne fuq il-blog personali taghha.
Haha, keep contradicting yourself.
“The bottom line is that you do have too much time on your hands and most of you are cushioned by the safety of your cushy jobs in Brussels”
I can’t agree with you more.
Here you are posting comment after comment on this blog since 2008, and you have the gall to accuse others of have too much time on their hands. Very funny.
Alex Vella Gera has the gall to tell us how well he’s doing in Brussels. Oh well, people who do very well in life, usually keep a very cool head, not like Alex who seems to have become very touchy ever since he went to Brussels to do work most Belgians can’t be bothered to do these days.
“one of those THESE days…”
I’ve got a complex that mine isn’t double-barrelled. Everyone who matters seems to have one of those these days, quite astonishing. In Alex’s case, it’s probably just sheer laziness.
[Daphne – Mine isn’t double, either. But back in those days, we women were discriminated against and couldn’t choose to keep our own surname on marriage as men could.]
Daphne, logic doesn’t work for people like these.
Conclusion: people with decent salaries and good jobs should just shut the fu*k up. If they even dare to discuss stuff privately on Facebook, that’s pontificating so we’ll run off and tell Daphne about it halli tohorgilhom il-kanuni.
Imbaghad xi tikketta ‘l hawn u ‘l hemm (socjalisti, pseudo, wannabe) u nkunu gejna full circle. Naqra lanzit, ftit Gestapo u ejja ha mmorru.
[Daphne – “Discuss privately on Facebook”. A contradiction in terms. I even saw the bit where Alex Vella Gera says he would trade in his girlfriend for one night with me, and you respond by telling him to take care because the Maltese don’t understand irony, and he says he’s not being ironic. Got a touch of sunstroke, have you both? Incredible.]
” I even saw the bit where Alex Vella Gera says he would trade in his girlfriend for one night with me, and you respond by telling him to take care because the Maltese don’t understand irony, and he says he’s not being ironic.”
Oh great, mission accomplished. I was hoping you’d read that.
[Daphne – Well, your hopes are dashed, sorry. Some other time, perhaps.]
I like to steer away from ad hominem attacks. I even hugely dislike it when people use the “she/he just needs to get a life” line.
It’s an awful way of brushing away people. But why bring people’s love-lives (or false assumptions on lack of any) into the picture in the first place? One lets the genie out of the bottle once one chooses that path.
[Daphne – Love life? You mean, you lot have one?]
Miskina Daphne, x’pacenzja trid tiehu b’dan nies.
Hemm ahna, back to square one.
Haqq Muscat mar jivvinta vakanza Asti ma’ Zammit Lewis bl-ispiji ta’ Daphne jduru ma’ saqajh u jirrappurtaw lill-HQ! U ghada forsi johorgulek storja biex, ma tafx kif, jaghlqulek halqek. X’pacenzja trid tiehu b’dan-nies!
[Daphne – Mela. Imissna nivvutaw ghal tal-AD, bhalkom l-intellettwali.]
What amateurs.