Who would be a bus driver?

Published: August 18, 2012 at 1:21am




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  1. silvio says:
    August 18, 2012 at 9:15 am

    Actually I would have liked to be a bus driver (if still much younger), as long as my part-time job was that of a panel-beater (judging from the state of the new buses)

    I’m sure that panel-beaters in Malta have never had it so good.

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  2. cat says:
    August 18, 2012 at 9:49 am

    Miskin hu min irid ihabbat wiccu mal-pubbliku Malti. Dan ma jghoddx ghal bus drivers biss.

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  3. cat says:
    August 18, 2012 at 9:50 am

    The typical person who is ready to judge the others without considering his own origins and ignorance.

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  4. M. Grech says:
    August 18, 2012 at 10:22 am

    Din it-tip ta’ attitudni ggeghlek tisthi tghid li int Maltija.

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  5. GABS says:
    August 18, 2012 at 10:37 am

    Sorry ta’, dan mhux parti mil-publiku Malti, imma marmalja li ghad hawn. Marmalja bhal dan messu jirkek fuq scammel u mhux fuq l-Arriva ghax ma tixraqluhx

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  6. Spiru says:
    August 18, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    U possibbli hadd ma jwaqqfu jew jirrappurtah ? Another Labour voter for sure….

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    • anna caruana says:
      August 19, 2012 at 12:15 pm

      Marmalja = labour voter

      Your thinking is so profound it leaves me speechless.

      [Daphne – Mrs Caruana, the vast majority of socio-economic group DE votes Labour. You don’t have to think profoundly. You just have to look at the numbers. A brief lesson in logic. Marmalja member = Labour voter does not mean Labour voter = marmalja member.]

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      • Silverbug says:
        August 19, 2012 at 8:42 pm

        Ms Caruana, seta kien Nazzjonalist, x’jimporta?

        Karfa jibqa.

        Pero, qabel il-kumment lejk, Daphne ma warts li hu Lejber…ghala hassejt dik l-affinita?

  7. Ronnie says:
    August 18, 2012 at 5:34 pm

    I’m starting to think we had the bus drivers we deserved.

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  8. Randon says:
    August 19, 2012 at 9:46 am

    The issue seems to be about a young man who insists on sitting in the aisle.

    This is another good example of Maltese manhood.

    A healthy young man (with a foul mouth, of course) who cannot stand on his two feet and melts down to the floor.

    Even if I was dead tired I would still stay upright and keep my dignity in front of a bus full of people.

    Amazingly, these spoiled boy tactics by such ‘men’ are admired in this country.

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    • Not Tonight says:
      August 19, 2012 at 12:27 pm

      All our vulgarity and crassness are excused because of our Mediterranean roots and Latin blood. Someone recently said that we are knee-deep in hamalli. He was being optimistic or he’s exceptionally tall. I often feel as if I’m just managing to keep myself afloat with great effort.

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  9. Randon says:
    August 19, 2012 at 10:35 am

    Although this is a trivial incident, I think it demonstrates the malaise that has overtaken this country, especially among many of its youths.

    Some inidividuals think that they can do whatever they want and challenge basic tenets of social behaviour (sitting in the aisle creates problems for disembarking passengers) and that they can legitamately defend their unruly behaviour by using foul language or violence (see the Marsaxlokk squatters campers scuffle with a protestor).

    Public education has failed us in this regard. Perhaps adverts in the media could serve to educate people on how to behave as humans, e.g., how to keep to a queue, how not to foul the street with dog excrement, etc..

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  10. Paul Bonnici says:
    August 19, 2012 at 10:45 am

    I find this video most disturbing. This swearing man should be investigated by the police and charged with racism, breach of the peace and other offences.

    I am strongly against illegal immigration (especially from Muslim countries) but once immigrants are in Malta they should be treated with dignity, they are equal to us.

    I have been to many Arab countries and I was always treated warmly by Arabs.

    I wonder if any of your readers would pass this video to the police for investigation.

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  11. Interested Bystander says:
    August 19, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    What I love about Malta is that I can be in a foul mood, fed up with my lot, and whilst out and about be the most rude, aggressive and ill-mannered, and still I fit right in and don’t appear out of place at all.

    Still haven’t ridden a bus yet though.

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