And this was before the Barrakka lift and the Renzo Piano project
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March 5, 2013 at 2:27pm
Then you get individuals like Kenneth Zammit Tabona saying they are going to vote Labour because a couple of promises are worth more than solid reality.
They go on Super One television making utter asses of themselves because they claim to have been bowled over by a couple of paragraphs (which they have probably written themselves) in Labour’s electoral programme.
So Mr Zammit Tabona is going to vote for a top to be put on the theatre while the bottoms drops out of the economy. Perfect. As the saying goes, there’s nowt so queer as folk.
And no, that’s not an insult but a standard idiomatic expression.
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U issa qed nisimghu b’dawn l-attakki! Omm imwegga li tista titlef ghajn, daghha fahxi li qas l-infern m’hemm bhalu, kliem oxxen mal-hajt, effigies ta’ Gonzi mghallqin u issa billboards mahruqin.
Nammira lil Joseph Muscat li jibqa’ jghid li kampanja posittiva! MALTA TAGHNA LKOLL! Diga’ qed ikusruha, ahseb u ara x’ha jaghmlulha l-ekonomija.
http://www.maltarightnow.com/?module=news&at=Vandali%26%23380%3Bmu+kontra+l-PN+fuq+billboard+is-Saqqajja+u+%26%23295%3Bajt+l-Imdina&t=a&aid=99845326&cid=19
Aye Lass, yon Bugger’s a few butties short of a picnic all reet.
Hilarious when every self-appointed aesthete wrote scathing comments denouncing the cantilevered frame structure as a ‘monstrosity’ and how dare Piano inflict Valletta with such uncouth brutality. ‘Marsa shipbuilding cranes’ they cried.
They hadn’t even seen the models, and if they did, remained ignorant of the sculpted facades.
Says everything about their capacity to conceive ideas visuallyand read geometry. Let alone conceptualise spoken word.
Piano’s parliament is as baroque as it can get. Criticism overseas is in fact, the overindulgent language, too playful.
Perhaps they could meet the place and its people, as he did.
Kenneth Zammit Tabona’s main problem is that he has discovered he is now too old to be young and gay.
The opportunities he had in the past were lost because he couldn’t admit to what was obvious to everyone else. He was the only one who thought he was in the closet.
Now he is trying to make up for lost time, and making a fool of himself in the process. Time waits for no man and what is gone is gone.
He can’t even do something simple and straightforward like voting without making an attention-seeking spectacle of himself in the process.
Manum, you couldn’t have said it better. It also applies to all those midlife crisis buffoons who have been making a spectacle of themselves everywhere.
They should print this, stick it to the fridge and read it about three or four times a day.
Perfectly agree with you. Kenneth Zammit Tabona is not attracted by the MLP’s manifesto or policies but by Joseph Muscat himself.
Joseph’s teddy bear persona attracts many gay men, unlike the well-defined looks of men like Jason Micallef. Now join the dots.
Joseph is after the students and new voters BECAUSE THEY CANNOT RECALL WHAT MALTA LIVED THROUGH DURING THE LABOUR DICTATORIAL GOVERMENT.
Since he cannot fool those who are 50/60 year olds that is his only path.
Shame on those parents who have not taught their children how to think. It’s not something you learn at school.
It would seem to me that Kenneth Zammit Tabona has never been to any of the places featured in the video. If so, then he really should get out more. If not, then he has a very short memory.
If anyone has supported and developed culture, heritage and the arts, it has been successive Nationalist governments.
So much money has been put into the arts, so much has been restored, and Valletta is simply a different place to what is used to be a decade ago.
Then again, Malta is an entirely different country to what it was two decades ago too.
It is not only that Labour did not support our national culture, but it elevated the lowest of our hamallagni to the status of ‘culture’, thus thoroughly embarrassing us all.
It is now set to do the same again, and has begun already with that play by its man Albert Marshall, L-Indemonjati, which was performed at the national theatre a couple of weeks ago – an exercise in typical crassness and vulgarity.
Shots from this video and other similar success stories should be littering the streets not this silly “blokka silg – promise” billboard
Not much point in offering bistecca Fiorentina to a culture that considers hamburgers to be great eating.
Incidentally, Joseph Muscat, by his own declaration and by his behaviour in general, puts himself firmly in that group.
As the saying goes, there’s nowt so queer as folk.
And no, that’s not an insult but a standard idiomatic expression.
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really?
[Daphne – Yes. Queer and gay both have real meanings that have nothing to do with sexuality.]
And Rome burned why Nero fiddled.
The tag line for Labour.
Valletta is a jewel. I have always loved it.
I too was sceptical about the open air theatre at the entrance to Valletta until I happened to go in on a cold night at about one o’clock in the morning on new year’s day.
The place was packed. There was music going on, people singing and dancing and others sitting enjoying the spectacle. Everyone was wearing thick jackets or overcoats because it was so cold but everyone seemed to be having a good time.
A real theatre for everybody. Anyone can put up a performance and anyone can drop in.
That was my thought. It was also Renzo Piano’s. I clearly remember him saying that he doesn’t want a gate to Valletta because he wants it to be open and welcoming to everybody. If there’s something good going on, people will come, regardless of the weather.
Many people think of theatres as stuffy places full of Kenneth Zammit Tabonas. This is something different. Yes, there’s the chance of rain. Brave performers might carry on. Others might not. It’s not the end of the world. Open air performances are performed everywhere and acoustics for such performances are very good these days.
For those who prefer more traditional theatres, there are others around Valletta, and it’s not like they always pull full capacity crowds. There’s always space.
The bottom line about the Renzo Piano project is this. It would have been unnecessary had Mintoff and his Labour scum not taken such disastrous decisions.
I’ll remind you of just one instance:
Labour pulled down the rather elegant City Gate so that carnival floats could pass through. They built a communist like monstrosity instead.
I’ll leave the rest up to Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith:
“The British government had sent out two architects, Messrs Harrison and Hubbard, who were charged with the task of supervising reconstruction. They soon left the island and handed over the building projects to their assistant, Dom. It is largely Harrison and Hubbard’s and Dom’s fault that so much of what could have been saved, was not, and so much that was modern and ugly and ill-suited to Malta was built. Malta still has some priceless architectural heritage, but much was lost thanks to the vandalism of these three. It is a tragedy that the destroyed buildings – such as the Auberges de France and Auvergne, and Barry’s Opera House – were not rebuilt, as they could easily have been. Another tragedy is represented by the various government housing schemes built by the pair and Dom: Malta had and still has some lovely domestic architecture, but Dom pioneered the modern and hugely inferior.
If I were to give one reason for my dislike of Dom Mintoff, it would be this: his part in the catastrophic destruction of the Maltese environment, which, even if it had been planned, could not have been more triumphantly successful”
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2012/08/22/dom-mintoff-a-dominant-figure-in-malta-for-30-years-did-great-harm-to-his-country/
Someone should inform Renzo Piano that it should be enough if he sends the signed documents by post.
The big story tonight is that there was a fire lasting a few minutes in the engine of a public transport bus.
Big deal. We have been reduced to a nation of spoilt brats after 25 years of glorious PN government.
Unfortunately the spoilt brats are, in the majority, also peasants who cannot even see the transformation the country has undergone.
Dalle stalle alle stelle.
Biskuttini f’halq il-hmir.
When will the Labour Party restore the gutted Australia Hall in Pembroke?
M’ghamlu xejn in-Nazzjonalisti. Fantastic video.