So…do these people wash themselves, have breakfast and use the ‘threadmill’ only on Mondays, then?
Here’s the prime minister’s in-house consultant to the pro-Gaddafi Libyan community (forget calling it the ‘Muslim community’ as he does), on Facebook:
Mario Farrugia-Borg
Kafe’, threadmill, shower, u lesti ghal gimgha ta’ hidma. Bring it on! Il-gimgha t-tajba hbieb…
And here’s the Transport Minister, who also starts his week with a run in his house, a bit of a wash, and breakfast, telling us all about it on Facebook this morning:
Joe Mizzi
Treadmill papers bath toast coffee and we start off a new week . Looks wonderful this morning.
How positive they are. The boss will be proud. But I’d prefer it if they took a shower on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays too. And breakfast just once in the working week is not a great idea.
As for the ‘threadmill’ – pathetic. Get out of the house and go for a run or a walk.
Oh, and here’s Natius Farrugia, Labour mayor of Zurrieq, who makes his living by stripping the body hair off people, keeping us posted last night:
Natius Farrugia
Toest….. tazza gamumilla u raqda tajba……. l lejl it tajjeb.
Who ARE these people? What a bunch of freaks. Why on earth would a grown man, or woman for that matter, feel a pressing and uncontrollable urge to communicate on Facebook the fact that he has eaten a bit of toast, drunk some coffee (or ‘gamumilla’) and taken a shower?
The minds of children…and one of them is in charge of the Transport Ministry.
Malta – the place where people don’t grow up.
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Cassius Clay turned Muslim and changed his name to Muhammed Ali. Why doesn’t Mario Farrugia Borg do likewise. He would be more credible.
No need to be a draft dodger in Malta.
No wonder this government stinks.
This government sucks also, but they don’t give any hint of it on Facebook.
This government is like a bad joke and it seems to be getting worse. I would rather hear of their work achievements instead of their morning habits – God, it gives me the creeps.
I don’t blame them. They probably got used to the habit of taking a weekly shower back in the Mintoffian Golden Years, when water was available only once a week and there were cuts or low pressure in the rest of the week.
I always considered Facebook as a place where people imagine that they are believed in what they try to feed in.
I appreciate Facebook for the sole reason that can I trace back all my old friends most of whom were lost due to the course of time.
But your breakfast isn’t news to anyone. I love my privacy and I dislike other people’s exposed private life as well.
They haven’t discovered corn flakes and yoghurt yet. Ghadhom bit-toast.
“toest”, according to Natius.
That’s right, Mandy. Straight out of The Two Ronnies – The Sheikh In The Grocery Store.
Loneliness, the need to be popular; basic human fears.
[Daphne – Rubbish. Normal people grow out of teenage emotional imperatives by the age of 20, if not sooner. Everybody feels lonely and fearful at times. It’s how we deal with it that counts.]
Joe Mizzi
Treadmill papers bath toast coffee and we start off a new week…..Nilbes il boilersuit u nara fejn se nhaffer ghaz zejt
I recommend Joe Mizzi as ministry of transport to go out more and use the street – but be aware of those potholes.
Look on the bright side, Daph – at least they’re not keeping us updated with their bowel movements too.
@ Mandy – don’t give them any ideas…please.
Gamumilla – haha brilliant, you’ve made my day
An entire ruling class affected by Peter Pan Syndrome.
Ghati kbir Alla id-dehen lil min jahkimha. (Dun Karm)
Does anybody REALLY need the mental imagery of Joe Mizzi in his bath? Even among his FB buddies.
Here’s a little known fact about one of the flaws in the whole “think positive” philosophy.
Essentially, the theory goes that if one is more positive then more positive things happen to you and you are more successful. Ergo, negative people are less successful in life. Which means that if you are not successful, it’s all your fault.
Not only is this an extremely stupid way of looking at success, and of course a fascist way of looking at those who try but haven’t succeeded yet. It is also asking people to do something that is scientifically impossible.
As many studies at Harvard University have found, mood is something you are born with. People like Harvard’s Dan Gilbert will say that it is largely a personality trait that remains the same throughout life, and social scientists like Lykken and Tellegen say that trying to be happier is as useless as trying to be taller.
So, if positive thinking makes you more successful, but optimism is something you are genetically predisposed towards, is your future success, or lack thereof, written in your DNA? No.
There are plenty of successful people who are not that cheery. Take Stephen Fry, a man who suffers from depression. Or Simon Cowell, the world’s biggest misanthrope.
The list is endless.
The only thing these Facebook statuses show me are a bunch of people desperate not to look “negative”, forcing painful smiles motivated by fear rather than happiness, lest they get kicked out of the group for ruining its success.
It’s a form of torture, and it will take its toll on their mental health.
It used to be the three Ses in my time – sh*t, shave and shower. But hey, times have moved on. Isa hey, bit ‘tredmil’ issa.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/03/natius-farrugia-pinching-his-nipples-and-spanking-himself-in-publican-eyewitness-account/
Xawer, xejf, poricc, trafiku, xol, kafé u blokk ta’ Defni. lesti al gimha hidma yay!
“Why on earth would a grown man, or woman for that matter, feel a pressing and uncontrollable urge to communicate on Facebook the fact that he has eaten a bit of toast, drunk some coffee (or ‘gamumilla’) and taken a shower?”
I think that Facebook is something new and shiny to them, and also perhaps a tad unsettling. They’ve been forced to use it, or else, but they have nothing really worthwhile to say.
So they spout inanities and feel happy that other people, who are themselves dazzled by Facebook, cheer them on with comments that are even more inane.
It’s the proliferation of the iPad or some such. Permanently online, they are addicted to it.
No wonder they are full of crap – none of them seem to have gone to the lavatory this morning.
OMG to Natius’ spelling, grammar and syntax.
What is “toest”? Does he use the by-products of all those pedicures at Natius Ola to make it?
Naghlef it-tigieg, nigbor il-bajd (tat-tigieg), narma il-baghal, nitfi l-lampa tal-pitrolju, inbattal imsarni, hasla wicci bl-ilma tal-bir fil-bitha bis-sapuna tac-cavetta waqt li ssir il-froga, belgha te bil-halib tan-naghga bil-ftiet fl-iskutella, nimsah halqi mal-komma, tifwieqa tajba u nerhilha ghal-ghalqa!
La kullhadd irid jikxef sormu.
Ghax ma jghidulniex fi x’hin jiehdu ‘quicky’ wkoll?
How shall I put it? Muslims are supposed to say their morning prayers at sunrise kneeling while facing Mecca. A good Imam/Muslim should lead by example and state that he says his morning prayers at home.
So Imam Mario’s FB statement to the whole world should have read like this “Sallejt lil Allah ma tlugh ix-xemx, kafe’, threadmill, shower, u lesti ghal gimgha ta’ hidma..”