Will somebody explain to Malta Today and the Police Minister what ‘give a toss’ means?
‘Give a toss’ Mallia
Malta Today has quoted Police, Army, Broadcasting and Films Minister Manuel Mallia as saying that a ship’s captain “did not give a toss” about orders received.
“The shipmaster violated international law and did not give a toss about the orders he received from a sovereign state,” Mallia said.
Well, others might not break it to them, so perhaps I should do so myself. ‘Toss’ means male masturbation. ‘I don’t give a toss’ (which can be said only by a man) means ‘I don’t give a wank’. Hence ‘he’s such a tosser’, which means ‘he’s such a wanker’.
Can Manuel Mallia really have said ‘give a toss’, or did Malta Today translate from Maltese and make that gross and embarrassing error? I am fairly sure that Raphael Vassallo knows exactly what ‘give a toss’ means.
Now read the Police Minister’s tautological reasoning, below. He speaks as though he is standing before a jury of uneducated people as he used to be when trying to persuade us that murderers and cocaine-traffickers were innocent and misguided souls: confusing the uneducated with false logic.
Asked whether Libya was a safe port for the migrants rescued at sea, Mallia said: “Libya is a safe place because the migrants had just left from Libya so they must have felt safe there because they lived in Libya.”
He added that another ship, a Turkish-owned vessel, had rescued a number of migrants on the same day and returned the migrants to Libya safely.
Pressed what guarantees he had over the migrants’ safety, Mallia said: “I do not have any reports that say that they are unsafe or that something happened to them.”
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http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/en/newsdetails/news/national/Home-Affairs-minister-press-conference-20130806
Government by c*nts.
There’s the telltale “squirrel hands” of a “ragel Malti qed jirraguna”.
Latest government appointments:
STAMP DESIGN ADVISORY BOARD
IT is notified for general information that the Minister for
the Economy, Investment and Small business has approved
in May, 2013 that the Stamp Design Advisory board be
constitued as follows:
Chairman
Dr Pascal Demajo
Members
Ms Greta Apap bologna
Mr Joseph Said
Mr Roger Strickland
Ms Martina zammit
Mr Kenneth zammit Tabona
Secretary
Ms Mary Grace Simpson
This appointment shall remain valid up to 30th April,
2015.
1st August, 2013
woohoo KZT – way to go!
Promoted from ass-licker to stamp-licker. You’ll go places, my boy.
More government appointments:
STREET NAMING COMMITTEE – MALTA
IT is notified for general information that the Minister
for Home Affairs and National Security has approved the
Street Naming Committee – Malta appointed in terms
of Subsidiary Legislation 363.10 Local Councils (Street
Naming) Regulations, to be constituted as follows:
Chairperson:
Ms Louise Soler
Membri:
Mr Edmund Rizzo
Mr Vince bone
Ms Maria Schembri
Ms Marion Mizzi
Mr Joe Hales
Ms Moira Delia
Ms Margaret baldacchino
Mr Michael balzia
Member and Secretary:
Mr David Muscat
6th August, 2013
British humour, British slang. We’ll soon rule the waves.
His choice of words must all be the fault of the Salamis, which the ginger dickhead told him we could not, under any circumstance, accept.
1. How would he know that “they lived in Libya”.
2. Does he seriously believe that if “something happened to them”, he would be notified?
What a tosser.
Mallia’s use of the expression ‘did not give a toss’ is both correct and in context, if you loosely translate it to Maltese – ‘gie jitnejjek’.
As in “I don’t give a toss about the constitution.”
Now such circular arguments are expected either from someone who does not have a clue and is most definitely stupid or someone who is extremely devious. Of course being confident that no one is going to show you up helps.
Napoleon with Squealer attributes? Ah Mr Orwell!
Yes he does remind me of Napoleon in my mind’s eye. In fact the whole circus reminds me of Animal Farm – complete with bleating sheep : ‘Joey good, Cecilia bad!’
Nicola Abela Garrett knows full well what a tosser is.
I loved this part – not saying if it’s safe or not, but his logic is absolutely appalling:
Asked whether Libya was a safe port for the migrants rescued at sea, Mallia said: “Libya is a safe place because the migrants had just left from Libya so they must have felt safe there because they lived in Libya.”
Kemm kellu obligazzjonijiet, Muscat.
Now we have had it confirmed that Pukky Demajo did indeed vote Labour, and made it known beforehand to Muscat. He can move on from licking Muscat’s derriere to licking stamps. A good promotion, but probably not quite the iced bun he had in mind.
It means dont give a f**k