Has Labour MEP Marlene Mizzi taken to delivering her toys at last, instead of using the car and chauffeur provided to her husband the magistrate?
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September 3, 2013 at 10:54am
Labour MEP Marlene Mizzi outside her toy shop in Merchants Street, last week.
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I do not think so. Seems to me that at the time she was carrying the toys, vehicles are not allowed in Merchant Street.
She’s in the wrong job. Someone who wears that kind of heel in Valletta – even when wearing jeans – should be in a circus.
[Daphne – Maltese women, like Middle Eastern women, wear heels everywhere, probably even to picnics.]
I did see a lady wearing high heels on the sand at Golden Bay. She was part of a group preparing for a BBQ.
They were carrying food, chairs, tables, picnic coolers, charcoal, to and fro from the parking area to their chosen spot on the sand towards the middle of the bay.
She managed to walk that distance (with heels on sand) three times before she remembered that she had tennis-shoes in her car.
That’s very true, Daphne. Every time I go to a concert in Ta’ Qali I can’t help but gape, in stupefied wonder, at all the young women trudging through the soil in their high heels and wedges.
The Maltese genetic pool is improving. However, most Maltese men and women aged 40 upwards, belong to the generations of short Maltese men and women. Hence the heels.
[Daphne – There is no rule that says you have to wear heels if you’re short. Men are short and they don’t wear heels. Spanish women, especially in the south, are minuscule, and they don’t run around all day in heels, either. The same goes for Italian women. France, too, has its fair share of tiny women, and they run about in the city in flat shoes. Parties are another matter. We’re talking about daily life here. Women just don’t wear high heels outside parties and nightclubs anywhere else in Europe – they’re considered totally unacceptable in an office and you would never see them on the street. Recently at Berlin airport I saw women staggering and clumping about in three separate groups, wearing ridiculously high heels. Even from a great distance and without hearing them speak, I knew beyond doubt that they were Maltese. And what do you know, they were. They were the only women in the entire airport who had put on five-inch heels to travel. Instead of looking glamorous, as they hoped, they looked totally naff and all wrong.]
Also in Malta it used to be relatively easy to find parking and we are not used to walking long distances.
I have been reading comments on Facebook however, by women in my age bracket (40 +) that they are abandoning their heels in favour of more sensible footwear for health reasons.
[Daphne – They should also abandon for reasons of appearance. Short women in very high heels do not look like tall women. They look like short women in very high heels. The proportions, unless their shoes are completely concealed by a particular style of trouser-leg, are all wrong. Worse, very high heels actually draw attention to the very thing a woman is trying to conceal – lack of height. People immediately notice the height of the heel and automatically deduct five inches from the woman’s height, almost without thinking, whereas if you wear a normal heel or flattish shoes, this doesn’t happen. Also, it is perfectly acceptable for women to be small – many people actually consider it desirable – and it is not as though we inhabit a land of Viking-sized men, so why the hassle.]
STAGGERING.
Behold our wonderful wordsmith! I make no excuses for being fulsome because your words, Daphne, are magnificent laser beams of pinpoint thought-word Wittgensteinian whatever it is.
[Daphne – Indeed. It’s full of mistakes, but I can’t be arsed to correct them. I suppose the point was made.]
As someone who barely reaches the 5ft mark, I find it a lot more stylish to accept my height (or lack thereof) and try to work on posture. Much better than stumbling around in the shape of a question mark because my heels are a menace.
How much does she lift? I mean, look at that upper back.
As Jack Aubrey said, she’s still vulnerable at the stern, like the rest of us.
I opened the page to take a peek at Marlene’s toys, not quite expecting the Early Learning Centre bag.
That is when I paused, breathed out and decided to thank God for small mercies.
L-eta hemm qeghda u bdiet tidher.
Does she play bingo? She’s got some impressive bingo-wings there.
It seems that the food in Brussels is having its effect.
Ir-ragel taghha mhux magistrate issa ghax tal-Labour ghamluh imhallef.
Her gaunt posture clearly shows that she is past it.
[Daphne – She is anything but gaunt. She is overweight. Gaunt is not a reference to posture. And if you are going to insult women with being past it, do the same with the many old men who are running the country. It’s not only women who are past it, you know. Sixty-year-old men are about as attractive to women as sixty-year-old women are attractive to men. That’s worth bearing in mind.]