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Diss iss dee Ramona Attard
Super One reporter Ramona Attard, now communications officer at the Ministry of Homeland Security, was interviewed by the BBC this morning – presumably because her boss was too busy counting 500-euro notes and packing them into shoe-boxes.
She was completely inarticulate, to the point of being incoherent, which was just as well, perhaps, because her views were those of a redneck with the IQ of a camel.
De Anglish she speek it waSSSS rilly terbill my Gott. De klundestini you know dey speek batter den she. But maypee if she prektiss she improof.
Worse than her ‘dey come in Malta’ and ‘dey stay to Malta’ is the way she keeps grinding on about her generosity in loaning somebody a mobile phone while the reporter tries to focus on the man howling in grief right by them. Lack of social sensitivity is a widespread disease in Malta, but this government and its mercenaries take it to extremes.
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This girl needs to shower more often
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How horrible. Also she looks like she hasn’t shampooed for a while.
Remember the famous conversation? That would be the “uzani kif trid” look.
Has this woman got as much as an “O” level in English?
She is the most inarticulate ministry official I have ever heard interviewed. And by the way, surely a family is reunited not reunificated. According to her, it seems our humanitarian actions are supposed to be in proportion to our GDP. God give me strength.
She needs to attend English lessons with the Hal Far immigrants.
They already speak better English than she does.
I think, unless I got the wrong Ramona, she was reading Law, but doesn’t have the tag Dr. to her name but I don’t know anything else.
May be this is why the entry requirements to the law course at the university has been lowered.
If Ramona Attard can’t even master English, imagine her trying her hand at Mandarin.
Reunification is part of their lexicon. This is the Sun Myung Moon style of government – treating people like mindless numbers.
What a mess.
This interview really boosted my self confidence to the point that I really believe that I might be your next PM one day.
Did you expect otherwise?
The cries of that man are just too much to bear. Forget coherency or eloquence in speech. The empathy in the interviewer’s voice is totally contrasted by the lack of it in Attard’s.
“They are telling us they want to go to Scandinavia. Heqq, for us, they can go to Scandinavia, because we are too small to sustain them.”
Incredible..
And she really needs to wash her hair, it’s disgusting. I wash mine on alternate days; every day if it gets too greasy. Shampoo isn’t that expensive, you know.
This is hardly surprising. Our head of state speaks English with the fluency and mellifluousness of an enraged parrot.
Yesterday in his address at the Spanish national day reception he referred to the ‘bondage that exists’ between Malta and Spain, pronounced trajectory as tray-ecktory and dulcis in fundus honoured the Spanish Ambassador by quoting from ‘Garzia Lorrca’.
Given that the Ambassador had gone to the trouble of learning to toast in Maltese, one would be forgiven for assuming our President would pronounce Garcia Lorca properly.
Ah, Spanish National Day. Hence the Spanish Princess Birthday Party at Girgenti Palasss.
Sorry, but the capitalisation’s absolutely essential here.
How many tourists visit Malta in a year?
Such a small country with such a large population.
How does Malta cope?
The same way I cope when I visit, say, Outer Mongolia. I point at a sandwich, I point at the coffee, I speak English, the shopkeeper speaks his lingo, grunts, nods, and the transaction is concluded.
The real question is how do YOU cope?
Minn tant, mal-BBC marru jaghmlu l-intervista?
Imagining her giving the slow nod, eyes wide and pursing her lips in that Maltese, pseudo-sympathetic way, while the reporter expresses her genuine grief for the man.
Shockingly unable to speak properly…
Apart from the delivery, what makes me ashamed to be Maltese is the endless whinging: we’re small, boo hoo, and nobody helps us, sob sob.
They know no better. It’s Mintoff all over again.
Good personal grooming should have no political party affiliations.
There is no excuse for bad personal hygiene in this day and age in Malta and Gozo, considering that bathroom renovations with first class imported bathroom fixtures have been going on at a steady rate since 1988.
Even with the handicap of a piddly water supply from a rooftop water tank.
“Some of them say they want to go to Scandinavian countries because they have family there. If it is for us of course we want them to go because we are a small country and cannot sustain” etc., etc., etc., ad nauseam.
She (not ‘we’ Ramona, please count me out) wants them to meet their families because Malta’s small.
Not “because we want family reunification”, but “because Malta is small”.
She is missing a tattoo on her right shoulder blade.
Ramona Attard says: ‘They have confirmed that his son is dead’. And NOT A HINT OF EMOTION.
Malta is in the hands of a bunch of sociopaths.
You mean a hint of sarcasm.
Note the “eh, hijja, mela” melodramatic tone: “This is what we have been witnessing for three days”.
Ar’hemm, hej.
Dehra ta’ mdellka u ragunar ta’ midilka.
Oh mine Goth.
No empathy in Ramona’s voice while hearing that poor man keening over his son’s death. But instead she made sure everyone knew that she let some people use her mobile phone to contact their families.
Shameful attitude.
She said ‘HEQ’….ohhhh no she said heq! If I could sum up this government with one gesture it would be *facepalm*