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		By: Conservative		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conservative]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 19:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In reply to &lt;a href=&quot;https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/why-dont-maltese-people-understand-that-posture-gives-as-much-away-about-you-as-your-table-manners-do/#comment-1327250&quot;&gt;Conservative&lt;/a&gt;.

Thank you for the hot tip - to be entirely honest I use my trouser press to press ties.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In reply to <a href="https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/10/why-dont-maltese-people-understand-that-posture-gives-as-much-away-about-you-as-your-table-manners-do/#comment-1327250">Conservative</a>.</p>
<p>Thank you for the hot tip &#8211; to be entirely honest I use my trouser press to press ties.</p>
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		By: rupert		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[rupert]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 17:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine William Hague with his hands in his pockets at an official event?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Can you imagine William Hague with his hands in his pockets at an official event?</p>
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		By: Tabatha White		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tabatha White]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 11:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[William Hague.  What a voice.  

And who do the Labour under-breds send? The best example their sort comprehend. I am disgusted.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>William Hague.  What a voice.  </p>
<p>And who do the Labour under-breds send? The best example their sort comprehend. I am disgusted.</p>
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		By: M. Cassar		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[M. Cassar]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[With a stomach like that one needs to counterbalance. It must be difficult, for some of the newly anointed, to count calories, when running around the globe indulging themselves like mad.

For us, stuffing their face might cause less damage then if they were to vocalize their thoughts and mantras.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>With a stomach like that one needs to counterbalance. It must be difficult, for some of the newly anointed, to count calories, when running around the globe indulging themselves like mad.</p>
<p>For us, stuffing their face might cause less damage then if they were to vocalize their thoughts and mantras.</p>
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		By: Conservative		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Conservative]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 10:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[George Vella represents the absolute majority, with a handful of exceptions, of Maltese doctors, lawyers, notaries, accountants and consultants, which includes all the professional class, really.

They believe that wearing matching trousers and coat, a shirt and tie, and a &quot;formal&quot; pair of shoes, means that you are suited and booted and qualify to be in &quot;lounge suit&quot;.  

Hardly ever are their trousers properly pressed with a knife edge starched crease down the front and back.  Their shirt collar wings are all over the place and they haven&#039;t heard of brass stiffeners (not mentioning silver ones).  They don&#039;t wear double cuffs that are starched and look ever so smart and they never, ever iron their tie (you iron the back, not the front, otherwise you end up looking like our new police commissioner with shiny ties).

&lt;strong&gt;[Daphne - Hot tip: you&#039;re better off ironing ties front and back, but place a cotton square (like a large handkerchief) between the iron and the tie. That way, you don&#039;t damage the silk, which is what gives that shine.]&lt;/strong&gt;

Shoes are rarely if ever polished and their suit-coats - dear God.  They never iron the sleeves of their suit-coats. They either go about with the coats unbuttoned and flying in the wind or they button up all two or three coat-buttons.  

And they never undo the first sleeve-button to indicate a tailored coat (because in the absolute majority of cases they wear cheap, ready-made suit-coats that are pre-manufactured).

It is wrong to go about with your suit-coat open, unless you are sitting down, Foreign Minister, and it&#039;s the height of rudeness and ill-breeding to talk to ANYONE with your hands in your pockets. 

What impresses me most is how they never seem able to watch and learn. They are impervious to how other people dress, stand, sit, talk and behave, and just consider it &#039;different&#039; rather than better.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>George Vella represents the absolute majority, with a handful of exceptions, of Maltese doctors, lawyers, notaries, accountants and consultants, which includes all the professional class, really.</p>
<p>They believe that wearing matching trousers and coat, a shirt and tie, and a &#8220;formal&#8221; pair of shoes, means that you are suited and booted and qualify to be in &#8220;lounge suit&#8221;.  </p>
<p>Hardly ever are their trousers properly pressed with a knife edge starched crease down the front and back.  Their shirt collar wings are all over the place and they haven&#8217;t heard of brass stiffeners (not mentioning silver ones).  They don&#8217;t wear double cuffs that are starched and look ever so smart and they never, ever iron their tie (you iron the back, not the front, otherwise you end up looking like our new police commissioner with shiny ties).</p>
<p><strong>[Daphne &#8211; Hot tip: you&#8217;re better off ironing ties front and back, but place a cotton square (like a large handkerchief) between the iron and the tie. That way, you don&#8217;t damage the silk, which is what gives that shine.]</strong></p>
<p>Shoes are rarely if ever polished and their suit-coats &#8211; dear God.  They never iron the sleeves of their suit-coats. They either go about with the coats unbuttoned and flying in the wind or they button up all two or three coat-buttons.  </p>
<p>And they never undo the first sleeve-button to indicate a tailored coat (because in the absolute majority of cases they wear cheap, ready-made suit-coats that are pre-manufactured).</p>
<p>It is wrong to go about with your suit-coat open, unless you are sitting down, Foreign Minister, and it&#8217;s the height of rudeness and ill-breeding to talk to ANYONE with your hands in your pockets. </p>
<p>What impresses me most is how they never seem able to watch and learn. They are impervious to how other people dress, stand, sit, talk and behave, and just consider it &#8216;different&#8217; rather than better.</p>
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		By: Giraffa		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Giraffa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Oct 2013 00:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You can almost read William Hague&#039;s mind &quot;who the f**k is this peasant?&quot;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can almost read William Hague&#8217;s mind &#8220;who the f**k is this peasant?&#8221;</p>
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		By: bingo		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[bingo]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 23:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He needs to join Joseph Muscat in the gym.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He needs to join Joseph Muscat in the gym.</p>
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		By: Peritocracy		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peritocracy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He&#039;d be perfectly at home at a &#039;kazin tal-bocci&#039; with that stance.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He&#8217;d be perfectly at home at a &#8216;kazin tal-bocci&#8217; with that stance.</p>
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		By: anon		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[anon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[He looks like Alfred Hitchcock but on a really bad day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He looks like Alfred Hitchcock but on a really bad day.</p>
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		By: Min Jaf		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Min Jaf]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kemm tqawwa, madoff. Dalwaqt jkun jista jhabbata sewwa ma&#039; Manuel Mallia. Ghandna zewg politikil heviwejts tal-istja. Europa cavete. Obesitas vincit.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kemm tqawwa, madoff. Dalwaqt jkun jista jhabbata sewwa ma&#8217; Manuel Mallia. Ghandna zewg politikil heviwejts tal-istja. Europa cavete. Obesitas vincit.</p>
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