A brief break from The North Face
The prime minister went to Gozo yesterday to inaugurate a crib in Ghajnsielem (remember what the gay lobby, the liberal and progressive switchers and Muscat himself used to say when any Nationalist politician did things like that?) and gave us a brief break from The North Face outfits sponsored by his friend the ex SMU policeman.
Instead he wore what somebody must have told him are appropriate Saturday clothes for a man of 40: something that looks like a sports jacket, a shirt, and jeans that have clearly had at least a foot lopped off the legs, which changes the drop, and have been hemmed by a seamstress stiffly near the ankle.
This is a really difficult outfit for a man to carry off: if you’re overweight then you’ve got to be tall and long-limbed, and if you’re short, you’ve got to be lean and well-proportioned. Jeans worn for anything other than DYI or gardening are a really bad idea for men that shape. The width to length ratio is all wrong. Also, there’s a reason why jeans on any man over 40 are known disparagingly as ‘dad jeans’ – jeans worn with careless indifference by rangy 20-year-olds are not quite the same thing when pressed and worn by middle-aged dads in much the same way they would wear a pair of smart trousers.
As for the crib, best ask somebody else. It’s not really my field.
Perhaps H. P. Baxxter will break off from his Sunday chores and appraise the prime minister’s new sartorial choices. At least the jeans were blue denim, not orange.
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Sabu l-ghageb tal-presepju.
The Malta Independent story on the Lampedusa tragedy is massive for real, and makes very harrowing reading. If true, it shames Malta beyond any hope of redemption.
[Daphne – It shames the government, and the government shames us because we chose it. I say ‘we’ because it was a democratic decision, though a catastrophic one. The fact that I played no part in it personally gives me no pleasure because we must all contend with the consequences. The blood of those people is not only on the hands of our government, but also on our hands for choosing that government. We vote, and people die.]
I have always held that a man should never wear jeans unless he’s applying for a job on Brokeback Mountain, with all the attendant consequences. Our PM has gone the whole nine yards, topping it off with a jacket the colour of a duster coat, with a contrast collar.
I just don’t know. For a visit to Ghajnsielem, deep in the rural idyll of the Gozitan Highlands, I would have worn tweeds, with a hacking jacket.
I would have carried my hip flask (inherited from my poor grandfather, who had it as a gift from some Spitfire pilot, no doubt – it’s engraved with a Map of Aerodromes on Malta – unless it was a cunningly-disguised piece of Fascist spy kit. But I digress again.).
I’d have filled it with 18-year old Lagavulin, absinthe at a pinch, and taken frequent sips to stave off the insanity of yet another Christmas with yet another life-size presepju peopled by Tom Selleck lookalikes who refer to our Christian god as “Allah”.
The wits who keep kidnapping Baby Jesus are only doing it to save him from this madness. Good job, chaps.
In-Nazzjonalisti qeghdin jisirqu il-bambini tal-Milied sabiex ifixklu il-hidma tal-gvern Laburista.
Mela ejjew nibdew skema ta’ xiri ta’ bambini godda, izda din id-darba ejjew ma naghglux, l-ahwa.
Alternative headline: the Prime Minister admits he’s digging himself a hole.
http://maltastar.com/dart/20131215-pm-people-will-not-accept-politicians-who-harm-malta-image
The owner of the shop which sells The North Face here in Malta must have small-penis syndrome. He drives an XXXL SUV so people can see him with it.
I was at Klikk the computer shop recently and saw the two kids coming out of the shop to help him park that car.
What a joke.
Yesterday at about noon, near the Kappara roundabout with normal traffic flow, an unmarked police car with sirens blaring and occupants waving their arms wildly for the bewildered motorists to make way for His Royal Highness Prince Muscat in his Alfa. Hilarious.
Give a peasant an Alfa and you will invariably get the same result every time – insufferable self-aggrandisement.
I would like to be still around when somebody proposes a maquette for his monument.
I can’t think of a single outfit our Generalissimo would be able to carry off. He can have a horde of Savile Row tailors brought over, and he’d still look, as we say in this part of the island, “maghmul addocc”.
He has all the horrible qualities of the Maltese male physique. Too short, too fat, too round-faced, no neck, appalling limb-to-torso proportion, slouched back, arms that reach down to the knees.
The Supreme Generalissimo should be able to carry off a suit like this (the dark one on the right) very well.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2012/12/10/1355150894210/Kim-Jong-un-and-wife-Ri-S-010.jpg
He has the constitution of a butch lesbian. It’s no wonder he pretends to pander to the gaystapo; he probably realises he is more likely to be accepted as a lesbian than he is as a heterosexual man.
The twins were present as well, wearing knee boots, and black leather jackets. Does their mother know that they are 5 years old?
Besides being shown about like dolls, dressed as Lolitas, this time it’s like they are out after a meeting from the Malta dry docks.
Even If I did not find Joseph Muscat’s attire appropriate I will not comment because it is not my field so I will surely be off the mark.
But what I can say for sure (because I was there) is that he kept all the gathering waiting for him. The crib was supposed to be opened at 4:30pm. Jose Herrera arrived at 4:15 followed by Bishop Grech. The prime minister arrived at around 5:10 leaving those present to guess as to why the ceremony did not start when everything was in place.
Every now and again the band played Christmas tunes to kill time and make the waiting less tedious. Then when the prime minister finally arrived surrounded by an entourage of arrogant security men, we were left waiting again while he took a private tour first.
We were able to visit the grotto finally at 6:45pm, more than two hours after we arrived on time. He managed to change a social activity into a political one. I was there. Next time I will not go at all.
How typically arrogant of him.
I was there too amongst other hundreds of people and all you just said is a pack of lies or in your dreams..Next time stay at home and sod!
Karma will get him one day. Arrogant, inept, fat, ugly, unrespected. Need I go on? It seems karma has already got him by virtue of his hideous traits.
Talking of an entourage of arrogant security men, they were the same group when Muscat took his daughter yesterday morning to Melita football ground.
Totally out of place and to top it all, he spent the entire hour he was there playing around with his phone. Not the slightest interest in the football training session or even his own daughter.
Standing on the podium again. Shorty.
A farmers’ Sunday outfit would have done more justice to the short stature.
And meanwhile, the elves have rolled out the massive platform for their leader Muscat once more.
To ALL these negative people, I say, against all odds and spokes in wheels, the government of the day succeeded to make the event happen for the benefit of all sane people. NOT LIKE YOU. No wonder you were trashed by 36k , keep going, thank you.
Oh fucking wow. The PM cut the ribbon on a Christmas fantasy role-play activity. Oh joy! Things are happening! It’s on! We are writing history! The liberty bell has split asunder!
36,000 or 36 million yobs clad in shell suits won’t make an iota of difference to a gentleman’s attire. Because they’re still wrong.
Int bis-serjeta’?
Hasn’t the same event been happening for the last few years? This isn’t the first time, right?
Dan vera tapp biex ghal erba’ minn nies tellghuh fuq platform biex jkunu jistghu jarawh
He ripped off Glen Campbell’s clothes, circa 1968.
Umberto dearest. The change didn’t happen overnight. It took 25 years to reach where you shouldn’t be.
Joseph Muscat should perhaps read this: http://www.realmenrealstyle.com/sports-jacket-with-jeans/
He got it ALL wrong.