Comments on: The trashification of Malta under Labour: the latest is the Gieh ir-Repubblika for a child singer https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Carmel Pule' https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1413831 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 00:08:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1413831 In reply to john mifsud.

Mkittef is to have something reduced in size by taking off repetitively small lumps of it. This is analogous to tnittef where solitary feathers are taken off a chicken to bring it to a bare size.

]]> By: David https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1400108 Thu, 05 Dec 2013 06:46:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1400108 In reply to David.

I agree. It should be a surgeon or a scientist or anyone who really contributed society. Just saying that the nationalists made the same farces before. Doesn’t make this one right by any stretch.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1399114 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:22:55 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1399114 In reply to Rumplestiltskin.

Viktor Yanukovych, President of the Ukraine. He will be visiting next week. Perfect timing with the award of the Gieh ir-Repubblika.

Justification: for ignoring the plea of the Ukrainian people who want to join the EU. “Ghax il-partnership l-ahjar ghazla.”

]]> By: john mifsud https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1398810 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:49:23 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1398810 In reply to anon.

Daphne, what is ‘imkittef’ please? No such word in my maltese dictionary.

[Daphne – As in dublett mkittef, a skirt which is obscenely small.]

]]> By: David https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1398695 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:50:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1398695 Didn’t PN do the same thine by giving it to Ira Losco in 2008? As well as dancer Tanya Bayona in the same year? Also, Enzo Guzman got it in 2011.

All I want know is what’s the difference between Gaia getting hers and the ones I mentioned above? As far as I can see there isn’t.

[Daphne – Maybe the fact that she’s 11 and so too young for a lifetime achievement award? But frankly, none of them should have got it. It just doesn’t fit the situation. Why a singer or dancer and not a surgeon?]

]]> By: Kukkurin https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1398266 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 01:42:53 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1398266 F’gieh ir-Repubblika ! I am afraid this charade will only serve to further devalue the Gieh ir-Repubblika. With all due respect to this little girl’s achievement, let’s please put things in their proper context.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1397676 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:01:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1397676 In reply to Yousaf.

Mela ha nkun “jealous” u nghid kelmtejn fuq Joseph Calleja.

Calleja huwa hemm fuq fost l-aqwa. Imma FOST, mhux l-uniku. Xi cuc, anzi hafna cwiec, isejhulu the next Pavarotti. Mhux se jkun hemm the next Pavarotti u lanqas the next Maria Callas u lanqas the next Coco Chanel u lanqas the next Jackie O, ghax dak iz-zmien spicca. Illum hadd mhu uniku. Lanqas Joseph Calleja.

Dak point The First.

Point The Second huwa li Joseph Calleja kien famuz u brillanti u bravu u mimli talent gotbless ferm qabel ma gie nnutat mill-Maltin. Imbaghad kanta darba f’Malta u sar superstar. Mas-superstardom beda l-laghqizmu. Anzi il-mutual laghqizmu. Il-Maltin – Norman Hamilton, Peppi Azzopardi, il-Prim Ministru, via Alec Lapira – jadurawh, u Joseph Calleja jilghaq lura. Kollox ostensibly, naturalment, ghax ma nimmaginax x’jista’ jahseb fuq il-marmalja tal-Astra u l-Aurora ragel li kien on very intimate terms ma’ nisa bhal Anna Netrebko.

Imma pprovda steady supply ta’ Bel Canto stil Sicily, 1900, lill-“poplu Malti”, ergo huwa mahbub.

Kieku Joseph Calleja kien l-iktar countertenor, jew harpsichordist, jew baroque haute-contre celebri tas-seklu, lanqas kuncert imgiddem ma kien jaghmel Malta, u kien ikun skonoxxut totali f’pajjizu.

Bhal dak li qallu, talk about being at the right place at the right time, with the right repertoire.

Over and out.

]]> By: Damocles https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1397675 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:01:14 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1397675 Ugigh ir-Repubblika

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1397662 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:52:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1397662 In reply to il-Ginger.

Jeez. Don’t get me started. I’ve had it up to here with the “jealousy” thing in this blimmin’ country. Criticise anything and you’re jealous. Apparently we are meant to go through life liking everything and everyone, and praising everything and everyone. And “providing solutions, not pointing out problems”.

]]> By: Roger Cosman https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2013/12/the-trashification-of-malta-under-labour-the-latest-is-the-gieh-ir-repubblika-for-a-child-singer/#comment-1397636 Tue, 03 Dec 2013 17:32:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=42176#comment-1397636 Decizjoni Populista ghal-ahhar immirata biss lejn il-Gahan Malti u ta’ tahtu. F’hiex kellu jigi pajjizna.

Biex naghmluha cara certi Nazzjonalisti ma kienux fjur, kellhom il-hazin taghhok wkoll, imma din il-pateticita’ ma rajniha qatt. Vera kaz ta’ naqlalek ghajnek u tifrah.

Haga wahda jiddispjacini li din il-povra tifla kellha tidhol f’din il-kontroversja ghal xejn. Issa li kieku ta scholarship u ghalaq halqu ma kienx ikun ahjar. Din it-tifla ghajnuna finanzjarja ghandha bzonn ha tmur il-quddiem u mela Gieh ir-Repubblika.

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