Comments on: This is what ‘power lunches’ have come to in present-day Malta – sad, isn’t it https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1493996 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:31:07 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1493996 In reply to Esteve.

Well, if you insist:

“…ghax ha nghidlek, jinhbew hemm gol-aquarium, misshom jisthu! Jien ridt inkun biex nirriforma partit u pajjiz! Jien!”

“Joseph jibqa’ jafulek, tibzax.”

“…u mela, mammamia kemm kien haw korruzzjoni! Jien naddaft pajjiz mill-korruzzjoni! Kemm batejt! Riedu jkissru lili u lill-familja! Imbasta Nsara! Ahna lkoll ahwa! Ghand tal-grocer u il-parlament! Ilkoll ahwa!”

“Maltin hux vera. Il-pajjiz taghna lkoll, kif jghid Joseph!”

“…imbasta dawwru l-Prim Imhallef kontrija! Urejthom jien! Minn dejjem kont habrieki! Top student minn dejjem! Anke meta kont tfal kelli—-

“Tixtiequ tordnaw, sinjuri?”

“Jimporta ma tinterrompinix? Jien hallejtek titkellem issa halli lili! Mhux tinheba wara dak in-notebook!”

“Sinjur, gejt niehu l-ordni taghkom.”

“Gejt tissemma’! Ara, bin-notebook u l-biro f’idek! Tichad li ghandek biro f’idek? Ejja, wiegeb!”

“Sinjur, in-notebook biex niehu l-ordni taghkom.”

“Dak baghtitu DIK. Joseph dejjem iwissina kontriha. DIK. Issa ahna ghandna l-power, u nwaqqfuha!”

“Ejja, wiegeb, qisek cass! Qed tisma’? Baghtitek il-blokker, hux veru? Dik bin-notebook ukoll! Issa tigi ggib ritratt tieghi fil-blokk taghha! Tipprova tkissirni! Nuriha jien! Nuriha! Jien minn dejjem top student habrieki, anke mal-ghasafar inhabrek ahseb u ara mal-bnedmin! Seventijn ejti najn! Seventijn ejti najn!”

“Sinjur, tixtiequ ftit iktar hin biex tahsbuha dwar l-ordni?”

“….ejti najn! Oppressjoni anke mill-bank tal-Oppozizzjoni jaghmluha! ‘misshom jisthu! Dawn li jghidu li huma l-partit tas-sewwa! Nurihom jien! Riforma kbira hemm bzonn f’dall-pajjiz! Riforma ta’ nies onesti, li batew, top students u nies habrieka bhali! Mur ara l-haiku li ktibt! Mur ara! Kollox hemm qieghed, kollox! Fader Pijter ukoll qalli li ‘messmi sirt pojeta! Imma jien sirt avukat, ghax il-ligi nhobbha! U r-riforma iktar! Mur sib id-diskorsi tieghi fil-Parlament! Mur sibhom! Fit-tuowownajn diga’ kont qed nghajjat ghal riforma! U huma hemm, fl-aquarium! Misskom tisthu bl-aquarium! Misskom—–”

“Sinjur, l-aquarium nuzawh biex insommu l-lobster haj. Jekk tixtieq ta—–”

“—m’ghandix qalb jiena? Ghandi qalb ukoll! M’ghandix dritt insemma’ lehni? Ghidli, imma ghandi dritt jew le? Bhall-lobster fl-aquarium! Imma nurihom jien, ghax ghamilt riforma! Riforma kbira! Il-lobsters fil-Bastilja! Seventijen ejti najn, nehilsuhom kollha! Il-lobster halluh itir hieles, mela go aquarium! ‘messkom tisthu!”

“Sinjur, barra s-seafood naghmlu wkoll Franco-Italian—-”

“Issejjahli b’ismi, wkoll! Mank Dottore! Iva, jmissni mort l-Italja! U jriduni, ta’! Kelli offerti kemm irrid minn hemm!—”

“Mhux ahjar nordnaw? Joseph iridni lura fis-saghtejn”

“Sinjur, nirrakkomanda l-ispecial of the day. Roast capon.”

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1493943 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 01:08:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1493943 In reply to Maltri.

I am also into cocktails, DIY plumbing, amateur theatrics and impossible relationships.

I am a Renaissance Man. Like a fool, I actually believed that Systems of Knowledge textbook.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1493861 Sat, 11 Jan 2014 00:30:28 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1493861 In reply to Gandalf.

A cock-o-nut meeting.

]]> By: Gandalf https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1493490 Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:58:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1493490 The Fellowship of the Coconut Ring.

]]> By: rob https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1490805 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 23:02:38 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1490805 Stop making fun of these people. They are very important people with very important jobs. People of high intellect and who will bring this country forward with amazing speed.

One of them will probably become the president of Malta very soon (as his own Facebook page suggests) because after all, if Muscat can make it to PM why can’t he make it to president, as his mummy tells him.

]]> By: ciccio https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1490793 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 22:54:37 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1490793 That bird has an impressive beak.

]]> By: Maltri https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1489672 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:32:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1489672 In reply to H.P. Baxxter.

Baxxter is into military, tailoring, economy, literature, German culture and now also zoology.

Are you a monastic scholar living in the library of an Austrian monastery?

]]> By: Jozef https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1489482 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:07:19 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1489482 He was on Miriam Dalli’s TX yesterday. I was promptly ordered to keep zapping.

]]> By: Housewife https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1488942 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:35:44 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1488942 Issa daqsekk Tony Zarb was having his lunch at Busy Bee at Tal-Pieta’.

]]> By: Numerus https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/01/this-is-what-power-lunches-have-come-to-in-present-day-malta-sad-isnt-it/#comment-1488937 Thu, 09 Jan 2014 09:31:16 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=43170#comment-1488937 Maybe the coconut was instructing the cuckoo rooster what to say on Miriam Dalli’s programme in the evening.

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