How very fake. And how very 1950s.
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March 8, 2014 at 9:32pm
That looks like a great tea-time spread, with empty mugs, empty bowls presumably for use while eating cup-cakes (or are they mince-pies), empty smiles, empty emotions, and an empty…well, never mind.
Labour is liberal and progressive, but there are the Man and his Wife, in the classic rigid ‘family at the table’ shot straight out of 1950s advertisements for wondrous kitchen aids – the major difference, of course, being that the adults in those advertisements were extremely good-looking.
As an aside, the crockery is awful and far too big and cluttered for the table. But let’s hope that it’s red because it’s Christmas. L-aqwa li ghandhom ‘makk’.
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Classy decor lol …. Love the tv
Malta’s Barak Obama family photo. Or the chimps’ tea-party.
Was that picture taken by a DOI photographer – just one more snapshot for Joseph’s family album?
Muscat is holding is an old Benna carton. When was this taken?
He’s making up for the time when he criticised milk producers for selling fresh milk, rather than the powdered version.
Halib tal-gvern. Ahleb Guz.
10.00pm Saturday 8 March 2014 – Times of Malta survey: After one year in office, has the Labour government lived up to its promises?
Yes 42%
No 53%
Don’t know 3%
Total number of votes: 4283
Up to a year ago, Labour used to lead all Times of Malta polls with high margins.
Not all hope is lost for the Maltese…
9.00pm Monday 10 March 2014
Yes 39%
No 57%
Don’t know 3%
Total number of votes: 8110
When do we get to the part that has the hookah smoking caterpillar?
The napkins, even those of the children, are neatly rolled in their rings. And there’s no coffee or teapot in sight.
Typical Joseph Muscat scene – it’s all a big lie.
Oh, and I hope Muscat doesn’t start bleating about his children being targeted by critics.
Oh, I thought it was an advert for Benna :)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-l1-xc3wYPlU/UQAiMGJMelI/AAAAAAAABvk/mEZK9xCuD8g/s1600/Family+Dinner+without+TV+1950s+Medium+Web+view.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cy9e8MxNa7c/UXFzjCZi5XI/AAAAAAAAAV8/Wp8aIhTB_bk/s1600/1950s.jpg
Looks like a ‘1950s’ advertisement for Benna Milk.
And why may I ask, are there mugs AND bowls, when Joseph is pouring the milk in the bowl? Are the bowls used for dunking perhaps? How very French.
The gold framed wall sockets are really classy …
Apparently the in thing in the Muscat household is pouring milk into empty bowls. Nice to see the children are provided with napkins to wipe their mouth after gulping down that milk though.
Napkins – or are those ‘serviettes’ – just there for decoration?
‘Alice in Wonderland’? The tea party?
I think this is what you meant:
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/wysiwyg/image/50s-dinner-table_picnik.jpg
https://www.shofers.com/sites/default/files/TVDINING9.png
Just an experienced observation from an experienced parent:-
The tablecloth would be soaked in tea within minutes after the children were made to sit down in oversized low chairs.
Cupcakes: there’s double the amount needed for one breakfast, not to mention the Christmas cake in the background waiting to be devoured by the fat guy pouring COLD milk, and the gingerbread men which are already served.
How can that sweet little girl handle that empty gigantic cup?
After shooting the first picture, those cupcakes surely ended on the floor.
They’re mince pies, not cupcakes. This is supposed to be a spontaneous family scene at Christmas time.
Children don’t eat mince pies. They hate them.
It’s not only 1950s, it also strikes me as utterly Amish in setting.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Smokehouse-Meat-and-Homemade-Bread-Will-Fill-Amish-Boys-Lunch-Pails-Posters_i6097141_.htm?AID=1242557768
The reason why it looks so fake is because we know that this family is other than simple living, plain dress, and reluctance to adopt many conveniences of modern technology.
http://urbanwildlandus.fatcow.com/PA/Amish%20Land%202005/amish%20family.jpg
l-aqwa li bil-gingerbread
I come back from my guilty, haunted, Saturday night wanderings and I find this. This awful SHTYE.
I cannot figure out why, but it reminds me of that Lewis Black comment about the Gay Bandidos. I’d love to see them set upon these homesteaders.
It looks like a Benna milk TV advertisement when they changed over from glass bottles to cartons.
So he likes his pint.
http://i3.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article1511985.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/sexist%20adverts-1511985
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cy9e8MxNa7c/UXFzjCZi5XI/AAAAAAAAAV8/Wp8aIhTB_bk/s1600/1950s.jpg
They are not one of the thousands of families at risk of poverty.
It does not look like a recent photo. The twins seem younger in it.
True. Why was it released now? Does Muscat feel he is losing his popularity and is he trying to win back some sympathy?
But this photo only angers people even more. It shows his family happy and serene while many families are getting more and more worried because of wrong and unjust decisions taken by him and his government.
Min jaf jekk il-foqra maħbubin ta’ Mrs.Coleiro Preca hux se jkollhom lussu ta’ kċina bħal dik?
Dawk il-makkijiet tidħol ras it-tfal fihom. Ommi ma, kemm huma injoranti.
Is Michelle holding a “gingerbredmen” in her left hand ?
No. It’s a chincherbrett Xmas tree.
A tray of 8 intact cupcakes, empty cups and bowls, no cutlery, no crumbs on the table or floor – and two very young children at table.
But who exactly do they think they are kidding?
This picture is as fake as the rabble- rousing pseudo -liberal , anti-clerical , ‘femminist’ gobble-de-gook, the Muscats have become notorious for.
Plus ca change.
Mince pies, not cupcakes. Children don’t eat them. So fake. Just like everything else about the Muscats.
Joseph Muscat said that he is delivering. Yes, he is delivering gas (Lpg), petrol, diesel, insurances, and licens fees at higher price. What he is not delivering, is medicine and jobs for the 8000 people or so that are unemployed.
The man has lost his plot…not that he ever had one.
The funniest thing about this photo is that he is our prime minister.
Here’s an exclusive video of our PM having tea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchKa8Ox3Hs
Is that Joseph Muscat’s breakfast? Cupcakes and gingerbread men? It’s no fucking wonder he’s ballooning.
Real men have oats for breakfast. For complex carbs. With a few egg whites. For muscle-building protein. And lots of coffee. For the wrath of God.
Glieda kontra l-obezità my fat wobbly arse.
Guinness always works for me, friend.
Guinness contains lots of Vitamin B.
A pint of Guinness and a bag of chips every night saw many a recruit through P Company, so it’s not all bad.
Trying to look like this:
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=david+cameron+family+breakfast
A milk jug would have been more appropriate for the occasion.
Such a tacky house. A fake Guinness ad promoting beer as a health product? Somehow, I don’t think they see the irony there. They probably think it’s tasteful and stylish, like talking about serving chincherbrett men to gay friends who happen to drop by, speaking in French.