Who would have thought that liberty of spirit is greater in ex Soviet bloc Poland than it is in long-free Malta?

Published: June 13, 2014 at 5:26pm

Lenin urinating

The Poles have put up a fluorescent statue of Lenin doing a take on the Mannekin Pis.

What would happen if I were to apply to the Malta Environment and Planning Authority for something similar featuring that rancid, dead poison dwarf, Dom Mintoff?

Maybe I could have one in the garden pond – the only thing that would stop me is that I can’t stand ugliness and clumsy aesthetics of any kind.




18 Comments Comment

  1. Bill Millam says:

    Daphne, If you do get that statue of the dead Socialist dictator Mintoff, let me know and I would be only to pleased to be one of the first to piss on him. Nirrah jinharaq fejn hu qieghed.

    Bill Millam
    Los Angeles

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      You’ll have to stand at the back of the queue. Drink your fluids towards the end or you might not make it to the statue.

      I shall now sit back and watch the tut-tutting comments pouring in. You go first, Martin Scicluna.

    • observer says:

      By the time the lenghty queue waiting for their turn behind you finishes, your ‘nirrah jinharaq’ would be sheer empty words – the blaze would have been extinguished long before.

    • Painter says:

      Mintoff deserves all the hate he is getting but don’t equate him with other socialists because they are not like him.

  2. Manuel says:

    You have to love the Poles, insomma.

  3. canon says:

    One could use it as a spitting statue like the statue of Lady Wang and Qin Hui in Hangzhou ,China.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Hui

  4. Edward says:

    Yeah, we should do one of Dom, with him pissing on the constitution which is being held up by the people: a perfect depiction of how he viewed the country and its people.

    • anthony says:

      Forget the pissing.

      We will have one of him on top of his sister-in-law, the latter representing Malta.

    • Francis Saliba M.D. says:

      With a little artistic licence someone should be able to combine the Mintoff statue with the Manwel Dimech monument the rolled up document in Dimech’s hand being retouched to represent the Malta Constitution, the one Mintoff “kien jigi jit,,,,,k minnha.

      P.S. I admit the feat would be rather taxing on a nonogenarian male with BPH but let us not be too pedantic.

  5. Francis Saliba M.D. says:

    I remember the proposal during World War II that when Hitler would be caught the European survivors would be invited to queue up and spit on him – to which the Maltese complained that by the the time it was our turn Hitler would have long been drowned. Or perhaps that was after World War II not during it and it wasn’t about Hitler at all.

  6. bob-a-job says:

    Farage faces jail threat over £200,000 donations.

    So much for Ukip’s transparency.

    It’s not Ukip after all. More likely it’s U-Skip.

    http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/politics/article4117602.ece

  7. Joe Fenech says:

    Sure, it was part of the Soviet bloc, but bear in mind that most of these countries were previously part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and are full of culture..

  8. Francis Saliba M.D. says:

    Since we already have one copy of a Lenin statue in front of Castille could we please have the one proposed next to it to be a copy of this other one from Poland, please, now that the former glorious palm trees no longer risk having their roots poisoned, please!

  9. M says:

    Some things are better left dead AND buried. Of course they cannot be expected to push up daisies, ‘lanzit’ on the other hand is a different matter.

    A few days ago you metioned KMB and even after all these years, for a few seconds, my stomach flipped and I was back there in that office, at the height of the importation licences problem, struggling to breathe.

  10. Pb says:

    Excellent Daphne, Mintoff could not be described in any better terms than you described him. He was vile and treated even his own supporters with condescension and contempt.

    May he burn in hell for eternity. If they run out of firewood, the Chinese might have some alternative fuel handy for him and Chairman Mao.

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