You can take the man out of his Hal Qormi slum (and load him with millions) but you can’t take the Hal Qormi slum out of the man
John Dalli has issued a statement in which he calls the Opposition leader ‘Dr BS’. This is because the Opposition leader did the right and proper thing and raised the matter of Giovanni Kessler, the police commissioner and John Dalli in parliament last night, speaking strongly about it.
But of course, as we all know by now, nobody is allowed to criticise John Dalli or point out his terminal deficiencies. No, that is a ‘personal attack’ and obviously, it is ‘orchestrated and paid for’.
I wonder who he imagines is paying the Opposition leader to point out that his behaviour is utterly ghastly and that it embarrasses not just the government but Malta itself because it absolutely stinks of corruption, cronyism and abuse of power.
Dalli himself is beyond embarrassment. If he weren’t, he wouldn’t have quoted – perfectly seriously and without shame – his ALLEGED drug-trafficker, Naples-Camorra-consorting brother hearing strange disembodied voices through the hatch in his prison-cell door.
Dr BS, eh? Very dignified. And this is not just a former finance minister and (sacked) EU Commissioner, but a current consultant to the government of Malta, with a special appointment by the prime minister himself. So let’s take a brief tally, shall we?
The prime minister’s special envoy to the World Tourism Organisation insults a human rights organisation and calls its CEO all manner of names, stopping just short of ‘pufta’ because he’s been drilled on that now, but allowing those commenting on his Facebook timeline to use the properly idiomatic Maltese word which is far more pejorative (pufta is a corruption of the English poofter and is post-19th century).
Now the prime minister’s special consultant on health organisation and the hospital has called the Opposition leader ‘Dr Bull Shit’, deploying his immense wit on his initials.
Except, of course, that it is only village people like Dalli John who put people’s surnames before their given names, as they have never got beyond school roll-call when surnames were read out first and given names second. To the rest of us, Dr BS makes no sense because we do not think in terms of ‘Busuttil Simon’ but of ‘Simon Busuttil’. And so, to decode his little vulgar and inappropriate joke (the rest of us can crack jokes about J Dalil BA, but we are not former EU Commissioners and finance ministers, nor are we current consultants to the prime minister) we have to put ourselves in his mind.
There’s more, and possibly Dalli John uses this language and terminology so routinely that he doesn’t even understand its vulgar sexual connotations. Grima Joe will, however, be willing to explain to him as he is an expert in pufti. He can brief him when they next meet at the Office of the Prime Minister.
In his statement, published this morning, Dalli John said of Simon Busuttil:
“Or does he expect every one of us to stand at such awe of the EU institutions that we simply bend over and take whatever they chose to dish at us?”
The mixed metaphor couldn’t be more hilarious. I wonder who wrote that thing for him, but here’s my advice for free. ‘To bend over and take it’ means to bend over and take it up the butt. Such style and grace from Dalli John. Ah, but they are using a dish! So you bend over, according to Dalli John, and just stand there while they use a dish to fill you in. Wouldn’t a spoon be more effective? Or a turkey-baster?
So Dalli John, you can either bend over and take it up the arse, or you can sit there and let them dish it to you. But you can’t do both at the same time.
Either way, it really isn’t fit and proper for a person who claims to still be an EU Commissioner to say things like ‘bend over and take it’. And really, nobody wants that visual image because aside from the aesthetics, it’s probably been a long time since you took a shower.
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Wow, is someone being made to work for his next iced bun then?
Geographical location has nothing to do with it. It is the upbringing that makes all the difference. I was born and bred in the same village and find Mr. Dalli’s behaviour shameful, to say the least.
As you already know, he was not brought up in a slum (more likely in a slum mentality). I can think of a couple of (former) neighbours of his who are very different to Mr. Dalli and his brothers.
I’ve no doubt all this was known to the people who allowed him to run on the PN ticket for several general elections over some two decades and finally appointing him EU Commissioner in 2010.
But I guess blaming it on the slum is much easier.
[Daphne – I grew up in Sliema, Ms Gauci, and I have no problem at all saying that Joseph and Manuel Cuschieri grew up in a Sliema slum because they most certainly did. Hal Qormi has its slum areas even today, let alone when Dalli was growing up. Your definition of slum might be different to mine. But at least we share the opinjion that the Dalli brothers are the pits.]
I have no problem at all saying so, either, but this is not about me. Of course they are the pits, as are the Cuschieri brothers.
I’ve yet to come across a village or town without a slum area and I don’t think we should imbue the definition of slum with much more beyond it’s dictionary meaning. The only thing they shared with the slum is being poor (unlike now!).
Other than that, as I said before, I only blame their upbringing because the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
You can take the man out of Malta but you can’t take Malta out of the man.
Is that better? Can we stop with all this lokalità pride?
The same tactic has been used before – it is now becoming stale:
When Dr. Busuttil criticises the Joseph Muscat government about J Dalli BA – the disgraced EU Commissioner – rather than the government replying to the criticism, we get a rabid attack on Dr. Busuttil by J Dalli BA.
I am morally convinced that this is evidence of collusion between the Joseph Muscat government and J Dalli BA.
But now the Commissioner Who Never Resigned And Who Was Never Sacked is sounding desperate. Where is all the charm, calm and composure of the EU Commissioner in charge of Health and Consumer Affairs gone?
Seems like he needs another trip to Lourdes, maybe those miraculous waters will calm him down and purify his soul from his sins to eternity.
Joseph Muscat obviously likes to be surrounded by crass social climbers who just like himself and his wife. So sad that half the population have the same mentality.
Bendover & Take It: fine dining chez Zammit Peter Paul and Dalli John
These tactics can be described in only one way: bullying. Dalli is bullying anyone who criticises him. And, usually, bullies are always in the wrong.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-07-03/news/more-dishonesty-from-dr-busuttil-simon-john-dalli-calls-him-dr-bs-5698158592/
‘The mixed metaphor couldn’t be more hilarious. I wonder who wrote that thing for him, but here’s my advice for free. ‘To bend over and take it’ means to bend over and take it up the butt.’
Actually he may have meant just that for I am told that one of Dalli John’s favorite Maltese expressions was.
‘Dawn xi ridu, li ninzalhom il-qalziet’?