Hello, Pyongyang
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November 25, 2014 at 7:26pm
The large electronic screen at the Mainguard in Valletta (just in case you were wondering why it hasn’t been removed yet) is currently showing the prime minister’s large face and transmitting his speech live.
What a great way to scare people off. How Big Brother creepy.
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He speaks with a horrible hamallu accent/dialect then spurts out English expressions. Will someone please tell him that it’s middle CLASS and not MIDDLE class, idiot.
[Daphne – People like him, when speaking English, always emphasis the adjective over the noun. I can’t understand where that peculiarity came from – I suppose from the way that in Maltese the noun precedes the adjective, and it’s the noun which is emphasised.]
Not EXACTLY the same, but I personally still can’t get over ‘Flash News’ (Flexx Njuwsss) and Christmas Father myself.
If those aren’t bad enough, when a certain massively popular multi-national burger chain was first introduced in Malta, must be 20-odd years ago, all of a sudden the essential family Sunday outing was a trip to ‘King Burger’.
Community CHEST-FUND, it is not a Chest-Fund, but a COMMUNITY-CHEST Fund.
Was it showing Simon Busuttil’s yesterday? Stupid question.
Jason Azzopardi:
“Tafu li l-iscreens fi Pjazza San Gorg, bhal ta’ Pyongyang, qed juru d-diskors ta’ Muscat? Ilbierah ma urewx ta’ Simon Busuttil. Dak ego, eh?”
Half an hour ago I turned on the webcam on St George’s Square and there was one man listening and another one passing under the screen.
It’s a scene from Nineteen Eightyfour. It’s so Orwellian.
Down with Big Brother.
He has lost more hair and tried to colour the patch black. Looks ridiculous.
Are these people serious? They are working as they have already done repeatedly i.e. a roadshow from the public purse.
who is the real prime minister? the one who took the oath of office or the one pulling his strings? vitor
B’kull rispett x’inhu monotonu e.
Qed jghid affarijiet li lanqas Scicluna ma qalhom – jigifieri dan budget speech differenti?
U apparti, qed iwieghed. La jwieghed Joseph, allura paroli.
Hanzira xi dwejjaq ta’ monotonija.
Old habits die hard with the Malta Labour Party. I do not call it propaganda, but simply scary. My relatives remind me of the 1958 – 1962 political atmosphere. They say it is going that way again. Blurring loudspeakers in the main squares and wherever there was a Malta Labour Party club.
Xjajru lil Dr Busuttil.
Madux cool Joseph. Jitajjar jaf. Tlett snin ohra naraw kellux ikun Dr Busuttil kap taghna.
Ghax se jaqsmek, ja l*b* ikrah.
Xi tnejn hemm warajh. Wiehed tela mkaxkar u l-iehor ironmonger li lanqas jifhem fl-imsiemer.
“Manuel Mallia qieghed jaghmel xoghol siewi hafna biex inaddaf il-habs mid-droga”- Joseph Muscat.
He is 100% right and he Mr. Minister has been doing so for the last decades- by defending them u ihallihom jigru mas-saqajn.
Agius Decelis mohhu biex isabbat biss. Insomma, x’jaf jaghmel izjed? Lanqas bicca ECG ma kien kapaci jiehu sew.
Bhal Luciano. Mhux hekk qal fuq Facebook? Li se jispicca bla idejn ilejla?
Qed nimmisja lil Gavin Gulia e. Kien jidhaq tnejn fil-vojt u joqghod warajh biex jidher fuq it-TV. Imma bilhaq, ma telax.
The liar has just accused the leader of the PN that he wanted an enquiry about JPO’s pastizz, but did not want one about the shooting by the driver of his Police Minister.
What a bloody lie, and I am not trying to defend the leader of the Opposition.
A magisterial enquiry is under way, and nobody said this shouldn’t be done. If anything, it was his police that tampered with evidence, possibly under instructions from someone above.
The political debate is about an enquiry ai termini with three Judges Emeriti which he wants to use to absolve Manwel Mallia of political responsibility.
He really gives a new meaning to the word “tivventila.”
Am I the only one who thinks the PM’s mannerisms today are rather gay?
No, you’re not. Most gay men think he’s gay, and he’s not averse to capitalising on that.
He said the medicines will be delivered to the “djar tax-xjuh.”
Did he mean delivery to old people’s homes, literally, or to old people in their home?
Muscat should just stop all this at once. Positive energy doesn’t actually exist. There is no science to back it up. And he is risking all those things that have helped Malta improve.
Our free healthcare and free education/ stipend are at risk now. He s based everything on the bogus notion that all he has to do is think positive for it to work. That is not how things work.
We will end up in such financial trouble that we will end up without the type of welfare state we have. Not because we want poor people to suffer, but because the whole country will be screwed.
That’s right. Muscat certainly didn’t get where he is today by reading The Secret and thinking positive.
Neither did Shiv Nair.
U insomma halluh joqghod jifrah bil-budget.
Prosit, budget tajjeb hafna. Mhux hekk irid?
As if se nivvutalu.
I have had a glimpse of St George’s square on the webcam, in the hope of seeing thousands in their enthusiasm salivating at their leader’s outbursts.
I’m afraid I was utterly disappointed in this – I could see not even a single dog relieving itself at the foot of the ‘altar’ supporting the screen.
The few people in the otherwise bare square were just walking down to the lower end of Republic Street without even the slightest acknowledging glance at Muscat shouting his head off.
The site is called “Webcam St.George’s Square in Valletta”.
The PM insists on saying that last week’s incident is moqzies, pastazata kbira, gharukaza kbira, dizgustat, but never tells us WHAT he thinks is all that.
It surely is not the fact that there was a cover-up (since for this he needs to wait for the verdict of the retired judges). So I am assuming he is referring to the fact that a policeman shot at an unarmed civilian.
So if he is 100% sure that this was wrong, why have heads not rolled?
Why is this person who did this heinous crime (according to the PM) still running around scot-free? How can we believe he is truly ‘disgusted’?
Ironic …. ‘Scot-free’ … He wasn’t for a number of hours, unlike the driver
Wahahaha.
Id-dahqa ta’ Agius Decelis. Jidhaq wahdu biex jidher teacher’s pet.
Apparently he stuck his tongue out at Claudette Buttigieg.
What on earth is going on?
Do these people have no sense?
He stuck his tongue out at Claudette Pace because Labour is liberal, progressive and very feminist.
It’s 8.00pm. Has the prime minister explained the new energy ‘milestone schedule’ already and I missed it, or hasn’t he uttered a single word about it as yet?
F’sekonda ntilef fil-kliemu
Luciano jappogga lil Joseph. Mhux bhal Joseph mela ghax meta fetah il-garaxxijiet fil-Hamrun hallih barra.
U ma jibki mal-media.
Muscat just said that if Simon Busuttil was PM he would have taxed each family €1000 more then we pay now. Is he real?
Naqta rasi li ma kkonvinca lil hadd.
Daqs Dr Busuttil il bierah tarax.
Halla lil kulhadd issummat.
Ma’ kull min tkellimt, hadd ma issaporta jarah kollu. Bicciet zghar ‘l hemm u ‘l hawn. Ma tlifnix opri imma kummiedji.
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He’s wearing a watch today.
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What a mess of a speech.
Thought that was Chucky for a minute .
Most probably the government thought that people would gather in their thousands to back the budget. They should have coerced people like in the golden years to attend.
He had to have 5 nappy changes during the speech, bit tqanzih imqanzah tieghu (I don’t know how to translate that into English)
Straining
Maybe the powers that be thought that by showing Joey’s mug on a big screen will help get us into the Christmas spirit and spur some frenzied shopping. More likely it reminds us of Scrooge with his 58 cents. The ghost of Christmas present.
When the houses of parliament are up and running, he will be delivering his speeches from the balcony.