Swieqi Council says: PAY ATTENTION TO HEDGEHOG
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February 5, 2015 at 2:04am
And it’s not even a hedgehog in that picture. I guess there’s one whole local council that needs to learn the totally different meanings of ‘pay attention to’ and ‘watch out for’.
At least it’s not ‘take care of’.
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That is not even a hedgehog.
That’s not a hedgehog. That is a porcupine. ‘U ijja, mhux xorta’ attitude.
This is a hedgehog.
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Why? What is he saying?
They have beavers in Swieqi. Good to know.
They’re of the Castor Swiequs species.
That’s clearly a skunk.
Apologies. I meant porcupine.
No, that’s two threads back.
We can safely say that in Malta, we are challenged in the area of zoology, no wonder so many do not even comprehend why it is madness to shoot birds on their way to breed and some classify an emu as a mammal.
I think it’s a political statement.
Bad grammar and failed zoology aside, I do like the sentiment. Even in towns there is wildlife and hedgehogs are much cuter when they’re not flat with thread marks on them.
I will keep an eye out for that porcupine though…
Drivers navigating through the roads in Swieqi will be so focused on spotting the fat and hairy town rodent depicted on the lopsided and dented sign, that they may miss paying any attention whatsoever to the hedgehog. Counterproductive sign.
It looks like a beaver to me.
At least it’s not ‘PAY ATTENTION TO THE QANFUD’, which would be more like Swieqi lingo.
Drawing of a beaver accompanied by ‘Attent ghall-Qanfud’? These people have a sense of humour at least.
Beavers.
“Attent ghall-qanfud.” Sounds like a euphemistic warning against sexually transmitted diseases
Aye, it looks like the bastard child of a beaver and a porcupine whose nannu was a skunk.
Qanfud has another connotation in Maltese. And please clean up after playing with the qanfud.
Qanfud?
Mela wiehed biss hemm qanfud fis-Swieqi?
[Daphne – Maybe they figured people wouldn’t understand what the plural means. Or maybe they don’t know what the plural is. What is it, anyway? Qniefed?]
At first I thought it was a beaver but on enlarging the picture I see it is a porcupine. And why can’t they centre all the lettering on the sign?
Utter disbelief…how much more embarrassing can this get?
Mentioning beaver, I’m remembering that once you wrote about a clothes shop in Gozo called Beaver.You know what Daphne, the shop’s name now is B-V-R.
I think the owner, who is a very nice person, changed the name for the better after reading this blog.
Tajba din. Is it real or a joke ?