That’s right – it’s sheer spite and hdura
The market traders tell us they’re doing everyone a favour by concealing “Renzo Piano’s ugliness” with their wonderful stalls, which they are now going to personalise by having as many eight-pointed crosses as they like, or none at all. Apparently, it’s up to them.
There’s a story in Times of Malta.
Monti hawkers have praised the controversial new stalls and said their move close to Valletta’s new parliament building would hide Renzo Piano’s “blasphemous ugliness”.
The market’s move from Merchants Street to Ordnance Street and the mediocre new stalls came under nationwide fire, but the hawkers believe it is not their stalls that are an aesthetic eyesore but it was “Renzo Piano who spoilt the environment”.
Hawker Twanny Zahra said that, thanks to the move, the relocated monti “will be hiding the great mistake of Valletta”.
“It’s a dawgħa kerha [a blasphemous ugliness],” Mr Zahra said referring to the project of internationally-acclaimed architect Renzo Piano.
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http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/local/Hawkers-We-will-hide-a-blasphemous-ugliness-.554539
L-injoranza f’dan il-pajjiz xi haġa fenomenali
The ignorance is super phenomenal.
The hawkers have the gall to say that the project is of blasphemous ugliness. I think that the goods they sell are ugly but I am tolerant of other people’s opinions so they should be tolerant too, and should accept the fact that others look upon Piano’s project as a great work.
Is trading at the market the only way of earning money? I doubt it very much.
Mur avdalhom il-Louvre.
‘Blasphemous’.
Words just fail me.
Putting the blasphemous stalls so close to Piano’s masterpiece will expose further the crass ignorance and sheer incompetence of this spiteful government.
The move will also help the tourist industry because where else would anyone find a ‘suq’ abutting the building where the nation’s laws are passed and its culture defined?
Ghidulhom! U ara kemm nehhew parking biex ghamlu l-Parlament hemm.
Ghalfejn din l-importanza kollha fuq dawn in-nies gdur, BOYCOTT il-monti bhalma ghamilt jien, u tara kif inehhuh in-nejk.
naqbel mieghek 100%
Agreed completely! Let economics put them in their place, what cheek to believe they deserve the best site in our capital city to sell their cheap wares!
The islands are littered with these idiots! Sadly, it seems to be fashionable to be one now. I despair!
Will the stall owners be offering art appreciation tips with the bras and tangas?
Mr Twanny Zahra’s comments are proof that Joey has reached his declared target in less than two years.
We are now the best (laughing stock) in Europe.
L-aqwa fl-Ewropa-fil-medjokrita!
Dan Twanny Zahra nahseb xi Perit gwapp ghax jidher jifhem hafna..
Nahseb il-hajt tad-dar tieghu mifqugh bid-dottorati..
Twanny Zahra jarma bl-aktar affarjiet hamalli li hemm fuq il-monti. Niddubita jekk jafx jikteb ismu.
Another smart move by Teflon Joe. People are now discussing the design of the stalls and the ignorance of the hawkers, when the man who instigated the re-location of the market into the centre of the Piano project is none other than Joseph Muscat himself.
And then there is something else that Muscat wants the people to forget: the small matter of the new power station that should be up and running in three weeks’ time, and Muscat’s promise to resign if it is not.
Joseph Muscat is also deviating attention from the spring hunting issue. Same usual tactics that people are falling for time and again. Will we never learn.
This just shows the depravit we have sunken into. When a crass hawker has the sheer arrogance to denounce a masterpiece as blasphemous. Heqq x’inhu inqas minn Renzo Piano – kwistjoni ta’ opinjoni hux. Wonderful Kenneth your opinion is shared by Twanny Zahra. Does it make you feel good that you have the same level of taste?
It’s time to stop being politically correct in general about normal intelligence and the lack of it.
Yes.
What a bunch of barbarians! I have this urge to catch the first flight out of Malta, leaving this accursed rock. Twanny tas-suq declaring Renzo Piano’s work blasphemously ugly and his horrid stall selling cheap rubbish as better-looking! God, what a country.
X’ma jitlax il-Labour.
Sparat!
Nies b’din il-mentalita rebhu l-elezzjoni lil Joseph Muscat. Nghid ghalija il-monti ghandu jkun barra l-hitan tal-belt. Full stop.
Estoy muda otra vez.
The site chosen for the market hawkers and the proposed point of sale contraptions are an act of sheer vandalism on the Piano project.
Hekk konna u hekk ergajna gejna. Taht il-Lejber l-injoranza tigi ezaltata u l-intelligenza tinghata l-genb. Viva l-Lejber, viva l-Lejber!
Labour opposition to every project done by the previous PN government is now being manifested in this ignorance and spite
There is another point which maybe few people know. Market trader permits and stalls are possibly transferable. Most Valletta market stall owners are close to pensionable age.
They are assuming that having such a prominent spot will add value and they might be in a position to claim a more rewarding ‘rigal’ from interested third parties.
Over the past year I had thought that Joseph Muscat’s MLP won’t live up to its hideous past and that the 18,000 switchers won’t have a clear enough perception of wrongness to change their opinion and decide not to vote MLP again.
Thankfully Muscat’s behaviour is so crass that the huge gorge he has managed to carve out between the MLP and the PN may not be bridged by a good number of switchers alone but also by genuine Labour-leaning people who can no longer stomach this gross misconduct.
Careful Bob, if the bigwigs at PN HQ read this type of comment, it might go to their heads to the detriment of us all.
The stupidity of certain people is simply unbelievable! The worst part is that they never know when to shut up. Vote Labour and this is what you get!
Prosit, Twann….ibqa sejjer hekk!
if ignorance is bliss it explains why we Maltese score so highly on the happiness charts.
You may have something there, Nemesis.
Spot on.
How about designing a T-shirt with the new parliament building on it, to sell to tourists as a souvenir of Malta, then? I’m sure a few of the entrepreneuring monti chaps have thought about it already.
The Taliban mentality of intolerance – destroy all that is different or innovative, that does not fit within one’s sphere of understanding and force one’s own influence over the territory at all costs. How very pathetic this country is becoming.
Just when I think our collective psyche has reached rock bottom, we take out a driller and start digging a little deeper.
I know what you mean.
In reality under a PN government the country is living in a dream. We are under the illusion that we are actually civilized.
It is only under an MLP administration that the true Malta comes out of its lethargo.
This now is what our country really is.
A mediocre, fourth world banana republic.
Run by nincompoops who have spent the last two years looking for a nonexistent roadmap and doing xxxxall in the process.
A quarter of a century of rational leadership and unequalled economic development from 1987 to 2013 will soon become a mirage of some distant past, regaled to the history books at this rate.
It’s the early eighties all over again, but with a vengeance.
The only difference is a smiling idiot with a wife and family, as opposed to the ex-GWU KMB-Zero and the political thuggery and violence.
There is one remarkable feature of these pseudo-democratic, pseudo liberal-progressive Socialist regimes however; the successful promotion of ignorance on a grand scale.
In fact it won’t be long, I reckon, till we re-instate the Republic emblem of choice:
http://static-numista.com/catalogue/photos/malte/g280.jpg
If Twanny tal-monti considers Piano’s project a daghwa kerha, I have to reconsider my support for it. After all Twanny is an expert. In aesthetics and dagha ikrah.