Comments on: Malta Ottimista: look at this crowd, brimming with optimism https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: La Redoute https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3035097 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 20:02:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3035097 Does it matter? Well, yes, it does.

Wasn’t she also found to have plagiarised an article by Gillian Tett of the FT?

Zammit Alamango lost her blog at Times of Malta for that. Expect more of the same.

]]> By: Angus Black https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3035063 Sat, 14 Mar 2015 13:34:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3035063 They suddenly realise that they are the underdogs in the coming local council elections…

]]> By: rosie https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3035046 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 22:52:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3035046 Truth is usually masked and sugar-coated under mistruths and
half lies until the real truth is seen more like lies than anything else

]]> By: A.Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3035031 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:00:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3035031 Eternal grimace,

]]> By: Prestcott https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3035005 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:22:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3035005 Bullfrog Mallia qed jerga’ jitfacca fix-xena.

Front seat, jekk ma tridx, preciz wara Muscat.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3034997 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:29:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3034997 Yes, I have always known ‘thares bic-ciera’ to mean ‘scowling’ rather than giving somebody a withering look. It’s a sort of sour expression, rather than a look of contempt.

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3034994 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 14:07:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3034994 In reply to tinnat.

You’re looking at a future chairwoman of Malta Enterprise or the Malta Financial Services Authority there. Watch out for these young Labour sparks.

]]> By: tinnat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3034992 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:07:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3034992 Can we have a caption competition? http://ow.ly/i/904Vj

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3034991 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:05:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3034991 In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Thares bic-ciera is done intentionally though and has a positive value tag (at least in my book), as in “to give a withering look”, or “to be granite-faced.”

What we’re looking at here is dour and surly, combined with what the Continentals call “bovine eyes”.

]]> By: Bert Gauci https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/03/malta-ottimista-look-at-this-crowd-brimming-with-optimism/#comment-3034988 Fri, 13 Mar 2015 13:00:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=60774#comment-3034988 The woman in the top row actually dozed off.

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