Down the rabbit hole
Hawk me and I'll kick you
After the HUNGER-STRIKING GAY PORN STAR EATS TWO KIWIS AFTER PRIME MINISTER VISIT breaking news, I received this email from a son who lives elsewhere.
Subject line: Are they putting something in the Nescafe in Malta?
Reading The Times feels like going down the rabbit hole lately. Who is mad – the writer, the reader or the country? It’s difficult to tell.
Then I flipped over to timesofmalta.com and found this:
Wednesday, July 27, 2011, 16:40
Attack on St Paul’s Bay secretary condemned
Councillors and the St Paul’s Bay Labour Party club have condemned without reservations an attack on the executive secretary of the council John Camilleri about two days ago.
Mr Camilleri was kicked by a nougat hawker who demanded a permit at a particular site, which, it transpired, he had no right for.
He then threatened the executive secretary and the police were called in and the man was apprehended.
Mr Camilleri said that he was only bruised when he was kicked but he was under shock and made sure not to react.
The councillors and Labour Party Club said that such actions were unacceptable in a democratic society. No one had the right to use violence for any reason.
They appealed to the forces of law and order to take all steps required by law.
It’s the detail about the nougat hawker that really makes it.
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Sorry, but I don’t get it. Apart from the usual poor English and the fact that the Labour Party condemn violence and then their sympathisers use it, just what is remarkable here?
[Daphne – Oh dear, Tim, you’re becoming a humourless Austrian. The story is hysterically funny.]
In Tunisia, this hawker would have set himself on fire and started the Jasmine Nougat revolution.
It’s the silly season after all. If Malta was “Svizzera fil Mediterran” would it have been an emmenthal seller ?
“People allergic to latex, papayas or pineapples are likely to also be allergic to kiwifruit.”
Dr. Gonzi on one of your five-a-day.
I don’t get it. What’s wrong with “nougat hawker”?
[Daphne – Wrong? Oh yes, I’ve just remembered that you’re from a different cultural background. This story is in the same class of crazy-funny as the prime minister, the porn star and the kiwis. I apologise if it doesn’t include people slipping and custard pies being thrown, or whatever Zoo does nowadays.]
Talking of custard pies, you must have seen Wendi Deng Murdoch launch herself like a scud missile at that lost his Marbles foam plate idiot, landing a right hook smack in his kisser. She’s not just brains – she’s got spunk and brawn as well.
If you say so – who am I to deny you your comic relief when it is clear you so desperately need it?
[Daphne – A person’s problems begin, ChavRus, when they require relief of an entirely different sort. And you are clearly one of them.]
It seems that while the precarious financial situation of many European countries (and the U.S.A.) is making the headlines in the foreign media, our mediocre PRINTED AND ELECTRONIC PRESS is deeply concerned about divorce, gay marriages and Cyrus Engerer. If these are our real problems, we should count our blessings and stop thinking of voting to bring on the bad times.
I have to say, I agree with what Adrian Vassallo said here. It appears to me that, at least, he has clear logical thinking. I think he also tries to explain why we are going down the rabbit hole.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110728/local/Adrian-Vassallo-supports-Gonzi-on-divorce-vote.377596
Johnnie tal-pipa, please note that we have other serious problems:-
It is so difficult to open a Benna carton of milk.
The lid of the Benna yoghurt cup is dangerous.
The sea is littered with cigarette butts.