Here's another one from Joseph's skip
Here's somebody being liberal with Nikita's bottom, which sort of makes a change from Gay News Central
Is The Times losing it? If it really, really does want a young woman socialist blogger for its online edition, then surely it can find one who can think, write and spell.
The one it uses – Nikita Zammit Alamango of Forum Zaghzagh Laburisti and guru to Cyrus Engerer – does a grave disservice to, apart from The Times, young women, socialists and bloggers.
You can work out what she’s saying here, that’s true – but honestly, the next step down is sign language.
Last Saturday, crowds flocked Verdala in a very honorable aid of charity were all the proceedings go to the Community Chest Fund.
No prizes for guessing, then, who’s heavily involved in Maltastar.
Joseph, you need a bigger skip.
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You might wish to read on:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110808/blogs/moonlight-shadow.379341
Thanks but no thanks.
Life’s tooooo short.
If I googled myself and these images came up, I would consider a name change.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Nikita+Zammit+Alamango&hl=en&rlz=1C1CHOF_en-GBGB361GB361&prmd=ivnso&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&biw=1280&bih=685&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi
@Interested Bystander – Take a look at this one. It looks like Hallowe’en came early in 2008. http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080621/local/muscat-reiterates-offer-to-cooperate.213518
[Daphne – My God, is that a comb-over?]
“Finally, the hard work and capability of Dr. George Abela can be see not only through events like this but also when one deliberately takes a few steps around Verdala Palace itself at any other time of the year.”
Yes, and fracture your shin as Joseph Muscat did last year, when his few steps at the August Moon Ball put him out of action for the rest of the summer.
Jeez, hardened weirdos. If this bunch gets in, move over Greece, we’re f**cked.
The bottom line is she’s liberal with grammar too.
If you are the Kenneth Cassar who is vegan and who will not even buy leather boots so much so that he gets his plastic boots from abroad, then I think that you should remember that human beings are animals too. Cruelty needn’t be physical.
I admire intensely your stance on animal rights but again remember that people are animals too. Unlike you, I differentiate between different levels of consciousness and that is why I see a difference between cruelty on let’s say a mollusc (like a snail) and on a bird (like a chicken).
I also see a difference between cruelty inflicted on a dog and a on a man. The higher the level of consciousnsness of a being the more serious any act of cruelty becomes.
Please forgive spelling mistakes as am typing this on a tiny keyboard and screen.
[dery – If you are the Kenneth Cassar who is vegan and who will not even buy leather boots so much so that he gets his plastic boots from abroad, then I think that you should remember that human beings are animals too. Cruelty needn’t be physical].
I’m not actually vegan…although I certainly am a vegetarian who avoids buying leather products as much as possible. But I’m flattered. With all the information you gathered about me, I feel like some kind of celebrity. Do I know you?
I wasn’t being cruel, but then again, to agree you would have to share my sense of humour. Obviously you don’t. I guess you didn’t even get the pun in my choice of words (the “bottom line” part). As for Nikita, what was she thinking when she took that photo and shared it online? The photo, by itself, is an open invitation to ridicule.
[dery – I admire intensely your stance on animal rights but again remember that people are animals too. Unlike you, I differentiate between different levels of consciousness and that is why I see a difference between cruelty on let’s say a mollusc (like a snail) and on a bird (like a chicken)].
What has this got to do with anything? In any case, I would like to correct you. I too acknowledge differences in levels of consciousness between species and individuals. That should be obvious, and if common sense were not sufficient, science also supports that fact. Then again, I don’t think that just because one animal suffers less than another, we should inflict gratuitous or unnecessary suffering on him/her/it.
[dery – I also see a difference between cruelty inflicted on a dog and a on a man. The higher the level of consciousnsness of a being the more serious any act of cruelty becomes].
And I would partially agree. I say partially because cruelty is a complex issue that is subject to several factors such as:
1. The level of cruelty relative to the sentience level of the victim.
2. The intentionality and evitability of the cruelty inflicted.
3. The state of mind of the person performing the cruel act.
4. Whether the person committing cruel acts actually knows that the actions he performs are cruel.
[dery – Please forgive spelling mistakes as am typing this on a tiny keyboard and screen].
No problem at all.
I like killing flies. That OK?
@ Harry Purdie:
Whatever makes you feel a real man.
“As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods,
They kill us for their sport.”
On a side note, did you read the following:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110808/letters/All-men-beware-Here-be-dragons.379255
Frightening. I’m still debating myself whether it was written tongue-in-cheek, but I strongly doubt that.
Some Mothers do ‘ave ’em.
It must be some imsawwat, miskin.
Here’s a quote from Allan Gatt (the author of the article) in the comment section:
‘A woman with a briefcase is an obscene sight comparable to the mass graves of Dachau and Auschwitz.
By his own admission, it was not written tongue in cheek at all. And really, we shouldn’t be shocked. He’s only putting into words what many privately think. I even hear it being said by women themselves.
Many men would feel threatened if their wives had a more highly paid job than theirs. They even feel threatened if their wives are taller than them, although they do expect her to be better looking. How many men, do you think, do housework as a matter of fact rather than to ‘help out their wives’?
We’ve such a long way to go still.
Actually the problem lies right there, in the expression “helping out their wives”.
Unfortunately, many women do not realise what this expression implies: that housework is the woman’s duty – which the man, may or may not, depending on his discretion, time and general disposition, “help out”.
[Daphne – You’re right. But try explaining why, for example, a woman shouldn’t and needn’t thank a man for bringing in his own boxer-shorts off the washing-line. You will never hear a man saying ‘thank you’ when he sees his wife carrying a tub of laundry, but God help the woman who walks past her husband without blinking as he brings in the washing, usually after a Godalmighty row and threats involving packed suitcases hand-delivered to his mother’s. And I haven’t even started on how difficult women find it to deal with male literal thinking, as opposed to lateral thinking. To a woman, a request to ‘bring in the washing’ also includes the unspoken request to fold it, sort it, and put it away/in the ironing pile. To a man, it means literally bringing it in and leaving it in the tub on the floor. “If you wanted me to sort it out, why didn’t you say so.” And no, it’s not just laziness or pretending to be stupid, because most sane people would rather spend 10 minutes putting away the laundry than listen to 10 hours of angry bickering.]
I suspect that one cause of this mentality is that most men never live alone – they live with a doting mother until they move out to live with their wife, who has most probably also been brought up with the same concept.
[Daphne – Correction: never live alone OUT OF MALTA. Plenty of men live alone in Malta. My husband did so for years before he married. But living alone is not the same thing as fending for yourself. Men who live alone in Malta go to lunch or supper at their mother’s every day (biex jahasra tkun zgura li kiel tajjeb), take their dirty laundry with them and while there, pick up the clothes that she washed and ironed yesterday. And I won’t get started on the mothers who provide an even better service by GOING TO COLLECT THE DIRTY CLOTHES AND RETURNING THEM WASHED AND IRONED so that miskin, he doesn’t have to run around with them himself in the car, and once they’ve let themselves into the flat, with a key he’s given them, whip round with a duster and mop.
And God help the wife who tells her mother-in-law where to get off when she comes round to ‘help’ her daughter-in-law, who is still in her nightie at midday and drowning in nappies and squalling infants, by ironing her son’s shirts, instead of telling him to grow up and iron them himself. What does the mother-in-law imagine she is communicating to her daughter-in-law by doing this, if not that her son’s pristine shirts are more important than her daughter-in-law and grandchildren? And what does she imagine the result of communicating her priorities is going to be, in terms of her relationship with her daughter-in-law, or her daughter-in-law’s relationship with her son? These are real-life examples.]
I imagine this model more or less worked in the past, when women were expected to stop working and stay home upon marrying.
Nowadays it is a different story. Going from Party Girl to a woman who has a job while taking care of the household at the same time (within a few hours of the wedding ceremony), can be quite a shock.
I imagine it is what most (married) people are thinking of when they mention Married Life.
Not to mention the shock of a lifetime when the new husband finds out that his wife cannot keep up, or actually has absolutely no intention of doing the household chores he took for granted, and suddenly she’s not in the cheerful bubbly mood she used to be and/or she’s just too busy to let her hair down. And soon enough all the old stereotypes are reinforced… “women change, men don’t, girls become like their mothers, bla bla bla bla….”
Anyway, I suppose most women are happy with any “help” they can get from their partner. Good luck with that then.
@ Daphne (replying to Esteve):
What you say is all true…unfortunately most Maltese men are still like that.
I guess I must be one of the lucky exceptions.
The only thing we do not share at home is the cooking. My wife usually does the cooking but only because she is a better cook than I am. Or perhaps its because I’m lazy in that respect. Then again, I usually do the dishes and ironing. Mind you, I do cook for myself when she’s away, but I do the easy stuff, and nothing too “complicated”.
[Daphne – Well, as long as you don’t go to your mother’s to be fed while your wife’s away….dear heavens, that’s the pathetic PITS.]
Regarding literal thinking, yes, I too succumb sometimes.
Once (a long time ago, mind you), my wife asked me to wash the clothes. And guess what…I did wash them but left them in the washing machine. After that, I made a conscious effort to stop being so literal. And yes, I did feel silly after I realised what I had done (or not done, in this case).
[Daphne – Well, as long as you don’t go to your mother’s to be fed while your wife’s away….dear heavens, that’s the pathetic PITS.]
That would be ridiculous. But I guess this is all a matter of good parenting. When we were young (I have three younger brothers), our parents expected us to do household chores, which we did.
[Daphne – I don’t think that has anything to do with it. I never did a household chore when I lived with my parents, but at 24 I was looking after a flat and three babies and I didn’t pack it in and go home crying to mummy no matter how very tough it was. And my sons never did a household chore, either, because somebody was paid to do most of them except the cooking, yet they’ve fended for themselves for years in some very tough cities. I think your parents taught you to stand on your own two feet and then slashed the umbilical cord at the appropriate time. I think that’s the best way to do it.]
Spot on with your comments to Esteve, Daphne.
The problem does not only seem to be with Maltese mothers-in-law (and by this, I wish to specify that I mean the husband’s mother).
When I first got married, my mother-in-law tried to make conversation with me over lunch by asking something to the effect of how do I iron “his” shirts (ie, starch them, or whatever). I quickly shut her up by saying that I don’t, because he irons them himself.
One thing that had really got to me was when, after I had just gone through a really gruelling 24-hour labour followed by an emergency caesarean section, my mother-in-law visited me in hospital, turned to my husband and told him to go over to her house for a shower and supper (as though he lived in a skip) “ghax min jaf kemm inti ghajjien, miskin”.
Do they think before they speak, or do they do it on purpose?
@Sarah
Indeed – I have also heard the one about the tired husband after presumably giving birth himself. And more than once. I found it too amusing not to smile but it has earned me a few strange looks I can tell you that.
He’s right though. The moment your salary slips below that of your girlfriend or wife, she’ll leave you for a richer man. There’s no such thing as free love.
[Daphne – The woman with a big salary does not need a richer man. It’s women with NO salary who try to hunt rich men down. The only women who trade money for sex are those with no money to start with. There is no way on earth that a woman is going to have sex with a man she doesn’t want to have sex with unless she is paid to do it. This applies in marriage just as it does in Gzira. The real reason men don’t want women to earn adequate amounts of money with which to spoil themselves, and our Mr Gatt didn’t quite put his finger on it, is that the women will no longer feel obliged to have sex with them.]
No. Most men just want a woman who earns adequate amounts of money, or huge amounts, or far more than their amount, but who will love them no matter what. It sounds soppy, but there it is.
[Daphne – Yes, we women know that perfectly well. The problem where we’re concerned lies in that ‘no matter what’. With that, we have certain difficulties, and we occasionally have to remind the men in our lives that the only women who will love them ‘no matter what’ are their mothers, and the only reason even they do so is not because of the uniquely endearing qualities of their sons, but because of biological programming, hence even drug-addicted, thieving murderers and raging alcoholics are loved by their mothers ‘no matter what’, whereas loving such a man ‘no matter what’ is a sign of psychological problems in any other woman. One of the biggest destabilising influences in Maltese marriages is the failure of many Maltese men to distinguish between the love of a mother and the love of a wife, or even to understand that the latter is not just a version of the former but with the benefit of sex. Ask around and you’ll find legions of women with a variation of the same story. The person most likely to kill a Maltese marriage is the husband’s mother, even if she is not aware that she is doing it. ]
This is a potential Arkotta debate but it belongs to that private part of a man’s soul that’s usually kept covered by a show of bravado and bull.
So it’s never been properly thrashed out.
@ H.P. Baxxter:
He’s actually wrong on that, too. My wife earns more than me, and I feel neither threatened nor emasculated because of that. And she hasn’t left me for a richer man.
My wife earns more than me and as far as I am concerned I cannot see where the problem is. On the contrary, if she earned less than me, hmmm, now that would be a (financial) problem.
Yeps, and the if you want to know what your girlfriend will look like in thirty years’ time, look at her mum. Certainly not the best advert for Maltese girls. Genes, damned genes….
[Daphne – There is no more accuracy in that than in saying that your boyfriend is going to turn into his father in 30 years’ time. Some girls will turn into their mothers (and some boys into their fathers) because of the obvious genetic reasons and some will not, also because of genetics.]
I meant “no matter what” in this context, i.e. no matter what the man’s salary.
[Daphne – I think it should be obvious, even to the thickest man, that money doesn’t make a woman LOVE him, though it might make her want him. But sadly (for the men, that is), this is not so.]
Actually, I don’t think salary even enters into the equation, where my wife and I are concerned.
The problem would be if there were a big discrepancy in intelligence (either way). I certainly couldn’t and wouldn’t live with that. Of course, some men would actually prefer to have an ignorant wife, since nowadays, this is the only way to legally own a slave.
My wife earns nearly twice as much as me; and we have a very healthy sex life, and are very much in love with each other. And when she spoils herself, which she deserves, I am pleased as punch.
Baxxter, pull yourself together and stop blabbing to the other side or we shall have to remove you from the male lodge.
On a more serious note, this argument is never-ending because the characters have different expectations and both sexes go on making the same mistakes.
My other half regularly runs riot in Scrabble and pool whilst I have learnt to grin and bear it. I make the money whilst she runs the house yet we both interchange as and when necessary. It is not a perfect set up and I do not believe there is one.
He’s very consistent. Always wrong about everything.
See http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110809/world/violence-erupts-for-fourth-night-in-britain.379544
His comment was the first to appear, and check out the response.
How frustrating it must be to be acquainted with such a person, always wrong yet convinced that he is right.
I bet he does not have many friends. Well, I can probably confirm that, seeing that I don’t bother with timesofmalta.com’s comments all that much but I have seen his name pop up a number of times.
Brilliant. This man is f*cking brilliant.
I love him. I need him. I seed him. He’s my star.
I can’t wait for his next article, about The (eight-cylinder, big-fat-tyre) Car.
Actually, the whole write-up sounds like an account describing “Summer” copied from Crackers, the children’s corner in The Times. “Summer is the time when Europeans go on holiday” (paraphrased). To say nothing of the spelling and grammatical errors.
Tal-biki.
The Times has become one abject disappointment.
If I was 20 years younger and single, I wouldn’t mind being in the guy’s place. It’s good to know there are heterosexuals as well in Muscat’s skip.
Primary school mistakes from a university student
Thabtet biex dahlet jahasra. Xebgha resits
Atrocious.
But to be fair these young people have no chance really: their parents are probably semi-illiterate (that’s a wildly optimistic guess) while the education system fails them time and time again.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110809/local/From-quiet-boy-to-badass-soldier-.379436
http://www.cracked.com/article_15699_the-9-most-badass-bible-verses_p2.html
Oh dear – they didn’t publish my comment on this dreadful interview……
Make him famous, Daphne. Let’s start enjoying Eurovision.
It’s terrible that such a flawed and awfully written piece should appear on timesofmalta.com, although hardly surprising, considering their very shoddy editing standards of late. Countless rudimentary errors can be noted on a daily basis.
Last week, both the online and printed versions carried the story of a planned ‘cow farm’. OK so it’s a farm, and there would be cows there, however that does not make it a ‘cow farm’, but a cattle farm, dairy farm, or perhaps a beef farm – depending on the pertinent farming activity intended.
Ms. Zammit Alamango’s piece looks like it was typed and immediately uploaded ‘warts and all’ from a mobile phone.
Actually “cow farm” would be correct if only cows (and no bulls) are to be kept in it. “Dairy farm” would also be correct, if the farm is intended for dairy produce.
Or if it was a farm for only one cow maybe? Sorry – but ‘cattle farm’ should be used here. Cattle being the collective noun……for cows! Although not indicative of any gender of the cows kept at the farm in question!
As I also added – ‘…dairy farm, or perhaps a beef farm – depending on the pertinent farming activity intended….’
Moving on…..
“Cattle farm” would be better, but “cow farm” is sometimes used as well.
As for “cow farm” being “for only one cow”, well, we do say “dog shelter” don’t we, even if dog shelters home several dogs.
But yes, like I said, “cattle farm” is perhaps the better term. So yes, we may move on…
Even if Labour paid you, you wouldn’t be able to make them win more votes with this free of charge campaign. That’s exactly what I like about you. Your writing is, on the other hand, nothing out of the ordinary except for those PN with secondary education that consider themselves Nobel prizes within Maltese society ;)
You say of Cyrus that he is a disgrace for the gay community and for Labour and more broadly human kind (well, that’s only since he left PN, before he was your role model) and now about Nikita that she “does a grave disservice to, apart from The Times, young women, socialists and bloggers”.
[Daphne – Michael, Nikita does a disservice to women in exactly the same way that Cyrus is serving gay men very poorly indeed. When a woman puts herself out there with stupid arguments, half-assed reasoning and bad writing, it reinforces the prejudice that women are naturally incompetent and irrational and that even higher education can’t correct these inborn deficiencies. The reason I have a ‘male’ persona in many (Maltese) people’s eyes is because I confound the expectation that women can’t think and we communicate by flirting and manipulation and being ‘nice’ (an expectation reinforced by the behaviour, sad to say, of the average Maltese woman). Just as Miss Alamango is busy reinforcing the belief that women are silly, stupid and inept, so Cyrus is busy trying to convince people that gay men are really all whores with unstable personalities. The fact that Miss Alamango is serving The Times ill requires no explanation. Unless the bar at that institution has been lowered enormously, her work is way below par.]
What you don’t seem to realise is that you and your poor judgements, patronised (and maybe dictated) by those in power are what Maltese are revolving against. You’re becoming a real asset for change in Malta. This is priceless and we will thank you one day. Maybe even Nikita, despite your cheap attacks.
[Daphne – Revolving against? That’s interesting. What do they use – the roundabout at the Rabat playground? ‘Revolve’ is the verb of which ‘revolution’ is the noun, yes, but the noun has different meanings. This is the sort of stupidity that makes me really desperate, but no doubt you will see it as a cheap attack.]
PS: you didn’t publish my previous comment. Be a good girl and publish this one. Come on, you can always mock me as well ;)
[Daphne – I don’t know what your previous comment was, Michael. More than a hundred come in on a slow day. As for mocking you, you just make it so easy. Go on, start the revolution by revolving. That should be fun. Che Guevera should have bought himself a spinning-top and saved himself a lot of hassle. Spinning-tops complete many revolutions per minute while he wasted his entire lifetime on a single one.]
It is hilarious the way you set your own rules to the game. The problem is that they’re totally incoherent. On one hand, you (because it is always all about you, of course) criticise those judging gay individuals or women on details of their (not often mainstream) private lives. Daphne the radically modern, always revolving (yes, dear, you’re such an icon…) against out of date prejudices. On the other, you expose the details that you think are outrageous feeding the same prejudices you fight. Daphne the engine of maltese worst prejudices. You can’t have it both ways.
[Daphne – Here’s another one who defines liberalism as the absence of integrity and sound principles. People who sleep around and behave badly are not liberal, Michael. They are people who sleep around and behave badly, and their politics are of all sorts. You would be surprised to know how many people who sleep around and behave badly are of conservative or socialist political beliefs and are almost never liberal. Certainly, people of your mindset tend to be none of those things and are totalitarian. Also chippy, as in your defensive insistence on using the word ‘revolve’, which is nonsensical in this context. A secure adult would just say ‘my mistake’.]
As for revolutions, I’m so glad you can read. Now try to process as well.
[Daphne – Mur izzewweg xi wiehed bhalek. Jaqq, typical conservative right-winger who thinks he’s a liberal because he is ‘open-minded about sex’. You sound just like one of the many insufferable men I have to endure for brief periods at social occasions while their poor wives have to endure them for the rest of their lives. “Now try to process as well”: I have to fight down the urge to very publicly wipe the floor with them, wring them out and leave them to dry. Sometimes, I’m charitable, like now. But believe me, if you get on my wick any further, your family won’t have a body to bury. I speak metaphorically, of course. I think it necessary to point that out to somebody who doesn’t know the difference between revolve and revolt.]
After a quarter of a century, in which the same party has dominated government benches, the people revolved (yeah) against its position in the polls.
[Daphne – Michael, shall I spell this out? As Saviour Balzan discovered when he wrote about a ‘360-degree turn’ (when he meant 180-degree), when you revolve you are right back where you started. Go to any five-star hotel and spend five minutes experimenting with its revolving door if you don’t believe me.]
Revolutions start when the poor judgement that is widely spread, is challenged.
[Daphne – I might be better tempted to listen to your arguments if they were punctuated properly and deployed the correct syntax. As it is, I can’t get past the mental equation ‘can’t construct a sentence = uneducated = can’t think’.]
Then comes the rest. By the way, you said that the IVA campaign would be a failure because of JPO’s stupidity and because Evarist was part of the team.
[Daphne – I said nothing of the sort. I wrote that Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando and the IVA campaign did more harm than good to their cause. And in this I am correct. Equally, the No campaign and its various exponents did more harm than good to THEIR cause. Both were an exercise in how not to conduct a public affairs campaign. This is the dispassionate point of view of a professional, not of a ‘blogger’.]
Truth is that apart from Deborah (whom you have also recently started criticising) the rest if the IVA team was made up of people you can’t stop criticising: JPO, Varist, Cyrus and Nikita.
[Daphne – I’m glad you listed them. Lined up like that, they sound like a real pig’s dinner. Now ask me why I think they did their cause more harm than good with the more sensible part of the electorate.]
And here we are. Yes won despite your bad feelings (who nobody cared about).
[Daphne – My, Michael, you’re even dumber than I thought. You haven’t even worked out that I was right in there campaigning for the Yes vote, that I voted Yes, and that my arguments on this website and elsewhere probably won more Yes votes than Jeffrey’s, Cyrus’s, Nikita’s and Evarist’s put together – not just because they made sense but because they were obviously not motivated by partisan politics or personal reasons.]
Get used to it, and please don’t revolve.
Just keep blogging and indirectly campaigning for Labour by publishing these posts they (believe me) really appreciate.
[Daphne – Oh indeed. They would kill, maim and pay a fortune to have me on their side, but because I’m not a mentally challenged tart with my finger on the suicide button and a predilection for spending time in the company of poison dwarfs, chavvy lawyers and a walk-in wardrobe of closet working-class queens who would, 50 years ago, have been hawking their arses to sailors for a shilling down at the port, they got sad old useless Marisa Micallef instead. Well, good luck with that. I bet they’ve already found out why the government couldn’t find yet another sympathy job for her.]
@ Michael:
There is nothing wrong with “judging gay individuals on details of their private lives”. More so when the said “gay individual” is actually a repulsive and vindictive (not to mention criminal) person who sends pornographic pictures of his ex-lover to his boss and colleagues.
Cyrus wasn’t criticised because he’s gay. He was criticised for his immoral (hint: I’m not referring to sex) and illegal behaviour.
But I guess pseudo-liberals would welcome such a person in their fold. Good luck to them.
Pseudo-liberals won’t discriminate – they welcome everyone- but only because they’re amoral.
Dear Daphne, how excited you get. Calm down. Fury doesn’t help your arguments, it does rather make you sound desperate.
[Daphne – I’m perfectly calm, Michael. If I weren’t, I wouldn’t be able to respond to your tedious comments while editing a magazine, taking telephone calls and replying to emails with the other 99% of my brain.]
I say that you portray your self as being above all prejudices (on gay people and women) and then at the same time you exploit the very same prejudices to mock the women and gay individuals not in a posession of a PN membership card.
[Daphne – Really. If you were to look closely, Michael, you would see that I don’t classify people as PN or Labour, but as intelligent/enterprising/amusing and not. Unfortunately, those in the ‘not’ category tend to be predisposed to the Labour Party. For that, don’t blame me.]
I realise how accurate I was when you started talking about liberalism, “lack of integrity”, “sleeping around” and me as a totalitarian, “typical conservative right-winger”, “dumb” and illiterate. Knock, knock… have we met? Are you talking to someone else? Talking to your self? Reading page 476 of your arguments book?
[Daphne – No, Michael, I doubt very much that we’ve met. For a start, I would say that you are in your early 20s, which makes it unlikely unless you are a friend of my sons, which is more unlikely still. I even suspect that you might be a woman – clue: use of ‘dear’, which is favoured by women of a certain background, as opposed to ‘my dear’, which is not; also the bitchy ‘challenging another woman for male attention’ edge to your tone, which I recognise from conversation. Perhaps you don’t know how easily people can be slotted into predictable character types, and how very rare true individuals are, or how much even an anonymous person like you gives away through language, tone and choice of words. If I keep you talking for a little while longer, I’ll be able to give you a description of yourself so accurate that the police would be able to use it in a criminal investigation.]
Please, focus. Come back to earth and use rational arguments. Again, this is not about you for being a woman, or your colour of skin, your musical preferences or the money you get (actually, for Labour you’re free of charge and even priceless). This is about you being totally out of touch.
[Daphne – I hate to break this to you, smarty-pants, but my entire career has been built on having my finger on the pulse. Whether I agree with the pulse is another matter. I don’t expect you to be able to differentiate between the two, so don’t worry about it. Just keep talking.]
That’s what I learnt today after the discussion I had with you:
-Your arguments “won more Yes votes than Jeffrey’s, Cyrus’, Nikita’s and Evarist’s put together” (your words). In fact, you started the IVA campaign two centuries ago, in your previous life. Always one step ahead!
[Daphne – Yes, in fact I did. You’ve just given away your age group (even if I hadn’t worked it out already, because every generation/social class has its idiosyncratic way of speaking). I have been writing about the need for divorce legislation for the last 21 years. It’s one of the issues people my age and older most associate with me.]
-You were ‘the campaign’ because you’re the only one “not motivated by partisan politics or personal reasons” (your words). Your blog is a clear evidence. And… yeah, we are new in town.
[Daphne – I’ll try to keep this really simple so that even a Labour supporter can understand it. The Nationalist Party took a stance against divorce. I support the Nationalist Party. I campaigned for divorce legislation. So it follows that my stance cannot have been motivated by partisan politics.]
-You never said that the IVA campaign was a failure because of the presence of JPO, Evarist and the others.I guess you mean you didn’t say it just once. Now you improve. Listed “they sound like a real pig’s dinner”. Thanks God you are the one doing the thinking here (or so you pretend)
[Daphne – ‘Thanks God’. Now I know your social background. Keep talking.]
-When you loose in the context of arguments, you attack syntax and punctuation.
[Daphne – Loose instead of lose. Another big clue, and not as to education, either. If I keep you talking, ‘tollerate’ will probably pop up somewhere.]
That’s what happened to Nikita, that member of Iva who lost yes votes for the divorce campaign. I didn’t think you would correct every wrong coma, but now I realise that language theory is maybe what your life should really be about then.
[Daphne – Yes, definitely in your 20s. When people start quoting pseudo-academic stuff at one, it’s generally because they’re still at university or have just left. In that case, I’d better give you a little pat on your bottom to help you along: putting commas in the right places and checking your spelling is quite important because it tells the people who count (employers, that sort of thing) about your mindset, attitude towards attention to detail and general level of education. In fact, many employers now brush aside university degrees and concentrate instead on the ability to write and speak. Oh, and sometimes, when a job is very important, they hold an interview which includes food and drink at some point so that they can assess your general presentation and manners. I hope that helps. Of course, if you’re planning to get a job in Maltese politics, you needn’t bother.]
Quit your post as the PN doberman-commentator and make a living out of that. I’m sure that when Gonzi wins the Nobel prize you’ll correct his speech.
-You don’t know what revolution means. Adicted to the status quo? Go to London or rather to Madrid or Tel Aviv (more quiet). Or just wait. After 25 years, it will feel quite like it.
[Daphne – If you’re still talking revolution, you’re definitely not married with children and you’re probably not even working. And you probably think revolution is a Che Guevara poster on your bedroom wall in your mother’s house, when to the rest of us it means the next big thing in technology which changes the way we live. I’m being patient with you because you’re a kid and you’re (worryingly) the future. If you were my age, I’d just tell you to get lost.]
-you keep on picking on Nikita (whose great sin is an orthographic mistake) or Cyrus, whose big mistake seems to be changing party. You also forget that the alleged victim has made clear he don’t intend to press charges (so he told the police one year ago) or that the trial hasn’t yet begun, so no one can say he is guilty of a single thing. But clearly you don’t care about those details…
[Daphne – Keep up, Michael http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110729/local/ex-boyfriend-forgives-engerer-but-still-wants-justice-to-be-done.377886 Of course he’s guilty. That’s why he hasn’t denied the charges or said he will work to clear his name.]
Why the anger, Daphne? Why the poor judgement? Why these politically irrelevant pictures? I certainly expected something better than cheap jokes and a syntax course for blog comments. Are you (or those in power you don’t dare to mock) loosing something more than a battle?
[Daphne – Anger is for the young, Michael. That’s why there are no middle-aged revolutionaries unless they are seriously dysfunctional. That’s why you are the one who is angry while I meet your anger by trying to control my near-overwhelming indifference. If I am going to get angry about anything here, it will be about how, despite all the money poured into free education for all, people are still reaching the age of 20-something and probably going through tertiary education without being able to distinguish between loose and lose.]
Thanks, Daphne. I really appreciate (and I’m not being ironic) that you have changed the tone and stopped the “totalitarian” and right wing dumb blah blah blah from your previous comment.
You know, that anger typical of dysfunctional adults and young (what a prejudice, by the way). It’s just a pity that you focus now on who I am, my personal background or my age rather than on actual arguments.
[Daphne – Michael, context in arguments is crucial. You are not a robot. It is essential in any exchange with another human being to know (or find out) where that other human being is coming from. Arguments do not take place unless there is the motivation for them, and that motivation comes from somewhere. There is a reason why you come in here repeatedly to attack me anonymously. Your actions are not disinterested.]
This is where you become terribly boring.
[Daphne – If I were terribly boring, you would not be here. When I find things terribly boring, I avoid them.]
Unlike you (with your age, your age, your career, your age, your experiences in life and your age) I really didn’t come here looking for my self. I know it is difficult for you, but please understand. You can practise your ad hominem with others, like Nikita, but it won’t work either. People can be stupid, but not as much as some wished.
[Daphne – I see you wrote this before the news broke about Nikita, so let’s not spend too much time on it.]
Back to politics (wasn’t that what we were discussing before you had your break), and now that you are more calm, there are a couple of things I should still mention. You got Nikita wrong. She doesn’t feed prejudices against women. You do.
[Daphne – Your defence of Miss Zammit Alamango has been overtaken by events. Time to move on.]
Or you try to with posts like this. By the way, she decided to join forces with Stand Up and IVA despite your attacks on the platform and those from the PN-No camp. And despite your mockery I’m sure she will continue to win political battles for herself and her party.
[Daphne- Yes, if she can find the right piece by Gillian Tett and another forum to sell it on.]
Your attacks are usually a success/fear meter. It is undeniable that Maltese society is responsible for the positive outcome of the referendum. It is undeniable that IVA and Stand Up deserve as well great credit for helping and promoting change. It is undeniable that your attacks on JPO, Cyrus or Nikita are politically motivated, mostly personal and always destructive. It is undeniable that, despite your yes to divorce (that is the yes of part of the PN you represent, don’t be naive) you have done more harm than good to those fighting and investing political capital on the fight.
[Daphne – Of course they’re politically motivated, Michael. They’re politicians. It’s their political behaviour that interests me, not their dress sense.]
As for Cyrus, your political raising star until he decided to join Labour, someone arrested his father over a joint and illegally leaked documents to (what a surprise) The Times… You seem to forget that out of your blog and specially before a democratic Court there is something called habeas corpus.
[Daphne – Please get a grip. What are you suggesting here – that Chris Engerer should be permitted to smoke dope unmolested so that Cyrus isn’t hassled? How about this highly innovative suggestion: that Chris Engerer should have done the decent thing as a father and got out of drugs when his son got into politics?]
It might be ridiculous for you but for those politically persecuted it is actually an instrument of hope to rely on, specially when the alleged victim says there is no charge to be considered.
[Daphne – Tell me, are you Cyrus Engerer? I’m beginning to think so. Where does political persecution enter the equation?]
You prefer the presumption of guilt. Ok to that. That’s your choice, specially understandable when it is written on a blog hosted far far away.
[Daphne – If Cyrus Engerer (you?) did not let himself into his former lover’s flat, raid his computer and email compromising pictures to his former lover’s boss, then he should have said so immediately. Given that he did not, and that there are no circumstances which would hold him back from doing so (like being married to Marvic Camilleri and not wishing to expose him as a liar in public) then we are free to assume that he did all that.]
But you really think you are the competent judge, the one to say when Cyrus should speak or about what? And if he doesn’t, he can not be other than guilty? Knock, knock… Daphne, come back to reality! Believe or not, Maltese politics weren’t created to entertain you and your readers!
You are certainly running a indirect Labour campaign by attacking so cheaply Nikita or Cyrus, but if you pretend to dictate as well their press and communication policy, maybe you are not as wise, old and all those things you keep repeating al the time… Anyway, thanks for calming down. I was really worried for your deadline.
Ps: I hope your employers pay you for your always charming syntax. After all yor guesses on my age, gender and totalitarian ideology I wouldn’t bet on you as a fortune-teller…
Michael’s argument revolves around his assertion that the Maltese are revolting. Now who’s going to argue with that one? You – Daphne – just because you are PN Nobel prize within Maltese society? Come on, man.
[Daphne – Oh, I thought it was the peasants who were revolting, an argument with which I disagree because in Malta peasants are a whole different class of people to the urban/port area under-class and are in fact extremely reasonable, pleasant and vote Nationalist, unlike the aforementioned group.]
@Daphne, “When a woman puts herself out there with stupid arguments, half-assed reasoning and bad writing,” it does NOT “reinforce the prejudice that women are naturally incompetent and irrational and that even higher education can’t correct these inborn deficiencies.”
Although in this case, it does reinforce the fact that NIKITA is naturally incompetent and irrational and that even higher education didn’t correct her inborn deficiencies.
[Daphne – Bit of a positive-thinker, aren’t you? This is Malta, Steve, where the television station owned and run by the progressive liberal socialist party puts on prime-time shows featuring ‘nisa ta’ success’, cakes a mixed bag of them in make-up, then has the host ask them leading questions like ‘how do you manage to look so good AND have a career?’ So, please….]
@ Steve:
Yes, when a public figure who happens to be a woman puts out stupid arguments, half-assed reasoning and bad writing, that does reinforce prejudice against women.
The key word here is “prejudice”. All it takes for a prejudiced person to feel himself vindicated is a woman (especially if she is a public figure) who feeds the prejudice through her words and actions.
The same applies to every “minority” group. You may check this out for yourself. Read the comments in The Times Online after a news report on some black immigrant committing a crime. The majority of comments would be racist and/or anti-immigrant.
It really doesn’t take much to be regarded as an expert/worth listening to in Malta.
Well, seeing that every new development is now being labelled as ‘state-of-the-art’, even new ATMs (I am pretty sure non-Maltese, and the few Maltese that have a brain, find this hilarious), you cannot expect much either.
I suspect Ms. Zammit Alamango is using some instant translator software to put her pieces together.
What is really sickening is their idea of who the public is; the misguided notion that an opinion is something conveyed in a condescending tone to elicit agreement.
It reflects their idea of ‘authority’.
And when her lot are in government guess what her prize will be?
This is not a rhetorical question, but is hers a proper blog? It just doesn’t make sense:
http://divorce–divorce.com/Divorce/divorce-law-blogs-nikita-alamango/
‘chest’ fund.
Mur ara x’tghanni l-iskip!
Noted and corrected:
Last Saturday, crowds flocked to Verdala for the event, where all the proceeds go to the Community Chest Fund.
But she missed this bit:
However, August holds in its yearly calender: the President’s Ball of the August Moon which takes place at the Palace of Verdala.
Sorry I’m posting here. I had trouble finding your email address. Please tell me that you’re going to devote at least a little space to this fascinating letter in the Times this morning:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110808/letters/All-men-beware-Here-be-dragons.379255
I wonder if this is the same Allen Gatt: http://thingsthatrun.blogspot.com/2009/07/saturday-11th-july-2009-call-from-heart.html
Is his problem really about modern career women or social retardation? He’s the common denominator. Anyway, I thought you’d particularly enjoy this.
[Daphne – I read it. I’m glad you did, too, because of that little debate we had some days ago when I tried to get across to you that the position of women in Malta, with the prejudice and bad attitudes we have to contend with, is actually a lot worse than that of gay men. The strange thing is that while people have become hyper-aware that it is not politically correct to say or think certain things about homosexuality, they feel justified and free in talking this way about women. Can you imagine a letter like that being written and published, featuring the damage done to society etc by gay men? But women are still fair game. It’s always open season on women, especially those of us who work. And it really, really riles our denigrators when the evidence proves them wrong and our children turn out better than those of layabout mothers and our homes are better run too.]
What would you expect of someone who thinks ‘lathering plastic plants’ is a routine household task?
He writes a blog too
http://www.nojunknosoul.com/
And here’s his email address:
[email protected]
[Daphne – Our hero Allan Gatt has written a book ‘with adult content’: http://www.amazon.com/Dog-Always-Returns-Its-Vomit/dp/0978660625 ]
He’s written two:
http://www.amazon.com/Here-Lies-Wisdom-Allan-Gatt/dp/1409237192/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312973524&sr=1-2#_
He’s too far gone to even merit an email or a reply on his blog.
Yes, I can imagine that letter being published, because it happens quite often in your country:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110621/letters/On-gay-marriage-and-drawing-the-line.371642
And in mine:
http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2010/10/christian_compassion_requires_the_truth_about_harms_of_homosexuality.html
I have never disputed the fact that women are in a disadvantaged position in a patriarchal society like Malta (or indeed, most of the world). I also see little value in playing the “who is the most oppressed” game. Inequality is inequality, any way you cut it. It should not be a contest.
Sexist jerks like Allan Gatt are most likely homophobic as well. The two traits seem to go hand-in-hand and are almost always symptomatic of an insecurity in one’s own masculinity. That is why the fight against sexism and the fight against homophobia should be one and the same.
[Daphne – Actually, I think his real problem is that he’s seriously unattractive except to Thai husband-hunters and can’t possibly have any success with women (except Thai husband-hunters). Find him on Facebook and see what I mean. It won’t be long before we hear that he’s brought in a mail-order bride.]
“Allan,This’s your house?is big.” LOL!
Yes…sometimes it does come down to looks.
[Daphne – Thought you’d find it amusing.]
Let’s be honest.
She’s quite a handful.
She looks more like a ‘chairfull’ to me.
Is that pic photoshopped?
[Daphne – No.]
I was reading Lou Bondi’s blog on you, Daphne. He said you’re soft-spoken. Yes! Soft-spoken! Good one! But, more important than this hyperbolic playing down of your good qualities, Lou had a point actually.
[Daphne – I am soft-spoken. It invariably takes people by surprise because they expect me to sound like, for example, Marlene Mizzi.]
He asked why other journalists do not take up your stories.
If I were a journalist, I would want to investigate Jose A. Herrera’s behind-the-scenes frolicking with boot-licking members of the judiciary. People involved in lawsuits with Dr Herrera appearing for the other party, should know the backdrop to their case.
So, yes: why don’t other journalists investigate Jose A. Herrera’s admission on the exchange of views with Judges and Magistrates on the delicate matter of their salaries? Don’t such caucuses belong to the ethical twilight zone?
I KNOW you are soft-spoken in real life. I was referring to the virtual you, on this blog.
Cyrus Engerer posted in The Maltese Gay Community on Facebook.
Cyrus Engerer 11:23am Aug 9
The orchestrated events of the past month may have put a bad image of the LGBT community, however, the work done by MGRM and many of the people in this group is still leaving its fruit. I have received many emails of this kind during this month and received another one today which I wanted to share with you to encourage all of you to keep on ‘fighting the fight’:
“Hi,
Thank you for excepting my request. I live in London ( XX years now ) but was visiting my family, (who live on XXXX street) the week between the 14th – 19th July, when you came up as one of the top headlines… my father stood up and gave you a standing ovation, while my mother screamed out somthing on the lines of ” ara ja hasra! kemm hu helu! Alla ibierek kemm hu bravu!”
My father then went on to tell me all the great work you have been doing with MGRM. That was the first time in 46 years that my dad spoke to me face to face, about an issue to do with my sexuality, with 100 % solidarity.
So, may I take this opportunity to thank you for giving me a very special moment with my parents, which I will treasure forever and wish you a brilliant future ahead.
Best,
XXXXXXXXXXXXX”
Wow how low to post this pick on her blog.
Eehh? Pick or pic? Which blog?
wow, how, low, now, tow, mow, bow, vow, cow, now, sow………POW!
“However, August holds in its yearly calender: the President’s Ball of the August Moon which takes place at the Palace of Verdala.”
The least The Times could do is a spell check.
Calender?
From: Wikipedia
The calender is a series of hard pressure rollers used to form or smooth a sheet of material. In a principal application, the calender is located at the end of a papermaking process (on-line). Those that are used separate from the process (off-line) are also called supercalenders. The purpose of a calender is to make the paper smooth and glossy for printing and writing.
The Times is fast becoming Maltastar.
Late last night I tuned in to ONE radio. The resident “guru” of that late night programme was of the opinion that Malta’s many economic and other problems and those of the rest of the EU are just a dream. We can resolve them by retreating within ourselves in silent meditation while waiting for the exciting event that is to happen anytime now……THE ARRIVAL OF ALIENS.
The number of listeners phoning in at that time of the night to agree with him was quite surprising.
This guru is a regular guest on this particular Tuesday night programme, which goes on air just before the repeat of Mario Tabone Vassallo’s weekly whine.
I wonder if this guru is one of the “experts” in Joe Muscat’s Fondazzjoni IDEJAT advising him on future policies for Malta the day he becomes PM.
I know Mr. Gatt really well. He studied and obtained A Levels in science subjects but later became a lawyer. He’s now selling shoes in Birkirkara.
He was always rather eccentric and is known to wear a small penis pendant (complete with balls). Lately he has developed a knack for antisocial behavour, mostly through the internet. His language is vulgar and peppered with hatred and violence.
His book “A Dog Always Returns To Its Vomit” was turned down by a Maltese publisher. Mr. Gatt, seething with rage, decided to take matters in his own hands by threatening the publisher on Facebook. He also expressed his burning desire to see the publisher and his “pitiful” family suffering from cancer, etc or crashing their car into a wall.
His Facebook info is also quite revealing. Religious views: “I’m a fucking atheist”, Political views: “Very Liberal – Make that VERY very liberal”. Favourite quotations: “Don’t Push It, Or I’ll Give You a War You Won’t Believe.”, Activities and interests: “I Like Fucking”. The cherry on the cake? Well of course he claims to be “Interested in: Women”.
[Daphne – From your description he sounds like the typical male teenager. So either he didn’t go through the normal period of rebellion at the biologically appropriate time, or he just got stuck there. Sad.]
This being a tiny rock and us all being inbreds, there are many of us who “know Mr Gatt really well”.
Allan Gatt was simply born in the wrong country, full stop. What he writes and thinks is bog standard stuff in culturally developed countries, right alongside Houellebecq or Irvine Welsh or Brett Easton Ellis, perhaps with less polished prose.
[Daphne – The difference being that Welsh and Easton Ellis are not projecting their own thoughts but describing how others think. About Houellebecq I wouldn’t know. I couldn’t get past the first few pages. And in any case, I disagree with you completely. There’s nothing special about the way Allan Gatt thinks and writes. It’s the way every normal teenage male thinks, and if he’s literate, that’s how he’s going to express himself. Then we grow up. Welsh and Easton Ellis habitually use characters who are emotionally retarded – that’s why they sound like Allan Gatt. But it’s not the authors who are emotionally retarded themselves – it’s their characters.]
But it seems Malta never went through the Bronze Age, let alone postmodernism. When Britain had its Angry Young Men, we were busy fighting over il-kwistjoni tal-integrejxin. So we gawk and gape at Allan Gatt.
Incidentally, he is one of a handful of Maltese to have read and to admire Dwardu Ellul, who was aeons ahead of his time, and who was also born in the wrong effing country.
[Daphne – I’m so glad you mention the Angry Young Men, because it struck me earlier that Mr Gatt’s tone and arguments belong to the 1950s. He was not born in the wrong country, but is in fact typically Maltese in getting to the party several decades too late.
Oh, and another thing – while Gatt’s tone is over-emotional, angry and even hysterical, Easton Ellis is dry, dispassionate and disengaged.]
[Daphne – There’s nothing special about the way Allan Gatt thinks and writes. It’s the way every normal teenage male thinks].
I think you’re generalising too much here. I don’t remember myself ever being that extreme, especially in respect of the treatment of women. And I was an anarchist in my late teens, so I wasn’t exactly the nerdy type either.
[Daphne – Oh, I’m not talking about his views on women, but about his ‘rebel against things for the sake of rebelling’ attitude. If this were the 1950s, Allan Gatt would be getting cross about women who wax houseplants while wearing pinnies and fetching their husband’s slippers like dogs.]
I was thinking along the lines of “a general disillusionment with life”. The average Maltese is happy, optimistic and sees a bright future ahead, which is why Gatt rankles so many of them.
[Daphne – Oh, I’m not talking about his views on women, but about his ‘rebel against things for the sake of rebelling’ attitude].
Oh, yes, I understand. Then you are correct.
Baxxter, could you explain to me exactly what your thoughts are on our colonial past? You seem to take a weird perspective. Our Angry Young Men were busy fighting over integration…
(My comment stems from this remark you made: “When Britain had its Angry Young Men, we were busy fighting over [integration].)
My thoughts are we should never have gone for independence. We’re too small. We should have asked for dependency status, and we’d have been like Gibraltar.
Integration was the silliest idea ever, and it was bound to fail. However, what’s done is done.
But you misread my comment, or I’m mistaken. What I meant was that there was no postwar cultural development in Malta. Which is why our “modern” art and literature all look so contrived.
“Religious views: ‘I’m a fucking atheist'””.
It’s more likely that he’s a “masturbating atheist”, considering his public views on women. He should update his Facebook page accordingly.
[Daphne – Don’t be too hasty. Perhaps he goes after goats and chickens, like James Tyrrell, whose views and tone he shares.]
Neil Dent ‘likes’ this (y)
The qualifications of this ”guru” with certificates including one signed by King Peter II of Jugoslavia can be viewed here, a website linked to the one he referred to during his programme.
http://www.omni-ideas.com/Certifications
Are the institutes which carry the name MALTA, referred to in his various certificates, recognised by any competent authority in Malta?
Has he got a licence to practise in Malta?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110810/local/maltese-admits-to-threatening-to-bomb-lourdes-shrine.379667
Crazy.
Issa wasalna fejn kelna naslu – Qed ngheddhu lil-Madonna bil-bombi…
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110810/local/maltese-admits-to-threatening-to-bomb-lourdes-shrine.379667
LOL!
Maria Santa………..
xerraqtuni.
And what, may I ask, is Francis Cassar reading at university?
Probably chemistry. One doesn’t buy bombs at the supermarket.
BA (Hons) Peace Studies.
Allan used to work with Anglu…..the one of the elephants….
In a strange way I admire Allan for speaking his mind, as do contributers to this site; he just needs to stay away from the women thing, he really screws up there.
He expresses his thoughts to the extreme using any form or medium available (attention seeking) but this is not a common form of thinking. Lots of people tend to get shocked by such an extreme and abrasive style but he has some views that are dangerously true. I am assuming you have visited his site.
[Daphne – I visited his Facebook page and was put off by all the Thai and Filipina husband-hunters telling him they love him and how sexy his moustache is and what a big house he has. Sad.]
Are we still so far behind that it is sufficient for someone to speak their mind than to say something worth saying? No wonder you find Allan Gatt amazing.
A bit chunky for my taste…..petrodollars give you a choice (tongue in cheek…..my tongue and my cheek, that is, just to dispel any ambiguity).
Spend time in a revolving door! Classic. Love your blog.
You may consider cutting him some slack:
http://www.cafepress.com/allangatt.435606626
That’s sheer class. Great design.
Case in point :)
http://www.akkuza.com/2011/08/12/nikita-scissorhands/
Nikita has lost her blog:
http://www.akkuza.com/?s=scissorhands&submit=