Jose Herrera isn’t arrogant
Sliema was jam-packed with the starving masses yesterday afternoon.
I can vouch for that, because the only place we found to park was a roof-level slot in the multi-storey car-park.
Not so Jose Herrera, future minister of justice, who parked his car – registration plate LLD 007 – on the pavement at the bottom of Amery Street, just across from what Sliema natives call il-Kabana at Fond Ghadir.
You know, right there in the most conspicuous position possible.
And no, I didn’t take this photograph. Somebody emailed it to me. I recognise the place because that’s where I grew up.
Jose Herrera is not arrogant. He just does as he pleases. After all, he IS Consuelo’s brother, and she’s got enough brass neck to keep a foundry going.
When he’s minister for justice, he’ll park his car in the middle of the road and we’ll all just have to drive around him.
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Haseb li qieghed fuq it televixin
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111205/local/magistrate-fines-toni-abela-for-contempt-after-shouting-in-court.396997
An air-conditioning technician got thrown in the slammer for much less years ago.
A clear case of magisterial arrogance. That’s what most insecure magistrates do when they feel they’re losing control (or dignity, if they think they have any): they respond by abusing their powers.
Lahqilna iehor, issa, tarax… darba ohra ghidlu jbuslek idek, sur magistrat…
Kev, do you stand to gain anything?
GFY
Kev, magisterial arrogance is when the official car of a magistrate is used to despatch toys from a magistrate’s wife toyshop.
Doesn’t he drive a white one as well?
Joe Debono Grech was known to do exactly the same in Birkirkara roads in his heyday.
That’s New Labour for you.
Jaqaw nehhewlu ir-Reserved Parking kaxxa minn Triq Gorg Borg Olivier, kantuniera il-boghod minn fejn ir-ritratt?
LLD007, eh? He’s right there with the Byon Joes and the Clayton Pauls of this long-suffering island.
Beats NZA001 any day.
That would be Clinton Paul. And Quinton Jo.
Long-Lasting Delusions of James Bond.
The Herreras are not arrogant. They are just better than the rest of us.
LLD 007? What a f******g double w**ker.
Don’t be so sure. They say that a man’s car is inversely proportionate to the size of his prick.
The bigger the car the smaller the pecker.
LLD? Seriously? I need to take a lie down. Wake me up AFTER the elections please.
I can’t see the logic of that. That’s when the nightmare is likely to start. I want to savour every last bit of sanity now and then hibernate for 5 years, starting just after the election.
Herrera. Jose Herrera. Licence to drive… and park, wherever.
Joseph’s afterthought proposal number 51 (this is his exact words):
“51. Ma nħallux is-sistema tal-wardens tibqa’ racket issussidjat miċ-ċittadini, iżda jkun hemm sistema ta’ law enforcement serja, effiċjenti, trasparenti u accountable.”
Joseph, will Jose Herrera be in charge to enforce that?
When he becomes Minister of Justice, his number plate will read Grand Master 007.
It’s ‘gabbana’… what exactly is a ‘kabana’?
[Daphne – It’s kabana, unless you are also the sort of person to say gabinett. From the Spanish, cabana (as in Copa Cabana), meaning small wooden hut. You might believe Wikipedia if you don’t believe me: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabana
Don’t say you never learn anything new from this blog.]
If you’re referring to the “Kiosk” we say “Il-Gabbana”.
I couldn’t have found a better ,precisely what you were referring to
link:http://mt.wowcity.com/sliema/locbus2/2143173099717460156/il-gabbana.htm
There’s also a Face Book page.
[Daphne – In Sliema we call kiosks kiosks. Gabbana is the equivalent of blekbort. Ca-ba-na/ca-bin. Maybe they use a double B in Sicily or Italy. I wouldn’t know. Sliema kids find it hard to pronounce the double b sound and actually make a pronounced effort to do so, which is telling. It’s the same word as cabin.]
GABBANA jghidulha DONKEYYYYY!!!!!!!!
[Daphne – Forsi l-hamalli bhalek, ras, imma certament mhux jiena. Dak bhal meta int tixtri il-pastizzi tal-irkotta, u jien nixtrihom bir-rikotta, u bhal meta int tibla l-pirmli u jien meta ikolli ugieh ta’ ras niehu pilloli..]
Gabbana
There’s someone who sells sweets from a shack in Bugibba.
It’s called Dolce Gabbana.
On the other hand, it might be a corruption of “cabana” – the “k” becoming a “g” and the “b” Sicilianated into a double b … hence, gabbana.
cabana = cabin = kabina
(A shelter on a beach or at a swimming pool used as a bathhouse)
quisco = kiosk = gabbana
(A small structure, often open on one or more sides, used as a newsstand or booth)
so no, gabbana is not the same as cabana.
ricotta – irkotta debate.
[Daphne – I despair.]
Kif tghid u tikteb ‘gabbana’ ma tghallimtx zgur :P … so what, yes it is a corruption like thousands of words in italian are a ‘corruption’ of latin, like english words come from all over the place: greek, anglo-saxon, germanic and what not… languages are ‘corrupt’ versions of other languages. Gabbana is gabbana, it has beeen ‘corrupted’ and adopted into the language ages ago. Oh and by the way, ‘kiosk’ is used all over Malta, it is not the preserve of Sliema…
[Daphne – I know it is. The point I made, which is different to yours, is that words are corrupted in different ways according to the social group of the speakers. Eventually, perhaps after a couple of hundred years, one wins out. But right now with Maltese, we’re still in the process of, so the socio-linguistic distinctions are still very evident. People round where I lived always said il-kah-bah-nah. It was only when the area became more mixed that the local teenagers began saying ‘GaBBana’, and some of them, I recall, actually had trouble pronouncing the double B because it doesn’t come naturally.]
Actually Ray it is the reserve of Sliema in a sense because , Sliema did have two notorious Kiosk’s for one reason or another – The dearly missed Magic Kiosk toy shop, (which has ironically become a Poundshop , that’s curruption mate ) and the Magic Kiosk restaurant ( Twas redecorated with a bomb once) . Sure there’s Kiosk all over the Island but not many with a story .
[Daphne – That was MAGIC SHOP not Magic Kiosk toy shop.]
Yeah , yeah alright she’s correct on this one , it’s Kabana my Dad’s from Sliema and it’s always been referred to as Il -Kabana .
Hey Daph while we are on it follow this link . Heaven knows who the refference in italics is referring to .
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tal-pepe
[Daphne – Thank you for backing me up on this against people who think the word is irkotta and the other word is gabbana. As for that Urban Dictionary reference, it is clearly written by somebody ridden with lanzit and who doesn’t know that tal-pepe refers specifically to people born and bred in Stella Maris Parish, Sliema. And we definitely don’t speak that way. Those are the wannabes.]
Your thanking me. that’s a change , your usually ticking me off .
Yes correct -It’s Ricotta not irkotta becasue we are corrupting the Itallian word recotto. But surley that’s a unique think about the Maltese language , it’s ability to bastardise English or in this case Itallian.
God , we are even good at bastarsing food !
Why even , Jamie Oliver ( celebrity British cook ) in his Soho restaurant serves Timpana (bastardised Lasagna) .
So all in all we are pretty good at being bastards I think .
Should “cabana” be written with a tilde?
When he is minister for justice he will not have a parking problem.
There won’t be many people driving around in their cars then.
He will carry a portable sign which reads ‘Reserved Parking for Minister’.
All he has to do is place the sign in front of his car.
If an over-zealous warden tickets the car, he can always appear in Consuelo’s court room and get a suspended fine, after a court expert is appointed by the Magistrate. Plenty to chose from those who regularly attend her ‘parties’.
http://www.maltastar.com/pages/r1/ms10dart.asp?a=2344
[Daphne – Maltastar! You can NOT be serious. What sort of person are you, anyway? What’s your problem, your agenda? Out with it.]
Daphne, I think Richard Borg was trying to make a point that Austin Gatt is as arrogant as Herrera. Nothing more and nothing less. Your reaction to Richard’s post would suggest that you are the one with the agenda and therefore the one with the probem. For all of Maltastar’s foibles – the photo speaks facts – nothing more…
[Daphne – Track Richard Borg’s comments. You, at least, are blatantly transparent in your problems with me, Raphael Dingli. The tragedy of miniature men: some of them never get over it. Others couldn’t care less, and are utterly lovely.]
Miniature men?
[Daphne – I am referring to Raphael Dingli (Responder) who hoevers somewhere around my knees. I have no idea who you are or what your problems are. I certainly know his, though.]
Why would you think I have a problem? You uploaded a picture of Jose Herrera’s car, I directed you to a picture of Austin Gatt’s car.
I’m sorry I did not press right-click and squirrel it away into a folder on my desktop and instead directed you to maltastar’s website, you know how us chavs are.
That is not ‘his’ car; it belongs to the ministry.
“WE chavs”, and I don’t mean me.
The last time I parked there I got a ticket – and I live there.
If “007” meant “licensed to kill” surely it would include licensed to do whatever else one likes to do!
If this is happening during the GonziPN days may I ask what lies in store when Joseph Muscat heads a “gvern immexxi minnu?”
Parking fil-kantuniera u fuq il-bankina double yellow line.
Do you want to bet that he’ll say he wasn’t the one driving it ?
Don’t worry ..in one and a half years’ time he won’t need to park anywhere, he’ll have his own chaffeur my dear!
Irrid jitla l-ewwel “roundabout”. Mela ghadek ma smajtx li se johrog tabib popolari mal-PL fuq l-ewwel distrett.
Too much hate girl! Daqs d’hawn nies jipparkjaw u jsuqu bl-addoc, anzi ghar!!!…. lilhu rajt? Uwejaaa grow up
Suppost jaghtina ezempju id-dottore, ghaziza Jane.
anzi ghar!!!
Do you mean that they park their cars in caves?
And I’m sure Daphne is not a “girl”, and does not appreciate being called a girl.
I once saw him parked in a “disabled” spot in St Thomas Bay. And not, he was not with any member of his family, but with an able-bodied acquaintance.
If asked, he would probably retort with the Danny Devito quip in Twins …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRdcL2qKt6k
Now this makes a little bit more sense.
You’re hilarious! Keep it coming
Is it true that he is partial to Prinjolata?
Times of Malta.com, quoting Dr. Herrera. “The fact that I went into the yard shows I have respect for the regulations.” Oh really ? And later… “saying he had many defects but lying was not one.” Yes, right.
It must be in the genes.
He might have confused his cigarette with a lollypop.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20111206/local/MP-s-smoking-gun-a-lit-cigarette-in-House.397124
Going back to his car, should be not be fined? The photo should be proof enough of the contravention.
Re bastardized words : How about “GIGGIFOGU”? coming straight out of giuoco di fuoco
he should no have parked there………but usualy you get a ten euro or something ticket…. not a crime ….. so what ? lynch him ……….. wow …… i heard of people fidling milions of euros ……. building were not supposed to ….. and tens of abnormalities ………. but we sleep and stare ……… but if you park illigaly ………your fuc,,,,,,,,,,.. in the land of the thai …….. its the same …….. you can break every rule and even go away with murder { if you can afford it } but you must have a document to drive { any thing can do … as long as you have a pic } and wear a crush helmet ……….
I know Dr Herrera and if one person is not arrogant it is him.
Who has nothing better to do than to snap photos of peoples cars in various situations.
If it comes to that than half of Sliema are guilty of the same crime.
What about all the Reserved parking for old biddies who never pressed a pedal in their lives but whose ‘connections’ ensure that their neices/nephews have reserved parking zones. That is arrogance!
There is no parking to be had due to the bank, supermarkets, shops and hotel employees who use up most of the parking space, so much so that people have become housebound and cannot use their car.
Resident parking is a must and commercial establishments should be provided with parking space for their employees.
I also know Daphne and she couldn’t have grown up on that corner surely, she had a decent house and a lovely family in Milner Street.
What started about bad parking, convened to peckers and gabbannas, irkotta – what next gebjna?
Happy New Year to All.
@daphne You might have noticed that there are no NO Parking signs and no double yellow lines… so why all this BS.?
[Daphne – You don’t need a No Parking sign or a double yellow line to tell you that you shouldn’t park on the pavement, still less on a street corner. It’s taken as read.]