So naff
Ara nanna, naqbel mal-bekdropp
One of my favourite old chestnuts is that the devil is in the detail, because it is so true, and yet it is the telling details which people overlook, something that accounts for many an error of judgement or poor decision.
Look at this terrific photograph in The Times, today. The unwisely chosen tie carefully matched to the backdrop, the priedka tat-tifel pose: it’s just so naff. All that talk about progress and modernity, coolness and hipness and swinging with the hot chicks from 1975, and then Muscat is undone by these details.
He says that his wife chooses his ties because he’s colour-blind. I suggest he puts Mrs Micallef’s services to good use in an area that she knows something about, and gets her to choose them instead.
Even if it puts his wife’s nose out of joint, it’s the smarter move all round.
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And Mrs Muscat had to pick his college tie.
[Daphne – You know, I thought of that. It makes him seem even more puerile somehow.]
Isn’t that the Brigata Laburista tie? Joe Debono Grech might have given it to him.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_TEiUdwze0RE/R2fqPxqNXVI/AAAAAAAAADs/vpgAUCIzJLA/s1600-h/13.JPG
“Il-quddiem imxi” or was the motto “Jiena nista’ jien irrid”?
I think he chose it, actually – it’s a new version of his school tie. “Ara din, Mich – qisa tal-kullegg imma il-verzjoni ta’ zmienna. Din l-ingravata taghmilni ‘proud’ li jiena ‘old boy’. Nixtriha ha ninghogob ma l-old boys.”
… u mal-puliti …
Who are “the hot chicks from 1975”? And what “swinging” is Inhobbkom Joseph engaged in?
[Daphne – Marisa Micallef, or so I am told by people older than myself, was a hot chick in 1975. I found this fairly hard to believe until I remembered that it’s all relative. Even in my time (the early to mid-1980s), most of the girls looked like unshaven Panzer tanks with steel-wool hair and horrid clothes, so anybody slim, glossy-haired, reasonably attractive and with the ability to put together a striking outfit from a pair of bleached jeans and a couple of Indian scarves stood out like a star. And no, I don’t think Muscat is into any kind of swinging. I don’t think he’s interested in women at all, quite frankly – which is not to say he is gay, of course, just sort of Not Interested. I was just using some 1975 terminology, that’s all.]
Isn’t that an Arsenal tie he’s wearing? No wonder he’s so miffed at being left out of the trip.
Heck! I saw the Muscats at the opera last Saturday and I didn’t have a look at his tie.
Eh, l-opra eh? Kenneth Zammit Tabona must be playing Henry Higgins to Muscat’s Eliza Doolittle.
He must have bought that tie from Br. Piccinino’s office, God rest his soul.
Surely ‘May the cantankerous aggressive f**ker roast in hell’?,
Ed.
A tie straight out of Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. Makes me feel like candy actually.
Re the details – you missed the pussy stuck to his chin.
[Daphne – The fashionable people call it a lady-garden nowadays.]
Dik veru ingravata tal-kullegg mahbub taghna San Alwigi? Mela qaghad jaqla l-antikitajiet minghand ommu. I know that retro is hip nowadays, but wearing a barber-pole tie that harks back to your schooldays is bloody ridiculous. Or is it maybe that it represents the Maltese flag?
[Daphne – Do you happen to be in Spain now, Mario De Bueno? X’daqxejn ta’ jatsatteRRR int.]
it seems you have nothing serious to talk about daphne..talking about his tie now…the more you focus on him and attack him..the more you’re showing how afraid you are of him. Consider this…and the more Pn acts immaturish and lack of sensitivity by talking about people’s paycheck etc the more you stand to lose credibility and support.
@john agius – get a life!
haha can’t you debate without insulting…guess not
That tie’s just reminded me
http://www.barberpole.com/
Clearly the salesman image again – just like Go sales reps wear orange ties to match the stand.