“That’s entertainment!” Norman Hamilton takes his world view and priorities to the High Commission in London.
Clive Waters
The Maltese High Commission in London this evening entertained Maltese people who live there to a drinks party. Norman Hamilton, who popped up there for the occasion and will no doubt be back in Malta again on tonight’s flight from Heathrow, addressed the gathering.
His plans to further bilateral relations between Malta and Britain include – deep breath here, my dears – the twinning of the world-famous Notting Hill carnival with Malta’s.
And we must ask ourselves: how and why are carnivals twinned? What is the purpose of that and what can possibly be involved? The two carnivals are completely different. They are not even the same animal. The Maltese carnival is the actual pre-Lenten thing. The Notting Hill carnival is a wild summer party. And it’s not even all that wild really, or anything like what we know to be a carnival. The floats and parades are minor, negligible. It’s the revolution-in-the-streets atmosphere that makes it, and it couldn’t be more different from Malta’s highly regimented affair, where all the emphasis is on watching the parade of troupes and floats.
I spent my birthday at the Notting Hill carnival last year. I would never spend my birthday, or any day really, at the Valletta carnival. Even as a child I found it to be the cause of mind-eroding boredom.
But that’s not the point. The point is that Norman Hamilton has clearly taken his set of values and priorities with him to London and it’s going to be all about song contests, spettakli u karnivali.
The trashification of Malta goes on.
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Do you think he will be compering the Junior Eurovision next year?
And since he continues to travel weekly between London and Malta, shouldn’t he seriously consider keeping his Saturday night “Bla Agenda” show on Super One?
Festivaaalls, you mean.
F*** him – he didn’t invite me. I might be an old sod but I can walk and am still relatively smart.
Yes but can you sing or serve canapés?
I can sing a Tibetan version of ‘Sibtijiet Flimkien’ and can do impressions of a mating Norman Hamilton. Canapés, can eat but refuse to serve.
But then what could we expect from such a shallow man who has only be appointed to this prestigious post on the basis of his Labour affiliation? Meanwhile, Malta continues to lose face.
‘Float’ in Notting Hill Carnival terms is nothing more but a truck with loud speakers pumping out music at insane levels and some people dancing.
Did Norman Hamilton think that NHC was some kind of Rio, New Orleans or Venice? PEASANT!
The Malta Independent reported that Children’s Commissioner ‘should know how to think like a child’. Wouldn’t Franco Debono fit the bill perfectly?
According to the Urban Dictionary, a crooner is an old, dirty, angry man who hates his life and job and takes out his misery on youth.
Often a crooner will be seen spying on young college girls with an inappropriate smile on his dirty mustached face. He is probably imagining what it would be like to have sex with them if he dick still worked at his current age.
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=crooner
Malta is like Peppi Azzopardi’s wet dream come true.
I am sure that Grace Borg wearing stretched pants was in that dream as well. She is the personification of Peppi’s eloquent guests.
I’m pleased to say I wasn’t there.
“Even as a child I found it to be the cause of mind-eroding boredom.”
In forum-dom shorthand, +1
Mohhu sa xi carnivaal jew festivaal jasal miskin.
I never expected anything better from him.
Malta tan-nejk taghna lkoll.
Nemo dat quod non habet.