‘Positive energy’: the latest mantra
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April 23, 2014 at 3:30am
For this campaign, the Labour Party has decided to go with ‘positive energy’, and because Labour knows no distinction between party and government, the government has taken up the same refrain.
It’s positive energy all the way, with the prime minister even telling yet another child-singer who won something or other that she should keep up her ‘positive energy’.
The posters show a bunch of short, thin people wearing tight trousers and bouncing up and down.
They couldn’t be more different to the government, which is made up of people who range in size from overweight to clinically obese, with even its slimmer members getting heavier and more lumpen by the month.
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Someone shares your opinion (starts at 1:00):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sZYrf4eDyQ
Looks like Alfred Sant didn’t get the memo.
L-Energizer Bunny huwa kull ma jonqoshom.
Have you seen Helena Dalli lately? Think she needs to head to that gym with Jo.
True, she needs the gym. It is a pity to let herself go – she was Miss Malta a long time ago.
[Daphne – Fat or not, Mrs Dalli is by far the best looking member of the cabinet. But of course, she’s a woman so we just have to hold her to standards of perfection, whereas the men, all of whom are either outright hideous or as plain as the sole of a shoe (and short and fat and scruffy with it) are not commented upon.]
One of them is the “plant in the audience” & his bf.
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2014/03/a-plant-in-the-audience/
Definitely positive, the rise in taxes that is.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140423/local/transport-subsidy-is-definitely-going-up.516047
Imagine Austin Gatt doing the same, telling it to our face it’s not for us to know how much money, when and to who.
Up yours, Times of Malta.
One of them was on Xarabank challenging Simon Busuttil during the leaders’ debate.
Have the rules re use of acronyms been scrapped in journalism? How many Times of Malta readers know, off the cuff, what IHI and EBITDA stand for? Is this laziness or what?
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140423/local/ihi-results-highlight-year-of-growth-and-profitability.516090
That feeling of many words that do not explain much has become so, so familiar.
IHI is the acronym of international company. Anyone who follows the property or hospitality industries knows who they are.
As for the other acronym, EBITDA, it is commonly used by analysts, accountants, investors, senior managers, etc.
These types of articles are aimed at those with tertiary education. I would hate for the language used in similar articles to be watered down to accommodate those readers with limited knowledge or education on the subject. We don’t need a printed version of Xarabank, where ‘kliem tqil’ has to be defined or avoided.
Speaking of lazy, just copy and paste the words or acronyms you don’t understand to an online dictionary. You’d be surprised at the results.
You have to ask whether those “journalists” understand those acronyms in the first place. Maybe that’s why they do not define them.
The funny thing about this slogan Malta Energija Positiva – M E P – is that MEP stands for member of the European Parliament. And that is in English. In Maltese it will read membru tal-parlament ewropew; or MPE. So stupidly enough whoever thought of being original opted for the english version without realising so. Sheer amateurs.
Positive Energy can get you through anything… even through government by Labour Party.
All we need is Pharrell Williams singing ‘Happy’.
http://adsoftheworld.com/media/tv/mentos_positive_energy
Maybe Michelle Muscat has been reading Cecilia Ahern’s latest paperback – How to Fall in Love – but beware of fake positive energy because it backfires big time and on a national level the aftermath can be pretty horrendous when positive energy runs out.
A Positive Energy billboard stands outside the Palumbo shipyard to distract us from the fact that we’re unable to sleep due to loud noise pollution 24/7.
Some 400 of us are in court with Palumbo for having sprayed our cars and house facades along with some ship or other.
May I have your email address, please?
[Daphne – [email protected]]