How do you call this in your country?

How do you call this in your country?

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Food.

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Пoглaдь eё, милый чeлoвeк и тeбe бyдeт cчacтьe!

goyangi

Maлeнькaя киcичкa :3

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Funny lookin' wombat

minush

my little angel

Qattus/a

My melanin-enriched compatriot.

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Nipprova nikteb Malti sura għax għarukaża kif nsejt nikteb ċertu affarijiet. Kollox sew jew?

I'm not even going to attempt, my fucking grammar was always horrible, now it's just an insult to anyone with local eyeballs. SAD.

Yeah I'm pretty swell, my dude. Staying out of these fucking heatwaves and planning a nice little vacation to a random freezing tundra for a week or three. You?

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Lovely digits m80

>I'm not even going to attempt, my fucking grammar was always horrible, now it's just an insult to anyone with local eyeballs. SAD.
I want to practise writing more and start reading. I like our language, and I think that we must do our best to keep it alive. Is it ok if I respond in Maltese?

>Yeah I'm pretty swell, my dude. Staying out of these fucking heatwaves and planning a nice little vacation to a random freezing tundra for a week or three. You?
Come on friend, you know that this is just the beginning, we didn't have any heatwaves yet. Honestly I prefer summer than winter. I get too cold too quickly and it's
no fun at all. A vacation sounds nice, any country in particular that you have in mind? Also I'm doing fine, I mean I'm going through some shit, you might've seen me
write about it here before but lately I've been feeling slightly better.

Ayy shit, quads. Didn't even realize. Of course it's ok man, write whatever and however you please. I can still read and speak it fluently.

I haven't been hanging out here for a while so I have no idea. I'm trying to keep my mind off a lot of stuff myself with varying results, just trying to keep myself preoccupied to prevent overthinking.

I don't know honestly, Estonia, Finland, Belgium or even Iceland. Somewhere peaceful, where I don't have to see a fucking construction crane for a bit of time.

I prefer winter still purely because I can just put on more/comfier clothes. With summer I'm just dying even when in my boxers around the house. It's murder, I physically have trouble breathing some days.

>Of course it's ok man, write whatever and however you please. I can still read and speak it fluently.
Grazzi, u alla ħares tasal fi stat li ma tibqax kapaċi taqra u titkellem sew il-lingwa. Avolja ma nieħu xejn bi kbir illum il-ġurnata.
Jien saqsejtek għax għid forsi tippreferi li nużaw lingwa waħda.

>I haven't been hanging out here for a while so I have no idea. I'm trying to keep my mind off a lot of stuff myself with varying results, just trying to keep myself preoccupied to prevent overthinking.
X' nista' ngħid, inżomm ruħi okkupat ħalli ma noqgħodx naħseb iżżejjed huwa wieħed mil-għanijiet tiegħi imma m' għandi ħeġġa ta' xejn. Jien kważi dejjem hawn; ma nafx qatt tkellimniex qabel, naf li xi kulltant
tfeġġ bandiera Maltija oħra pero' ovjament ma nkunx naf min hu min, dak hu l-punt. Din is-sena ma tantx bdejtha bit-tajjeb, u dawn l-aħħar ftit jien kienu bla dubju l-aħjar ta' din is-sena.

>I don't know honestly, Estonia, Finland, Belgium or even Iceland. Somewhere peaceful, where I don't have to see a fucking construction crane for a bit of time.
Għażliet sbieħ, speċjalment l-Iżlanda. Tara ħafna "cranes" jew? Jien ma tantx nara pero' il-ħin kollu nismagħhom itaqqbu, kif qażżu 'l Alla.

>I prefer winter still purely because I can just put on more/comfier clothes. With summer I'm just dying even when in my boxers around the house. It's murder, I physically have trouble breathing some days.
Is-sħana ma tantx tagħmel bija, allura jaf inkun parzjali meta ngħid li s-sajf aħjar. Ix-xitwa wisq iddejjaqni.

There's something very wrong with this Maltan bloke.

You can even say it right.

can't*

gatto

goyangi
gonei
nego

stupid kotposter, it's not even caturday

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Katė
>Klein
yeah, right

I relate to a lot of these feelings. I work freelance and I just ended 3 months of a nice routine where everything felt in place. Not 3 days later I'm back to oversleeping, staring at my laptop with a glazed over look and with a big creative block. it's like the time and drive to do things are mutually exclusive.

I don't live in an area with many cranes but going anywhere here gets you a face full of them, plus most of my friends live in Sliema and surroundings areas, so I have no real choice.

If you want to talk about what's bothering you, do tell.

Naħseb fil-kas tiegħek, tagħmel tajjeb li tieħu vaganza, taqta' ftit mil-ħajja tas-soltu u tistrieħ ftit, taf int? Jiddispjaċini li kellhek xi ħaġa tajba
għaddejja u waqfitlek. Tista' tissolva l-ħaġa?

Ifhem fil-kas tiegħi, il-problemi kieku ilhom jiġġemmgħu, u fl-aħħar bħal donnu feqqet il-bużżieqa. Biex ma ntawwalx fil-qrid fuq il-problemi tiegħi,
bażikament jien wieħed minn dawk li qatt ma ħareġ ma' sħabu, dejjem magħluq ġo din il-misħuta kamra, ħbieb ftit li xejn kelli, għandi mistħija
biex inbiegħ, u onestament ma jinteressani xejn. Kont ili sitt snin student, qbadt u tlaqt għax fl-aħħar tagħtni rasi, u minn dakinhar 'l hawn, ħlief
nippulċinella fuq Jow Forums ma naħmilx, il-biċċa l-kbira ħa ngħid hekk. Anzi ħadt xi ħaġa minn hawn għax ltqajt ma' xi nies minn tagħhna li nkellimhom
b' mod privat u speċi ta' huma l-uniku kumpanija l' għandi.

B' xorti ħażina dawn il-misħutin 'cranes' qiegħdin kullimkien. Jien l-istess, fl-inħawi li noqgħod fihom m' hawnx ħafna 'cranes', pero' Malta qiegħdin, jekk
tiżloq, tispiċċa taħt wieħed.

It will be solved early next year yes, I'm permanently moving to england. There's just zero here for me now. I've postponed this for far too long, but I've gotten into my career come 26 so I couldn't have done it sooner either way.

I empathize, mate. Most of my life has been like that, I still struggle with wanting to go out but at the same time I've trained myself to be extroverted enough for my career and I foten get really anxious because I'm stuck indoors. I've taken to going around for walks at midnight, not a soul to be seen and I can get some air without the heat or prying eyes.

the hope is the worst part. If you have nothing to look forward to, every day feels like a big blur with nothing to wake up to. Do you interest yourself in any projects like DIY perhaps? I picked up a ton of handicrafts.

Kartoshechka.

PUUSSSSYYYY

Leave it to the yanks

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Ħasra li se tħallina, pero' fl-aħħar mil-aħħar int taf hux. Il-qasam tiegħek batut hawn Malta?

Dan l-aħħar jien ukoll bdejt noħroġ nimxi, pero' filgħodu. Ngħid nitħaddem ftit, nieħu naqra arja tajba, u ma tantx ikun hemm nies. Imma kollox ta' bilfors.
Irrid nisforza ruħi biex nagħmel xi ħaġa, tkun xi tkun. Il-ġimgħa l' għaddiet kienet l-iktar ġimgħa produttiva li kelli mindu tlaqt mil-skola għax filgħodu wara
l-mixja, kont qiegħed nagħmel xi xogħol fil-ġardina tagħna għax kienet diżastru. Issa dak ix-xogħol qisu speċi ta' jogħġobni, pero' tant jien bniedem indeċiż
fuq pjuttost kollox, illi onestament l-anqas għadni nagħraf x' jogħġobni u x' ma jogħġobnix. U l-bqija, interess ta' xejn, f' xejn.

Indecisiveness is a great disease I also suffer from. the best antidote I've found to it is simply stopping yourself and physically telling yourself out loud "user, pacing around talking about it is not doing shit. You've done this for the past hour. Sit down and do it" and I talk myself through it. I spend literally hours or days deliberating whether I should do a particular something, only to stop myself and do it in like 20 minutes.

Get some seeds and start a garden. There needn't be a reason, the fact you're tackling something busies you and is good for your mind. It's its own reason, in fact. It's a good first step, I think.

And yeah, I work in Film. There's jackshit left for me here, it's a slow death to keep hoping for the slim pickings we get and the appreciation for the arts here is non-existent. Everything has to be fucked raw by the big dick of bureaucracy and balding politicians jerking themselves off to "hey look we funded this, I have no idea what it is but we signed a piece of paper, we're patrons of the arts!"

It's a sore subject. While there will always be these problems anywhere you go, it's significantly smaller when the populations are bigger and there's infrastructure for them.

Kat, kater or poes

gatito bonito uwu

Li tkun taħseb iżżejjed fuq kollox, anke l-inqas ħaġa u li tkun indeċiż narha bħala saħta li diffiċli teħles minnha. Naqbel miegħek illi l-aħjar ħaġa li tagħmel hi li
taqbad u tagħmilha, imma issa ngħidu dan u x' ħin niġi għas-siegħa tal-prova ma nagħmel xejn, għax moħħi jirbaħ.

Ommi qaltli li jmissni nara nidħolx xi kors jew x' naf jien. L-idea mhix kerha sa barra, pero' nsibha bi tqila biex nerġa' nidħol għall-edukazzjoni, l-anqas naf
irridx fuq kollox.

Iva sfortnatament fejn tidħol l-arti, hawn Malta brodu. X' inhu jiġri eżatt allura? X' inhuma jagħmlu ħażin dawk l-għorrief?

I found it very helpful to have an external force. I realized I work very well when I eliminate any choice, or have a clearly superior choice. It makes me think "I have to do it, no buts, can't escape from it" which generally works wonders because I punch it into my head so much that I believe in the statement. It's kindof... 1984 style indoctrination but self. Unfortunately, discovery requires searching. If you never try whatever, even things you never thought about, you'll not find out what you DO like. I mean shit dude I picked up sewing plushies, never thought I'd actually be good with a needle, turns out I enjoy it very much and am pretty damn good at it. I started by just liking making a little coin bag to store all the fucking copper coins my grocers would dump on me. that led to making pouches for trading card decks, and then "hey what if I made a little teddy bear?"

Basically there's no infrastructure when it comes to artistic almost-anything. All the funds are held by a clique of tight-fisted people who make you jump through hoops for the privilege of getting 1% of what other art institutions get abroad. Then they laud themselves and throw all kinds of demands on you because "you should be grateful we funded you", with their fucking spare change that the few bigshots with government-endorsed positions have left for the rest.

Cont.

That's just to make your own shit. If you want to work in the films themselves, good luck, the same people take every spot, you'd be lucky to get an unpaid apprenticeship. If you want to act? Zero infrastructure for that neither, people auto-assume you mean "extra" and there's only about 4 people that do the job who don't keep professional distance from the extras themselves (so some will get preference, some will get zero work).

Finally, there's the complete lack of originality and creativity. Disregarding the complete shitshow of local TV, the few that really try (props to them) are also unfortunately mired in pretentiousness and relegated to making fucked up surreal music videos for a few grunge/punk-y bands.

I feel so strongly because I love what we could be capable of, but it's just a complete loss. I've fought for years to try and help it grow in my own way, but I can't fight the big fish. so I'm taking my toys and fucking off somewhere that I can grow in without fighting tooth and nail for every inch of progress.

Għandek raġun, trid tipprova l-affarijiet, imma moħħi jibqa' jgħidli illi jekk l-oġġett ma jinteressanix, għala għandi nipprova? Forsi nuqqas ta' dixxiplini minn naħa tiegħi.
Pero' irrid nesplora ftit fejn jidħlu l-pjanti u l-fjuri. Dawk għax tgħid jogħġbuni.

Ifhem ma tantx nista' nikkummenta fuq il-kwistjoni li semmejtli filwaqt li napprezza li dħalt fid-dettall fuqha l-biċċa. Jista' jkun illi forsi n-nuqqas ta' appoġġ mil-pubbliku
jaffettwa dan kollu?

The public is unfortunately one of the biggest culprits, but it's a cycle really and its kept going because of the population number.

The institutions acts this way because there's no interest in higher quality. Therefore, there's no quality education and no real expectation that the field will be worked on aside from the few that already do. This means that the populace is kept "artistically dumb" because all it gets is shit like Dejjem Tieghek Becky. That kind of stuff is the standard, which is a ridiculously low bar. The populace has learned that A) this is the best we're capable of so there's no reason to try harder and B) this is what sells so again, no reason to try harder.

This is kept in cycle by the population. We're around 450K people sans all the foreign workers. The audience is extremely small. Take from that population the amount that care about watching movies at the cinema, then further cut out all the people who don't care about the subject your movie is about. You therefore have, at max, like 50 thousand people? and that's blockbuster-tier as far as we're concerned. There's no incentive, you will always lose money. Hence why you'll find lots of sponsors... but very few companies will entertain giving you actual cold hard cash for your projects.

Cont.

Of course you can market your film for abroad, but you run into financing troubles and the quality demanded by the foreign market. Which brings us to language and acting. you must make something that FEELS foreign and uniquely maltese without riding it too hard. Simshar fucked up here, because they portrayed local maltese as still carrying fruit on wicker baskets on their heads (but that's cause the director is a pepe sliemiza who never visits the south). you also 99% have to make it in english, which will piss off your home country cause we tend to be super proud of it and everyone else gets labeled a sell-out.

The acting is the other hurdle. No professional training that isn't stage and stage does not equal film acting, not in the least. Stage is very shakespearean, projecting your voice and not-so-subtle gestures. Film acting is super precise. As a result: you get maltese acting where the simple act of getting water is met something like "Mulej, x'xerqa gietni! Nahseb ahjar.... ingib belha ilma, qabel ma nistordi!!"

You can tell how vitriolic this subject is for me, I think I'll stop. My apologies to you and everyone else for witnessing it, but I hope it was entertaining for someone.

Is it old meme or something?

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Le sieħbi tħabbilx rasek, għandek kull dritt tesprimi ruħek fuq dan is-suġġett, aħjar milli kulħadd jgħid il-kelma qattusa bil-lingwa tiegħu għax dil-misħuta 'thread' tinħoloq kuljum! Anzi, nirringrazzjak talli qiegħed tgħidli kif inhi
s-sitwazzjoni mil-perspettiva tiegħek ta' bniedem li qiegħed fil-qasam. Għax kif għid int fuq il-'media' dejjem tara l-politikanti jifirħu u jidħku fil-wiċċ pero' xi ħadd bħalek irid ikun biex jgħid x'hinu verament jiġri. Forsi hawn mhux
il-post addattat, imma nsomma. Id-drama lokali ħara, ma tantx hemm fejn iddur. Jien ili ma nara xi drama lokali snin, għax iqażżuk dejjem l-istess imbarazz. U naħseb hawnhekk jippruvaw jirreċtaw fuq it-TV daqs li kieku
qiegħdin fuq il-palk, hux hekk? Kif tista' Malta tinqala' minn din il-ħama?

hiekkalaatikon kusipää

Hehe, yeah I know but still. I kinda went off the rails there.

Pretty much yes, since there's no professional acting education, fuckin' everyone says they're an actor because they were an extra in a Dujardin frozen vegetables commercial. Even disregarding training, there's a certain "thing" to a good actor or one with potential, but nobody practices, nobody aims higher, and the direction compounds this because as long as "it's good enough", it's all perfect for the local audience. No room or possibility to grow. Thus, a nation of overactors and the handful (and I really mean I can count them on one hand) go abroad to study and just make a living doing stage.

I don't know how it can get better. It's not only extremely difficult due to ingrained mentality, but also because of our population size. We simply don't have the space to have a market in the first place. We'd need all the politicians to invest in quality foreign help and make incentives for LOCAL companies to invest in the industry.

We'd also need some serious quality control when it comes to acting, where maybe 20 people out of a thousand prove to be eligible for training.

Think in cycles. Better writing demands higher budgets and quality control, which needs better actors to complete the project and investment. This leads to a higher standard, and institutions will have to constantly better themselves to provide for this growing business, lest they lose access to those delicious profits.

None of this will happen. Not with the same people in power either blue or red. I've maintained the opinion that the only way for Malta to elevate itself is through complete replacement of all political institutions, and banning even the relatives of those currently in power to hold any position in government, PLUS the abolition of the current parties. Maybe gradually in a hundred or so years when everyone living today is already gone.

Il-ġurnata li neħilsu mil-PN u l-PL hi l-ġurnata li Malta ma tibqax imwaħħla fil-medjokrita u tikseb is-serjeta', u mhux biss fejn tidħol l-arti.
Biex isir dan iridu sfortunatament jitilqu l-anzjani u dawk ta' mezza eta', għax jien naħseb illi l-fiduċja fil-partiti l-kbar fost iż-żgħar mhix
daqshekk b' saħħitha. Imma x' tagħmel huwx.....

moomoo

Amen. The other alternative is a military coup by a foreign nation, which won't happen either and is drastic in the extreme. this simply won't happen in our lifetimes, I believe. We're still fresh from British Empire independence, in the grand scheme of things. We need several more generations to pass before we fully cleanse ourselves of this horseshit.

Anyway, gotta leave you. Will be back to browse here and there. you take care of yourself and please try to engage in something. I have faith in you user.

Nistiednu l-Ordni toħodna lura jew nagħtu ruħna lill Italja lol? Apparti ċ-ċajt, preferibbilment il-problema nirranġawha aħna l-Maltin. Alla magħna.
Saħħa ħabib! Ħadt gost inkellmek. Grazzi tal-kumpanija u tal-kliem ta' kuraġġ. Jekk terġa' tinzertani kellimni. 99% bandiera Maltija fuq Jow Forums hi jien.

U jekk ma nerġgħux nitkellmu, nawguralek għal-futur!

Will certainly do and thanks so much for your encouragement. I'm sure we'll talk again! Have a good night!

Il-lejl it-tajjeb.

I know that you are allowed to kill cats. Australians are traitors of human race