Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando: a whopping great case of the male menopause
Who's the old groover? Jeffrey throws some crazy shapes, man.
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando qieghed ihoss rasu, ghandu jkun.
That’s the trouble with these people my age and older who never did things at the appropriate age. They’re all busy trying to make up for lost time at the inappropriate age, and looking effing ridiculous, would they but know it.
After telling a national newspaper that he can’t wait until October, when he will finally be able to divorce his wife (this when their four children are listening), and being photographed at Virgin White Summer Night Prive parties at Gianpula with a bunch of sleazeballs in white shirts open to the waist like left-overs from some Austin Powers rip-off movie, he was at the David Guetta party on Sunday night, in the ‘VVIP area’ (are there VVIPs in Malta?) seated at a table with ace Malta Today reporter Karl Stagno Navarra.
If those were the contents of the VVIP area, I hate to think what it was like in the stables.
How’s that for Malta Today’s balanced take on any story involving Jeffrey?
Kienx hemm il-baby dada ta’ hamsin sena, Saviour Balzan, ukoll, biex il-vera jkunu ridikoli?
To complete the image of ‘I am pushing 50 but pretending to be 20’, Jeffrey saw fit to get involved in a loud and aggressive altercation with a man at the neighbouring table, and had to be evicted from the VVIP area, closely followed by ace reporter Karl.
Jeffrey, drunk or close to it, had been overdoing the suggestive talk and flirting with the man’s companion.
How sad is that.
This behaviour is now considered so normal in belatedly Swinging Sixties Malta that even politicians like Jeffrey think it’s fine.
When I see all these people my age running about like cats on heat who think that life’s prizes are being snatched out of their grasp, it makes me want to buy a rocking-chair and take up knitting.
And the sad thing is that nobody can ask for his resignation because it would lead to the collapse of the government and a far worse scenario.
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I know I am going to receive a barrage of comments about this, but men over 50 should really never be seen or heard after 9pm.
Would you have them shuffling at home in slippers and housecoats then? There are loads of things the 50+ can do after 9p.m. that does not border on the ridiculous. If you ask me, certain irresponsible behaviour is not acceptable at any age. I only accept tantrums from toddlers.
There are plenty of things a man of 50+ can do after 9pm.
Take the doggie out for walkies.
Fix the leaking kitchen sink.
Change the cat litter.
Wash the dirty dishes.
Garage the car.
Watch an old BBC serial with his ‘partner’ over a bag of popcorn and a big pot of herbal tea whilst reassuring her that she is his one true love.
What a man of 50+ should not be doing after 9pm is being ridiculous by behaving like he is in direct competition with his grown-up children where the mating game is concerned.
Hear, hear. Next we could be hearing that he’s got a lover younger than his son. Ridiculous old man.
Maybe he should wear this on his next jaunt: http://www.printfection.com/sillyshirts/Recycled-Baseball-Jersey/_p_802745
I used to think this guy was just obnoxious.
Now I feel that this adjective is more of a euphemism in his case.
Those of a young age should consider Pullicino Orlando and all those who behave like him as an example.
Once you are young you should enjoy yourself as much as possible and try different experiences as a young man or woman. You can’t start living your youth when you are in your 40s. That is ridiculous and too late whether we admit it or not.
Iz-zaghzagh ghandhom id-dritt u dover li jaghmlu il bahnanati and to sow their wild oats. Persisting in behaving irresponsibly in middle age bordering on old age is nothing short of farcical, apart from giving a bad example to the youngsters.
[Daphne – I wouldn’t worry about the bad example. Young people think that sort of behaviour is thoroughly sad.]
Once upon a time, the kids’ behaviour used to shock and dismay the parents. Nowadays, the parent’s behaviour shocks and dismays their watching children.
It’s embarrassing for his kids as well. Poor kids.
Do politicians have access to free psychiatric services?
I laughed my head off at this great article. How right you are.
Il-gennati hallihom ghaz-zaghzagh, Dr JPO, u mhux ghal xjuh bhalek who should know better.
My gran used to say that there is no fool like an old fool.
He could have cried.
Quite Proustian : ” À la recherche du temps perdu” or In Search of Lost Time .
When I heard him saying ‘that he can’t wait until October to divorce his wife’, I almost had a feeling that he was not talking of his first wife, but …., anyway, maybe I am wrong.
He is behaving so oddly lately.
Also, it was only about 10 years ago that his views about divorce were totally the opposite.
I have two articles which he wrote back in 1998 and 1999 lambasting Alfred Sant for merely stating that the subject should be discussed. He is just a weathercock par excellence. Weathercocks are never to be trusted.
Old (weather) cocks even more so.
He is a weathercock without the weather. What is pitiful is that the likes of him are controlling our lives.
Confucius say: Woman who pounce on old rooster go down on limp cock.
The only doubt that I had about voting for divorce was JPO. I finally voted yes but know of some people who voted no because of him.
Progressive Labour:
Larson Pisani
Yesterday, 14:05
They want freedom ??? fine send them back to their countries
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110816/local/safi-migrants-start-fire-in-protest.380542
I think that tight ski pants, skimpy tops, mini skirts and short shorts should be banned for any one over size 12.
In the same way clubbing fashion clothes and clothes from the boutiques targeted for youngsters should be banned for any one over 35.
Something has become really obvious in Malta. The ‘liberal’ tag and liberalism have been hijacked by the irresponsible, the frivolous, the ignorant and the dangerously amoral. This really makes me take a second look at the Lija/Attard/Birkirkara lawyers we have in government.
Funny you should mention this, Daphne. I’ve just overheard my son (in his early 20s) scathingly discussing with his friends the fact that the VVIP area at David Guetta was “full of people our parents’ age”.
Do people in their forties and fifties understand how they are perceived by people in their 20s when they get up to that sort of thing?
Perhaps you’re right and they never went to Saddles, Ta’ Gianpula, Club 47 and Club Numero Uno at the appropriate time in the 1980s, and so don’t remember those old pervy groovers and women in their 30s (!) trying to be cool and being laughed at and despised by the rest of us, which is why they can’t see that they have now become the equivalent (and much, much older too).
So very sad.
Absolutely. Vide my post about Malta soi-disant most exclusive club, Level 22. The under-30s had to set up their own, “most exclusive” venue: Moscow Club. Cringe.
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002341073222&sk=wall
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AMONG US HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE GUESTS IN OUR COUNTRY AND THEY SHOULD BEHAVE ACCORDINGLY
The over-50s among us have to understand that they are guests in our club and have to behave accordingly.
[Daphne – Jeffrey is not yet 50+. Dak daqsi preciz. Tfal tan-1964. The Year of the Dragon.]
U iva, error bars. Pushing fifty mela. Ghandu zmien daqs Malta indipendenti. Hu u Malta l-istess pattern ta’ zvilupp juru.
Giuseppe Tomasi de Lampedusa in his novel ‘The Leopard’ would make the Prince of Salina Farbrizio Corbera say that teenage boys are like dogs, girls have only to whistle and they come running with lolling tongues.
But here we are talking of fully ‘mature’ grown men behaving like imbeciles. If VIPs are the nouveau riche ‘liberals’, so help us God.
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Jekk jirrezenja kummidjant tal-parlament jaqa’ l-gvern ta’ Gonzi … u ahjar Zews jaghtini mitt pacenzja …
Hasra li ma tantx hawn interess ghall-parodija u s-satira fil-kamp letterarju. Materjal hawn kemm trid … bizzejjed tqies f’liema pajjiz tal-imgienen qeghdin nghixu …
“Jeffrey saw fit to get involved in a loud and aggressive altercation with a man at the neighbouring table, and had to be evicted from the VVIP area”
Tsk…Tsk…Shame on you J.P.O.
Frankly, I don’t give a monkey’s toss if he is holding the government at ransom. His conduct as an MP is totally unbecoming and he must seriously be dealt with.
Jeffrey’s Facebook wall is an exercise in narcissism. The man is self obsessed.
Could it be a case of retarded development rather than the menopause?
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando
THE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AMONG US HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE GUESTS IN OUR COUNTRY AND THEY SHOULD BEHAVE ACCORDINGLY
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It’s no surprise Jeffrey said this because he is someone who only thinks of himself and what is best for him. It’s all about him.
Daphne, posts like these just make me smile. Keep it up.
ihoss mohhu nghidu mhux ihoss rasu.
[Daphne – Fil-familja tieghi nghidu ihoss rasu. Ihoss mohhu qatt ma smajta.]
Still I don’t think that is the right place to be for a member of parlament in his 40s.
Bil-Malti tista’ tghid u tikteb kemm ‘ihoss mohhu’ u kemm ‘ihoss rasu.’
Stiefnu: ma nafx ghalfejn trid tikkoregi meta int stess ghandek bzonn titghallem.
Ihoss mohhu imma taghtih rasu.
What you failed to mention Daphne is that he had to be dragged out of David Guetta because he got into a fight! Now how pathetic is that?
[Daphne – I did say it. I got a barrage of texts from Jeffrey saying that he was ‘attacked by a harridan’ (yes, right, they’re all throwing themselves at him), that I shouldn’t mention his children (this because I said that he shouldn’t give interviews to the national press telling the world how much he is looking forward to divorcing their mother) and that his girlfriend was hurt because of my comments. Indeed. Can you imagine, fran, back when we were 20 years old, what we would have thought if we had seen some ‘parents’ dancing around and drinking at Club 47 then getting into a brawl the bar? I can still picture a couple of parents (and they were married to each other) taking to the dancefloor at a club opening where everyone was 28 max, and my friend leaning over to me and saying ‘Those are X’s mother and father. They’re perverts.’]
Attacked by a harridan?
Lol. they will be throwing their knickers and bras at him next.
Aaaaaaaaahh, the handicaps of being so handsome and available.
I know exactly what you mean. I remember one such couple at Gianpula. We were in our early twenties, and “out-danced” by the (married) parents of one of our friends.
Then there was the even older mother of one of our contemporaries, with her then lover on the dance floor.
Taking up knitting certainly sounds like a fine hobby to take up in these ‘liberal times’.
Although I still don’t agree with Lawrence Gonzi’s decisions over the divorce issue, the more I look around me, the more I understand him.
Maybe the problem is not that Lawrence Gonzi is not liberal but that he believes the Maltese cannot be trusted with having very liberal laws. Sure, people will accuse him of creating a nanny state, but just because children might not want their nanny, it doesn’t mean that they don’t need one.
According to these ‘new liberals’, if it’s not illegal, it’s perfectly fine. Anything goes regardless of how ridiculous it is or who gets hurt.
Everybody conveniently forgets that those old-fashioned. conservative laws had sound foundations, and were developed over thousands of years of human civilisation.
Anti-sodomy laws protected women from their husband, anti-adultery laws protected families, and so on.
These ‘new liberals’ are throwing out the baby with the bathwater. They don’t only want to throw the laws into the rubbish bins of history but even the foundations on which they were based on.
Going by their reasoning, next we would be decriminalising peadophilia and rape just to be liberal.
Besides, I keep getting the feeling that this new found ‘liberalism’ by the Labour folk is only being used to strengthen the patriarchal system. Women and gays are ghettoised and need special quota to get into important positions.
[Daphne – I’m glad you brought that up. The men and women in the ‘swingers’ crowd’ who describe themselves as liberal actually hold archaic views about women. Women are there to be sexy, glammed up and available, and even the women with brains and careers end up behaving like silly tarts. Liberal now = idiot/tart/chick.]
I wonder how all these folks who can’t stop going on about gay matters and how Labour decriminalised sodomy would react if their girlfriends/wives tell them that it’s a real kick to shove something up their (the men’s) butt.
Our neo-liberals give such a bad name to liberalism, it makes you want to become ultra conservative just to thwart their stupidity.
Mur ara kieku kien hames pulzieri itwal dan Jeffrey!