Oh, for crying out loud – now he's having himself photographed in bed, for Facebook
Jeffrey reading in bed - a photograph he uploaded on his Facebook wall last night to tell his readers that he was currently.....reading in bed.
Some real friend, as opposed to the users and shabby people he hangs about with, needs to take Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando aside and have a quiet word with him.
Not that he’ll listen, as I know through experience.
He’ll merely press on, encouraged by those selfsame shabby people in the belief that he is right, an older but not necessarily more mature version of Cyrus Engerer.
Last night he uploaded on his Facebook wall this photograph of him reading in bed, and wrote beneath it:
Reading in bed after a very long day at the clinic! Good night :)
A stream of total strangers – his Facebook ‘friends’ – were moved to wish him goodnight. Well, actually only two of them wished him goodnight. The rest wished him gd nt, nite, nite :), gnite!, gnite jefrey :), and even ‘the same to you’.
This is what perplexes me. What makes a man my age – even if he is suffering from the most terrible limelight withdrawal symptoms now that he is no longer in the news – strike a pose with an old leatherbound (read ‘intellectual’) book, ask his girlfriend to take a picture, then immediately get up to upload it on his Facebook wall?
More to the point, what makes a man my age feel the need, when he turns in for the night with a book, to tell the world that this is exactly what he is doing?
There is something very wrong here, but I don’t quite know what it is.
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This photo means nothing.
1. No face can be seen, clearly, this could be anybody.
2. We don’t know what the person on the photo is reading – is it a book or perhaps someone’s diary?
3. Is he really reading or just holding a book?
4. The “book” could be upside down.
Imagine what Robert will upload…….
Instead of a book he will hold a DVD from the series On the Buses.
It is said that a politician persuades the people that he really wants what they want. gNite gNite
When your girlfriend takes photos of you reading a book in bed, you know the relationship is in trouble.
Especially when you take her to Comino and have lunch with her in the furthermost corner of the restaurant…with her back to the other diners.
Daphne…
I’m sorry to disappoint you… the guy in the photo is not JPO. The photo was lifted from this site:
http://www.bookgem.com/inbed.htm
Direct link to the original photo: http://www.bookgem.com/bednobg.jpg
What drives a dentist and politician to do such an asinine infantile thing like that, whilst referring to a busy day at his CLINIC?
What next, uploading a lifted pic to tell the whole world what a relaxing time he had at a massage parlour?
The book looks like the Old Testament. I heard through the grapevine that he joined a prayer group. They accepted him because he is an expert when it comes to weeping.
and gnashing of teeth. gnite.
Maybe he took the trouble of setting up a tripod and camera himself, which is even worse.
Actually it’s not him – if you Google images “reading in bed” it’s the first picture to appear.
Ara veru m’ghandux x’jaghmel miskin. Pathetic.
He could launch a range of soft furnishings and bedside lamps with that photo.
I AM JEFFREY.
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Charles J Buttigieg
Jeffrey, Daphne qaltlek tilbes pigama qabel tiehu ir ritrat fis sodda. Ghanda qalba perzuta ghalik.
22 minutes ago.
What next, Jeffrey on the john?
Hiya folks, just launching a Mersey trout.
[Daphne – GDay :))!!]
… and took time to view and crop the image.
http://www.google.com.mt/search?q=going+to+bed&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1920&bih=930#um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=reading+in+bed&pbx=1&oq=reading+in+bed&aq=f&aqi=g3g-m7&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=5666l7345l0l7457l14l11l0l0l0l1l1045l4308l3-2.3.2.0.1l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=8c910025ddd45cfd&biw=1920&bih=930
I am no doctor of psychology but this has the markings of a man who undoubtedly craves continuous attention. Now that he is out of the limelight with the divorce issue, his importance has been depleted to the extent that he needs to keep his disciples on Facebook happy, continually reminding them of his exsistence.
pathetic
So it isn’t Jeffrey after all.
Lis sur-Cyrus dahlulu aktar milli seta jakkomoda:
“Cyrus Engerer
Following over 50,000 visitors in less than a week and exceeding the bandwidth limits, http://www.cyrusengerer.com is back online!”
Does anyone have an opinion about the new Pirate Party of Berlin which seems to have made the headline news in Germany?
Yes, here you are:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15397528,00.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15399521,00.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15397392,00.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,787044,00.html
gnite Jeff and get a life.
Cyrus has the cheek to include an image of the Tigne’ Belvedere on his website’s title scroll.
What next, the tunnel?
Ahjar jaghmel erba’ bankini.
Jozef, you are right about the very dangerous pavements. Paraphrasing Ralph Nader, Sliema pavements are unsafe at any pace.
Ara veru m’ghandux x’jaghmel even if he lifted it off from some website.
Someone hacked his Facebook and uploaded that. He has phoned the police commissioner to investigate.
That’d be the Moviment Iva Ghas-Sodda, Le Ghall-Bad Posture In Bed.
http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/4548/el-sueno-por-william-dodds
Jeffrey, if I may, you do not know me from Adam and you might not give a damn about this post but read and think about what Daphne is suggesting.
“Some real friend, as opposed to the users and shabby people he hangs about with, needs to take Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando aside and have a quiet word with him!
Has he any real friends left? Rumour has it that he does not take kindly to any sort of well-meaning and disinterested criticism and his obsession with bearing grudges is legendary.
Solidarity at its best or the apex of stupidity ?
“MUMN said it believed that bigger countries with more facilities should address such problems.”
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110920/local/health-sector-not-in-position-to-support-influx-of-foreign-patients-mumn.385591
The Labour spokesperson for health is nonexistent too, but the MUMN substitutes it very well. It never misses an opportunuty to slam the government.
No but solidarity in Malta’s hospital should start with Maltese patients. Charity begins at home.
[Daphne – ‘Solidarity in Maltese hospitals’ starts with the most urgent cases, David. Treatment in state hospitals is not linked to nationality, if anything, but to insurance. The Maltese situation is anomalous in that you don’t have to be insured to get free treatment there; you only need to be a resident of Malta.]
‘Solidarity in Malta’s hospita’ means what, exactly?
You wouldn’t be one of those slimy sneaks who started crowing about oil exploration immediately they felt safe to do so, would you?
maybe mumn are right …………about 3 months ago i fell off my sailing boat and was hospitalised after a painfull journey and a long wait ,was xtrayed from the right hand side and told that 3 ribs were fructured. and discharged me half dead …………after 3 weeks in pain was adviced to take private x rays and was found that i had 3 other ribs on my left side and an nasty injury to the spine ……….mater dei is over loaded with locals …………..and short of staff
@ toni
The MUMN leadership should be ashamed for issuing such a statement. Oh and by the way, the human skeleton is supposed to have ribs on both sides.
I am not familiar with Facebook procedure. Are you expected to upload a full schedule, minute by minute, of your day, scrounge witty/wise bon mots from Wikipedia and include photos which continue orbiting in the digital world long after you have supposedly deleted them and which may come to haunt you when you least expect it?
A busy day at the clinic? Can the VAT people go and check how many receipts he gave out?
[Daphne – Doctors are the only people not obliged under the law to issue receipts. Isn’t that wonderful?]
Dentists also do not give VAT receipts. However, both health care professionals are obliged to give receipts.
Gas stations and bread sellers also.
I hope our friend Jeffrey is not in the habit of reading books on the loo.
This was just a dig at the Nationalist Party to publicise the fact that he had not gone to the Indifest (or whatever it is called) to celebrate Independence with the rest of the Party.
The truth surfaced when he said he didn’t go to the celebrations on that particular evening to protest over somebody or other helping in the organization of the event after having been convicted of having threated JPO and some other people.
I may have the facts wrong but, in essence, JPO was protesting because this person (a certain Charles Mangion – not the notary, I hasten to add) had the gall to go to the Fosos after having been convicted of having threated JPO.
So JPO, very fittingly for an almost-fifty year-old man, I must say, decided to boycott the event and inform us publicly that he’s curling up with a good book.
That is not JPO.
http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/4548/el-sueno-por-william-dodds
Couldn’t resist sharing this Facebook parody from Shooting Stars…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5g9NEJlHJ4