My, he’s an even bigger sleaze than I thought he was
You know how we always mock Silvio Parnis as a gerontophiliac? Turns out he swings the other way. We always knew there was something really creepy about him, but we got it wrong.
The sleaze is 47 and married to a woman of 26 (Maltese, not mail order). This photograph, which he uploaded on his Facebook page under the heading FAMILJA PARNIS, looks like the picture of a man, his daughter and his grandchild. And he actually boasts about the fact that he’s so busy looking after old ladies and their pills and parking spaces for bums that he almost never spends time with them.
The poor girl looks like a sacrificial virgin, but then the wide-eyed, non-questioning innocence is probably just what he wants so that he can carry on as he pleases mentri jaqta figura ta’ ragel mizzewweg.
I thought they stopped marrying off their virgins to the village elders a century ago. I had no idea this practice still takes place.
Il-vera progressive, God bless.
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Isthi jekk taf, Silvio. Baqghalek iz-zmien.
Uuuugh!
There is less of an age gap between my my mother and I.
[Daphne – I was thinking something similar: that Silvio Parnis is my age, and his wife is my son’s age.]
Mohhu mistrieh ghax se jkollu pensjoni tajba.
This is the sort of thing that occurs regularly in Gozitan villages.
Sure, next you will say that in Gozo there’s no electricity and that we live in caves.
You don’t know how right you are.
I can tell you where to go and see an old woman in a cave.
GD .. I respectfully ask you not to blurt out such senseless opinions about Gozitans. You may have the right to free speech but the rest of us should also enjoy a troll-free forum.
He looks very pregnant, if you ask me .
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120510/local/vassallo-in-scating-criticism-of-ditatorial-joseph-muscat.419242
Adrian is an old friend of mine and one of the most honest , forthright , down to earth and honourable people I know.
Last time I was in conversation with him was January of last year. It is interesting how in our conversation of the time, he used the same word to describe Joe Muscat that he used in Lou Bondi’s programme today – “dictatorial”.
New Labour should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves for discarding such a man in such a shoddy underhand and sneaky fashion.
I always thought that he has a son because he mentions him. Congratulations for their new baby. Is it a boy or a girl?
[Daphne – If the boy in the other pictures is his son, this can’t be his mother. They’re almost the same age.]
You have stretched your ‘almost’ a bit there.
Maybe he was thinking that in a few years’ time he’ll need a little help retrieving pills from lavatories.
For a moment there I thought the young woman was his daughter not his wife. I am sorry for her.
I hope at least she’s in love and that this is not merely a marriage of convenience dictated by her parents in the pursuit of a “decent” future.
All the make up on her! Please Mrs Parnis, you’re pretty, don’t try to look older.
She looks like those Indian/Armenian looking Maltese that my father would refer to as “turtle eyes”, but in Maltese.
Cradle snatcher
What’s with all this viciousness?
Let him play at politician if he wants to.
[Daphne – You cannot be serious. This man is not playing at being a politician. He actually IS a politician and gearing up to have a key role in government within months. I just can’t believe you said that. Fools are harmless only when they do not 1. sit in parliament, and 2. sit in government.]
I suppose it is Ok to ridicule the odd ill-judged photo(s) – God knows this country needs some humour – but I don’t understand why somebody must be attacked in such a hurtful manner.
[Daphne – See above.]
It is hardly going to affect anyone’s opinion about him (either for or against), and even if it did, would this really be the way to go about it? After all this is merely the intellectual equivalent of tmurx-tiehdu-f’***-kemm-ghandek type of comment.
I know that arguments based on such things as thick skin & kitchen heat will come up now.
But honestly, what has he done to deserve it?
[Daphne – Do you have a couple of hours? Because I, for one, don’t. It’s extraordinary the way some men see nothing wrong in a man in his 40s with a woman in her 20s. The skin of most women, however, crawls – literally so. We feel actual physical revulsion because it’s the woman with whom we identify, and not with the man. We imagine ourselves in that position, at that age, and we feel sick. Now, do you understand?]
She’s bursting out of her skin with health and youth, whereas his is crepe-papery already.
That child will be mortified to do the three legged race with his dad at school sports day. There is a double generation gap between them.
When she is 50, and supposedly at the height of her career, she will not only have hot flushes and increasing pressure at work to cope with, she will also have a geriatric husband of pensionable age, fidgeting about the house and fussing.
[Daphne – No wife of Silvio Parnis will ever work, Marie. What do you think a woman like that can possibly do for a living, even if she were to override her husband’s objections to her working at all? This is progressive Labour we’re talking about, remember. Silvio is the sort of man/politician who will spend time fishing pills out of lavatories for old ladies and call it constituency work, but who won’t take the clothes off his own washing-line because it’s housework.]
All these, and more, are personal reasons why this is so so wrong.
On the political front, this minister-in-waiting will be presenting his child-bride, in her Middle Eastern sexiness, to foreign and EU delegates. When he clarifies, to their embarrassment, she is the wife not the daughter, they’ll think the Maltese suffer from Gaddafiesque sleaze.
hmmm, let’s see, she could read the news on Super 1?
Def, I think that even if you were the same age as him you wouldn’t exactly feel ‘attraction’…..so it’s not exactly the age which gets you is it?
Melita Gatt posting on one of the photos: “congratulations to the proud parents!!! god bless you and your sweet little one”
Which sweet little one?
The child or the newborn?
Jaħasra.
What if you got it all wrong… and the sacrificial virgin is actually a gold-digger (relatively speaking of course)?
I guess you guess is as good as mine.
Ghogla jonqos fir-ritratt u jkun qiesu ritratt ta’ familja tipika Ghawdxija.
There is more intelligence in my washing machine.
Love the “MOOBS” and the pirelli rolls. It just makes it look even worse.
Do I smell a whiff of envy?
What’s wrong with having a young wife if you can keep up with her?
I wonder what a survey on men over 50 would reveal.
May I suggest asking them the following question:
If you had the chance to choose between a 20/30 year old and a 50 year old wife, which would you choose.?
A packet of viagra pills will be given to all participants.
[Daphne – This might come as a surprise to you, Silvio, but most men would choose their 50-year-old, always assuming they are that age or older themselves, for roughly the same reasons that women wouldn’t give up their 50-year-old husband for somebody 30 years their junior. It’s no different, you know. I strongly recommend Woody Allen’s film on this subject, You Will Meet A Tall, Dark Stranger. And he should know.]
I find it difficult to live in peace with my conscience if I do not try to defend someone who carries my name.
Be it Silvio Parnis or Silvio Berluscon.I am of course not saying that all Silvios are infatuated with these pretty young creatures, but from what we have been reading lately, it seems to be so.
Maybe it’s not their fault that these pretty little creatures are attracted with older men carrying this name.
I try my best to live with it, and I can say that sometimes I manage to say NO.
We all have our crosses to bear, and we all do our best.
I’m sorry but I do not agree with this article….this just shows how old fashioned we still are…who are you to judge !