Ah, here’s the root of his fixation with his Form II report: he became a lawyer at 26, not 24
Fottewni! Stajt sirt avukat ta’ 23! Wara dawk is-sagrificcji!
A lawyer who is Franco Debono’s contemporary sent in this comment:
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I am more or less Franco’s age. A couple of friends and I seem to recall that Franco Debono first started to study law in 1992, then dropped out and joined the course two years later. Does any ex-law student from those times remember this?
Gosh, I thought on reading its, why did none of us bother to perform the simple task of checking how old he was when he became a lawyer, given his repeated boasts that he sat for his O-levels at 14 and for his A-levels in Lower Sixth?
His last such boast was just days ago, on his blokk.
So I hoofed over to francodebono.info, which is his official website as distinct from francodebono.com, which is where he rants and raves, and clicked on ABOUT.
Franco Debono twieled fid-9 ta’ Marzu, 1974. Huwa ha l-edukazzjoni tieghu fil-Kullegg San Alwigi u kompla l-istudji tieghu fl-Università ta’ Malta fejn studja l-ligi u t-teologija bhala qasam sussidjarju. Franco kiseb il- warrant biex jipprattika bhala avukat fid-9 ta’ Marzu, 2000. Hejja tezi dwar l-aspetti kostituzzjonali ta’ l-organizzazzjoni u l-finanzjament tal-partiti politici.
So he got his A-levels at 17 but became a lawyer nine years later, when the law course is six years long. Whatever went wrong in between, the whole country is still paying the price two decades later.
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Billi gab l-A levels ta’ 17-il sena u sar avukat 9 snin wara, xorta qieghed ahjar milli qieghda int, lol!
[Daphne – Iva, ghax jien ghadni qed noqghod mal-mummy waqt li fottejt karriera fil-politika ftit xhur biss wara li dhalt fil-parlament, u l-companions tieghi kollha bir-rix u go gagga. Kemm hawn min ma jafx jirraguna, jahasra. U dak mhux il-punt, lanqas.]
Ahjar tghix mal-mummy li tkun tirrispettaha bil-ghama milli tghix ma’ ragel barrani. Imma miskina, tassew ma tridx li jkun dak il-punt. Mela ahjar inhallik tifrah bl-immaginazzjoni li ghandek u nhallik temmen li int tinsab ahjar minnu.
[Daphne – Oh go and take a Prozac pill, Franco. And then look for a woman who’ll take you on, who didn’t also give birth to you. Ragel ta’ erbghin sena jghix mal-mummy – dawn affarijiet tal-biza.]
Tkun haga iktar tal-biza li tghix ma’ Daphne. Mamma mia, xi dwejjaq!
[Daphne – Yes, you would think that, wouldn’t you, given that you and Franco Debono have identical personalities, the difference being that you are much older and still at war with your sexuality while he probably doesn’t even know what his is. Ara trid tkun il-vera iffissat biex minn Melbourne toqghod tidhol go dan il-blog biex tajjarni. X’passatemp sabih.]
Mittna ghall-barrani and all that..
Besides Daphne dear, it’s blog not blokk. Do try and keep up with correct spelling. Where’s anonymous? There, I got there before him.
“Besides Daphne dear, it’s blog not blokk. ”
You have GOT to be kidding!
Hi Daphne, jien m’iniex xi fan ta’ Franco Debono u u issa veru dejjaqni bil-hdura li hierga minn go fih, pero, nistaqsik, x’fiha hazin li tibqa tghix ma ommok, dik li rat il-mewt biex gabitek fid-dinja u biex tiehu hsiebha? X’biza hemm li tghix ma dik il-mara li vera thobb. Ghalija l-unika mara li thobbok vera hija l-OMM u m’hawnx mara li thobb ragel aktar mill-thobb l-omm. Jiena mizzewweg u missier u l-uliedi inhobbhom bl-istess imhabba li habbitni ommi Daphne. Melaq ma hemm xejn tal-biza.
[Daphne – Your words pretty much sum up the sick attitude that has bred generations of screwed-up Maltese men and destroyed or damaged thousands of marriages or relationships. If you’re married and have children but still talk about your mother in these tones, warning-bells should be going off in your head. It’s absolutely appalling – and I speak as the mother of three sons. Throughout the animal kingdom, and that includes human beings, the sole purpose of a mother is to raise her young to fend for themselves effectively and safely, and as soon as possible. If your children are still living with you at 40, through choice and not force of circumstance, then by definition you have failed as a parent.]
I don’t think Joseph Carmel Chetcuti is at war with his sexuality. He is at war with his age. He can no longer pick up the pretty boys without paying for them.
He likes S & M, so he comes here and reads what you write, to punish himself because he can no longer persuade anybody to let him in to their Red Room of Pain.
Mintoffjan ahdar injorant: despite being in Awstralja, he is still ‘wara il-muntanji ta’ Malta.’
And Daphne, Franco Debono at least did us a favour. He brought about the resignation of Dr Carm Mifsud Bonnici, who was not fit for that ministry and better suited for Tal-Muzew.
Er, “rat il-mewt”? Is Mater Dei that bad?
Ghidilna f’hiex inti qieghed ahjar?
[Daphne – Jghix mal-mummy li issajjarlu u taghmillu l-laundry, u jien ikolli insajjar ghal kulhadd u naghmel il-laundry ukoll.]
“xorta qieghed ahjar milli qieghda int”
Say what?
Debono is reviled by all and sundry, PN and LP alike. He MAY be pushed by the dopey and co. in opposition, but, as he knows all too well that he will be discarded like used lavatory paper as soon as parliament is dissolved.
Unlike JPO he has no place at Mile End, which is why Debono loathes JPO.
Come next elections and (oh thank God for silver linings) we can forget about JPO and the other prats once and for all.
As a matter of interest, these are the textbook symptoms of Narcissistic Personality Disorder:
Reacting to criticism with anger, shame, or humiliation (No comment)
Taking advantage of others to reach their own goals (If I threaten to screw the country surely they will have to make me minister)
Exaggerating their own importance, achievements, and talents (I am so good at everything, God Bless)
Imagining unrealistic fantasies of success, beauty, power, intelligence, or romance (I’ve got the looks! I got the highest marks! Everybody is jealous of me!)
Requiring constant attention and positive reinforcement from others (Franco, requiring constant attention? Never!)
Becoming jealous easily (he became a minister and I didn’t)
Lacking empathy and disregarding the feelings of others (where do we begin?)
Being obsessed with oneself (If not for me Malta would never survive, I am such a high achiever)
Pursuing mainly selfish goals (If I’m not minister then fuck the country)
Trouble keeping healthy relationships (living with mummy, and a mummy’s boy, at 40)
Becoming easily hurt and rejected (I got such high grades!! How could they not make me minister)
Setting goals that are unrealistic (They didn’t make me minister – Waaaaaa!)
Wanting “the best” of everything (Our pony boy wanted to be minister)
Appearing unemotional
Ring any bells?
My god, this man doesn’t know what it means to be independent, mature and strong.
My friend Terence left the UK for some time and chose to live in Malta during his gap year. He rented a flat, but lost his job during within three months so he had to give it up. The landlord kicked him out for failing to pay a month’s rent.
He had nowhere to go and his only option was to share a room with his colleague till he found some alternatives. His parents phoned to ask if he needed money, which he refused, insisting that he wanted to look for a job. Terry managed to find one as a waiter – it pays him 500 euros a month.
Living with his colleague didn’t really work out as the room was small and had many restrictions, so he opted to move into another flat he found for 300 euros a month. This leaves him with 200 euros to spend on getting by.
How’s that Franco for tbatija? Oh and please note, Terence is only 17 years old.
Re: your comment to Natalie. Do you regularly hear whooshing sounds fractionally over-head?
Sewwa qallek dap u alaqlek halqek u ir risposta tiak ma. Tghamilx sens .
[Daphne – The shortened form of my name is Daph, not dap. The ‘F’ sound is denoted by the ‘h’ tucked in after the ‘p’.]
“Ahjar tghix mal-mummy li tkun tirrispettaha bil-ghama milli tghix ma’ ragel barrani”.
God, what a redneck.
So erm..he is in fact reading your blog….
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Franco D – the multi-aliased avenger.
I sincerely hope that he won’t be back in politics in two years’ time.
I sincerely hope he will, as then we’ll only need to focus on the entertainment he provides.
Aha… so there we have it.
“Star student” has trouble re-adjusting to life outside the sheltered walls of St. Aloysius College, fails dismally when faced with the real world, tries again, performs modestly and out of sheer perseverance (certainly not brilliance) graduates.
Now the big question: What did Franco do between 1992-1994? Did he get a job?
Did he seek pastures new by purusing a non-LLD course, only to fail at that too or return to his legal ambitions (because il-mama riditu jsir avukat)? Or did he just drift around being a bum, despite being biezel u hekk?
I have a lovely son of 35 who isn’t married yet. He lives alone in a nice flat and visits me every so often. He earns very good money. I am happy to serve him when he is here. What is wrong about that?
I would like him to marry, but he has not found the right one yet.
I am afraid that if he marries he will not be mine anymore, knowing what women are.
Being a bachelor or a spinster is a better state to be than being unhappily married.
[Daphne – I’m afraid that if you carry on this way your son will stay single, fail to reveal to you that he is not single but in a relationship with another man, or eventually get married only to have it end in tension and disaster because of you. So if you love your son in the way that a mother should, which is not the same way that A Woman does, you will back off. And stop seeing other women as competition: they’re NOT competition, unless your love is also Eros and you see in him a substitute husband rather than a son, in which case it’s dysfunctional. What’s wrong with ‘serving’ your 35-year-old son? I could rattle off a lengthy list, but what’s the point. Your son is not ‘yours’ to begin with. He is a separate human being and you’re not married to him. Jesus.]
If he earns good money he should be pulling. Madam, your son is gay.
With money you only pull prostitutes for fake sex. Being rich and single does not automatically mean gay.
Oh yes it does. Go on, find me one counterexample.
Ara, anke dan ghandu 26 sena u ghadu ma ggradwax ta’ avukat.
Dan ukoll qieghed fil-politika, jahseb li hu xi haga, u jghix mal-mami. U meta jitkellem dwar il-futur, jaf biss jitkellem dwar Gonzi.
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