Franco Debono threatened to vote against the government if not given Isle of MTV tickets
But when asked about it directly by somebody on his blokk (see below), he replied that he doesn’t recall doing that.
That’s exactly what he said when journalists asked him why he had said to Carm Mifsud Bonnici, after voting against him in parliament, “Hu go fik!”
This person also confronted Franco with the question of what he did for those three years between dropping out of the university law course at 17 and joining it again at 20. Did he work?
Franco’s response: he enjoyed himself.
Ah, so an able-boded young man loafed about for three whole years, bumming off his parents and feeding his birds. Incredible. No wonder he is the way he is.
But quite frankly, I have a sneaking suspicion that there is more to this than meets the eye.
Why did he drop out of university after beating his brains out to get in? Why did he bum around for three years after that?
I think all that high-pressure studying and intense status anxiety, all that fixation with grades made a hundred times more difficult by the fact that his English is so poor, took its toll, and the poor creature collapsed with what actors’ and singers’ publicists call ‘exhaustion’.
This seems to be an on-going pattern in his life. Right now, I would say he is ‘exhausted’ once more.
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He should have done the sensible and honourable thing and resigned when he had the time.
Now, he has gone beyond the point of no return and at his age, has no one to blame but himself.
Exactly my thoughts, Daphne. You couldn’t have said it better.
Xanax perhaps is the remedy for this affliction – the Maltese equivalent of Dr
House would probably control our anxiety-driven, unsung hero
and direct him toward the meadows of calmness and serenity,
unless, of course, he’s now so much off-course that, sad to
say, no grass can help him and maybe he might need stronger
techniques, using electricity and other such twentieth-century
inventions which would enable him finally and irreversibly to
overcome his difficulties and find peace. It would certainly
not be a surprise if he were now to react badly to all this.
‘Grass’ may help, however, a lobotomy would suffice.
We fancied ourselves Alan Turings, Min Weber, but Harry is in a class of his own. OK, Harry, we give up. What’s your cryptographic key?
Baxxter, that can never be devulged in an unincrypted mode. Kind of screws up the concept and purpose.
However, I will explain it to you when next we meet.
BTW, Baxxter, although our lives overlapped for only a few years, I studied Turings’ stuff and accomplishments during my post graduate years.
Was even able to apply them to the business world way back in 1968. Called it Econometrics.
Indeed Baxxter!
A very ‘exhaustive’ analysis.
Good one, ciccio.
Yeah, is everyone writing in code these days?!
Reading Franco’s Grade “A” English is hard work. Entertaining, but hard work.
When you read it, you experience something that can only be described with the words “Hu go fik.”
Did you actually mean ‘exhausting’?
Maybe he was busy compiling his new book Almond Blossoms – A Haiku Collection.
Life for an ex Honourable MP that demanded respect and dignity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NXkGRcDPM
I’m sure Franco is now going to try turn back the years to yet again become Malta’s youngest MP.
He probably also wanted to be Malta’s youngest PM. But Joseph Muscat will get there before him. And with his help.
Franco can have the Most Childish MP award with JPOS in second place…. if it makes him feel better.
For someone to sit for his A levels in one year is a hell of a job, and the person would only do it if there was something to be gained from that, such as entering the last Law course in which it was possible to study law alone.
The system two years later, when Franco joined the course for the second time, changed to a BA course, where you had to study Law AND another subject for the first three years, then specialise from the fourth year on.
So to go through the trouble of spending your summer indoors to get your A levels in one year, then entering the law course and dropping out because you wanted to enjoy yourself, does not seem plausible to me.
What’s so special about getting all your exams in one year? I got all my Os in one year and all my As in one year (a different one of course) and I never thought I was doing anything special.
And I never got exhausted, either.
Perhaps it’s all that bird-breeding that did Franco in.
So he threatened to bring down the government because he was not given a concert ticket, but he still was not given that ticket?
And then on Facebook they are saying how sad it is that Dr. Gonzi and our glorious party have been subjected to blackmail from Dr. Debono.
Seems to me that if they had given in to being blackmailed, a concert ticket would be the very least important thing to give to him.
Mintoff had to put up with so much from Lorry Sant, according to what I have read, and the P.N. was not even bullied into handing out a measly ticket.
Looks like Dr. Gonzi does not only have a par idejn sodi, he has everything else reinforced too. What a revelation he has been.
This mild-mannered, meek-looking gentleman has risen to the occasion every time he was tested. He has proven himself time and time again to be more than capable in any situation.
Mintoff wore large belts, talked and acted vulgar and bullied all who could be bullied for his supporters to think he was a great man.
A real man always behaves like a gentleman but, while respecting even fools, does not let himself be sidetracked by their shenanigans.
This is what Dr. Gonzi has done. He did everything right in my opinion, the mistake was in letting Dr. Debono contest the election in the first place but some things one just cannot foresee.
La verita offende…… from the madman’s blog….
Julian Borg
Sep 19, 2012 @ 18:24:23
By your reasoning, Franco, only people with degrees in related subjects should become Ministers – what about all those that worked at least as hard as you at school – but never went on to University – maybe because we did not have a parrinu or because we were forced out of this country? Does that mean we should not be elected to Parliament or hold down a Ministerial post? Is it only those that went to University that have some God given right to govern in this country?
I am very interested in your view on this because you have immediately excluded a large proportion of the population by discriminating against the fact that they do not hold University degrees – even if they have brains better than those who have degrees. What criteria do you use to judge people? Are they divided into first class – like you – and the rest go onto a scrapheap?
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Julian Borg
Sep 19, 2012 @ 21:44:35
Afraid to reply Franco?
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Julian Borg
Sep 20, 2012 @ 08:00:02
Chicken…….. you think you are a superior human being just because you went to University…… You have shown just how out of touch with reality you really are. Totally detached from the ways of this world. Your actions and your writings are proof positive (not that we ever needed it) that you were never ‘fit for purpose’ and how right the Prime Minister was to exclude you from cabinet. The only mistake he made in your regard was accepting you to run with the PN in the first place!
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I can’t understand why Dr. Debono is angry the PN will not let him contest the election on their ticket when he claimed that he wanted to resign from the party.
With regards to the Isle of MTV tickets, I heard this story last year. Franco did not go for his VIP tickets on time and they were actually given to someone else.
The day before the concert he went for the tickets and he was told that they were no longer available.
He replied by threatening that he will vote against the government if he wouldn’t be given VIP tickets. A minister gave him his tickets to avoid trouble.
This is what baby Franco is made of.
Yesterday Mr. Debono put up an image of the cover of his collection of haiku. Funnily, the ISBN number (978-99957-0-307-3) belongs to a cook titled ”Finnish Americana” editted by Michael G. Karni. Strange as there numbers are unique. Something is rotten here …
I just need to pass a comment on all this “hard work” that Franco did to get good grades.
Real top students don’t work too hard to get their grades, especially not at secondary school level.
I was at St Aloysius College as well and I had plenty of brainy class mates and they all breezed through their exams. They are the ones who don’t understand why the rest make such a fuss about their tests.
Even at university, the really good students were the ones who effortlessly absorbed all the information given and who actually read their books as a hobby.
I think anyone who need to work very hard to get decent grades is not “top student” material.
Spot on!
Franco should consider this too,
” Being clever is like being a lady…
If you have to tell people you are…you aren’t”.
Oh, Josette! You naughty, naughty girl: http://i.imgur.com/sLDuI.png
Actual comment here:
http://www.francodebono.com/2012/09/19/charles-borg-and-salvino-sciberras-any-more-questions-please/#comment-7637
Why did he remove his Peter Serracino Inglott post? The plot thickens…
Sitting for A-levels in one year isn’t a hell of a job. For many, it was routine simply because some A-level subjects weren’t an option in secondary school.
That meant the first year of sixth form was spent on an O-level syllabus and the second year on an A-level syllabus. No one kicked up a fuss or expected adulation.
Franco Debono boasted on his blog about a haiku book he says he had published: Almond Blossoms. He also boasted that Fr Peter Seracino Inglott wrote a note to the introduction.
Apart from the hilarious comments by some that they did not understand a word Fr Peter said, let alone understand Franco’s haikus, a few have been asking him from where they can buy the book. One also queried why the book is not found in the catalogue of the National Library. Debono did not replied to any of these questions.
Now, for some reason, he’s taken down that particular post.
Strange, if I published a book I would be more than eager to tell people where they can buy it. Even stranger, we never read about this book in the news, and knowing Franco, he would have sent out press releases and then badgered journalists for coverage.
Has the book actually been written or is it just a cover?
Did Fr Peter (who is now dead and cannot reply) actually write a note for that book?
The ISBN is not clearly legible on the photo produced although it looks something like 978-99957-0-307-0 and if this ISBN is correct than this number belongs to a book named – Finnish Americana, 1984 – edited by Michael G Farni
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a hoax. A bit like his reforms.
In his post – Why the Joe Cassar no confidence motion MUST be filed, he said “Instead of putting me in a position to implement the reforms I had campaigned for, the Prime Minister insulted me from his blog calling me all sorts of names”
So he was clamouring for a ministerial position last January after all.
@xmun: I actually did that research. I still have the picture of the cover where you can make out the ISBN under the bar code. In fact I have the entire article saved.
I retrieved it from my cache after he took it down. I figured if he wanted it removed it must be interesting. Funny, I commented three times on his blog asking him to explain why the ISBN is from another book, and when I told him I would be posting the same comment here if he uses his moderator powers to delete my comment, he took he whole post down.
[Daphne – Please send the ‘book cover’ to me at dcg@proximuspr.com. Thank you.]
thank you White Summer.
He may have removed the blog post, but not the image from his cache.
http://www.francodebono.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/haiku.bmp
He’s re-uploaded the post… somehow, this seems very fishy.
http://www.francodebono.com/2012/09/19/haiku-note-to-my-haiku-book-by-rev-profs-peter-serracino-inglott/
Stupidity—The Cardinal Sin. It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.
Ignorance is one thing, but our society thrives increasingly on stupidity.
It depends on people going along with whatever they are told. The media promotes a cultivated stupidity as a posture that is not only acceptable but laudable.
Franco Debono must learn to see through the tricks and cannot afford to be stupid.
What I’d like to know is what are the chances of him being able to pronounce the title properly? I don’t think I’ve heard ‘almond’ ever being said correctly in Malta for a couple of decades now.
Two or three years nurturing his champion cock maybe?