How stylish and elegant this rebel is: qisu iblah

Published: October 11, 2012 at 12:13pm

As any clued-up woman knows, when weak men with fragile egos are desperate for attention, they will take it wherever they can find it.

Well, at least it gives the rest of us a laugh, though clearly not the laugh this idiot had in mind.

Kemm hu stylish, eh? Il-vera eleganti. Stand back, ladies. He’s mine.

Trust him to turn up to the party without looking at the dress code.

These pictures are from a Facebook page which promotes The Rangers, characters created by the ZOO team from Super One, who specialise in the sort of humour which even the most slow-witted Labour voter can appreciate (and who clearly don’t know the difference between a Special Weapons and Tactics officer and a ruddy ranger).




68 Comments Comment

  1. La Redoute says:

    Not yet 40, already pot-bellied, double-chinned and balding.

    No wonder he’s obsessed with everyone else’s looks.

  2. Etil says:

    Is this man for real ? I sometimes wonder whether he is all there.

  3. tinnat says:

    In the first one, did he force the other two to pose with him, in the same way he forced Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt?

  4. Matt says:

    Vera tas-swat, ha nghidlek.

  5. Texter Dexter says:

    Those shirts should have read “Twat”.

  6. ciccio says:

    He should be wearing the SWAT T-shirt. He deserves some whipping, figuratively speaking of course.

  7. mattie says:

    Anything will do as long as there’s a camera in front of him.

  8. M. Grech says:

    Bil-Malti, Franco Debono hekk għandu bżonn.

  9. Mozzjoni ohra says:

    I posted this comment on Franco Debono’s blog but for some reason he didn’t publish it.

    ———————————————————————-

    Peress illi l-“onorevoli” Franco Debono jokkupa l-post ta’ Assistant Parlamentari f’l-ufficju tal-Prim Ministru

    Peress illi l-“onorevoli” Franco Debono apartament iddikjara li ilu ma jersaq l-ufficju ghal madwar sena’

    Peress illi l-“onorevoli” Franco Debono ilu jaqla paga ta’ Assistant Parlamentari f’l-ufficju tal-Prim Ministru minghajr ma jaghmel dan ix-xoghol

    Ghaldaqstant din il-Kamra ghandha tirrisolvi :
    illi l-“onorevoli” Franco Debono jaghti lura lill-poplu Malti l-flus li qala minghajr ma ghamel ix-xoghol li thallas ghalih

  10. canon says:

    If that is the case, Franco will be in good hands.

  11. airdie2 says:

    At least he is mature enough to let himself be laughed at in such humorous moments….are you capable of participating in such events Daphne….or are you so proud not to!?!

    Get a life!

    [Daphne – It’s not a matter of being proud, my dear. It’s a matter of being in my 40s and not Boris Johnson. There is a time and place for everything. But even if I were 28, I would not participate in the sort of humour appreciated by the very ordinary classes. I prefer the sort of humour which gets up your sort of nose (if, that is, you understand it in the first place).]

  12. Prosit Franco, meta bniedem jippartecipa fis-satira’ u jkun kapaci jidhak bih innifsu jkun sinjal ta’ Maturita kbira

  13. Chris Mifsud says:

    I noticed he is showing off his early 2000s Nokia phone in all 3 photos.

    • Go Gaga says:

      It’s actually the model that local telecom company Go gave away for free to its subscribers who benefited from Austin ‘Pipi’ Gatt’s broadband offer in 2007 and who then accepted to stay with Go’s Home Pack.

  14. Brian*14 says:

    SWAT team members, eh? Impressive.

    More like PUSSY RIOT to me.

  15. S Borg says:

    Where is that? There’s the PL emblem in the background.

  16. TROY says:

    Are the numbnuts, each side of Cuckoo Brain, protecting his famous (qied idoqq waqt li mitfi) cell phone?

  17. WhoamI? says:

    U kieku induna li qed jitmejjlu bih pacenzja!

  18. Patrick Zammit says:

    The PN’s concern is two-fold and they are both genuine and serious. Firstly, there are serious doubts about Labour’s ability to deliver and secondly some Labour supporters are vindictive and they discriminate and are frightening. That is why the PN cannot lose the next election.

    Anke mill-oppozzizzjoni jqazzu l-Alla li halaqhom dawn in-nies. Ahseb u ara jekk jitilghu fil-gvern.

    • maryanne says:

      Have you realised that the concerted effort of the enemy and the traitors has increased enormously since we celebrated the Independence anniversary on the Granaries in Floriana?

      Even when we were there we joked about how Joseph must be worried because the celebrations were such a succcess.

  19. Interested Bystander says:

    The Village People want him for a new recruit.

  20. Bob says:

    It’s good that at 17:00 hrs some people can fool around as I have to work my butt off.

  21. GiovDeMartino says:

    “Qisu?” Kif ghedt? Qisu?

  22. A. Charles says:

    There are moments to cry, there are moments to laugh, there are moments to be stupid – but with Debono, those moments have gone on too long now.

  23. Tracy Flick says:

    I’d remove the word qisu for a more apposite one: VERU IBLAH.

  24. Mercury Rising says:

    The kids laughed out loud at “the nerd in the middle.”

  25. C Frendo says:

    Are those two in the second picture carrying real guns?

  26. Ken il malti says:

    Who actually fathered Franco?

  27. Rover says:

    Se jibghatu ghalih tal-SAS. Malajr jehles minn dik iz-zaqq xaham.

  28. cikku l-poplu says:

    Ma rnexxielux ittajar lil Gonzi minn leader izda ser jirnexxielu jtajjar lil Joseph minn leader tal-PL ghax kull ma qed jghid u jaghmel Franco “Labour will follow”.

    Il-veru Partit Laburista bla bajd u jridd imexxi dan il-pajjiz .

    • ciccio says:

      Franco Debono spicca Mexxej tal-Oppozizzjoni:

      – Jipprezenta il-mozzjonijiet ta’ sfiducja u tat-tip “Hekk, hu go fik.”

      – Jiddetta l-agenda tal-Parlament.

      – Igib mieghu il-voti tad-deputati tal-Labour.

      – Tefa’ ‘l-Joseph Muscat f’eklissi totali fil-Parlament.

      – Jikkontrolla l-whip Laburista.

      – Gab il-Gvern gharkubtejh.

      – Jinfluwenza lid-Deputat indipendenti.

      – Iwiddeb lill-Ispijker.

      – Jivvota kontra l-Gvern u mal-Oppozizzjoni.

      Kos, jew forsi qed imexxi ‘dittatura Parlamentari’?

      • What democracy? says:

        And I always thought I lived in a democracy. Even through the worst of the Labour administration I put the lack of democracy down to the fact that they were breaking the law.

        Now in my 50’s I have discovered that our brand of democracy is at the whim of a few dozen politicians. That democracy can be shamefully abused of without a single law being actually broken.

        One or two lunatics is all it takes for democracy and common sense to be shelved. There are absolutely no safe guards. What a let down.

  29. Min Jaf says:

    Der secret underground HQ of the Anti-Click Organisation. The Swat Team hev deadly water guns. But Great Leader Franco he hev der secret veapon – der mobile phone mitt der ring even when it is turned off, being surprise weapon for against unwary TV presenters.

  30. Min Jaf says:

    Dik ta’ fuq Il-lemin ta’ Franco mara jew ragel? X’qabda nerds. Mur arah ministru. Povru Gonzi ilu jsofrieh fuq erba snin.

    [Daphne – Le, le, dak Faderrr Gorrrdinnn. Tiftakru? You know, the one who – being Labour – doesn’t know that a man’s hat is to be removed on entering a building.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seLjrZvho6M ]

  31. xmun gatt says:

    Imagine what a blow it would be if suddenly KABOOM! like an unexpected bolt from the blue, Franco would somehow come to the realisation (one that is apparent already to all those with more than three active brain cells) of how puerile and totally undeserving of respect he actually is.

    I mean, what a leap it would be if he were to launch himself off from his arrogated rebel pedestal as an assumed Hal Ghaxaq Robespierre, to plummet into the dingy depths of his true worth. ‘Tis a leap that belittles Baumgartner’s attempt.

  32. Min Jaf says:

    Franco, he also have nice tie.

    [Daphne – Not like Pipi Gatt eh.]

  33. AJS says:

    What’s the obsession with wielding guns to look cool?

    [Daphne – They imagine it makes them look more masculine. They don’t seem to understand that it has precisely the opposite effect of highlighting their lack of masculinity.]

  34. martin said says:

    I really think that this moron is losing clients. Can anyone explain to me how he can waste so much time on these stupidities if he is still running a law office?

    • Grezz says:

      Doesn’t he have a salary from some government department or other?

      • A. Charles says:

        He is still living with his mother. Therefore he has free meals, free laundry, no rent, no W & E bills, and a restaurant open all hours.

        That is one way to save money.

      • Grosvenor says:

        Believe me, people who run stupid blogs, have nothing much going in their lives.

  35. Harry Purdie says:

    I hear they gave hime one of their SWAT t-shirts with the S replaced with a T.

  36. Jozef says:

    I think we’ve entered a new phase in the quality of Maltese politics, one where the opposition insists on suspending a government contract simply because the shadow went missing for two years. Safe for business they said.

    I think Coleiro’s cheek is what has to be scutinised to be fully understood. Where was she during these last two years? She says she can’t judge whether there was anything amiss or not. Oh really? Wasn’t that up to her, given that the public accounts comittee is led, by default, the remit of the opposition?

    If this isn’t a bungled attempt to blame GonziPN for their idiotic aping of that other paragon of rectitude, heaven knows what is. (I’d love to see Franco and marie Louise) doing sums on his magic phone to check out the minister.

    As for Labour’s declaration they’ll remove Bendy Bus, (Arriva’s so yesterday) God help us if they intend to tamper with a transportation system using their so called democracy as the tool to engineer the required algorithms. It’s a system you bloody idiots, one which is inherently beneficial to both the operator and consumers the more efficient it is.

    Where does democracy come into it? Why, in the name of sanity, would a political party choose to make the configuration of a vehicle an electoral promise in the name of social justice or whatever it is this bunch of charlatans are trying to sell us?

    As with car parks, or as Hansford called them yesterday, ‘parkins’, if these are to be regulated, where do the residents come into it? I can guess what residents want, or are we on the verge of the federalist state? That Kraus mayor contradicted himself when he said that weekends have become a nightmare with people driving up to Rabat for their evening out, (he’s right), but then said he was speaking on behalf of some lobby asking for more parking. It’s either the residents or the outlets, you nitwit.

    Unless as he implied, we’re willing to consider what he called ‘ghelieqi tal-gvern’ to generate biznisss. He shot down any encouragement to use public transport, but then Kraus isn’t Luciano Busuttil and his Hamrun, is he?

    This is what Labour will do to anything requiring technical prowess on a national level, be it electricity bills, land consumption or anything plain objective, a maddening set of criteria by which to distort mathematical truth.

  37. Jozef says:

    It is a scientifically proven fact, researched and confirmed worldwide in all major cities, that increasing the number parking spaces does NOT improve access, on the contrary it generates congestion, destroying communities, their habitat and reducing the value of a place.

    Carmakers accepted this ten years ago, accessibility is key, not exacerbation of storage of unused hardware.

    Labour should seriously consider this posit before proceeding with their not so hidden agenda.

  38. H.P. Baxxter says:

    Jekk ma tidhaqx b’taz-Zoo m’intix patriott Malti. Le, m’intix.

  39. Red Devil says:

    Wrinkles round his eyes, a generous waistline and a receding hairline. He must be worried that he’s losing a couple of female fans.

    • H.P. Baxxter says:

      Fuck off, he’s still incredibly handsome. The other time, my Ritienne started screaming out his name when I was tickling her fancy, so to speak. Now I’m confused.

      • ciccio says:

        You shouldn’t be confused, Baxxter.

        You should be seriously worried.

      • H.P. Baxxter says:

        I’ll explain. Was she shouting out his name because she’d had him in mind all along, or was it because my prowess reminded her of an oversized pony? If the former, she can kiss goodbye to that kcina tas-solid pine bil-kitchen top tal-quartz that we ordered. If the latter, she can have a kitchen top tal-platinum.

      • ciccio says:

        OK, Baxxter, here’s the trick to find out the truth.

        Show her this picture.

        If Ritienne screams out Franco’s name, forget the kitchen.

        If she screams Ralph Lauren, then go for platinum.

        http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/big-pony-polo-shirts-custom-fit-pp08.jpg

      • Harry Purdie says:

        You must be tickling her wrong fancy, my friend. Can’t really help you here, since I have never encountered such a predicament. However, we can still meet and I will attempt to analyse your technique.

  40. rjc says:

    Thank heavens for this column.

    There’s more humour in the posts above than the likes of Eddy Privitera has enjoyed (Ix-Xewka style) in their entire life.

  41. Satire says:

    Apart from criticizing Dr. Debono which has now became your order of the day, you are also criticizing the humour created by ‘Zoo Team’. What about the humour created by the team of ‘Bla Kondixxin’? I like satire created by both teams. However, I think you are being biased, maybe because ‘Bla Kondixxin’ is a company run by a Nationalist fellow?

    [Daphne – No, it’s because the subject under discussion is Zoo and Franco Debono. “I like satire created by both teams.” Well, that illustrates my point perfectly, doesn’t it.]

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