Fortunately, I am not a gentleman. So I can take a peek under Franco’s veil.
Franco’s Form IIC report: it’s a real chick-magnet.
That emotionally retarded and psychologically arrested man, who has become increasingly desperate as D-Day draws near and he faces a future of total obscurity, bangs on in his latest blog-post, and the comments-board beneath, about how much of a gentleman he is.
Apparently, he is too much of a gentleman to reveal tenor Joseph Calleja’s ‘dark secrets’ and the ‘real reason’ he mocked his Form IIC report during last Friday’s ceremony awarding him an honorary doctorate.
He is hard at work being so very coy that Salome with her dance of the seven veils has nothing on him.
God, how very tedious. Fortunately, I am not a gentleman so I have absolutely no difficulty telling you what Franco’s problem is, and it certainly isn’t chivalry.
Calleja was seeing for a while, a couple of years back, a certain Kerstin Ancilleri (really quite attractive/family of Bormla Laburisti/works at Bank of Valletta).
After he ended the relationship, the Hal Ghaxaq lunatic picked her up, though of course she probably had no idea he was cracked at the time, and they dated for a while.
Franco thought this was very exciting. If he couldn’t have Mrs Austin Gatt, then Joseph Calleja’s ex made for a pretty good ego trip for a Hal Ghaxaq cock-fighter, and they even had political beliefs in common (amaaaaazing).
Calleja would have thought this absolutely hilarious, hence the joke he cracked about his old love’s new suitor’s Form IIC report.
But Franco Debono, massaging his ego in that red velvet sala of theirs, thinks the world-acclaimed tenor is jealous of him.
He even said, on his blog, that we should have sympathy for Calleja. The way he’s going on about it, all coy and twee and being the bigger man (sorry…), you’d think that the lovely Miss Ancilleri dumped her celebrated lover for Franco and said: “You can keep your whirlwind trips to the world’s major cities, your limos and your fabulous life. I’m leaving you for a cockfighting two-bit lawyer from Hal Ghaxaq, because Labour thinks he’s The Man and he has an excellent Form IIC report which keeps making the news.”
MISKIN.
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At last Franco is in the limelight again.
Well done, man – you are leading both JPO and Dalli at the moment and the chances are that you will hold your ground in the coming weeks.
Ha! He’ll be aiming for Netrebko next.
No hope. Anna does not indulge in deranged cock keepers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Calleja
Unfortunately I couldn’t find Franco Debono’s Wikipedia profile to compare their achievements to decide who’s the more accomplished of the two.
But on the other hand Wikipedia only lists international successes, concerts and recordings for Joseph Calleja at the old age of 32 and fails to produce a copy of his form IIC results.
So the more accomplished will is by elimination Mr. Debono for being tajjeb hafna in religion.
Franco suffers from narcissistic personality disorder. He has an overinflated sense of worth that carries over into a sense of entitlement.
The flip side is that his self esteem is very fragile. It is extremely difficult for him to take criticism.
To deepen the problem, he lacks empathy, which enables him to be extremely exploitative of others.
He feels that he is special and can only be understood by brilliant people.
That he should only associate with others whom he deems talented enough, while at the same time he needs their real talent to validate his underlying insecurities.
It’s also called the martyr complex. He always thinks he’s getting screwed by someone and needs to let everyone know it.
He feels that person is the enemy and has to be knocked down to size.
Perfectly put.
No one stands a chance of dealing successfully with Franco.
Narcissists even hold their therapists in contempt. They seek to establish their grandiose superiority and entitlement by playing mind games and by undermining the therapeutic alliance.
Franco is something of a spot diagnosis for people from a medical background, yet many Laburisti and disgruntled Nationalists out there seem to think otherwise.
@ The Shadow
Well done, you’ve summed it up perfectly. I was thinking more along the lines of a God complex but his problems are more intricate than that.
Narcissus, as most of us do and Franco definitely should know, had a very unlucky and untimely end – after falling in love with his own image reflected in the lake’s surface.
I only watched a few minutes of affari taghna as i couldn’t take it. In those few minutes I heard him mentioning “nannu u missieri” a few times.
Could it be that his fixation isn’t actually his mother but rather his father because he is Mr. Ordinary Joe citizen and not a great statesman?
He also uses “bir – rispett kollhu” quite a lot .
He sure does, and then goes on to tear those same persons to shreds.
But a couple of years back, wasn’t Franco engaged to the young lady who recently dumped him?
Debono mentions fishing in Scotland in his blog post. Surely there’s more to this than just “pass the girlfriend”.
[Daphne – Oh, that’s a reference to a fishing-trip Calleja took to Scotland with friends who included Steve Mallia, editor of The Sunday Times. Mallia is Debono’s ‘original enemy’. The first fight he had on becoming an MP was with him, as you might recall – when he rang The Sunday Times to shout and argue because in their report they failed to mention that he had unseated Louis Galea and Helen Damato. Calleja and Mallia are good friends, so you can imagine the wheels of hatred and conspiracy turning in Debono’s mind.]
I think he suffers from the Mintoff syndrome, but with no party to hijack, and no barefoot population.
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