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November 5, 2012 at 7:30pm
Franco Debono
Nov 05, 2012 @ 10:17:20
naqbel.
pero if you didnt manage to get your O levels the last thing you should do is make fun of a star student!
Franco Debono
Nov 05, 2012 @ 11:07:05
joseph calleja ma kellux o levels biex jidhol sixth form. i skipped sixth form second year
compare like with like
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Ja pufta bil-pedigree! U jien ghandi dritt nghida ghax jien pufta di natura.
Tajba din, ghax int pufta tahseb li tista tajjar lil haddiehor pufta.
Mela ghax jiena tuba nista’ najjar lil Franco tuba?
Le, imma l-abjad trid tghidlu abjad, u l-iswed, iswed.
Jien m’ghajjartx. Ghamilt statement jew ghalik pufta hija tajjira ? Bhal ma jahsbu tubi ohrajn.
Ghadu ma indunax li inqas ma jitkellem ahjar forsi xi darba jigbor giehu.
Trid tkun thossha biex iggib ruhek bhalek Dr Debono.
I am no lawyer but my Form II result was by far much better than yours. I am so happy with what I have today – a REAL life.
You are a lost cause but what is worse is that your madness will be affecting my future and by far my children’s future. Tal-misthija.
And inevitably,
‘valletta21
Nov 05, 2012 @ 16:57:27
U dan calleja x’unur qed jaghmel lil Malta? Meta dan qatt ma juza l-lingwa maltija biex ikanta u issa lanqas biex jittkelem??? Jew jisthi juza? U ta’ dan tanieh midalja!!!!!!!!
Li jdahhaq b’haddiehor mhux cajta,jew sar xi eroj dan issa. Daqt nibdew insejhulu Il-convoj ta’ sant calleja li dahhal fil-port u salva lil Malta……..’
valletta 21 ahjar jitghallem jikteb bil-Malti hu l-ewwel.
Nirringrazzjaw lil Alla li Valletta 21 jikteb bil-Malti u ma tantx hawn min jifhimha l-lingwa taghna ghax kieku nisthi nghid li jien Malti meta nara injoranza inkreddibbli bhal din.
Ara ghal min issallab Sidna Gesu Kristu.
Joseph Calleja ovvjament li jghir ghal Franco ghax il-mummy tieghu mhux sabiha daqs ta’ Franco.
No, really, I understand someone being boastful but there are ways and ways of doing it.
Franco Debono is so pathologically naive – he doesn’t even boast like a grown-up but seems childlike – that I honestly believe he needs counselling.
He needs a good seeing to.
Therapy, Antoine. Therapy.
Counselling?
You must be joking.
He needs sectioning.
‘pathologically naive’ ? You are too kind. I would say extraordinarily stupid.
It must be getting pretty lonely in that office on Strait Strreet ; you can’t miss it – it’s between South and Ordnance with the leitmotif being an abundance of pigeon droppings.
A-Level English:
Franco Debono
Nov 05, 2012 @ 20:57:03
why not?
he is a good tenor! even if i have to pay it is worthed!
This Debono is really quite unfathomable.
I am not one to believe in basking in another man’s success, for we are all, after all, in competition, but even I know that you shouldn’t attack your opponent where he is strongest.
It’s like telling Superman that he shouldn’t strut about like a superhero because he cannot perform brain surgery.
O levels aren’t worth one hair on a supermodel-trophy-girlfriend’s backside to Joseph Calleja.
So you don’t choose that line of attack. You could say, for instance, that his repertoire is rather limited, that his acting skills have been torn to shreds by some critics, that he is piling on the pounds and will struggle to play Rodolfo.
You could switch off Classic FM and tune to Mezzo to drown out all that belcanto Italianate rubbish, or hang up your poster of Ingela Bohlin and Magdalena Kožená (nice catch, Rattle!) and stare wistfully for hours…
…Where was I? Yes. But O levels! I mean this is Playground 101. The Bolshoi (ah! Nina Kaptsova….) is not large enough to fit the fuck that Calleja does not give.
Not that my advice will help, seeing as our Franco does not read this blog.
My Gawd, Baxxter, you have an amazing way with words. Truly inspiring.
However, being a rude, uncouth Canadian, I would have paraphrased your comment with a ‘FOF’—Fuck off Franco.
‘This Debono is really quite unfathomable.’
Yes, in the words of Al Pacino, (Debono should know this one seeing that he likes to lift and mangle the occasional Pacino line), ‘he is as mysterious as a blocked toilet is to a plumber’.
Whether or not Joseph Calleja has got any O- or A-levels is irrelevant. He is highly successful, admired and renowned worldwide.
Franco Debono, on the other hand, is well-known only in Malta, and for all the wrong reasons.
Kantalna wahda, Franco, halli nikkomparaw like with like.
Ibda bin-Nessun Dorma ghax kulhadd ha joqghod imqajjem jistennik tibda tkanta.
Kif ma tisthix taqa daqshekk ghac-cajt, ghid?
Did the moron have a mark for Music on his FormIIC manuscript?
Nessun dorma, by Joseph Calleja. This performance is going to give Franco some sleepless nights.
Franco, quite a nice ‘song’, is it?
Ahjar tmur torqod raqda twila twila ruhi.
Franco Debono has made one major achievement that we tend to overlook – he is the youngest MP we have ever had, at least as far as mental development is concerned.
I used to think that Luciano Busuttil held that title, at 15, but judging by Franco’s blog it seems I was mistaken.
It might be interesting if Franco were to publish the rest of his results in secondary school, sixth form and university, and not just his Form IIC report. We might be in for a surprise.
[Daphne – I can’t think of anything less interesting, right now.]
Comparisons are odious, however I believe Calleja managed to exceed Caruso in purity of tone.
No!
Do you mean he still has some way to go?
Calleja is humility personified, dignified, talented, gifted.
Debono – loser, psychotic, fucked up.
Thank you for uploading this video. Daphne your blog is not only informative but also entertaining. No wonder you get around 100,000 views daily.
Franco Debono claims that he skipped a year of Sixth Form. And how it shows.
“Compare like with like”? Ok then, I will. How about this one:
Joseph Calleja has a voice.
Franco lost his.
Those who got good grades in Form II should take a look at the accomplishments of these uneducated persons:
Michael Faraday, scientist
Sminivasa Ramanujan, mathematician
Mary Anning, discovered many species of dinosaurs
Donald Harden, cracked the Zodiac Killer’s code and
Gregor Mendel who discovered how genetics work
And those are just the few.
Joseph Calleja is a world famous high achiever. Franco Debono is nobody.
Franco Debono keeps making a fuss about skipping a year of sixth form. He misses the irony.
If what Franco says about Joseph Calleja is correct, Joseph skipped sixth form and university but still got his degree.
Looks like Austin isn’t the only topper student to Franco.
Somehow, I have a very faint suspicion that Franco cannot grasp the hell of a difference between rare musical talent and theatrical idiocy.
It may be that is the reason why he tries to compare himself to – and claim himself better than – Joseph Calleja.
Dear Franco, try – at least – to take a close look at the world of classical/operatic music before penning your imagined comparisons.
Milli nista’ naqra minn dan il-blog, jien u dawk li ghandhom sfond mediku, bhali, naqblu minnufih li dan ir-ragel ghandu bzonn attenzjoni medika, u li ghandu dizordni fil-personalita’ tieghu li tissejjah full-blown u mhux mild.
Li ma nistghux naqblu hu x’tip ta’ PD hi. Jien u Clemmer qed nghidu li hi bipolari, ohrajn qed jghidu li hi narcissistika.
Li hu zgur ukoll hu li l-blog tieghu u d-diskorsi pubblici li jaghmel jghinuna shih biex inkomplu nistudjawh.
Bicca xoghol li verament qed niehu gost naghmel ghax bhal dan, Alla wahdu, jaf meta naraw iehor bhalu.
Jien nista’ nghidlek li s-sitwazzjoni ddegenerat minn meta Joseph lahaq kap tal-opposizzjoni.
Kien hemm certa insofferenza iva, ghal dak li kien isejjahlu ‘id-dwejjaq fil-pajjiz’, li Malta timix bil-mod izzejjed, pero’ ghallinqas kien ghadu jitkellem ma’ haddiehor.
Franco nbidel kompletament, m’ghadux jintgharaf, donnu kull ma jrid jaghmel hu li jkisser lilu nnifsu. Li ma’ nistax nifhem hi kif ma’ jridx jinqala’ minnha.
Jien ghandi s-suspett li d-diskors tat-teologija huwa hafna aktar importanti milli nahsbu, li anke l-ligi hija kompromess sfurzata fuqu b’parir sbaljat li hu ha u issa jobghod. Qisu ppretenda li ‘s-sagrificcju’ ma rendiex li haseb hu. U issa sploda.
Come on ladies and gents, do you mean to suggest that Dr. Franco Debono is not the best prima donna there is?
The volatility, the unpredictability, the endless odious comparisons and character assassination of anyone who dares cross voices with him?
The strutting…