Pope Francis meets the Muscats
Most people would meet the Pope, but the Department of Information press release tells us that the Pope met Joseph.
This is a bit like saying that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie met Franco Debono, rather than the other way round.
And oh, for heaven’s sake, those children are actually wearing ballet-shoes. I enlarged the photograph to try to understand why, even though the prime minister clearly has a new suit, he carries it so very badly, and got completely knocked off track by the children’s footwear.
What was their mother THINKING? How appalling. They should have been in proper black little-girls’ shoes with a T-bar or single strap. And plain white socks turned down just below the knee, not those dreadful fancy tights.
Note to Sad Jeff And His Pool Pussy (an earlier post refers) and to the subliterate Facebook throng: this is not an attakk fahxi fuq it-tfal innocenti ta’ Joseph Muscat, but valid criticism of the sartorial choices their mother has made on their behalf.
And just look at the way the Prime Minister of Malta sits in that formal setting – as though he’s at home on his LazeeBoy waiting for the pizza deliveryman to turn up. Does he have a bad case of prickly heat on his inner thighs, or what? And those feet…I can’t bear it.
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Ah, and the children were part of “the Maltese delegation.” Who were they representing exactly?
Michelle looks positively sinister.
She was a step away from wearing a burka.
Donna d’onore !
Oh goodness gracious. A black and white dress and golden ballerina shoes. Isn’t it freaking obvious that black shoes with a delicate strap would have been much more suitable for such an outfit? Truly shows one’s origins.
Push those damned feet closer to each other. Or are the thighs too large from all the daily muscle training?
Muscat’s posture:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h2nl25FoO2k/Tam1LZeDwsI/AAAAAAAAB_g/HGWcbLqCWp4/s1600/funnywordofthedaydotcom.png
That’s what you get when you allow peasants to lead governments.
On YouTube there’s a video of Nicolas Maduro (the new president of Venezuela and a former bus driver) meeting the pope in the Vatican.
When the pair enter the pope’s office, Nicolas Maduro motions towards the pope to signal that he can sit down. The pope seems to thank him with a smile. (That said, even Maduro didn’t take his wife along with him).
Some people always assume that they are the most important people in the room.and that they are in control even if they are being hosted by someone else.
Joseph Muscat had done exactly the same thing in that infamous propaganda video when Joseph Muscat went to a flat in Kalkara (where no drinks are served) to promise one of the children that in a year’s time he will have a tablet computer, leaving the other child looking gobsmacked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1kCGBzt8k
Nicolas Maduro makes a better bus driver, the evil man.
He’s very obviously not comfortable in that suit which is a bit too snug. And the pope appears to be leaning away from him.
Oh…ghandu z-zarbun bil-lazz.
Why are they skewed to the left? Maybe to spot Coconut Farrugia behind the pope’s chair?
What a clown. I feel sorry for the Pope for having to entertain him.
And I hate the way JM looks in the first photo..so…*****
His hands are so…pudgy.
The Pope’s body language says it all – ‘get me away from this man’
Joseph seems to have either forgotten to remove the clothes hanger before he put on his jacket or it’s too narrow in the shoulders and back.
Actually, the proper way would be to say that HH The Pope received NN at a private audience. This is the traditional way and it is meant to imply that the Pontiff (as a monarch) receives someone and listens to what they have to say or supplicate. There is no real parity in status (as one would normally infer when one is engaged in a meeting) and, in theory, the Pope may listen without indulging in any discussion or exchange of views with one who is (notionally) inferior in status. The use of the word “audience” is this context not restricted to the Holy See.