This picture is hilarious, but I can’t really work out why
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September 4, 2013 at 11:28am
Another inexplicable Department of Information release: Stefan Buontempo isn’t meeting suspicious schoolchildren this time, but a team of sportsmen.
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That’s not a different group of people – by the time the kids went to change into their PE uniforms they’d aged with fright.
The ones in the front row seem to have a…wedgie.
Because OIM would a minister, in this case Dr Stefan Buontempo B.A. Arch., F.C.I.O.B., F.A.S.I., M.R.I.C.S., Ph.D., M.P., go to – what at least from this angle looks like – lecture the national team.
There are some exceptions of course. The Pope spoke to the Italian and Argentinian teams before a friendly but it looked very different to this. Also, it may have had something to do with the fact that the new Pope is Argentinian so the context almost demanded it.
Here, the Maltese players seem to have pretty sarcastic and incredulous expressions on their faces whilst Dr Stefan Buontempo B.A. Arch., F.C.I.O.B., F.A.S.I., M.R.I.C.S., Ph.D., M.P. seems to be taking himself very seriously.
All the players seem to be thinking
“What a laughing stock!”
“Xiz-z*** qed jghid?”
“Dan min hu?”
etc
The goalkeeper seems to be pitying him, almost.
Well, I saw a photo of the same event taken from a different angle, and what surprised me most was that the Parliamentary Secretary for Sports looks taller than 95% of the national team players.
The angle gives the Minister added height while making the team look like dwarfs. Counting the tiles on the floor they can’t have been more than a metre away. Was there no better place for a photo?
Great tactics, for sure! Or, maybe telling them li t-Tazza tad-Dinja taghna lkoll
Did he exclaim loudly: “Ooooooo Smorgasbord”.
What a nerd he is.
Well…they all appear to have a hard on, that’s why.
Saw another one of him with a table-tennis racquet, but I can’t seem to trace it again.
Not comfortable in his skin whatever the occasion.
Mhux qed jidhqu mieghu, qed jidhqu bieh.
It seems they’d rather get on with the game then listen to inane platitudes.
Buontempo familja religjusa. Stefan hawnhekk qisu s-superjur tal-Muzew imdawwar bis-soċji jiltaqgħu flimkien għal siegħa ta’ studju u talb.
Unlike the kids, they all appear to be sporting raging hard-ons.
Maybe because, as opposed to it being a relaxed meeting of the sports, whatever he is, showing a keen interest in the team, it comes across as a staged photo shoot, speech and all
It’s ridiculous because he isn’t their coach and he isn’t telling them anything of concern to them.
In fact they seem bemused, and it is perfectly clear that they have all been deliberately grouped there “listening” to Buontempo for the photo opportunity that this presents.
Most of the Department of Information photos you have been showing lately are ridiculous because one should NOT use a wide angle on people and if it can’t be avoided, it should be used from as far away as possible and then with some postprocessing to minimise the lens distortion.
It is also funny because the players look like midgets. While they are not exactly MBA players, it seems that the perspective (or height) from which the picture was taken is simply wrong.
Otherwise a good caption for it would be:
“Mela, minn hawn u ftit iehor ser tibdew thossukom strambi u tibdew tharsu lejn it-tfajliet…”
I’m not sure it’s a perspective issue at all.
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