Anyone who takes his career seriously shouldn’t behave this way
Some gay men still need to learn what women learned a long time ago: that if you want to be taken seriously you have to be serious yourself.
That does not mean going around with a poker face. It means not behaving like an idiot in public. Nobody at the top of their game, or who intends being at the top of their game without a leg up (or leg over) from a political godfather, which is itself an unsustainable process, should behave like a 13-year-old girl.
The only people for whom ‘bla dekor’ behaviour is a career advantage rather than a brake on success and credibility are in show business. Or they are Richard Branson, who does it cunningly and carefully for the material advantage of his show-business-promoted empire.
This, however, is not an appropriate photograph in which the chef de cabinet to Malta’s permanent representative in Brussels (a crony appointee), and his boyfriend, who has been given a grace-and-favour position in that same office, should feature in public.
It is ridiculous and self-defeating. It is also a rule of thumb among older and more experienced people (especially women) like myself that the more affection is expressed in public and deliberately shown off by means of publicised photographs and so on, in the form of deliberate showing off as though to prove a point, the less exists in reality. True love is silent and it is also protectively private except when literally forced into the open.
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Wicchom u sormhom xorta. Sorry.
I’m more interested in the mechanics of the situation, given how large, sharp and protuberant Randolph’s teeth are. It must feel like an assault by a cartoon rabbit.
Kemm sirna chubby.
Looks like they’re working on the hipster beards when everyone else is shaving them off.
jaqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq.
I agree,
Keep calm and dance all night like Jeff, Giovanni. Imma bilhaqq, Jeff jaqqqqqqqqqq ukoll.
I hope you didn’t say that because they are gay.
It’s not because they’re gay. It’s because they’re ridiculous. Whoever clapped with delight at the sight of old, i.e. 28+, people kissing?
I wouldn’t say that because they’re gay, at all.
But I fully subscribe to Christiaan Huygens comment.
This is sick making stuff.
Cyrus is known for manipulating others, but this picture shows that he is being used and who is the dominant partner. That’s not a kiss, Rudolf – sorry, Randolph.
If I were his partner I would pay particular attention to the end of the recorded phone call with David Thake where he refused to say that he was sorry to indulge in revenge porn.
The person who put him in Brussels must be so proud. He also must have had a problem with scraping the bottom of the barrel and only managing to find a convicted criminal who seemingly did not learn his lesson about pirvacy, respect and bullying.
But then the court did indulge him by offering the protection of a hearing behind closed doors, and there you have it, dear court, is he saying the court was wrong?
Indulge in revenge porn? I think you must mean ‘resort to’.
David Thake cpuld have spelled it out. Engerer didn’t send those photos once on a whim to his former lover’s employer. He sent them repeatedly on different occasions.
How very sad.
Qieghedinsew.com.mt
Such behaviour can’t help but reflect badly on their boss, the Permanent Representative, Marlene Bonnici.
I’m sure that this couple of idiots wouldn’t even have thought of making themselves look so stupid had Marlene Bonnici been of the same calibre as her predecessor, Richard Cachia Caruana.
Well unfortunately she is not – more fools PN that placed her in that position
Marlene Bonnici is not immune to ridiculous behaviour herself. Consider the age-and-position-inappropriate clothes she insists on wearing, most of them featuring skirts suitable for somebody her daughter’s age. She probably thinks Cyrus and Randolph are cool, and anyway, they are at her level socially so what do you expect.
At her social level she is having a different experience in Brussels than one at a higher one would be having.
There are resonant grumbles that she is not capable of picking up the codes and signs that go with the job.
The opportunity cost of wasted public resources spent in keeping her there at sub-optimal level are also what need to be taken into consideration.
She doesn’t realise this, of course, and this clouds her perception of who is to blame for sub-optimal results.
Hamallu
There are two of them there, not one.
Sorry, I consider myself liberal, tolerant and open minded but a photo of two men engaged in intimacy makes me sick, whether they are in politics or not. Call me homophobic if you will (I don’t believe I am, in principle) but my disgust is a feeling beyond my control and I would be dishonest to deny it.
Is exhibitionism and ostentatious behaviour an integral part of homosexuality?
[Daphne – No, of course it is not, and that’s exactly why people like those two are so irresponsible, in the same way that women who sleep with the boss to get what they want inadvertently shore up prejudice against women – not that women like that would care. And nor do men like those two.]
There are gutter homosexuals and gutter heterosexuals.
Scum behavior is not the prerogative of either one or the other.
Well said Anthony and that applies to prime ministers as well.
If you wouldn’t react the same way to a heterosexual couple doing the same thing, then you couldn’t possibly call yourself “liberal, tolerant and open minded”. You’d be called homophobic, and rightly so.
Not defending these two of course, can’t imagine anyone over the age of 14 thinking it’s normal to post something like that.
I’m starting to think that these two only came first once in their existence.
That was nine months before they were born, when they still had a tail.
Maybe he wasn’t lying when he said he was busy when David Thake called him.
Yes, maybe he was getting a furtive office hand-job from Randolph under the desk, and getting off on the situation and the thought of thousands of people listening to him and Thake not knowing.
I bet they have a really big stationery cupboard at Dar Malta.
Vera gvern minn fuq sa isfel tal-irmixk.
Ara kemm jinhabbu! Cyrus huwa suldat tal-azzar, allura hemm cans kbir li jsaddu flimkien.
Jekk Cyrus Engerer suldat tal-azzar, liehor tin opener.
Oh Bob a job ,still having a laughter induced hiccup fit..these comments should carry a health warning…..
Id-Di u id-Do.
When David Thake called him on the phone he said that he was busy. His partner was doing a Monica Lewinsky with Cyrus.
The big difference being that you wouldn’t want to smoke a cigar that’s been up the crap-passage.
Enjoy it while it lasts, Cyrus, I mean it.
And it will last. Rudolph is not going to take the risk of leaving him.
Ghax jispicca kulhadd jara xi ritratt tieghu bid-duda barra.
It looks more like the Judas kiss to me.
After the lust supper.
Kif qazzuni. Hmieg ta’ nies biss.
So that is why he was busy when Thake phoned in.
Was there a Do Not Disturb sign on his office door?
Forget the whole same-sex thing, people. That’s not the issue. The issue is that this scumbag, pussy and turncoat is freeloading all the way to the bank, and laughing all the while.
That is not the only issue. Cyrus Engerer, the bitch he is, betrayed his party, his electors and his former partner and has no shame in profiting by his actions. He is the worst example of what a model citizen should be.
And Joe Muscat condones such behaviour, encourages it and rewards it, the backwoods ‘gabillot’ that he is. I would exile Cyrus for good if I were to become the next Prime Minister.
At the moment Cyrus thinks the only way is up and that includes becoming Prime Minister one day.
He needs to be taught that his conduct is inacceptable, and the memory of it renders him ineligible for such and similar posts in the future.
The Prime Minister had hugged Cyrus and stated that he has the same values as Cyrus Engerer.
At the time I had commented on Times of Malta and The Malta Independent on-line that when Joe Muscat uttered those words, he had thrown his moral values into the gutter.
Today I will add that the Prime Minister is now throwing our country’s morals into the gutter.
The comment that jarred for me most in that David Thake phone call is where Cyrus said that his was a “position of trust”.
How low has the Prime Minister fallen that the persons he trusts are convicted criminals. Birds of a feather, I guess.
Dottor Muscat jekk rajt dan il-qzis ta’ ritratt għandek tistħi jekk taf kif għax finalment int responsabbli minn dan kollu.
Change ‘Dar Malta’ to ‘Tkasa Malta’.
More like Dardar Malta
Hold on a mo, is that a selfie or a revenge photo?
this is what steel soldiers are made of?
Ohhh #thoseears
A pictorial image of ‘tongue in cheek’
I’m having breakfast, for heaven’s sake.
A message for Cyrus and Randolph:
I shall be voting PN come next election also so that filth like yourselves will be returned to the gutter where you belong.
Look at me, look at me, he loves me.
At that overly use of hashtags….jaqq……to prove how hip and social media ‘friendly’ one is……http://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/blog/social-media-annoyances-twitter-hashtag-abuse/
Such a photograph involving two persons of the opposite sex would be shameful for people in their position. If they were two teenagers, irrespective of sex, it could be put down to immaturity.
But regardless of their gender, these two are occupying a high position at Malta’s representation to the EU, and so their publication of this picture and the attendant message is disgraceful. Do these persons think that the photo will enhance their reputation among the diplomats in Brussels?
Is PM Muscat pleased with such antics, and does he think that it will enhance Malta’s image in the EU?
There is no love expressed in this picture. It’s only a stupid picture showing silly people.
Thanks to Facebook plenty want to make the others think that they are living the happiest relationships.
I know some couples who are living in hell but the first thing you find on their Facebook page are their romantic pictures with their spouse.