And the A**ehole of the Year Award goes to…
Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando is 48 again, I see
Timesofmalta.com reports on yet another disgraceful display of appalling manners and power games by the Pocket Dolly of Haz-Zebbug. I think the headline should actually read ‘PM is SURPRISED guest at JPO’s birthday party’.
Oh, and I see that the man who has finally stopped dying his hair brown is 48 again. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we? Maybe it was the newspaper’s mistake, not his fear of ageing.
My God, what an a**ehole. And I make no apologies, because the only other words which suffice begin with C and P and end with T and K, and this is a family blog.
PM is surprise guest at JPO’s birthday party
Independent MP Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando turned 48 today and celebrated with a party at the offices of the Malta Council for Science and Technology during a tour by the prime minister.
Dr Pullicino Orlando, who is chairman of the MCST and CEO Nicholas Samut briefed Dr Gonzi about the latest projects conducted by the council. When the tour was over, Dr Pullicino Orlando invited his guests and the staff to his office where a big chocolate cake with ‘Happy Birthday Jeffrey’ written on it, was laid on a table.
Dr Pullicino Orlando cut the cake under the glare of press and television cameras.
Dr Gonzi appeared surprised as he joined in to congratulate Dr Pullicino Orlando.
Dr Pullicino Orlando said later that he was cleared the event with the OPM beforhand.
On his facebook page, Dr Pullicino Orlando this morning announced the prime minister’s visit and said he would offer him some birthday cake.
Cleared it with the Office of the Prime Minister, my eye. So that’s why the Prime Minister was so surprised, then.
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If you add 4 to the eight, you get 12 = his mental age.
Hey man, it looks to me that you are far more better than Dott. Franco in maths, you deserve a distinction for this.
And by the way Daph, are you disappointed that JPO did not invited you for his birthday celebration?
[Daphne – Did he have jelly and a magician?]
What’s the matter? Didn’t he invite you?
[Daphne – Please don’t be such a chav, even if you really are one. Birthday parties at work (and for grown men, what’s more) are so….never mind.]
Birthday celebrations are for children not adults, especially at work.
Martin: You managed to get Daphne at a loss for words !
Daphne?lost for words? In your dreams,Sur Privitera.
is it 48 or 49? The Times said 49.
[Daphne – The original report said 48, but I know that he’s a year my senior.]
Not that I give a toss but surely it is important to know he is one year closer to complete retirement from Maltese politics.
He’s mere months away from his political retirement, if we can believe him.
Someone has taken the trouble to call The Times to rectify the age – 49 now (and senile, too, apparently).
That leprechaun sure loves attention.
Typical of JPO, the cocky little twerp.
Good point.
I did a quick telephone survey today among lady friends, Question was, ‘What would attract you to JPO?’
General response, to paraphrase, was:
‘I would only be attracted if he had duct tape over his mouth and a spear in his chest with a bat up his ass while he is on fire’.
Cool story bro.
Pathetic ends with a ‘c’.
[Daphne – Well, that’s not the one I had in mind, is it.]
Try a ‘t’!
Really, S Borg?
I know ;)
but it’s another adjective that suits him just fine
Stupid pillock.
The second letter is “r”
Intom kollha bis-serjeta?! (save for Daphne because i’m sure she got the ‘humour’)
It does not take a genius or a good Form IIC result to guess a word.
I was simply adding another adjective, which I believe many would have agreed to anyway.
Cannot believe I had to explain everything.
And judging by the photo, everyday’s his birthday.
The PM and I are best buddies, in spite of doing my worst to kick him in the shins. Look, he even came to my birthday party.
Incidentally, who celebrates their birthday with a party, let alone a party AT WORK, when he is over 18 (unless it’s some kind of milestone birthday, like 50)?
When it is his last birthday before fading into obscurity.
Well, we all know who got the Most Barmy of the Year Award.
It went to the same person last year too.
What a pervert. Is that how this sorry excuse for a man gets his kicks?
Another loser who has to be pitied, along with Franco.
Are you sure JPO didn’t lie again to the Prime Minister?
Actually the PM is a Master at that trade !
As opposed to a master of none, wet behind the ears, failed to get his propoganda across, ex Super One hack you mean, Eddy?
I am sure you remember the biggest lie, Eddy. “Xoghol ghal kulhadd f’zmien 3 xhur” .
Eddy,
you know that whatever comments you post only manage to increase your bitterness. So relax! Try to enjoy life and see the positives no matter which party is in government.
You will reach a point in life when you will feel sorry for all the days you spent being bitter just because of the fact that your beloved Labour party was not running the country.
Think of it – was it really worth it spending the last 25 years being bitter?
How transparent. He’s doing what he did with Richard Cachia Caruana: leading the prime minister up the garden path before he ‘surprise votes’ against the budget.
Lil min tafu tistaqsix ghalih.
If only Gonzi were to floor the prats .
I would like to share this with your readers if I may, I read it in The Economist:
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21567059-ex-muslim-atheists-are-becoming-more-outspoken-tolerance-still-rare-no-god-not/comments?sort=3#sort-comments
A reader’s comment:
The root cause of religious intolerance of atheism is obvious: when you have carefully constructed a fantasy-world for which there is, and never has been, the slightest shred of real-world evidence, your belief is extremely precarious. You cling to it with the desperation of a person clinging to a lifeboat upon a stormy sea. Yet the sailor who grasps a lifeboat has the assurance that, regardless of how slender a bark it may be, it actually exists. The believer lacks this tangible reality and is always, in some distant corner of the mind, worried that it is all in fact just empty words. The only way to still this nagging voice is to ensure that everyone sings the same tune. If everyone is apparently believing in one’s magical creature then surely – surely – it must be real? But if even a single voice pipes up and says, “wait a minute…” then all is lost. So the believer must suppress the non-believer otherwise their own emotional stability is in peril. The less adequate the believer’s own psychological balance the greater their fervor in repressing the dissenter. The more primitive the thought-processes, the more violent the behavior. The solution to all this stone-age behavior is, of course, to evolve towards more adequate and reality-based modes of thinking. But that’s not going to happen anytime soon.
May I add something.
If you truly love and trust your truly loving parents, and they have indoctrinated you from birth with what they call faith, how hard must it be to discover their ‘truth’ is not true?
I never had that problem but I don’t take the situation lightly.
You mean brainwashing from childhood. I agree with you though.
Daphne, could I nominate Eddy Privitera for the a**ehole with the mental age of ten award? Surely, the comment below qualifies him as such:
Eddy Privitera
Today, 17:17
Awguri u Xewqat Sbieh Jeffrey !
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20121127/local/pm-is-surprise-guest-at-jpo-s-birthday-party.447093
Ironically, the best comment is by Victor Laiviera:
Victor Laiviera
Yesterday, 12:59
Surreal – that’s the only word to describe this.
Natalie said party at work. Not correct, JPO does not work there. He does f*ck all when he occasionally visits the MCST
The a****ole of the year is Joseph Muscat.
Look at all he did to keep Malta out of the EU.
Then he reduces it all to nothing with a simple:
“it was a mistake”.
C**t.
The serious point I want to make is that if Joey can spend years toiling away at something as important as keeping us out of Europe, which he then dismisses all those years of effort as a simple mistake, how can he be trusted to run the country.
That point alone should be enough to sway the floaters.
Put up a poster listing all his efforts and quotes prior to the EU referendum then write ‘big mistake’. Then put voting for him as prime minister ‘even bigger mistake’.
How pathetic. Reminded me of the sad way Mr Bean celebrates his own birthday. Hopefully someone bought him a teddy as a present.
I wouldn’t give that award as yet. We’re still in day 330 and it looks like the remaining 35 will give a multitude of opportunities to claim that award.
“Dr Pullicino Orlando cut the cake under the glare of press and television cameras.
Dr Gonzi appeared surprised as he joined in to congratulate Dr Pullicino Orlando.”
Why, was JPO’s cake like this one?
http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2011/12/ara-xcake-bellezza-helen-ghalqet-50-tenks-god/
If PN has two such ar*eholes in its midst, one can only imagine how many there are in Joseph’s Labour, himself included?
JPO is not the only asshole in the PN. There are Franco and Jesmond, and quite a few others still in the party.
What a mess the PN is in. And what is tragic is that we cannot trust the PL either. I might vote PN, or just book a holiday during election time. I don’t care at this stage.
When your holiday is over, you have to come and face the facts. The PN will have scourged itself of the rubbish in its midst while the PL will have added on to the irmixk it already has.
Despite the three or four despots the Nationalist Party got saddled with, the country has continued to do well, modernise itself and move ahead.
The PL has spent all of its time trying to trip up the government instead of coming up with plans and policies of its own. If the PL gain power, they have nothing to go on. They will just hope that things will continue to run smoothly powered by today’s steam.
You might not care much now, but if the clueless Joey is sitting at Castille, enjoying the view, you will not remain so complacent for long. You will soon be caring again and wishing you had had more foresight.
The most intelligent comment ever. I have been toying with the exactly same thought for a long time now.
The tooth fairy just turned 49.
BIG FUCKEN DEAL.
He will not vote against the budget: he will let the other one do the dirty work.
Imma jista jaqa iktar ghan-nejk? Ara panto organizers have a gold mine of people and events to take the mickey out of this year.
This article is not fair. What about Franco? What Award will he get?
Franco will get no award this year.
He will get a visit by La Befana early in 2013. She will bring him a nice present. A Labour government with Joseph Muscat as Prime Minister.
ciccio,Franco will just get a ward, as in ward two,cell five.
Ok, I get. He will get the Loonix Poetrix Award of the Year.
The Helix
27 Nov 2012
In the second part of ‘Almond Blossoms’, my haiku anthology, I expressed my thoughts about the fact that the helix could be the secret pattern underlying the whole universe – from the microcosm of DNA strings to the macrocosm of our galaxy, the Milky Way, the spiral reigns supreme.
Incidentally ex-PN general secretary Joe Saliba seems to think on the same line. His poetry collection is entitled : ‘Spirali’.
I thought Joe Saliba was busy coming up with the scientific theory that was to be the answer to life, the universe and everything.
He did go as far as to get confirmation on the validity of his ideas from the late Fr. Seracino Inglott.
Of course one goes to a philosopher-priest to get advice about high-level physics. I wonder how far along our budding Einstein is on his scientific quest.
As for the alchemical mumbo-jumbo such as “secret patterns underlying the universe”, sane knowledgeable people have stopped coming up with such harebrained theories, what, 300 years ago? But then again I’d hesitate to classify the Ghaxaq lawyer as knowledgeable, let alone sane.
Honestly, sometimes I despair of this country.
Joe Saliba is a charlatan, and Peter Serracino Inglott is a mejda tal-qubbajd by giving advice on physics. No wonder this ruddy island is in such a mess.
Someone earlier today remarked that for his age, he’s ageing really well. Well…
[Daphne – When you sell botox, you have to be a living advertisement. However, he looks like a botoxed man, which isn’t great. Also, from a woman’s point of view, vanity in a man is probably one of the single greatest turn-offs. Somehow, you just can’t picture Daniel Craig rubbing royal jelly round his eyes, which is just how we like it. Clint Eastwood in his heyday, taking a break from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to rub in the face cream, or fuss that his famous squint-into-the-distance is giving him crows’ feet? I don’t think so.]
Ah, but Daniel Craig, in a life-imitates-art-imitates-life twist, may soon be emulating our Joseph Muscat:
http://www.metro.co.uk/film/917536-daniel-craig-hair-loss-prompts-warning-from-james-bond-executives
Smart ass. Don’t you have some work to do? Enjoyed our meeting.
Work is for proles. We gentlemen just engage in badinage over fine cigars. In our line of work (woops), where knowledge gives strength to the arm etc. etc., it is essential to keep a close watch on our sources.
Like the two ladies who were sitting at the table next to us. Hungarians. Used to be in the employ of an investor with a colourful history, whose prospects crumbled with the Libyan revolution, bringing him close to bankruptcy.
Have I digressed? Anyway, haven’t YOU some work to do? Buying up so-and-so stock and all that? Money doesn’t grow on trees, you know. It grows on bushes. The Bushes. And the Mizzis. And the Dallis.
You forgot the Buffets, the greatest investors of all. That’s Buffets, not the Buckets—red wannabes.
Machiavellian – cunningly leading the PM to clap you happy birthday in front of the press and TV cameras.
[Daphne – Not very cunning or Machiavellian if all but the thickest people can see through your ploy and that ploy involves rendering yourself ridiculous with a HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEFFREY iced cake. Nicolo Machiavelli was all about using other people to build up respect for yourself, and not about exposing yourself to ridicule to harm others. If you harm yourself in the process of harming others, you have failed the rest.]
He also said men can avenge slight wounds but not fatal ones.
Sean Connery , now in his late seventies, has more sex appeal then that tooth fairy.
Yes, however he’s a Scot.
You’re half Scot and half Canadian aren’t you? Does that mean one half of you is irresistible to women, while the other half attracts moose?
Full Scot, therefore totally irresistible. Have been known to shoot moose, though. (Must have been the envIronment)