Near Misses and the Eurovision

A few comments on two late episodes that have grabbed the local headlines:

Air Malta Near Miss Incident:

Just a note, and thanking George Carlin for this. The incident is wrongly spelt. It was not a near miss but a near hit. This is quite ironic of course, because they actually DID miss! Next time there is an accident let's use the following expression "Look, they've almost missed!"or headline: "Near miss leads to loss of lives!" (Many thanks to George for his inspiration).

And the Eurovision. So much huh-hah about it. Here are my points and reasoning.

Malta did not deserve to win - whenever it had a good song, it DID manage to reach to top ranking (Chiara, Ira, Mary)

Although neighbour voted cannot be denied, nor proved, Malta is also a culprit. It gave the UK song 12 votes!! What absurdity! I suppose deaf pigs were sending those smses or phone calls.

And let's look at the local scene and be honest: Olivia's song made it to Europe because all her main/previous competitors did not take part this year. She was the only veteran. Plus, she has a huge popularity, just like that other dude Fabrizio had last year (Do you do? Yes I do have ONE point.) Popularity does not necessarily equate to a good song, now we now that is true!

And do not please clamour for judges instead of voting! When that happens locally, the next day of the Malta Song Festival is always full of people arguing their conspiracy and corruption theories! You can never please everyone.

I totally agree with what Mindspill has to say about this issue.

My votes went for the Latvian Italian song, which did not reach the top ten! I also liked a lot the Slovenian, Swiss, and Icelandic songs and supported the Ukraine entry in the leadership rush, but ended on the losing end.

Oh well that is life. I like to win the Super 5 every now and then but it never happens...

sieben sieben acht acht....

Now Tanzen!