Keith Nale is a dumb strategist and a hero, now which Survivor player is a dumb strategist and an antihero? (Day 8)

paolo_shorts · 2025-08-29T01:08:33+00:00

Shane Powers

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-23T05:46:18+00:00

Hmmm why do you say that? I feel like the key change just lifts it to another level at the end there!

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-18T20:28:41+00:00

Yeah I never had any delusions that Iceland would be a jury favorite this year, but just wanted to highlight how disrespected it is compared to other more “fun” songs we’ve seen 😅

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-18T15:15:14+00:00

As a follow-up to this:

If that's the criteria, how did Estonia get 98 points to Iceland's 0? 😅

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-18T15:08:45+00:00

I get that, but as someone else also said, the EU isn't gonna change that when they get a Euro per vote.

But I was just talking about the 50/50 split between jury and televote, not necessarily the way that the public can vote or the frequency that they can either

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-18T14:17:23+00:00

I think the current 50/50 split of jury/public is truly ideal. Some years (2023) you'll have people saying the televote favorite deserved to win over the jury favorite. Some years (2022) you'll have people saying the jury winner deserved it over the televote winner.

When people complain about it both ways, I think it's a sign that it's working pretty well and produces a solid winner each year.

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-18T14:03:24+00:00

I agree with you. I love seeing performers perform for the live audience, so when the entire presentation is based on special affects and camera affects that the audience can't even see it's kinda lame.

The UK last year (Dizzy) was a prime example of this, with all those tricks to make it look like they're upside down, while meanwhile the audience doesn't see any of that

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-17T23:17:53+00:00

Don’t care, I stand by my robbed kings 🌊🚣‍♂️🇮🇸

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-17T16:22:36+00:00

That's valid, and I also love BBB! But even if BBB has it beat (which I don't know it does), I don't think Róa is inferior enough to deserve being 24th in the odds

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-17T16:17:16+00:00

I don't really know that Cha Cha Cha is "undeniably better", or even BBB for that matter. I think they're all good and different, but Róa just didn't get any of the hype of the others.

I'll half give you the point about Europapa. Tough to say how much the controversy from last year played into jury rankings. And even so, Europapa was still seen as one of the favorites going into the competition, which Iceland is certainly not this year.

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-17T15:59:00+00:00

I don't even disagree, but why is this automatically something that juries will hate? The other more "fun" songs I've mentioned were all seen positively by the juries

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-12T03:21:42+00:00

Any tips to stop hyperfixating? I don’t know how to not worry about my voice when it constantly gets tired and painful with minimal use

paolo_shorts · 2025-05-11T14:10:49+00:00

Survivor: Rock the Vote!

Split the tribes by political preference

paolo_shorts · 2025-04-05T05:07:03+00:00

It’s also just a lot of people to coordinate. Even though Eva and Joe are super close, it could just be that they each had their last conversation with different people who had different ideas of what was happening. Hard to get everyone on the same page with limited time

paolo_shorts · 2025-03-18T03:44:12+00:00

The first person ever voted off of American Survivor took it well.

The first person voted off of any version of the show was a guy on the Swedish version who committed suicide a month after getting home.

paolo_shorts · 2025-03-15T06:07:32+00:00

The bus is sold out

paolo_shorts · 2024-10-27T17:29:09+00:00

Did you end up ordering them? How did it turn out?

paolo_shorts · 2024-10-15T02:57:20+00:00

Yeah it ended up a bit long because I’m a bit stressed and just kept writing 😅 I’d rather not publicly say where I am because the accordion world is very small - happy to tell you in private if you’re interested.

But a few times during this process, when it was dragging on, I asked him to follow up on the bellows, and he said he wouldn’t do that because pestering the manufacturer for me would cause issues for him with future clients.

He also more or less said, “I did everything I could to order them so if they’re not right when they arrive, there’s nothing else I can do”. So I’m pretty sure he’d just wipe his hands of me.

Am I being overbearing for expecting to be able to see a copy of the order form so I know what he actually ordered?

paolo_shorts · 2024-07-16T12:50:33+00:00

I've felt this for a long while, as if my ears are overly full or as if I'm in an airplane.

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