YOU were not stealing their channel. YOU were paying a cable network for it. THEY were stealing it.
I believe it is still a crime to deal in stolen goods

The Eurovision must be to Malta what the Sanremo Song Festival is to Italy. They literally go bananas over it, hijacking all TV stations 24 hours for about ten days; yet outside Italy nobody has heard of it.
Could it be something in our genes?

I’m saying this because from my little experience I see that many Maltese expatriates raise their children according to the culture of their adoptive country. Which is good…I think.

I’ve got two German cousins, two British cousins and two American cousins and I would say that there is very little that is Maltese about them other than one or both parents being Maltese.

Anyway, hats off to Dee Caffari. But I’ve got a gut feeling that her Maltese blood had very little to do with her achievements. I would say that her British mindset, cultured with the good old-fashioned British pioneering tradition that did it all.

[Daphne – The strange thing is that she grew up in a landlocked area, far from the sea, and makes a point of attributing her fascination with the sea to the fact that she is the granddaughter of a Maltese sea captain. Little does she know, probably, what landlubbers most Maltese area.]

Alexander Bell? Ah, you mean the crook who stole the invention of the telephone and made lots of money out of it.

Research well, dear Snoopy, before building your arguments. Alexander Bell was a non-achiever. The telephone was invented be Antonio Meucci.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jun/17/humanities.internationaleducationnews

You know what? You may be right. Probably the owners of ‘always freakin Charmed’ TV asked themselves ‘How are those people watching our show without paying a cent?’

And if Tiffany wasn’t on the show and we didn’t make such a fuss about it, probably they would have never guessed that we, speck of specks, were stealing their channel.

@H.P.Baxxter

Seeing that you’re not a coward like engineers, periti, lawyers and professors, why aren’t you fighting alongside Mr.Calleja instead of sitting there whining?

Oh yes, what a great idea. A Maltese Hall of Fame. So we can worship the usual household names. De Marco, Giovanni Bonello, Serracino Inglott, Joseph Calleja, Alex Manché, the lot.

You know what? I’d rather have Tiffany Pisani in that hall of fame. At least she got where she did through her genetic good luck, not through patronage, or connections, or the Maltese media.

Indeed, rather than be the perit that I am, I would rather be fighting someone else’s war against ‘evil’ Arabs or Afghans in a land other than my own. It would make a change to my 9 to 5 job for sure.

You know the world is f****d when mercenaries for hire are seen as honourable. Honestly.