I thought it was because your jaws and the rest of your head flapped independently of one another, like on South Park.

GOOD ONE!! I stand corrected and you're absolutely right!
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the thread should be changed into a random thread, because it has gotten so far off track....LOL

I, er, um... I didn't notice any head flapping by Miss Canada! Her parents must have been new to the country.

On topic.

I didn't like Miss Japan. She kept giving these looks that were skanky, too sexual and not in a good way. I thought Miss USA and Canada were gorgeous and was very dissapointed with the top 5 overall. Only Miss USA would have stayed in my personal top 5 and I would have added Miss T&T as well. They just did a miserable job this year.

I completely forgot to watch Miss Universe and therefore, I did not see it. But I remember back in the day (I think it was 1996), when Alicia Machado won (she didn't speak English). She answered in Spanish, they translated it and she won.

I think it's better if the girls just answer in their native language and have it translated, rather than trying to flub their way through in broken English.

As for the skewing...I cannot say because alas, I did not watch it. I can only comment by what I saw in years previous.

The whole translation thing is kinda weird b/c I'm sure something gets lost along the way. And I've seen several people on hear comment that Miss Japan didn't answer her question. What actually happened was it was translated, she answered in Japanese, then got so inspired that she took the mic and told us all about the energy in the room! I thought it was cute but then she went back to her place on stage and no one bothered to translate for the judges what her actual answer was!

To me if Japan could speak that much in English, I'm sure she could have answered the question in English...or she should have let the translator translate what she just had said...I didn't like that at all...

I'm guessing they didn't translate it because they have very particularly rules about how long a candidate has to provide her answer. Bad move on her part.

But wasn't it Miss Japan who was given a question about (and I'm totally paraphrasing b/c I don't remember the exact question) what the worst thing to happen in the last like 100 years was? If it wasn't her, whoever it was, her answer, albeit true, was crap. She went off saying that men have more "power" than women, blah, blah, blah. I'M SORRY that is not the WORST thing to happen in the past 100 years.

Talk about the Holocaust. That is one of the worst things that has happened in the last 100 years (in my personal opinion), not that men have more "power" than women.

Yet, she gives this horribly crappy answer, that has nothing to do with the question, and places higher than USA, who gave strong answers, that oh wait actually answered the question.

I will seriously never understand the logic behind judges at times. They seriously remind me of the judges I delt with at the Cheer competition, when they scored a group that dropped all their stunts, yet my girls had a solid (albeit, not as difficult) routine, yet we scored dead last. Where is the logic there?

It's like the logic with the competition. I don't get it?

But if she's going to be honest, wouldn't she say the bombing of Japan and the American control of it? I think she may have avoided the question because her real answer would not be acceptable to the judges (or another answer would be too Eastern-Centric to appeal to Western judges.

you know, when they read her that question, i cringed b/c i thought the exact same thing - she might be honest, say the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshina & Nagasaki and ruin her chances at Ms. Universe (tragic, i know)

God forbid a contestant give an answer that's not all happiness and sunshine and puppy dogs, or one that sounds intelligent. Seems the perkier and happier the answer, the higher the score.

Look at who the judges were... they're all random celebrities and the majority of them have no pageant experience. TOM GREEN was a judge. What can you expect?

Plus, it would be hard for her to talk about the Holocaust going on in Germany, when at the time, the same things were happening to the Japanese people in concentration camps here in the US. And you know bringing THAT up wouldn't win her any brownie points.

The concentration camps in the US during WWII were not like the ones in Germany. Yes the Japanese were forced to live there, and yes, some people did get killed, but with regard to the conditions in them, you can't compare the two.

I honestly think that asking serious, difficult to answer/touchy subject matter questions would really be a good test for something like this. If you're going to be a spokeswoman, you've gotta be able to react and handle difficult and unexpected questions delicately.

Of course, that's a little to real life for a pageant.