I Am A Swede

1 hour ago, janea4old said:

Djokovic left Australia on a plane that departed 
Sunday 16 January 2022 at 10:30pm Melbourne time (daylight savings).
This converts to 11:30am London time or 06:30am New York time.

3 hours ago, SnCCorinthos4ever said:

BREAKING

Novak Djokovic has failed his last-ditch court hearing. He is set to be deported and miss the Australian Open.

Send your thoughts and prayers to one of the all-time greats  

Tennis legend Chris Evert has been diagnosed with cancer

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But as we've seen in Australia it's ultimately the individual governments in France, the UK and the US that has final say. If they decide that anyone who's not vaccinated won't be allowed to enter then there's not much a single tennis tournament can do.

14 minutes ago, Fevuh said:

Well as a really long-ass analogy....It's kind of like wanting a hearing or having a hearing to see if the election was fair or not when there's no real evidence that it wasn't fair (and you still lost by 7 million votes and not all of those people were dead or ineligible to vote and elections in this country have never been proven to be unfair with the possible exception of one prior election that had outside influence via social media but you won that election so you didn't care)....and none of that would have mattered anyway and you can have Arizona and Pennsylvania too if you want them and the Democrats still win the election with 273 electoral college votes anyway).....this hearing is kind of like that.

I can't understand what this hearing is supposed to be about? The Australian minister of Immigration has canceled Djokovic's visa, which he has the power to do. It's not a human right to enter Australia to play tennis. Djokovic has broken the rules, his visa has been canceled, end of story.

Personally I think it was a mistake to bring back Kim. She had a great run originally, and one of the best, most iconic exits ever. All that was ruined when they brought her back..... 

However, now that she is back I would be deeply disappointed if they kill her off. That would make her return even more pointless than it already is.

This was the right decision. And with all the commotion that's been going on, probably the only decision the Australian government could make.

Storm Logan on B&B is the first that comes to mind.

Surprisingly (we are talking about B&B here) they actually dealt pretty head on with the aftermath. Storm shot himself to give his sister Katie his heart, and her, understandably, conflicting emotions about this was very frankly discussed. Especially in a fantastic scene with Heather Tom and Susan Flannery.

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What a load of crap!  

Hudson went on to describe one particular stunt they have in the pipeline as "epic", but promised that "at the heart of" the episodes, "the best-loved characters in our show are really going to be tested in some big emotional stories."

The best-loved characters from this show are either dead or long gone!! (And not a single one of them was a Dingle)  

"We're determined that we'll keep our audience on their toes for the whole of 2022," Shaw added. "Obviously we want October to be epic and it absolutely will be, but we won't be resting on our laurels until then. Some of what we've got planned for the first half of this year will undoubtedly go down in Emmerdale history as some of our finest moments."

6 hours ago, DRW50 said:

@I Am A Swede I would not have known about Gary without your tweet. Almost all the Vicar cast are gone - it breaks your heart. I didn't care for a lot of the last few years of the show, but Gary was a consistent highlight. His going from dislike to grudging respect to love for Geraldine was the show's best story. He was very charismatic and handsome as well. 

It's really sad. Only James Fleet (Hugo) and Dawn French (Geraldine) remain of the regular cast....  

I know it probably wasn't what you were supposed to do, but I often sympathized with David for having to deal with Owen, Jim and Frank......  

Wow..... just....wow.....

How is it possible to be so delusional, not to mention hypocritical? To call her a lunatic is nowhere near an accurate description of her level of insanity.

I wonder if Boris Johnson will survive as prime minister after these new developments.....

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Novak Djokovic admits breaking isolation while Covid positive

The way this year has started there are quite a few people I would like to wrap up in a protective cocoon to keep them safe..... 

35 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Yeah they're saying he didn't have Covid on Dec 16th. They had it falsified to get the exemption. The tournament should not have allowed any exemptions. Had they done that Novak would've been screwed.

Wait, what?? 

If he lied about that, then surely that invalidates his exemption?

Such blatant disrespect and disregard for other people!

I hope they kick him out of the country and ban him from entering again.

Novak Djokovic: Judge overturns cancellation of tennis star's visa

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