DramatistDreamer

Since this thread has kind of morphed into a general discussion on streaming, I thought that this was as good as anywhere to post this. AppleTV and the raft of other upcoming streamers must find this news a bit unsettling.

Can fellow mother and former Belgian nemesis Justine Henin be far behind?

Welcome to the boards. I try to be a lot more cordial usually, but from time to time I get a little ornery when folks only seem to show up to remind us to be civil to people who are part of a system that would never return the civility and break every rule of engagement in the process. It gets more than a little tiresome. I actually once heard someone telling people not to 'fat-shame' Trump when he called a woman "Miss Piggy" for months. Civility is not supposed to be a one-way street.

I must have the source/poster blocked because I'm not seeing all the posts. Oh well. Trump has his children working in the White House, so can we all stop looking at this White House/administration as being like any of the others? Trump Inc. has 'crossed the rubicon' concerning normal standards so why should his administration and family get treated with kid gloves? This administration locks children in cages, allows toddlers to sit in their own soiled diapers for days, not hours and refuses to give badly needed feminine hygiene products to teenage girls. So I have to RME at the "standards police" now trying to lecture anyone about how children are discussed when the Trump WH continues to tear children away from their parents/families. Vulnerable children who are fleeing violence and violent acts of nature like hurricanes (do those people read and care about the young girl who was just separated from her parents coming off a plane to Miami from the Bahamas, where their home was destroyed by hurricane Dorian). People trying to "shame" people over Trump kids can take that wagging finger of disapproval elsewhere because like other posters mentioned when the insults were hurled at the Obama daughters (during the worst of the fight again the ACA), Republicans, right-wingers et al. didn't care. Suddenly they care? GMAB. Go somewhere else with that! I didn't want to post a rant today but honestly, why is anyone pretending that this WH of vipers adheres to any normal standards of decorum or engagement. It makes me want to quote that infamous Michael Jordan quote.

Either that or he believes that Melania's side piece at Saks has a lot of explaining to do.

It's still a loss but that margin of victory for Bishop was mighty small. Just saying. In uneasy financial markets, this is interesting. I doubt it will be accepted but it is causing consternation in the U.K. about GB's autonomy in the wake of #BrexitShambles.

What a shame.

By the way, Bolton is now saying he resigned first, lol. A mess!

^^Trump Inc. needs to be asking Queen if they can borrow use of "Another One Bites The Dust" because that is definitely the theme song of this administration. Is there any other presidential administration with this type of turnover??? In a first term?? As for the pomp and ceremony happening in the House of Commons, if you've ever been to one of England's most "prestigious" institutions, this bizarre spectacle is pretty much par for the course. I once spent some time at Cambridge University, chock full of bizarre traditions and spectacle. The other day, I had to remind my mother that this was the country that once ruled about a 1/4 of the world's population at one time, where she was born and raised, being one of those populations. All my mother could do was shake her head. Yeah, pretty hard to fathom now.

^^That is good to hear. Speaking of soap alumni from the Alphabet network- Sean Blakemore (Shawn Butler, GH) can be seen in the new Brad Pitt movie Ad Astra.

Which is why that oft-used argument about budgets being the sole reason why daytime soaps are so lackluster always seemed to be a bit dubious. What determines the quality starts out on the page 1st. Bill Bell Sr. knew that. Notice also, how subtle the music cues are. The dialogue is what is the centerpiece of those scenes, everything else is aesthetics.

That tableau of everyone standing outside the hospital room as Jennifer was wheeled off to surgery was very poignant. The episode hardly seemed like just a half-hour, it didn't feel rushed, the detail was laid out and the dialogue took its time. It's easy to see how someone could become engrossed in the story. Because the dialogue and the story takes its time to unfold, a viewer actually has something tangible to hold onto and there's no avoidance of tough material. I'm glad I got to see it. Courtney Simon in that Search For Tomorrow ad, boy, she really became a part of the P&G universe even earlier than I could have ever known. Does Dove still make dishwashing soap? I only think of them as a bath soap now.

There's nothing really to process. BoJo is scum who decades ago planted the seeds that would bloom and foment chaos and discord from his editorial perch at a tabloid newspaper. In looking so small, he is reaping exactly what he has sown. He's truly shameless, so I don't expect him to feel at all chastened, he will just carry on with his destructive plans. Feeling sorry for him is a complete waste of time. My sympathies are with the children whose food insecurity will only worsen or the average person (who didn't vote for Leaving the E.U.) who won't know where to get their medicine, their groceries and will find their lives disrupted because of the perilous state of things with the single market being swept away. My sympathies are with the immigrants who spent damn near all their lives helping to build England, only to have their citizenship denied because they were lied to and told that they could enter as Commonwealth citizens on their parents passports, only to be discarded like garbage (I know he wasn't PM when this happened but he was still a member of the party and fomented anti-immigrant sentiment for well over two decades). Boris Johnson is trash, f*ck him. A thrashing (politically and physically) is the least he deserves. When your own brother abandons you and your political party out of disgust, you don't deserve anybody's sympathy. Speaking of those who don't deserve our sympathy, This certainly couldn't have been unexpected but I guess it's news?

Nadal has violated that rule many more times than he has actually been caught. Tennis is very selective about who they punish and it makes them look ridiculous as an organization. You have people who bash holes into umpires' chairs and pretending to fire guns getting smaller fines than players swiping at a blade of glass. Also, how is it determined that CSN was giving 'not enough effort'? How is that determined? You have verbal abuse warnings for some...fine, but let it be in a language or slang that an official isn't familiar with and the offender gets absolutely no warning, even if everybody heard it. Pundits still complain about grunting as though it is solely a women's tennis issue when, at this point there are just as many male players who grunt (and loudly) during matches. When the shot clock rule was introduced, I was one of those who dismissed it. One, I really thought the effect would be negligible on the actual running time of the match (surface speeds, balls, etc. are far more important factors, imo) and I just didn't care and third, like many other of tennis' rules, many players who are often habitual offenders would find a way around it anyway. Now that the shot clock rule is here and in effect, however, I think that either tennis needs to apply and enforce it, equally and judiciously or just get rid of the rule altogether. Tennis as a sport looks ridiculous nowadays.

And if there's any doubt about that, one only need look as the twitter feud he was trying to start with *squints at paper* John Legend and Chrissy Teigen as Teigen's incredible clapback at Trump that actually started to trend until Twitter shadowbanned it. People continue to tweet and retweet the insult hoping to get it to trend. Incredible how with a few well-chosen, politely delivered words Varadkar made Johnson look every inch the disheveled small bumbling fool that he truly is. Johnson can only grin and bear it.

Anyone who was feeling sorry for Billy Bush being out of a job because of the Access Hollywood clip, stop, Bush has a new hosting gig. He was also all over CBS This Morning with the PR blitz.

Some of you longtime GH viewers might recognize one of the actors in this sketch.

Well, there have been a steady flow of defections and resignations, haven't there?

Please don't remind me anything about that horrible serial slasher story they tried to do on ATWT in its final years. Just the notion of it...yikes and, in a bad way!

Just remember, there was a homeless black woman in Connecticut who got 5 years in prison for registering her child to a school in a different district from the one in which she "resided".

Why is Trump going around bragging about a failed diplomacy mission? Most people already see his administration as incompetent on all diplomatic matters and then he talks about flopping an already risky, diplomatic mission with an already low bar of success. Read the room already! Just when you think this keystone cop administration couldn't look anymore incompetent and out of their depth...

Maybe for actors who qualify as "Show Hoppers" but CLJ was no "Show Hopper", he's only ever done two roles in soaps that I can think of, Michael Baldwin and Kirk McColl and he's remembered quite well for both roles. One role, he's still in and the other, where he acted opposite two Oscar winners (Marisa Tomei and Julianne Moore). To exorcise that from people's, particularly soap fans' (who remember everything! LOL) memories could be quite challenging. It was bizarre enough to see him alongside Eileen Fulton as Michael Baldwin. People talked about it a lot when it happened and it was distracting.