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I kind of expected this after Roger retired. For years I think everyone expected - well, when Roger is retired, Rafa will be winning everything at that point. Or it will be Rafa and Djokovic winning it all for a few more years. I suspected when Roger went, the other 2 wouldn't have much left really. There really is no dominant force in either Men's or Women's now. I thought maybe Tennis was in a lull but honestly if things don't change? This could be a permanent downfall in the sport. I'm sure a group will come along but - near future? Tennis sucks. Everyone is on the Pickleball train and it wouldn't shock me to see them have their own version of slams within 5 years.

Yeah so I went at some of the defenders on Twitter. Their point being that - so what, she was a recruiter. The people were saying - she's a recruiter for Highly Cleared positions and people you idiots! They make about $50,000 per placement when you place a Highly Cleared person. You are so stupid!!! LOLLL - so - I have tons of friends who are recruiters, who place "highly cleared' people all the time. I'm in DC sweetykins. MY recruiting friends who do this ALL the time are not multi-millionaires and you do NOT get a set sum of money of $50K per position. And I just said, no - you would be wrong. They do get a % of someone's salary of their 1st year salary. But it's usually about 20% to 30%, even for highly cleared positions. If YOUR friends are in recruiting and get $50,000 a pop then - the only people they were placing have a salary of $250,000 minimum. I can just tell you - you know how many people in the Government or Contractors make $250,000+ ??? Not MANY I can promise you. Do the math. She was only placing IT Directors and ABOVE? There aren't that many of them chile.

Man after Marland the show went down fast. That's my memory anyway. The mid to late 90's were a vast wasteland of boring. That's what I remember. For that reason I despise the opening with the seasons, geese flying, tampon advertisement opening. I hate it. Because it matched how boring the show became and I remember trying to stick in and keep watching because for so many years there was consistency, and excitement. As an aside, is anyone following the husband of Martha Byrne case? I wanna say somethin'. I have to say it's a little disappointing to see posts on her page - and it's her giving updates, but she's doing conservative talk shows, which is fine to get the message out however you can. I guess. What's disappointing is how people immediately jump to blaming the current President - it's just sick. To my knowledge, it didn't happen during this Presidency, and what does that have to do with whatever happened with the husband - no matter WHO was President, and I think - stop making it political. Either be a Martha fan and focus on that but stop making it politicial. If you want to go that route I'd have a lot more to say, and I'd also say - you might want to do a little research and find out who you are working for. But, I probably shouldn't even say that because if you're working, you just want to get paid, and I don't know everything about it. Just sounds like the person who paid the person or something and is it our responsibility to always find out where money came from if ya got paid? Dunno. But, very political all of a sudden on her FB page.

So, I thought Hunt was nice too look at, and he was good at playing the bad guy. IMO he was good as Ben Warren but I never warmed up to him as Craig. Craig was always Scott Bryce for me. But damn I didn't know how badly Hunt cried. I missed this totally or - I did become a part time watcher at the time due to my work schedule, and not DVRing religiously. What's jarring is how--- even easy stuff here in the scene --- was there no Director? I fear there was a Director and this was a 10th try. LOL. My feedback would be - OK, if that's all ya got, then - do NOT go from bad cry to spoken word at the drop of a hat. He literally is supposed to be in the throes of grief and then, bam, "now that we have that out of the way..."...awful.

Yawn. Sheila could escape and someone is going to help her. Gosh that’s so interesting and shocking? I guess?

I've followed it somewhat, but basically to me - to boil it down. They're prosecuting him for kind of - not following the money that was paying him. He was hired to do a job as a private investigator. But someone paid someone who paid someone who paid him for doing a job. And it went back to some Chinese money for surveillance that was detrimental to national security. The accusation is something like that. But, to me, you're hired to do a job and only care if you get paid. He didn't break any laws in doing whatever he did - the things you do as a Private Investigator. So it's really a crappy situation. There are a ton of ins-outs and details but - it is something like the money paying him was dirty, and how would you even know? My guess - probably a Newsmax appearance because - that crowd will really warm up and take to 'overreach' by government types of topics and conspiracy theories.

Well I agree with one dimensional but I don't think the stories sound like they came from this board. I don't know where the stories sound like they came from. But - in regard to realism, of course we know it's a show, it's fiction. But the good shows/soaps had grounding in reality. Basing the series in a real city doesn't make it real. Not when someone with very little means constantly evades law enforcement, regularly gets away with murder, etc. Sheila is played out. So years ago, the character of James Stenbeck on World Turns kind of became a joke among the really upper crust of daytime. Because people said, oh ATWT just brings him back for sweeps, and it's not really a surprise. That always made me laugh, given some of these same people loved Stefano on DAYS and half the ludicrous explanations of "Stefano did it!" were becoming common. Opinions, well - James Stenbeck was never this played out. Never played out as Sheila. Neither was Roger on GL. When it comes to realism, shows like ATWT and AMC probably did it best. They figured out how to have the fun soapy stuff and still have real families with characters that had natural reactions and in general, reacted reasonably. These shows figured out how to weave in socially relevant stories with the fun stuff. I think Brad Bell is scared to death to do serious, and be consistent. Takes too much work. Here's an idea from this board - because going back to that - I think people's ideas on this board are far BETTER than anything they are coming up with. I know crazy things have to happen for people/actors to return to a show, comings and goings....but while I didn't love the character of Maya - she would be ripe for a return if B&B wanted to do something good. With all of the controversy over Trans people competing in sports and surgery (how early is too early, and noise being made by some people who regret doing it, others arguing it was the best thing they ever did), what if we found out Maya and Rick's baby (the one Nicole was surrogate with) - this would take time, but - re-introduce Rick and Maya (in real years, that was 2016 so the kid would be 7 this year. With SORAS - worse things have happened) - Maya returns from wherever she was, speaks of the baby - who is now 14, in boarding school. Would not take long to reintroduce the character as a fairly young 14/15 year old, and have her questioning her sexuality - putting Nicole and Maya in the middle. Maya, the person who raised her, all for pushing a possible surgery someday soon - with Nicole freaking out over it (or not? haven't thought about it). Nicole and bring in Julius - I can hear "you raising that child, you put your beliefs on that child, Maya". But here would be a way for the show to bring some history and characters back, and get the ball rolling again without the same faces over and over and over. Rick could return and begin the fight for Forrester again in the middle of all of that. The Avants return as supporting characters torn between Nicole and Maya again. Or, Maya and the child - since it's a daughter who wants to become a male, what if Maya did NOT understand that? Because she was the opposite. Tons of possibilities. Forgive some errors in history in the above because I really do watch part time, and these are things I remember from when I was trying to watch more regularly. But I think there are people on this board who are more capable. And sorry, I rambled, but I'm agreeing with you, hahaha. Mostly.

I only caught a bit of Hope laying into Brooke, and - I really have not liked Hope as played by Annika, but - she was pretty good. She's been a dishrag for so long, I feel like the few minutes I saw, she did really really well. Either hate or like her - she's not the problem I've seen with the show. The problem with the show is the ongoing "We've got her!" in regard to Sheila. So she goes to jail for 1 week, which will be 3 years in B&B time, or she knows and has slept with the whole penitentiary and is out in 3 days. Sheila stories are stale now and of no interest to me. Along with the huge eyeroll it takes to believe that the Forresters really are a famous family, and that Los Angeles has no real police force or - no one knows who they are. But everyone knows who they are. But no one does. If someone like Sheila did something like the things she has done to....the Kardashians....any random citizen would have tackled Shelia or tipped the police off as to her whereabouts. YEARS ago. As for the Taylor/Brooke stuff, I'm surprised from what I read - that they're still on the 'let's be friends' thing. It'll last like 5 more seconds before Brooke follows her va-jay jay again.

Well and as I read this, I say again - Los Angeles is a 4th world city. And since the police and FBI were involved, it's not like they have helicopters or anything advanced like that. It's just Los Angeles so they don't know how to apprehend people and have no means whatsoever, so it's very understandable. Cough. My God.

I missed it, what did she do - get up, dust herself off and drive away? While the sirens suddenly scream and they can't catch her (no one can) because she actually owns the Delorean from Back to the Future? Drives a car powered by nitroglycerin?

@dragonflies thanks for posting - I couldn't remember the character (there have been many to fall over "a" balcony - usually that one, but not always, but I have seen this several times on B&B. And I remembered that the "shoe" thing USUALLY - the shoe is usually missing. And they land in this position for sure). But let me say this - I did NOT actually remember it was this EXACT. So thank you.

She kept her shoe on though. That same fall usually causes the person to lose a shoe, which means she can run! I wonder if she'll be there when they look down? GASP! Shocking, she's GONE?! WHAT? HOW can this BE!?? What do you MEAN she's GONE? How can she just be GONE! Send out an APB! We need international coordination from Interpol! FBI, CIA, and Mossad! The authorities are ON the WAY! We can ASSURE YOU. LOLLLL.

yawn. The talking on the phone too much with the person in the next room who you do not under any circumstance want to hear your very important conversation - but keep talking on said-phone anyway, over and over repeating the very thing that the person should never ever hear or they will jet, but you keep talking anyway....so that she hears. Then confrontation that you will NEVER. EVER. Do this to me. EVER. NOT EVER. You're going to JAIL BITCH! Etc. etc., looks for my nail file yawn. Along with LA again being a third world city in a 4th world country. Could take those FBI agents, CIA agents, State Police, City Police etc. - they're right there on STANDBY, but it could be 3 - 4 weeks before they arrive. But they'll be here ANY second. I cannot believe I keep doing this. LOL. How long til we find out Agent Chen is her son. LOL.

I have no idea about most of this, but none of it makes sense. What someone said. I thought they all know Sheila shot multiple people. And of course, it's LA so it's a third world country. No cameras anywhere, you know. Especially not at a seedy disgusting restaurant like Il Jardine or whatever. You know, for them to have caught her shooting multiple people on a camera. ANYWHO - the one day I did tune in for about 10 minutes I saw something with Steffy saying Hope is looking at Thomas with longing or something.... I have no idea. But that's old and stale - again. Nothing interests me really on the show anymore. Sheila probably brought back Ridge herself, and is actually playing Bill and the FBI for a fool....and this isn't Ridge but an evil twin or a robot or something stupid. Because Sheila knows all. She's an all knowing Sheila and all times. That's why the character is stupid now. It doesn't matter if you put her in jail because she built all jails and pays all the employees herself. LOLLLL.

He still looked like the Abbott pool boy, which I can't remember, must have been the storyline in the late 80's. His former wife had him in a cage soon thereafter - the one with the fabulous long hair. Lisa Mansfield?

Why in the &uck is it so important for these people to NOT get a damned shot? Like the President should have TIME to decide to confirm whether a Tennis player can or cannot travel by a &ucking boat? This is what Ron Desatan wants to spend time on. Antivaxxers, drag queens, guns, mess with Disney, whatever. Just whatever Ron. We are TENNIS fans and get this - WE STILL DO NOT CARE whether Novak is HERE or NOT HERE. What is so difficult to understand here? He knows what he needs to do but keeps *ucking around. Get the shot! Or don't! But you're not going to just do whatever the hell you feel like, whenever you feel like. Go home, go on vacation....OR NOT. WE. Don't. CARE. LOL.

Every Sheila story has always been about blackmail. And there are numerous others - like Sheila devouring Taylor because Bill will send Taylor to jail. It’s what makes it so stupid - after all the manipulation and grand genius of Sheila, she would just say - eh? Meh. Meh, Bill is meh. The reason she’s not in jail is a guy who is meh in 1 week. So dumb.

Trying to watch live, but....it takes a lot. When did Sheila become the most gorgeous woman in the world? That men are pining over her - what's her job, where's her money, what about her whole....life? Painful. There's suspending disbelief and then there's....this. Mess. Second, how many times are they going to do the story of again-redeemed Thomas has to "save the line" with his world famous designs? I just can't.

Well the ring is a nice size, LOL. I really like Asscher cut or Pear though. ahahahahahaha.

The Alcaraz Fognini match was decent. I happened to see it hahaha.

I didn't see it but it sounds about what they will do. I would guess that Sheila either shoves him off and then teleports to the bottom of the cliff to catch him, thus being a "good person" now, or some nonsense. Someone shoves the kid off, but Sheila saves him, instantly a good person again. It'll be something stupid. Or, Thomas will convince him to jump for Daddy to catch him a few feet down or something, and then Thomas will spin it that Douglas jumped or fell off, and this proves it's an unsafe place for him to live. yadda yadda.

I tuned in briefly yesterday and was interested in the Douglas story - but God Hope is so whiny. How are you going to tell another adult to put the smack down on a kid’s decision when it was - his decision? Steffy is a far better choice than Thomas. At the very least it would make sense to at least be glad about that. The Sheila stuff is - who cares? I saw some pining away by Deacon. Like WTF? I couldn’t care less about anything Sheila. The only possible interest (but it’s so obvious) is Brooke/Taylor uniting to destroy her once and for all. But that idea is out the window because B&B has made itself reliant on Sheila and she can never die. So there’s zero interest there.

This Duke of Hastings Can bang me anytime. Oui oui.

That old commercial - I'm not going to age gracefully, I'm going to fight every step of the way! Well, she did. And her face looks like the battleground. Don't you just wonder? Do they sign a waiver? You acknowledge that something bad could happen, and that you're admitting before it does - that you'll sign on to fix whatever mistake was made....and I'll likely make more mistakes. And I'll cut you again to fix it, likely making it worse. Sign right here on the dotted line, and we'll get started. Thanks.

I don't know anything about the case (Kyrgios), but interesting. The way it's described in the article makes it open for me - either way. I don't like Nick K. and I think he's a hot head, doesn't surprise me if he was physically abusive. On the other hand though - this sounds typical for a girl trying to stop a guy from leaving. Like it or not, it happens. And when a guy says he's leaving - let him go. If he called himself an Uber, or got in his car - you don't stand in front of it to keep someone from leaving. (Isn't that kidnapping or fall under it or something - holding you against your will?)?? So - I don't know enough. But I've been on both sides of it actually and had a guy come for me saying I was physically abusive. I'd had a verbal altercation with him and over the period of 2 hours begged him to leave my house. He just would not. I shoved him out the door, and then he went around spouting I had physically abused him. (Now, I'm 5'5" and 145 pounds. He was 6'2" and 210 and the 'top'). LOLLLLL. So.