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Yeah and the song was huge hit, all over radio and TV despite the savage criticism aimed at it. Anka proudly accepted the "Male Chauvinistic Pig of the Year" award from Ms. magazine for it, but he also claimed the song was intended as a tongue-in-cheek shot at the 1970s anti-choice people. As an homage to standard soap opera tropes I generally don't mind WTD? storylines. But knowing that CH & MG's IRL relationship is a factor kind of annoys me. I think Sally is being written out-of-character now.

Patrick Stewart has become more noticeably more shrunken and frail. It took me aback at first. Twenty minutes in and already this season is 100% better to me than the last one. It's almost like Season 2 never happened. Yeah, Shaw is a piece of work. Insulting Picard and Riker right off the bat? Not that he didn't have some valid points about their lowkey arrogance but he didn't have to make them in such an asshole-ish way. Ditto comments upthread, Shaw essentally deadnaming Seven was sad. You'd think that would no longer be happening in the 25th century. Had Riker not met Seven before? I'm not fully knowledgeable of Star Trek cannon across the various TV series and movies. TMW you find out you're a baby daddy but the baby you're meeting is a 20+ year-old man. Jean-Luc's face looked like he was doing that age math in his head real fast, lol. (As a veteran soap opera watcher I found this potential development hilarious but I guess it's a UO among most ST fans. Oh well.) I keep reading that the use of I Don't Want to Set the World on Fire at the beginning of the episode reminded people of a computer game but the song always makes me think of this Chanel No. 5 commercial. Actors often play characters younger than they actually are IRL. I'm thinking Jack is meant to be in his 20s. As a huge fan of Alien/Aliens I had mixed feelings when I picked up on the reference. I want to go with Sarah Connor instead but I know she doesn't quite work with what we've been shown so far.

Yes, and the dream was from Sally's subconscious. She knows Nick doesn't love her, or at least believes she knows. And in the real world he doesn't do much to convince her otherwise. (Not that he should. IMO it's rather old-fashioned to expect a pregnancy to make someone instantly fall in love. Sally has never been more than a FWB situation for Nick and at this stage of his life he wasn't pining for another kid.) I think this goes straight back to TPTB/CBS. They've slow-walked the baby adoption and kept it mostly off-screen because they know there's a sizeable portion of the audience which not only doesn't want to see gay characters, they don't want to see gay characters raising children. That audience segment can still make trouble via social media, soap forums, etc., and they're being held at bay for as long as possible. That's been a standing question. At one point she and Adam bared their souls to each other but it mostly happened off-screen so it's uncertain whether he's the one who told her. I can't imagine Nick or Chloe told Sally because that would risk painting Nick in a bad light. But it makes sense to me that Sally realizes Adam might view the situation as another opportunity for Nick to "steal" a child from him.

Sharon's coat. Someone I used to know called that color "baby sh!t." And apparently big lapels are back in style. "It's hard to make a circle of support with two people." Seriously, Sally? You are not the first woman in the history of the world who's had an unplanned pregnancy. Nor are you the first unmarried one. Get over yourself. 0% chance it's Nick's baby! Yayyyyyyy!!!!! Wait, it was only a dream sequence? Nooooooo!!!!! Grr, I bet Chloe pulled some shenanigans on the test results. WAIT, WHAT? ANOTHER DREAM SEQUENCE??!!??!!!! Enough of your b.s. Show. At this point I'm almost ready for Sally to take an unfortunate tumble down a flight of stairs. 😉😉😉😉 But at least Sally realizes Nick doesn't love her. So much for that fairy tale. I watched the episode live today but now I'm wishing I hadn't bothered. Why are they dragging out the reveal of the baby's father?

Christine is Devon's lawyer? Oh well, he can kiss Hamilton/Winters goodbye. Was Brittany Hodges not available? I think Adam is fcuking with Victor. He knows Victor isn't going to choose him over Victoria. The law of averages, Chloe? Human conception doesn't work like that, ya moron. Sorry but Nick only has a 50% chance at best of being the baby daddy. Maybe less if his boys don't swim as well as they used to. Looked like the Cheek Filler Fairy struck again. O hai Heather. 😼 I liked Ashley's black suit and tie. Meanwhile, Abby, Lily, and Heather were all wearing white today. Wonder what that was all about? Victoria basically told Nick to shut up, she's right about Tucker, and daddy's gonna agree with her. Ah, never change, Ice Queen. What? Victor said McCall Unlimited was "as vast and important as Newman Enterprises." I don't understand how he's planning for NE to buy it and then turn it into a potential competitor by spinning it off for Adam to run. Sally and Nick: rude much? They acted like they couldn't remove themselves from Adam's vicinity fast enough. Fate may be about to bite both their behinds. Hah hah, Vikki! You nearly had Tucker roped and tied but his huge debts were butterflies, free to fly to someone else with deep pockets. #mixedmetaphors Come on, since when is Ashley as wealthy as the Newmans or Devon? Plot contrivance is contrived. And yet there are facts.

Finally finished this show. My takes along the way: E1 Okay, I didn't realize beforehand this was a British production. Had to adjust my cultural expectations, ha ha. I usually get annoyed when I hear British English speakers do bad American accents but then I have to remember how annoyed they must get when they hear actors from the US doing iffy British accents. Then here we have the added layer of accents from various African and island cultures. Fun times ahead. (Apologies if I'm coming across as xenophobic. I'm not; I just have a thing about accents in acting performances.) Well the first episode was good. It was tightly written, without much in the way of moments which didn't really contribute to the plot. E2 Nepotism works until you lose your guaranteed soft landing. The Richards kids' father did them a disservice by sheltering them from the real world where people either have to have passable qualifications or be independently wealthy. The teeth-sucking thing took me some getting used to. A secret shareholder. Pure soap opera. Love it. E3 I liked how Nina was mentoring Alesha. "You have a right to be here. Take up space." F &G has a bad IT department if someone inside the company could delete files and all backups, and make it look like someone else did it. An employee with that kind of technical power can bring a company down. Nina should've tossed out the entire IT crew. So was this guy Nina was screwing pretending to be a gigolo or was it simply a hookup app? Wait until she finds out who he really is. But what an absurd coincidence that she just happened to pick him on the app. (And I didn't realize Indian men were into to Black women, especially one with darker skin since their culture tends to be very skin color-conscious. Maybe he was attracted to Nina's hair since it likely came from an Indian woman. 😏) E4 Rishi was fine AF. Too bad he was kind of shady. And I still find it hard to believe Rishi didn't know who Nina was. Dang, sometimes it be your own family. Poor Nina, undermined by her brother and mother. E5 Gus and Alesha: but, but, but we didn't think the leopard would eat OUR faces! Fools. Claudia gets credit for valuing her daughter over money at least. Wanda's real father must be someone Claudia is afraid of. E6 Wow, it was Gideon embezzling from the company all along. Seems a bit cliché though for the one White man to have played all the Black people for fools for years. Stephen Richards had a hidden life insurance policy. What was the point if no one knew about it? Whatever, it seems to me the insurance company would've been obliged to notify the beneficiaries upon his death. Claudia in that big house out in the boonies by herself seemed unsafe and unlikely. But Gideon threatening her? Meh, she could just have him killed. So Maureen not only knows where the bodies are buried, she's got one of them. Richards must've paid her well to stay quiet about their kid. Looks like the writers set up a few cliffhangers: Who is Wanda's father and will she find out she's not a biological Richards Did Claudia kill her husband and will Gideon be able to prove it Will Nina find out who the sixth Richards sibling is Why has Maureen kept her son's paternity a secret, and why was he left out of the Richards inheritance I hope there will be a second season. The show has fantastic production values, and a short season tends heads off a lot of unnecessary extra subplots.

^^^It's odd because early in his TV and movie career EB spoke quite clearly, albeit with a German accent. For example, I'm always intrigued when Escape from the Planet of the Apes runs on one of the oldies stations and EB is in it playing a scientist. His character has long lines of dialogue with a bunch of technical jargon and he speaks very crisply. I have to laugh though because it's clear EB is often reading his lines from something off-camera. No cell phones or tablets back in the 1970s, lol.

Lucy probably attends an International School, of which there are several in Portugal according to Wikipedia. A significant number of International Schools serve the children of American ambassadors and other diplomtic staff employed by U.S. embassies around the world. Sometimes the children of people employed by major global businesses (think IBM or Ford, not NE or Jabot) also attend those schools. Odds are though, Lucy does speak some Portuguese because kids usually pick up local languages easily. Furthermore, an International School primarily serving American children would typically include the native language as part of their curriculum. (Note, however, in many International Schools English is treated as the foreign language, and their students may receive specific instruction in how to speak British and/or American English.) Billy's got bills to pay, hah hah. I don't think he's as well off as his siblings since he gambled a lot of his money away. He also may be looking out for Chelsea. If he's back as a top executive at Jabot he can give her a job there too. Hmm, do Chelsea and DIane have history? Also, I wonder if Lily bought out Billy's half of the condo they lived in? Or if we'll ever see that set again.

Poor Hannah Gray. Sometimes it doesn't pay to be a Good Samaritan. I can't watch Shawn Hatosy now without thinking of the murdering, thieving, surfing psychopath he played on Animal Kingdom. When I saw him in the previews last week I assumed his character would be the villain. That shoe store salesman's hair was fabulous. So thick and luxurious. 😸 I'm betting King Matisse peed his pants when the shooting started and he didn't want video of his wet crotch to go viral. His street cred would've been beyond destroyed. Shaw leaping over fences like a low-rent superhero. At least this time the suspect Cosgrove and Shaw chased turned out to be the actual perp. I don't think this was the worst episode of the reboot but IMO it was kind of weak. The main point seemed to be for the guest star to get an Emmy reel moment or two.

What determines how flammable a kid is, lol? Mr. Johnson is the single most well-adjusted person the trauma counselor had ever met? She must encounter some real doozies because IMO he seems to move in and out of an alternate timeline. Barbara wearing the flame-singed shawl. Guess with cashmere she has to get her money's worth. Melissa said "C-I-A" is the three leading causes of fires. Where is the lie tho? 😉 A 57-step recipe. Oy, I wouldn't eat those cookies on a bet. They sounded like a science experiment to me. Mary J Blige levels of "just fine." So, not exactly okay but being loud in several octaves about it. Ava said Janine had a round face like the Teletubbies Sun Baby. She is undefeated in the tossing out random references game. Yeah, that last dress Janine had on was actually rather "normal." I'd wear it in a different color. (According to Worn on TV the dress is from Target and it's sold out.)

And of course Grandma Phyllis had to show up looking like a high medium low-priced escort. Kyle = bug. Adam = cat. See Adam bat Kyle around until he figuratively eats him, or walks away bored, leaving Kyle for dead. Jeremy finally got a scene with TGVN. At least he didn't have to meet Victor in a boxing ring. What a freaking lunatic. I don't know how Lucy didn't laugh in Phyllis' clueless face but maybe she's had better home training than her granny. More mentions of Paul. He's not dead yet! 😏 Okay, Summer was working the color burgundy hard today. <golf claps> Diane, you stay gloating and you know it. IMO it's still not a good look for you. Phyllis is being dismissed and ignored left and right and it's starting to puzzle her. Is she creeping toward some kind of epiphany? 😱 I think the young actress playing Lucy is doing great. She's portraying a desperately sad yet hopeful teenaged girl in a way Faith wasn't really allowed to. I hope she sticks around for a while. Ugh, I am beyond tired of Summer and Kyle's fight. They just say the same things over and over. #marriagegoals they are not. Whee! Jeremy is like walking, talking, bundle of Gloat Stop™. New from Johnson & Johnson! Jeremy told Phyllis he sees himself in her. Lol, I love when the jokes write themselves. Re the previews: Billy back at Jabot? As co-CEO? Jackie, nooooooo!!!!!!

Yep. I'm pretty much sitting on my hands for this discussion. However, I will note that as far as potential pairings are concerned, the writers sometimes have to work around limitations imposed by the actors themselves. Some actors won't "allow" their characters to be put in interracial romances. One actor in particular has all but bragged about it and the character they play has never had a non-White partner. Other actors have had their characters paired with characters who had seemingly Hispanic/Latino last names but were actually White Europeans from Spain or Italy. I'll never forget how Phyllis kept telling Daniel he needed to "step up" and assume responsibility for Lucy. As if he were some kind of deadbeat instead of someone who was understandably wary of their ability to put aside how Lucy was conceived. Daniel was afraid he'd take out his subconscious anger on the innocent child but Phyllis refused to see his concerns.

Another endless day in GC. This one's been going on for a week now. 🙄 Dang, Victoria wasted no time getting all up in Nate's personal business. Happy Valentine's Day, Elena, from the icy bish who's trying to take your man. Good grief, what did Ashley hope to accomplish with Tucker if she was just going to throw anything he said right back at him? Phyllis' cheek fillers are scary to me. I think she looks like her face is infected. Wait, Jeremy and Tucker had never met before? But I loved how quickly Tucker read that situation: Phyllis is playing coy but she kinda wants herself a taste of some Jeremy. Chicks love the bad boys, lol. Oh dear, does Allie have cheek fillers too? Y&R's makeup people must've scored a great group rate. Daniel's little Lucy has grown up. Hmm, she's the right age for Johnny, no? They could bond over the similarly awful ways they each were conceived. Allie and Ashley's convo took at unexpected turn. Dominance? In a romantic relationship that sounds like the road to BDSM to me. Not gonna kink shame but Ashley better clear it with Tucker before she springs a dog collar and a ball gag on him. 🤠 Victoria loved hearing Nate say he and Elena have been having issues. She's lowkey using false flattery and faked concern to groom him and he's too full of himself to see it. Whatever. Please, Show, please let Tucker be running a con on the Newmans. I don't want to see Victoria get his empire handed to her. Besides, why wouldn't Tucker give his son Devon first right of refusal? At least then McCall Unlimited would stay in the family as it were.

Looking forward to getting back into this for the third season.

Now Phyllis is trying to work her kids against each other to prop her own ego. Ugh. Tucker wears jeans well. I'd almost put him right up there with Chance. Almost. Go Jack! You keep chewing that little twerp out. IMO Kyle is a spoiled brat and has only conditional loyalty to you. Maternal instincts? Pshht, Phyllis has the maternal instincts of a guppy. Baby guppies are lucky if Mama Guppy doesn't eat them as soon as they're born. Heather looked great. It seemed to me like her voice hadn't aged at all. Ashley: Tucker, I hope you're not expecting a repeat performance of my last visit. Tucker: why not? My encore is fire! Ashley: first, stop saying that, you sound like a try-hard. And second, my body is not ready. You're a lot, Tucker. Audra: I know that's right. 😏 Phyllis took the opened bottle of champagne with her when she left the restaurant. That's not legal, is it? She could cause Society to lose its liquor license. Not sure whether Phyllis misunderstands what "cutting the apron strings" means or if the MWTs do. Either way, Daniel and Summer have been living their adult lives for years without her so-called protection, totally stringless. Yeah, I'm with Tucker. Ashley is being sketchy AF. I have the refrain of this song on repeat on his behalf. Phyllis has Diane OCD. What a loon. Jack was barely able to finish his drink before he had to hightail it away from her. Oooh, Heather. When Phyllis finds out you dumped her son for another man she'll be calling you all kinds of ungrateful heaux. Poor Daniel. GMAFB. Simp Tucker's ready to give up everything for Ashley? Somebody needs to put him UNDER the ashram. Jeremy! 🥳🥳🥳🥳

Is Ashley also allergic to peanut butter? Summer is the one who got a peanut butter kiss when she was a child and almost died. Phyllis had to take her to a clinic in Switzerland so Summer could regain her ability to walk, talk, and otherwise function. (It's debatable whether Phyllis got her money's worth for the treatment since Summer is still somewhat dim. 😏)

Huh, Faith and Moses are still together up at college. Wonders never cease. Sally's avoiding Nick already. Alrighty then. Come into the light, Sally! 😏 Nikki said she's helping plan the GC bicentennial celebration. Yeah, Show is overdue for a big social event. Guess this is where Diane and Jack will officially announce themselves as a couple. Funny how the characters just now realized it's Valentine's even though in show time it's been the same day for several episodes. FFS, Victor, you have long fomented competition between your children for most-favored status. You're the #1 reason they're still not able to trust each other as far as the Newman empire is concerned. FOH. I think the person Sally should be asking Sharon about is Adam. But apparently Sally's looking ahead to a co-parenting relationship with Nick versus a romantic one. Dang, the lowkey shade Sharon was throwing at Sally. "You're more Adam's messy speed but Nick always has compassion for the downtrodden. Bless your heart." I hope Nick isn't going to regret telling Victoria about the WTD? situation. She's hardly an objective bystander given her animosity for Adam and Victor's disregard for Sally. Victor gave Nikki a greeting card for Valentines Day. And yet another ostentatious necklace. Yawn. Likewise, Sally spilling the beans to Sharon about her baby on board might mean half the town will know soon because Sharon is a huge gossip. Question is, will the whisperings eventually reach Adam?

I still can't with Summer's skirt. IMO it's too small for her figure, plus she doesn't seem to be able to walk properly in her high heels. She's been clopping around like a newborn giraffe on freshly-waxed linoleum. Jack was a brave man, stepping in between Ashley and Diane. I'm thinking Diane could fight down and dirty, MMA-style. However, Ashley would simply pull out her Glock and ask Diane if she feels lucky. 😉 Wow, Audra laid it right out to Tucker that the Newmans are coming after him. Guess she has a death wish, hah hah. But OTOH, maybe they shouldn't've assumed she was willing to be a honeytrap. Ehh, Ashley, your embarrassment is your problem. No one expects you to be responsible for your adult brother's romantic decisions. Unless Diana does something to cause you direct harm, STFU. Oh okay, Audra thinks she can find out what Tucker's countermove will be, and then she can tell Nate and Victoria. Not a bad plan but it might be a bit transparent for a gamesman like McCall. Lol, Ashley should rekindle things with Tucker and have him move into the Abbott family home. Then she should talk Billy into returning and bringing Chelsea with him. Jack's head would go BOOM. Nate's "whatchutalkinbout Willis?" facial expression when Audra told him how she handled Tucker cracked me up. Audra dances circles around him in the corporate intrigues arena and he doesn't even realize it. Victor is incredibly presumptuous. What if Adam buys Tucker's debts himself and leaves Daddy Vic, Victoria, and NE out of the equation entirely? Duh.

Yes, but would anyone actually do that or was it just a bit of comedy? Because these days getting past airport security is not a trivial thing.

Yeah, of course it turns out Janine is the one who's oblivious and extra, while her sister seemed perfectly normal. Janine has the market cornered on projection. Who buys a plane ticket just so they can eat in an airport restaurant? Do people actually do that IRL? And Greg has the market cornered on cluelessness. So Ava does not have a college degree. How is she a principal? Telfar bag. Huh, I'm with Janine, I didn't know what it was either. But whatever, you don't wrap them, you just hand them over? Seems tacky to me. (Also, did we know before now Mo could afford to buy such pricey gifts?) Aw, Gary did good with his coo duh grass for Melissa. The big gavone.

Mishael Morgan (Amanda) has posted on her social media that she's returning to Y&R for a quick visit. I guess this means Amanda will be involved in the lawsuit between C-W and Devon. If she's representing C-W, the odds are in her favor I think because she wrote the merger contracts and said they were iron clad. He better hope she's not still mad about his cheating on her with Abby, lol.

Apparently Phyllis knows how to cuss in Portuguese but we just have to take her word for it. Okay. 🙄 Kyle is so full of crap I think he must be leaving a smelly brown trail behind him throughout the Jabot building. Jack should've told him to stick his honorable intentions up his bum hole and give the maintenance crew a break. Daniel, you shouldn't have hired your mommy to work on Omega Sphere to begin with. Phyllis always makes fools of her kids eventually. Nah, time doesn't heal everything, Lily. Often it only delays the inevitable. Such as the implosion of ill-conceived IPOs. Guess Summer was in a hurry and left the bottom three inches of her skirt stuck in her car door. Meanwhile, heaven help me, I actually liked Phyllis' outfit today. Good color, and the long, slim fit didn't make her look like she was trying to be the hawtest grandma ever. Funny watching Audra and Tucker play verbal cat and mouse with each other. They both think they've got the upper hand but I'd put my money on McCall. He has a long history with the GC elite; she doesn't. Lol, wonder if Phyllis had even received her first Omega Sphere paycheck yet before Daniel dropkicked her off the project? Sigh, Adam, drama queen is not a good look for you. But kudos for doing the right thing and letting your friend Jack off the hook. Now you can go help Tucker eff Victor and Victoria's sh!t all the way up. Re the previews: is Jack really going to pay Ashley to GTFO of the Abbott manse so Diane can have sleepovers with him? Yikes! Adam's heretofore unknown twin brother! 🥳😉

School kids are still required to print out their reports. Why? What was up with Chelsea's Stepford wife hairdo? And Victoria's Old West schoolmarm look? Diane making herself at home in Jack's office with her feet up on his desk was interesting, as was the sly look on her face. Hmm. (Also, her shiny silver pumps? Fashion don't, at least not with that dress.) Don't worry, Adam. Odds are, Chelsea's going to be the one to hurt Billy, not the other way around. She's starting to act like she's unstoppable. If Diane takes over Marchetti Home she'll be in competition with Sally and Chloe's new business venture to be housed under C-W. Fun times ahead. Jack & Diane were wearing similar colors today. Okay. 😒 Not sure why Diane seemed surprised when Jack told her Kyle and Victor were quite chummy at one time. Victor was Kyle's stepfather for a while. And during the build up to her "murder" Diane basically signed pre-pubescent Kyle over to Victor's custody like chattel. OH PUHLEEZE, Victoria. You're worried about Victor getting hurt by Adam? You could only wish. Maybe then he'd finally go sit himself in a rocking chair and stay out NE and his grown-a$$ children's business. Whee! Adam just pulled the same move on Billy that Devon did to Lily. Checkmate, William. You're not the only one who can be a fun father figure to Johnny and Connor. Kyle, I hope Adam goes into beast mode and gives you the spanking you fully deserve. Bouffanted twerp. Wait, I thought that was Harry Styles. 😏

@boes, are you feeling okay? Comparing the badassery that is M3GAN to skinny ice queen Victoria may be a sign of impending mental collapse. Sending my thoughts and prayers. 😉 I'm hardly a scientist but it seems to me the baby will have either traces of Hope's DNA or Nikki's. I doubt those prenatal tests would be acceptable as consumer products if they couldn't make such a distinction no matter when the test was done. Seems to me people's lives could be put in jeopardy if the test results were commonly unreliable. Yeah, according to his Soap Central bio he did but that was a few recasts ago. (I also was reminded that Chance and Phyllis had a fling at one time. Oy. This version of Chance possibly getting with her again due to their mutual interest in coding? Do not want!) So now I've seen that Chance is actually older than Daniel by several years. It sure didn't look that way to me in yesterday's episode. We'll see how this Chance fits with Heather now that the actress portraying her is older but he isn't. Anyhoo, back to Sally's baby, it'd be interesting if Adam's genetic vision disease came into play.

Victoria, Nate a) can't be trusted not to let his ego steer him astray, and, b) is less than fully competent as a C-suite executive. You're tripping. Audra: Tucker, I thought I made it clear the last time you summoned me that we were no longer in cahoots. Tucker: perhaps, but your cooch is clearly in cahoots with my-- Audra: mouth? Tucker: lower. Audra: hands? Tucker: <snicker> loooowwweeerrr. Crystal: um, hello? See me back here? I hear everything in this lobby and you two are nasty. The writers are treating Daniel and Chance as contemporaries but with the recast version of Chance, I'm having a hard time buying it. Besides, isn't Daniel closer to Phillip III's age? Interesting how the show is pushing random friendships now: Elena and Tessa, Adam and Tucker, and Chance and Daniel. Thumbs up from me. Nate told Michael and Victor that Audra can still get Tucker's ear whenever she needs to. Ear. Hee. Wait, what? Nate is the one who figured out Tucker's financial troubles might be a ruse. Nate. How is that possible???!!!???!!! TMW you find out your baby's future grandpa can screw up your life in ways you hadn't imagined. Congratulations, Sally. You thought $Bill Spencer was bad but TGVN is a next-level control freak. Chance was a top secret coder in the military. Okay, which MWT pulled that one out of their hat? Victor and his friggin' dossier on Sally. If anyone ever compiled a dossier on him and his decades misdeeds its size would rival the Encyclopedia Britannica. What a vile human being. One thing I'll say for Nick, the inside track he had with Jill was something Adam would not have had. I doubt Adam would've been able to fix the Jill problem, at least not in a way both Sally and Chloe could accept. Hope Nate is going to give Audra bonus pay for serving as Tucker's honeytrap. Sex work probably isn't her NM COO contract. 😐 The Newman crime family already gloating over taking Tucker down. Ugh. 💩💩💩🤬🤬🤬