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Topic: DirecTV - Serena Williams as Wonder WomanPosted By: Triple J
Subject: DirecTV - Serena Williams as Wonder Woman
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2021 at 7:05pm
Oh, hello... ARE WE WOKE YET? Also, just the sound of the guy with the beard's effeminate voice makes me reach for the MUTE button.
Replies: Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 12 Sep 2021 at 7:16pm
f**k AT&T!
Posted By: radioandnascarfan
Date Posted: 13 Sep 2021 at 4:06pm
Even John McEnroe seems to hate the idea.
Posted By: MrTim
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 6:15am
Such a misleading ad; Sadly, you will never see a good show like that on DirecTV...
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 2:53pm
I persist in the opinion that she has like near ZERO appeal in all her endeavours
SHE seems to feel she is quite the 'personality' and
yes, 'woke' definitely plays into this
My fave Serena ad moment? Her giant MAN PITS exposed on the Secret
'yo Yo YO' antipersperant ad
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Posted By: HART
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 5:18pm
I thought wokes caused high cholesterol
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Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 5:24pm
So! Wonder woman is black now? The shot at :15 seconds. She looks like she has a plastic face!
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 7:19pm
aka ron wrote:
So! Wonder woman is black now? The shot at :15 seconds. She looks like she has a plastic face!
If Rapunzel can be black, Wonder Woman certainly can.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 8:11pm
I can't wait until all the woke white talking heads and other white TV wokies lose their jobs to blacks until there are no more white people on TV.
And I hope that afterward, they all get a good, long and loud public laughing at, too.
See how woke they are then.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 8:23pm
Maybe I even read it here, but I understand the new Wonder Years reboot is about a black family.
Posted By: HART
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 8:35pm
------------- we are the music makers we are the dreamers of the dream
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 8:40pm
Thor wrote:
Maybe I even read it here, but I understand the new Wonder Years reboot is about a black family.
Sounds like they took a show with an absurdly improbable premise and remade it into a show with an even more absurdly improbable premise, but now it's woke.
Every time I stop and think about how I haven't paid one cent over the past 18 years, to watch the insufferable garbage that 99.9999% of TV is, it just makes me feel good inside.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 8:42pm
HART wrote:
They should start calling it The Woker Years.
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C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: HART
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 9:14pm
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Posted By: Dejoh
Date Posted: 14 Sep 2021 at 10:20pm
When they re-made the Honeymooners staring two black characters, that was the beginning of the end.
BTW, the movie bombed.
------------- There's a sucker born every minute.
Posted By: raynjuls
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 2:54am
Right there with you... unattractive, entitled and always looks like someone crapped in her Post Toasties... cannot stand her.
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 3:44am
Dejoh wrote:
When they re-made the Honeymooners staring two black characters, that was the beginning of the end.
BTW, the movie bombed.
I never even knew they did that.
I thought it started when they cast Will Smith as James West in the crapification of The Wild, Wild West.
Or maybe Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 8:34am
These days, I don't know if we're supposed to notice these things or not. Are we supposed to not notice a person's skin color (be color blind), or are we supposed to hone in on it?
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 2:57pm
On her 'migraine' ads, she makes me worry about that sainted 'kid' of hers as she looks like she could strike out in random violence in some of her 'close ups of agony'..also shes in 'fashion' how? wtf
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Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 4:08pm
^ Probably because, even though she may not be, she at least looks like she's trannysitioning. And, as we know, that's quite fashionable these days.
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 6:42pm
Triple J wrote:
Oh, hello... ARE WE WOKE YET? Also, just the sound of the guy with the beard's effeminate voice makes me reach for the MUTE button.
Where have I seen this queer guy before? So annoying!
Posted By: Thuumb
Date Posted: 17 Sep 2021 at 10:15pm
Thor wrote:
These days, I don't know if we're supposed to notice these things or not. Are we supposed to not notice a person's skin color (be color blind), or are we supposed to hone in on it?
Yes.
Posted By: Dejoh
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2021 at 12:57am
Came out in 2005. A real stinker.
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Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 18 Sep 2021 at 3:52pm
Headric The Centertainer! Or aka Cedric the HUMAN WASTE OF OXYGEN I don't get either him or Steve 'Mask Face' Harvey as FUNNY Throw Kevin James in there as well Loud does NOT = funny Now that i see this, Cedric essentially plays this on that totally non-racial show of his Duh HOOD
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Posted By: MontanaTrav
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2021 at 10:48pm
Dejoh wrote:
When they re-made the Honeymooners staring two black characters, that was the beginning of the end.
BTW, the movie bombed.
Oh yeah I completely forgot about that movie. That's how bad it was.
Never have watched the abortion that is Wild Wild West, and never will.
They're doing the same sh*t with Doogie Howser, only it's Doogie *37-letter-over-the-top-Hawaiian-Name-that-I-don't-feel-like-looking-up*. They're so shameless in their ripoff that they acknowledge how much of a ripoff they are in the previews for the show.
If they wanted a Wonder Woman parody, Serena Williams ain't it.
Posted By: MontanaTrav
Date Posted: 19 Sep 2021 at 10:59pm
aka ron wrote:
Triple J wrote:
Oh, hello... ARE WE WOKE YET? Also, just the sound of the guy with the beard's effeminate voice makes me reach for the MUTE button.
Where have I seen this queer guy before? So annoying!
Every TV show and commercial now just assumes every gay man in the universe is just in full-on Rainbow Warrior Mode at all times, walking around singing random listhpy show tunes non-stop while waving exaggerated Jazz Hands and sh*tting rainbow-colored unicorns everywhere they go, and it just isn't so. I know/work with several that if you didn't know it, you would have no clue. It's annoying and vomit-inducing to see - and frankly insulting to any that aren't like that.
Posted By: Triple J
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2021 at 1:45am
tikibagger wrote:
Headric The Centertainer! Or aka Cedric the HUMAN WASTE OF OXYGEN I don't get either him or Steve 'Mask Face' Harvey as FUNNY Throw Kevin James in there as well Loud does NOT = funny Now that i see this, Cedric essentially plays this on that totally non-racial show of his Duh HOOD
Guy even just happens to be hosting the Emmys tonight. I haven't watched the Emmys in eons, mostly because it's always on opposite football.
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2021 at 1:55am
Chiefs VS Ravens
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2021 at 2:48pm
really good game! Unlike the Emmy debacle Ya know whats even a bigger waste though? The TONYS
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Posted By: jgf
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2021 at 7:06pm
I gave up on awards shows years ago. Whether Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, or whatever, it's obvious from all discussions the next day the only item of importance is what everyone is wearing.window.onbeforeunload = function() {}
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 22 Sep 2021 at 9:45pm
I never cared about awards shows. And nowadays, there's so many awards, they've become meaningless.
Posted By: jon1
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2021 at 2:15am
The first Tony Awards since 2019 are on CBS (and Paramount+) this Sunday night. Be there!! :-)
Posted By: Thuumb
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2021 at 5:00pm
Triple J wrote:
Oh, hello... ARE WE WOKE YET? Also, just the sound of the guy with the beard's effeminate voice makes me reach for the MUTE button.
I figure when he's going "Serena...? Wonder Woman... Serena...? Wonder Woman..." he's trying to decide which one he wants to be.
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 23 Sep 2021 at 5:55pm
as per the ad..
HE CAN BE BOTH
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Posted By: MrTim
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 5:54am
Thor wrote:
I never cared about awards shows. And nowadays, there's so many awards, they've become meaningless.
For celebrities, they are a step above participation trophies...
Posted By: Tully Blanchard
Date Posted: 24 Sep 2021 at 12:01pm
Looks like a wild baboon got loose in the mall
Posted By: jgf
Date Posted: 25 Sep 2021 at 3:01pm
Thor wrote:
I never cared about awards shows. And nowadays, there's so many awards, they've become meaningless.
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Like bowl games.
Posted By: Fahrenheit1984
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 12:38am
I've always been sick of his "YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS" catch phrase. That was my biggest eyeroll moment of the commercial
Posted By: Kelly H
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 3:57am
Get ready for a revamp on *Bewitched* Apparently there is one in the works with a Black Samantha and a White Darren - and the Darren is unemployed - yep - it is true - and this is all part of a greater plot to erase all white iconic tv - media - history etc and replace with blended cultures - just like the re-boot of *One Day at a Time* which lasted (surprise surprise) one season - it was centered around a hispanic divorcee and former army vet - and lets not forget the remake of Anne Boleyn with Black Actress Jodie Turner-Smith - these shows dont last for obvious reasons - but the damage is done - google now shows these actors when searched instead of the original - now personally I dont care if they make re-boots - whatever - but dont be taking real historic figures like Anne Boleyn and changing her ethnicity - it would be the same as taking MLK and having him played by Jett Lee or Daniel Craig.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 5:35am
Kelly H wrote:
Get ready for a revamp on *Bewitched* Apparently there is one in the works with a Black Samantha and a White Darren - and the Darren is unemployed - yep - it is true - and this is all part of a greater plot to erase all white iconic tv - media - history etc and replace with blended cultures - just like the re-boot of *One Day at a Time* which lasted (surprise surprise) one season - it was centered around a hispanic divorcee and former army vet - and lets not forget the remake of Anne Boleyn with Black Actress Jodie Turner-Smith - these shows dont last for obvious reasons - but the damage is done - google now shows these actors when searched instead of the original - now personally I dont care if they make re-boots - whatever - but dont be taking real historic figures like Anne Boleyn and changing her ethnicity - it would be the same as taking MLK and having him played by Jett Lee or Daniel Craig.
Absolutely, 100% correct-a-mundo.
And thank you for dropping in to express your thoughts on the subject.
Re: the Bewitched reboot.... ugh.
Just ugh.
Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York will be spinning in their graves
And Dick Sargent will too, for that matter.
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C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: MrTim
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 6:21am
The nose twitching in the remake won't be a reference to magic, but to how bad the show stinks...
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 8:34am
I still don't know whether I'm supposed to acknowledge or even notice all this racial and/or gender stuff. Am I supposed to applaud it or pretend I don't even notice it (because color/pronouns supposedly don't matter to me)? Help! I need instruction, wokesters.
Posted By: jgf
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 3:37pm
Thor wrote:
These days, I don't know if we're supposed to notice these things or not. Are we supposed to not notice a person's skin color (be color blind), or are we supposed to hone in on it?
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I've often wondered about the hypocrisy of the US government. We are told that age, race, sex, religion, etc. are not to be used as criteria for any decisions ....yet every form we must fill out for that government asks us for age, race, sex....
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 4:28pm
jgf wrote:
I've often wondered about the hypocrisy of the US government. We are told that age, race, sex, religion, etc. are not to be used as criteria for any decisions ....yet every form we must fill out for that government asks us for age, race, sex....
That probably has more to do with demographic statistical record keeping.
What percentage of each age, ethnicity & gender are using which resources, etc.
I doubt that these factors are used criteria for anything.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 4:33pm
Thor wrote:
I still don't know whether I'm supposed to acknowledge or even notice all this racial and/or gender stuff. Am I supposed to applaud it or pretend I don't even notice it (because color/pronouns supposedly don't matter to me)? Help! I need instruction, wokesters.
I think it's just that the traditional "underdogs" (minorities and women) feel they have to herald every achievement they make after centuries of living in a white, male dominated society and social structure.
Not saying i don't find it annoying, but I think I understand it.
I guess if I was in one of those categories, I'd be high-fiving and end zone dancing along with them.
My criteria for judging all this kind of stuff is "What would I do if I were in their shoes?"
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 5:54pm
it wouldn't be SO annoying if they employed their OWN ideas instead of apeing(sic) old white sitcom tropes OR populating victorian british or royal scenarios of UNLIKELY for the times amounts of ethnic rainbowisms there IS a reality factor involved that pretty much informs that us crackers were overly affluent and highly oppressive to most of the ppl we enslaved so seeing black dukes and aristocrats in these new 'woke' shows is like a weird wannabe fantasy casting trend
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Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 6:12pm
tikibagger wrote:
it wouldn't be SO annoying if they employed their OWN ideas instead of apeing(sic) old white sitcom tropes OR populating victorian british or royal scenarios of UNLIKELY for the times amounts of ethnic rainbowisms there IS a reality factor involved that pretty much informs that us crackers were overly affluent and highly oppressive to most of the ppl we enslaved so seeing black dukes and aristocrats in these new 'woke' shows is like a weird wannabe fantasy casting trend
Agreed.
Let them come up with their own new stuff with new characters and stop thinking it's OK to co-opt our memories.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 6:20pm
Kelly H wrote:
Get ready for a revamp on *Bewitched* Apparently there is one in the works with a Black Samantha and a White Darren - and the Darren is unemployed - yep - it is true - and this is all part of a greater plot to erase all white iconic tv - media - history etc and replace with blended cultures - just like the re-boot of *One Day at a Time* which lasted (surprise surprise) one season - it was centered around a hispanic divorcee and former army vet - and lets not forget the remake of Anne Boleyn with Black Actress Jodie Turner-Smith - these shows dont last for obvious reasons - but the damage is done - google now shows these actors when searched instead of the original - now personally I dont care if they make re-boots - whatever - but dont be taking real historic figures like Anne Boleyn and changing her ethnicity - it would be the same as taking MLK and having him played by Jett Lee or Daniel Craig.
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 7:11pm
tikibagger wrote:
it wouldn't be SO annoying if they employed their OWN ideas instead of apeing(sic) old white sitcom tropes OR populating victorian british or royal scenarios of UNLIKELY for the times amounts of ethnic rainbowisms there IS a reality factor involved that pretty much informs that us crackers were overly affluent and highly oppressive to most of the ppl we enslaved so seeing black dukes and aristocrats in these new 'woke' shows is like a weird wannabe fantasy casting trend
Yeah, it's almost like they're telling us that the old show is better starring POCs. But, of course, it usually flops big time.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 8:05pm
Rehashes of ideas that struck a chord with society decades ago cannot realistically be expected to strike that same chord again decades later.
It was a different time and a different world in 1964 when Bewitched first appeared and I'm not sure if it did that well in the ratings to begin with. Like a lot of new shows, it might've taken a season or two for people to really warm up to it.
It was the same with Cheers.
Took a good couple of seasons or so before the writing and the actors to really develop the characters and people responded.
And speaking of Cheers.... how long before they reboot that one?
Sam Malone as a black ex-football player. Diane an aspiring... what? Female rapper? Black ballerina? Or would she be white? No, that would play into a stereotype. She'd have to be some kind of hoity-toity black girl with artistic ambitions similar to Shelly Long's original version.
Carla would probably be a Puerto Rican with attitude and Woody would be the same kind of dumb, clueless white guy he was.
One can only speculate about Norm and Cliff.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Thor
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 8:32pm
It has to be the right time. Bewitched came around the same time as I Dream of Jeannie and the Addams Family and the Munsters, all kind of other-worldly.
Same with Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction and Green Acres.
And then there were all the Westerns (holy sh*t, there were a lot of 'em) and the secret agent shows and superhero shows. I remember liking Batman and the Green Hornet in the same era.
Oh, Hee Haw and Laugh-in.
What I'm saying is that these shows propped each other up. Bewitched on its own may have flopped.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2021 at 9:31pm
FWIU I Dream Of Jeannie came along on NBC a year after Bewitched came on ABC as a kind of copycat show.
The Munsters and The Addams Family were released on different networks at the same time. Maybe one network got wind of what the other was doing and decided they wanted something similar.
But yes, it was part of the early - mid 60's culture.
Sci-fi, the space age, wacky, out of the ordinary shows were all the rage because we had just come out of the boring 1950's.
Everyone wanted to be cool and hip and crazy.
Elvis. The Beatles. Dobie Gillis.
Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello. Beach Blanket Bingo.
All that stuff was fresh and new back then.
Old hat now. Remakes will not rekindle the old magic.
Everything is the internet nowadays.
Woke, PC racial, non-offensive stuff.
We're regressing back to the boring 1950's.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: Kelly H
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 2:08am
well - all I know is that I will lose it if there is ever a Gilligan’s Island remake - thankfully The Schwartz family is holding on to this one tight - and if I’m not mistaken, Tina Louise, was the only one who signed up for royalties, and still gets paid everytime an episode or something referenced to Ginger Grant is aired, therefore they cannot re-make this series without cutting a deal.
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 2:26am
Kelly H wrote:
well - all I know is that I will lose it if there is ever a Gilligan’s Island remake - thankfully The Schwartz family is holding on to this one tight - and if I’m not mistaken, Tina Louise, was the only one who signed up for royalties, and still gets paid everytime an episode or something referenced to Ginger Grant is aired, therefore they cannot re-make this series without cutting a deal.
That's good to hear.
Although it would be great fun to speculate about what the new, ethnically diverse cast of a GI reboot would look like.
I wonder if Gilligan would look anything like Urkel.
------------- ...the ads take aim and lay their claim to the heart and the soul of the spender Jackson Browne - The Pretender
C'mon, man! Joe Biden - 46th President of the United States
Posted By: tikibagger
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 4:31pm
well the CANNIBALS on the island can definitely be 'woke' god just imagine JB "caesar' SCHMoovvv as 'WHOOO' DJ GilHe GANN
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Posted By: jgf
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2021 at 10:53pm
Jimbo wrote:
Dejoh wrote:
When they re-made the Honeymooners staring two black characters, that was the beginning of the end.
BTW, the movie bombed.
I never even knew they did that.
I thought it started when they cast Will Smith as James West in the crapification of The Wild, Wild West.
Or maybe Eddie Murphy as The Nutty Professor.
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Posted By: ratattack
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2021 at 9:33pm
It's his money, and he wants it now!
Posted By: aka ron
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 12:53am
DirecTV = AT&T
I freaking hate AT&T!
When I first moved into the place a year and a half ago, I called Spectrum. They do not even have service for these homes back here in the swamp. I was forced to call AT&T, This place did not even have a phone line for internet service. I asked them how soon they could get Sat. TV service up and running.
They jacked me around for days and I finally told them to forget the Sat. service. I called Dish who was out here in only a couple days. FVCK AT&T!!
Posted By: radioandnascarfan
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 1:06am
I thought "Quiet please" was just golf.
Posted By: jon1
Date Posted: 11 Oct 2021 at 1:12am
Golf. One of the world's most useless activities.
Posted By: Triple J
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2021 at 12:48am
"Serena, scary movie... Serena, scary movie..."
Serena IS a scary movie!
Posted By: HART
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2021 at 7:53pm
Jimbo wrote:
Kelly H wrote:
well - all I know is that I will lose it if there is ever a Gilligan’s Island remake - thankfully The Schwartz family is holding on to this one tight - and if I’m not mistaken, Tina Louise, was the only one who signed up for royalties, and still gets paid everytime an episode or something referenced to Ginger Grant is aired, therefore they cannot re-make this series without cutting a deal.
That's good to hear.
Although it would be great fun to speculate about what the new, ethnically diverse cast of a GI reboot would look like.
I wonder if Gilligan would look anything like Urkel.
WE CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW THEY WOULD HANDLE THIS
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Posted By: Thuumb
Date Posted: 10 Nov 2021 at 2:17am
Get a load of this edit!
First 3 seconds: she's gazing in admiration at her "man":