Mid-30s woman here, from western US. I call my mom any of the following, depending on mood/context:

• Mom
• Mommy
• Mama
• Ma (definitely can become Maaaaa at times)
• Uma
• Mother (usually in a jokingly stern tone)
• Her name (when she’s being particularly deaf)

He’s so cute! Is he named after the mouse from Cinderella?

Considering you’ve thought about it, you’re already ahead of 95% of congress.

On the bright side, that means the horse can continue the torture forever. Autocorrect is a mean bastard, but I’m thinking this one’s not so bad.

That goddamned movie made leaves look delicious and my child self did not appreciate the lesson in reality versus fantasy. ಠ_ಠ

I’m guessing it’s that the main character’s baby is the “destined” lover of the character who was the second male lead. Alternately, it could be that the main character is a teenager courted by a man hundreds of years her senior, but that one tends to be less frowned upon in media.

Either way, I think Meyer would’ve come up with her drivel one way or another.

To a penguin.

Yes, last I’d heard the rapist Brock Allen Turner was going by Allen Turner. That rapist.

First we had to worry about microplastics invading our junk, now we have to fend off butterflies, too?!

This…pretty much describes the Democratic Party in general: mostly full of people who, by the standards 20 years ago, would’ve had an R by their names.

Both parties are a cancer at this point.

Absolutely disgusting. Our common ancestors are rolling over in their graves at their inhumanity.

I read it as GLaDOS first and got a little smile, then went back and reread it as Cave Johnson and laughed.

No, but I did say it a lot.

Max Power

He’s the man with the name you’d love to touch, but you mustn’t touch.

I desperately want to unsee this and I hate the fact that I can’t.

Well, since he’s clearly unnamed, I’m naming him Speck.

This is actually a really smart anti-cannabis message: After 10 years of smoking, the smoker’s lungs turn into a nut, but still somehow function. If you don’t want to end up as a lab test subject, you’d better stop at 9 years, 364 days of smoking.

I wonder what the reset time is for the 10 year period.

You can’t be a shitheel traitor if you don’t engage in some shitheeling treachery, right?

A few years back, they changed it to “feisty cherry” for a bit. That was, hands down, the worst soda I’ve ever tasted in my life. Why they did it, I don’t know, but it was really hard to find the normal cherry for a while.

Was his country rent controlled?