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maryoliveoil

TAYLOR SWIFT in London (12 August 2026)

cages-boxes-hunters-foxes

what did you call your friends’ parents or other non-relative adults growing up?

first names

mr/mrs/ms/dr [lastname]

mr/mrs/ms/dr [firstname]

mr/mrs/ms/dr [friend’s name]

ma’am/sir

familial honorific (auntie, uncle)

other

Voting ended onAug 12

please tag with your region/country and age (?) if you think that’s relevant! and of course translate these into your native language if not an English speaker

#affluent suburb in midwest and mostly mr/mrs last name (in the aughts) now as an adult i use their first name #everyone called my mom by her first name though bc she was the cool mom lol

themoonandmyman

hello I am at my wits end and I need to know something. Do you talk to your mother every day?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 23 hours

No nuance. If you don’t have a mother/are no contact etc this is not a poll for you.

You can elaborate as to how often you feel is a regular amount of communication between an adult child and their mother.

#yes she’s the best

coldasyou

Red Tour | The Eras Tour

quasi-normalcy

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

quasi-normalcy

Funny that the stereotypical cynic is an idealist who aged out of it. In my experience, the reverse is true. I was an extreme cynic as a teenager and then I noticed how profoundly limiting it was, and also that "cynics are cool and smart" was a message that was being constantly reinforced by corporate media for some reason.

quasi-normalcy

#yes! cynicism reads as very juvenile to me#and yes prev often stemming from teen pain

Yeah, like I see black-pilled people on here and my default reaction isn't "oh, these must be world-weary old warriors who've lost their faith in humanity", it's "these people are in their 20s and need a hobby"

quasi-normalcy

I also think that the present era has proven that authoritarian leaders don't actually want a population of wide-eyed idealists, they want a population of jaded assholes who are convinced that everyone is lying, any resistance is either a scam or doomed to failure, and nothing can ever get better.