Does Subway sponsor them or something? I swear I’ve seen similar scenes in the last couple shows I’ve watched.

I’ve always heard them referred to as starfish

A stuffed animal?

Definitely agree with preferring non-gendered language. But it also doesn’t feel like right to default to the (historically) masculine version either.

Doctoress. Didn’t realize it was actually a word and feel like we should use it more because it’s awesome.

Of course they’re a guy. Otherwise it’d be Drs. Pepper. _/s

His screenshot is showing the user as seen from ml, unless I’m missing something.

My understanding is that it’d be based on what’s been federated to your instance. Since ml has been around longer than most instances, a lot of their history never got federated.

Sadly Saturday Morning cartoons just aren’t a thing anymore in the US.

I save up anime episodes throughout the week and watch them all on Sunday morning during breakfast. It’s my way of recreating that magic from my youth.

Likely because it’s $current_year and there are better choices available.

When I was a kid, I passed a marble. It was quite painful when exiting the stomach, but I’ll never forget the sound of it hitting the porcelain afterwards.

Honestly, it has a better mouth feel when they’re waxed.

Found it! 😄

I think for issues like this it may be good to develop a practice of using the spoiler tag with a warning attached. This way it’s up to the reader to decide if they want to read it and is flexible enough to cover all of the various use cases.

What might be interesting would be to have it displayed, but grouped by instance. That way we could see some data and potentially uncover troll instances or attempts to brigade the conversation without opening ourselves up to personal attacks.

Plot twist, OP was homeschooled.

I hear Katie Porter is available…

Onomatopoeia for spitting, or more accurately ‘hocking a loogie’.

That would require feeling like I was ever ahead.