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Ok, first, thanks to everyone in this thread for not making me the only one. I just find the men in the dance practice videos uncomfortable to watch! And I´m straight! I love me some sweaty male bodies!

I couldn´t even watch Magic Mike. I kept skipping over the dance scenes (and especially any scene where Matthew…

Can you tell me what you like about Adam Driver so much? I´m not going to rag on his looks the way some people do, don´t worry. I just don´t see what makes people love him.

Part of it is that I watched the first few episodes of Girls and now he´s indelibly connected in my mind with a shallow, inarticulate moron who…

Oh, my god! Are you my sister? This is my mother´s MO. She spent my childhood telling me that all the things she did (cussing, being fat, not wearing makeup or nicer clothes) would leave me old and alone. Specifically, 'You´re never going to find someone if you ...'

I´ve spent most of my 20s rolling around in a sea…

I think this kind of thing is way more common nowadays, because people are marrying older and living together before marriage much more often. By the time they walk down the aisle, they already have a 4-slot toaster and a set of mint green Egyptian cotton bath towels.

Meanwhile, plane tickets are getting more and more…

I guess. I was mostly making the comment just to express how amazed I am that other celebrities-of-the-moment have faded away (like Paris Hilton) but the Kardashians are here forever (it feels like at the moment). I don´t think they´re any better or worse than others of their ilk.

I wish it were as easy as that. But they are omnipresent in all forms of media and even if you don´t click on their articles, 'news' and various other clips, they are in front of your eyes at all times.

I think she also chose that word for the alliterative effect.

My family´s favorite story about names is that when my arrival was imminent, my brother asked what I would be named. My mother jokingly told him, 'Gertrude Mae,' and he threw such a screaming, rolling-on-the-floor tantrum that it lived in infamy. In his four-year-old opinion, this was an utterly Shit Name.

As a…

Oh, no, how awful! I´m a teacher as well and these stories just break my heart. First of all, because so many other teachers are working hard and hoping to keep their jobs from year to year, and THIS is what is in the public´s mind when it comes to education and second of all, that children should come to harm by…

I had one of these. Same situation - an older uncle who moved in with my grandmother during an extended period of unemployment.

Yeeeeeeeech! I had no idea!

Ah, CRAP. Katherine Heigl sucks. It´s nice to see her playing something other than a tight-lipped, disapproving mommy figure to an infantile 30-something male who should know better. But that´s all I´ve ever seen her do. (I´ve never seen Grey´s Anatomy, so I have no idea if she can actually handle drama worth a damn.…

True story. I once attempted to read Shape when 'trying something new' Lifestyle, healthy eating, blah blah. The whole magazine seemed to be about how all food was bad for me and I should eat the low-fat, no-calorie cardboard-flavored version of it instead. Silly me, I was just looking for some perspective and…

Yes. I had a very anal retentive mother. The kind who would criticize if you did something around the house, because you didn´t do it like she would do it.

I was absolutely with you on that assessment. The first few episodes of Agents of Shield were awful. AWFUL. Schlocky, illogical, half-baked crap in terms of plot, and there was very little sparkle in the dialogue or interactions between characters.

Here in Iceland, we don´t have any McDonald´s. They have a franchisee agreement that all the ingredients must be shipped from their factories and their suppliers, the closest of which is in Denmark. It was way too expensive, so McDonald´s went away.

True that. I had one 'friend' who did several small things, like buying hamsters and putting them in the vending machines at school where they would run around and scare people who stuck their hands in to get their bag of Funyuns. Not too terrible, and quickly remedied by the janitorial staff.

I have never seen those Butter Bell crocks. Now I want one. ::shakes fist at you::

She says 'Mom' specifically.

We also find out that May´s mom is a retired agent, but not of SHIELD, and that unlike SHIELD, her agency 'hasn´t fallen apart'. She also has a British accent, so ... perhaps MI6?