Totally depends. In many communities, Just Not Done, in others, Done. I grew up calling my teachers, at least, by their first names, but then we moved. And I Didn't anymore.

but i can see where some people construe it as a respect thing.

That's what he says, that it can be seen as disrespectful, but to my mind a title like Mr or Mrs has swet fanny adams to do with respect, and I'd find it a little creepy if someone expected people to call them by their title.

I don't just mean aunts and uncles. Friends' parents, for instance. Over here you'd just call them by their first name, whereas Bloke STILL calls his friends' parents Mr. and Mrs.

I guess this one might just be a weird cultural difference that will only become relevant if Bloke and I ever have kids, which seeems unlikely.

We have a workshop thing on Friday, and they're bringing in lunch. Do I want a salad, or do I want a sandwich? Speficially, do I want the "Asiago Roast Beef Sandwich", the "Asian Sesame Chicken Salad", or the "Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad"?

Asian Sesame Chicken Salad!

Sesame chicken!

In our family it Was Done. You never addressed an "elder" by their first name unless instructed by that person to do so.

I went to a camp as a kid that got around the first name thing with a pretty good solution. All staff chose bird names, and kept them year after year. In time, I grew up and became staff.

I still answer to "NeNe".

I was raised to say "Mr." or "Mrs." until told otherwise by the elder.

For a woman, time with her parents often resembles work, whether it’s helping them pay bills or plan a family gathering. “For men, it tends to be sitting on the sofa and watching football with their dad,”

These people obviously never spent any time around my dad. Since my teenage years his hobbies have included thinking up chores for me to do and waiting until I'm just sitting down to relax before he hits me with the next one.

I don't just mean aunts and uncles. Friends' parents, for instance. Over here you'd just call them by their first name, whereas Bloke STILL calls his friends' parents Mr. and Mrs.

We called my dad's friends from high school in Texas by their first names and his friends who were fellow teachers "Mr./Mrs./Miss". If I remember correctly, my mom's friends we called by just their first names. My three youngest aunts and uncle we always called by just their first names because they are way closer in age to us then my parents.

I'm just "Lisa" to most of my friends' kids but "Aunt Lisa" to my best friend's twins here. But we have a much closer relationship. I love being "Aunt" to them and to my blood-related neices.

I think exercise is a fake moral issue in the US. More of it wouldn't fix anything psychologically. Either the bar would shift up in tandem with increased exercise, or the issue would shift to somewhere else.

Honestly, if you don't like exercise, more of it can be pointless to the psyche.

In Jamaica kids don't call adults by first names. That's a social indicator of equality.