Are you not not going to watch the Oscars this year?

[Rob]

Took me a minute to figure out that post was not about chocolate toothpaste

That post came out of nowhere!

[epilogue]

Toothpaste needs to be just gross enough so that you don't want to swallow it. You don't want it tasting like chocolate pudding ffs

WHO THE FUCK SAID ANYTHING ABOUT PUDDING

[Ms Harmless]

some people can work through that

some people cheat because they are polyamorous, and aren't aware polyamorous is a thing they are allowed to be, or aren't in a social position to openly be out about

it's still cheating, and working forward from one person having cheated is a massive challenge, but if deciding to openly practice polyamory is one path to that, more power to them

So you're saying it's possible to be a non-practicing polyamorous person?

yes absolutely; polyamory imo is really two things, and they may cross over or not: natural orientation, or practice

I personally wouldn't say I'm naturally polyamorous; it took a lot of change and growth to get me to a position where I feel it's the best relationship style for me to practice (edit: one of my partners *is* naturally polyamorous though, and never found monogamy fulfilling)

it's like anything really, we know we're gay / straight / bi / pan, regardless of what we've done with whom

[tree_]

I'm willing to bet more people are "naturally polyamorous" than not. And I'm inclined to think not practicing it, in of itself, makes you not polyamorous

[Anders]

why is "mint" the default flavour of toothpaste? it's gross

Which flavor do you like?

I would enjoy cinnamon

That would be interesting.

[epilogue]

why is "mint" the default flavour of toothpaste? it's gross

Which flavor do you like?

I would enjoy cinnamon

That would be interesting.

It exists. Crest makes some.

[Ms Harmless]

Tree, that would mean you would assume that a man who likes men but hasn't been with a man is not gay?

[Rob]

Wouldn't most of us be naturally inclined toward a polyamorous lifestyle, but then many of us commit to one person for a variety of reasons (and of course it's fine if you choose not to)?

[Ms Harmless]

I don't know what you do in that thinking with straight virgins

[tree_]

Tree, that would mean you would assume that a man who likes men but hasn't been with a man is not gay?

No, being gay is simply being attracted to people of your own sex. Polyamory is the act or practice of having sex with multiple partners. It's like, you may have the urge to murder people, but because you don't act on it, you're not actually a murderer.

[Ms Harmless]

Wouldn't most of us be naturally inclined toward a polyamorous lifestyle, but then many of us commit to one person for a variety of reasons (and of course it's fine if you choose not to)?

yeah, I think that's correct

I think it's far more likely that modern society and culture imposed monogamy on people than the other way around; it's certainly not the default setting in the animal kingdom (though it exists, obvs)

[tree_]

Also, if you don't naturally have the urge to murder people, but somehow through some glitch in the matrix you find yourself having murdered somebody, you're still a murderer

[macphisto]

why is "mint" the default flavour of toothpaste? it's gross

Which flavor do you like?

I would enjoy cinnamon

That would be interesting.

It exists. Crest makes some.

I use mint toothpaste and cinnamon floss. It’s a one-two punch slap of freshness to the face.

[Ms Harmless]

Tree, that would mean you would assume that a man who likes men but hasn't been with a man is not gay?

No, being gay is simply being attracted to people of your own sex. Polyamory is the act or practice of having sex with multiple partners. It's like, you may have the urge to murder people, but because you don't act on it, you're not actually a murderer.

being polyamorous is living open to the potential of your romantic and / or sexual relationships going beyond one partner; that's it; who I'm currently dating or not dating makes no difference; if my (hypothetical) polycule of three break up and we're all single, we haven't all become monogamous again

[Ms Harmless]

Also, if you don't naturally have the urge to murder people, but somehow through some glitch in the matrix you find yourself having murdered somebody, you're still a murderer

that's because "murder" is a verb

"polyamory" is a noun, it describes a state of (individual or communal) being

[epilogue]

Wouldn't most of us be naturally inclined toward a polyamorous lifestyle, but then many of us commit to one person for a variety of reasons (and of course it's fine if you choose not to)?

I have no research or data to support my opinion, but I think you're probably right. I will say that I have always tended toward and preferred monogamy, however. I am not naturally inclined toward polyamory. Though I certainly have zero judgement about it. Just my own personal taste.

[tree_]

Also, if you don't naturally have the urge to murder people, but somehow through some glitch in the matrix you find yourself having murdered somebody, you're still a murderer

that's because "murder" is a verb

"polyamory" is a noun, it describes a state of (individual or communal) being

It only comes to be as a status once an act has been executed. A desire to do something does make a person one who does the thing. Murderer is a noun.

[epilogue]

Wouldn't most of us be naturally inclined toward a polyamorous lifestyle, but then many of us commit to one person for a variety of reasons (and of course it's fine if you choose not to)?

yeah, I think that's correct

I think it's far more likely that modern society and culture imposed monogamy on people than the other way around; it's certainly not the default setting in the animal kingdom (though it exists, obvs)

Well said.

[Ms Harmless]

Also, if you don't naturally have the urge to murder people, but somehow through some glitch in the matrix you find yourself having murdered somebody, you're still a murderer

that's because "murder" is a verb

"polyamory" is a noun, it describes a state of (individual or communal) being

It only comes to be as a status once an act has been executed. A desire to do something does make a person one who does the thing. Murderer is a noun.

it's not even "the desire to do a thing"

you don't have to DO anything to be gay, and you don't have to DO anything to be polyamorous

[tree_]

Also, if you don't naturally have the urge to murder people, but somehow through some glitch in the matrix you find yourself having murdered somebody, you're still a murderer

that's because "murder" is a verb

"polyamory" is a noun, it describes a state of (individual or communal) being

It only comes to be as a status once an act has been executed. A desire to do something does make a person one who does the thing. Murderer is a noun.

it's not even "the desire to do a thing"

you don't have to DO anything to be gay, and you don't have to DO anything to be polyamorous

Being gay does not require an act; it is an orientation of sexual attraction. Polyamory by definition is a practice.