Things I have learned

[ratatosk]

Specifically, this is "things I have learned about polyamory from a 'things I have learned about polyamory' article", which was a sort of review of Showtime's "Polyamory: Married and Dating". The article is in the form of a bulleted list, most of which are uninteresting. But these caught my eye:

- If you find yourself in any kind of group that

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[sovay]

any kind of group that refers to itself as a "pod" and isn't made up of whales

. . . I have never heard this term. Is this common practice, or only if you buy pillar candles on a regular basis?

"Tchotchke-Industrial Complex"

Mazel tov.

[ratatosk]

I have never heard this term.

Neither had I!

[spacehawk]

lolwut?

[metaphortunate]

Is there a lot of usefulness in most of the stuff people tack to walls? I'm used to seeing more photos & posters, fewer emergency kits. Didn't think it was a poly thing.

[ratatosk]

Yeah, I think I have to agree with you.

At best half of the things I have ever hung on walls were functional (lots of hooks, knife rack, mail folders). I think the writer there was objecting to the aesthetic choices of people who were different from them, and would never consider their own decorations "useless". :P

But the attempt to classify people that way amuses me (xyz tastes correspond to abc social category, and so on). It's not that humans don't do this all the time, just that sometimes somebody goes wayyy out on a limb with it and you get "certain types of poly people all shop at Pier 1", which I find hilarious.