[317/365] noms

[cosmolinguist]

"We don't bite!" my friend said when a bunch of people seemed to appear at the poly meet in the pub all at once, but were sort of hovering around. I was sitting at one side of a long table and no one moved to sit in any of the space next to me.

There were the obligatory "unless you ask nicely" comments that follow this particular encouragement to sit near strangers. And then my friend said "well, I bite my noms" and looked down at her macaroni and cheese in front of her on the table.

I've never been a big fan of "noms" to mean food, but maybe because of the context, why we were all there (my first poly social in actual years because I used to hate them, so it might've made an impression on me), I said "my noms" sounded like a cute collective word for someone's partners. The people delicious to them. Heh.

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[cosmolinguist]

Nothing against them in general, people who share a trait like this also sharing a table in a pub or coffee shop can be great; I go to such bi socials regularly. And I've been to poly ones in other cities that are nice, too.

It's just that I found the local ones to be very cliquey and very obvious about assessing people (especially women or people perceived as women) based on their attractiveness/potential to be a future partner. But I'd heard it was better lately and I'm glad it seemed to be last night.