Pierre Phaneuf&#39;s Diary

Hey Pierre. Been a while since we spoke in person but I'm feeling chatty tonight.
Now I don't mean to be critical of your lifestyle but I think you may be slightly off the mark when you imply that monogamy isn't as simple as polyamory.
Having tried a little of both my experience has been that poly is much more complicated than monogamy. When you consider that interpersonal relationships are not always easy on an individual basis I think that adding others just multiplies the complexity. And with more than one SO and the potential for jealousy and other emotional reactions it may move from multiple to exponential.
Not to say that some are very capable of managing it but I would be very wary of implying simplicity in a poly relationship.

My 2 cents since we haven't spoken in ages.

PS - Natalie Portman is no Angelina Jolie!

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And neither of them are Audrey Hepburns.

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Aye.

To this day my father swears he dated Audrey's daughter despite the fact she doesn't have one.
Keep in mind he smokes tons of pot and drinks heavily! :)

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Personnaly, I beleive polyamoury sucks as much as monogamy.

*shrug* from the little I have read and talked with adepts of both cults (*snicker*), both have good, both have bad, and neither is good for _moi_.

I think most problems in interpersonal relationships come from two things:jealousy, possessiveness and communication ( yup, can't count!).

*shrug* To each their own, whatever works for you is good as far as it is respectful to everyone envolved. Personally I am weird enough that someone having front row tix for a match Benfica vs Sporting is a valid reason for break up, where sex with other adult human beings is not :)

PS - Natalie Portman is no Monica Belucci either!

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Lack of communication, you mean, right?

Gaaaahhhhh, Monica Belucci... *drools*

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Lack of falls into the larger Communication Group.

Because people will talk, some even will talk a lot, but they will say what the other wants to hear, or what they think what the other wants to hear instead of what they think.

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Natalie Portman is no Monica Belucci either!

Yeah, but none of them's got shit on SALMA HAYEK, the most beautiful girl in the universe(IMHO).

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And there there is Catherine Zeta-Jones.

I think I am gonna have to sample each one of them TWICE to make up my mind...

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Is this some sort of test, to see how much drool I can produce?!?

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No, this is just one of those "Let it be known" kinda things.

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By the way, you wanted to talk to me about something? Feel free to give me a call or to hop on instant messenging and chat me up. My contact info is in my profile, except my phone number, though (Adria has it, but I don't publishing it too much on the Internet).

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Oh yes!
And I have your number. I asked you for it a while back.
It's really nothing serious. It's about Linux.
^_^

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polyamoury sucks as much as monogamy

Probably right. Relationships in general are strange creatures indeed.

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and yet, we keep on trying to do them...

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Well as much as they can suck they can also be wonderful. Life is all about taking chances!

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No, I agree with you! I wasn't implying that poly was easier (not at all!_, just that monogamy wasn't necessarily as easy as some people seem to make it.

This movie made quite a riot out of monogamy, I have to say. If you like both romantic drama and romantic comedy, be sure to catch it, you'll like it either way!

Okay, Natalie Portman isn't the same as Angelina, for sure, but I wouldn't kick her out of bed either! ;-)

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or get dressed and go buy ciggies!

Meh....

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Now, that's just WRONG!

Okay, I have Natalie Portman in my bed, half-naked. What's the next step again? Oh yeah, I remember! I get dressed and I leave!

Idiot.

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Who said monogamy was easy? It's a relationship like any other with all the difficulty that entails.

As for Ms. Portman, I think she may be a little young for me.

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I sure as hell didn't say that, but I hear that, once in a while.

Yeah, better leave Ms. Portman to me... ;-)

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Key word: "Relationships". It's easy for people to suck when they try to get along, especially at the quantum level. Whatever or however you do it, you will most likely encounter problems. There is no argument for who's got the better way of life. Gays, lesbians, straights, monogamous, polygamous, they all have their share of problems.

Also... Bring me Elizabeth Hurley any fucking time thankyou. That British accent just makes it the better.

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Well said.

And you can all keep pouring in the pictures of hotties in my LJ, thank you very much!

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i see your british accent...and I raise an Italian Accent...

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I raise one French accent.

Pdage for Teh Win!

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I counter with a Chilean Accent!

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azzy o' dark haired ladies!

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Ohh... Wetness!

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GNA!

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DAMN YOU WOMAN . I will NOT loose this hand.

Oh... it's on... Let me think something up. The world is large and infinite, there must be something even better :)

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of course there...

you can yeld you know.

I spent the better part of the last two years collecting pix of beautifull women :)

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Ok.... this little game has actually sparked a good deal of discussion back home, and the truth is that both me and my girlfriend just can't find anything better than Miss Casta. And though personal tastes cannot truly be discussed, I'm still going to try and find something better and see if I could find something YOU would like better than what you've had to offer. I suggest you do the same :) This is worthy of another post, but for the sake of making this thread even longer, here is someone I can't understand why was left out of the discussion.

Sad that I could not really find a better picture on short notice.

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I have yo admit, on the fair skin side it is hard to over-do Mlle Casta.

Sooo... on my side, we have:

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which reminds me,

pphaneuf, isn't there movies to need to see soon?

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Yeah, wanted to see Fantastic Four while it's still at the theaters!

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Mmmm, yeah. Liz Hurley.

I just have to block out the fact that she was with Hugh Grant. *ick*

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Grant lost his "World association of MEN" membership card when he cheated her off for a 10$ hooker. I know that cheap thrills can be fun but you will never make me loose MY card.

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Closer was first written as a play before it was made into a movie... and I saw in as a play before it was ever made into a movie, too...

i haven't seen the movie yet.

but i really liked the play. it made me cry...

i saw it quite a while back...4 years ago at least, i would think. probably longer.

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Yeah, I had heard of it being a play. Apparently, you're more in the "romantic drama" camp, if it did make you cry and you liked it.

The movie seemed very weird to me, it was like some sort of romantic-oriented "American Pie" movie with grown ups and good acting. But like I said, I don't think this was supposed to happen, and I don't know if it was also in the play and it's just me who's weird (which wouldn't exactly be big news...).

I mean... When Dan gets cheated on by Anna with Larry just this one time, he's all outraged, "how could you do this?"... Well, erm, how about in exactly the same way you've done it to him for a whole damned year, how's that? Who would have thought the tables could be turned? Gah.

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well... it was a long time ago that i saw it, and i don't know if the way the movie ends is different than the way the play ends.

but it was also very funny, i thougt. i remember laughing a fair bit, too. so maybe it's like that on purpose?

does someone die near the end of the movie? that's why i cried. well, it's not like a sobbed or anything like that. but there was some tear-shedding.

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Nope, no one dies... I suppose you should watch it, it's probably got a few differences that might be confusing.

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What

gregorama said.

Also... You can choose to do what you want, if it makes you happy that's great and you KNOW that you have my blessings. But because it's makes you happier than what others are doing does not mean that everyone else is wrong. I'm sure you can think outside the box here and imagine that the world those not revolve around what you think is right for you.

And when you are done with that Appleseed DVD, you know who to come and look for. Pawning is definitly an option.

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Oh, sure doesn't make other people wrong! I agree completely with you on that.

But I maintain that this movie was hilarious. The characters were so bad and vile at times that it could only be a parody, I could only laugh at them saying what I thought was the worst possible thing, then proving me wrong by saying something even stupider.

I'm done with Appleseed. It got the huge "let's blow up the whole city" ending that's a requisite of anime movies, much to my dismay. And I don't think I say that too often, but there wasn't enough of the love backstory. I always found the relationship between Deunan and Briareos interesting. I won't be pawning it, but it can be lended!

You want a kick in the arse to get it over to Grumpy's tonight?

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If by Lend you mean Lend forever and don't expect to ever see it again, then sure! Haha. Also, I keep running into your indeed crumy copie of Life of Brian. It's there in my "this does not belong to me" shelve space just so you know.

I know that Anime can suck at times. They can have their very bored tried and true paths just like most amercian action movies. For me it's the visual flair these things can bring. I just love to "watch". I've stopped listnening to most Anime movies I have. I like the fact that they don't have that many limitations when it comes to represent something that is near impossible to imagine on your own. Anyway I admit that the stories don't really surprise me anymore (I was back when Akira came out). Nowadays, I just like to pop one of those babies in the background as I do other things around the house.

In some other cases you just end up with something beautifull and imaginative, something that our own movie industry would never dare try to compare with because their pocket books are as tightly shut as their minds. Case in point, Princess Mononoke and especially Spirited Away. Those are actually better in French btw, especially Princess.

I'm starting to think that Grumpy's is a true possiblity for tonight. I'd need times and locations though. Not sure I'll bring my camera though (seems like taking pictures is a normal thing over there).

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No, no, no, not "lend forever"! Also, that "Life of Brian" is yours, I did give it away! I have the better deluxe version, remember? ;-)

I get bored by the big explosion ending. It's as if they can't pull off low-key dramatism, they have to go all epic all the time, and it gets old. Me, I liked the end of "Kill Bill", for example, as a classic example of low-key, and I thought it was very refreshing, if only a bit anti-climatic. But these anime movies, they just have to blow up the whole damned planet every single time, with a gun that bigger and more ridiculous than anything you've ever seen, including in any previous anime movie (which is saying a lot).

"Princess Mononoke" was pretty good, but I haven't seen "Spirited Away", maybe I should. I really loved "Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence". No big blowing up of anything at the end. Just a nice firefight and some hacking.

That'd be cool if you could come over to Grumpy's! We're there around 9pm, and it's on Bishop, between René-Levesque and Ste-Catherine. It's the pub closest to Ste-Catherine, has a small terrasse in front. I'm bringing my camera, feel free to bring a compactflash.

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