theory 15 June 2008
Here’s as good a theory as any other on why Ireland said no to the Lisbon Treaty – we were getting Europe back for spurning us at Eurovision.
I was at a great 50th birthday party last night and got a very hard time from some of the types there for being a nay sayer. People got very worked up indeed about the whole thing. I was told we were going to be thrown out of Europe. Actually, I’m not sure that would be such a bad thing because, I think, as of next year we’re supposed to start paying in to the system and we’re broke.
The party was the reason I couldn’t do a blog last night…I was a tad bendy after some (ok, lots of) really delicious wine. Great night of fun, food, politics, fun, food, wine, fun, food, music, wine, etc. and, as I am not yet 50, it was a super opportunity to mock the elderly (the birthday boy).
Mind you, I feel my 50th is not that far off in that birthdays seem to follow single years until you are 40 then they seem to go in five year jumps and after 50 in tens – and time seems to pass as quickly too.
I should point out that the copyright on the Inner Idiot belongs to Mr Connor Byrne, actor extraordinaire. He it was who first identified the mysterious and demented creature, in the manner of a botanist discovering a new fern in the Amazonian jungle, I guess. He named the Inner Idiot, although perhaps it should in some way be named after him? For example, I could refer to my Inner Connor Byrne from now on…no, perhaps not, as he is indeed knocking up a temporary plastic lid for mine so I want to keep on the right side of him till delivery.
