Tuesday, May 20, 2008

LISBON TREATY

Should it be this hard to find some impartial, “plain english” Lisbon treaty info?

No, it shouldn't.

I’m sitting here on my sofa a little annoyed because I just got home from work to find a leaflet had been stuffed my letterbox from euroinfo.ie. Finally, I thought, the EU are sending me something bright and colourful in laymans terms to help me decide. I was wrong. While the leaflet didn’t actually say the words “Vote No” everything between its covers screamed it. This kind of fly by night canvassing really grinds my gears, insults my intelligence and leaves the information gap created by a government who refuse to inform its citizens (perhaps purposely?) even more glaring. I think our government need to remember that not everyone waits on their doorstep for the Irish Times to land every morning, and sometimes the average person doesn’t get time to keep up to date with political affairs, or rummage on the internet comparing websites. I like to think of myself as a good citizen, but the government are just making harder. We need to be informed and that is their duty.


yours with my knickers firmly in a twist,
Aoif

Monday, April 28, 2008

Badgers - what's that all about?



If a badger breaks the leg of a dead person in the forest and no one is around to hear the snap, do badgers really exist?
Todays question is one that has plagued my mind for almost a day now, that is: do badgers really exist?
I know we've all seen them as red, black and white road kill (or as I like to call them Decoys) but has anyone actually ever seen a live badger? My guess is no and the time has come to question their existence.
What, you might ask, is the reason this fallacy? What are they hiding? Who are "they"? One theory that this myth was put forward by the creators of "Farthingwood Friends" who happen to be fierce woodland conservationists bent on keeping the woods free from meandering Sunday walkers who kill countless blades of grass with every careless but fatal foot fall.
As a means to their end they use urban legends to scaremonger the wood be (heh heh – wood be!) forest walkers into staying at home. Yes it is my theory that these cads are responsible for the "warnings" that rogue badgers will try to break your leg on sight. They say that one should carry a piece of wood with you and break it when a badger attacks so when they hear the snap they will think their mission has been accomplished and run off. A likely story. The bastards.
This kind of mass bewilderment is as shameful as that of the boogieman and born-again Christians. And it’s just plain mean.

Aoif

Thursday, April 10, 2008

pink haired girl


pink haired girl, originally uploaded by gravitylovesme.

happy new year!! ok, it's april... but i just noticed that i haven't posted since 2007... i'm being festive!

oh screw this