The dinner party was a fucking
disaster. Guy1 thinks it was an immense
success, but what does he know. His
friends are tools.
J and I might have, just a small
teeny tiny bit, gotten drunk. And a
little giddy. Unfortunately at the time
of our giddiness, the grownups were having an eminently serious debate about the
Arab Spring and in particular Libya
Lets be honest here, I could definitely
identify Gadaffi in a Sky News line up and I too rejoiced when the rebels took
down that stupid offensive gold hand statue, but aren’t dinner parties supposed
to be fun? Or did I read the wrong memo.
Ultimately I don’t think that it
was appreciated when J and I persistently toasted the rebels – taking it upon
ourselves to make sure that they knew that democracy is definitely more about shots
of vodka than it is about a fairly elected government or education for all.
Admittedly the rebels weren’t
actually at the party, but I’ve seen them on telly, I think they’d be a lot of
fun, so I’m pretty sure they appreciated our distant support – even if Guy 1
and his mates never quite made it to our level.
To be fair there was one girl at
the party who encouraged us, without directly participating in the Lemondrops
for Libya game. If we had her on her own
we’d have definitely converted her but for now she was maintaining the required
level of decorum as part of her coupledom. There was also an incorrigible guy -
there without his girlfriend for some reason we didn’t give a damn about, who clearly had a free pass and was taking full
advantage of it. Even though we got
reprimanded for it, it was he who started the Where’s Colonel Gadaffi? game based
loosely on Where’s Wally?
You could argue we were being
rude, but then again, you could argue that a dinner party is supposed to be
enjoyable and a 3 hour political conversation on a Saturday night is not enjoyable. I don’t think Sam Cam would even tolerate
that at No. 10, yet here we were, a collective of chinos trying to
out-intellectualise each other.
At no point was I not going to
end up drunk in that scenario.
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