HELLO BLUE-RINSE MY OLD FRIEND...

An interesting addendum to my shite-talking about blondes in my last entry. I was listening to the radio recently, and they were talking about how the "dumb blonde" myth is in fact a self-fulfilling prophesy. A Psychologist in a German University was claiming that people's low expectations of blondes leads to them under-performing, and they tend to fit the social patterns set for them. The only flaw in Professor Jens Foerster's thesis was made evident by his admission that he himself is a blonde. Therefore, if by his rationale society makes him say stupid things, then his theory must be bollocks, then we can say that he isn't saying stupid things and is in fact right. But then he can't be right by his own theory so he must be wrong. I'm so confused! I must be blonde too.

As a welcome change of pace, I was surrounded by grey hair at the Simon and Garfunkel concert in the RDS. My first introduction to Simon and Garfunkel was through our PE teacher's perennial choice of garb. Every day, it seemed he had his "Simon and Garfunkel World Tour 1982" tee-shirt on, so that even today I associate their lilting folk melodies with the stink of rancid sweat. So you can imagine, I start humming "Mrs Robinson" on Dart trains on a regular basis. Oh and true-to form, our PE teacher had grey hair, and not much of even that.

But a merry time was had by myself and Rocky (remember her, she was my medieval porn researcher)and on the way out I couldn't help but laugh at the announcement that came over the tannoy.
"Please make your way slowly to the exits."
I looked around at the blue-rinse throng around me,
"Some of these guys don't really have a choice, do they?" I said,waiting patiently for the guy with the walking stick in front of us to make his way out of the arena.

In work the following week, I was relating this story to someone, with the mistake of allowing myself to be overheard by a grey-haired electrician who just so happened to have been at the concert. Man was I caught rotten. Pretty stupid but sure what do you expect from me? I must be blonde...