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drinking as part of a survey to assess the effect of drink on morals and judgment and how the information can be used to lengthen the lifespan of inhabitants of third world countries.

Unfortunately, they were all too busy posing in front of cameras pretending to represent the wishes of the citizens of the country and we had to buy our own even though we came up with some life-saving conclusions for those who care to listen.

Look at how that organisation that claims to represent the ratepayers of the capital city ended up on international news channels while at some UN summit last year. What that had to do with uncollected refuse and overflowing sewers, they have not yet explained to the ratepayers.
I digress and must return to the topic of what we discussed at the usual place. The question was on whether a member of the Fourth Estate was wronged and whether women are the victims that they are always made out to be.

“These powerful men are evil and they always make women work for everything from high marks to promotions on their backs,” offered Paul. He always wants to appear to be the most enlightened patron of all the regulars.
“Maybe that is true though I have my doubts. But in this case there is no inference that anyone was forced to do anything. It looks like a situation in which two people agreed to have a good time. The allegations that there was nay foul play are only coming a million years after the fact,” yours truly was forced to point.

I think all the regulars will admit that I may be a heavy drinker but I am not a male chauvinist pig although the two characteristics sometimes seem to go hand in hand.
One of the sisters who is a middle manager in a respectable organisation was quick to jump in and I was afraid that I might have offended the female constituency. I was relieved to hear an unexpected cry from the sister:

“That is very true Bra Gee. Some of us are climbing up the corporate ladder on our feet in the same way that men do. And every time some women come out whining in the media about how they cannot make it without opening their legs for a man they imply that the women who have made it could only have done it on their backs.

“I refuse to be associated with such characters. I have even heard some college students complaining about how they are victimised by lecturers asking for sex in return for pass marks. But what about the male students who pass? Are they also sleeping with lecturers?”

Anyone who has been to any tertiary institution will remember a group of female students who will sleep with anything so that they can lead a flashy life on campus. So whose victims are they?
“Now that you mention it sister, I agree with you,” said Paul who can change sides in an argument at the swig of a glass.

“I see these little girls in school uniforms walking around the city centre targeting men and telling them some sob story of how they have lost their bus fare and need a dollar to get home. If that is not soliciting then I do not know what is. But what you get is an outcry on how commuter omnibus crews are abusing the innocent little girls!”

But what about the woman crying foul, someone asked. Could we say that it was yet another classic example of the evil male taking advantage of the helpless female of the human species?
Some of the sentiments expressed were too lurid to repeat as people recounted how some men have become victims of the eternally wronged woman.

Eventually all the regulars agreed that in the climate that we live in it is not a good idea to take off your inner garments and not wear disposable plastic replacements when you get into bed for any other reason besides sleep with any person. Period.

All this nonsense of people willingly taking off their clothes and enjoying toe curling moments then turning around to cry foul when they find that they got more than pleasure from the repeat encounters is exactly that; nonsense.

Say you are told that of the 10 balloons in a room two are booby trapped. Should you decide to pop even one balloon then it means you are prepared to have it explode in your face and you have no reason to complain if that is exactly what happens.

Even in the usual place where more than a few people are usually too befuddled to know the time of day, there is not a single person who can claim not to know that taking a walk in summer sans a raincoat might result in you getting drenched in a downpour. So if you do not want to get wet then you are well advised to stay indoors or if you must venture forth then take some waterproof protection.

Or to bring it closer home at the moment, if you insist on going outdoors especially early in the morning or late at night then some very warm clothing is necessary otherwise you will be sneezing and sniffling and coughing and so on. And you only have yourself to blame.

Of course, it is a different ballgame altogether when someone drags you kicking and screaming into the freezing night with the sole intention of making you catch a cold just because that person is suffering from one.

Then it becomes murder and the dragger should be hanged first then we can have a judge look at their case later when they are safely under a load of concrete.
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