There's some interesting news at the end of this post if you want to cut to the chase. **Weather** The wonderfully named Kate Funky wrote:
but i'm in melbourne and it's winter. i'm at my parents house in the country and it's bloody freezing. so all of you northern hemisphere people remember how lucky you are right now... Yeah right 'cos the weathers always great over here you know, never rains or blows a gale, oh no, it's positively paradise all year round in good old Britain. Get real girl. Why do you think people emigrate to Australia? (apart from the better standard of living so I'm told) It's cos the weather's always shite over here. Summer lasts about 2 days and then it's winter for the next 363. You Australians don't know how lucky you are!!!
you'd be hard pressed to find a culture which doesn't have a some concept of God True most cultures have some God thing going on but it's still generally "a fictional character designed to strike fear into the hearts of the masses" is it not? Lawrence also makes some interesting points about the good people have done (Mother Teresa et al) but is it not the case that people do good things sometimes just because they are good people and not necessarily cos they are religious? Why does spouting forth about religion make somebody a better
**Canadians** As for Canadians being cool, I'm sure there are some but don't forget this is the country that gave us Celine Dione so they sure as hell aren't all cool. **Religion** Religion annoys me. I'm not against religious people but I do wish they wouldn't foist their opinions on those who are not interested (like that Gouranga lot who literally chase you down the street). I always try to put religion into perspective by thinking of all the trouble it causes between different cultures and how different it might be if it were not for religion. And of course the question that is guaranteed to shut up any religious person: "If there is a God, why do people die in plane crashes?" I've never heard anybody justify that one. Lawrence said: person than say the bloke in the street that buys a Big Issue or puts a pound in a charity box but never goes to church. For every Baptist minister that lets prostitutes stay in his house, there are thousands of non-religious people who do good things but we tend to ignore them and look for the bad bits of our society cos it makes more interesting news headlines. **Jobs** I've been looking for a job recently and have been pissed off by the attitude of some companies towards applicants for graduate positions. Take today for instance I phoned Vodafone having seen their graduate application bit on their website which asked applicants to phone before applying. I phoned them up and they asked what my first degree was in. I did chemistry for my sins so I told her that and she said the only positions for people with a chemistry degree were in finance. I told her that didn't interest me but that I had a postgrad degree in IT and wanted a job in that field. But she insisted they only judged people on their first degree and that I could only apply for finance (although the website told me they were looking for IT people). What is the point of that? If I wanted a job based on my first degree I wouldn't have done a postgrad course. Another major consultancy firm told me they weren't interested in me cos I "didn't meet the criteria for career focus and leadership potential". Now I may not be brilliant but how the f*ck can they deduce this on the strength of a bloody application form? I could appreciate their sentiments if they had bothered to meet me and made the effort to find out my career focus and leadership potential but they didn't. They're all bastards these big corporations and to be honest I'd be quite glad not working for them when they seem to put people into categories based on the little information they get. **Content** I received the following email to www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk: "Screamadelica proudly presents another monthly special featuring DJ Richard Colburn (Belle and Sebastian), Snow Patrol (live), Estel (live) plus special guest DJ David Cleary. Thursday 3rd August @ Temple Bar Music Centre, Dublin 8pm - 2.30am" Hope this is of interest to somebody out there. Later, David david@djwhite47.freeserve.co.uk www.belleandsebastian.freeserve.co.uk +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the undead Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail sinister@missprint.org. To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to majordomo@missprint.org. WWW: http://www.missprint.org/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "sinsietr is a bit freaky" - stuart david, looper +-+ +-+ "pasty-faced vegan geeks... and we LOST!" - NME April 2000 +-+ +-+ "peculiarly deranged fanbase" "frighteningly named +-+ +-+ Sinister List organisation" - NME May 2000 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+