Someone was moaning about Banchory Merchandising T-shirts being smaller than normal ones. Believe it or not, this has already been discussed at length. A lot of fatties think it's unfair and that it means Belle & Sebastian think that you have to be waif-like to be a twoo fan. 'Looking stupid being used and being THIN' eh? The ever excellent Tom Ewing points out, by way of a Guardian article http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/2000_06_18_oldlines.html#383429 that all this worrying about being thin and confused at Tony Blair's body image summit is all very well but it's a bit rich that it gets all the attention when obesity remains a far more widespread health issue than anorexia and bulemia. When I was at university I seem to remember a very bright colleague doing a dissertation on anorexia and he finding very little research that it had anything to do with seeing skinny models in magazines anyway. Call me selfish but I love the B&S T-shirt sizes. After years of having to put up with shapeless sacks at last I can wear one that's just perfect for us 6 foot high, 8 1/2 stone people. That's... me then. Thank God no one outside the UK undertands stones. Carsmile Steve is either confusing the Spectator with the New Statesman or else he's making some hard left point about the latter's loss of edge. I suspect the former, as he comes from Chelmsford and is probably a member of the Women's Institute.

I've been reduced to scouring the Guardian website for things by Nick Dastoor. There are three, one of which contains the phrase "totty good at totting up".

Funniy enough, I resorted to doing just the same yesterday. I have had a few more credits than that but the archive tends to ignore them on the grounds that they are in 4 point type and upside down. 'Totty good at totting up' was not my idea. Nor do I condider Magnus Pyke top totty. But that Lord Watson - phwoarr! Anyway, just before I resorted to doing that I resorted to searching the web for people with the same names as my friends. Then I told one of my friends and she said she felt violated. Nick x +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ 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 +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+