Sinister: You are a Belle and Sebastian Song

[Alexander Borgia]

Now hang your head in shame.

Recently I learned that Miss Honey has a brother who used to cheat at
Monopoly when they were younger. Which is something normal for children,
but is still quite thoughtless to a developing mind. Poor Miss Honey has
been scarred for life because of this and cannot ever live on a street
with all green houses, nor push a wheel barrow with an iron in it while
wearing a top hat. So tragic.

I decided to take it upon myself to rough up Miss Honey's brother and
lock him in a dumpster for a few days as punishment. Unfortunately at
the time of the confrontation Miss Honey's sibling presented the all
powerful "Get Out of Jail Free" card which, naturally, had to be
respected. (but not before he stepped in some really smelly fresh dog
poo, and he was wearing shoes with a deep tread so he will have to dig
it out with a pencil)

This has left me in possession of a "Get Out of Jail Free" card and a
bit of unreleased aggression.  I am going to rough you lot up and throw
you in the dumpster as punishment. I am submitting the "Get Out of Jail
Free" card.

Right now there are 1211 members on the Sinister Mailing list. This post
is written every single one of those 1211 and you are to take this
personally. Please don't skip ahead because questions will be asked at
the end of it. For those who are mathematically challenged, I am
including myself in the 1211.

You are an asshole. Through your thoughtless behaviour you have caused
someone to feel bad and you have insinuated to them that they don't
matter. You have hurt their feelings deeply and you have compounded it
by not even caring to notice.

Before you disagree with me you must realize that I am talking about
behaviour which is an action or an inaction that has a negative impact
on someone else and you don't realize its impact. A really good example
of thoughtless behaviour is drinking and driving. I really hope that
nobody on the list is stupid and thoughtless enough to do that. When
alcohol and cars are combined eventually someone will end up dying. The
dead don't care, they are dead. The living do and that is why people get
sad and cry at funerals. Worse than killing someone is maiming them for
life.

Since this list is a B&S list, this subject is entirely on topic. In
case you haven't been paying attention, many of their songs are about
people treating others poorly. An apology is like a Band-Aid. It
acknowledges the wound and helps make it heal, but it does not make it
heal, only time can do that. But apologies lose their value if they are
not sincere or if they do not result in a change in behaviour. How
really sorry can you be if you keep doing the same things over again.

Rather than point out specific incidents, or pull examples from the list
or discuss  the things that we can do to change our own behaviour and
make a difference. I'll leave you to figure it out for yourself. You can
decide how much of a selfish asshole you want to be. Although there are
many clichés saying "what goes around comes around" and similar
expressions, that is indeed very true and I have seen it many times,
such with the individual who decided to participate with a nutso woman
in making my life difficult last year by doing some things like making
false accusations to the police and my employer which wear easily proven
to be false. He ended up contracting flesh eating disease on his chest
last September, he was an asshole to lots of people. Start thinking
about how you are making people feel.

On Monday I asked 7 listees who had initiated corresponded with me if I
could ask a favour. The favour was to borrow their Crush vote until this
weekend at which time I would ask them to move it somewhere else. I
indicated that I would be posting to the list tonight and I wanted to
demonstrate a point regarding thoughtless behaviour. I also indicated
that they could choose not to participate and I would not take offence.

I received four replies saying yes, and three  e-mails went unanswered.
At the time of writing I have 3 votes. I will allow you to draw any
conclusions you would like, but bear in mind that you are not to draw
conclusions about the individual participants, look at it as a play. I
would like to thank the individuals who participated and those who have
voted for me to vote for someone else per below.

Since I have given you the "Get Out of Jail Free" card you may use it.
Monday is Valentine's Day. You may want to rant and rave about it being
set up by the greeting card companies but the truth is that humans have
been celebrating love in different ways since we first started sniffing
up stream. You can celebrate Christmas, birthdays and all those special
days but the one day that everyone freaks about is Valentine's Day. Save
the denial shit, I know better. This is the day when you want to feel
that you matter.  This is also the day when you get to tell other people
that they matter.

There are about 75 votes cast on the Crush list. That is 0.06% have
elected to to tell someone on the list that they matter. Basically, you
get until Monday morning to tell someone that they matter. If you don't
vote for someone on the list so that on Valentine's Day someone wakes up
to see that they matter, then you are telling everyone on the list as
well as yourself that you are a thoughtless asshole. Don't not vote to
spite me and don't leave your vote to someone else. The only way you get
out of this is if you don't get this until after Monday.

If you don't get a vote on Monday morning, it doesn't mean that you
don't matter because the change from 0.06% will tell you whether you
matter or not, you only matter if you vote. And nobody is allowed to
vote for me because I want you to tell other people they matter, nor
should everyone vote for the same people over and over again. If you
have already voted for someone then you have to move your vote to
someone else. To those who will be losing a vote as a result of this
then you will know that the person who voted for you is not a
thoughtless asshole. You can return your votes on Tuesday.

When you are done that, go send someone else a virtual Valentine wish
from one of these sites:

http://www.bluemountain.com/
http://www.kinkycards.com/

Now everybody get their shit together and act like the responsible
adults you will have to pretend to be some day.

Alexander



Questions:

Has anyone noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere that Venus is
beautiful at 7 in the morning right now? Look toward southeast.

Why are you still reading this and not voting for someone?










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