A reader writes: "I really get annoyed with job ads that don't give a salary guide. It makes it very hard to know whether a role is worth applying for. Salary range indicates whether the job is below my level, just right, or way beyond me. It would save a whole lot of hassle for employers if they didn't have to trawl through CVs of people who are way under or over-qualified. Then maybe they'd have time to reply to everyone who applied."
Mother of a Fright - Part II
"I can sympathise with 'Mother of a Fright' in Monday's Sideswipe," writes a reader. "When I was 10 years old and lived in Pt Chevalier with my parents, my mother had been putting the milk bottles out at the gate after dark. Just as I was pulling down the blind in the lounge, she put her face up close to the window and made a scary face, which made me scream with terror. I am now 72 and I still remember it every single time I pull the blinds down in my house at night!"
The Sabarimala temple is one of the most popular Hindu pilgrimage centres in India, but it still prohibits the entry of women in the menstrual age group. Prayar Gopalakrishnan, the new boss of the organisation that manages the Sabarimala temple, made it clear that the practice is unlikely to change any time soon. He said women would be permitted to enter the temple after the invention of a scanning machine which could check whether it was the "right time" or not, or whether a woman was menstruating or not. A social media campaign #happytobleed has launched in protest.
High five cut short
Moment of impact.
"Many years ago a builder mate of mine accidentally cut one of his fingers off with a skill saw," writes Dave Miller. "Now he has a grandson and instead of high-fiving each other, the boy says, 'high four, granddad'!"
Go Your Own Way ... but sit down in front!
"My wife and I, both in our 50s, bought seats in the stand for one of the Fleetwood Mac concerts in Auckland last weekend. We both have medical reasons why we can't stand for any lengthy periods of time. Some inconsiderate person in front of us stood and danced during the show. We were unable to see. After asking once for him to sit down, he carried on as though it didn't matter if we saw the show. I grabbed him and sat him down. The second time I sat him down I let him know it would not be clever to do it again. Those seated around us thanked me for my actions. If you want to dance at a show, go to the back and let the rest of us enjoy the show as well. Who gave you the right to stop others seeing the show, or are your rights more than ours?"
Death may as well be purple and in a bottle...
Picture this:
A reader reckons this product blurb for Purple death is worse than yesterday's wine in a can, for a man...
Video: The lovely peoples of Onehunga made a video about the foreshore restoration. Forty years they worked for it, and it finally happened and if you haven't been for a look head down there this summer...
Video: In the late 1950s, in a much less progressive era, Charles Haggerty had a talk with his son, who would come to realise later in life that he (the son) was gay, about the responsibility you have to your true self.
