I mean, banks are collapsing left, right and centre. The world's financial markets are falling to pieces. Governments are borrowing hundreds of billions of dollars to protect themselves. Yet whenever you watch or hear news reports, it seems as though everyone is desperately clinging to some forlorn hope that if we admit this is a recession then everyone's fucked.
It's alright for us to say it's a massive economic crisis. But we absolutely must not admit that it's a recession, okay? Sssh. Nonetheless, I'd love to know what criteria the various news organisations of the world need to occur for us to cross the threshold into recession, and in just how much shit everyone has to be in for it to be a recession.
Personally, I don't care. There's nothing I can do about it so I'm not going to sit here worrying about it. But if this reces....shit, no, it's not a recession, is it? Bugger. If this massive economic crisis is the reason why the price of 1kg packets of dried pasta seems to have jumped by about 70p in the last couple of months, then I do care. Why has that happened? Is flour and water now a rare and expensive commodity or something all of a sudden?
Having said that, all this couldn't really have happened at a worse time for us. We can't use our Sky+ box at the moment, and haven't been able to for a good couple of weeks now for a number of reasons too boring to go into here. So we're stuck with Freeview. And before some git comes along and tells me that we only used to have four or five channels, so count yourself lucky that you have that, you can swivel right off, you twat.
As a result, because there's never anything to watch, we just usually end up sticking on BBC News 24 because that is literally the only thing we can think of to watch. But all you get is 'enormous bank bailout plan' this and 'considerable drop on the FTSE exchange' that. I've had enough. Somebody had better fix all this shit and quick.
The Sky+, that is.
