14th
Recessions gonna get ya
“SEX. Now that I have your attention…” was the way that some advertisements used to start. Nothing gets your attention like the word SEX in big, throbbing letters, before having your senses polluted with whatever shite is being plugged (I call this consumer constipation). Well I loved that, you know, ‘cause sex sells (ask your local prostitute for more on this concept).
Well you know what buzzword is about to eclipse sex as the one that grabs your attention (and whatever else comes to hand)? RECESSION, folks, that’s the one. The 1st few times I saw this word used in the media I thought that all my years of interlacing conversations with “receeding” when referring to my hairline had somehow been picked up on, it’s variant now being the hottest thing on the block. Well no! You see “recession” is becoming the byword for everything that’s wrong, everywhere. “Did you hear about Mary, she’s dead” would be responded to with “Did the recession get her”, like it’s waiting in the bushes.
The word is being thrown about so much, you think it was some kind of epidemic. I’m sure the poor fuckers in Darfur are shitting themselves with all this talk of the recession. I doubt it; they are too busy dying of hunger. The selfish bastards, how dare they pop their clogs before the recession gets them!
