Here are a few statements to have spun out from the world today:
1. A US debt downgrade or failure to raise the debt ceiling would have "significant global repercussions, given the central role of US Treasury bonds in world financial markets"
(The International Monetary Fund, via the WSJ) Not good.
2. 'I fear Amy Winehouse made crack cocaine cool. She made alcoholism attractive. She made abusive, violent relationships exciting'.
(The Daily Mail's Amanda Platell) Not good.
3. 'It paid for my house - but it's full of chavs'.
(Actress Jane Horrocks on Tesco) Not good.
As you see, I have rated the above statements as 'not good'. High-calibre thinking. I would say that THIS, here, right now, 2011, is the Age of the Statement. People saying stuff all over the place (mainly Twitter) and then having to apologise (on Twitter) for saying it. The IMF doesn't need to apologise. For the IMF never gets stuff wrong. And certainly, it doesn't say slanderous stuff about actresses, footballers or front-bench MPs. It's too busy presaging the economic ruination of the universe.
It is, also, the Age of the Statement Necklace. Safe bet to say that kind of thing I have decided because the least I have to worry about is getting snarled at by fashion people because once you've been to pregnancy yoga having vocalised that some sort of childbirth pain relief on the horizon then the odd fashion-world snarl is mere piffle. I'm telling you. Don't. Mention. The. Epidural.
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