We live in an age where the second you start shouting at somebody, or lose your cool and say something ridiculous, you can almost bet that somebody is either going to make a video of it on their phone or recording it in some way or other.  We have seen it recently with the owner of a basketball team in America who advised a mistress that he did not want to see her coming to his basket ball stadium with black men and her publication of that phone call has led to him being banned from the stadium he owns and banned from any involvement with basket ball.  It is obviously going to make it somewhat difficult for him to sell the team at top price because anybody who buys the team from him will know that although of course the team will have a value, the seller cannot afford to be incredibly difficult.  

One of the problems these days is that people tend, when they plan to record an incident, to go goad people into losing their temper and it might very well be that what you say is later taken out of context.  I do not mean in any way to compare this to the basketball case, but the problem is that we all say things we sometimes regret, we all say things at times that are either nasty or inappropriate and which we don’t really mean.  In the past, you could apologise for saying it but now, before you know it, it will be on Twitter, Facebook and everywhere else and simply nobody will be interested in how sincere your apology is, the background to why you said what you said and once simply has to be so much more careful than ever before what you say – and it is not just what you say publicly or on social media – you will have to be careful about what you say to friends, or as in this case, to one’s mistress!