Itv Leaders Debate Aaaargh!

[Bravehearted]

Half an hour in and th bun fight has started!.
Julie Etchingham cannot cope with these blow heads.
Should've gone to Geremy Paxman. Four weeks to go of this
'beam me up Scotty!'

[naomi24]

*an opportunity

[Hypognosis]

Me: Suggesting soundproof booths.

Svejk
^duh, it wouldn't be a bloody debate, would it?

A debate is people taking turns to put their view.
People talking simultaneously, making it impossible to decipher what either of them are saying is -not- debate.
Shouting louder than the opponent, to drown out their words such that only your words can be heard is -not- debate: it is a schoolyard shouting match.

Part of the art of debate is -listening- to what the other person has to say and, temporarily, memorising what they are saying so that you can issue challenges to their points -when it comes to your turn to speak-.

Due to either rudeness or short-term memory problems, people on TV shows insist on cutting in immediately and blotting out the remainder of what the first speaker was saying.

If the first speaker is lying, as often they are accused of being, by the interruptor, I need to hear the lie in full so that I can recognise it the next time it is repeated.

It becomes even more annoying when, becomes even more annoying when, becomes even more annoying when time is wasted by a speaker uselessly repeating a phrase, in an effort to cut through, waiting for the moment when the rude guy shuts up and lets them finish.

There are much worse things in the world to be bothered by than this but it is currently the thing that annoys me the most, these days.

[mikey4444]

Hypognosis....I think you are harking back to a bygone age, when politicians acted like Mr Chumley Warner. There is no going back I'm afraid !

[Peter Pedant]

// Jeremy Paxman is hardly going to preside over an ITV programme. //

yeah didnt you hoot with laughter week when one man on £0.5m a y ( one Paxo) asked another man with a rich wife and on 250k a y whether he could live on benefits ?

irony klaxon pleeeeeese !

[mikey4444]

I make no excuse for posting this, other than I think we could all do a laugh to go to bed with ::::: Nighty Night everybody !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQWPR9TM0Gk

[Hypognosis]

@mikey4444

That's Cholmondley-Warner, dontcha know? ;-)

Okay, if not soundproof booths, how about electrodes, when they speak out of turn. Voice-activation would be a doddle to set up.

[Peter Pedant]

what's wrong with a tazer if they open their mouths mr Cholmodley Warner ?

[Hypognosis]

Too slow-acting, Mr Peter Pedant. If the electodes are already in place, via a wristband, say, then the shock can be applied the instant the voice-activation detects their interruption.

Of course, their is a risk that politicians with a higher exposure to booze and fags are at elevated risk of suffering a heart attack but this has never inhibited tazer deployment, to date.

All in all, soundproof booths and someone with a mixing desk is so much more humane.