The Chinese government is currently debating reducing the number of crimes which deserve capital punishment. For some of those offences which will be downgraded, a week of meetings will be the alternate form of punishment.
Jacky Chan: give up the information, or we will torture you.
Prisoner: I will not yield!
Jacky Chan: Guard, put this man into a meeting.
Prisoner: No, thumb screws, electric shocks, anything…but not that.
Jacky Chan: Take him into the meeting room!
Prisoner: I give up, here is the information you wanted.
“Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.” (John Kenneth Galbraith)
A: He has gone into cardiac arrest; does somebody have a defibrillator?
B: No!
A: Then let us send him into a meeting, that should do it.
“I had a wonderful evening; but this wasn’t it” (Groucho Marx)
well said! I don't think I could have summarized that stretch of meetings more accurately!!!
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