They say that those who laugh last, laugh loudest.
At the end of another week of cognitive dissonance for the richest, loudest, most chasteningly brittle league in the world, there must be a few more interesting conversations to be had.
For the past 18 months, the finance minister, Jan Kees De Jager, has been the loudest advocate for the most rigorous austerity for the bailed-out countries of the eurozone, and for the punitive new fiscal rules.
"She can get men round her little finger," is the consensus, of which she herself is, granted, the loudest proponent.
That was, after all, the loudest message from the people on the day they defeated the coup.
But some of the loudest voices on #talkpay were those who would not, in fact, talk pay.
Views don't come much lovelier than the ones from this hotel, up in the village of San Martino di Lota near Bastia, where the loudest sound is of church and goat bells.
After bruising revelations regarding the company's working relations with the National Security Agency NSAA), Smith has emerged as one of the technology industry's loudest voices for reform and greater openness.
Cheese and onion pie: is it actually a north-western speciality, or do they just shout loudest about it?
Catholic think-tank the Iona Institute are amongst the loudest voices on the no side.
One of the loudest rounds of applause for the night went to the man who described the Oscars ceremony as a "meaningless, self-serving meat parade": George C Scott, who died last year, appeared in the In Memoriam spot which honours film business people who have moved on.
