Still, the prospect of a possible mass debate over intricacies of the Oscar process struck some as peculiar.
The nature of mass debate has become solely binary: you're on one side or the other.
But, hey, then all those TV shows and media mass debates might (or let's face it, might not) have to find something worthwhile to talk about instead of just shouting at each other from familiar trenches.
There are furious mass debates and decisions get replayed over and over - more than the goals ever are - while every show, every paper, has a refereeing "expert", the most famous of whom is a linesman famous for cocking it up, and the media invariably cries foul … when the foul is against them and sometimes even when it's not a foul at all.
Look at the mass debate the prospect of Pistorius competing in the Olympics caused.
Less chaotic than the previous seven-way "mass debate", this opposition leaders' debate generally revolved around the idea of a Labour-led future government with input from the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Although on this occasion if there was a winner here, Clive, it was shrill, oddly repetitive mass-debating itself, as in front of a packed Westminster Hall the leaders of the opposition parties put on a crisp, clean, energetic display of high-class pre-prepared talking.
"For the first time, Parliament and the British public will be able to debate mass surveillance powers like bulk interception, bulk hacking, and the data-mining of bulk personal datasets".
While its regional and sectoral impact can be debated (mass Mexican migration to the north long antedated the agreement and, in recent years, net migration has in fact ceased), Nafta has, on balance, benefited Mexico, in part by codifying the economic relationship and curbing American unilateralism.
The predictive power of low muscle mass has been debated previously.
