"I really don't think anyone in Clapham is going to be setting fire to the water coming out of their taps," I tell you, adding, "No, your house isn't going to tumble into some newly created abyss".
As hardback sales tumble in the US, falling by 23% in the first half of the year, ebook sales have exploded, increasing by more than 1,000% over the last three years, according to the Association of American Publishers.
He knew this in the rough and tumble of hurling, the world's fastest sport played on grass.
In the meantime, Zimbabwe's economy continues to tumble, with growth expectations for 2015 being whittled down to between 1-2% by critics while the finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, expects the economy to grow at 3.4% for the same period.
Fair enough, after this murky business, that Piketty might want to distance himself from the everyday rough and tumble of real politics.
When it first began 25 years ago, Midnight Madness was "a little bit more rough and tumble, and the audience was, like, drunk and stoned and rowdy", says Geddes.
Related: Bayern's heads and legs missing as they tumble out of Champions League In the buildup to this game Guardiola had committed himself fully to the final year of his contract.
Throughout our conversation words tumble from Pooley like a jackpot from a Las Vegas slot machine.
