The main room, befitted with baroque light fixings and thick damask-covered carpet, brims with warm welcomes and chatter as men find seats at tables in the centre, women at tables on the sides.
We're seeing lesson plans changing to welcome respectful online chatter.
Hegarty's between-song chatter is welcome, though.
In the past, I'd feel an urgent need to fill silences with something, anything, even the most nonsensical, irrelevant, or superficial talk, but, in truth, silence provides a welcome break from the constant chatter.
The speech celebrates the very event-ness of the second season ("Welcome back") and, knowingly, anticipates the chatter about the show's first big dramatic twist.
"School became an hourglass through which the sands of my anticipation gradually streamed until I was with Susan again at her dining room table playing Monopoly with her brothers and sisters amid a volley of giggles and chatter resonating with the undertone of 'Welcome Back, Kotter' on television in an adjacent room".
For some it was an eerie but welcome change from the glow of streetlights and the endless chatter of television sets.
Despite this, other changes, such as those to the support system, were not as welcome, with GameSpot commenting that support conversations "have been reduced to mere battlefield chatter".
A simple hola (hello) will lead to open, warm chatter in varying levels of English; tourists are few but welcomed with curiosity.
What has set Fox apart from its stodgier competitors over the years is the lack of a house style — its programmers have followed their desire for water cooler chatter wherever it led them — at the same time that it exhibited a welcome tolerance for outrageousness and provocation.
