Robert's Rules of Order, The WIre, S03E01

Robert Kienzle0 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
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A three-minute clip from The Wire season 3 in which Stringer Bell chairs a drug-crew business meeting using Robert's Rules of Order. The scene plays the formal procedure against the criminal setting.

Linked as a joke or reference whenever Robert's Rules or formal meeting procedure comes up.

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@reggieband2022 · in “Dark Web – Justice League”

There is a comic I remember from my childhood, "Tom the Dancing Bug" written by Ruben Bolling. He had a character called "Harvey Richard, Lawyer for Children". I linked a couple of examples [1], [2], [3], [4] but the satire, IMO, is incredible. It lampoons humanities proclivity to layer pseudo-rationality onto the irrational things that we do. It also reminds me of the TV show "The Wire" when Stringer Bell, a senior member of a street drug distribution ring of urban thugs, forces them to conduct their meetings using Rules of Order. [5] If you watch to the end, you see that in those circumstances order means nothing, it is just a facade. I guess you could say that I'm cynical about the prospects of such a court and I tend to see the underlying truth in the satires that point it out. 1. [LINK] 2. [LINK] 3. [LINK] 4. [LINK] 5. [VIDEO]

@gorgoiler2022 · in “Robert's Rules of Order (1876)”

Fans of The Wire will of course be reminded of this classic scene where an early 2000s West Baltimore crack gang adopts Rules of Order to lend a professional approach to their meetings: [VIDEO]

@Y_Y2023 · in “Astrophysicists Put All Objects in Universe into One Pedagogical Plot”

Pardon me, but I believe this would be a "point of information" (aka request) rather than a "point of order" which should refer to a procedural matter rather than factual. For reference of course I would refer you to Robert's Rules of Order: [VIDEO]