[He says it in a tone. His own brand of authoritative, a tone that says he knows what that look means, that someone is upset that they're not getting information that they feel that they're entitled to but aren't actually entitled to, and they're starting to get frustrated with it. But Kay knows it's a slippery slope fro telling one person about one thing to ruining someone's life with a bit of misinformation.]
[So he tips his head and shakes it with his brief "uh uh".] Let me explain a very valuable oft misused but extremely useful phrase in the English language. It's called "calm down". "Calm down" is frequently misinterpreted to mean that the recipient of such phrase has no right to their feelings of anger or unease. For all I know you got some PTSD from a terrorist experience or you're lying through your teeth about the significance of your political affiliation. You know what? I don't care about either because it's your business until you look like you're plannin' something. It's fine. How you feel is what you what you feel. "Calm down" has nothing to do with that.
What "calm down" does mean in it's truest, rawest sense is that the recipient of such statement should consider how fervently they're pursuing their feelings of unease and if what they're doing is actually productive to the situation, not to stop feeling how they feel.
So. "Calm down". You're a technician. If we need you for technical stuff involving a terrorist attack, then we would get ahold of you or the one best suited for exactly what we need, alright? But right now you're a visitor and if you start treating these people as potential threats you're not gonna do many favors to the ones invited into this universe that really need to get away from a bad home and need to make a good impression. You're lookin' pretty high strung.
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[He says it in a tone. His own brand of authoritative, a tone that says he knows what that look means, that someone is upset that they're not getting information that they feel that they're entitled to but aren't actually entitled to, and they're starting to get frustrated with it. But Kay knows it's a slippery slope fro telling one person about one thing to ruining someone's life with a bit of misinformation.]
[So he tips his head and shakes it with his brief "uh uh".] Let me explain a very valuable oft misused but extremely useful phrase in the English language. It's called "calm down". "Calm down" is frequently misinterpreted to mean that the recipient of such phrase has no right to their feelings of anger or unease. For all I know you got some PTSD from a terrorist experience or you're lying through your teeth about the significance of your political affiliation. You know what? I don't care about either because it's your business until you look like you're plannin' something. It's fine. How you feel is what you what you feel. "Calm down" has nothing to do with that.
What "calm down" does mean in it's truest, rawest sense is that the recipient of such statement should consider how fervently they're pursuing their feelings of unease and if what they're doing is actually productive to the situation, not to stop feeling how they feel.
So. "Calm down". You're a technician. If we need you for technical stuff involving a terrorist attack, then we would get ahold of you or the one best suited for exactly what we need, alright? But right now you're a visitor and if you start treating these people as potential threats you're not gonna do many favors to the ones invited into this universe that really need to get away from a bad home and need to make a good impression. You're lookin' pretty high strung.
[He gestures out to the crowd.]
So what's a looming and tombing?[Moving on.]