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If you've watched a heated debate on prime time television, chances are you've wondered how long it's going to take one of the apoplectic participants to start throwing things instead of just shouting.
It hasn't taken long at all on this live TV show in Jordan.
As the hapless anchor tries desperately to keep the peace, his guests - both venerable gentlemen, raging at each other from opposite ends of the discussion table - grow louder and angrier.
Until they rise from their chairs in one concerted movement and proceed to wreck the studio set, tearing apart the table as their host clutches on to it in a dreadful and unseemly tug of war. Papers litter the floor, chairs are knocked back, decibel levels rise and air is thick with probable insults. They're not speaking in English so we can't tell but we bet they are cursing.
Incredibly, the studio crew doesn't cut to an ad break immediately.
Even more incredibly, this didn't happen on an Indian TV channel.
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