[FGZstar] Tyburn Jig etc.? NO
[CdM] Humiliation? NOT OF NECESSITY, tho it might.
[Spangle] Barking up the wrong tree? NO

[CdM] Has an audience? NO, if you mean it's done in one go with the audience in the same room, or if it's broadcast in one go to people who give this their attention for a specific fixed amount of time. In a much broader sense it can have a non-participating audience, tho this is not necessarily entailed in the concept.

[Dujon] ploy by TV producers? ARGUABLY, altho I doubt the word "ploy" would be the right one in that case, and it's certainly not something exclusive to TV producers.
[CdM] All/Vast majority of humans do it? I honestly don't know and am not sure how one would find this out. That's a surprisingly hard question. I suspect there are defensible YES and NO answers, and I would expect you to have a better idea than me.
[all] Sorry these answers are so messy. It's just that we don't quite seem to have hit on the perfect line of questioning so far!

[Spangle, simulposted] Nisi to not see you? NO

[Spangle] NO, not a contract.

[FGZstar] News/famous? It MIGHT BE news if a famous person were involved, depending on the circs. Equally, it might be news if no famous person were involved.

[INJ] Comms? NO, except in the very broad ways suggested above.

Hey, I'm just trying to catch up here.

[INJ] Involves conflict? IT CERTAINLY CAN DO, and often does, but not of necessity.

Or any form of protest?

[FGZstar] Student Protest? NO *a sudden enthusiastic burst of applause from the audience*

[INJ] CAN BE related to industrial disputes.
[Spangle] Congratulations on that logical leap, since YES, the words on the card are "budget cutting"! For a while there I thought that I'd made a silly choice, but then in you stormed. I'm afraid that the resource situation means there isn't a baton to pass over, so have this bread roll instead.

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(I'm still not sure what would have been an appropriate answer to CdM's "does almost everyone do this?" question. In terms of personal budgeting, I guess that most of us do do it, but it's hard to say whether the degree of formality/prior planning involved means that sort of thing counts more as belt-tightening rather than budget cutting. Still puzzled!)

This is unexpected. I am unable to visit here on a regular basis. Would somebody else like to step in? Please.

I nominate FGZstar or INJ, who did most of the heavy lifting there.

Well, since I was away for almost all of that, I think Projoy is overly kind, but in the interests of keeping the game going:
This is ABSTRACT or ANIMAL with VEGETABLE connections. It doesn't matter much how you parse that, it still works.

Bugger it! Why must I always arrive late!

[FGZstar] Oh, the humanity? - YES
[CdM] Ass

[CdM] Oh, I suppose you want a formal answer - Mule-related? - NO

[Projoy] Made-up? - NO

[irach] Normal politics? - NO (but I could make it 'Yes' for a small fee)

[Projoy] Woody? - NO