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* Aptly present in the ITV miniseries ''The Great Fire'', in which King Charles's courtiers and mistresses carry on with their fun and games while London burns.

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* Aptly present in the ITV miniseries ''The Great Fire'', ''Series/TheGreatFire'', in which King Charles's courtiers and mistresses carry on with their fun and games while London burns.



* Downplayed towards the end of ''The Heavy Water War''. As Werner Heisenberg is walking through the ruins of a bombed-out German city, he finds a burning piano half-buried in the rubble, but he just plays a few notes and the next scene shows the piano wreathed in flame.

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* Downplayed towards the end of ''The Heavy Water War''.''Series/TheHeavyWaterWar''. As Werner Heisenberg is walking through the ruins of a bombed-out German city, he finds a burning piano half-buried in the rubble, but he just plays a few notes and the next scene shows the piano wreathed in flame.
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* A lot of the [[DiscoSucks anti-disco backlash]] of the late 1970s was fueled by the glamorous and hedonistic party atmosphere of clubs like the legendary Studio 54 against a backdrop of economic malaise for everybody else.
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* George S. Kaufman's comedy sketch "The Still Alarm" is about a group of people in a house who seem remarkably unconcerned about it being on fire. The sketch ends with a fireman literally fiddling while the house burns.

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* George S. Kaufman's comedy sketch "The Still Alarm" is about a group of people in a house who seem remarkably unconcerned about it being on fire. The sketch ends with a fireman literally fiddling while the house burns. (For a MusicalGag, the tune played is "Keep the Home Fires Burning.")
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* A few days after Krexa, a former voice actress for ''VideoGame/YandereSimulator'', posted evidence accusing the game's composer [=CameronF305=] of sexual harassment and assault of both herself and another accuser at the beginning of February 2024, one of the many controversies having affected the game's development and reputation, developer [=YandereDev=] was spotted playing ''VideoGame/Persona3Reload'' on the streaming platform Kick.
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%% Explain who is the character engaging in this. * ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''. You just found out that your superior officer, whom you held hostage at gunpoint after he found an enemy soldier you were sheltering, has escaped and plans to assault your fortress in ten minutes to execute said soldier in a big display so the ongoing peace talks are ruined. What to do? Think it over a cup of tea and cake.

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%% Explain who is the character engaging in this. * ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky''.''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'': Imagine you are Second Lieutenant Filicia Heidemann. You just found out that your superior officer, whom you held hostage at gunpoint after he found an enemy soldier you were sheltering, has escaped and plans to assault your fortress in ten minutes to execute said soldier in a big display so the ongoing peace talks are ruined. What to do? Think it over a cup of tea and cake.



%%* The feast of Belshazzar in the Bible.

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%%* * The feast of Belshazzar in ''Literature/TheBible'', right before his reign violently ends at the Bible.hands of Darius the Mede.



%% * A far less tragic and more comedic example, [[https://youtu.be/PAlUniqvvfI?t=4m courtesy of Jimmy Fallon]].

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%% * A far less tragic and more comedic example, [[https://youtu.be/PAlUniqvvfI?t=4m courtesy of Jimmy Fallon]].Fallon]] reporting on a Twitter user who got caught in a burning building -- and noticed her roommate curling her hair to look good for the firemen even as smoke filled the halls.



* When Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an elderly woman decided to show her defiance by playing the piano during the seige of Warsaw. Thanks to her having a Germanic name, the [[InsaneTrollLogic residents decided she was a spy sending messages using her piano]] and tied her up in the basement, [[{{Irony}} which saved her life]] when her home was destroyed a few hours later by German artillery.

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* When Nazi Germany invaded Poland, an elderly woman decided to show her defiance by playing the piano during the seige siege of Warsaw. Thanks to her having a Germanic name, the [[InsaneTrollLogic residents decided she was a spy sending messages using her piano]] and tied her up in the basement, [[{{Irony}} which saved her life]] when her home was destroyed a few hours later by German artillery.
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* ''Fanfic/TheChaoticMasters'': The Monkey King at one point reminisces about how he and Sonata shared their first kiss while dancing in the ashes of the Forbidden City as the Huns sacked it.
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* In ''Literature/AltinaTheSwordPrincess'', Johaprecia had the Emperor host a party with wild abandon while a war was going on just outside, and convinced the Emperor and a second concubine of indeterminite gender to simply not care. [[spoiler:It gets her killed]].

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* In ''Literature/AltinaTheSwordPrincess'', Johaprecia had the Emperor host a party with wild abandon while a war was going on just outside, and convinced the Emperor and a second concubine of indeterminite indeterminate gender to simply not care. [[spoiler:It gets her killed]].



* In ''Comrades of War'' by Creator/SvenHassel, in a luxurious restaurant constructed in an underground bunker, high-ranking officers and Nazi officials enjoy unrationed food and wine while a firestorm devastates Hamburg.

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* In ''Comrades of War'' ''Literature/ComradesOfWar'' by Creator/SvenHassel, in a luxurious restaurant constructed in an underground bunker, high-ranking officers and Nazi officials enjoy unrationed food and wine while a firestorm devastates Hamburg.

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