Naked tai chi :)

Roslin and airlocks :)

You can clip our corners any time.

… plus the additional level [SUPER SPOILERS] that the population count would go down really quickly once they went Luddite.

Glad to hear you are (Cartesian) well.

Wintermute speaks French! Get him!

This might explain my earlier attempts to place two pieces of bread inside him/her/it.

Are you alive?

Thanks for looking into the "Nothing but the rain" thing.

I ship Starbuck and the viewer :)

"so they seemed sensitive and caring": This gets to the heart of it: It's a sort of self-centered vanity: LOOK HOW MUCH I FEEL kind of thing.

Crap… My complaint centered around DISPROPORTIONATE displays of grief, but this "meritocratic" approach to it is no less dire. ;)

It might be as simple as that, even for older people: We see that it's happened to someone, and from there it's easy to start worrying it'll happen to us, and that makes the crying much easier.

No worries.

Grandiose is a perfect word for it; point very much taken.

I hear ya. I've imagined people attending mine out of a sense of OBLIGATION. Shudder. One more reason not to do it.

It doesn't read primarily as empathy but rather as being drawn to drama.

It gets better. ::star swipe::

And either he's incompetent or he purposefully gave her an opening to try to disarm him. The editing/direction did not settle it for me one way or the other.

I don't know how common this might be in actual life, but in TV and movies I've encountered it a few times: someone unpopular dies in high school, and we see a group of students who didn't actually know the person well or like him even, and they—usually girls rather than boys—are weeping inconsolably (and sort of…