Season 6 ~ Episode #31 - - - The Unspoken Rules of Personal Space

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on August 25, 2014 at 10:52am

Today's discussion on personal space gave me a flashbacks of the One Direction Caption Fail video (and an opportunity to recycle some of these things instead of creating new)

 

Permalink Reply by Christina Bohbeena on August 25, 2014 at 11:33am

(crowds chants) Kiss!  Kiss! Kiss!

Permalink Reply by Ayesha Ahmed on August 25, 2014 at 1:45pm

"Rhett & Link Kiss" good idea for wheel of mythicality !

Permalink Reply by Christina Bohbeena on August 26, 2014 at 9:44am

Audience requests a kiss where the music rises, violin section starts into Some Enchanted Evening and a breeze starts up, blowing through their hair.  Possibly an orbiting arc POV on the camera.  Tell me I am wrong!

Of course, that means the series has Jumped the Shark, doesn't it?

Permalink Reply by Christina Bohbeena on August 25, 2014 at 11:35am

Also, hahaha!  I had the same idea about waving fields of wheat and Rhett's hair and 'stache.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on September 5, 2014 at 11:19pm

This was a very amusing and...informative episode. Rhett was really interested in Sally!

Permalink Reply by Lilian Brandon (Tachyonic Raven) on September 10, 2014 at 1:33pm

I think my basic rule of personal space is partially dependent on the other person's height. I don't want to have to look up too far to talk to them, so the taller the person, the larger the minimum distance at which I feel like my space is being respected (in other words, minimum distance for someone my height is smaller than the minimum distance for someone 1ft taller than me). And when in doubt, if the person backs up, don't move closer again! I don't understand why some people (even really nice people) can't figure out that if the person they're talking too keeps moving further away from them, that means they're encroaching on their personal space.

K-ModPermalink Reply by Victoria (Centauromadoose) on September 10, 2014 at 3:21pm

I don't understand it either. Humans are a mystery.

I generally agree on the space increasing if you have to look up farther to make eye contact with a person...although given my significantly lower-than-average height, I also don't want to end up so far away from a tall person that I look afraid or that the person has a contagious disease. At some point the neck strain becomes the more socially acceptable option. :P