[Lauren]

About your fake friends bit - I think it was unneeded if you actually SAID to the people "you didn't even know her" or whatever. Death affects people in different ways - and sometimes the thought of someone you know, or have seen before dying can trigger off a set of emotions about the instability of life. Fair enough, if it doesn't affect you - but imo you have no right to tell people whether they should or shouldn't be upset.

You make some good points about the credit crunch, but sometimes you blurred into general inflation, like for example, your point about cinema prices. That's just general inflation.

I've no comment about your first point because it'd be biased as I am not a believer myself.