Yet that laughter, which makes us feel superior, also hides envy and a bit of shame, mostly at the fact that we're watching, but also because it looks as though they're having such fun.
Now we have to feel something about the photo, be it envy, happiness, the need to say something happy about it to hide our envy, you know the drill.
But her comic masquerade does little to hide the envy she feels for most of the things she mocks.
Flicking to an Israeli television channel showing a street carnival, one Iranian scientist could barely hide his envy while another muttered: "Purim deniers".
Mexican envy at the hoop-la surrounding Brazil, its Latin American rival, has reached a pitch to which only a psychoanalyst could do full justice.Look more closely, however, and Mexico has hidden strengths.
Evidence suggests that people who feel envied often hide their positive qualities and avoid appearing too successful.
So, if Mary and her sister, Kate, were rivals for Henry Sr.'s courtship, then Kate, if she "felt a twinge of envy," must have "hid it well".
Regarded as a strong emotion, envy is hard to hide or change once it arises (Parrott and Smith, 1993).
(FriendFeed envy, perhaps?) You can hide the counter telling you how many posts are unread, in case that just makes you feel like you can never keep up with everything.
