Selfie Sticks

Seen loads of them when I went to the US in September however most had GoPro's attached to them. Called them GoPro ***** :p
 
Not only did I not know these things had a name but I thought they were supposed to be a joke item, like something you'd see in the Betterware catalogue next to stuff to help old people open tins or put on their shoes or something.
 
It's not the time or place to take a 'Selfie' laughing and joking!!

It's like going to a Grave Yard and dancing a jig on someone's grave!

As I said, I lost friends in the towers! so it upsets me!

Sorry for being a sensitive about it!
 
Moses said:
What's wrong with that?! I don't have enough pictures of places I've been, and I certainly don't have enough pictures of me in places I've been - it's one of my regrets, tbh!
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I found it entirely disrespectful to see a pair of numpties gurning at a camera at such a memorial.
 
They're everywhere here,.kind of unsurprisingly. I've banned my wife from buying one. They still annoy me a little less than the people who post photos of every meal they have, which is also a big thing. I've been.sat around at meals and not allowed to start eating until all the plates have been photographed. Argh.
 
You don't need a selfie stick, or a monopod as most normal people know them as to be a narcissist.

Edit - I think they're a good idea if you want to get a picture as a couple; no need to hassle random passers by.
 
I have one, I travel around the world often on my own so I always use it, it's great and brilliant for having fun with your friends at work, it'll give a big boost to morale. I also took a selfie at the poppies and no one found it disrespectful, in fact all over London everyone was commenting on it, they haven't taken off I in the UK but they will!
 
I don't know if it's a narcissism of sorts, more the opposite. People who take selfies aren't doing it cause they love themselves imo, rather they seem to want to create a world that doesn't exist, because for the most part they aren't happy with themselves.
The typical facebook user goes out maybe one a week and has a holiday every now and again, yet the amount of images they upload of a fake reality where they keep taking pictures at dinners, and on the beach, out with friends etc etc, you'd think half of them were million jetsetters.
When others see there news feeds they get bombarded with small snippets of everyone best bits, and they get this perception that the whole world is having one massive party/holiday, when in fact your seeing 1% of peoples lives and not the other 99% that sucks.
Green with envy a lot of young people these days seem hell bent on showing the world they are doing more or being better than the person next door, rather than being selfless. The selfie in its own way is probably the marker for unhappiness imo.
 
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markweatherill said:
I think I will invent an endoscope attachment for mobile phones.
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Wouldn't sell... Most people who take that many selfies etc... have their heads so far up there already, they don't need a photo to remember what it looks like!

[cough]Kim Kardashian[/cough] :D
 
You still do!... whilst on Liberty Island 3 different couples asked my wife and me to take their pictures in front of the skyline.
 
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