# Selfie Stick user, stick it up yourself! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573 "2014-12-18T15:14:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![bobkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c67d28/32.png) [@bobkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobkitty)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/21 "2014-12-18T17:22:01Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > You’re either lying or a shitty person. Take your pick. These things are not necessarily mutually exclusive. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/22 "2014-12-18T18:33:27Z")
Is it just me that doesn’t like appearing in my own photos? Whenever I go out, I never feel the need to take a picture with my ugly mug grinning like an idiot in front of some landmark. I get behind the camera and take a picture of what I want to have a picture of. I don’t need pictures of myself, I know what I look like. I want pictures of things I won’t get to see or things that are rare and unique, my face is none of those things. Most of my vacation photos do not have me in it, but that doesn’t reduce the memories of the things I did take pictures of. And I cannot conceive of a situation where I’ll have to prove I was at someplace. Maybe everyone who takes selfies are afraid they’ll be accused of murder someday and need an alibi ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/23 "2014-12-18T19:03:11Z")
> [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](#): > > Do you also have this weird hate for people handing someone their camera to take their picture? No, that’s good. When people hand me their cameras to take a picture of them, I run off as fast as I can. Just the other day I wound up with a really nice Nikon that way. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/24 "2014-12-18T19:12:29Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I know they have and I’ve never understood it. > > “look here’s me in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!” > > Yeah, I kind of assumed you were there seeing as you took the photo. I don’t need confirmation of that. If I’ve forgotten what you look like I can see you here in the room or when I next bump into you. What I cannot easily see is the tower > a) because I’m unlikely to visit Italy any time soon > b) because you are spoiling the photo by “holding” up the tower in a “wacky” way. > > So it isn’t a hate, more an intense irritation mainly due to one persons desire to take a photo making them a nuisance to me as I try to merely trundle on by. If it were infrequent I wouldn’t care, when it is constant and intrusive it annoys me. > > And no I don’t like it when people hand me their camera to take a photo of them. I take a shitty one just to get my own back, if it has voice tagging I turn that on and stage whisper “this was just after we had a four-way sex session with that lovely Dave and Maria we met on the coach trip”. If their attention is distracted (again I use the kids) then I’ll also take a surreptitious shot of my genitals as well, just a little treat for them. Me am SDMB member! Me no understand and me no like normal human customs! Why take picture of meself at interesting place? It make me angry! Also, me hate sports and no understand why anyone do anything that me no like to do! Me think something wrong with others who no have my preferences! ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/25 "2014-12-18T19:14:37Z")
I don’t take selfies, but I must get one of these selfie sticks and start. Provoking the irrationally self-righteous is something of a hobby of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/26 "2014-12-18T19:17:54Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Love, hate, or indifference, I don’t think anyone can honestly deny that using a “selfie stick” (which I saw for the first time on a recent trip) makes you look really fucking stupid. Yeah - if you want to look cool, use an [iPad](http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-taking-photo-with-ipad-oblivious-to-how-badass,33482/). ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/27 "2014-12-18T19:40:55Z")
Megatron agrees selfies are retarded and I agree with Megatron that the selfie generation is disappointing. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/M5rpbCQlo6Q/hq2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCOADEOgC8quKqQMcGADwAQH4AcgBgALoAooCDAgAEAEYZSBZKFMwDw==&rs=AOn4CLCvHo6d0eQtghL_DwCPDlx8t5YLWg "Megatron Speaks the Truth") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5rpbCQlo6Q) ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonBabka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/28 "2014-12-18T19:46:34Z")
I find it funny that people think I’m the worst kind of self-important asshole who is unable to live in the moment because I took a picture of myself at a football game and sent it to my mom. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/29 "2014-12-18T20:13:02Z")
I think vacationing people get a total pass on the selfie. It’s people taking a photo of themselves just everywhere, especially in their own bathroom that are doing ‘selfies’. Vacationing people are just taking vacation photos. Now I don’t like appearing in photos, that is why I took up photography, to be on the other side of the camera. But I don’t like a vacation photo of a building without a person that is traveling with me in the shot. I’m documenting my trip and who I was with not just what I saw. Now this part of the OP > [@](#): > > If you are going to use a selfie-stick and force people off the path and into the road you might at least do it for something less frivolous than the Tower of London poppy installation. You are a tourist of far-eastern origin and may not understand the relevance but…it just seems rather tacky. Is the fact that they were 'far-eastern origin bothering you for some reason? Only English people should be there? I wonder what your reaction would have been if the tourists were obviously German. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/30 "2014-12-18T20:13:09Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > I find it funny that people think I’m the worst kind of self-important asshole who is unable to live in the moment because I took a picture of myself at a football game and sent it to my mom. Did you use a camera on a stick? If not, you aren’t the worst. ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonBabka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/31 "2014-12-18T20:17:38Z")
I don’t think anyone could take a selfie stick into the stadium – or at least it would be more trouble than it’s worth. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/32 "2014-12-18T20:29:25Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Did you use a camera on a stick? If not, you aren’t the worst. Yeah, don’t feel bad. You’re just the second worst. ---
**Author:** ![CinnamonBabka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbce88/32.png) [@CinnamonBabka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CinnamonBabka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/33 "2014-12-18T20:32:04Z")
> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#): > > Yeah, don’t feel bad. You’re just the second worst. Well, that’s better than nothin’, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/34 "2014-12-18T20:33:51Z")
I don’t have any problems with selfies but I do think the selfie stick is retarded. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/35 "2014-12-18T20:38:33Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Is the fact that they were 'far-eastern origin bothering you for some reason? Only English people should be there? I wonder what your reaction would have been if the tourists were obviously German. You can cram that one up your arse as far as it’ll go. Maybe it’ll startle you into better reading comprehension. The reason for me mentioning their background should be evident from from my post. Had they been German I’d have thought it tackier still, it should be very obvious why. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/36 "2014-12-18T20:41:27Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Me am SDMB member! Me no understand and me no like normal human customs! > > Why take picture of meself at interesting place? It make me angry! As long as they stay out of my way, me no give flying fuck. ---
**Author:** ![SmellMyWort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SmellMyWort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmellMyWort)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/37 "2014-12-18T20:41:50Z")
On one hand, selfie-sticks seem to be the new Bluetooth ear piece as far as douchbag accessories go. On the other hand, maybe the OP hates selfies because he/she is just ugly.😉 ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/38 "2014-12-18T20:50:41Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > You’re either lying or a shitty person. Take your pick. No fair, the fallacy of the excluded middle. I don’t believe I’m saying anything that we haven’t all thought from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/39 "2014-12-18T20:53:10Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > I know they have and I’ve never understood it. > > “look here’s me in front of the Leaning Tower of Pisa!” > > Yeah, I kind of assumed you were there seeing as you took the photo. I don’t need confirmation of that. If I’ve forgotten what you look like I can see you here in the room or when I next bump into you. What I cannot easily see is the tower > a) because I’m unlikely to visit Italy any time soon > b) because you are spoiling the photo by “holding” up the tower in a “wacky” way. > > So it isn’t a hate, more an intense irritation mainly due to one persons desire to take a photo making them a nuisance to me as I try to merely trundle on by. If it were infrequent I wouldn’t care, when it is constant and intrusive it annoys me. I’ve been looking at some old pictures of my dad when he was on vacation in Spain, about ten years ago. There’s him at the aqueduct in Sevilla. There’s him at the palace in Madrid. There’s him at the old fort in Barcelona. Now, if I wanted to, I could go see the aqueduct at Sevilla tomorrow. And it would look pretty much exactly the same as it has for the last two thousand or so years. I cannot, tomorrow, go and see my dad, because he died last month. I certainly can’t go and see him before the disease that eventually killed him robbed him of the ability to walk, or thinned out his hair, or etched permanent pain lines in his face, or gave him an expression of constant exhaustion despite sleeping as much as eighteen hours a day. Really, the only thing that makes the aqueduct in those pictures remotely interesting is knowing the emotional context they held for my dad - who loved ancient history, and grew up in Spain. Seeing him there, at a place he loved, with people he loved, genuinely and unreservedly enjoying his life for what turned out to be one of the last times before his long, slow descent into the grave is infinitely more valuable to me than a pile of rocks put up by a bunch of dead Italians. Which is, I guess, mostly a round-about way of me say that you’re a fucking moron who lacks even the most tenuous understanding of human emotion and motivation. ---
**Author:** ![Novelty\_Bobble](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Novelty\_Bobble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Novelty_Bobble)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/40 "2014-12-18T20:54:14Z")
> [@SmellMyWort](#): > > maybe the OP hates selfies because he/she is just ugly.😉 That may be so, would that others displayed such self-awareness and discretion. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573.md?page=3)