# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/61 "2014-12-18T22:16:01Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > That would be horribly harsh, glad I never said that. [Errrr.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17988541&postcount=49) > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **CinnamonBabka** > > So when you see someone take a picture of themselves, you automatically assume that they’re doing it for selfish reasons? > [@](#): > > Originally posted by **Novelty Bobble** > > yes Or are you going to hang your hat on the word “prick?” ---
**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, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/62 "2014-12-18T22:18:27Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > No, you misunderstand: the OP really doesn’t care about selfies, except to the point that he’s said repeatedly how awful they are. But he doesn’t care about them one whit. Except that they make him angry. But he still doesn’t care about them. hmmm, but is that actually what I said? I certainly said I think they are pointless in general but awful? they make me angry? nope…not my words. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/63 "2014-12-18T22:25:46Z")
> [@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. All you people hating on the selfie stick must have really long arms and tiny heads. I got short arms and a big pumpkin head so all my selfies are of my forehead. IF ONLY I had a stick! I wonder why the OP is so upset with these 3-foot sticks but not too bothered by the 6-foot invisible force field we all must avoid while people line up a group shot of their family at the CN Tower. He must be that guy who just walks through the shot. The stick is keeping him from doing so without getting thwacked. ---
**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, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/64 "2014-12-18T22:26:47Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > That would be horribly harsh, glad I never said that. > > yes, those people are selfish and thoughtless. Even more so when they wave a stick around to do it. > > Who on earth would do that? > > considered it and dismissed it almost immediately. I use my wife as a yardstick here. A more sweet natured and forgiving person you’d be hard pushed to find. In over 25 years together she has never shied away from pulling me up my own faults. In London on the day in question she was even more pissed off than I was. Fine, remove the word prick. Care to reply again? ---
**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, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/65 "2014-12-18T22:27:22Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > Or are you going to hang your hat on the word “prick?” Well that is the bit I object to seeing as that’s the bit I never said. When I want to insult people you won’t be needing to put words in my mouth, it’ll be fairly obvious and you’ll have plenty of my own words to quote instead of inventing what you’d like to think I said. ---
**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, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/66 "2014-12-18T22:29:20Z")
I’m sorry I implied that you think people are pricks. Can you address any of the other things I said? ---
**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, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/67 "2014-12-18T22:33:39Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I wonder why the OP is so upset with these 3-foot sticks but not too bothered by the 6-foot invisible force field we all must avoid while people line up a group shot of their family at the CN Tower. He must be that guy who just walks through the shot. The stick is keeping him from doing so without getting thwacked. Fair point, if the photo taker is taking up the full pavement I will walk through the shot, if an easy alternative is available I’ll take that. ---
**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, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/68 "2014-12-18T22:35:28Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > I’m sorry I implied that you think people are pricks. fair enough > [@](#): > > Can you address any of the other things I said? In all honesty I think I have, what remains unaddressed? ---
**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, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/69 "2014-12-18T22:40:16Z")
Well, no offense to her, but for all I know your wife might be just as shortsighted and self-serving as you seem to be right now. She doesn’t make a very good yard stick for this discussion. ---
**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, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/70 "2014-12-18T22:44:20Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > Well, no offense to her, but for all I know your wife might be just as shortsighted and self-serving as you seem to be right now. She doesn’t make a very good yard stick for this discussion. OK, question for you. Do you think the people using selfie sticks without care and attention are in the wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/71 "2014-12-18T22:45:38Z")
And you’re at a tourist-y spot, getting annoyed because people are taking pictures? 😕 ---
**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, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/72 "2014-12-18T22:47:51Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > OK, question for you. Do you think the people using selfie sticks without care and attention are in the wrong? Our conversation isn’t about people using selfie sticks “without care and attention”. We were talking about how you think people who take pictures of themselves are selfish. ---
**Author:** ![Calatin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Calatin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calatin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/73 "2014-12-18T22:52:06Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > OK, question for you. Do you think the people using selfie sticks without care and attention are in the wrong? So, what is proper “care and attention” use, with respect to selfie sticks? Your posts make it seem like you are against them as a whole. Hell, you even plan on instructing your kids to walk into them. ---
**Author:** ![jimbuff314](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/32.png) [@jimbuff314](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimbuff314)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/74 "2014-12-18T22:55:45Z")
Dear **Miller** , Today I ::_heart_:: you. ---
**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, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/75 "2014-12-18T23:01:19Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > Our conversation isn’t about people using selfie sticks “without care and attention”. No, no, no. Read my original point again with care, it is exactly that. > [@](#): > > We were talking about how you think people who take pictures of themselves are selfish. No, go back and read again. those taking pictures of themselves and get in the way of others while doing it are selfish (in the general pejorative sense), those taking selfies that don’t intrude on others are not selfish (in the general pejorative sense), but their motivation for taking a selfie…most likely…is selfish (in an unpejorative sense) ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/76 "2014-12-18T23:02:39Z")
That’s not what you said here: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17988541&postcount=49](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17988541&postcount=49) ---
**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, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/77 "2014-12-18T23:03:04Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > And you’re at a tourist-y spot, getting annoyed because people are taking pictures? 😕 No, getting annoyed at people taking photos would be silly. Is that what you think I said? ---
**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, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/78 "2014-12-18T23:05:40Z")
> [@CinnamonBabka](#): > > That’s not what you said here: > [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17988541&postcount=49](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=17988541&postcount=49) Yeah, well there’s not much I can do to help you at this point. I encourage everyone to read the post you’ve linked to and see exactly what I’ve said. hint…it is exactly what I claimed I said above. ---
**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, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/79 "2014-12-18T23:10:41Z")
> [@Calatin](#): > > So, what is proper “care and attention” use, with respect to selfie sticks? Your posts make it seem like you are against them as a whole. hell no, look as much of a cock as you like, it’s what makes the world go round. Just don’t wave them around and make people dodge them or walk out into the road as you wave it around looking at the screen rather than the surroundings. Sort of basic decent human thoughtfulness. > [@](#): > > Hell, you even plan on instructing your kids to walk into them. Didn’t think I’d actually have to clarify that not everything in OP was entirely serious. My subsequent post about photographing my genitals wasn’t serious either. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573/80 "2014-12-18T23:17:58Z")
So if somebody hands you a camera and asks you to take a picture of them at some historic location, you lecture them on how horrible they are to have pictures of themselves? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/selfie-stick-user-stick-it-up-yourself/707573.md?page=5)