Did you miss the part where I clearly stated
Personally, though I’ve lost both of my parents young and both in horrendous agony and suffering (grief-tennis anyone) I don’t feel any need to review pictures of them. I know that others do (my wife in particular). Each to their own.
If you can’t filter hyperbole from fact then I suspect the pit is not for you.
You know that sometimes people take pictures so other people get to enjoy them, right?
Never underestimate the stupidity of people
Yeah, Miller, the Pit really isn’t the place for you… :rolleyes:
I suspect that taking a selfie is done far more for the benefit of the selfie taker. The clue is in the name.
Just in case it isn’t clear…I’m not against the concept of photography that contains other humans.
I got the selfie stick
I know if I can hit once, I can hit twice
I hit the baddest chicks
Shorty don’t believe me, then come with me tonight
And I’ll show you maaagic
(What? What?) Maaagic
I got the selfie stick
So when you see someone take a picture of themselves, you automatically assume that they’re doing it for selfish reasons? Do you give them the opportunity to show you otherwise? Have selfie-takers done anything to you, personally, that warrants this kind of cynicism?
I’m bookmarking this. I think it will come in very handy around this place.
I bet the OP still has a rotary phone too, amirite?
yes
what…speak to them? Are you serious?
My specific beef is with those who get in my way for purpose of taking said selfie. They deserve scorn and a withering glance.
All other selfie takers can please themselves (as I very much suspect they are)
Is selfie not just short for self portrait?
To be fair, those statements cover about 95% of SDMB postings so it is generally true for most situations.
As for the phone…no. I’m very much a technophile but the whole social media/facebook/twitter stuff leaves me cold. I think the selfie is probably part of that so no wonder that I have little patience with it.
So everyone who takes a picture of themselves is a selfish prick because a few people have wasted precious seconds by having the audacity to do so in your path, and you make no effort to verify your thought.
Have you considered that you’re the selfish prick here?
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.
In this case, there’s a more relevant Oatmeal comic.
Reminds me of my ex. Always loves to let me know how over the relationship he is.
Clearly you haven’t visited very crowded places lately, have you? I was at Disneyworld during Thanksgiving and did my level best not to take one of those sticks and put them where the Sun don’t shine.
Except that the thread / topic evolved from people who use those sticks (something I’d find really annoying, if they were waving them around without consideration of those around them) to the concept of selfies in general.
I’m sorry that people were inconsiderate toward you and your family at Disney World.
I’m still not seeing how that makes people who take pictures of themselves selfish.
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.
But she’s married to you, so clearly her judgement is suspect.