It’s the part that you’re getting your panties all bunched up when we point out what you said, and then you say you didn’t say what you wrote on the previous page.
We understand you perfectly. It’s right there in black and white. You admitted that the question and response “So when you see someone take a picture of themselves, you automatically assume that they’re doing it for selfish reasons?” “yes.” is the factual part. You believe that people taking selfies are selfish.
There is no misunderstanding here. That’s what you said. And that is fucking insane. You admitted earlier that you don’t understand the selfie. So what makes you think you can judge the reason people take them? Why do people who are doing something you don’t understand have to be doing it for bad reasons?
You can say all you want to that people are misunderstanding you. But that’s flat out what you said. And that is a douchey way to think. Quit squirming around and just admit you said something douchey.
And also, quit going around saying how you “don’t understand something” as if that is a good thing. That’s you bragging about your own ignorance. It’s not a good thing. There are plenty of things I dislike or think are stupid, but I can understand why others might find it appealing. Pewdiepie, the most popular YouTuber, is an annoying shit, but I can understand why kids like him, as they like that annoying style of humor and like seeing people’s reactions to stuff.
That you can’t understand selfies is a problem with you, not a problem with people who take them.
That’s pretty cool and look at the bright side - no more stick!
No, read that back to yourself…slowly. There is more than one way of using the word “selfish” (as is there is with the word “ignorant”). One is factual, one is pejorative. I did point that out, at length, some posts ago.
Because it’s all about you, and not about anyone else on their own vacation having fun.
quote to me where I said anything about “bad” reasons. Remember, I just pointed out to you that “selfish reason” does not equal “bad reason” I like a nice big warm bath for selfish reasons…they aren’t bad reasons.
Nope, it is not what I said. Quote the exact douchey thing I said that bothers you, that should be simple enough for you. Remember “selfish reasons” does not equal “selfish people”.
It is neither good nor bad. I don’t understand the attraction of cruises or jazz either but people very dear to me do, it is a preference not a judgement.
yes, an absolutely accurate statement. Show me where I said I had a problem with people taking selfies in general.
For this foreigner who took pictures of poppy installations (along with her coworkers, and including some where said coworkers are seen) to show to people back home and explain the custom no, it’s not obvious why. You’d rather visitors not take notice of those of your customs which differ from theirs?
self-ish
adjective
- devoted to or caring only for oneself; concerned primarily with one’s own interests, benefits, welfare, etc., regardless of others.
- characterized by or manifesting concern or care only for oneself: selfish motives.
Synonyms
- self-interested, self-seeking, egoistic; illiberal, parsimonious, stingy.
Which of those definitions is “factual” and not judgmental?
It’s cute that you think that’s your only problem.
Just wanted to note that the OP has done the seemingly impossible – to pit, on the SDMB, a doodad that allows someone to block the sidewalk in order use their ***cellphone ***to actually ***take pictures ***(***of oneself ***no less) – and manage to have it backfire.
Pretty impressive.
When selfie drones are popular in a year or so, I’ll look forward to the youtube video of someone swatting a selfie drone out of the air with their selfie stick- and snapping photos the whole time.
And I really really hope you post the video in this thread (leading to 43 “zombie selfie” jokes). 
[hijack] What’s douchebaggy about a Bluetooth? I use mine to listen to podcasts on my phone every day, wirelessly, and I always pause it when someone speaks to me. [/hijack]
Would you two get a room already?
What?
Remembrance day events and displays of poppies etc. are typically treated with solemnity in the UK and many other nations but someone from the far east probably isn’t culturally aware of the significance. So they may pull silly faces as they take their selfies unaware that it may seem a little tacky and jarring to those who are aware.
But hey, they get cut some slack as I’m sure we all do when the roles are reversed and we put our cultural feet in it. (i.e. kissing in public in India and the like).
My daughter travels a lot by herself. She doesn’t want to hand her camera to some random guy to take a picture of her somewhere. She doesn’t want a picture of the Eiffel Tower or wherever by itself, because she can buy a postcard with a better picture.
She shares the pictures with me, and I want to see her. I want to see what she is wearing and the expression on her face. She likes to look back and remember what she was wearing, or what she looked like in Paris at twenty, or whatever.
And I was always the family photographer, so we have hundreds of pictures of my daughter and my husband on vacation, but few of us as a family and fewer of me and my daughter. I would ask my husband o take pictures and hey usually ended up blurry or with me in a rage because he just didn’t get how to take the pictures, or how to wait until we were set and smiling, or anything. In most of the pictures of my daughter and me I have a very angry look on my face because it has never occurred to him in 42 years to offer to take one.
So although my daughter doesn’t have a selfie stick, I’m ready to buy her one.
Instead of Whack-A-Mole, call it Whack-A-Snap.
Today’s Cyanide and Happiness sums up a lot of people’s feelings about selfie sticks.
Same here. I was okay with handing my cheap digital camera to a willing passerby to take a photo of me, but I’m not comfortable handing my iPhone to a stranger. I would actually love to have a selfie stick.