I doubt anyone cares if you’re just listening to something. Mr. Self-Important Business Guy kind of ruined their image when you might encounter him yapping away nonstop on his “Jawbone” or other such device at the store, in the restroom, on the bus, in the airport, etc.
Do her a favor and buy her a decent camera instead. Something with a zoom that starts at 24mm should allow her to sufficiently selfie.
I thought it was short for “self-centered” or “self-obsessed”.
My husband and I were at a fairly nice (and crowded) restaurant on Saturday and there was a group of older people at a table near us. Suddenly one of the ‘gentlemen’ pulled out a selfie-stick and started taking pictures of his group while the rest of them oohed and ahhed over the new technology. In that situation, isn’t it just easier to get the waitstaff to click a few pix for you?
Selfies are for an audience, not just for the person who made the picture.
Have they ever used animation inside a frame like that before?
I’m sure they are distributed to an audience. I wonder what proportion of that audience actually want to see them.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about your posts…
But then I don’t claim my posts in on the SDMP are for anyone’s amusement but my own. Read the thread or don’t, respond or don’t. As a great person once said…meh.
It’s animated gif week.
Bingo. I’m quite impressed that he took an idea that should’ve have been a slam dunk and managed to sell me the opposite view. Thank you OP.
Because bothering busy waitstaff to snap a picture that you can take on your own (with a gasp selfie stick) makes you a big douche. Not bothering the waitstaff is the less entitled way to act.
I’m finding that selfie sticks are actually more considerate than other options. I don’t bother the waiters or strangers. And the space I take might even bit slightly less than asking a person to take my picture.
Can someone recommend a good selfie stick? This thread has sold me on their virtues.
This is exactly the way I felt yesterday when swamped by several hordes of Asian tourists, all armed with selfie-sticks. Gave me Korean War flashbacks, and almost made me perpetrate a hate crime or three. 
You are welcome. What people seem to missing is the only thing I complained about was people using them in a way that inconvenienced other people. This being the internet of course, what was actually said takes second place to what people think was said.
For instance
I agree wholeheartedly with, and what’s more…
I can fully support, however…waving it around oblivious to those around you and making people avoid you (i.e. the bit I was actually complaining about) is not considerate behaviour. Therefore I reserve the right to brand such people as “dicks”.
I certainly did comment that people taking selfies look ridiculous and that using selfie sticks only moreso. Again this being the internet people seem to want to believe that this makes me some sort of misanthropic, sociopathic monster. t’was ever thus.
The possibility of thinking someone looks ridiculous and yet bearing them no ill will, nor thinking them a bad person, is too difficult to contemplate for some. I was at a theme park recently and saw quite a few teenage children (and some grown ups) walking round in patterned “onesie” type pyjamas. I thought they looked ridiculous, I’m on a skiing holiday at the moment and the various get-ups you see are enough to frighten the horses.
None of that is a judgement on the person themselves but again, this being the internet, people really, really want to believe it is.
Are you kidding? Some of the very first selfies captured the most solemn events you could possibly imagine. Like the crucifixion of Jesus. (The rubbernecker on the right is the artist himself, Francisco Zurbarán.)
At least he didn’t do “rabbit ears” (on the final version anyway)
Duck face woulda lightened the mood.
People have been engaging in self-gratifying annoying behavior with cameras at restaurants since long before the advent of cellphone cameras.
I recall in particular a guy with an expensive-looking SLR at the next table in a semi-upscale restaurant who decided it was a good idea to get up and take about a dozen flash photos of his dinner companions. Yes, I greatly enjoy the semi-paparrazzi experience whenever I eat out at a nice place.
Here’s hoping that cheap portable surface-to-air missile technology keeps up with consumer drone camera technology.
I think it all comes down to whether you think either:
is more important to you.
Enjoying the attraction? Take a picture of it.
Want to tell someone “look where I was last weekend”? Take a selfie.
Made me think of this topic
If it’s a 6-foot invisible forcefield then you can walk through it. I’ve often done it after waiting for a bit. In certain locations, like on the middle of Tower Bridge, I just walk on because the pathway is fucking narrow and it is a major pedestrian thoroughfare.
As a tourist I accept that people walking in front of me might happen. Maybe I’ll get a great shot by accident, maybe it’ll just be my friend and the back of a stranger’s head plus a bit of the setting. It’s just a memory of us being there, not an entry to best ever tourist photos from an obvious angle.
Selfie sticks, however, actually stop people from passing. It’s like bringing a tractor to a motorway. On Tower Bridge due to the narrow walkway they’re a fucking nightmare.
There’s an old moral/legal concept of “what if every0ne does it?” when evaluating behaviors. This seems to be an example of why things get prohibited.
