[Closed] Ban the 'selfie stick'

Count me in.

Selfies are just photographs that nobody else wants to take.

Don't forget to pout..

There's only one word for selfies:

[b]Conceit.[/b]

I bought one for my CEO as a secret santa present. She loved it, hopefully enough for it to be reflected in my pay review...

[i]Selfies are just photographs that nobody else wants to take.[/i].. or look at, more importantly.

Really, you get angry over such a thing?

This issue is close to the top of my list of things to not really give a shit about... but not so close I won't pointlessly comment 😉

I feel sick even saying that phrase.

Good job you only typed it then...

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Ask if you can borrow their "Wand of Narcissus"

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-30550998 ]Apparently a 90 year old "invention"[/url]

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So it's still ok to ask a stranger to take the photo for you?

fortunately most are people doing "edits" (rather than "videos"), and replacing the sound with their favourite band.
but here in Germany the equivalent of PRS etc. perfoming rights royalty cartel blocks all vids that sound like they may contain music (or indeed "music").
so even if I do accidentally try to see such self gratification, I get a legal warning warning me that I really shouldn't bother.

Now, I don't condone the pouting, cute eyed attention whore crap that is so prevalent on FB and whatnot. However, there was a time where a person would need to seek another person out to get a photo of precious moment, say at a nice beach bar in Brazil with the missus, and as such entrusting your camera to someone unknown. If the beach is as deserted as I like them to be, there is no one to help you capture this precious moment.
For this reason, I say the selfy stick stays.
But not to for the benefit of FB, just for the photo album like.

Nah .... Brilliant invention.

As run past the Tower of London, on the way into work, I don't have to run around the person taking the photo of thier pals/family....All of them are tucked in nice and tight and I dont have to brake my stride.

I don't see a problem with it?

Not quite sure who's the bigger idiot - the person using the selfie stick or the one getting wound up about it?

I might get one now I know it's annoying 🙂

I guess it beats the old selfie of giving your camera to a random and hoping they don't run off with it. It's strange how many people you see with them though.

this has been on cameras ever since i can remember

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do we want these banned too?

All well and good if you have something to sit the camera on.

I wish people would stop putting question marks at the end of statements?

I got given one for my secret santa present. It's FAB!

Don't be such a bunch of saddos.

I wish people would stop putting question marks at the end of statements?

Would you rate that as more or less annoying than the use of selfie sticks?

Every time I see a staged arrogant photo taken using one of these moronic devices I feel angry.

Anyone want to join me on a campaign to criminalise them?

*cough* 😉

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/ukip-having-a-local-meeting#post-6604396

birky - I have to steal that!

[i]Would you rate that as more or less annoying than the use of selfie sticks?[/i]

Yes?

I can see there being a really good game at gigs, person has expensive phone on selfie stick getting gig footage, inebriated person takes half a beer in a plastic glass and launches it at said phone covering it in beer and detaching it from the stick into the feet of other gig goers 😀

I hope you're making that up about [s]people [/s] morons taking them into gigs... now [i]that[/i] would annoy me. A lot.
(birky's cartoon would be re-enacted)

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*cough*
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Pw3d

I'm flattered you log and remember all of my posts Bob. Although I won't bother explaining why your point is pointless as it's quite obvious 🙂

Tumblr's full of selfies, some of them rather rude! Be careful, there are uses of "sticks" 😆

Although I won't bother explaining why your point is pointless as it's quite obvious

You couldn't walk 5 seconds in Venice this New Years without someone trying to sell you a bloody selfie stick.
I really felt like throwing the sellers in the canal (but didn't as I'm weak and they would probably beat me up).

Don't see the problem with them myself - just something to take a selfie and get the camera a bit further from you.

Not really into selfies to be honest, although it is sometimes nice to get a pic of the Wife & I together when out and about and there's not always someone around to take a pic for us.
Might get myself a selfie stick now I know how annoying they can be!

Presumably you can get them for compacts (so, with a tripod mount), rather than just something to clamp a phone into??

@glasgowdan @wallop @globalti etc.: [i]this[/i] is what you spend your lives giving a **** about? Really? 🙂

Presumably you can get them for compacts (so, with a tripod mount), rather than just something to clamp a phone into??

Wouldn't it be easier to stick the camera on a tripod and use the timer function?
Or am I being too simplistic?

Tripods are probably next in glasgowdan's sights.

Bimbler - Member

Apparently a 90 year old "invention"

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Pffft... That is quite clearly Christopher Eccleston, presumably while he was still time travelling...

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iolo - Member

Wouldn't it be easier to stick the camera on a tripod and use the timer function?
Or am I being too simplistic?

Presumably a 'selfie stick' is a lot smaller than a tripod - I'm thinking something like those extending 'aerial' pens all the kids at my school had in the early 90's.
And you don't need to set it all up, get it level, put it on the floor somewhere that someone might bump into......you can adjust the viewpoint instantly, rather than having to move the tripod etc.

I'd still have to use the self timer, as my arms would be too short to reach the shutter button when using a selfie stick.

So, a selfie stick would be easier/lighter to carry, not likely to get in the way and would allow me to shoot multiple viewpoints quickly and easily.....sounds much more convenient than a tripod......
Thanks, iolo, you've re-inforced my desire to get one now!! 😀

Even more egotistical than a selfie stick... skiing in France we saw a bloke with a GoPro on some kind of rotating selfie stick on his head so that the goPro span round and took pictures of him from all kinds of angles.

Here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rhinocg/rhino-gopro-accessories-360-swivel-and-poles-for-g

All you guys so need to...

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ive never witnessed one in use. maybe need to get out more...

What perplexes me is why this is suddenly a new thing. They've been around for ever, only they were called monopods.

I blame that Albrecht Dürer

I consider myself a restrained and quiet person, but I am beginning to feel that it's perfectly reasonable to beat someone to death with their own GoPro-on-a-selfie-stick.

Some people up there are real killjoys who don't get the purpose of a lighthearted thread... I'm not sure anyone really spends much time caring about frivolities such as being discussed, it's just banter dorks! 😉

Now, back to figuring which corporal punishments are worthy of people who use these vile objects. I do like "beat to death with their own gopro on a stick"

Had one for the go pro for ages. Just adds another shot. Plus my mrs is shit at photography, to the point I'm better taking a random guess as to where we are in the shot and doing it myself!

Presumably you can get them for compacts (so, with a tripod mount), rather than just something to clamp a phone into??
Wouldn't it be easier to stick the camera on a tripod and use the timer function?
Or am I being too simplistic?

What perplexes me is why this is suddenly a new thing. They've been around for ever, only they were called monopods.

Why do people get so wound up about things that don't affect them?

I have a selfie stick, I took it on our last holiday and combined with my wee pretend GoPro I mate a video. It's only a couple of minutes long and you know what? We actually enjoy watching it every now and then, reminds us of a happy time.

Globalti where you in morzine?

Just a hunch...

Feel sorry for those with such short arms

As always, Charlie Brooker has it spot on:

"Last year brought widespread acceptance of the “selfie stick” – a stick you clamp your smartphone into so you can take a narcissistic self-portrait at a slightly greater distance than your feeble human arms will allow. What’s odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you’ll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you’re posing in. And it’s unnecessary anyway, because if you’re the sort of person who takes so many self-portraits you’ll consider spending money on a selfie stick, it’s a cast-iron certainty that absolutely no one needs or wants to see another photograph of you ever again. Until the invention of the Selfpreciator, that is. The Selfpreciator is a quasi-sentient head-shaped device with one giant eye and a fixed grin, programmed to gaze approvingly at every self-portrait you upload while issuing appreciative murmurs and tweeting encouraging emojis your way. It’s even got its own selfie stick, so it can take photographs of itself admiring photographs of you, then email them to you, so you can ignore them while adjusting your selfie stick."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/05/selfie-stick-really-useful-inventions-ces-charlie-brooker

Bimbler - Member
Apparently a 90 year old "invention"

Is he not just pressing the button with a broom handle because there was no timer on his camera ?

Feel sorry for those with such short arms

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I got everyone in my family a selfie stick.

Handy for when you have a 6month old son/grandson/nephew strapped to your chest!

Serious question, but how does a selfish stick actually take a photo on a camera phone? On my phone you have to touch the screen....

Bluetooth

Serious question, but how does a selfish stick actually take a photo on a camera phone? On my phone you have to touch the screen....

I've never seen one, only heard of them about a week before christmas, I'm happy not to put them into room 101 or give a hedgehogs nostril about them. As for pictures of posing and pouting on facebook, surely that's like winning scrump lotto whilst having a casual look around facebook 😉

So it's still ok to ask a stranger to take the photo for you?

Only if they aren't underweight. And only if they have two legs.

Don't be such a bunch of saddos.

You do realise which forum you've posted this on don't you?

Ahh I see. Guess I'm no longer down with the kids when it comes to tech & gadgets anymore 🙁

I disagree. If it were not for these items, we would be raising a whole generation of teenage girls who were shit at impersonating ducks.

Sound of point being missed. The idea of the selfie stick is to take pictures that include not just you but also someone with you plus the background. If it was just a case of narcissism you could use the two nature-supplied selfie sticks you already have.

I had a towny weekend in London over Xmas. Every European and their dog had one on the south bank. I got walloped by one and the missus took a few hits too 🙁 im up for the ban!

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I find pics that I'm not in a bit boring so I can understand why you'd get one. On the other hand it encourages duckface and you look like a complete twonk using it so I'd never get one myself!

Give it a decade until everyone is using [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-30726865 ]autonomous selfie drones[/url] and then you'll wonder why you were so bothered about a stick.

Feel sorry for those with such short arms

legend - Member

So it's still ok to ask a stranger to take the photo for you?

Yup but there's a good chance you'll get some total fanny who can't work a modern camera, like me. "And then I touch the screen to take the picture? What wytchcrafte be thys?"

arrogant photo

A what now?