Selfie Sticks

[Notters]

what's wrong with a tri-pod and a little remote to take the photo or ask people around to take the photo?
suppose it is easier to carry around

What's wrong with using your arm? It worked for 50 years.

 

[BBassic]

Here's what you do: throw that piece of **** in the bin and, instead of attempting to document every vaguely interesting moment of your life, live it instead. Stop filming gigs, stop photographing monuments, stop capturing the perfect sunset and just see it. With your own eyes. Enjoy it. Make a memory, don't capture one.

 

[Hampster Gull]

Some people jut need to relax, let others get on with their life and focus on things closer to home

 

[SouthCoastOwl]

FFS!!

There is nothing and I mean nothing more irritating to a New York resident than a selfie stick. Just to ensure you maximize the irritation make sure to stand halfway across Brooklyn Bridge (make sure you're on the narrowest part of the walkway on the cycle side) for about 5 mins taking as many inane photos as you can and listening to the swearing from the locals.

Ditto Paris. It's bad enough that my fellow Parisians will often stop for no apparent reason while walking along (I've rear ended two this week, oh er no missus) or block the pavement while they have a chat/fag so you have to walk in the road to get around them, but add to that the trip hazard/obstacle of tourists with their sodding sticks and it makes getting from A to B seriously fraught....I need a beer

 

[swindonseagull]

what's wrong with a tri-pod and a little remote to take the photo or ask people around to take the photo?
suppose it is easier to carry around

Excuse me old chap here is my iphone 6 (or an expensive camera)please will you stand 10 yards away and take a photo for me?

Thats the last you will see of that phone/camera....

 

[swindonseagull]

FFS!!

There is nothing and I mean nothing more irritating to a New York resident than a selfie stick. Just to ensure you maximize the irritation make sure to stand halfway across Brooklyn Bridge (make sure you're on the narrowest part of the walkway on the cycle side) for about 5 mins taking as many inane photos as you can and listening to the swearing from the locals.

What side of Brookyln Bridge is best?

 

[Beach Hut]

What side of Brookyln Bridge is best?

Make sure you do the High Line it is fantastic

 

[Lower West Stander]

What side of Brookyln Bridge is best?

Manhattan side. Its where most people are so irritation levels are highest.

High Line also recommended around 23rd where the walkway narrows a bit

 

[blue'n'white]

Was up in London over the weekend and every second tourist seemed to have one of these abominations
I suppose they have a use but they just look so embarrassing

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I just don't get it. Selfies baffle me as it is, much as I like my own glorious face I don't want it to be the focal point of every photo I take.

I know I'm there when they've been taken, I don't need to prove it by making sure I'm in all of them.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Selfie stick for a go pro - just about OK.... Just

Selfie stick for iPhone makes you a ****

 

[Arthritic Toe]

You could use it for this:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d96_1431116404
(skip to about 3 mins to avoid the build up)

 

[BigBod]

At least with a selfie stick I can read my texts...lol....really must get my eyes tested.....

 

[saafend_seagull]

In Rome now with about 500 Indians selling them haha

 

[Nibble]

Excuse me old chap here is my iphone 6 (or an expensive camera)please will you stand 10 yards away and take a photo for me?

Thats the last you will see of that phone/camera....

Always get someone Chinese or Japanese to take the shot for you, they literally don't even think of stealing anything.

 

[carlzeiss]

http://www.theguardian.com/world/20...on-kills-russia-launches-safe-selfie-campaign

 

[Bob!]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ons-was-carrying-a-selfie-stick-10370907.html

Man who was struck by lightning was carrying a selfie stick.

 

[sten_super]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...ons-was-carrying-a-selfie-stick-10370907.html

Man who was struck by lightning was carrying a selfie stick.

Even GOD hates them.

 

[Gazwag]

Here's what you do: throw that piece of **** in the bin and, instead of attempting to document every vaguely interesting moment of your life, live it instead. Stop filming gigs, stop photographing monuments, stop capturing the perfect sunset and just see it. With your own eyes. Enjoy it. Make a memory, don't capture one.

Maybe to give something tangible to look at when the memory fades in old age