... on ridiculous selfie... sticks
Sorry, but this one is a bit of a rant. So if you don't agree (and you probably won't agree) then feel free to comment as much!
So, with the lovely Sarah (my sister-in-law) the 4 of us went to London on Saturday to go Shaun hunting. It was great fun and I'd recommend it for anyone really, but it's good with children as long as they won't mind walking. (My top tip is to print the map out from the webpage, as trying to follow satnav / street maps was hard work. You can only pick up printed maps in a few locations).
Anyway... The single thing that frustrated me most, all day, was the prevalence of people blithely (see definition no 2 here) waving around metal golf clubs all over the place. Yes, a selfie stick with phone attached is pretty much a golf club. I lost count the number of times one of us very nearly got brained by a whirling ball of metal barely under control by its owner.
If you stop and watch some of these self-photo obsessed people you'll see an almost comedic performance of trying to get the phone into the right location, at the right angle, pointing at the right people, by the process of waving the stick-with-phone-attached around, up and down, in and out, trying to counter the bend on the pole created by phone. The phone appears to move around the same amount a phone does when someone drunk is trying to send a text message!
Not one single time did I see someone extend their selfie stick, use it, then collapse it again. I know that all you selfie stick owners will protest and say that you do extend, use and then collapse your stick being careful of people around you (1 has already said this to me) but this wasn't my experience on Saturday!
Why the need to be in every one of your own photos? If you're by yourself or maybe even in a couple then I can see that you might want some photo's with everyone included, but I saw repeated attempts to cram 10 or more people into 1 selfie! Just let someone else take the photo.
I think in the whole day of Shaun hunting (we found 26 out of 50 taking at least 1 photo at each) we only took 1 selfie. No stupid stick was used, just the length of an arm in full control by its owner! All the rest were taken by someone, either one of our group or by a friendly passer-by. Was the day ruined because we didn't have a golf club with us? No.
Rant over... for now...
So, with the lovely Sarah (my sister-in-law) the 4 of us went to London on Saturday to go Shaun hunting. It was great fun and I'd recommend it for anyone really, but it's good with children as long as they won't mind walking. (My top tip is to print the map out from the webpage, as trying to follow satnav / street maps was hard work. You can only pick up printed maps in a few locations).
Anyway... The single thing that frustrated me most, all day, was the prevalence of people blithely (see definition no 2 here) waving around metal golf clubs all over the place. Yes, a selfie stick with phone attached is pretty much a golf club. I lost count the number of times one of us very nearly got brained by a whirling ball of metal barely under control by its owner.
If you stop and watch some of these self-photo obsessed people you'll see an almost comedic performance of trying to get the phone into the right location, at the right angle, pointing at the right people, by the process of waving the stick-with-phone-attached around, up and down, in and out, trying to counter the bend on the pole created by phone. The phone appears to move around the same amount a phone does when someone drunk is trying to send a text message!
Not one single time did I see someone extend their selfie stick, use it, then collapse it again. I know that all you selfie stick owners will protest and say that you do extend, use and then collapse your stick being careful of people around you (1 has already said this to me) but this wasn't my experience on Saturday!
Why the need to be in every one of your own photos? If you're by yourself or maybe even in a couple then I can see that you might want some photo's with everyone included, but I saw repeated attempts to cram 10 or more people into 1 selfie! Just let someone else take the photo.
I think in the whole day of Shaun hunting (we found 26 out of 50 taking at least 1 photo at each) we only took 1 selfie. No stupid stick was used, just the length of an arm in full control by its owner! All the rest were taken by someone, either one of our group or by a friendly passer-by. Was the day ruined because we didn't have a golf club with us? No.
Rant over... for now...
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