Actually, they only have one use. And Rat just found it. Well, I suppose once the end breaks off you could use them as a spear and spear some idiot selfie takers.
Selfie sticks may be a fairly new thing, but selfies aren’t- I recently came across a photo my parents took of themselves, holding my Mom’s Kodak 818 at arm’s length…..in 1938!
About five years ago I took a picture of myself (hadn’t heard the term “selfie” yet) to post next to a self-profile on my blog because I didn’t have anything but an older b&w…felt like a self-conscious nimrod doing it and the picture itself sucked. Never again.
for a split second I thought rat had made it into a fishing pole… I would not mind ‘selfie sticks’ but the word selfie bothers me. They are too lazy to say self portrait, and that is irksome.
I really don’t understand the rage against selfie sticks myself. I don’t use one (or take selfies at all), but as long as the users aren’t getting in other people’s way, what’s the big deal?
Between digitized slides and digital photos, I have over 100,000 images. When I die, the photo board will have lots of pictures captioned “He was behind the camera.” Not too many of me, though. I know what I look like and the fact I took the picture is proof I was there.
halfwits, nitwits, dimwits, imbeciles, morons, nincompoops, ignoramuses, simpletons, twits, and drooling dunderheads……. tsk, so many descriptive terms for Democrats………..
The real world got out ahead of the cartoonists, this time. Google “selfie stick self defense” – there are classes in it now! (Does the TSA really allow these through security?)
BE THIS GUY almost 9 years ago
Yea for Rat!
Sherlock Watson almost 9 years ago
Rat, you’re going to get nice presents from Santa this year, because you did a very good thing.
Templo S.U.D. almost 9 years ago
I first heard about Selfie Sticks on the Josh Sundquist YouTube channel a month or so ago. Even my local Fred Meyer store has them!
knight1192a almost 9 years ago
Actually, they only have one use. And Rat just found it. Well, I suppose once the end breaks off you could use them as a spear and spear some idiot selfie takers.
PICTO almost 9 years ago
I’m feeling left out… you forgot idiots.
nosirrom almost 9 years ago
I guess you CAN beat it with a (selfie) stick.
blunebottle almost 9 years ago
Selfie sticks may be a fairly new thing, but selfies aren’t- I recently came across a photo my parents took of themselves, holding my Mom’s Kodak 818 at arm’s length…..in 1938!
Sisyphos almost 9 years ago
Lay on, MacRat!Twenty more of your best!Again, please, sir!
dre7861 almost 9 years ago
I’m completely with Rat here! In fact I would recommend several more swats with the selfie stick for the self-absorbed idiots.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member almost 9 years ago
Mmm Hmm
mammamoonbeam almost 9 years ago
Hate selfies, do we? Methinks you guys doth protest too much! (With apologies to Yoda and Shakespeare.)
SR almost 9 years ago
Tempted to give a bunch of these away and see if anyone notices the “Free Phone” label attached to the end.
sarah413 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
@legaleagle48 they’re, they’re. Maybe it’s their, their. I forget how to properly use the worlds they’re ,their and, there.
Cameron1988 Premium Member almost 9 years ago
thank you, Rat
Guilty Bystander almost 9 years ago
About five years ago I took a picture of myself (hadn’t heard the term “selfie” yet) to post next to a self-profile on my blog because I didn’t have anything but an older b&w…felt like a self-conscious nimrod doing it and the picture itself sucked. Never again.
tom almost 9 years ago
Perhaps the only appropriate use of the selfie stick.
hdcanterbelle Premium Member almost 9 years ago
for a split second I thought rat had made it into a fishing pole… I would not mind ‘selfie sticks’ but the word selfie bothers me. They are too lazy to say self portrait, and that is irksome.
Christopher Shea almost 9 years ago
I really don’t understand the rage against selfie sticks myself. I don’t use one (or take selfies at all), but as long as the users aren’t getting in other people’s way, what’s the big deal?
ars731 almost 9 years ago
I have to be honest, I side with Rat here. I don’t understand Selfies, now if you excuse me, I have to go yell at kids on my lawn
KimSwearingen Premium Member almost 9 years ago
…and Rat has stumbled upon the best use…
dutchs almost 9 years ago
Between digitized slides and digital photos, I have over 100,000 images. When I die, the photo board will have lots of pictures captioned “He was behind the camera.” Not too many of me, though. I know what I look like and the fact I took the picture is proof I was there.
William Taylor almost 9 years ago
halfwits, nitwits, dimwits, imbeciles, morons, nincompoops, ignoramuses, simpletons, twits, and drooling dunderheads……. tsk, so many descriptive terms for Democrats………..
Caldonia almost 9 years ago
Uptight much? You gotta learn to adapt.
Kind&Kinder almost 9 years ago
“Selfie” is in the O.E.D. I believe it was word of the year last year .
Number Three almost 9 years ago
Ah yes. The best technology is the kind you can clobber people with!
xxx
abbybookcase almost 9 years ago
autograph collecting has become passe. if a celebrity won’t pose for selfies the fans can’t be bothered to talk to him or her
nathanbtlr almost 9 years ago
This Rat character has done a few cool things lately.
glowing-steak32 almost 9 years ago
Normally I wouldn’t condone with violence, but given those irritating tools…I say go for it, Rat.
markmoss1 almost 9 years ago
The real world got out ahead of the cartoonists, this time. Google “selfie stick self defense” – there are classes in it now! (Does the TSA really allow these through security?)
leopardglily 11 months ago
Oh I have so wanted to do that