Sad Selfie

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 7:41pm #1

So I'm in the local leisure centre today, having a swim to keep my 54 year old chassis in mint condition. Lovely and quiet, the way I like it. I couldn't help but notice this woman, around 30, in the jacuzzi on her own, taking pictures of herself using a selfie stick. All big smiles and then a miserable face when she was finished.

I can imagine her sending pics to her mates with some sort of caption saying she was having a right time. I didn't have the heart to tell her phones/cameras were banned in the pool area. I don't know myself what point I'm trying to make but it was a very sureal moment for me.

gifted · 13-08-2016 7:43pm

Pics of your own chassis or get off the forum lol lol

Omackeral · 13-08-2016 7:43pm

Have you ever heard of a 'griefie'? I've bloody seen them. Person takes a pic of themselves grieving at a funeral and uploads it with hashtags like

#GoneTooSoon #RIP #SoSad

Ericdravancrow · 13-08-2016 7:44pm

She shouldn't have been taking photos in a gym/ pool full stop, hope she dropped it in the water.

Burial. · 13-08-2016 7:46pm

Bringing a selfie stick into a Jacuzzi, jees that's pathetic.

eeguy · 13-08-2016 7:47pm

Coca Cola put up a gigantic swing set at Longitude this year.

Only you weren't allowed to swing on it.
You sat on it, got your picture taken and then a security guard told you to get off and let the next person from a queue of 50 on.

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly · 13-08-2016 7:48pm

If only a 'human sausage' had floated into frame...

Story Bud? · 13-08-2016 7:48pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Have you ever heard of a 'griefie'? I've bloody seen them. Person takes a pic of themselves grieving at a funeral and uploads it with hashtags like

#GoneTooSoon #RIP #SoSad

Oh my god.

I was at a funeral last week and there was a girl taking selfies the minute we got back to the pub. It was the weirdest fcuking thing. Dolled up to the nines and a suicide victims funeral taking selfies for the day. I can't believe she's not the only one who's ever done this. I've never seen it before and thought it was so weird.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 7:52pm

Burial. wrote: »

Bringing a selfie stick into a Jacuzzi, jees that's pathetic.

Yeah, I think that's it. Usually a few yummy mummys bring their phones in (despite the ban) to take pictures of their darling Tarquin or Shareena, but the selfie stick was the thing that caught my eye, especially as she was on her own

eeguy · 13-08-2016 7:52pm

Brought the gf out for a walk a few weeks back.

She spent a few mins taking selfies, straight to instagram and snapchat, #exercise #gains, sh*te like that, then said she was cold and sat in the car for an hour.

I see the same thing on nights out, groups of women, all staring at their phones ignoring each other, then fake smiles and hugs for a selfie and back to the phones.

What the f*ck like?

Poor Uncle Tom · 13-08-2016 7:52pm

Crass behaviour....

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 7:55pm

gifted wrote: »

Pics of your own chassis or get off the forum lol lol

If the first word in my username gives the false impression that I am a lady, I apologise. However, if you insist ..............

JupiterKid · 13-08-2016 7:55pm

Pathetic, shallow and very vain.

One of the big downsides of social media.

Stigura · 13-08-2016 8:02pm

Was she pouting? If she was pouting, I'd have jumped in there and fcuking drowned her!

ScumLord · 13-08-2016 8:02pm

Burial. wrote: »

Bringing a selfie stick into a Jacuzzi,

That's open to misinterpretation, apparently it doesn't mean show up naked.

Junkyard Tom · 13-08-2016 8:02pm

We're creating a generation of narcissistic fuckwits who think every waking moment is being played out on a stage provided by social media.

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gifted · 13-08-2016 8:06pm

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

If the first word in my username gives the false impression that I am a lady, I apologise. However, if you insist ..............

Oh God...

Your Face · 13-08-2016 8:09pm

At least you got the opportunity to judge her.
That's the main thing.

Junkyard Tom · 13-08-2016 8:10pm

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

So I'm in the local leisure centre today, having a swim to keep my 54 year old chassis in mint condition.

gifted wrote: »

Pics of your own chassis or get off the forum lol lol

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

If the first word in my username gives the false impression that I am a lady, I apologise. However, if you insist ..............

.
I'd like to nominate this as post of the month.

Why doesn't Boards.ie have a post of the month award? Maybe if a nominated post gets more than ten likes it ends up on a separate monthly list and the post that gets the most thanks gets awarded POTM?

Your Face · 13-08-2016 8:12pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I'd like to nominate this as post of the month.

Why doesn't Boards.ie have a post of the month award? Maybe if a nominated post gets more than ten likes it ends up on a separate monthly list and the post that gets the most thanks gets awarded POTM?

That will ruin the site.

Junkyard Tom · 13-08-2016 8:14pm

Your Face wrote: »

That will ruin the site.

Why?

XxMCRxBabyxX · 13-08-2016 8:15pm

Omackeral wrote: »

Have you ever heard of a 'griefie'? I've bloody seen them. Person takes a pic of themselves grieving at a funeral and uploads it with hashtags like

#GoneTooSoon #RIP #SoSad

I've been sent snapchats of a dying grandmother. I believe that that is even worse than a "griefie." Selfies and snapchat, etc can be fun when they want to be but they've created a very twisted, selfish and overly public culture for some people.

Your Face · 13-08-2016 8:16pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Why?

It will make getting likes into more of a competition than it already is.
Also, on the desktop site you can see which posts got most likes anyway.

Keane2baMused · 13-08-2016 8:16pm

#nomakeup #healthkick #paleo #detox

andekwarhola · 13-08-2016 8:17pm

Get over it.

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 8:20pm

Your Face wrote: »

At least you got the opportunity to judge her.
That's the main thing.

I said it was a surreal moment, I didn't judge her, but sure you've already assessed me without properly reading my post. That would be judgi..... forget it

Junkyard Tom · 13-08-2016 8:20pm

Your Face wrote: »

It will make getting likes into more of a competition than it already is.

Tell me Your Face, tell me, how could we possibly make thankswhoring any more of a competition than it already is?

Story Bud? · 13-08-2016 8:32pm

Your Face wrote: »

It will make getting likes into more of a competition than it already is.
Also, on the desktop site you can see which posts got most likes anyway.

They already have post of the day. Given to the post with the most thanks each day.

After hours isn't included though.

Skylinehead · 13-08-2016 8:36pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

We're creating a generation of narcissistic fuckwits who think every waking moment is being played out on a stage provided by social media.

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What, no FriendFace?

Collie D · 13-08-2016 8:45pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Tell me Your Face, tell me, how could we possibly make thankswhoring any more of a competition than it already is?

Although I agree with you that the post by a Boy Called Sue was quite brilliant and worthy of a hypothetical post of the month award I'll side with Your Face.

Doing that could make the site as narcissistic as the behaviour we're talking about.

Anyway, OP should have photobombed her with his chassis and then posted the result here. And then reported her for taking photos. Not to start a gender row but if a male did it he'd be told fairly sharpish to leave and never return.

Omackeral · 13-08-2016 8:46pm

eeguy wrote: »

I see the same thing on nights out, groups of women, all staring at their phones ignoring each other, then fake smiles and hugs for a selfie and back to the phones.

What the f*ck like?

Spot on. Best thing is this; 1) They take the photo, all posey and fake looking chesire cats/demented ducks. 2) Examine it to see if it's good. 3)It's not, let's do it again.

They're literally creating false memories.

Omackeral · 13-08-2016 8:49pm

XxMCRxBabyxX wrote: »

I've been sent snapchats of a dying grandmother. I believe that that is even worse than a "griefie." Selfies and snapchat, etc can be fun when they want to be but they've created a very twisted, selfish and overly public culture for some people.

Oh I've seen this. Grandaughter goes to see granny and lovingly puts her hand in her nana's. Then *click* it's a fcuking photo for the 'Book. Gotta get them likes. Scummy.

Collie D · 13-08-2016 8:50pm

Omackeral wrote: »

They're literally creating false memories.

Great way of putting it into words. I can't even hold a fake smile for photos so this behaviour is alien to me.

Outlaw Pete · 13-08-2016 8:52pm

I refused to take part in a group selfie a while back after a meal with family and 'acquaintances' and wow be the holy. I just said I'll take a proper photo with the camera for them, which I did, but you'd swear I had just told them that I had a few people tied up in my basement. It gives this false sense that things are a way they are not. The same at concerts, fools taking photos of themselves with their back to the stage so the artist can be included. No doubt captioned on FB as 'Great gig!' but how would they bloody know, they're not even listening to the fcuking thing, just annoying everyone around them with their constant bloody inconsiderate chatter. You see, this is why I have people tied up in my basement.

harr · 13-08-2016 8:59pm

Pisses me right off...I have a friend with over 400 photos on Facebook and 90% of them are selfies and all she doing is looking for likes....this woman is nearly 40, she even gets done up just to take a selfie for Facebook ...then you have all comments telling her how well she looks and she is no looker she uses all them filters and is nearly unrecognisable in the photos...she spends most of the day in her PJ,s and only gets dressed to take a photo...
And don't get me started on the crowd that only go to the gym to take photos...

Fleawuss · 13-08-2016 9:15pm

Story Bud? wrote: »

Oh my god.

I was at a funeral last week and there was a girl taking selfies the minute we got back to the pub. It was the weirdest fcuking thing. Dolled up to the nines and a suicide victims funeral taking selfies for the day. I can't believe she's not the only one who's ever done this. I've never seen it before and thought it was so weird.

Everything is now a vehicle for infantile egotism. No wonder some people go early to their graves surrounded by such and utterly isolated by it.

Ronald Wilson Reagan · 13-08-2016 9:19pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

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JupiterKid · 13-08-2016 9:30pm

OP - I'd love to see a pic of your chassis.

Preferably full frontal, of course!

XR3i · 13-08-2016 9:36pm

you should have given her a length of wavin pipe, in case she was going herding sheep and needed to wave it at them

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 9:38pm

Collie D wrote: »

Although I agree with you that the post by a Boy Called Sue

Love it

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 9:39pm

JupiterKid wrote: »

OP - I'd love to see a pic of your chassis.

Preferably full frontal, of course!

Christ, I couldn't stomach seeing that myself

Merkin · 13-08-2016 10:09pm

What kind of narcissistic numpty loser would do that?! I mean it obviously required forward planning in that she consciously packed her selfie stick but why the fork would you be arsed?

Sue Pa Key Pa · 13-08-2016 10:16pm

Merkin wrote: »

What kind of narcissistic numpty loser would do that?! I mean it obviously required forward planning in that she consciously packed her selfie stick but why the fork would you be arsed?

She had a small towelling bag and she tucked it away when she was done

13-08-2016 10:55pm

The selfie is reprehensible because it's two levels of narcissism. First of all, you're on a social media site. This, by itself, is a narcissistic thing to do. But for the selfie sender, this isn't enough. No, they have to take their egos and lack of self esteem to another level and post pictures of themselves on these sites hoping someone will boost their ego with a like or a comment.

blueser · 13-08-2016 11:01pm

eeguy wrote: »

Brought the gf out for a walk a few weeks back.

She spent a few mins taking selfies, straight to instagram and snapchat, #exercise #gains, sh*te like that, then said she was cold and sat in the car for an hour.

I see the same thing on nights out, groups of women, all staring at their phones ignoring each other, then fake smiles and hugs for a selfie and back to the phones.

What the f*ck like?

As a former taoiseach once said; there's wimmin for ya!

Gen.Zhukov · 13-08-2016 11:17pm

eeguy wrote: »

Brought the gf out for a walk a few weeks back.

She spent a few mins taking selfies, straight to instagram and snapchat, #exercise #gains, sh*te like that, then said she was cold and sat in the car for an hour.

I see the same thing on nights out, groups of women, all staring at their phones ignoring each other, then fake smiles and hugs for a selfie and back to the phones.

What the f*ck like?

How did the gf take the " It's not you, it's me " conversation ?
:pac:

Smondie · 14-08-2016 12:30am

Just because she had a selfie stick doesn't mean she was taking a selfie...she could have been getting a better angle to take pictures of you op :eek:

Your Face · 14-08-2016 12:42am

Sue Pa Key Pa wrote: »

I said it was a surreal moment, I didn't judge her, but sure you've already assessed me without properly reading my post. That would be judgi..... forget it

You did judge her though, regardless of how you want to sell it.

sabat · 14-08-2016 12:46am

I had some time to kill in Heathrow earlier this year so I had a browse around the electronics shop; all the headphone listening posts came equipped with a mirror so you could check yourself out but no information about the actual product specs, compatibility or even a short blurb. Kinda summed up where society is going...

Pac1Man · 14-08-2016 1:19am

Your Face wrote: »

You did judge her though, regardless of how you want to sell it.

What is wrong with judging? I never understood that.

Wigglepuppy · 14-08-2016 2:22am

Pac1Man wrote: »

What is wrong with judging? I never understood that.

Indeed. And calling someone judgemental is, well, judging them.

People judge/assess others all the time. There are times people go overboard and it becomes unnecessary and unpleasant (I don't include the phenomenon being discussed on this thread though - I don't mind the odd selfie, but regularly taking numerous selfies drastically out of context in order to create an illusion is not ideal) but there is constant benign/innocuous judging going on.

Sad Selfie

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