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  • 13-08-2016 7:41pm
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    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭


    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.


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    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭gifted


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


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    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    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


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    Ericdravancrow
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 147 ✭✭Ericdravancrow


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


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


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    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    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.


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    Roger Mellie Man on the Telly
    Registered Users Posts: 1,097 ✭✭✭Roger Mellie Man on the Telly


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


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    Story Bud?
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    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.


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    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    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


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    eeguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,478 ✭✭✭eeguy


    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?


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    #11
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Crass behaviour....


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    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    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 ..............


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    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Pathetic, shallow and very vain.

    One of the big downsides of social media.


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    Stigura
    Registered Users Posts: 3,413 ✭✭✭Stigura


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


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    ScumLord
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    Burial. wrote: »
    Bringing a selfie stick into a Jacuzzi,
    That's open to misinterpretation, apparently it doesn't mean show up naked.


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    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


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

    Follow me on:
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    gifted
    Registered Users Posts: 4,863 ✭✭✭gifted


    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...


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


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


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    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    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?


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    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.


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    #21
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Your Face wrote: »
    That will ruin the site.

    Why?


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    XxMCRxBabyxX
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 7,439 Mod ✭✭✭✭XxMCRxBabyxX


    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.


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    #23
    Your Face
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    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.


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    #24
    Keane2baMused
    Registered Users Posts: 1,576 ✭✭✭Keane2baMused


    #nomakeup #healthkick #paleo #detox


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    #25
    andekwarhola
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    Get over it.


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    #26
    Sue Pa Key Pa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,060 ✭✭✭Sue Pa Key Pa


    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


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    #27
    Junkyard Tom
    Registered Users Posts: 10,117 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    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?


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    #28
    Story Bud?
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,043 ✭✭✭Story Bud?


    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.


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    #29
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    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.

    Follow me on:
    Twitter
    Instagram
    Snapchat
    Facebook
    Wordpress
    Youtube

    What, no FriendFace?


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    Collie D
    Registered Users Posts: 11,310 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    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.


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    #31
    Omackeral
    Registered Users Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    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.


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