I think perhaps he should scale back on the spinach.
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Man fatally hit by Amtrak train while taking selfie
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Keep in mind, people used to be willing to pay a ton of money to skilled artists and sit for hours to have a good picture of themselves. Selfies are just that, except now available to everyone easily.
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Yes, and it is perfectly understandable why someone might want a photo or a painting to mark some important stage of his life or his family. People used to have one or two such pictures, then a handful...fast forward to today, when seemingly no moment in your life is too damn trivial to memorialize, or too damn important to interrupt with a selfie.
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My wife and I are very anti-selfie. We only do it once in a while, and typically only at home or the beach, as we've been there dozens of times. If we want to commemorate something, we have someone take a picture. We only do it now because the baby loves seeing herself in the camera, and the faces she makes crack us up.
We almost didn't have a photographer at our wedding, but the photog talked us into it (she's a friend). We're glad she did now, because the photos were amazing. The two of us have never been big on taking pictures. Kind of distracts you from the moment.
Off-topic, a bit: I saw the movie Clueless in a theatre when it was released, and the audience laughed at the way Cher was always chatting to her friends on her cell phone. Cell phones weren't common back then; it was a marker of her rich-girl status that she not only had one, but was constantly using it in a very casual way.
I was thinking about that recently, that younger people watching that movie now will miss the fact that that was meant to be amusing, because it's no longer something that's funny to watch. Now everybody does it.
You're right. I haven't seen the movie in ages, but I remember how that was used to make Cher and her friend look amusingly spoiled. Now, the more likely reaction younger folks would have is "ha -- look at that old-fashioned phone!"
To go further off-topic -- but isn't it appropriate to derail a thread about a train accident? -- I told one of my little nieces that when I was a little girl, we only had one phone for the entire house, and it had a curly cord attaching the handset to the base so you couldn't move more than six feet while you were talking. She stared at me and said, "Why?"
I don't think she's old enough to hear about party lines yet.
I'd ask why, too. If you wanted to move more than six feet, there were plenty of phones with longer cords.
The phone cord at my grandmother's stretches across two rooms.
I'd ask why, too. If you wanted to move more than six feet, there were plenty of phones with longer cords.
The phone cord at my grandmother's stretches across two rooms.
Ah, these new-fangled inventions. Next you will tell me it had buttons to push instead of a dial.
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After showering this morning I saw my reflection in the big bedroom mirror, and was tempted to take a full-frontal naked selfie. I figured I'd send it to everyone I know, as a gentle reminder to appreciate the little things in life.
But then I thought to myself, "Naaaah".
But then I thought to myself, "Naaaah".
As to the OP:
"Think of it as evolution in action." - Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
"Think of it as evolution in action." - Oath of Fealty, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
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I collect pocket rocks to memorialize important events, They are distinctive smooth stones I find at the locations. One of these days I will fall into a pool and their weight will carry me to the bottom of the pool where I will drown.
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