The 105 freeway was closed down today because a man was threatening to jump off a bridge. And while the authorities dealt with the severely serious situation at one end of the 105, Los Angeles drivers took selfies at the other.
The 105 freeway selfies raise at least one interesting question. Is there such thing as an inappropriate time to take a selfie? Earlier this week a student shared a selfie after getting stabbed. We’ve also seen selfies taken immediately after sex, selfies taken with prostitutes, and one selfie taken with a corpse.
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A selfie after sex is a flaccid thing --
Post coitum triste, not eager ding-a-ling.
Them's ma homies. The 105 is my route to work and back everyday - 15 miles - 15 minutes door to door. The usual speed is about 80-85 mph unless there is a bonehead in the fast lane. One day an SUV rolled over right in front of me, and stopped upside down in the middle of the freeway. Everyone stopped and tried to get the driver (a young girl) out, but she wouldn't open the door. She was hanging upside down and talking on her cell phone. Eventually she came out and was not hurt.
You know what? I would have been right there with those people posing.
We are communicative creatures. And oddly enough, the selfie, coupled with the holdup, provided a good enough excuse for people to congress.
Unless I'm missing something, I think that's wonderful.
The selfie with the corpse is where I draw the line. that's going over the top.
I think you can see would be jumper, atop the fence.
Maybe they lined up the wrong way?
But then how could they prove the circumstance birthing the foto, if they didn't include him/her in there?
I guess, distance comes into play here. They are far enough away.
Point of order:
"Selfie" is a term chosen to describe the phenomenon that arose with the advent of widespread cellphones with excellent cameras with the ability to upload immediately wirelessly to online social sites, a few designed specifically to receive such photographs.
Where the person takes their own photo proving their existence at some excellent spot at some excellent moment in time with some other excellent person or interesting or at least famous person , or perhaps a cute puppy.
They're all closeups. The camera can be no more than arm's length away.
if otherwise, say a camera on tripod with timer taking a group photo, well, although about "self" that is just a regular photo, and not a proper selfie.
This is my detour mination and I'm stuck in it.
But Chip the internet says this is a selfie.
How can I disagree with the internet ;)
Vanity.
re Chip's statement, the effing media is so effing effed up they can't use a newly coined word correctly.
The selfie with the corpse...what were the circumstances? I have a guess.
sigh, smh.
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