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Rob C

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #180 on: December 11, 2013, 06:02:30 pm »

Where's your selfie?  You know you have one.  I showed you mine, why won't you show me yours?  ???  :-*  ;D


My selfish pleasure.


http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6931460_orig.jpg

http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5783791_orig.jpg

Two for the price of one.

To tell you the unvarnished truth, ever damned shot that I do is a selfie at one level or another.


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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #181 on: December 12, 2013, 11:32:14 am »

I think we've started off on the wrong foot.
 
I am now ready to offer my unconditional, full, 120% (raberized math) support for selfies... of the following kind:

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #182 on: December 12, 2013, 12:02:01 pm »


My selfish pleasure.


http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/6931460_orig.jpg

http://www.roma57.com/uploads/4/2/8/7/4287956/5783791_orig.jpg

Two for the price of one.

To tell you the unvarnished truth, ever damned shot that I do is a selfie at one level or another.


Rob C

Cool selfies. I agree that every shot is a selfie in some regard.  It seems like we bothlike to see our selfies blurred or distorted beyond obvious recognition.
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #183 on: December 13, 2013, 04:57:47 am »

Cool selfies. I agree that every shot is a selfie in some regard.  It seems like we bothlike to see our selfies blurred or distorted beyond obvious recognition.


I can't speak for you, but for myself, there's no doubt that all later selfies have that tendency. I am more blurred as I age - both physically as well as in the mind. I don't mean that I can't understand the things I could as a younger person, just that the truth behind those understandings is no longer cast in stone, and that what seemed absolutley right and beyond reasonable doubt no longer seems that way today. Perhaps it's the accumulated weakness caused from too many external opinions crushing in on me over the years, maybe it's just that I have not the self-confidence in my own positions anymore - I can't really say, honestly, but I do feel that a general air of bemusement pervades my being these days. People that I meet regularly seem to become slightly different people depending on the day; one chap I know bought a twenty-something year-old old banger (car - not edible) for 400 euros a couple of weeks ago; it broke down on the motorway en route to the airport and has ended up costing him over a grand... why not simply dump it and cut his losses before blowing a further 600 euros? Other's drink themselves stupid and then go off the bottle for a week and think that now all is okay, that they are perfectly healthy again and, importantly, in control!, so the following week they find themselves legless again, and so the cycle continues to freewheel down the hill.

No wonder selfies might appear to be less than distinct... Miss KK might be advised to take note and buy a Softar lll. Unless she learns some technique, of course.

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #184 on: December 13, 2013, 07:51:54 am »


I can't speak for you, but for myself, there's no doubt that all later selfies have that tendency. I am more blurred as I age - both physically as well as in the mind. I don't mean that I can't understand the things I could as a younger person, just that the truth behind those understandings is no longer cast in stone, and that what seemed absolutley right and beyond ressonable doubt no longer seems that way today.


Apropos to your thoughts is the Oscar Wilde quote, a favorite of mine: "I am too old to know everything."
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #185 on: December 13, 2013, 10:12:31 am »

Apropos to your thoughts is the Oscar Wilde quote, a favorite of mine: "I am too old to know everything."

WHOOPS! "I am not YOUNG enough to know everything."
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #186 on: December 13, 2013, 02:24:40 pm »

WHOOPS! "I am not YOUNG enough to know everything."


Pretty much the same concern - but thanks for quoting: made me see that my dyslexic fingers had managed to survive an edit: ressonable, indeed!

I'm not joking: I seem to spend as much time hitting keys twice as I do thinking of what to write in the first place!

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #187 on: December 13, 2013, 02:27:53 pm »

So far only three of us have been brave enough and narcissistic enough to show our selfies to the whole LuLa world.  Maybe I should start another forum topic called..."Show me your Selfie"
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #188 on: December 13, 2013, 02:30:45 pm »

... I seem to spend as much time hitting keys twice as I do thinking of what to write in the first place!

But that must be good, no? Imaging hitting it only once, thus halving the thinking time? ;)

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #189 on: December 13, 2013, 02:38:34 pm »

...Maybe I should start another forum topic called..."Show me your Selfie"

Pssst! Just do not let (former) congressman Weiner find out! ;)

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #190 on: December 13, 2013, 02:41:24 pm »

Pssst! Just do not let (former) congressman Weiner find out! ;)

I don't know what you are worried about. It was just a head shot.
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #191 on: December 13, 2013, 02:47:03 pm »

I don't know what you are worried about. It was just a head shot.

I heard that men have just enough blood in their bodies for one head at a time ;D

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« Reply #192 on: December 14, 2013, 04:59:50 am »

I heard that men have just enough blood in their bodies for one head at a time ;D


That's why they fear heart attacks and the consequential damage... one big blood test or, worse, series of them and your number's up - or down, as the case may be and usually is. You think Dracula was an invention? He was the orginal Viagra, the self-renewing fountain of old youth. Blue blood - blue pills. Or blue books, which I believe have some sort of temporary effect as well. Ironically, I only read them when I had no need for them. Life is clearly a nonsense, a mockery of logic.

Rob C

P.S. As an afterthought: would the writing of a blue novel be a form of literary masturbation, self-titilation or desperation? All three? Would a long one be an epic?
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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #193 on: February 06, 2014, 12:48:32 pm »

Saw this selfie that goes to another level and was reminded of this thread from a while back.

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Re: More on "selfie"
« Reply #194 on: February 06, 2014, 01:29:50 pm »

Saw this selfie that goes to another level and was reminded of this thread from a while back.


I saw that and found it kind of amusing.  I know it was a foolish and insensitive thing for the girl to do, but in another way, who cares.  They body is dead.  You can't imagine the kind of insensitive things that the med school students say and do with those bodies.
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