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Don't let a selfie be the end of you
npr ^ | August 31, 20256:55 AM ET

Posted on 08/31/2025 7:15:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 08/31/2025 7:15:42 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

Why is npr still in business?


2 posted on 08/31/2025 7:16:26 AM PDT by albie
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npr has had plenty of financial support from the left all along and never needed government funding.....pbs either.

Heck, every now and then they would even brag about it.


3 posted on 08/31/2025 7:23:44 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: BenLurkin

There is never a lack of Darwin Award nominees.


5 posted on 08/31/2025 7:32:55 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: BenLurkin

Tourons go international.

Tourons: Tourists who are complete morons.


6 posted on 08/31/2025 7:33:37 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: BenLurkin

Selfies are strange.


7 posted on 08/31/2025 7:37:35 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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To: jerod
Getting a selfie is one way:

Or having an argument with your companion about driving in a wildlife preserve:

8 posted on 08/31/2025 7:39:21 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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Ouch!


9 posted on 08/31/2025 7:42:27 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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The girl in the top one might have escaped with bruises, but the bottom one...I doubt if the tiger in the one below would be deterred by a skinny Chinese guy running after it...


10 posted on 08/31/2025 7:44:32 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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Love the short videos...thanks for the laugh...Hope those idiots are still in the hospital...


11 posted on 08/31/2025 7:45:27 AM PDT by AFret. (.)
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To: FamiliarFace
It is weird-we live in a culture now where people are imaged and videoed from the moment the crown of their head appears in the birth canal to their dying moment of expiration.

Nothing goes undocumented. It is a bit creepy to me, but...I am not wholly of this era, either.

There are people who barely see life except through the viewer of a phone camera.


"If the Titanic Sank Today"

12 posted on 08/31/2025 7:49:56 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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I love those animated GIF files-I have thousands of them, I see them as little cultural snapshots of the world today! (I collect them, and have created a few myself...)


13 posted on 08/31/2025 7:51:13 AM PDT by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: BenLurkin

I’m not saying we should kill all the stupid people. I’m just saying we should remove all the warning labels and let things sort themselves out.


14 posted on 08/31/2025 8:04:38 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: rlmorel

Yeah...poor guy charged after, then, sheepishly (I sure don’t blame him) back away a bit, from the preying tiger taking his gal/dinner. 😳


15 posted on 08/31/2025 8:05:25 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: BenLurkin

I thought of it before I got to that line in the article: it does seem like a disproportionate number of these stories come out of India


16 posted on 08/31/2025 8:07:54 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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I saw a cancer warning sticker on a fishing rod Friday.


17 posted on 08/31/2025 8:19:12 AM PDT by Cold Heart (Democrats protect criminals and prosecute innocents)
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“The U.S. ranked second with 45 cases...”

And 44 of the cases were Asian tourists.


18 posted on 08/31/2025 8:22:00 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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“Groupsink”


19 posted on 08/31/2025 8:26:24 AM PDT by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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“”Last week, the Barber Law Firm released findings from its analysis of google news accounts of selfies that results in injury or death, beginning in March 2014 through May 2025.””

Glad to see that - I was going to ask if anyone was keeping track of these incidents...since they pop up now and then...For some - never again!


20 posted on 08/31/2025 8:28:28 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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