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So I guess that's it for the CEO position?
On the internet people can laugh at you forever
Posted on 03/22/2014 10:06:00 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
Sellotape selfies, aka sellofies, have spread in popularity on Facebook as the latest baffling craze for people with too much time on their hands.
Since Bradley Cooper and Ellen Degeneres sent Twitter into meltdown with their Oscars selfie, the world has been subjected to a relentless stream of copycat acts.
From Dylan Hartley and the England rugby team to the old dude with two dogs, some efforts have been mildly amusing, while others have just left us thinking WHERE WILL IT ALL END?
This latest hybrid is apparently inspired by Jim Carrey film Yes Man, but there is also evidence that the ‘Sellotape selfie’ owes its origins to this American photographer.
Either way, just in case you haven’t already seen enough selfies, here is a selection of nine people who wrapped sellotape around their face and then uploaded the evidence to the internet:
There is a precedent to this kind of activity, one that is uniquely British. As a child, I used to see tabloids of the early National Enquirer. In those days (early 60s), The Enquirer was far more raw and gruesome than it is now. It used to show lots of burn or beating victims up close, the way Mexican Media do now. There were a LOT of photos of Thalidominde deformed babies from Germany. One common feature in the early Enquirer was photos from England showing a sport called Gurnning, or the act of twisting your face into an unrecognizable knot of whiskered flesh. There were all sorts of black and white photos showing 70 plus year old men from London hoisting a beer while posing with a face that would make a Bulldog run whimpering out of the room. Maybe this is the latest incarnation of an armchair ‘activity’ best forgotten.
In a world of Poetic Justice, somebody would tell them to be careful, because their faces might stay like that! As punishment for imitating the disabled.
LOL — wonderful. This is the playful side of the innovativeness that lets us dominate all other cultures.
Applicant: Yes, well....no, not really.
long pause
So I guess that's it for the CEO position?
On the internet people can laugh at you forever
The pictures have all been male, over weight, with poor dental hygiene. What’s up with that?
More proof that IQ is declining and eternal childishness is on the rise
We did this in college while we watched The Day After in 1983 from our bunker that was made out of empty cases of Strohs pounders. These “people” probably weren’t even born then. Still it’s funny-looking.
“Hillary does not need Sellotape:”
Oh yes she does, if she plans on going out in public.
From Dylan Hartley and the England rugby team to the old dude with two dogs, some efforts have been mildly amusing, while others have just left us thinking WHERE WILL IT ALL END?
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Well, here’s a thought for the writer of this piece: Stop clicking on them and they will stop posting them.
(I have to admit that came to this thread out of curiosity because “selloselfie” is a word I had never heard of.)
Have the authorities thought to examine all online selfies for evidence of the missing MK370 flight in the background?
With all the selfies available, there should be massive amounts of airspace in the background.
That sequence is still funny.
Historic list.
I traveled out to the desert at great expense to see the Gurnning Man Festival but when I got there, all I saw were some half naked hippies rave dancing to bad techno.
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