Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
Knarf wrote: I think the Darwin Awards should have a special "selfie category". How to simultaneously both achieve and prevent immortality. Cheers, frank On 23 September, 2015 12:25:55 PM EDT, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com (postbox on min4est) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
I think the Darwin Awards should have a special "selfie category". Cheers, frank On 23 September, 2015 12:25:55 PM EDT, Mark Roberts wrote: >http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll > >This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do >this stupid stuff for real. > -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
I totally agree John and now we have the photo evidence to prove it. -Original Message- >From: John >Subject: Re: Selfies: The death toll (really) > >On 9/23/2015 12:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: >> http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll >> >> This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do >> this stupid stuff for real. >> >> > >I'm pretty sure people were killing themselves doing stupid stuff before >the camera-phone was invented. > >Otherwise the redneck epitaph "Hey y'all ... watch this!" wouldn't be a >cliché. > >-- >Science - Questions we may never find answers for. >Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
On 9/23/2015 12:25 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. I'm pretty sure people were killing themselves doing stupid stuff before the camera-phone was invented. Otherwise the redneck epitaph "Hey y'all ... watch this!" wouldn't be a cliché. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
A year or so ago a guy from our fair city was killed while on a motorcycling vacation in one of the Western states. The last image on the card in his camera was of the curve that he missed... -p On 9/23/2015 2:38 PM, Bob W-PDML wrote: "the 2015 death toll so far caused by selfies gone wrong is now higher than that for shark attacks, which is recorded at eight." Next time I go to the seaside I'm going to take a selfie with a shark B On 23 Sep 2015, at 17:26, Mark Roberts wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- Being old doesn't seem so old now that I'm old. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
"the 2015 death toll so far caused by selfies gone wrong is now higher than that for shark attacks, which is recorded at eight." Next time I go to the seaside I'm going to take a selfie with a shark B > On 23 Sep 2015, at 17:26, Mark Roberts wrote: > > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll > > This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do > this stupid stuff for real. > > -- > Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia > www.robertstech.com > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Re: Selfies: The death toll (really)
You never know, - maybe they are aiming at getting a Darwin award. Thank you, Mark, I've seen some of those, but I really enjoyed the last, CATastrophic image. Igor Mark Roberts Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:28:39 -0700 wrote: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
Selfies: The death toll (really)
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/22/live-grenades-bull-chases-clifftops-selfies-death-toll This is why you should learn to use Photoshop, so you don't need to do this stupid stuff for real. -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.