Stick death theater6/1/2023 ![]() I appreciate your tact, Newport, but selfie stick users don’t always respond to subtlety. ![]() The Newport Folk Festival is taking a kinder, folkier approach by gently suggesting that participants leave their sticks at home and not issuing a full ban. Music festivals such as Coachella and Lollapalooza have banned selfie sticks. The answer is invariably no, and then the narci-stickers hoist that silly pole back into the air. I’ve even tried to curtail the trend by asking couples if they’d like me to take their picture so they won’t need the selfie stick. Or maybe I could start a selfie stick buy-back program and use them to do some good in the world, such as build shelters for homeless porcupines or launch free fencing classes in schools across the country. I have fantasies of snatching the sticks out of people’s hands and tossing them into Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung volcano. I could claim that selfie sticks are potentially dangerous to works of art in museums, or could be used as weapons at rowdy sporting events, but I’ll simply say what everyone is thinking: Ban selfie sticks because they look ridiculous and they’re distracting. Wang Zhaowang Zhao/AFP photo/Getty Images China will create a "blacklist" of its tourists who behave badly overseas, state-media reported, after several embarrassing incidents involving Chinese travelling abroad.
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