Samsung calls selfie stick users 'cave people'
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Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that's taken over our lives.
Samsung screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET
There are those moments in life when tiny breaths of fresh air suddenly strike and make us feel not alone.
I feel this way after hearing words uttered by Samsung in a new ad.
No, these words aren't: "We're exploring a merger with Apple." Nor are they: "We admit that smartwatches are just our way of trying to get you to look silly."
Instead, in the middle of a lament about people struggling to take wonderful selfies, Samsung says: "This is what it's come to. Human sardines packing into tiny frames, carrying around sticks like cave people."
I have long campaigned against the visual and moral blight on the world that is the selfie stick.
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Finally, a corporation admits that seeing one of its products perched on the end of a selfie stick is the equivalent of witnessing a naked hairy man urinating in your front garden, while eating one of your hydrangeas.
Once I heard these words, I found it difficult to focus on the rest of the ad. It's selling the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge's remarkable selfie-taking capability sans stick, I believe.
But I will now forever interrupt someone who's waving a selfie stick in my face, as if it's a wand of self-regarding wonder, by making grunting noises.
That's the only caveman language I know.