The Mirror Picture

Some call it the "Myspace Mirror Shot," Some call it, just the "Mirror shot."  I call it stupid.  What it is... is easy - someone feels the need to take a picture of them self - right now - and they are alone.  They take a camera - or more recently a camera phone look in the mirror and hold it to their side and take a picture.  See the example to the right. 

This mirror picture runs rampant in the online dating world - especially in those free sites that I prefer (because as many of you know - I'm a cheap ass!).  I'm not really sure how man could possibly think that taking a picture in a mirror is sexy. Especially with a background of a bathroom.  Because you know nearly 95% of these pictures are taken in the bathroom with a background of a shower/toilet or some other strange bathroom background.  It's just not hot.  

Even worse, is the guy who takes the picture with  the flash half obstructing the view of this face.  (I particularly like this picture where the mirror is so dirty that the flash highlights all the nasty spots and further distorts his face!)  When you can barely see the guy's face how are you able to discern if you like the way he looks or not? 

Then, there is the guy who takes the picture shirtless - trying to show off his "assets".  Just annoying. 

I often wonder why this all bothers me so much.  It's really just another picture.  I think it comes down to one thing - laziness.  I have to say that the majority of the pictures I have seen are with a digital camera - you know the ones that have a setting with a timer.  That wonderful setting will allow you to set the camera on a solid surface - walk away and within seconds the camera will take a picture - all you have to do is stand in front of it - you won't look like such a douche bag taking a picture of yourself.  On the other hand, it also looks like you aren't serious enough to have "real" pictures.  It looks like you just walked into the bathroom, snapped a picture, and then posted it online.  How many people do you know that don't have pictures of themselves by themselves or with others?  If they don't have those pictures - isn't that a little iffy? 

Now after this ragging on men - I must be fair...  Women are NOT immune to this mirror picture disease.  In fact - women are just as bad.  These bitches out there are taking pictures half naked, naked, etc.  It's embarrassing.  What are they thinking.  Wait, I know what they are thinking - and it's embarrassing!  Again, don't people understand that it would be a hell of a lot more sexy if they weren't holding a freaking camera?  Umm yeah....

*** FYI, all pictures obtained for this posting were obtained through google!  So these dumb asses have made these pictures available to the world through the world wide web ***