Assuming we quietly skirt around genuinely bad things like weapons of mass destruction, FGM, and the career of Piers Morgan, there is little else worse in this world than a selfie stick.

Selfie sticks are the physical manifestation of much of what we despise about 21st century culture, and it’s narcissistic obsession with the shallowest, most superficial version of ones self.

At this juncture, we stress that, conversely, we’re all for POV poles, which are essentially the same thing, but used by action sports sorts to film themselves on runs, and not by mindless tourists taking pictures of themselves outside of Nando’s in Bradford, all in the name of gaining Facebook approval from people called friends but, let’s face it, share as much mutual love for you as a dog does with a lamppost.