What the Flipping fuck is "Planking" and why people die from it?

[Bells]

What the hell Australia/...? (http://www.mail.com/int/video/topvideos/421252-man-dies-planking-australian-building.html#.1258-stage-subhero1-1)

So, here is a internet Craze, you lay flat on your stomach over something dangerous and take a picture... that's Planking.

So, it's like Parkour for lazy fuckers.

http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2011/05/12/article-1305201637955-0C0568B100000578-987017_466x310.jpg
http://www.nypost.com/r/nypost/2011/05/15/news/photos_stories/plank163540.jpg
http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/PlankingAustralia-Post.jpg
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/4787129.bin?size=620x400s

...seriously, what the hell people? Can't you find something else to do?!

[synkr0nized]

I'm willing to bet that this wouldn't be half as interesting to those doing it if they couldn't post the pictures online so easily. Even just a few pics of people laying still like here in this thread is kind of funny, but if anyone hanging out with me was like, "Wait, let's go planking" I would probably push them out of my car or just leave.


It also sounds like a made-up pass time from, like, Robot Chicken or some shit.

[Aldurin]

This is stupid, that is all.

[Bard The 5th LW]

This is seriously a thing?

Best to just ignore it. Let the lemmings drown, injure themselves, or just waste their own time.

[Aerozord]

also betting half of it is photoshop

[Shyria Dracnoir]

This is Australia, that is all.

Fixed it for you

[Flarecobra]

Yeah... that was kinda... well.. derp.

Couldn't one fake them with some decient makeup, some wigs, and a store manakin?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

No, the mannequins would have too much common sense to agree to it.

[Magus]

I'm disappointed. I thought this was that sport where people nail their ears to a plank like on that Jackass-rip-off show with the Finnish guys.

[Jagos]

Uhm... Guys and girls?

This shit started in Asia...

Link (http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/taiwan-face-down-on-the-streets-girls.html)

What are the odds that these guys saw that and decided to copy it?

[Fenris]

I think that it's actually pretty interesting. It's a lot like geocaching except instead of finding a silly thing it's like finding a silly location.

I would never do nor have the desire to do this, but people who want to go out and lay down on rocks can goddamn go out and lay down on some goddamn rocks.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Uhm... Guys and girls?

This shit started in Asia...

Link (http://www.chinasmack.com/2011/pictures/taiwan-face-down-on-the-streets-girls.html)

What are the odds that these guys saw that and decided to copy it?

Most strange fads usually start from there.

[Magus]

Also, geocaching is a silly word.

[Nique]

Also, geocaching is a silly word.

Would you prefer the term 'Global Hide & Seek'?

Come to think of it, I would!

[Aldurin]

I actually found a geocache on accident once. I was visiting a desolate landmark with my family that we always liked to go to before and we found the container under a boulder. It was pretty cool.

[Bells]

Also, geocaching is a silly word.

What?! It's a great Pickup Line...

I got a Geocache for you... right here *point at crotch*

C'mon! That's golden, cause you say stuff like Geocache and ladies who are on Wine Country (it started in another thread, i'm keeping this as a thing) may think you are really really smart.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

What?! It's a great Pickup Line...

I got a Geocache for you... right here *point at crotch*

C'mon! That's golden, cause you say stuff like Geocache and ladies who are on Wine Country (it started in another thread, i'm keeping this as a thing) may think you are really really smart.

I don't know Bells, I'm not really feeling that one.

[Premmy]

That's what she said?

[The Murderer]

Wait when did this thread go from where planking came from to Geocache being a great pick up line?

[Shyria Dracnoir]

The NPF: Where thread topics shamble around like Seil on Friday night.

[The Murderer]

Ya, i think i'm beginning to understand why theres a seil tag...

[Aldurin]

When we get a lack of good general threads we encourage Seil to drink so more.

[TDK]

What?! It's a great Pickup Line...

I got a Geocache for you... right here *point at crotch*

C'mon! That's golden, cause you say stuff like Geocache and ladies who are on Wine Country (it started in another thread, i'm keeping this as a thing) may think you are really really smart.

I've discussed with some of my friends who geocache that it'd be a great way to meet a woman.

"I was hunting around in the woods...The reflections off the water were driving my gps crazy. The sun was going down. I heard wolves howling in the distance. Then suddenly, I looked up and saw it. A camouflaged ammo container among the roots of an old oak tree on the bank. I jumped over a fallen log and reached for the latch, only to have my fingers touch another person's hand...And that, kids, is when I looked up and saw the woman who would become your mother."

[Seil]

http://www.forumup.eu/images/smiles/Drunk_Emoticon.gif

[Fenris]

Wait when did this thread go from where planking came from to Geocache being a great pick up line?
Here:

What?! It's a great Pickup Line...

I got a Geocache for you... right here *point at crotch*

C'mon! That's golden, cause you say stuff like Geocache and ladies who are on Wine Country (it started in another thread, i'm keeping this as a thing) may think you are really really smart.