"planking"

[Contratrombone64]

I'm always glad to learn new words. Today's new word for me is "planking". (noun, where someone lies horizontally in dangerous positions and then takes photos and boasts about it in social media web sites).

All very good until you fall off a 7 storey building an die ... although, as this does clean the gene-pool, can't be all that bad, eh?

 

[teddy]

Should be called plonking. after the mentallity behind it.

teddy

 

[Contratrombone64]

Sadly, it's wiping out our late teen-early twenty lads (not all of whom are idiots, I imagine).

 

[Dorsetmike]

Sounds about on a par with tombstoning, leaping off cliffs into water - and hoping there is enough water covering the rocks.

 

[Contratrombone64]

Mike - sadly, young lads are fearless. I was, too, but not to the point of suicide.

 

[Dorsetmike]

I think this shot depicts tombstoning rather well, I know the chap who shot the sequence, he was having a picnic lunch when he caught the action.

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/06_01/TombstoneSWNS_468x526.jpg

 

[Corno Dolce]

Wouldn't it be better with just "waterboarding"?

 

[marval]

Should be called plonking. after the mentallity behind it.

teddy

I agree Teddy, plonking is a much more apt term. Why anyone would want to risk their lives planking and tombstoning is beyond me.


Margaret

 

[Mat]

I'd only just found this thread and went online to learn more about this "phenomenon". Here's one of the clips I came up with. And, if you're on Facebook, you can join what appears to be a fan page of some sort. Yet another proof that human stupidity is limitless.

 

[teddy]

Its a shame youtube and facebook are being used to promote these activaties. It encourages people to comit more and more foolish act for their 15 minutes of fame

teddy

 

[Contratrombone64]

Youtube and facebook ARE used because it's about people communicating ... no point blaming a website. It's the idiots that share that are at fault, don't you think?

 

[Mat]

 

[teddy]

Yes, definitely plonking Mat

teddy

 

[marval]

Oh dear Mat, what an idiot she is. I hope she did not have her Sunday roast in there at the time.


Margaret

 

[Contratrombone64]

Ah, a perfect example of a tiwkcuf getting her just desserts (where they cooked I wonder?)

 

[Corno Dolce]

In Stockholm, Sweden, "planking" is the nomenclature used to describe those who leap over the turnstiles in order not to pay for using the Metro/Subway/Underground transit system.

 

[teddy]

This is my idea of an action sport.

teddy


http://youtu.be/dBrxQD2ZBUg

 

[Mat]

So, you're into extreme sports?

 

[teddy]

As long as it involves laying down. Preferably with wine

teddy

 

[Contratrombone64]

Laying down and wine don't go hand in hand in my book at least, too prone to spillage, which is criminal.