The new craze.... Planking...

[Dogwatcher]

Bunch of plankers.

[A Mum]

Kerry Anne even 'planked' on her show....

[A Mum]

And then there was Carl...

[heater31]

Facebook congratulations

Grow up!

We are all a master of our own destiny~!

Just for the record....
Before you go all 'anti' facebook...lol.

It wasn't started by facebook or facebook users as such.

It's been 'done' for ages by people travelling the word taking photos like this,
It's just that it's recently 'caught' on - and someone started a facebook page to display the pictures.

First I heard of it was when a NRL player did it as a celebration after scoring a try. Then triple J jumped on the bandwagon.

Just proves that people are idiots and that they don't use common sense

[A Mum]

Yes people are idiots...lol.

Interesting the poll via the 'Adelaide Now' website.

The question of should planking be made illegal:
Yes it's too risky - 41%
No it's harmless - 59%

Harmless to some - but not others it would seem.
More fights on the 'planking' facebook page than Jerry Springer with varying opinions.

But as I said earlier - some are quite funny - some are just plain stupid - it comes back to the individual and their decision making on the whole thing.
Just like getting 'plastered' and doing something silly,
Or just doing something silly for the sake of impressing your friends.

Happens on a daily basis and doesn't just involve Planking.

But in all seriousness I hope people use their brains and no one else gets killed doing this new 'craze'

[OnSong]

I guess being dead is the ultimate plank.

[Drop Bear]

Just another stupid craze to keep muppets busy.

[OnSong]

Just another stupid craze to keep muppets busy.

Grover resents this. He asks "how do you expect me to lie perfectly flat with a hand up my arse?"

[Dogwatcher]

Kerry Anne even 'planked' on her show....

She's been doing that for years - how do you think she's been on tv so long????

[Drop Bear]

Kerry Anne even 'planked' on her show....

She's been doing that for years - how do you think she's been on tv so long????

normally on her back though...

[Johno6]

i hope they blame karri anne for the next persons death now...
shes an idiot

[The Sleeping Giant]

Been happening for at least 12 months, maybe more. It isn't a new craze, but I guess when the media get wind of it, then it gets blown out of proportion. There are some very funny planker pics out there.

This will all be forgotten very soon. Sneaky nuts will be everywhere. I'm even buying some of the running shorts for easy access.

[woodublieve12]

mate of mine planked on the bonnet of a cop car in hindley st... heaps funny...
i personally dont have a problem with it... find it funny to be honest... some great photos out there...

obviously i dont find the death of that guy funny...

[RustyCage]

It's interesting because it's a great example of internet memetics.

Is the death the result of memetics or just bad genetics? I say the latter, one for the Darwin Awards perhaps.

I totally agree. You can't blame planking for the persons death, they are obviously a Darwin Award candidate anyway so would have just found another stupid way to depart the mortal coil if there was no planking around.

[OnSong]

mate of mine planked on the bonnet of a cop car in hindley st... heaps funny...
i personally dont have a problem with it... find it funny to be honest... some great photos out there...

obviously i dont find the death of that guy funny...

Was it a tragedy?

[White Line Fever]

It's interesting because it's a great example of internet memetics.

Is the death the result of memetics or just bad genetics? I say the latter, one for the Darwin Awards perhaps.

Word of the day goes to Quichey

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, is essentially a "unit of culture"—an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc. which is "hosted" in one or more individual minds, and which can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself. As with genetics, particularly under Dawkins's interpretation, a meme's success may be due to its contribution to the effectiveness of its host. Memetics is notable for sidestepping the traditional concern with the truth of ideas and beliefs.

[OnSong]

It's interesting because it's a great example of internet memetics.

Is the death the result of memetics or just bad genetics? I say the latter, one for the Darwin Awards perhaps.

Word of the day goes to Quichey

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, is essentially a "unit of culture"—an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc. which is "hosted" in one or more individual minds, and which can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself. As with genetics, particularly under Dawkins's interpretation, a meme's success may be due to its contribution to the effectiveness of its host. Memetics is notable for sidestepping the traditional concern with the truth of ideas and beliefs.

Can we have an example of such memetics?

[A Mum]

Been happening for at least 12 months, maybe more. It isn't a new craze, but I guess when the media get wind of it, then it gets blown out of proportion. There are some very funny planker pics out there.

This will all be forgotten very soon. Sneaky nuts will be everywhere. I'm even buying some of the running shorts for easy access.

Something I read somewhere today said happening since at least 2005.

mate of mine planked on the bonnet of a cop car in hindley st... heaps funny...
i personally dont have a problem with it... find it funny to be honest... some great photos out there...

obviously i dont find the death of that guy funny...

I must admit some of the 'harmless' ones are funny and I did chuckle at the one in McDonalds...lol.
(think the high-rise ones, getting on the roof of McDonalds and universities and the like etc are extremely stupid though!)

The look on the faces of the people around ...lol.

[Q.]

It's interesting because it's a great example of internet memetics.

Is the death the result of memetics or just bad genetics? I say the latter, one for the Darwin Awards perhaps.

Word of the day goes to Quichey

Memetics is a theory of mental content based on an analogy with Darwinian evolution, originating from Richard Dawkins' 1976 book The Selfish Gene. It purports to be an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer. A meme, analogous to a gene, is essentially a "unit of culture"—an idea, belief, pattern of behaviour, etc. which is "hosted" in one or more individual minds, and which can reproduce itself from mind to mind. Thus what would otherwise be regarded as one individual influencing another to adopt a belief is seen memetically as a meme reproducing itself. As with genetics, particularly under Dawkins's interpretation, a meme's success may be due to its contribution to the effectiveness of its host. Memetics is notable for sidestepping the traditional concern with the truth of ideas and beliefs.

Can we have an example of such memetics?

The topic of this very thread is a good example of an internet meme.

[Bully]

if you want to be famous. Re invent the wheel