13 May 2011

Canberra planking?

| johnboy
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Planking is sweeping the world faster than a flash mob.

Has anyone seen any good examples in Canberra?

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gospeedygo said :

I wonder what people said in the days of cramming lots of people into telephone boxes and Volkswagens and the like?

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Gungahlin Al3:11 pm 16 May 11

They have been summed up rather well on ABC’s The Drum as “a bunch of plankers”.

gospeedygo said :

I wonder what people said in the days of cramming lots of people into telephone boxes and Volkswagens and the like?

“Get your foot out of my ribs”?

I wonder what people said in the days of cramming lots of people into telephone boxes and Volkswagens and the like?

Gungahlin Al12:56 pm 16 May 11

georgesgenitals said :

Looks pretty stupid to me. Achieves nothing, and neither interesting nor funny.

At least it gave Darwin a chance to do his thing.

Indeed! I feel we do far too much these days to prevent natural selection having its way. Bring it on. The future of the species doesn’t need this cohort screwing up the gene pool.

The “lying down game” has been a fad internationally for years. Australians have just given it a more memorable name.

BimboGeek said :

When the concept of the “meme” hits the bogan mainstream, it faceplants and just lies there awkwardly…

Eerily prescient.

georgesgenitals7:02 am 16 May 11

Looks pretty stupid to me. Achieves nothing, and neither interesting nor funny.

At least it gave Darwin a chance to do his thing.

Erg0 said :

Of all the stupid things I’ve seen on the internet, this ranks somewhere in the middle.

Gold!

“Planking blamed for fatal balcony fall”
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/15/3217257.htm

It’s all fun and games till somebody gets hurt…

luther_bendross10:47 am 14 May 11

Surely planking was the root of Rule 34.

troll-sniffer10:08 pm 13 May 11

Well, amazingly, this clears up a mystery over forty years old. In one of their studio versions of “No Reply” the Beatles sing the following lines:
cause you walked hand in hand,
with another plank,
in my place…
It’s not the first time that an obscure prophecy of John Lennon’s has come to light long after is death, and it won’t be the last, I’m sure. It begs the question why the mystery woman, the target of John Lennon’s affections, should have been carrying a stiff man inside in the first place, but I think I’ll leave that for more accomplished conspiracy theorists than I.

Of all the stupid things I’ve seen on the internet, this ranks somewhere in the middle.

I think of Jonestown when I see plankers.

Maybe wishful thinking, I don’t know…

When the concept of the “meme” hits the bogan mainstream, it faceplants and just lies there awkwardly…

Everyone knows about it now, therefore it is totally uncool for hep-cats like me to be seen doing it.

I’d plank the damn owl – but I think it’s flimsy firbeglass construction wouldn’t accomodate my weight…

Based on the threas for this ‘art’ fiasco JB, I’d say a thoroughtly good ‘planking’ is just what our Government needs!

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