Planking Latham style

TVStar said :

When I was at uni, I got a photo of a naked woman on Simpson’s Donkey at the War Memorial for a scavenger hunt. Just saying…

yeah, but the difference beween that and planking is; a) it is funny, b) people would *like* to see that sort of thing…

When I was at uni, I got a photo of a naked woman on Simpson’s Donkey at the War Memorial for a scavenger hunt. Just saying…

Mmmmm. Barbecued idiot.

Planking is just parkour for really lazy people.

“Prime Minister Gillard has today decried the planking menace in The Age:”

Good to see our esteemed PM tackling tough social issues.

Good to see some dumbarse journo asking a dumbarse question

Gungahlin Al said :

…something for which Tony Abbott can’t adopt a contrary position!

Still; I’m betting he has a go… The Libs around Oz are taking their adversarial *VERY* seriously… stupid mugs…

Planking is a winter olympic sport, its called the skeleton.

johnboy said :

Prime Minister Gillard has today decried the planking menace in The Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/pm-appeals-against-dangerous-planking-craze-20110516-1eoik.html

Delighted no doubt to be able to comment on something for which Tony Abbott can’t adopt a contrary position!

Pretty stupid but s*** it was funny esp when we had to do take after take and he agreed

buzz819 said :

This sh!t is stupid, one person has died in Aus for doing this, why sensationalise something with no point that encourages idiot’s to lie down on a fire??

If somebody is stupid enough to lie down on a fire……………….

Prime Minister Gillard has today decried the planking menace in The Age:

http://www.theage.com.au/queensland/pm-appeals-against-dangerous-planking-craze-20110516-1eoik.html

buzz819 said :

This sh!t is stupid, one person has died in Aus for doing this, why sensationalise something with no point that encourages idiot’s to lie down on a fire??

If it wasn’t planking it would have been driving a white commodore into a pole. You can’t help the stupids.

I don’t think the cause of death is so much as a result of ‘planking’, it’s more being a complete f**kwit in my mind.

arescarti42 said :

The thing I find hilarious, particularly about the guy who fell of his balcony and died, is that any of these shots could have been created in about 20 minutes by anyone with some basic photoshop skills. It’d be the same result with none of the risk.

God, your life, according to your photo album, must be so exciting..

“Here’s a shot of me on top of Mt Everest. Here’s a shot of me swimming with great whites in South Africa. Here’s a shot of me snogging Megan Gale. Here’s a shot of me winning the Le Mans 24 hour naked on a skateboard while shooting up heroin and eating caviar.

Of course I haven’t done any of these things, but I can use photoshop…”

Some suggestions for spots where elite Canberra plankers can practice their craft to showcase the national capital on the Internet:

Black Mountain Tower (top of)

Parliament House flagpole (top of)

Carillion (top of)

Mt Ainslie flagpole during winter solstice (base of)

The Australian American War Memorial (top of)

Lake Burley Griffin at 6.30 AM in May (bottom of)

Ginninderra Falls

Tuggeranong Parkway, 8.30 AM any weekday except holidays.

Hell, anything to break the boredom of a Canberra winter! Be it extreme ironing, parkour or planking.

Whilst I don’t have an issue with a harmless bit of fun like this particular meme, I can’t help but notice a couple of sets of crutches in the background… that’s never a great omen… especially with someone prepared to throw a hot fire into the mix… I don’t think the enormous supporting plank is, despite the activity’s name, really in the spirit either…

In all likelihood, without the current media interest in the planking fad, we would likely never have heard of young Mr Beale’s “unfortunate” demise… it would simply have been put down to a drunken accident…

The thing I find hilarious, particularly about the guy who fell of his balcony and died, is that any of these shots could have been created in about 20 minutes by anyone with some basic photoshop skills. It’d be the same result with none of the risk.

In related news, it turns out that having someone die while undertaking an activity is enough to clear the “notability” requirement for Wikipedia – there was no article for “Planking” on Friday, but one’s appeared over the weekend.

Postalgeek said :

Let the fools have their tartar sauce.

Our gene pool can only benefit from this craze.

Absolutely agree – hell, I have photo’s of various family members so drunk that laying in various gutters around the world tends to take up a whole damn album. Some are face down as well – is that planking? (just trying to get ahead of the curve here!).

Crazy stuff – more deaths to follow.

Upon hearing the news that the latest Internet craze is to be photographed face down, my dear old Mum said “I don’t know why you bother with that rubbish”. She certainly has a point.

buzz819 said :

This sh!t is stupid, one person has died in Aus for doing this

Let’s see if Canberra can do better! Yeah!

lol

Aww come on people, how many of you have tried to cram as many people as possible in a phone booth or a VW Beetle? Same s*** different stance.

I would like to see more of this, how about planking the new ASIO site or Parliament house people?

Let the fools have their tartar sauce.

Our gene pool can only benefit from this craze.

Dude has got an actual plank underneath him protecting him from the fire and making it easier. kind of cheating really

This sh!t is stupid, one person has died in Aus for doing this, why sensationalise something with no point that encourages idiot’s to lie down on a fire??