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?
I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God.
—Albert Einstein.
Should be called plonking. after the mentallity behind it.
teddy
Sadly, it's wiping out our late teen-early twenty lads (not all of whom are idiots, I imagine).
Sounds about on a par with tombstoning, leaping off cliffs into water - and hoping there is enough water covering the rocks.
Mike - sadly, young lads are fearless. I was, too, but not to the point of suicide.
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/200...NS_468x526.jpg
Wouldn't it be better with just "waterboarding"?
I agree Teddy, plonking is a much more apt term. Why anyone would want to risk their lives planking and tombstoning is beyond me.Originally Posted by teddy
Margaret
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
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?
Yes, definitely plonking Mat
teddy
Oh dear Mat, what an idiot she is. I hope she did not have her Sunday roast in there at the time.
Margaret
Ah, a perfect example of a tiwkcuf getting her just desserts (where they cooked I wonder?)
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