Planking

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

This is one of those times where I'm going to say things like "Everyone's done it" and not mean literally everyone. I've known a lot of people who did goofy dives and even some of the poses here. I won't disagree that someone will get hurt from it, but someone will get hurt on a diving board this summer regardless. It's one of those things

So have I and I always thought it was dumb and dangerous.

Exaggerated analogy:
Someone will get in a car accident regardless so why not drive while texting and even taking a shot of Cuervo? Life is unpredictable but we increase the odds and make disaster more predictable when we do dumb stuff.

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Which is why i more often say that everyone's done ~something~ that fits into the 'stupid kids' category.

Of course, it's like that commercial where the guy looks over a stone cliff to where he and his siblings used to jump into the below lake. He said "we used to do some dumb stuff back then...."

I'm just adding to the point that I hope DubaiSis was making which is the risk of these things wasn't invented with technology and the Internet. It was documented and publicized with technology and the Internet. This stuff was always potentially dangerous.

/this isn't a disagreement

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

So have I and I always thought it was dumb and dangerous.

Exaggerated analogy:
Someone will get in a car accident regardless so why not drive while texting and even taking a shot of Cuervo? Life is unpredictable but we increase the odds and make disaster more predictable when we do dumb stuff.



Of course, it's like that commercial where the guy looks over a stone cliff to where he and his siblings used to jump into the below lake. He said "we used to do some dumb stuff back then...."

I'm just adding to the point that I hope DubaiSis was making which is the risk of these things wasn't invented with technology and the Internet. It was documented and publicized with technology and the Internet. This stuff was always potentially dangerous.

/this isn't a disagreement

Yeah I agree, we just didn't HEAR about it. Same thing with pretty much all school shootings, kidnappings, etc.

I'm generally pro-information. I will sign up to have data streamed to my brain in a reasonably safe manner and have it projected onto a contact lens. Put my name on the waiting list. But the sort of freakout that comes from publicizing the 'stupid stuff that kids do' as 'THE NEWEST FAD THAT WILL KILL YOUR CHILDREN/after this message from our sponsor' is one of the downsides of information accessibility.