Planking

[BluPhire]

Somebody gonna snap their neck!!!!!!

[PiKA2001]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

http://www.snopes.com/language/offense/picnic.asp

Oh how I miss late 90's-early 2000's mass chain emails/urban legends . This picnic one must have been lost somewhere in my inbox between the AIDS airplane guy and the blacks losing the right to vote.

Originally Posted by XAntoftheSkyX

Guys, planking is so last month. This is what's hot.

http://leisuredive.com/

Ok...... I so want to do that....

[christiangirl]

You're kidding. This is so retro. Bugs Bunny did it first.

[dreamseeker]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Oh yay! The fun rhetorical question game.

Would people still feel some kind of way about the word "niggardly" if it didn't remind them of another word?

How come no one says "it's only a game" when their team is winning?

Whatever happened to Preparations A through G?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?

I'm glad I got those off of my chest. With that said, would that statement be received differently if someone were to say "I have to get something off of my breasts?"

Originally Posted by DrPhil

Never.

How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?

If nothing ever sticks to teflon, how do they make teflon stick to the pan?

Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?

Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical questions?

LMAO!!! i shouldn't have read this at 2AM.

Originally Posted by XAntoftheSkyX

Guys, planking is so last month. This is what's hot.

http://leisuredive.com/

sweet, another site for me to waste my time on. lol.

[DubaiSis]

Some of those were pretty funny, and then some were just people trying to show off nice bodies. They soooo didn't get the point of the exercise. But who didn't do this as kids? Anyone with a pool, a diving board and time on their hands did goofy dives. We just didn't have high speed digital cameras to catch the fun. My brother and I would have been doing this for hours if we weren't kids before the digital age.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

Some of those were pretty funny, and then some were just people trying to show off nice bodies. They soooo didn't get the point of the exercise. But who didn't do this as kids? Anyone with a pool, a diving board and time on their hands did goofy dives. We just didn't have high speed digital cameras to catch the fun. My brother and I would have been doing this for hours if we weren't kids before the digital age.

This.

[DrPhil]

My siblings and I didn't do that as kids. I always hated diving boards and the idea of jumping in pools. Doing stunts like that (i.e. doing a side pose while reading a newspaper) is a recipe for disaster. Eventually.

When we were little, we used to drink gallons of water or koolaid at one time to see who could drink the most the fastest.

Years later, I learned it is called "drowning" and people have been seriously injured and died from that. It has happened with water drinking contests and has been used in hazing practices. Does that mean that it wasn't dangerous when we used to do it? No, it means that the people years ago who were seriously injured and/or died weren't publicized.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by DrPhil

My siblings and I didn't do that as kids. I always hated diving boards and the idea of jumping in pools. Doing stunts like that (i.e. doing a side pose while reading a newspaper) is a recipe for disaster. Eventually.

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

When we were little, we used to drink gallons of water or koolaid at one time to see who could drink the most the fastest.

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

Years later, I learned it is called "drowning" and people have been seriously injured and died from that. It has happened with water drinking contests and has been used in hazing practices. Does that mean that it wasn't dangerous when we used to do it? No, it means that the people years ago who were seriously injured and/or died weren't publicized.

Yep you're exactly right. Now that said your average kid is probably not going to be motivated to over hydrate themselves to the extreme that a contestant/hazee is, because most kids will stop themselves when they feel ill, but your point remains.

[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.

[Billy_Optimist]

Originally Posted by Optimus Prime

Some people have already moved on to even dumber things such as "coning". This is where someone orders an ice cream cone from a fast food restaurant, drives up to the window and then takes the ice cream off of the cone with their hand or grabs the ice cream upside down and eats the cone portion. There is also "owling", where someone perches on top of things like an owl.

This is not me, by the way.

[CeCe Newbie]

Ick... Planking. My Facebook feed is full of my friends posting entire albums of planking pictures in uber exciting locations such as beds, carpets, and chairs.

[AznSAE]

is leisure diving going to be the next? some people already do this anyways.

http://www.leisuredive.com/