Apparently there is a growing fad, that started in Australia, called planking.
See examples of it here and here.
It basically is having a photograph of your self taken laying face down on an object. Posting photos of yourself on your social media pages is all the rage.
One person in Australia recently died while attempting to plank on a 7th floor balcony. Three workers at a gas storage facility were fired for planking on top of smoke stacks.
So, are you a planker?
You know, I like the Aussies. Seem like good-hearted, friendly folk for the most part, but good lord they come up with some stupid shit. Dumbest. Fad. Ever.
/Kinda reminds me of us Americans.
I prefer topping
Probably grew out of taking pictures of a bogan mate lying comotose after a binge session and putting it on the noticeboard.
The wonders of the social media, brings tears of nationalistic pride to my jaded eyes.
From those that gave us backwards baseball caps and Sara Palin for VP?
That’s praise from those who really know their onions.
Dangerous too. Several ‘deaths by planking’ have already been reported.
You forgot saggy pants. There’s a true blue (heh) American trend.
I’m a beanbagger. I loll around on things and I resemble a beanbag just lying around somewhere. Nobody takes pictures.
Does that count?
The only thing that I’ve found mildly interesting about planking is that it seems to have encouraged some people to go to interesting places in order to get pictures of themselves and their friends planking there. Occasionally the requirement to pose in such a specific way leads people to fall off, or into, things in damaging ways, so that’s not so good. It would be sort of nice if these people realized that they can go to interesting places and take cool pictures without the planking part. Maybe some do. If you’re going to, say, climb the gasworks at dawn, you don’t need to lie rigidly across the railings to prove you did it.
How do you tell? It looks like the most successful plankers would be murder victims.
Since we can’t get enough chlorine into the human gene pool, anything to increase the number of potential Darwin Award nominees is fine by me.
Plank away!
Not sure about planker, but wanker will do. Or so my friends tell me 
Honestly, until I saw the news article about the moron who killed himself I had never heard of it. I still have not seen it apart from in the media.
Though, come to think of it, my cat could have been the original planker. he can become sleepy on top of a barbed wire fence.
Note that planking originated in the U.K. as the “lying down game” (seriously).
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I think the people doing it must be quite board. I wooden do it myself.
