My take on planking.

So, its pretty big news recently (even though planking’s supposed to be really old) but everyone seems to be all riled up by the latest craze, planking.

This is what they're all talking about right?

Now the common viewpoint is that plankers are wankers, and everyone hangs shit on plankers calling them stupid idiots and all the rest of that fun stuff, and who knows maybe they're right, but people have done dumber stuff. (Like get on the A-teams bad side, never a wise decision)



oh sure, they look happy now...



But is it really all that bad?

Well first up, I think people are over-reacting a fair bit, most people probably hear about planking in a negative light to begin with.

"Man planking is so dumb, they all deserve to go to prison'

"What’s planking?'

Insert rest of hypothetical conversation here.

So the accepted norm is of course to hate plankers and hang shit on it, so everybody does it, just because everyone is doing it, and of course most people don’t realize it, or they will deny it.
And that’s cool, who am I to tell you how you really think and feel.

But I think people are going overboard, and hating on things just because it gives them a chance to be all high and mighty and look down on people, everyone does that at some point, hell I'm doing it right now.

So you can go ahead and hate on plankers if you want, its unnecessary and doesn’t achieve anything except for your own personal satisfaction, if you’re cool with that then good for you.

You might also want to go look in a mirror while you're at it.

But let’s look at planking in a different light now, is it really all that bad, is it really worth all the hate it gets?

The common argument is that people die from planking, now I heard somewhere that only 2 people have died so far, and a quick search on Google didn’t give me any answers unfortunately, but at any rate the number is probably not very high.

What about other things of such nature, how about mountain climbers, again according to a quick Google search, 142 people have died from climbing Mount Everest.

Does that mean that everyone that climbs Mount Everest is a dickhead, an immature loser who deserves to die because of engaging in a stupid brainless fad?

How about rock climbing?
Again according to a quick Google search around 2500 have died rock climbing since 2008, does that make them stupid? Does that make them bad people?

What about skateboarding, that’s pretty much the same as planking, they even go out to look for cool/dangerous things around the place to trick off, and people get sponsored and make a living off that.

So, who’s to judge that planking is bad but rock climbing is good?
They are the fundamentally the same thing though, just a fun thrill seeking activity that doesn’t harm anyone but the person doing it, and even then the risk isn’t much higher then it is to, I dunno drive to school or cross the road.

Look at you sharon, thats sooo dangerous!

What about planking as an art form?
Well I don’t know much about that so I won’t get into it.

The real issue here is one of free will.

You can never take someone’s free will away, the moment you do, you've just violated someone in the worst possible way.
If I want to go around planking, then I'll go around planking and if you try to tell me how immature or stupid or deserving of bad things happening to me I am, well then you're a judgemental piece of shit, plain and simple.
You see people posting up stuff on the net like 'All plankers are dickheads and if I see you planking ima smash you'
Well if you're one of those people, you really need to have a good hard think about yourself.

And it’s impossible to not judge people in some way or another of course, but this doesn’t fall into that category.

So to sum it all up, you can’t take away peoples free will and you have no right to hate on them for what they do in their free time.

Everyone hates on plankers, but psychology says that even though you will at first, you don’t have to follow the crowd, so don’t.