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April 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm #2136347
Hear about planking?
Lockedby ansugisalas · about 10 years, 11 months ago
Me neither, so without further ado:
Plancking: http://astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk/Planck/Chromoscope/
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May 1, 2013 at 6:36 am #2903484
Yes, over a year ago when some idiot killed themselves by planking
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 11 months ago
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on the rail of balcony about ten metres above the cement driveway. They moved an arm to cratch an itch and fell off. About two weeks later another got killed by planking on the double handwidth wide rail of a footway on a bridge, a passingsemi truck caused enough wind to blow them off the rail and they fell to their death. Last I heard planhing has resulted in a twnety or so deaths due to them picking idiotic places.
Second attempt to post since the first hit a snag of some sort and didn’t show as being posted.
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May 1, 2013 at 8:37 am #2903473
Yeah, dummies have done it for about 10 years now.
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 11 months ago
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It is said to be taken from the laying down game that two tourists used to spice up their photos one year. It takes a real plank to plank though.
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May 5, 2013 at 10:52 pm #2903007
NOBODY READS BEYOND THE HEADLINE?!?
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Hear about planking?
It’s about the Planck sat images! Clickety-click.
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May 6, 2013 at 3:58 am #2903002
i read it
by purpleskys · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to NOBODY READS BEYOND THE HEADLINE?!?
peaked my interest…neet 🙂
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May 6, 2013 at 10:53 am #2902988
You said planking! Not planck
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to i read it
Planking is the act of laying flat.
Planck is a space observatory.
When you asked about planking, there was no need for a link,m I understand planking. If you had said planck chromascopes, I would have looked into the link.
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May 6, 2013 at 11:41 am #2902984
“Without further ado: Plancking”
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to You said planking! Not planck
How much more obvious do I have to get? :^0
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May 6, 2013 at 1:12 pm #2902978
I don’t know about obvious
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to “Without further ado: Plancking”
But if I said there was an article on cars and meant caps, I think it might need a little more explanation.
Now, plancking I might have taken as a typo, but I probably would have checked the link just in case it was something cool that I didn’t know about, suck as a space observatory. :p
The link is pretty cool actually, now I know about planking AND plancking! What a great day indeed!
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May 6, 2013 at 7:44 am #2902999
I don’t trust links Ansu provides
by slayer_ · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Hear about planking?
You just never know if they are safe for work.
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May 6, 2013 at 9:47 am #2902993
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to I don’t trust links Ansu provides
Incidentally, I have no idea what Ernest and Oz are talking about. Googling gave me beaucoup results about building materials.
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May 6, 2013 at 10:50 am #2902989
In case you ARE serious about not knowing
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to You say that like it’s a bad thing.
the braindead high school and college kids have been practicing this sport they call ‘planking’ where they find a place and then lay there dead still. At first it was things like lying down in the middle of a footpath or hall, then progressed to doing this on tables, between chairs, in counters, advanced to car bonnets, car bonnets while the car is moving, to balcony rails and side of buildings and bridge side rails. Whilst in position they have someone take a picture of them then post it on some social media, the latest is to have a YouTube video of them getting into position in some hard to reach place.
They score points in some way for the location and danger – I suppose they’re all trying to outstupid each other. Many have died by doing this in the wrong place, some have ben hit by trains, fallen off moving vehicles, run over by vehicles, fallen off balconies on higher floors of buildings, fallen off bridges, and fallen off roofs etc.
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May 6, 2013 at 10:55 am #2902987
Here’s an image link
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to You say that like it’s a bad thing.
It’s just a page from a google search, office friendly and nothing dangerous, just a bunch of knobs being planks.
https://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&gs_rn=12&gs_ri=psy-ab&cp=6&gs_id=m&xhr=t&q=planking&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.45960087,d.cGE&biw=1440&bih=785&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=Ue6HUeXiGuj2iwLu8YFwOr search Google for planking and select images,
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May 6, 2013 at 12:57 pm #2902981
Yes, I was serious,
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Here’s an image link
and I’m even more serious when I opine that some people seriously need to get lives.
Geez, is this what kids moved to when AT&T took down all the phone booths we used to pack into? What happened to cow tipping and shrink wrapping the toilet bowl? These sound like future Darwin Award recipients. Nothing like dumping in some chlorine while you’re still in the gene pool.
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May 6, 2013 at 1:21 pm #2902977
Oh yes
by aidemzo_adanac · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Yes, I was serious,
Don’t get me wrong, I honestly don’t think it’s cool. The story of it’s origina was interesting. Two college kids on vacation wanted something besides the typical photos of each other simply standing in front of landmarks. They decided to lay prone with hands at their sides instead. Personally I can’t stand it when people have to all take turns standing in front of something they traveled 2000 kms to see.
I don’t need to see my friend’s on vacation, I’m interested in what they saw. One friend says, ‘that’s so you can remember being there’
That kills me, I don’t need a photo of me standing in front of something to show i was there, I have a freaking photo of it, why do I need to be there too? Just in case someone doesn’t believe me? So what? I was in Stanley Park on the weekend with a friend, having a beer and waiting for the 9 o’clock gun (cannon) to go off. As we sat on the grass bank about 10 feet away, a tour bus of Asians pulled up. They all piled off the bus, took turns standing in front of the cannon, not even knowing what it was for, took their pictures and got back on the bus, which drove away just as the cannon fired.
I just don’t get it! You came from Japan, China or wherever, the bus stopped so you could see an old Vancouver landmark, which fires once a day at 9PM precisely, take a picture in front of it and don’t stay the extra 2 minutes to find out what it is about. Completely mindless.Okay, so planking was a bit of a goofy idea by a couple of college kids, not such an issue. For it to turn into a craze is a bit revealing of the low mentality set for our future.
People laugh about hippies and stoners, not realizing that they were the people who also shaped the modern world. Wozniac, Jobs and Gates were all hippies with wild ideas; Jobs was even a heavy LSD user at one time. Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all? Perhaps all the college kids just aren’t as ‘out of this world’ creative anymore.
Say yes to drugs, it’s the future of the world!
Correction: Say yes to GOOD drugs, it’s the future of the world. 😀Young people of today have invented very little that has comparatively changed the world. They can’t even create music anymore, it’s just the prepackaged junk from labels. It’s a “processed cheese” music market, quality gone for quantity. Today’s kids are so devoid of creativity, they are turning to clothes and styles worn 30 years ago, they listen to music created 30+ years ago, retro is cool! It’s just too bad nobody has an identity of their own anymore.
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May 7, 2013 at 10:33 am #2902959
” Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all?”
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Oh yes
Sure it did. It provided plenty of taxpayer-funded jobs in a variety of law enforcement, legal, and incarceration sectors.
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May 9, 2013 at 12:19 am #2902918
And Don’t Forget
by dogknees · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to ” Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all?”
It drove up the price of illicit drugs making it virtually a necessity to become a criminal to support their habits. The harder they try to eradicate it, the worse things get.
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May 9, 2013 at 4:32 am #2902914
And let’s not overlook
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to ” Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all?”
the lost revenue from products that could have been taxed if they were legal, instead of being costing the government money to prohibit.
Mind you, I’m not in favor OR opposed to legalizing so-called recreational drugs. What I am opposed to is the hypocrisy that declares pot and cocaine illegal while allowing tobacco and alcohol to be sold legally with relatively minor restrictions.
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May 9, 2013 at 7:42 am #2902910
The amount of taxes…
by jck · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to ” Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all?”
that the US Government could have collected for the past 45 years on recreational drugs sales would have kept our country out of debt and funded the rehabs for those with addiction problems.
Oh well…hindsight is 20/20
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May 11, 2013 at 5:03 am #2902858
To say nothing of the human resources wasted…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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All those people in jail… many of them on a “third strike” for victimless crimes.
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May 13, 2013 at 3:50 am #2902832
Ansu,
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to ” Did the war on drugs actually have an impact on society after all?”
I’m not particularly concerned with those particular ‘human resources’. While I don’t agree with current drug laws, I suspect most of those people would be drains on society regardless of the circumstances that put them in jail. If they weren’t looking for fast, ‘easy’ money in the drug, they’d be looking for it in other illegal activities. The bar is set too low on most ‘three strkes’ laws, but just having two strikes already tells you a lot about these ‘resources’.
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May 6, 2013 at 10:44 am #2902990
or if they’ll work at all – see post a moment ago re newspaper links
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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for articles they carry – I gave a long explaination direct.
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May 6, 2013 at 10:43 am #2902991
It’s not that, it’s just we lose all interest when there’s a link
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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in the main body and no lengthy explaination, so we see it as either a spam or a lazy post about a new article and if you aren’t interested enough to give a summary for those who may not be able to get to the article quickly, then it can’t be that interesting.
Many people link to news articles forgetting that many you can’t get to see them unless you go to the trouble be register with the organisation and log on (too much hassle for one or two articles), and that many get archived after a few days and can only be seen by those with an account.
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May 6, 2013 at 11:43 am #2902983
I wasn’t talking about the people who didn’t respond…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to It’s not that, it’s just we lose all interest when there’s a link
I was talking about the people who responded about planking.
And, it’s not an article, it’s doohickey that lets you see all the major spectrums of the Planck sat data and juxtapose them in different ways, it’s hella neat.-
May 6, 2013 at 1:05 pm #2902979
Pick a spelling, please.
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to I wasn’t talking about the people who didn’t respond…
Your use of ‘plan(no H)king’ is what caused the initial confusion.
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May 11, 2013 at 5:04 am #2902857
Sorry man…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Pick a spelling, please.
can’t do that. I twist language, deal with it.
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May 13, 2013 at 3:57 am #2902831
Deal with it? Me?
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Sorry man…
You’re the one who screamed when no one looked at your original link. Twist away all you want, but don’t complain when you’re misunderstood.
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May 28, 2013 at 11:01 am #2427334
I’ve been away too long…
by ansugisalas · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Deal with it? Me?
people keep thinking I am being perfectly serious…
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May 13, 2013 at 6:13 am #2902825
the real problem was NOT twisting the language, but in NOT saying
by deadly ernest · about 10 years, 10 months ago
In reply to Sorry man…
what the link was all about in the first place – few will visit blind links, thus they are left with what you have stated and how that parses through the system.
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May 6, 2013 at 1:00 pm #2902980
Agreed
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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I rarely click on ‘blind’ links.
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May 10, 2013 at 11:39 am #2902869
Bumpity-bump
by charliespencer · about 10 years, 10 months ago
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to push the ‘hard drive’ spammers off the front page.
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