From the sound of that post it may be better to call you Lisa Simstr1.
[quote]gregron wrote:
I dont see how its possible to read that article and then think that it originated because of slavery… I mean, really?
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Have to agree. Because some writer says it’s “obviously” linked doesn’t actually make it so. Quoting the dude, specifically -
[quote]Rediker wrote:
‘To plank’ was not necessarily a verb used by slave ship merchants and captains, Rediker said in an e-mail. But the planks of the lower deck are precisely where millions of Africans were forced to lie and sleep on the Middle Passage, in conditions of utter horror that defy description, he said.
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Ahh. So they didn’t actually call it planking? The only similarity he offers is that slaves were forced to sleep on planks of wood on the lower deck of ships?! Seriously? Yet…
[quote]Rediker wrote:
No matter what the intention of the founders of the recent fad, there is a connection to the slave trade and it is a painful one, not least because we have been reluctant to face this part of our common history.
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What a bawbag. The only connection between planking and the slave trade I see here is some writer trying to cash in on the planking fad so he can sell more copies of his book about slavery…
FUCKIN PLANK AND BE PROUD GREG!
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]simpstr1 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
lol @ trying to make planking racist[/quote]
seriously.
racist my ass.
There were a few people earlier in this thread from (Sorry I don’t remember what country) another country WHERE PLANKING ORIGINATED and they told the story behind it and said its been a thing over there since forever.
it has NOTHING to do with the slave trade.[/quote]
not causing trouble, just showing you what I read![/quote]
If you are using it as a joke then hahahaha, if you believe everything written on the internet then I am 6’4" and 280 and have a 5 pound cock.[/quote]
Call me!
[quote]simpstr1 wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]simpstr1 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]critietaeta wrote:
lol @ trying to make planking racist[/quote]
seriously.
racist my ass.
There were a few people earlier in this thread from (Sorry I don’t remember what country) another country WHERE PLANKING ORIGINATED and they told the story behind it and said its been a thing over there since forever.
it has NOTHING to do with the slave trade.[/quote]
not causing trouble, just showing you what I read![/quote]
If you are using it as a joke then hahahaha, if you believe everything written on the internet then I am 6’4" and 280 and have a 5 pound cock.[/quote]
Call me![/quote]
867-5309
[quote]Nards wrote:
From the sound of that post it may be better to call you Lisa Simstr1.[/quote]
I usually get Marge.
No no no…Marge doesn’t like anything exciting…Lisa is the one who would say stuff like “Don’t say he ‘Gyped’ you as that’s racist against Gypsies!”
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
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WTF ID,
Now your making fun of asians.
You’re racist!!
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
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WTF ID,
Now your making fun of asians.
You’re racist!!
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Because the wood is… yellow??
^^Yes sir!!
Yellow Planking - no offense intended to asians posters.
It started as a joke but as I thought about it, you can find racism in anything. The question we all should hold is the intent. Planking is stupid but if its what people want to do, so what. Intentionally trying to make fun of another’s history, race, cred or religion takes things too far.
ID, you obviously had no intent to make fun of asians with your yellow plank but people can “see” racism/bias wherever they want.
Oh and Asians have small penis!!
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
It started as a joke but as I thought about it, you can find racism in anything. The question we all should hold is the intent. Planking is stupid but if its what people want to do, so what. Intentionally trying to make fun of another’s history, race, cred or religion takes things too far.
ID, you obviously had no intent to make fun of asians with your yellow plank but people can “see” racism/bias wherever they want.
Oh and Asians have small penis!![/quote]
LMFAO!!
Wait until Frank Yang gets here!
New fad - fall-ing.
Although it should be noted that Jews would sometimes fall down during the holocaust, so this is racist.
[quote]Gmoore17 wrote:
New fad - fall-ing.
Although it should be noted that Jews would sometimes fall down during the holocaust, so this is racist.[/quote]
LMFAO!! Especially when merchandise comes down with him.
Planking Krypton-style.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
It started as a joke but as I thought about it, you can find racism in anything. The question we all should hold is the intent. Planking is stupid but if its what people want to do, so what. Intentionally trying to make fun of another’s history, race, cred or religion takes things too far.
ID, you obviously had no intent to make fun of asians with your yellow plank but people can “see” racism/bias wherever they want.
Oh and Asians have small penis!![/quote]
LMFAO!!
Wait until Frank Yang gets here!
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The photography thread has some planking-esque photos.
Do a plank, have a bit of fun.
Oh and when did Asians = Yellow?