‘Cone-ing’ Internet craze a waste of good ice cream
The Australians love to document their antics.
Eating the wrong end of food is not funny.
First, there was ‘planking,’ wherein the truly bored risk life and limb for an unusual Facebook photo.
Now, denizens of The Land Down Under are surprising fast-food workers by “cone-ing.”
According to an article by ABC News and many YouTube videos, the clearly misnamed art of cone-ing involves grabbing the non-cone end of a cold treat to get a reaction from minimum wage employees.
Some people find this behavior funny, says ABC: Maddy Curotte, a follower of the Cone-ing Facebook page, wrote, “Oh my god, I have not laughed that hard at a YouTube video in a while. Brilliant!”
Maybe Maddy needs to get out more.
Fast-food workers have enough problems, like getting my order right. Why use them as unpaid props?
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21 comments Add your comment
David Hasselhoff
June 13th, 2011
8:24 pm
Didn’t we beat them in WWII?
M
June 13th, 2011
8:33 pm
This is what driving on the wrong side of the road leads to.
Greg S.
June 13th, 2011
8:56 pm
So stupid it’s a hit. Anyone remember the pet rock?
Steven
June 13th, 2011
10:33 pm
How about this was a waste of a good story.
Doug
June 14th, 2011
3:17 am
I agree, waste of a good story, coneing is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a while, I think you need to get out more!
Siege
June 14th, 2011
10:36 am
Stupidity at its finest. Both the article and its subject matter.
Tom
June 14th, 2011
3:40 pm
Everything old is new again! We did this as children in the Caribbean in the 1950s.
SBinF
June 14th, 2011
6:01 pm
This is fairly amusing.
Buck Scott
June 16th, 2011
12:31 am
If they really think this is funny we should turn Austraila back into a prison colony.
mr. anderson
June 18th, 2011
8:52 pm
although it sucks for a fast food worker i think you are being too hard on pranksters. i personally don’t see the harm in it, the guy pays for the food, so it’s not like the company picks up that tab and the prankster is the one who has to clean up his mess from his own prank so to me this is harmless comedic pranking at it’s best! nobody gets hurt and the joke is made so where’s the harm in this. surely any self respecting service worker would laugh at this themselves. in fact i believe this would break the monotony of the job. hell i wish people came through my job and did ggoofy stunts like this i would have so much time laughing about it that i wouldn’t care what time i was off work