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Extreme Ironing
- sneak 5y agoFunny that the 1st Extreme Ironing World Championships were held in a country (Germany) where the native language has no word for the concept of “silly”. :D
- zufallsheld 5y agoAlbern, Dumm, Lächerlich? German has words for silly and the concept of silly.
- bbarnett 5y agoNo, parent is right. There is no word for silly in german. Instead, all german words pertaining to silly, also have an untranslatable connotation, a flavour to them, such as "silly, but with a deep undertone of contemplative thought as to how I ended up in this predicament", and so forth.
- michael-ax 5y agoso ein quatsch!
- xaedes 5y agoBut then is 'silly' translatable into any other language at all? With all its exact meanings, and nothing more?
- Crono 5y agoDoch! Of course we have a - or actually some - words for that. The above-mentioned, but what could also fit is "absurd". Most of the time we have even multiple words with slightly different meanings - it's why I like our language :D
- usrusr 5y agoBut bügeln is less ironic which kind of ruins much of the appeal.
- anemic 5y agoExtreme ironing used to be fun sport but when Rowenta started sponsoring the UK team in the championships it's now only "commercial sponsorship and exploitation" http://www.ntk.net/2002/09/13/?l=92#l http://www.ntk.net/2002/09/13/?l=92#l
- drjasonharrison 5y agoNo single German word is equivalent to all of the English language uses of the word "silly". There are however individual German words for the English contextual equivalents. https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/1227/how-to-express-silly-in-german https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/1227/how-to-expre...
- toxodont 5y agoHow do they power their irons?
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoGood question, but at least they don't need to refill the steamer's reservoir.
- tyingq 5y agoI found this: "We took our own iron. It's not battery powered so it doesn't iron that well, but the quality of the ironing is not the point - it's where you do it."[1] So it sounds like they just run a not-plugged-in regular iron over some fabric and call it ironing? [1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/25/everest.nepal https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/apr/25/everest.nepal
- elliekelly 5y agoI mean if this is true it really just calls the validity of the whole sport into question. You obviously can’t iron without heat.
- tyingq 5y agoIt's true for every example I can find. This photo, for example, shows a plain old plug-in iron: https://web.archive.org/web/20161017222702/http://teamsteam.org/iron/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/GH2K7824.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20161017222702/http://teamsteam.... Same guy, up in a tree, with the same iron: https://web.archive.org/web/20161017223140/http://teamsteam.org/iron/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Steam_in_the_woods.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20161017223140/http://teamsteam.... From this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160920083532/http://teamsteam.org/iron/never-say-never/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160920083532/http://teamsteam.... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- tokai 5y agoOfc you can, with pressure.
- nicbou 5y agoFrom the See also section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing
- dangerbird2 5y agoDon't forget wife carrying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-carrying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-carrying
- zkms 5y agoand belt-sander racing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-sander_racing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-sander_racing
- rnd420_69 5y agoFor some reason I read it as extreme ignoring and now wonder what that sport would look like
- smoyer 5y agoI vehemently refuse to read your comment!
- Applejinx 5y agoNO. You don't wonder that, and I don't either!
- megamix 5y agoThat's not a sport - it's called programming
- dangerbird2 5y agotry: ... except BaseException: return "yolo"
- banana_giraffe 5y agoVisual Basic was a world leader in this field: On Error Resume Next
- JohnWhigham 5y agoAsk my wife
- semi-extrinsic 5y agoOh, this takes me back. One of the first wonderfully weird things I discovered on Youtube almost 15 years ago. The VHS quality, the ubiquitous Rocky or Top Gun soundtrack, oh my...
- angrygoat 5y agoA fairly good example, from the RAF in the Falkland Islands https://youtu.be/xyA9hpfBsB4?t=149 https://youtu.be/xyA9hpfBsB4?t=149
- arethuza 5y agoPresumably that's the Special Ironing Service (SIS) at work?
- cryptonector 5y agoPerfect timestamp for this.
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- Matheo05 5y agoThat just made my day!
- petercooper 5y agoExtreme coding, anyone?
- bserge 5y agoCoding while homeless. Actually exists but people don't like it for some reason.
- nickthemagicman 5y agoCurrently evacuating from Ida and coding while homeless in a hotel on the beach. Not too bad!
- tiborsaas 5y agoAsk a digital nomad :)
- mirekrusin 5y agoWe already have Extreme Programming (XP).
- dangerbird2 5y agoAlas, extreme programming is not nearly as fun as it sounds
- toast0 5y agoThere is a distinct lack of SlimJims being snapped into, nor many aerial moves in extreme programming.
- hutzlibu 5y agoOh yeah, I actually do that. Coding while sitting on a high tree or on a steep rock, only reachable by climbing. Why I do this? Well, certainly not because of attention seeking, rather the opposite. No one bothers my flow state there and the elements bring inspiration.
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- system2 5y agoAnother valid proof of people do anything to get attention.
- michaelhoffman 5y agoPeople will also do all sorts of things for fun.
- slingnow 5y agoWhat percentage of these people do you think do this and then DON'T post an image / video of it somewhere to get views? I would guess it rounds down to 0%. It's pure attention seeking. And it also might be fun.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y ago> What percentage of these people do you think do this and then DON'T post an image / video of it somewhere to get views? I would guess it rounds down to 0%. What, just because you haven't seen it? (But seriously, how would we know? You're talking about a group that, by definition, would leave us no evidence to discuss their existence)
- SamBam 5y agoThis can be explained by the fact that it's clearly a communal sport, though practiced individually. The social and sharing aspect is clearly a part of the sport. Is commenting on this thread also "attention seeking," because no one does so without making their comments public? Or is it a form of social behavior?
- SamBam 5y agoBoo. Pretty sad way to view people having fun.
- eCa 5y agoFor gamers, this[1] is probably the best extreme gaming equivalent. Playing horror games alone in the woods at night. [1] https://youtu.be/UCvnrkN9Jjw https://youtu.be/UCvnrkN9Jjw
- Ancapistani 5y agoThis is the best thing I’ve seen in quite a while.
- bmmayer1 5y agoIt's clear that people are just doing this...ironically.
- admax88qqq 5y agoGo home
- louthy 5y agoIrony, a bit like silvery and bronzy?
- belter 5y agoIs this like the ...iron man competition?
- Lio 5y agoGo on, keep the jokes coming. I'm interested to see how far you can go before you, wait for it ...run out of steam! :P
- drittich 5y agoButton your lips, this thread is done.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoNo need to get so hot under the collar.
- javajosh 5y agoSomeone should make a video game of Extreme Ironing - distributed only on Steam.
- belter 5y agodon’t want to 'press' your luck.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoHow is the iron powered when there are no electrical outlets at these places?
- tiborsaas 5y agoWe are in the middle of a battery revolution so... batteries.
- arethuza 5y agoMaybe use an RTG - just for maximum extremeness? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge... Edit: You could just cut out the generator bit and have a nuclear iron.
- moron4hire 5y agoSmart contracts on the Blockchain
- eric__cartman 5y agoAnd a smart clothes iron with built in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to control the temperature and steam setting with an Amazon Echo that hopefully you remembered to bring with you.
- SamBam 5y agoIf the smart contract says the iron gets hot, it must get hot. Smart contracts are bound by the iron laws of cryptography.
- moron4hire 5y agoThe iron has a miner inside it. A Mironer.
- fspoettel 5y agoa use case, finally!
- danlugo92 5y agoNo.
- cryptica 5y agoI invented a new sport a few months ago; extreme rock balancing. It's like regular rock balancing except I did it at the bottom of the sea at least 10 meters deep without scuba. I stacked 4 rocks. It's a combination of freediving and rock balancing.
- allears 5y agoAs my wife said just now, "Any time I iron it's an extreme sport."
- ethbr0 5y agoFor those unfamiliar, irons were devices used to smooth clothes in historical times, when men's business casual at minimum required a dress shirt and collar.
- ghostbrainalpha 5y agoWere Irons replaced when Dry Cleaners were invented?
- SuoDuanDao 5y agoThis takes me way back. When I was in high school, one of my classmates had a job in a call center, and one of the surveys he was contracted to do was for a website dedicated to extreme ironing. Unlike most surveys he had to punch in phone numbers himself, so he called a friend who was in on the joke just to get some interesting responses. "How much time do you spend ironing?" "one or two hours a day, I try not to overindulge" "What's the strangest place you've ever ironed?" "A bass boat" I don't remember any of the other responses, but everyone who heard that story got a good chuckle out of it. Interesting to hear that it's stayed around so long!
- duckmysick 5y agoMildly related: I'm curious what are the latest advances in consumer irons and ironing boards. Something that improved them in the last 10-15 years, even incrementally. For example SSDs became much more common and affordable over the past 15 years and their parameters also improved. Are there similar improvements in household appliances like irons? Where would one look for an industry overview?
- derefr 5y agoI don’t think consumer cleaning technology products like this keep up with the rate of change of underlying technologies. People get used to doing certain things (e.g. ironing) and want to keep doing it the same way their parents taught them. I’d instead look more at commercial cleaners (e.g. how shirts are cleaned/pressed for shipment to stores) if you want to see the bleeding edge of cleaning technology. (It’s sort of like home consoles vs. arcade machines in the 80s/90s. Home consoles had to optimize for affordability, while arcade machines could essentially be expensive operationalized prototypes as long as they paid for themselves.)
- rovr138 5y ago> People get used to doing certain things (e.g. ironing) and want to keep doing it the same way their parents taught them. tongue in cheek, but WHYY On the other hand, my mom has sent me things like machines that fold and do other stuff whenever she finds something… or refinds something. So I doubt she likes doing it and maybe passed that down to me.
- derefr 5y ago• For a lot of people, having to learn something new as an adult, no matter how small, causes them some kind of psychic pain. • People (all animals?) seem to have a quirk about learning hygiene practices in particular, where the criteria they have for what is hygenic/unhygenic gets formed when they're children, and then becomes unalterable. People generally seem to intuitively believe that whatever hygiene practices they were taught as children, are exactly the set of things they need to do feel clean. No more, no less. And so they don't go out actively looking for new hygiene practices (or for hygiene technologies that would suggest new hygiene practices.)
- systemBuilder 5y agoThis article reminds me of the fake cities that Rand McNally puts on maps to see if someone else is copying their work. I feel like this is probably a fake article put into Wikipedia to see if somebody else is copying their work....
- raman162 5y ago> extreme ironing is "the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well-pressed shirt." This was some of the humor that I didn't know I needed today. Had me laughing out loud.
- raman162 5y agoSomeone needs to host a legit tournament called the "Extreme Ironman". Although confusing, I bet some tri-athletes will appreciate the humor and actually sign up.
- jeffrallen 5y agoBeen there, done that, got the t-shirt. https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6B6oeEs6dpzziaP7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6B6oeEs6dpzziaP7
- raman162 5y agoHa, good to see that someone has already done that.
- vernie 5y agoI wonder if these people scoffed at or participating in planking and owling.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoI was watching this on ESPN 8 recently. Thrilling stuff.
- dang 5y agoOne small past thread: Extreme ironing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594989 - Oct 2013 (2 comments)
- bla3 5y agoIn the French, German, Japanese, and Portuguese versions this was invented by Phillip Shaw in 1997 in Leicester, UK. In the English and Spanish versions, it was invented by Tony Hiam in 1980 in Seattle.
- rovr138 5y agoSo many people have never thought what they used to iron before electricity became popular and accessible. There used to be coal irons. You open them, put some pieces of charcoal on them and use them.
- kzrdude 5y agoFrom my grandmother's generation I've also seen hunk-of-metal-irons.. (look like modern irons, just more massive, without the steam holes) you just put them on top of the stove (wood or electricity-fired) to heat them
- hardwaregeek 5y agoThere's a really great section in The Path to Power about how women in the Hill Country used to iron before electricity. They'd heat these massive irons (that they called sad irons) in the stove. The process was extremely finicky between the ash, the inevitable burns, and the unforgiving heat of the fire. Really goes to show how much washing machines and electric irons have done for quality of life.
- thorin 5y agoThe original extreme ironing site must be very old. I'm pretty sure I remember browsing it in mosaic on a sun workstation in the mid 90s. Extreme ironing forever.
- kyle-rb 5y agoInteresting, but something about this article is weird. Overall it doesn't feel like it's in the Wikipedia style and some parts are very editorialized, e.g. > As extreme ironing has branched off, the conditions can gain in extreme activity. For example, a branch of ironing has been developed that includes both bungee jumping and well-pressed clothing. Bungee ironing is what some would call the ultimate in the thrill of extreme ironing.[8] That citation leads to https://averyj12.weebly.com/extreme-ironing.html https://averyj12.weebly.com/extreme-ironing.html, which was clearly copied wholesale from Wikipedia (all its links and citations go directly back to Wikipedia). Looking at the history, there have been a lot of edits since that text was added in 2007, so it's surprising that someone hasn't rewritten it since then.
- sedatk 5y ago> That citation leads to https://averyj12.weebly.com/extreme-ironing.html https://averyj12.weebly.com/extreme-ironing.html, which was clearly copied wholesale from Wikipedia Welcome to Wikipedia where the line between FUD and knowledge disappears.
- thewakalix 5y agoCitogenesis in the wild? [0] [0] https://xkcd.com/978/ https://xkcd.com/978/
- mikevin 5y agoSlightly related question: Does anyone know what to do when finding a Wikipedia page that's just an ad in disguise? I've found a few and Wikipedia has a lot of pages about vandalism/verifiability which often recommends just changing the parts that don't fit or placing a warning on the user's page but what if the whole page is about a made up term that exists to link to the authors blog/company? I can't outright delete a whole page right? I'm also pretty new to contributing Wikipedia and even though they specifically recommend just trying and learning when some action wasn't appropriate I'd still feel more comfortable if I could contact someone with a bit more experience/reputation to discuss such an instance.
- kyle-rb 5y ago
- dijit27 5y agoHot Take: This is less extreme sport and more performance art.
- Animats 5y agoSome group used to have a drill team of serious-looking people who folded and unfolded lawn chairs in synchrony. But that's not extreme ironing. This is extreme ironing.[1] (From the leading company in a boring but profitable business.) [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd900ehE9M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd900ehE9M
- eyelidlessness 5y agoI misread the title as “extreme ignoring” and was mildly disappointed.
- thread_id 5y agoSeriously?
- mixmastamyk 5y agoI haven't ironed anything in a decade or two. After trying one of those steamer irons, which promptly broke. It had been working, and I wondered how much the heat was a factor. So I replaced it with a $1.99 fine spray bottle from Ikea, and it worked just fine! Saves a ton of electricity and time.
- WhompingWindows 5y agoYou're saying you just wet the shirt and use a room temperature iron on it?
- mixmastamyk 5y agoNo, I spray a mist on any wrinkles to slightly dampen them. Can be while hanging or even wearing the clothes, as you walk out the door. The wrinkles fall out quickly due to gravity and the water dries in two minutes or so.
- pym4n 5y agoOk, now I'm surprised... "extreme ironing". O-M-G
- Wildgoose 5y agoHad to have been started by an Englishman. English eccentricity is still alive and well!