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Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by mirekrusin » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

elliekelly wrote: post #14

tyingq wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I 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

I mean if this is true it really just calls the validity of the whole sport into question. You obviously can’t iron without heat.

Looks like those guys are too lazy to rub it a bit.

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by mirekrusin » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:29 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #19

Extreme coding, anyone?

We already have Extreme Programming (XP).

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by Joker_vD » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

tokai wrote: post #21

elliekelly wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean if this is true it really just calls the validity of the whole sport into question. You obviously can’t iron without heat.

Ofc you can, with pressure.

Putting your trousers under the mattress and sleeping on them so that in the morning, they'll be flattened and de-wrinkled... because the lack of an iron anywhere on the base does not cancel the army regulations, and those say that the sentry must be impeccably dressed.

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by dangerbird2 » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:32 PM UTC

megamix wrote: post #26

rnd420_69 wrote: post #9

For some reason I read it as extreme ignoring and now wonder what that sport would look like

That's not a sport - it's called programming

  try:
    ...
  except BaseException:
    return "yolo"

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by louthy » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:39 PM UTC

bmmayer1 wrote: post #37

It's clear that people are just doing this...ironically.

Irony, a bit like silvery and bronzy?

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by belter » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:51 PM UTC

bmmayer1 wrote: post #37

It's clear that people are just doing this...ironically.

Is this like the ...iron man competition?

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by allears » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:55 PM UTC

As my wife said just now, "Any time I iron it's an extreme sport."

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by moron4hire » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 2:59 PM UTC

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #40

How is the iron powered when there are no electrical outlets at these places?

Smart contracts on the Blockchain

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by Lio » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 3:01 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #56

bmmayer1 wrote: post #37

It's clear that people are just doing this...ironically.

Is this like the ...iron man competition?

Go 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

Re: Extreme Ironing

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Post by drjasonharrison » Tue, Aug 31, 2021, 3:11 PM UTC

sneak wrote: post #2

Funny 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

No 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-expre...