I wonder if these people scoffed at or participating in planking and owling.
Extreme Ironing
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#92Mildly 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?
Also, how do people get power for their irons? Do they backpack an inverter and huge lithium battery? Or are there chemically powered irons that they use?
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#94Someone 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.
Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6B6oeEs6dpzziaP7
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#95I was watching this on ESPN 8 recently. Thrilling stuff.
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#96Mildly 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?
Steam generating irons. I bought one a few years back and makes ironing so much easier, especially for shirts and trousers.
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#97Earlier 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.
You could do with hot coals. You can still get all your clothes ironed this way in many south asian countries by a street vendor.
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#98Earlier 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.
Indeed. In a competitive sport there should be a way to evaluate result to determine standings.
If ironing is just about extra bulk of equipment not the actual product of ironing, then it's more like weight-added competition. Otherwise there needs to be some way of judging the ironing aspect, like quality, novelty, or artistic merit, in addition to the otherwise difficulty, like in figure skating, for example.
But just for fun - everything is sport. In the line of "everything and the kitchen sink", how about extreme dish-washing!
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#100Mildly 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?
I have discovered the joy of having no clothes you need to iron. That’s real progress!
I buy a lot of black 100% polyester t-shirts for this reason. They don't need to be ironed and I don't have to decide what I'm wearing for the day.