[HN Gopher] Extreme Ironing
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Extreme Ironing
Author : kulesh
Score : 395 points
Date : 2021-08-31 11:16 UTC (22 hours ago)
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| TedDoesntTalk wrote:
| How is the iron powered when there are no electrical outlets at
| these places?
| moron4hire wrote:
| Smart contracts on the Blockchain
| SamBam wrote:
| If the smart contract says the iron gets hot, it must get
| hot. Smart contracts are bound by the iron laws of
| cryptography.
| moron4hire wrote:
| The iron has a miner inside it. A Mironer.
| fspoettel wrote:
| a use case, finally!
| eric__cartman wrote:
| And 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.
| tiborsaas wrote:
| We are in the middle of a battery revolution so... batteries.
| arethuza wrote:
| Maybe use an RTG - just for maximum extremeness?
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge.
| ..
|
| Edit: You could just cut out the generator bit and have a
| nuclear iron.
| rovr138 wrote:
| So 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 wrote:
| From 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 wrote:
| There'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.
| dijit27 wrote:
| Hot Take: This is less extreme sport and more performance art.
| eyelidlessness wrote:
| I misread the title as "extreme ignoring" and was mildly
| disappointed.
| sneak wrote:
| 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
| anemic wrote:
| Extreme 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
| zufallsheld wrote:
| Albern, Dumm, Lacherlich? German has words for silly and the
| concept of silly.
| bbarnett wrote:
| No, 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.
| xaedes wrote:
| But then is 'silly' translatable into any other language at
| all? With all its exact meanings, and nothing more?
| michael-ax wrote:
| so ein quatsch!
| Crono wrote:
| Doch! 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 wrote:
| But bugeln is less ironic which kind of ruins much of the
| appeal.
| drjasonharrison wrote:
| 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...
| duckmysick wrote:
| Mildly 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?
| maguay wrote:
| A quick Amazon search doesn't seem to show them being popular
| in the States, but in Asia at least irons with separate water
| tanks where the iron itself doesn't get hot enough to burn
| clothes have become the new standard over the past few years.
| 47 wrote:
| https://helloeffie.com/
|
| Never used it myself but i have been curious if it actually
| works.
| nose wrote:
| A hot shower can achieve similar results: https://www.reddit.
| com/r/ShowerScience/comments/302aqp/showe...
| pronik wrote:
| More like "is it released after all those years". I've been
| very interested in the concept, but that's the last I've
| heard from them in the last 3-4 years.
| dtgriscom wrote:
| Their blog was last updated almost two years ago.
| xarope wrote:
| back in the days when I used to have to wear a suit and tie, my
| wife bought me a laurastar. The hook was that they had a fan
| built into the board, that could suck (it could also blow and
| hence billow the material instead) the shirt to the board, so
| that ironing was easier.
| elorant wrote:
| Steam generating irons. I bought one a few years back and makes
| ironing so much easier, especially for shirts and trousers.
| bewaretheirs wrote:
| There's a market niche for "steam generator" irons specifically
| for use when sewing (where you need the iron sporadically while
| assembling a garment from pieces). This is sort of a "pro-
| sumer" space.
|
| These typically have an offboard water tank and boiler that
| doubles as a stand for the hot iron. This also lets the iron
| itself be lighter in weight.
|
| A key feature for this market is the _absence_ of the automatic
| shutoff that 's commonly found in consumer irons.
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I'm pretty sure that if we managed to get extreme ironing into
| the olympics, we'd see increased innovation in this sector.
| modzu wrote:
| the main advancement is planned obsolescence.
|
| well that, and the electric toothbrush
| u801e wrote:
| I don't know about the last 10 to 15 years, but 30 years ago, a
| lot of clothing brands had wrinkle free/resistant products
| which significantly reduced the need for ironing.
| cpcallen wrote:
| You can now get 'cordless' (electric) irons. Like an electric
| kettle, they heat up while sitting in the (decidedly non-
| cordless) base, but you don't have to contend with the cord
| while actually doing the pressing. I am a bit doubtful about
| whether they are much of an improvement over the usual corded
| kind, but the one person I know who has one insists that she
| greatly prefers it.
| zwayhowder wrote:
| I used on in Japan years ago and had to wait about 5 years
| before they showed up in Australia at a reasonable price. Not
| worth replacing a perfectly good iron with, but if you
| accidently melt the cord to your current iron it's worth
| considering.
|
| It is definitely easier not having to worry about the cord
| tangling or pulling at your clothes.
| bluGill wrote:
| My grandma used them for years. Hers weren't electric though,
| she had to put them on the wood stove to heat. The wood stove
| was next to her sewing machine, while the electric iron was
| in a different room, so it was a lot faster for her to pick
| up the iron than use the electric one. They didn't have
| automatic steam, but otherwise worked just as well.
| sydd wrote:
| > Are there similar improvements in household appliances like
| irons?
|
| Some examples that I know of:
|
| - modern robot vacuums, that can mop, use LIDAR etc. We have a
| pretty decent one, it works OK, but we still have to vacuum by
| ourselves every 2 weeks or so.
|
| - battery operated vacuums, irons, hair dryers etc.
|
| - smart homes -- automaticcally setting heat, window blinds
|
| - tons of gimmicky stuff like smart fridges, or water taps with
| touch screens.
|
| But I'd consider these just some quality of life improvements,
| not major time savers like washing things by hand vs a washing
| machine. IMO the next big thing will be household 3D printers
| when someone finds out how to make them safe and reliable for
| everyday use by non-technical people.
| dheera wrote:
| 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?
| cpcallen wrote:
| They _don 't_ generally power their irons. It's more about
| the absurd photos than the pressed shirts.
| maxerickson wrote:
| Extreme posing.
| rovr138 wrote:
| Throw some coal in them and away they go.
|
| They weren't always electric.
| dragontamer wrote:
| > Are there similar improvements in household appliances like
| irons?
|
| I bought a new washer/dryer recently. A bunch of bells and
| whistles, but... the "autosense the water level" feature is
| awesome, and likely saves water in the long run.
|
| It seems like washers use so much less water these days, its
| not like the old agitator models from 2000s which filled up a
| tank. Instead, modern washers thoroughly wet the clothes, add a
| bit of extra water at the bottom, and then mix vigorously (be
| it a front-load or top load, the HE washers all do this
| technique).
|
| This leads to lower water usage. I also ended up using much
| less soap per load (the first few times, I noticed the soap
| wasn't fully getting rinsed out, but the significantly less
| water usage means I also should use significantly less soap).
|
| > Where would one look for an industry overview?
|
| At least for generic household appliances, Consumer Reports is
| a non-profit survey / reviewer group. I dunno if they have much
| on irons themselves, but I haven't seen anything wrong with
| their reviews yet.
|
| I think there's a problem when the price goes too low. For
| something like $20, $50, or even $200 or $1000 appliances
| even... its not really worthwhile to review. Instead, you often
| have to just buy the thing and hope for the best.
|
| Maybe there's a specific professional group who is thinking
| about these tools and how to use them (chefs and cooking tools,
| or woodworkers + woodworking tools). But for things like irons
| or washers, or other household appliances... I don't think any
| such group exists outside of things like Consumer Reports.
|
| Still, I get my reviews on "Tide vs Persil", and other
| household items. I think "Wirecutter" is a competitor and some
| people say they've got good reviews too.
|
| In any case, Consumer Report's page on steam irons is here:
| https://www.consumerreports.org/products/steam-irons-28981/s...
| Qworg wrote:
| As an extension to the soap, there are single squeeze
| detergent bottles now that precisely meter on a one handed
| squeeze. So simple, yet phenomenally useful.
| dragontamer wrote:
| I've seen those, but... how does the bottle know how big
| your washer is? Or how water efficient it is?
|
| A agitator "tub washer" uses 40-gallons of water to wash
| clothes. A modern front-loading HE washer uses 10-gallons.
|
| If you use the same amount of soap on both washers, you'll
| naturally be either... adding too much soap to the HE
| washer, or too little soap to the agitator washer.
|
| -------
|
| Same thing with "Tide Pods". The idea of those things is
| "one pod per load", which removes the mental need to think
| of how much soap to add per load. But... once again,
| there's many different washers that all use different
| amounts of water. There's no way we really have a one-side
| fits all situation.
| Qworg wrote:
| They're designed for a particular level of washer - HE in
| this case - you could probably extend to a larger one.
| inasio wrote:
| My favourite advance from the last ten years has been around
| precision cooking. Sous vide is perhaps the most well known,
| but you can now get sensors to automatically control a bbq,
| steam and temperature controlled ovens are becoming more
| common/affordable (still waiting for a home-use Rational), etc.
| I love being able to cook with consistent quality and easily
| repeatable results.
| dunham wrote:
| Yeah, Anova has something that claims to be a temperature
| controlled (+-0.5F) steam oven at the $600 price point. It's
| tempting, but I'm not sure I want to give up the counter
| space.
|
| If anyone here has one, I'm curious how well it works.
| derefr wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| > 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 wrote:
| * 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.)
| jacobolus wrote:
| Note: kids also often chafe at learning new things, if it
| feels like someone is telling them what to do. Source: My
| kids are 2.5 and 5, and I hang out with a lot of other
| small kids and their parents these days.
| derefr wrote:
| Depends on the thing. Children tend to be fine at self-
| directed learning, e.g. figuring out how to play a new
| video game. Some--most?--adults chafe at even the idea of
| engaging in an activity that requires self-directed
| learning. (To the point that we even have an English word
| for those adults that don't: "neophiles.")
| mightybyte wrote:
| Did you mean "neophobes"?
| jacobolus wrote:
| Some children enjoy playing some new video games. (As do
| some adults.) Some children (and some adults) would
| refuse to play a video game that someone else told them
| to play. Their decisions and feelings are contingent on
| the context (including social context).
|
| If you slow down and have a conversation you can
| sometimes figure out what the specific emotional problem
| is, often involving shame or fear, and what triggers it
| has. The problem is seldom if ever "so-and-so is
| incapable of learning anything new".
| derefr wrote:
| > Some children (and some adults) would refuse to play a
| video game that someone else told them to play.
|
| Well, yes, but coercion, extrinsic motivation, and
| general spite are all edge-cases, and outside the scope
| of what the core fact about "learning" that I'm trying to
| talk about here.
|
| Let's look at a specific non-edge-case case: learning
| under self-directed intrinsically-motivated reward + time
| pressure -- for example, learning to hunt/gather when
| stranded in the wilderness and hungry.
|
| In situations like this, children do better than adults
| at _deciding to begin experimenting in an attempt to
| learn_ how to survive. Adults will try to apply any
| skills they already have (however rusty), but will have a
| much harder time than children do in _deciding_ to try to
| do things they haven 't already ever been taught to do.
| And even when they do make that decision, they will
| repeatedly revoke it--i.e. give up much more quickly when
| a solution does not come easily to them. Even though, in
| education-theoretic terms, all the stars _should_ be
| aligned in terms of motivating their learning process.
|
| > The problem is seldom if ever "so-and-so is incapable
| of learning anything new".
|
| Of course not. That's the observed abstract pattern, not
| the _reason_. The _reason_ for adults, AFAICT, is almost
| always pride /hubris -- that is, the idea that they don't
| _need_ to learn anything new, that there 's no
| _advantage_ in it to outweigh the learning cost, because
| they 've got by just fine up to now without having
| learned it. (And also because learning is just plain
| harder for adults, since they have so many existing
| schemas that need to be broken+reshaped in the process of
| fully absorbing new ideas that don't fit the existing
| schema.)
|
| This resistance comes almost always from adults who see
| themselves as having higher social status than whoever's
| trying to teach them the thing. They have no mental
| schema for learning from someone younger or more junior
| (or of a lower social class/caste) than themselves, since
| it's not something they've ever experienced earlier in
| their lives.
|
| Instead, when someone in an inferior social positions
| knows a thing, and offers to teach it to this social-
| superior adult, the adult will instead try to manipulate
| their social inferior into doing the task _for_ them any
| time they need it to be done -- often under the _pretext_
| of demonstration for purpose of learning. But with no
| intention of actually learning, and a complete rejection
| on being tested for knowledge acquisition (because that
| would be a violation of the social dynamic!)
|
| Note also that _learning_ is separate from _doing_. I
| know many adults that are willing to _do_ novel things
| (without really understanding what they 're doing), and
| to memorize that _specific series of actions_ by rote --
| but who have no desire to understand the more general
| skill behind the rote actions they 're taking, such that
| they could perform related actions in any context other
| than the exactly memorized thing. In general,
| _memorizing_ is easy, while _learning_ a new skill is
| much, much harder. (And yet memorization without learning
| almost never "sticks", since there's no backing mental
| schema to encode the memorized steps in terms of.)
| jacobolus wrote:
| > _give up much more quickly when a solution does not
| come easily to them_
|
| Anecdotally, kids often also give up easily when faced
| with trivial setbacks. I think your speculative
| generalization is far too broad. I'd be interested to see
| some concrete research, but my impression is that there
| is very wide variability, and I'm not sure how meaningful
| the statistical averages are.
|
| The people I know who are best at diving into a new
| never-seen thing and experimenting systematically to
| figure out quickly and accurately how it works are all
| adults. They easily run circles around kids at this: the
| kids get tired, get distracted, get confused and give up,
| get stuck into an obviously sub-optimal pattern but don't
| try to fix it, etc. (The kind of adults who have decades
| of practice at trying / learning new things. Many
| relevant metacognitive skills have broad applicability
| across disciplines.)
|
| One big advantage kids have is that their basic needs are
| met by someone else, and they generally don't have lots
| of other worries and responsibilities. This allows them
| to focus on something they are interested in far longer
| and deeper than most people who aren't doing that thing
| professionally.
|
| The best for learning (for either an adult or a child) is
| a combination of personal interest + pleasant no-pressure
| environment + face-to-face guidance from a trusted expert
| tutor/coach, who can probe weak points, notice and
| correct mistakes and misconceptions, suggest methods of
| practice, ....
|
| > _pride /hubris_
|
| What you call pride/hubris, I call shame and fear of
| embarrassment. People really don't want other people (or
| themselves) to see them as failures.
|
| > _when someone in an inferior social positions knows a
| thing_
|
| This kind of social situation is completely different
| than the "self-directed intrinsically-motivated reward"
| situation you were talking about before.
|
| It's hardly surprising that someone who is supposed to be
| an expert doesn't want to be shown up by their
| subordinate or their junior colleague. It makes them look
| incompetent and is a direct threat to their social
| position and livelihood.
| hughrr wrote:
| I have discovered the joy of having no clothes you need to
| iron.
|
| That's real progress!
| codazoda wrote:
| 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.
| freeplay wrote:
| Nothing more comfortable than a nice plastic shirt
| DiffEq wrote:
| These can be real problems when subject to a heat flash
| from a nuclear blast. They tend to melt right on you
| rather than block the heat.
| [deleted]
| ackbar03 wrote:
| I guess he better stay away from nuclear blasts then
| 867-5309 wrote:
| the dolphins disagree
| WJW wrote:
| Dolphins don't wear shirts so they're hardly experts on
| the subject.
| 867-5309 wrote:
| *shouldn't
| zo1 wrote:
| Also realizing that a lot of times you don't need to iron
| something at all. Fold it nicely, or hang it up to dry
| without creases and you'd be amazed at how good it looks
| without ironing. Short of formal work clothes, I don't have
| anything that needs ironing.
| squarefoot wrote:
| My idea years ago, if human shaped and sized balloons were
| easily available, was to put clothes on one, then inflate
| it until it gently keeps clothes tight, then wait for them
| to dry. I could never test it however.
| [deleted]
| Moru wrote:
| Well, there is this:
|
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aR_o-Y7Mpo
| semi-extrinsic wrote:
| Oh, 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...
| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| I was watching this on ESPN 8 recently. Thrilling stuff.
| toxodont wrote:
| How do they power their irons?
| tromp wrote:
| Finally, an application for the conductive bungee cord...
| layer8 wrote:
| Irons used to be heated up by a fire, so that'd be an option.
| luguenth wrote:
| From the German Wiki (roughly translated):
|
| > Commercially available irons are used for ironing. In places
| where no electrical power supply is available or cannot be used
| due to humidity, the heating plate is heated by auxiliary
| constructions (mostly gas cookers). For the World Cup, for
| example, a process was developed in which the iron is heated
| inside by an exothermic reaction, generated by mixing a
| hygroscopic chemical pressed into granules with water.
|
| https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremb%C3%BCgeln
| DaiPlusPlus wrote:
| Good question, but at least they don't need to refill the
| steamer's reservoir.
| tyingq wrote:
| 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
| elliekelly wrote:
| 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.
| ballenf wrote:
| Conversely, I would question whether you can iron without a
| mountain backdrop. Really calls into question whether those
| crisp lines on your clothing are the result of true ironing
| or just pressing something hot against them.
| tyingq wrote:
| It's true for every example I can find.
|
| This photo, for example, shows a plain old plug-in iron: ht
| tps://web.archive.org/web/20161017222702/http://teamsteam..
| ..
|
| Same guy, up in a tree, with the same iron: https://web.arc
| hive.org/web/20161017223140/http://teamsteam....
|
| From this page: https://web.archive.org/web/20160920083532/
| http://teamsteam....
|
| -\\_(tsu)_/-
| mirekrusin wrote:
| Looks like those guys are too lazy to rub it a bit.
| tokai wrote:
| Ofc you can, with pressure.
| Joker_vD wrote:
| 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.
| travisporter wrote:
| 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.
| marcellus23 wrote:
| Uh, do you think the point of the sport is to de wrinkle
| clothes?
| rogual wrote:
| Ironing clothes -- actually getting them flat -- on a
| mountain peak or underwater is interesting because of the
| difficulty. Finding out the person isn't really ironing,
| but just pretending, detracts from it and takes it from
| "that's quite an accomplishment" to "so what?". It goes
| from an interesting logistical challenge to "can you take
| an ironing board and an iron up the mountain / into the
| sea with you?"
| flotzam wrote:
| Yes, of course. Non dewrinkling ironing on the peak of
| Mt. Everest is for casuals.
| marosgrego wrote:
| It's one of the things judged on the extreme ironing
| competitions: https://youtu.be/jZ6Yo0cVMP0?t=205
| zoomablemind wrote:
| 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!
| bserge wrote:
| Pfft, not even a coal fired iron? Extreme my arse
| devoutsalsa wrote:
| That's not ironing. It's a fabric massage.
| rovr138 wrote:
| Get an old coal one.
| eCa wrote:
| A portable power station (eg [1]) should be an expected part of
| a working ironing setup..
|
| [1] https://www.bluetti.com/products/bluetti-
| ac50s-500wh-300w-po...
| [deleted]
| thorin wrote:
| The 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.
| systemBuilder wrote:
| This 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....
| angrygoat wrote:
| A fairly good example, from the RAF in the Falkland Islands
| https://youtu.be/xyA9hpfBsB4?t=149
| cryptonector wrote:
| Perfect timestamp for this.
| [deleted]
| arethuza wrote:
| Presumably that's the _Special Ironing Service_ (SIS) at work?
| pym4n wrote:
| Ok, now I'm surprised... "extreme ironing". O-M-G
| Matheo05 wrote:
| That just made my day!
| cryptica wrote:
| I 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.
| danlugo92 wrote:
| No.
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| I 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 wrote:
| You're saying you just wet the shirt and use a room temperature
| iron on it?
| mixmastamyk wrote:
| No, 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.
| thread_id wrote:
| Seriously?
| Animats wrote:
| Some 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
| bla3 wrote:
| In 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.
| raman162 wrote:
| > 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.
| dang wrote:
| One small past thread:
|
| _Extreme ironing_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6594989
| - Oct 2013 (2 comments)
| petercooper wrote:
| Extreme coding, anyone?
| amai wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
| hutzlibu wrote:
| Oh 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.
| bserge wrote:
| Coding while homeless. Actually exists but people don't like it
| for some reason.
| nickthemagicman wrote:
| Currently evacuating from Ida and coding while homeless in a
| hotel on the beach.
|
| Not too bad!
| tiborsaas wrote:
| Ask a digital nomad :)
| mirekrusin wrote:
| We already have Extreme Programming (XP).
| dangerbird2 wrote:
| Alas, extreme programming is not nearly as fun as it sounds
| toast0 wrote:
| There _is_ a distinct lack of SlimJims being snapped into,
| nor many aerial moves in extreme programming.
| SuoDuanDao wrote:
| This 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!
| vernie wrote:
| I wonder if these people scoffed at or participating in planking
| and owling.
| nicbou wrote:
| From the See also section:
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wok_racing
| dangerbird2 wrote:
| Don't forget wife carrying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wife-
| carrying
| zkms wrote:
| and belt-sander racing! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt-
| sander_racing
| eCa wrote:
| For gamers, this[1] is probably the best extreme gaming
| equivalent. Playing horror games alone in the woods at night.
|
| [1] https://youtu.be/UCvnrkN9Jjw
| Ancapistani wrote:
| This is the best thing I've seen in quite a while.
| raman162 wrote:
| Someone 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 wrote:
| Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
| https://photos.app.goo.gl/p6B6oeEs6dpzziaP7
| raman162 wrote:
| Ha, good to see that someone has already done that.
| rnd420_69 wrote:
| For some reason I read it as extreme ignoring and now wonder what
| that sport would look like
| SuoDuanDao wrote:
| I feel like that's just normal social behaviour for most
| felines.
| Applejinx wrote:
| NO. You don't wonder that, and I don't either!
| cbozeman wrote:
| > wonder what that sport would look like
|
| Your love life.
|
| (just kidding!)
| megamix wrote:
| That's not a sport - it's called programming
| dangerbird2 wrote:
| try: ... except BaseException: return
| "yolo"
| banana_giraffe wrote:
| Visual Basic was a world leader in this field:
| On Error Resume Next
| nicoburns wrote:
| In BASH, you don't even have to do that: it's the
| default!
| teknopaul wrote:
| There are no errors in bash, it always does exactly what
| it wants to.
| JohnWhigham wrote:
| Ask my wife
| smoyer wrote:
| I vehemently refuse to read your comment!
| system2 wrote:
| Another valid proof of people do anything to get attention.
| SamBam wrote:
| Boo. Pretty sad way to view people having fun.
| michaelhoffman wrote:
| People will also do all sorts of things for fun.
| slingnow wrote:
| 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%.
|
| It's pure attention seeking. And it also might be fun.
| SamBam wrote:
| This 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?
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| > 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)
| bmmayer1 wrote:
| It's clear that people are just doing this...ironically.
| louthy wrote:
| Irony, a bit like silvery and bronzy?
| drittich wrote:
| I'm getting board of this, I have more pressing concerns. Like
| collaring some criminals to de-crease the number wrinkles in
| our society.
| smoyer wrote:
| Perhaps we should turn to more pressing matters?
| admax88qqq wrote:
| Go home
| belter wrote:
| Is this like the ...iron man competition?
| Lio wrote:
| 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
| drittich wrote:
| Button your lips, this thread is done.
| belter wrote:
| don't want to 'press' your luck.
| tonyedgecombe wrote:
| No need to get so hot under the collar.
| javajosh wrote:
| Someone should make a video game of Extreme Ironing -
| distributed only on Steam.
| Wildgoose wrote:
| Had to have been started by an Englishman. English eccentricity
| is still alive and well!
| allears wrote:
| As my wife said just now, "Any time I iron it's an extreme
| sport."
| ethbr0 wrote:
| For 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 wrote:
| Were Irons replaced when Dry Cleaners were invented?
| kyle-rb wrote:
| Interesting, 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, 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 wrote:
| > That citation leads to 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 wrote:
| Citogenesis in the wild? [0]
|
| [0] https://xkcd.com/978/
| mikevin wrote:
| Slightly 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 wrote:
| I don't have a ton of experience, but you can add a "may not
| meet notability guidelines" banner, or a "proposed deletion".
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability#Articles_.
| ..
| nwallin wrote:
| Don't delete it. Deleting an article has the lowest
| effort:effect ratio, so lots of automatic policies are in
| place to speedily allow an author to restore a page that's
| been deleted.
|
| If the article itself shouldn't exist, mark it with
| {{qd|spam}} . `qd` is quick deletion.
|
| If the article should still exist but has substantial content
| that's advertising, mark it {{npov}}
|
| In both cases someone else will come along and fix it. If the
| author who put the ads up in the first place removes your
| template, just put it back up.
| Clewza313 wrote:
| Joke articles (and let's face it, this is a joke sport) tend to
| attract joke edits.
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