26 Aug 2008, Posted by Cat in News, 3 Comments. Tagged

finally a sport I can take seriously!


Extreme ironing might be the coolest sport that didn’t make it into the Olympics this year. Started over a decade ago by UK knitwear factory worker Phil Shaw, it requires four simple criteria: a man, an iron, an ironing board, and a crazy natural environment that makes people think, holy crap I can’t believe he’s ironing on that thing! Shaw calls extreme ironing “the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.”

via Boing Boing, of course.


3 Comments

August 26, 2008 1:54 am

murasaki_1966

Do they need a really long extension lead? And how do they get the washing basket full of ironed stuff back to base?

August 26 2008 01:56 am

Cat

details... details...

August 28, 2008 7:15 pm

keithstevenson

being in the crappiest (and only) hotel in Rutherglen I am glad to say I indulged in this sport this very evening. Requesting the iron and iron board from reception I was confronted with an iron with frayed and potentially lethal cord and a chipped and deeply scrored body on the iron itself, but the board was even more of a challenge, barely half a metre long with a malfunctioning leg that meant it sat at a 60% angle on the desktop. Extreme indeed! However I came through it unscarred and I’m now ready to represent my country when this becomes an olympic demonstration sport, because we all know BMX is for pussies. K xx

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