Yeah, well ironing but at extreme locations and conditions.
For who?
I assume the same types that like base and bungee jumping
Pictures
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I didn't know it existed till Tom De Soete, a DJ from radio Studio Brussel, did it on the VRT (Belgian national TV) tower in Brussels. It seems eccentric cool.
So what’s your proposition for a location to perform an extreme ironing session?
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Call to power wrote:what do you plug the iron into?
A battery is possible.
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Call to power wrote:what do you plug the iron into?
A fuckbig extension lead?
Grave_n_idle wrote:Amusing. By your logic, anyone who owns property is corrupt (greetings, comrade), and anyone who has violence carried out in their name is violent, which also puts you in the same militant camp as utter bastards like Stalin, Jesus, and The Beatles.
Yootopia wrote:What on earth happened to Extreme Ironing the poster?
Hasn't posted so much after the move from Jolt, bu he's still around and about.
Grave_n_idle wrote:Amusing. By your logic, anyone who owns property is corrupt (greetings, comrade), and anyone who has violence carried out in their name is violent, which also puts you in the same militant camp as utter bastards like Stalin, Jesus, and The Beatles.
Yootopia wrote:What on earth happened to Extreme Ironing the poster?
Hasn't posted so much after the move from Jolt, bu he's still around and about.
Well, it is nice to have a thread devoted to oneself.
Otherwise I will continue with my current activity of 'moar lurkin' with occasional concise and self-deprecating comments.
And to answer the OP: I'd suggest extreme ironing to David Blain for his next stunt.
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“music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats - Section 63 (1)(b) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Extreme Ironing wrote:Well, it is nice to have a thread devoted to oneself. :blush:
Oh, well. I haven't achieved neither my first-preference goal to be the first to link to your member profile nor the second-preference one of predicting your appearance here before you actually did post, but I guess I will live.
Do post more, though, and if it is just for my personal pleasure. You're one of the good ones.
..SoWiBi..
..Oeck..
..ElkElks..
..NietzscheHeretics..
..Isjan..
..I am a False Statement..
are all expressing the above view in an indiscernible cacophony
We'll also all vanish now for a while. So long and thanks for all the fish!
As for locations: On top of the steel beams of a skyscraper under construction, like you see in those old pictures/cartoons of New York City construction workers? On a trapeze? On the back of a stampeding elephant? (Bonus points if you can get a whole herd of extreme ironers on the backs of a whole herd of stampeding elephants.) Is it too soon to suggest inside the former gas chambers at Auschwitz? <.<
(And I second the motion for EI to post more, Intangelon and I can't do the whole music-geek shtick on our lonesome and he seems a sensible sort in general.)
Dashret wrote:I wonder if it's possible to iron in space...
Not well, the vacuum would boil off the water in the iron too quickly and you'd never get those knife-edge creases without controlled steam.
Well obviously you'd do it in a pressurized cabin in space then. There are collectors which take care of stray water vapor on the air recyclers on the space shuttle so I think this would work fine in a space shuttle. Actually doing it might be hard since as you try to move th iron you would move as well. I imagine you would have to anchor yourself to something as well as the ironing board and you'd probably need to pin the shirt down to the ironing board. Still technically feasible though.
SoWiBi wrote:Oh, well. I haven't achieved neither my first-preference goal to be the first to link to your member profile nor the second-preference one of predicting your appearance here before you actually did post, but I guess I will live.
Do post more, though, and if it is just for my personal pleasure. You're one of the good ones.
Aww that's very kind. I've found I don't really have much to say in the numerous recurrences of age-old threads, or about US politics. These stretto entries of music threads have been a nice diversion.
“music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats - Section 63 (1)(b) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
SoWiBi wrote:Oh, well. I haven't achieved neither my first-preference goal to be the first to link to your member profile nor the second-preference one of predicting your appearance here before you actually did post, but I guess I will live.
Do post more, though, and if it is just for my personal pleasure. You're one of the good ones.
Aww that's very kind. I've found I don't really have much to say in the numerous recurrences of age-old threads, or about US politics
You could go with your real life approach to uninteresting conversation and just give a one-word response of "What?"
These stretto entries of music threads have been a nice diversion.
I figured you might have something in those discussions. I was hoping for unthinking support though, not reasoned disagreement!
Disposablepuppetland wrote:You could go with your real life approach to uninteresting conversation and just give a one-word response of "What?"
Yes, but typing it doesn't quite convey the right amount of disdain that it needs.
I figured you might have something in those discussions. I was hoping for unthinking support though, not reasoned disagreement!
I've never quite managed to completely agree with someone, including myself. Also, to learn reasoned disagreement is why I went to Cambridge and not the Dark Side; I didn't even have to think about that decision.
“music” includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats - Section 63 (1)(b) of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
by Hairless Kitten II » Wed Oct 07, 2009 10:42 am 
that's very kind. I've found I don't really have much to say in the numerous recurrences of age-old threads, or about US politics. These stretto entries of music threads have been a nice diversion.
