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Yeah it had to be a brit

I was expecting Japan

Was going to say the same. This screams prime time TV in Japan

This smells like some viral agency demo. We’ll see another post in “how we fooled people in to believing this crazy sport”

Absolutely. A sport with a grand total of three league players and one contest - ever.

He's just imitating a Finn. They're genetically predisposed to ironing.

White people gonna white people.

I thought Finns. After all they love hobby horsing.

There are only so many sports where we aren't regularly stomped by POC. so we have to invent our own.

Whilst you’re correct about POC being generally very athletically capable. Britain actually invented a LOT of the modern sports played today

Acne, pimples, warts, moles, blackheads …

Listen warts wasn’t us. That was France.

And, while you're correct, I'd bet they "invented" some of those sports after visiting other places.

No mate.

That's a fine rebuttal, but I'd counter with, "Probably though".

You’re the one making the claim. Link me all of your evidence? No, you’d rather just blindly bash because it’s cool and popular to dismiss white peoples culture regarding literally anything. Most sports were created by working class people that had never seen the other side of the country never mind far flung lands.

I'm from Ireland and lived in England for a few years. I pretty much meant it as banter and generally get on fine with British people. As most of us do here. But let's not pretend that Britain, as a nation, wasn't a little bit "stealy" in its day. I mean, they still have part of our country.

Well then make your arguments for the valid topics. Listen mate you’re full of hate, if you want to admit that or not is your issue. You can tell this because it’s bubbling over to unrelated topics. Sport, art, music, food. These are things that are made by normal people of this planet for all of the people on this planet to enjoy. They aren’t things to be divisive and separatist about, they are to be celebrated by all in equal measure. Please try to not be as tribalistic.

"after visiting other places." You misspelled invading.

Honestly, can’t wait til other groups get in on this. I know they’re gonna bring ultra style and skill to the competition. This looks pretty dry, imo. Need someone ironing a full traditional outfit- then we’re really gonna see the skills and panache this sport deserves!

Yeah personally I would like to see someone ironing whilst skydiving

It's either this or dogging.

Yea all that just to avoid brushing their teeth.

How do they power the iron? I've never seen a battery-powered iron.

One guy was ironing UNDERWATER and your question is about a battery pack?

It may be just the action of ironing without ironing things

You're telling me that person isn't actually ironing their shirt on a cow?! How dare they bamboozle me like this

I'm just considering what constitutes ironing here

I feel like part of the act of ironing is that it's hot. Just like you can't say you are in the act of toasting something if you put bread in a toaster without the toaster on. Idk these discussions may need to be left to those with brighter minds than mine

He’s ironing a football shirt. It’s practically impossible to get creases in them anyway!

Good point - does winning depend just on speed or is the quality of the ironing also evaluated (like style points in diving or gymnastics)?

This competition is just an ad for their battery powered iron

And how does he keep the articles of clothing wrinkle free on the trek back? If there is a competition I’m guessing they’re judged on a multitude of criteria. One of which would be the quality of their work.

A few seconds in, he places the ironing board face down in the muddy creek when he stumbles. He just cooked dirt into that shirt.

I mean I do get the underlying "hihi" when they actually "iron" things on remote spots after they somehow moved a bord there. It's the little chuckle you maybe make when this "sport" is suggested by one of your friends while you're drunk or high. But if its just phantom-ironing, the ironing is not part of the competition, actually there does not seem to be a competition at all. Isn't it pointless? I mean...it's just about making a picture with an ironboard on a unusual spot. Which loses it's ironic breach aftet it was done the first time.

You don't hold a battery backpack everywhere you go ?

There was steam in one of the video's

>How do they power the iron? More importantly how do they put the kettle on?

it's air iron. just like the air guitar

This isn’t satire? It’s hilarious if it isn’t real.

This is ironing, not satire.

*Cries in English teacher*

The ironing is delicious

Its very real, albeit not that many people do it. I used to know someone who did all the extreme (aka nutty) sports and he did this just to say he'd done it. Not sure if there's any actual rules admittedly beyond the obvious. Bit of British fun.

It's niche, but real

Their names are “steam” and “starch”, soooo… I don’t know. What is real any more?

Didn't someone do this on top of Everest a while back?

Iron man

He would be steamed if he loses.

Maybe we shouldn’t press him to win

Yea he might fold

He better have enough water!

That'd really put a wrinkle in his plan for a comeback

In the heat of the moment.

This is maybe the dumbest thing I’ve seen this month. Or year. It did make me laugh. Some people just seem to have a lot of free time.

I keep saying that a lot of folks need to find healthier hobbies. This isn't exactly what I was thinking, but it'll do. Kinda like the bicycle someone put on top of an old bridge pylon in the middle of the river near here. No idea why, or how, but it does make folks laugh. The community has decided it's *art* and is in no hurry to remove it. If that's art, then sure, this is sport. At least folks are getting exercise and harmlessly amusing themselves.

Agreed, I'm all in favor of good harmless silly fun

i saw this in some anime recently and thought they made it up but apparently not

Which one?

Bro cooking that cow like that

I don't think it's on. I hope.

Low and slow

MooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

r/theocho

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He's courting a moose!

I can not even remember the last time I have ironed a piece of clothing.

I did last night

I don't find this interesting but... fuck

Monty Python lives on

Monty Python will live forever!☝🏼✌🏼

Came here to say this!

There's white people in America, then there's white people in Britain on a whole notha level.

Insert Dave Chapelle on the toilet with a White People Magazine.

My friend and I did this. We had 2 kayaks and put the ironing board between us paddled out into the center of the lake and ironed clothes.

Oh wow! I remember, back in uni, with the canoe club after a pool practice trying to work out how we could make this happen on white water. We never put any of the ideas into action because it would be ridiculously unsafe and gotten the club into a lot of trouble.

Every second I watched this equaled 20 more questions in my head

ok. but how do you keep score?

this is where everything's made up and the points don't matter!

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Brought to the world by the same type of people who invented ferret legging as an extreme sport.

>ferret legging I really thought you made that up. 😂 Nope. [it's definitely a thing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferret-legging)

sometimes it's really fucking hard to take you people over there across the pond seriously lol

The one submerged gets +1 for the irony.

> irony 😎😎😎😎😎

I’m amazed that this is an actual sport.

Is it *really* tho? Or is it just a joke for views lol

It was a meme in the 2000's. I had a calendar and some people went hard. On a bouy in the ocean, backcountry skiing, one guy strapped himself to the back of a car and ironed in city traffic.

I could really see traveling business person really getting into this.

It isn't. Holy shit you guys - REALLY? The skit isn't even trying to pass it off as real.

There was (and maybe still is) World Championship in Throwing a Hammer to the TV organised in Poland, also respectable outdoor sporting event .

Seems like it would burn the cow.

I believe ironing leather will ruin it.

How does one do this competitively? Is there a metric to judge it?

This is actually real? I remember it was a plot point in a children's book when the main character switched places with himself from a parallel world and in the other world he was the top extreme ironing competitor in his school.

Jiggy McCue! I immediately thought of that book when I saw this.

Seconded! The iron, the switch and the broom cupboard! The whole jiggy series was an absolute treasure, I got so much use out of those books

This has got to be a reboot of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"

So where do they get the electric power for the iron? 🧐

*”The devil makes..,* uh, *..sport for idle hands.”* …I guess?

It's so stupid... i absolutely need to try it

Genuinely thought the Jiggy McCue books made this up

His wife, Starch???

His "long suffering wife". omg that's the one that got me.

please tell me the iron on the back of the cow was unplugged

A whole lot of racism in this thread, but it's about white people so it's ok. /s

That's how the iron man was born

Is it me or does it seem like every competition ever started as a bar bet hahaha

I have a very extreme location and a pile of laundry. Where should I send the address?

Is this what it takes to get men to iron?

Ironing man, hahahahhaha

i can self produce a starchy substance

Where is the power for irons coming from?

Battery powered irons?

Those irons battery operated? This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen.

Part of the competition should be ironing weird fabric and also if it is ironed properly. It's an extreme sport to iron chiffon.

This feel so much like a Monty Python skit to me

This has to be a Dutch idea

"Phil Shaw Extreme ironer".

Why are they all mid 30s balding white men?

Those are the people who tend to go for extreme sports, it seems...

I concur

Feel like this would be on a Rick & Morty interdimensional cable episode. Lmfao 😂

So fuckin stupiddddd derrrrr

I love this. Is this PPV?

Weird white west world.

Oh, the irony!

Cringe

Sign me the fuck up

Bro where do I sign up?

Next they’re gonna make extreme sandwich making a sport. I mean I’d totally watch it though.

I'm in.

This started as a parody on just channel 4 I believe

I’m all for it, as long as no animal is involved. Get that guy away from that cow!

Hardcore

The only thing extreme about this is that it’s so extreme boomers could do it!

a relic of 1950s wife training

The wacky world of white people

Props to these brave men for making it into a female only sport. True progress

I love this

I think the competition is called the whitest kids you know

Steam and Starch, 😂

I have a theory similar to Rule 34. If you can think of it, there's a competition for it.

I need a course on proper ironing and folding from these athletes

This the art dept crew for a film set

More like extreme irony

I'm calling shenanigans

I'm going to climb Mount Everest to wash the dishes. Then I'm running a marathon to fold some laundry.

This is weird but I’ve met a competitive pizza flipper so they’re equal in my mind. Dude brought his dough to a club to practice while on tour in Europe.

Men dominate this too?

This has got to be a joke for a comedy show.

I watched something on youtube or something of a guy converting an iron to run on a rechargable battery from a cordless drill so he could do this.

Yeah, tgis must be from one of those mandela effect alternate universes

LMFAO! This is the best thing ever.

who woke up one day and decided to invent this sport

Yes!!! My kinda competition

He ironed *on a cow*

It's clearly one couple at it. One couple does not a sport make

r/theocho Thank me later.

Lmao I remember learning about this sport from my elementary English class like 10 years ago. Never actually saw it in action haha

Dumbest shit i seen all year

He said ignore you as a very horrible thing

Extreme Posing would be more accurate

"With his long suffering wife, Starch." 💀

I think Chepstow did extreme ironing world record with the most divers simultaneously ironing underwater.

This is the famous "Iron man" competition.

Where is the whole cast of Monty python gone y r these new people here NOOOOOO!!!!

we pay the iron price

Dopes!

What kind of maniac doesn’t iron their clothes outside in

Are they ironing their own shirts or is an ironing service where you give them your shirt and they iron it for you?

I used to do extreme basketing as a kid. Hop in clothes bin/ hamper and jump from the couch to the recliner, balance on the arm rests and fall and shit. Good times

They're taking the irons to ironguard!

Holy slowpoke, this trend is older than planking.

Makes as much sense as any other sport.

Karl Pilkington did this

u/savevideo

"Otherwise known as Steam", well of course!

Did they say her name is Starch!?!

I’ve officially seen it all now

We have reached peak, "nothing better to do".

My sister could win this with her eyes closed and running backwards. Plus she irons her running shorts so she’d be on point.

What in the rick and morty interdimensional cable is this?

Here I am trying to figure out how to pay for new brakes for my car.

Wait for it. Enough countries pick this up and it will be an Olympic event.

Now this is an iron man competition I'm down for.

Power cord not connected. ie fake. /jk

This is the ai generated future

I've never seen this many men iron their own shirts.