Another world record beaten...
Galloism
18-01-2009, 00:13
For underwater ironing! Also, the Sun is there.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2141923.ece
A GROUP of Brit divers have broken the record — for underwater ironing.
All 86 did an item of linen within the ten-minute time limit at the bottom of a 173ft-deep flooded quarry.
It beat a previous best of 72 set in Melbourne, Australia, last year.
Gareth Lock, 37, organised the event in Chepstow, South Wales, to raise cash for lifeboat crews — and didn’t expect to break the record.
He said: “We advertised on diving sites and word of mouth and expected a good turnout.
“We were shocked when so many arrived — and even more stunned when we snatched the record.”
Diver Mark Williams, 38, added: “My ironing came out pretty creased — luckily they don’t mark you down on quality.”
Their record will be ratified within weeks
Are you sure we're not living a Monty Python sketch? This would qualify as general silliness.
http://i134.photobucket.com/albums/q100/TheSteveslols/motivator2480128.jpg
Oh ironing. Sorry.
Dinaverg
18-01-2009, 00:18
lol wut
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
18-01-2009, 00:20
Why is there a record for underwater, mass-ironing? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. World records should be the sort of thing that you can base a bar bet on, like what's the most number of clothespins that a man has ever attached to his penis, or what's the distance that someone has ever survived falling. Nobody is ever going to say, "You know what? I bet the most people that have ever done their ironing underwater is 86."
Kryozerkia
18-01-2009, 00:23
Why is there a record for underwater, mass-ironing? That doesn't make any sense whatsoever. World records should be the sort of thing that you can base a bar bet on, like what's the most number of clothespins that a man has ever attached to his penis, or what's the distance that someone has ever survived falling. Nobody is ever going to say, "You know what? I bet the most people that have ever done their ironing underwater is 86."
When all the normal records are impossible to reach, you have to think outside the box. You need to get that 15 minutes of fame somehow... and stupid human tricks are the way to go.
Hydesland
18-01-2009, 00:37
Wrong thread LG :D
Lunatic Goofballs
18-01-2009, 00:38
Wrong thread LG :D
:eek: *blushes*
The Emmerian Unions
18-01-2009, 00:52
How can a person IRON UNDERWATER?!
Daedric Hegemony
18-01-2009, 04:56
...My brain...it's broken.
Extreme Ironing
18-01-2009, 13:22
For underwater ironing! Also, the Sun is there.
Are you sure we're not living a Monty Python sketch? This would qualify as general silliness.
I approve of this record. Shame I couldn't take part.
Mad hatters in jeans
19-01-2009, 00:25
underwater ironing?
so that's where the latest groups of immigrants have been working, it all falls into place now.
but seriously though how can you Iron underwater?
http://www.diveoz.com.au/aeui/
Extreme Underwater Ironing! What exactly is it? Originally pioneered by a group of Germans, it's the act of taking an ironing board and electric iron (minus the electricity of course) and setting it all up, somewhere interesting on the bottom of the ocean and taking the photos to prove you did it.
Sounds frikkin' awesome! Me and LG should form a team!
Fartsniffage
19-01-2009, 00:49
http://www.diveoz.com.au/aeui/
Sounds frikkin' awesome! Me and LG should form a team!
It's just Extreme Ironing taken to new lengths.
I applaude them.
Trollgaard
19-01-2009, 01:06
For underwater ironing! Also, the Sun is there.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2141923.ece
Are you sure we're not living a Monty Python sketch? This would qualify as general silliness.
I didn't even know there was a record for underwater ironing!
:eek: