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Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: GmanJoe on August 08, 2002, 06:19:00 AM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2176024.stm

Well...it\'s better than tractor pulling and NASCAR and Wal-Mart mullet cuts.

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: cloud345 on August 08, 2002, 06:24:37 AM

Wow......whoever made that up mustve had alot of time on their hands. :surprised

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Seraphim Pride on August 08, 2002, 06:39:13 AM

Now that\'s just plain dumb if ya ask me.  But if they enjoy it more power to \'em.

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Coredweller on August 08, 2002, 06:48:02 AM

This all started with a website about "extreme ironing" that I believe was a complete scam.

http://www.extremeironing.com/~eib/ei/homepage/main.php

I saw this site many months ago, and identified it instantly as a funny hoax.  I wonder why it appeared in the BBC news?  Did they get taken?  Or are they acknowledging that it\'s a fraud too?

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on August 08, 2002, 08:56:34 AM

I wonder if I could iron in the top of a mountain when i can\'t do it in my dinning room :p

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: videoholic on August 08, 2002, 08:59:18 AM

Cored, I think you are right.  It looks like they got scammed or something.  Very odd.

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: GmanJoe on August 08, 2002, 09:19:14 AM

Quote

Originally posted by Coredweller
This all started with a website about "extreme ironing" that I believe was a complete scam.

http://www.extremeironing.com/~eib/ei/homepage/main.php

I saw this site many months ago, and identified it instantly as a funny hoax.  I wonder why it appeared in the BBC news?  Did they get taken?  Or are they acknowledging that it\'s a fraud too?

Maybe the fraud was turned into reality? Who knows. Entertaining news, either way. :) Hey, as long as there are news like that and no more news about suicide bombings, child abductions, War in the Middle East, terrorist acts.....I\'ll take it.

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Big Log on August 08, 2002, 09:23:29 AM

Yeah, but the fraud website has the pics used in the BBC story.  Even I don\'t fall for that...

Anyone seen my binky?

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Cerberus on August 08, 2002, 10:22:49 AM

Don\'t you get it?

That\'s part of the BBC\'s new sporting line up.

They lost the rights to broadcast Football highlights, cricket, rugby union and a lot of other stuff, because they weren\'t prepared to fight for them.

Anyone living in the UK know that the BBC spend all their money on crappy game shows, soap operas and sub human fly-on-the-wall documentaries.

Extreme ironing and world championship knitting are "new, extreme and revolutionary" sports that are planned to be shown by the BBC

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: kopking on August 08, 2002, 10:38:07 AM

rofl!!!!!!! man that s funny, havent heard about it before........ they had extreme wheelbarrowing in the paper the other day

Title: Crazy Brits
Post by: Kurt Angle on August 08, 2002, 12:32:51 PM

Those BBC muppets deserve all they get, thank god for sky!