I give you:” Extreme Ironing”. Yes, you read that correctly. A group of people who are apparently incredibly, unbelievably bored and with waaaay too much time on their hands (or a lot of wrinkled up clothes) have come up with a new kind of “sport”, extreme ironing. As the website of the Extreme Ironing Bureau defines it:

“the latest danger sport that combines the thrills of an extreme outdoor activity with the satisfaction of a well pressed shirt.”

They even have competetive ironing. And it has been suggested for Olympic eligibility. That would make for very interesting sports commentary:

“...and in extreme ironing so and so lost the olympic gold after missing a crease competing in light summer clothing class…”

Not only that, turns out there are all sorts of weird “extreme” sporting activities, such as “Extreme Accounting“. Now that sounds like a lot of fun.

You can blame it on global warming, cell phone radiation, or whatever…but the world is seriously going crazy.