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Enjoy!

I don't own an iron, but if I'd realised I could have taken it to the seamstress down the street to iron on. Oh well. The patch looks rad.

FYI for that sort of thing you can fashion one out of a sauce pan with a smooth base filled with boiling water and some grease proof paper.

You have misguided confidence in my ability not to simultaneously scald myself and burn the house down.

Not sure what the grease proof paper in the pan does. ;-)

Stops the water from sticking to the pan, silly.

I know there's a winky, but just in case it isn't obvious for anyone else...

... you put the paper under the base of the saucepan to prevent any dirt or residue grease transfering to the material.

Glad you cleared that up, I too was wondering why you needed grease proof paper to protect the pan from boiling water thinking wouldn’t the water get underneath the paper anyway and surely it won’t harm the pan but it was specifically mentioned so must serve a purpose but what purpose and it was all so confusing but now you’ve cleared it up we are all so much happier so thank you.

Also @hats why don’t you have an iron?

Because I don't iron my clothes!

Somebody should really get you one for Christmas.

Not so wise if he also has a telephone.

If you're going to use the pan technique to iron but you don't have any grease proof paper just iron it before you wash it that way any grease/dirt transferred from the pan is removed.

because you don't have an iron?

If I need something ironing I take it to the launderette to be ironed.

Ironing is such an uncivilised practice, should be banned imo

Couldn’t disagree more. I like ironing. I wouldn’t do it for a living, mind. But it’s rather relaxing.
Edit. Sorry, sorry, wrong thread

There are things I like about ironing, I find it very satisfying to watch all the creases disappear and I like the smell of it. But most of my clothes don't need ironing, so why have an iron/ironing board when I can outsource the occasional things that do need ironing.

Outsourcing ironing - you are now running the golf club!

The wife does it!!!!1

I’m sorry to hear you are ill in this way

Ironing is pretty zen. It's repetitive, meditative, satisfying, clean, nice smelling and requires the menagerie to keep a safe distance, thus guaranteeing peace.

My* wife does the ironing in our house. When we got married she'd never ironed anything. I did my work shirts and that was it. Now she makes a massive deal out of the amount of ironing that "needs"** doing every week. It involves her locking herself away with a big pile of laundry, a trashy boxset and a cold drink for several hours every Sunday while I argue with our semi-tamed ex-research chimps about dinner, cleaning themselves and going to bed. She claims it as a "chore" akin to my ownership of bin management, cooking, washing up, plughole unblocking etc. I'll be honest; I suspect I've been had.

*golf club paranoia trigger. "The wife I use" is the preferred phrase these day I believe?
**I've repeatedly opined that 95% of what gets ironed is done unnecessarily

Yep, you are definitely the husband she uses.

work shirts

Who 'members when those were a thing?

Made the mistake of investing in a Tyrwhitt bulk order around Xmas 2019, and have not gone back to the office since. Photo evidence from this year's work Xmas drinks, which I didn't attend, is that male work fashions haven't moved on in the slightest, though...