Pet Peeve on Guinness World Records

[G✇JI☈A]

If you go to their website homepage:

www.guinnessworldrecords.com/

You will see a the records for the biggest back pack, and the biggest fan.

These are the types of records that annoy me. You take the biggest fan for example. What is a fan for... It's making a cool breeze for you face. Who is supposed to use that fan then? King Kong?

I don't like the big stuff records that make it once it's big it defeats the purpose of the product. Is anyone actually going to use that back pack as a back pack.

I remember in one book from a few years ago it had the World's Largest Paper clip. It was about 20 feet tall. But it's not a paper clip. It's not a paper clip until it can clip pages of paper together. Until then it's just a sculpture in the shape of the paper clip.

Just annoys me.

Sorry I quit my job today and wanted to rant on something trivial.

[Ultimo Chocula]

I have a friend who got in the book for making the world's largest maple bar. If that's a stupid record then put the dunce cap on my head.

[Dean-o]

I don't really have a problem with it. I find things like a 20 foot paper clip amusing in a weird way.

On a side note, has anybody ever tried breaking a World Record?

[default]

I got no problem with it either, it just makes the wortly more weird. Plus a lot of the times, the record breaking brings a community or people together.

[thesam07]

If it's large food thats different. Because you know afterwards everyones going to get a piece.
But I do agree with that "Large Paperclip" sortof record. It's not a papaerclip, it's a statue of a paperclip.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Nov 26, 2009 2:01:39 GMT -5 Dean-o said:

I don't really have a problem with it. I find things like a 20 foot paper clip amusing in a weird way.

On a side note, has anybody ever tried breaking a World Record?

Yeah, apparently "Most Masturbating" isn't a valid category or something. They just won't send a someone to watch to make sure I break the record.....

Perhaps I've gone too far.......

[G✇JI☈A]

The home page also has a pic of the world's biggest Trumpet.

No if it can produce a note like a regular sized trumpet I will have no problem with it. Now who are they gonna get to produce that note?

[thesam07]

Nov 26, 2009 4:12:15 GMT -5 G✇JI☈A said:

The home page also has a pic of the world's biggest Trumpet.

No if it can produce a note like a regular sized trumpet I will have no problem with it. Now who are they gonna get to produce that note?

The worlds largest trumpeter.

[Back to being Cenanuff]

The ones that piss me off are the totally outlandish, why-the-smurf-would-you-even-think-of-doing-something-so-stupid ones. Like one I saw done where the guy got into the book for...drum roll please...


most bubbles blown while having a tarantula in your mouth.

[@TenaciousBe]

Or how about the ones where they have to invent a record for the sake of somebody's dumbass stupid human trick. The lady who could snort milk in through her nose and shoot it out her eye socket? They invented a record for the "most distance" while doing whatever that was. Argh.

[Tarik Dee]

If the clip statue is a record, that mean the statue of the liberty breaks the record for tallest woman?

[TuneinTokyo]

I liked the guy who stuffed 100 cigarettes in his mouth. He's my hero.

[Red Impact]

Nov 26, 2009 1:59:43 GMT -5 Ultimo Chocula said:

I have a friend who got in the book for making the world's largest maple bar. If that's a stupid record then put the dunce cap on my head.

As long as it's functional, I'm all for it.

I hope he does it again, so I can get in the Guinness Book of World Records for eating the world's largest maple bar.

[Threadkiller [Classic]]

Nov 26, 2009 2:03:43 GMT -5 default said:

I got no problem with it either, it just makes the wortly more weird. Plus a lot of the times, the record breaking brings a community or people together.

Like that episode of Hey Arnold! where they try to get into the record book for a variety of things, not least of which was making the World's Largest Pizza. The whole community comes together for the attempt...which fails...gloriously.

Until they realize they've made it into the record book for Most Attempts at Breaking a World Record.

I miss Nickelodeon. Real Nickelodeon. With Kirk Fogg, Mike O'Malley and Mo, and Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina. And even that football-headed, skirt-wearing [/heenan] extrovert.

[Red Impact]

Nov 26, 2009 13:08:15 GMT -5 Threadkiller [Classic] said:

Nov 26, 2009 2:03:43 GMT -5 default said:

I got no problem with it either, it just makes the wortly more weird. Plus a lot of the times, the record breaking brings a community or people together.

Like that episode of Hey Arnold! where they try to get into the record book for a variety of things, not least of which was making the World's Largest Pizza. The whole community comes together for the attempt...which fails...gloriously.

Until they realize they've made it into the record book for Most Attempts at Breaking a World Record.

I miss Nickelodeon. Real Nickelodeon. With Kirk Fogg, Mike O'Malley and Mo, and Ickis, Krumm, and Oblina. And even that football-headed, skirt-wearing [/heenan] extrovert.

... because of that last sentence, I suddenly got the Stick Stickly song stuck in my head...