Why Guinness Stopped Giving These World Records
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Guinness Book of World Records is one of those things that, as a kid, you thought was going to be way more important in adult life than it actually is, like knowing how to avoid quicksand, or the Bermuda Triangle.
Or writing in cursive.
Or sharing and honesty.
@@InsideInterpreting i find cursive faster than writing the letters separately
@@InsideInterpreting or writing in general
The only time I write anything these days is for legal documents.
So I'd estimate I'm only writing like 20 words a year
@@meso_p it’s faster but there were always people who couldn’t read it, so I had to stop
I have never thrown a brick at you. Just insults
Does it count as most if he's tied with everyone else for zero? Unless you throw bricks at other content creators but not Sam
Hehe
*so far*
*yet*
Lol
Oh the irony of Guinness discontinuing alcohol related records while being one of the most well known beer brands globally.
While the Records company and the Brewery have a linked history, they are two separate companies nowadays.
@@jafrazer they still have the same name, change the name then
@@apache1234657 that would be really stupid for brand identity, why would they do that
No, they are just saying #DrinkRESPONSIBLY!!!
@@jafrazer they are?!!!
Guinness used to have a record for youngest person to sail around the world alone, but they dropped after they realized that was a super bad idea
XD they actually had that! Imagine putting your 2 months old baby on a boat alone just to beat a record.
they should have a record for the youngest person in the world
"Life of pi"
@@azultarmizi We all broke that record, didn't we
@@hello-hb1ll I mean Pi was like 19 wasn’t in that movie wasn’t he?
I'm actually the owner of Romulus (that's me sitting on the fence next to him). I'm glad that he has allowed you to go on living. It may also please you to learn that he has a younger brother named Remus who is just two inches shorter.
As an ancient mythology nerd and overall classical literature nerd holy crap I love those names. Congrats on the world record, and I’m totally stealing one of those names for my next dog. /hj /lh
@@abbycollins I understand that the “ /hj /hl” at the end of that are tone indicators, but I don’t know what you expressing with them.
I’m generally aware that “/hj” is supposed to be “half-joking”,
which, like, I guess in this case is maybe indicating that, you might actually name some pets that, but maybe not really? Or maybe the joke-ing-ness is that you used the word “steal” to describe it?
I am entirely unfamiliar with “/hl”. My first guess is “half-literal” ?
@@drdca8263’s /lh, which is short for light hearted! Thank you for asking!
and the /hj was pretty much spot on for the name pets thing, though obviously in a more positive manner, and dealing with the fact I’m not getting any pets anytime soon lol.
Hilarious names, especially since Remus wound up just a bit shorter.
An uncle of mine got a record for raising the biggest known tarantula in captivity back in the 80s. Shortly after that issue of the book came out, a Japanese bug collector contacted him and bought the spider for 50 000 Deutschmarks, which back then must have been about 30 000 US Dollars.
That's badass. How big was it exactly?
@@bonecanoe86 Unfortunately I don't know. I saw it a few times, but I was like 7 or 8 and since I was small, it is hard to gauge the size of something, hehe.
I remember that it was considerably bigger than my hand, but that isn't saying much, of course.
I would have to go and try to find that issue of the book, or ask my uncle.
He surely must have kept a copy.
If someone reading this has old issues of the book from the mid 80s, my uncle's name is Harry Kohler, from the south-west of Germany. Maybe you can find it.
Aw jeez, can you imagine if that thing escaped?
@@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 I'm no expert, but as far as I know, tarantulas actually aren't very dangerous. They are not aggressive towards large animals and humans, unlike their smaller relatives, Australian funnel web spiders.
Apparently those are so aggressive that they even chase after small dogs and children sometimes. Tarantulas, not so much, from all I know.
I think the biggest problem is that they have this defense mechanism where when they get scared, they start rubbing their behind, which fills the air with tiny hairs that get into your nose and lungs and burn as if you would have inhaled a nettle or something like that.
Apparently their venom is about as potent as that of a hornet sting, but getting bitten hurts a lot because they have 2 large fangs that make 2 big holes, but it is really rare that they bite something big, because they are afraid of having their fangs ripped off, when the bitten animal jerks away and that would pretty much be the death sentence to the tarantula.
I think my uncle often let it out of its terrarium and let it climb around on his arms and sometimes even let it take a stroll through the garden. He said it basically is just like a very big hamster with 8 legs.
@@TrangleC That's comforting to know, but if a giant tarantula came toward me I don't think my brain would be thinking very rationally.
Guinness book started as something that could end often loud discussion between couple of intoxicated lads in bar over "what bird is fastest", to "I dare you to put more snakes in your mouth than that guy in book"
The Guinness World Records holds the Guinness world record for the craziest thing to come out of a bar conversation.
My favorite game is to guess if the sponsor is brilliant or skillshare with the first few seconds before he says it.
"If you want to be the smartest person on your block... "
gotta be skillshare, no wait, brilliant
"... then you will want to show it off on your new website on Squarespace"
damn it you tricksy bastard
Dang, should consider Squarespace too
Jokes on you the sponsor is hello Fresh
@@gonzaloenrique8741 the description:
*ima end this man’s whole career*
And now a word from fav game RAID SHADOW LEDGENDS
"Why Guinness stopped giving these world records"
Thumbnail:
- Largest balloon release
"uhm not sure"
- Heaviest dog
"wait a second"
- Longest without sleeping
*"yeah I'm starting to see a pattern here"*
Now what do i put in this reply.
Hmm
Cu-
No no...
You know what forget it.
FYI the last time a world record amount of balloons were released it terrorized a city and contributed to the death of 2 people, and injuries to many others from distracted drivers not to mention the pollution and shut airports
@@calebgonsalves2970 if only that was mentioned in the video. Oh, wait...
I have not watched the video but the first is probably due to the fact that releasing balloons causes pollution
The famously uncommercial BBC had a show in the 1970s/80s called 'Record Breakers'. It was basically a promotion for Guinness Book of Records - not only would they talk about the latest records, they would try to break records.
Sadly the presenter, Roy Castle, a champion tap dancer, who held the record for number of taps per minute, died from lung cancer, never having smoked. He spent most of his life in smoke-filled clubs tap-dancing and playing trumpet.
this is why second-hand smoking is just as bad as regular smoking
@@bimmy4664 it's actually more harmful because the smoke isn't filtered when you second hand.
@@alwayzpinchycs4236 yeah but presumably the smoker is also inhaling their own secondhand smoke, right?
@@TaranVH yes that probably happened too.
@@TaranVH why is Taran from LTT here 😂
Thank you for featuring my Record for eating a 12 inch pizza, Appreciate it!
*rewinds to **3:15*
Checks out
Are you challenging me?
I trie I was not even close!
No way! That's got to be the first time a person mentioned in an HAI video watched the video.
Blessings from Cheesus Crust!
Those overly specific records always made me laugh as a child. I was the first person in history to stand in my kitchen wearing red trousers and shout "wueeellash"!
Actually i did it first.
You are probably not, considering the statistic.
No i checked
@@saucejohnson4105 why were you in jonntischnabels kitchen
The insane logistics of why a beer company stopped handing out arbitrary awards
Not that arbitrary since it's not really random and there are criteria usually. Maybe trivial is a better way to describe it.
Same as to why a tyre company gives the most prestigious restaurant awards...
@@DonVigaDeFierro well that does make sense. They want to bring awareness to the kind of restaurants people would travel long distances for to encourage them to drive more, and therefore wear down their tires more
wait, are they actually the same company??!
@@moesifasdasd4151 yeah
My father was in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest time to drive through the 48 contiguous states of the US (which he, his brother, and one friend did in a little over 5 days). But his record was removed in '89 or '90 for "promoting speeding" even though the specific rules of the record stated that you needed to drive the speed limit the whole time, and the real challenge is in planning the best route. My family has been annoyed by this ever since, especially since we saw so many other more dangerous records in there. I suppose it makes sense that as you say, the more dangerous records are very unlikely to be attempted by amateurs. But I still think they should bring back the record!
yeah especially if not driving above the speed limit is one of the rules
It's good they removed it. Even if the rule is to not drive over the speed limit, how could they possibly enforce that? Also, you could drive under the speed limit but still drive dangerously by not stopping for pedestrians and at stop signs and red lights, and drive while sleep deprived.
@@OC-CPA I mean, of course they can enforce it, none of these records are made records without verification
@@commanderleo I doubt they have the ability to verify whether the driver ever drove over the speed limit, which varies from street to street.
@@OC-CPA Maybe not in the 90s, but they totally can do it with modern cars and GPS navigation devices monitoring your location and speed every moment.
l remember as a kid they had the world's record for the youngest person to give birth in their book; Under 6 years old. Like it was an accomplishment. That record has been struck from the record book for obvious reasons.
Those obvious reasons being?
@@octavianjoseph8633 Think. If somebody wanted to break that record what would they have to do and therefore by proxy what is the exsistance of the award encouraging people to do?
@@octavianjoseph8633 supporting forcing children to give birth before they even know how the world works. They're also raping them, like ain't that obvious? I hope those children are okay tho
@@jarrethoglesbee4596 That plus the whole issue of "Wow! A 6-year-old gave birth! Wait... how does a 6-year-old get pregnant in the first pla- ohhhhhhh snap."
@@GiantPetRat yeah lol. Creepy af but how do 6yo get puberty early on?
There are (at least) two records where Guinness refused to accept records - and even said so in the book - only to change its mind later:
1 - Longest note held on a musical instrument; at first, it said, "Since some trumpet players have shown the ability to hold a note and inhale at the same time, we are no longer accepting entries for this record," but then when Kenny G said he would try to set the record, Guinness changed its mind
2 - Longest chorus line not on a stage
Kenny G sucks overall lol
Might be easiest to do on the piano. You’d have to use the pedal though
There's also the record for World's largest Marble Cake, but instead of discontinuing it, Guiness still has it going, but refuses to aknowledge that it was broken; officially, it is held by Betty Crocker in Saudi Arabia, but it was broken by the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on an episode of Turkmenistan's bizarre dictator, in which he also criticized Guiness' colaboration with authoritarian governments around the world, who want to break records to give a sense of legitimacy to the people they're ruling and reinforce a cult of personality. The show then unveiled a huge marble cake (which they said made "Betty Crocker's look like a f****ing Mouse Twinkie), beating the record, but Guiness refused to certify it, because of slander. The episode is on CZcams, but it's not suitable for young audiences because of strong language.
damn
Full episode here: czcams.com/video/-9QYu8LtH2E/video.html
Largest marble cake segment starts at 18:53
However on that night John Oliver did set the world record for most annoying crybaby on the planet.
@@ipissed No, that record was actually set by you, just now.
@@TheBlueWizzrobe Got’em
They put a bigass photo of me and my team in their “Gamers Edition” without actually giving us a record. It was likely that we won the most money in Battlefield 2 due to an overly optimistic satellite channel one-off competition where we won $40k, but that wasn’t mentioned. They just wanted to publish our nerdy faces I guess
I imagine the caption would have read "Pictured: Random Gamers (unrelated)" 😂
Which year?
I've once held the record for being the youngest person alive
Me too!
Me too! We have so much in common! We should hang out sometime 🙂❤
i did too back in 97´ but some asshole in asia i think beat me soon after
What the heck? Me too... What are the odds that so many of us are watching this exact video
omg me too
This video sounds like it would definitely be half as interesting
woo!
@@renzo00 Letss gooo, too bad I changed the comment
😂😅 nice
Normie
Wtf is your pfp man
Whoa, the eating a whole ox is interesting because you probably want to be burning as many calories as you can in the meantime. Spending a ton of time running to work up an appetite so you can eat.
Cramps galore
Imagine how often you are gonna have to take a shit to pass through an entire ox 💀💀💀💀
but doing sports lowers appetite
@@lightyagami3492 Meat is at least 40% water. Ruminant animals have like four separate stomachs, in addition to a pair of lungs, so a good portion of their volume is just air. And then some more of their internal volume is taken up by wide heavy-set bones that are inedible. So while it's a lot of food, you couldn't realistically call it "a ton".
@@lightyagami3492 It be interesting to weight how much goes in and how much goes out in that time period.
About 1980, the book of records had a photo of the champion "exploder of hot water bottles using lung power alone" . A few years later, the book says this record has been retired due to "being medically ill-advisable" .
Guiness should also maybe just maybe not give record to dictators.
Btw: those records are just hillarious like largest marble cake and most white marble building per square foot
Most marbles thrown from a marble building while eating a marble cake
According to Google the marble cake record is not from a dictator?
@@rianantony last i checked it was to the turmenistan leader? sorry if i got it wrong!
@@sanjayrai2934 Last week tonight broke it but i'm not sure if Guiness recognized it. Because they where very critical about the company.
@@rianantony The record recognized by Guinness is a 15 m2 cake made in Saudi Arabia. But John Oliver made a 56m2 cake. So Oliver's is definitely the biggest.
No wonder why Guinness won’t accept my record on the fastest time a woman ran away from me after seeing me
Lightspeed is probably not okay for them
They only have speed measurement devices that go up to light speed. After that they cannot verify the speed unfortunately
Too dangerous to attempt
@@Noone-dg8io risk of emotional damage is high
They discontinued that record? Well, so much for my dream of stalking the women's Olympic team.
The kid that brought this book to the school was the coolest kid for a few days in the middleschool. Ahhh the memories
2:50 I thought for a minute that they might have done something good on their own but of course it was to reduce the number of lawsuits...
Your name is literally super capitalist why would you think they'd do it out of their heart
Dude you're a super capitalist, of course private entities do not have the incentive to give a fuck.
Capitalists..
@@FirstnameLastname-uo3yu don't think too highly of yourself either
@@LittleHomieLightningtech Yall dont understand super capitalism!
At some point in my life, I decided to lazily collect these books. What helps is that my grandmother has bought me one for Christmas every year since 2003. I'm nearly 30 now. I've picked up a few more and now have 2000 - 2021, and 1976. I'll never own them all because of how expensive some are, but maybe I'll eventually have all of them back to my earliest one.
I had the paper back versions of 1974, 1981, 1995 (had bought from Scholastic), 2002 at one time. Not sure if I still have them.
I love that he censored milk coming out of an eye when a Nickelodeon show from the late 2000’s willingly showed it
Twice
Eye cheese
Ah iCarly
What show was that?....
@@octavianjoseph8633 iCarly
At one time, the book featured the record "Longest Time Surviving Underwater (without equipment). In my edition (I believe it was in the 70s) Guinness announced it was discontinuing the category because it was too dangerous. I can't recall the record holder's name, but the time, I believe, was about 20 minutes. This is possible, but it requires very intense training, plus proper preparation. The lungs and the rest of the body have to be charged with pure oxygen for a considerable time before it is attempted. One can see why they cancelled this because - let's face it - you're just begging for it, even with the proper precautions.
I remember when I was a kid Guinness claimed the longest living human of all time was a Japanese dude who claimed to have been born in 1866 which would have made him 120 when he died, but he had no documentation to support his claim and also clearly was like 70 in pictures that were taken of him near the end of his life. Not even getting into the extreme unlikelihood of the longest lived person to be male when literally everyone else in the top 20 or so was female.
reminds me of when every once in a while they'll just be a claim about some person from a backwater area or whatever claiming to be "over 200 years old!"
I mean eventually the record will go to Henrietta lacks. At least if you consider living having your cells around. Because we somehow treat your first few cells as alive so I guess we should consider your last ones you as well. I wonder if they could regrow her from those immortal cancer cells they took off of her like 60 years ago and she was like 40 at the time so her cells are already 100
@@Aztesticals being "alive" means you have a working living brain. If someone take a sample of your ass, it doesnt create another you, its just a sample..
@@jeanmarc6517 I'd like you to show me the dictionary that gave that definition of alive. I'm waiting
My brother is in the Guinness book of world records for having one of the lowest body temperatures and living through it. It's the 1985 or 1986 one.
One of the lowest, or the lowest? I didn't know Guinness published almost-records.
Your household gas bill must have been through the roof!
@@B3Band In the books I had as a kid, they would always show the top 5 for each record with a bar graph. That was around 2010 though; I doubt they were doing that in the 80s.
@@B3Band good point it was lowest, my dad found him frozen on our back door step he was 2 (long story) his tempature I believe was around 23 degrees
@@christinagarrett ah isn't that lovely. Silver lining I suppose, "yeah he almost died but we also just got a world record!"
And yet, Guinness continues to award dictators with hilariously specific records
That John Oliver episode with the largest marble cake came to mind.
What's a few examples?
Guinness World Records is pretty much a racket now, they'll only give you the record if you pay them to come over to verify.
@@StarryxNight5 look up John Oliver Turkmenistan
Half as Interesting, holding the record most used of Stock Images and Videos.
Hi Sam! Angry comment in the comment section about the introduction ;) The picture of the red grouse is correct but, as we are talking about European birds (UK), the one of the golden plover's picture is incorrect. What you showed is an American and not a European golden plover! The difference lies in the white patch. The American one's stops early, near the shoulder and the European one's extends all the way to the rump. I hope to figure in your annual review ;)
🤓
Don't forget when they stopped counting the "world's fastest violin player" and other music speed records after TwoSet reacted to the sacrilegious dude.
lol, good to hear something actually came of that!
What happened?
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 some guy got the guiness world record for fastest violin player, and they reacted, and outed it for being completely trash (*fast* played trash, but still trash). Like how you can't claim to be the fastest speaker in the world if you're incomprehensible and basically speaking fast gibberish. Same thing applied, except it's *much* harder to distinguish what would count as legible enough to be counted, compared to the easily defined speaking, so I assume they just discontinued it alltogether because it stopped fitting their rule of "definable"
@@thefutureisnowoldman7653 they discontinued it because you cant accurately play or judge whatever song fast.
Guinness also used to hold “Loudest stage performance”. They stopped it because it promoted hearing loss. The loudest performance that made it into the books was Manowar’s performance in at Germany, at 139 decibels. For comparison, a jet engine is 140 decibels
Balloonfest '86 is a bit more complicated than that. Under fair-weather circumstances, the balloons would've deflated once they got high enough and came back down much smaller. However, a front of cool air pushed the balloons lower than they would've been otherwise and they fell back to Earth at full size.
Even if what you said was true, you’d still have millions of brightly-colored rubber scraps littering the land and choking the water. I don’t see how the size of the balloons makes that substantially better.
0:34 Hey once upon a time I was a bored 8 year old and Guinness and Ripley's believe it or not books really helped pass the time. It was such a mind blowing, even ti this day, reading about the wacky shenanigans people have accomplished. Loved these books.
"You play with a Nintendo game boy I play with Norwegian game birds. We're not the same." - Giga Chad.
What a weird World: A beer company keeps track of World records. (But only the ones they personally like.) And a tire company decides what are the best restaurants in the World.
I think the most interesting piece of information in this video is that it is the same Guinness from the beer brand. Where I live, Guinness beer is not normally sold. It is extremely expensive to import and sell it here, so when somebody say Guinness here, it is more quickly associated to the records than to the beer
So what I'm getting here is that the 1989 book is the best one.
I think it was also the book with the last "endurance sports" records (longest snooker match / football match etc.) because they couldn't define if the game was being played actively enough to count as genuinely playing the game.
So what about Limca Book Of Records?
He really makes sure to use the most of his stock video subscription.
Well he paid for the entire library, hes gonna damn well use the entire library
Those restrictions are pretty reasonable. Glad to see someone taking their great power seriously
If I remember correctly they also discontinued the youngest person to sail around the world record. I think that was a good idea as well.
@@FranziskaNagel445 it wasn't a good idea because implementing that was a terrible idea in the first place
If i watch a HAI video twice, it will become fully interesting.
I know that Guinness refuses to acknowledge a 600 square foot cake as the world's largest cake.
Can we just appreciate that the exercising at 2:50 is on beat with the music
More recent one, but "fastest musician" also got discontinued from what I heard a year ago.
Yeah, that was hilarious. Did you see the video about it?
I don’t get what’s so bad about that :/
@@wateryagarvideos5186 Not going to past a link here, but check out a video titled "The World's FASTEST (and most INACCURATE) VIOLINIST!" for why.
I stopped buying the Guinness books when they started posting nonsense that took no effort like most people wearing Groucho Marx masks at once.
Imagine: “Most crack smoked in one day.” 😂
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.
@@DavidCowie2022 😂🤣😂🤣
Sure it wasn't already in the 1985 edition
4:56 should've included a 99 Luftballons sample :D
I was almost shook the record of longest without sleep was only 11 days (which I once easily broke by 17 days) but then I realized this record was set by a healthy person who tried to do that on purpose.
Don't do that on purpose. people with sleep disorders don't try to break records we just can't fall asleep even though we desperately want to
Damn, 17 days. I once went through 3 days and I thought I was going crazy
@@mosesracal6758 Yeah
those hallucinations were pretty damn ugly. Your brain goes on drugs after the 3rd day and that's not as fun as it may sound
The fact that Guinness Book of World Records discontinued all records relating to alcohol is ironic
"...because they're narcs." Great sense of humor. Found the channel a few minutes ago and was enjoying but that line made me subscribe
Wow, today I learned Guinnes Records really is made by the beer company
The book was actually founded in my home village. castlebridge, Wexford in Ireland.
He got into an argument on the north slob in ardcavan about the whole bird thing mentioned in the video. He then went back to castlebridge house and looked through books trying to find the answer, when unsuccessful he thought about other things that couldn’t be answered, the kinds of questions asked in a pub etc.
The lads who own the book now actually bought the original castlebridge house as it went into ruin for years and now they have plans on opening it up as a like historical place for people to meet up etc.
It had a metal dome put over the massive conservatory years ago and that’s all that’s been done with the place.
1:15 and yet they have "Most jelly beans lined up end to end using chopsticks in 1 minute" and "Most M&Ms lined up end to end using chopsticks in 1 minute"
My friend was denied a record for most bullet holes by one bullet, because his roommate shot him on accident rather than intentionally. But I guess it's also so no one would go shooting themselves for more holes
I'm sorry but I have to know... how many bullet holes did your friend get, and the *fuck* does on bullet achieve enough holes for you to be certain it would have been the world record
Staying awake record is held by a Finn? TORILLE!
Ei vittu mennää jo :DD :D
I bet they thought the balloons would end up in outer space xD
I don't have a drinking problem, I'm just training for Guiness.
It's really funny how they have a rule where records can't be too specific when I can tell people I hold the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed achieved riding a unicycle uphill on the Pikes Peak highway while playing an electric guitar solo and have a decent percentage of them think that it was entirely plausible for such a record to exist.
i honestly expected fastest violinist to be on here for some reason lmao
Your presentation, as always, is hilarious !!
That "too specific" rule really doesn't apply if your application includes enough money.
Yeah, Karl Jobst has a great video on it. czcams.com/video/HIbeF0bf1Gk/video.html
Basically, with most of the major categories of record holders having their own independent record repositories (sports, video games, etc), and the rise of the internet, Guinness’ books have been losing popularity and sales, so they’ve been creating all sorts of ridiculous records to raise money from fees (a lot of them are likely records only because they’re the only one to try it) and take advantage of people’s desire to appear in Guinness, and they’ve been setting up ridiculous rules about requiring records to be adjudicated by Guinness people who know nothing about topics like video games, and throwing out perfectly valid records for stupid reasons.
I once was awake for 5 days or 120 hours of not on purpose, but could not sleep. This was back in 2017, I did this by mistake with getting my coffee timing out of order really bad but having to have it to not have headaches. I thought I could sleep missing coffee for two days by mistake, but I could not. I did sleep after that 5th day by going sans coffee that one day as one day is not a problem it is more than that I get the problems and I finally did this as before even doing about 1/4th--1/3rd of normal I was still messed up. Even drinking Coffee at the right time would not work because I had the caffene from the day in at the same time so it just compounded.
The Guinness Book of Records hold a record all by itself : The one single MOST shoplifted book of the world.
I love the editing in this video. 😂
I can now see Brilliant transitions coming from a minute away.
Same lol
True HAI fans👍
i somehow never realized that Guinness world records were related to Guinness beer
I only learned that a few months ago. And I also learned earlier this year that the famed Michelin stars for restaurants was started by the tire company.
Companies do the weirdest things for marketing.
My school set the Guinness World Record in 2004/5 for largest mosaic picture made from aluminium cans while my country's PM participated (in 2009 or 2013 I think) in a grassroots event that set the Guinness World Record for most number of people wearing twisted tube balloons as hats simultaneously
I recall that at one point Guinness included a record for eating a bicycle.
These books were always the hardest to get your hands on at my elementary school library, they were always checked out!
What's the record for most evil data Corporations?
Facebook?
Meta?
@@kirana7248 you're right that's exactly it
Nonsense comments
4:40 theres a german song about 99 ballons setting off a nuclear missile alarm system and starting a nuclear war
yeah because nobody has heard 99 luftballons /s
“Largest Dog”
Assuming this is to keep people from feeding their dog into morbid obesity and death, couldn’t this be regulated by having a Vet make a rough estimate of how fat the animal is? So genuinely big-boned and healthy animals could still hold the record.
My favorite thing in the 1988 book (yes, I was 8 then) was the giant limp with a pool in back.
My favorite thing in this video is the Big Chungus ferret at 4:25.
0:51 It's not "Guinness's Secrets" but "Guinness' Secrets", isn't it?
If the word ends with an s, and it’s singular it gets apostrophe and s, if it’s plural it just gets the apostrophe.
So the answer depends on whether you want to treat a company name as singular (as it always was traditionally), or as a collective noun (modern usage).
@@KusacUK Thank you so much for taking the time to explain that to me, that's really interesting and much appreciated!
@@rptbrI’d say it’s half interesting
That POV Switch from HAI to Real Engineering and back to HAI was just crazy 🤯
This was better than expected
I need to stop playing HAI CZcams videos in the background while I play Animal Crossing. I just use this video as background noise while playing a video game, and now I need to go back and rewatch this video to see what it was about.
The record for most time without sleep will be broken by me if I keep living with these neighbours
0:22 That's an American Golden Plover, not a European one
Still can’t carry a coconut though.
@@KusacUK But then, of course, American golden plovers are non-migratory.
Half as Interesting should do another video about how Turkmenistan always tries to break records
Don’t ask why I know this but the shot @2:42 is from the queue of the transformers ride in universal studios
I like the side drop of Ripley's Believe It or Not 2:55
That "argument" happened in my home town here in the Rep of Ireland
All I know is that I wanna beat that Ox Eating record
The best CZcams frame ever is having the Cleveland skyline and team seas in the same frame
*2:51** Theres a bangbox behind that boombox*
That stay awake record made me remember my silly personal record, because game civilization III(i got 1 more turn syndrom), i stay awake and without rest play straight 104 hour before, i need to poop and then black out after finish poop, following about 8 days fever. at Civilization IV i do same, but only about 75-78 hour, i feel tired but fortunately i don't get fever.
This commercial transition was smooth af
On the one hand, yeah,
but on the other, what's the point of a world records book if we're going to methodically shut down every one of them that could hurt someone, aka, all of them?
GBOWR peaked in the 1970s. It *used to be* a serious reference book with a few B&W photos and a sprinkling of droll, bone-dry British commentary.
Sales declined in the 1980s, so they reduced the nerdy stuff (tallest tree, most powerful microscope) and ramped up dumb stunts with outrageous pics geared to 10-year-old readers.
Today, thanks in no small part to google, GWR is basically Jackass and Fear Factor with a few rules tossed in.
Oh, good! At least I can still attempt the record for "The most people doing the dance from the music video Shiny, Happy People by REM."
I was awake for just under 11 days in the hospital once, drugs are crazy. I don't mean that "haha I never sleep" that a lot of young people mean, I mean I actually didn't sleep the entire time. The hospital was not sure what to do because they hadn't had it happen before, they thought I might die; clearly I did not.
I just kind of realized something else COVID has taken from us. Do you remember all those "The most people doing X in one time/spot" records, like doing the dance from Thriller? Those are probably records of the past. I don't think there is going to be much interest for a long while to gather in a spot with a bunch of other like-minded rando just to do something goofy to get into Guinness's book. So much for my future attempt to set the record for "Most people in one spot doing the dance from the music video, Stand by R.E.M." (I thought that would be a good fundraiser idea.)
Was not expecting a ballonfest 86 mention in this episode
That pronounciation of Toimi Soimi is hilarious
I just want to say that I massively appreciate the removal of the sponsor bit at the beginning for these videos. I respect that a man’s gotta eat (ditto his staff), but yeah, it makes these vids much more watchable.