When the world’s struggling to get back on it’s feet thanks to the credit crunch, people dying of hunger over in the third world and terrorist acts causing untold misery and woe across the globe, what’s the one question we need answering the most?
It’s obvious: How far can a man pull a double-decker bus with his hair?
Majit was successful in his world record attempt in London today after pulling a typical London bus 21.2 metres using only his hair. You might be thinking "Well, why let this loony do that? What an idiot." and, well, you’d be right. But he’s not the only one trying to break a world record today.
You can watch a small introduction to today’s events on YouTube but I’ll sum it up for you so you don’t have to go anywhere. Yeah, I’m that kind.
Every 12th of November is Guinness World Records Day. It’s the day where most records are broken, as it’s the annual celebration of Guinness selling their 100 millionth copy of their book five years ago, and it’s still the most popular commercial book to date.
This time a couple of years ago, Majit was attempting to pull a double-decker bus using just his ears, but unfortunately he failed. If I remember correctly, I was watching it live on GMTV that day. So everyone saw him fail. Shame. Well, at least he’s got his… urr… dignity back now he’s pulled one with his ponytail. Good on you, sir.
We’ve got some awesome records being broken today, like most concrete blocks broken in a minute in Turkey (1077, if you wanted to know) and most people hugging for one minute, which was 112 people in St. Pancras station early this morning.
Then we’ve got some more… random ones. Texas had the most people lassoing in one minute with 23, the largest gingerbread man in Oslo which weighed 651kg and the most nationalities in a sauna in Helsinki, totalling 76 – and no, I’m not going to name them all.
Shame I’m going to have to wait another year before I can set "Most sarcastic comments made about the ridiculous nature of some of the world records" record. Dang it.
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