It was the opposite, wasn’t it? It was meant to provide answers to pub debates about things rather than be the topic of them, if I am remembering correctly
What were pub debates like before the Guinness Book of World Record?
“I’m telling you! Nancy’s cousin smoked 28 cigarettes in one puff! I seent it myself!”
“That’s nothing, George! Carl’s grandfather smoked 37 when he was a younger man. There’s even a photo of it around here somewhere.”
Like, that just seems like simpler times. Could you imagine if there was no Book of World Records, and people could still argue about that kind of stuff instead of I don’t know avocado toast or whatever it is today?
We need a “Guiness Book of Consumer Inflation Indices and Things Actually Getting in the Way of Millennials Buying Houses”
However the Guinness Book of Records was not created so drunk people had something to argue about in pubs.
It was the opposite, wasn’t it? It was meant to provide answers to pub debates about things rather than be the topic of them, if I am remembering correctly
Trying to stop people from arguing in pubs? That’s more American than European…
What were pub debates like before the Guinness Book of World Record?
“I’m telling you! Nancy’s cousin smoked 28 cigarettes in one puff! I seent it myself!”
“That’s nothing, George! Carl’s grandfather smoked 37 when he was a younger man. There’s even a photo of it around here somewhere.”
Like, that just seems like simpler times. Could you imagine if there was no Book of World Records, and people could still argue about that kind of stuff instead of I don’t know avocado toast or whatever it is today?
We need a “Guiness Book of Consumer Inflation Indices and Things Actually Getting in the Way of Millennials Buying Houses”