Rant: Record Breakers

Of course, sometimes you don’t even need to go to any effort to be a victim of this epidemic. The most spammed man in the UK, with a staggering 44,000 e-mails reaching his inbox each day. You would think it is time for a change of E-mail address, but instead he lets the removal of junk mail consume his life after catching the accolade of having ‘the most...’ and challenging the rest of the country to try and top it.

Its not just technology that is getting the high numbers though. One company has started selling the most expensive chocolates at £102 a pop - though given the rate that food prices are rising that could soon be an average price.

Speaking of chocolate, we also have the poor sod from London who decided to spend his time trying to get into the Guinness Book of Records by eating the most Ferrero Rocher chocolates in one minute. What great figure did he consume? I hear your cry, a whole five. Now, I am no expert on the subject and I certainly don’t have a PhD in Chocolate Consumption, but I would say that biting a mere five chocolates in sixty seconds is a little bit of a pitiful attempt unless they had to be consumed through a straw.

But if that was a pitiful effort, the efforts of one toaster certainly weren’t. The ‘Moaster’ can apparently propel a slice of toasty bread six metres into the air. As impressive as this feat is for two seconds when you first hear about it, but you soon begin to wonder what practical use this could possibly have to merit the amount of time it took to be designed. Possibly if a group of people were trapped in a burning building and were a little peckish some toast could be propelled up to them, but even then it would be more worthwhile to develop a bread launcher as they could probably toast it themselves.

Anyway, off to the shops to buy some Ferrero Rocher. I’m going to get into that book even if it obesifies me.