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Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op):
Some people said:

The Guinness world record book has now been bastardized, it used to be coveted and revered, but now, they have records for all manner of rubbish.
But I knew about Ashrita Furman in the 1990s and he began his record setting campaign in 1979.

Others said:

Indians have been cooking with larger pots since the creation of the world yet they don't make noise about it.

Ever wonder why USA, UK, Germany, China, Canada, Australia and other sane countries don't engage in this trash? Because they are busy thinking of the way forward for their countries and not engaging on trash like this
But Ashrita Furman is an American.

Who is Ashrita Furman?

Ashrita Furman is the man that has the Guinness World Record for the most world records.

His world records include things like doing 27,000 jumping jacks (that's the first world record that he set in 1979), most jumps on a pogo stick (I watched the video of him setting this world record in the 2000s), most pogo stick jumps under water, etc.

These "strange" world records have not stopped America from going to space or doing any other thing. You see, it's not Ashrita Furman's job to do any of the other things and there is no correlation between them, just as it's not Hilda Baci's job to do any of those other things.

Here is a video of Ashrita Furman. He is demonstrating some of his world records. I'll explain them to you. The first one is running on stilts, the second is jumping on a pogo stick while juggling three balls, the third is balancing on a cylinder, the fourth is using a hula hoop, we come back to the pogo stick (while he explains that his favourite record is jumping on a pogo stick up and down Mount Fuji in Japan) then there is sack racing and finally there is bouncing on an exercise ball.

I often bought the Guinness World Record book in the 1980s and they showed the Guinness World Record TV show on Nigerian TV in the 1990s and 2000s.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E70jj0wNSo?si=WZ4AW4oYs_1TKfIS


Ashrita Furman has set more than 700 official Guinness World Records since 1979 and currently holds over 200 standing records, including the official record for holding the most records at once.

Photo 1) Ashrita Furman setting the world record for balancing a chain saw on his chin.

Photo 2) Ashrita Furman jumping on a pogo stick.

Photo 3) Ashrita Furman running on stilts.

Photo 4) Ashrita Furman with his Guinness World Record certificates.

Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op):
Video of Ashrita Furman.

He has also set world records for eating various things, for example he set the record for eating the most Marmite in a minute and he also set the Guinness World Record for most boiled eggs peeled and eaten in one minute (6 eggs).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj7U8xcnn_0?si=E3MlEBRVJ_XckHTI

Meanwhile, today is Ashrita Furman's birthday. He was born on September 16, 1954.


Photo 1) Ashrita Furman setting the world record for eating M&M candy.

Photo 2) Ashrita Furman setting the record for slicing a watermelon on his belly.

Photo 3) Ashrita Furman sets the world record for walking with the heaviest shoes

Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by GanagiBitrus:
Hilda Baci can easily add to her GWR & beat the man's records, by using that same giant pot for...

GWR for largest pot of fried rice
GWR for largest pot of Coconut rice
GWR for largest pot of Banga rice
GWR for largest pot of Oil rice
...

After rice, she will enter soup...
GWR for largest pot of Egusi soup
GWR for largest pot of Ogbono soup
GWR for largest pot of Okro soup
GWR for largest pot of vegetable soup
GWR for largest pot of Banga soup
GWR for largest pot of Black soup
GWR for largest pot of Ewedu soup
GWR for largest pot of Pepper soup
....

After soup, she will enter others...
GWR for largest pot of beans
GWR for largest pot of Spaghetti
GWR for largest pot of Indomie
GWR for largest pot of stew
...

Guinness never see anything. 😂

Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by AIHappy:
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by free2ryhme: 5:39am On Sep 16, 2025
Check out the topics that excite black people: sex, parties, music, entertainment, noise, ostentatious, boasting, etc

Check out that topics that excite Caucasians: solving humanity problems, being adventurous, environmental issues, inventions, etc
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Zionmdde: 5:42am On Sep 16, 2025
A country that will always find faults in anything done by its own

Criticizing how Hilda baci chooses to sell herself and make her brand more visible, as if the girl is their government or the girl told them to vote tinubu

Instead of people studying how that girl has projected her brand and built a name for herself in food business, you will see people who cannot even afford 3 square meals criticizing her
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by kakaG: 5:44am On Sep 16, 2025
Seems like even the man's records aren't all meaningful but he did those things way back when they probably made some sense. I'd consider scientific breakthroughs as records rather than all these joblessness coming from especially Africa.

Africa is still pleagued with backwardness. Let them focus on meaningful discoveries and stop this uselessness.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by amazingspiderma: 5:45am On Sep 16, 2025
free2ryhme:
Check out the topics that excite black people: sex, parties, music, entertainment, noise, ostentatious, boasting, etc

Check out that topics that excite Caucasians: solving humanity problems, being adventurous, environmental issues, inventions, etc
Spot on.

Also tribalism,racism, religion , oppression, slavery colonial history.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Nackzy: 5:45am On Sep 16, 2025
Aswear this one go hard to break, na only Tinubu fot break this record
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Zionmdde: 5:46am On Sep 16, 2025
free2ryhme:
Check out the topics that excite black people: sex, parties, music, entertainment, noise, ostentatious, boasting, etc

Check out that topics that excite Caucasians: solving humanity problems, being adventurous, environmental issues, inventions, etc
Oga let everybody enjoy whatever excites them. That is the essence of living.

You that is a caucasian by mind, how many problems facing humanity have you solved?? I guess you also know how those Caucasians are turning nature upside down with LGBTQ and many more letters to be added in future.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op): 5:48am On Sep 16, 2025
My previous posts.

Hilda Baci is a chef and she has achieved a lot in her profession. It's not her job to break new frontiers in science, technology, arts, and human innovation. Have the critics broken new frontiers in science, technology, arts and human innovation?

Hilda Baci is a chef. She is not the government. She owns a private restaurant. She will do what she needs to do to attract publicity and prestige to her restaurants and TV cooking shows.

She is not the government.

What on earth have the complainers done in the fields that they are referring to? What have they done except to sit and complain about what someone else is doing (something that has nothing to do with them)?
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by blowjohn(m): 5:49am On Sep 16, 2025
To each his own.


But fame is one hell of a drug.

It will make u want to do anything.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by free2ryhme: 5:52am On Sep 16, 2025
Zionmdde:
Oga let everybody enjoy whatever excites them. That is the essence of living.

You that is a caucasian by mind, how many problems facing humanity have you solved?? I guess you also know how those Caucasians are turning nature upside down with LGBTQ and many more letters to be added in future.
Africans are breaking record on things that needs the lowest brain processing while a Chinese small boy solved technical mathematics in seconds.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Larryfest(m): 5:55am On Sep 16, 2025
free2ryhme:
Check out the topics that excite black people: sex, parties, music, entertainment, noise, ostentatious, boasting, etc

Check out that topics that excite Caucasians: solving humanity problems, being adventurous, environmental issues, inventions, etc
You wan solve humanity problems ontop empty stomach or create new inventions inside the 2hrs electricity you are given per dayhuh
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Zionmdde: 5:55am On Sep 16, 2025
free2ryhme:
Africans are breaking record on things that needs the lowest brain processing while a Chinese small boy solved technical mathematics in seconds.
Very good,
You that have high brain processing capacity, what record have you broken?? Or is charity not supposed to start from home?

Those Chinese boys, where were they when several of young chaps from Nigeria were winning mathematics competitions at the world stage
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Gadafii: 5:56am On Sep 16, 2025
Na Nigerians go later tear the GWR book😂

Seun, what do you need 8 more characters forhuh
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Mathewrichard99: 5:57am On Sep 16, 2025
Most Nigerians are vexatious to your spirit. Full of hates, envy, mean and determinely covertous.....also very ignorant with a bad stinking rotten smelling mouth......We should be very proud of our own.......as long as we ain't celebrating banditry, terrorism,kidnapping, corruption and stupidity.....This lady has done so Wonderfully well.....Kudos to Hilda Basi....




Zionmdde:
A country that will always find faults in anything done by its own

Criticizing how Hilda baci chooses to sell herself and make her brand more visible, as if the girl is their government or the girl told them to vote tinubu

Instead of people studying how that girl has projected her brand and built a name for herself in food business, you will see people who cannot even afford 3 square meals criticizing her
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by FavouriteOfGod(f): 6:02am On Sep 16, 2025
AIHappy:
Ashrita Furman is the man that has the Guinness World Record for the most world records.
It's well noted by the GWR itself - World record for holding most World records 🤔Hmmmmm
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by geoworldedu: 6:03am On Sep 16, 2025
Naptu2 said Indian don't make noise about the Guinness Book of Record when he is not living in India to know it. Do you know that there are many people in other countries who don't even know that Nigeria exists? Some don't know other religions, even though it seems the whole world is only about Christianity and Islam.

Can you tell me just one event that has occured in Nicaragua, Kiribati, Sarajevo and Seychelles? If you don't know any, it is not because the people there are silent, but because you are not aware of their way of life or you don't even have any idea that they existed. Many Europeans don't even know a single country in Africa, they just generalize and see Africa as a small village.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op): 6:04am On Sep 16, 2025
geoworldedu:
Naptu2 said Indian don't make noise about the Guinness Book of Record when he is not living in India to know it.
Rage bait = failed.

Total and complete waste of time.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by CooldipoMPS: 6:04am On Sep 16, 2025
Wow......Cooldipo! What a brand!









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Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by jahsharon: 6:11am On Sep 16, 2025
Developed nations are nations that build their own cars, planes, jets, medical equipment, drugs and even bombs to fight their enemies, not nations that create senseless records.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by jahsharon: 6:12am On Sep 16, 2025
geoworldedu:
Naptu2 said Indian don't make noise about the Guinness Book of Record when he is not living in India to know it. Do you know that there are many people in other countries who don't even know that Nigeria exists? Some don't know other religions, even though it seems the whole world is only about Christianity and Islam.

Can you tell me just one event that has occured in Nicaragua, Kiribati, Sarajevo and Seychelles? If you don't know any, it is not because the people there are silent, but because you are not aware of their way of life or you don't even have any idea that they existed. Many Europeans don't even know a single country in Africa, they just generalize and see Africa as a small village.
No country in the world that Nigerians are not known.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op): 6:12am On Sep 16, 2025
jahsharon:
Developed nations are nations that build their own cars, planes, jets, medical equipment, drugs and even bombs to fight their enemies, not nations that create senseless records.
How many cars, planes, jets, medical equipment, drugs and bombs have you built?
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by Onegai(f): 6:12am On Sep 16, 2025
Zionmdde:
Those Chinese boys, where were they when several of young chaps from Nigeria were winning mathematics competitions at the world stage
Sorry o, but I'mma need facts, links and stats on this claim of yours.

Because this is my industry and nowhere has Nigeria produced more than 5 people that have won Math Competitions against Chinese or any Asians. Nigeria isn't great at teaching Mathematics and Science.

I have a child who has even won an international medal and she certainly didn't beat any Asian, the top Nigerian kid there wasn't in the top 5, he was in the top 10.

The American Math Olympiad teams (who usually place 1st or 2nd globally) are usually comprised of White kids and Asian kids.

Top countries are China, USA, Russia, UK, Japan, South Korea, India, Turkey/Israel. Not us.

So please where did your own competition(s) happen, that we were beating them black-and-blue?
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by naptu2(op): 6:14am On Sep 16, 2025
jahsharon:
No country in the world that Nigerians are not known.
Why are you responding to that guy? He's just trying to provoke me. Anybody that reads my post knows that I never said that Indians are silent, I only quoted someone else that said that Indians are silent.
Re: Meet Ashrita Furman Who Holds The World Record For Most World Records by geoworldedu: 6:24am On Sep 16, 2025
jahsharon:
No country in the world that Nigerians are not known.
I didn't say there is a country in the world that Nigerians are not known, but there are billions of adult individuals who don't know that Nigeria exists.
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