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[–] tal@lemmy.today 64 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Harper's Pub

All of the parties involved in the argument were said to have been drinking.

For God's sake, the British developed technology to deal with this some time back. The Guinness Book of World Records was originally designed to resolve disputes between bar patrons. Just put one in the bar instead of resolving them via homicide.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/70781-most-prolific-chicken

Most prolific chicken

White Leghorn (No. 2988)

United States

The highest authenticated rate of egg-laying is 371 in 364 days, laid by a White Leghorn (No. 2988) in an official test conducted by Prof. Harold V. Biellier ending on 29 August 1979 at the College of Agriculture, University of Missouri, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_World_Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world. Sir Hugh Beaver created the concept in order to settle arguments debated in pubs, and twin brothers Norris and Ross McWhirter co-founded the book in London in August 1955.[3]

https://gwrstore.com/en-us/collections/guinness-world-records-books

$21 per copy from their own store.

https://www.amazon.com/Guinness-World-Records-2025/dp/1913484564

$23 on Amazon.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 30 points 1 day ago (2 children)

British

Guinness

Oooooh, them's fighting words!

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 23 hours ago

well the guy whose idea it was and the MD of Guinness was South African so it gets worse

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

The family's been at least partially London-based since Victorian times, and some of them hold British titles of nobility.

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 points 23 hours ago

I think you’ll find the British invention to solve this was deportation to America.

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But then we'll never get a new record for 'number of dumb questions asked before somebody got shot'

[–] moakley@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Most or fewest?