So I'm writing something, OK, and I need to look up the world records for something for one of the character's I'm writing (Old Man, Former Setting-name for Badass, Butler, Setting-Themed Badass Normal, Knows that despite his age his peak condition is ahead of him not behind).
So, the world records I looked up were:
World Record High Jump: Javier Sotomayor 2.45 m (8 ft 1⁄4 in) (1993) (According to Wikipedia)
World Record Long Jump: Mike Powell 8.95 m (29 ft 4+1⁄4 in) (1991)
(Again, according to Wikipedia, information true as of 18/04/2026)
So, that got me thinking. There's another world record here that I might be interested in.
So I type in Google, since Wikipedia doesn't respond well to questions like: "What is that thing that's like that other thing that talks about bananas, alright, but at least Google AI will drink a deep refreshing pint of why some desert-stricken town's water bill goes up by 500%, will take a wild fucking guess and at least give you *something* right?
But apparently, what I thought was a very simple question, that many other people must have had, having done the two wikipedia searches I've just had, would give me something. But no, apparently, there is no mention, anywhere, of what the world record "both at once" category is!
Nowhere has ever apparently conceived of an event, where the goal is to maximise both of those axis at once. Of combining the disciplines of jumping very high and very far into one! No measuring, no guesstimating, not even a whisper on anybody's digital lips, save perhaps a few madfolk who dared to dream a bit bigger than most.
What is the optimum fucking, pythagorian provable number that a human can fucking jump. But there's fucking nothing! No record, no guesswork based on both, fucking NOTHIIIIIIING.
Even the fucking AI was stumped and the apparent stupidity of the question, just: "Uh... boss, I'm a yes man who drank the equivalent of a family of four baking under the same Texas sun that I do, alongside my family of four. Million, algorithmically designed to agree with everything you say, no matter how idiotic it may seem to even the stupidest person on the planet. And the only thing I've got to say is this: that's a dumb fucking question my dude."
Couldn't fucking do anything for me. Just, "Uhhhhh... well there's a high jump and there's a long jump, but you are literally the first person on the planet to ask this specific question. And I don't mean that hyperbolicly, you are scientifically provable as the first person ever to think of that. So, uh... Add the two together, I guess?"
And then I came straight here and wrote all of this fucking down. Right no, no thought, no ideas, no plan, no proofreading. Written and published mere seconds after the event.
If it's any consolation, the old man I'm writing about is both very fuckable and has a perfect schlong that he knows how to use.