You know I CAN imagine a world where every yard has a veggie garden... I've read Day of the Triffids, you see, and that has helped my imagination in that way. =D
Not fair... All those people have GIGANTIC front yards and they aren't even using them... My front yard is TINY and there's nothing to do in it. My old house had a medium-sized front lawn (which my siblings and I used often) but our backyard, depsite being massive, was full of fleas and rats and snakes. And the house before THAT... Actually, the house before that was awesome, I liked that house. Minus the MANY animal graves we had to dig in the back.
This video helped me on my ACT test for the writing portion. I had to argue whether we should have more practical uses for front yards or beautified front yards. Obviously I chose the former. ;)
I live in England. I live in quite a small town/large village. I an tell you in all honesty, that I can walk all through my town/village and down every street and close, without seeing a front lawn. My family has a small lawn, but most of our small garden is concrete or soil and flowers. On the contrary, we tend to associate lawns with the Americans.
if we didn't have pennies i would not have had enough coins to scrape together to get a snack for my trip tomorrow. Also, you are completely right about lawns
I'm Scottish and laughing my head off that John thinks it rains all the time in Britain. I live in the sunniest city on Scotland (Dundee, if you're wondering) and right now, we have ABSOLUTELY NO SNOW AT ALL. Sometimes, the English have it so lucky.....
@itsawayoflife142 I'm Scottish too (Glasgow), and it annoys me that we never get any snow as well :( It does rain a lot down here though - it never seems to stop, if I'm honest -.-
He's right, I haven't seen the sun in days. But I do live in the driest place in England, so not all bad :) But currently there's snow...I don't like snow.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
@thegamemaster5500 I'm sorry, did you mean, "KNOW your evil" or "NO, you're evil"? because either way you meant it, you wrote it incorrectly. Also, there should be punctuation at the end....You should also probably reconsider the capitalizing of all of the letters in first word. DFTBA! ;)
My dad grew up on a farm in Portugal and is really big on gardening. Our front yard is full of flowers, so the HOA has no reason to complain, and our back yard is so chock full of veggies that we can't eat them all ourselves. Our neighbors know that they can come over any time they like and help themselves to tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers, as well as more fruit than ought to be able to grow in North Carolina: lemons, figs, persimmons, oranges. Needless to say, my dad is very popular :D
My family is sort of the same way. I live in the city, so our front lawn is pretty small, and not so grassy. It has birck, two tiny trees, and some bushes. It's nice. In the back the yard is bigger, and it has 1/3 grass. 1/6 is a patio, and the other 1/2 is garden. We have veggies, herbs, and a couple decoritive flowers. I love my "Lawn" more than those grassy ones!
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but John, my mom always plants vegitables and flowers in our front/back yard :) the vegitables taste better and the flowers look nice! infact alot of people in Canada do that, maybe not the vegitables but the flowers :D they just look prettier
In other news, in Pennsylvania, where its never sunny and rains all the friggin time, yards are hardly a bad idea :/ Maybe not a great one, but not bad.
YES YES AND YES. I knew this nonsense when I was 12 and had to rake an acre yard's worth of cut grass. Sucha waste of time! ARGHHHH GARDENS ARE BETTER! Why don't people use like, lake water or something to water their grass? (I can say this because I live by a Great Lake, but still!)
I like grass... I've seen people with very painful to step rocks instead of grass, but I think it isn't that awesome either... And just paving it over with concrete isn't easy and is terrible for the environment... Should we just grow tomatoes on our lawns?
the only problem is the Department of Agriculture would not like us having vegetable gardens in our front yards because the big food companies would lose money.
When you were making this video it was raining over here in England. How I do know that? Because lady summer it rained pretty much every frigging day. Except for when I was doing my GCSEs in tiny rooms with lots of people when it was nice and sweltering.
@swordfish1929 I was taking this make-up test with only a couple of other kids a few years ago, and we were in a room right next to a huge window. In the middle of the test, IT BEGINS TO SNOW. IN ATLANTA. ONLY ONCE A YEAR. We watched people playing as we took our test. AWESDRFTGHJ I feel your pain.
@mrwho995 I'm sorry but that is an incorrect assumption. Yes, the term irony is often misused, however that is a fault among people of every country. Besides, i wouldn't comment on other people's mistakes, considering your sentence was gramatically incorrect as well. Not to worry though, no one's pefrect! :) DFTBA
I've definitely noticed a correlation between being American and not getting Irony. It is quite a common British thing to say though that Americans don't get irony, so I'm probably just imagining it. Where was the grammatical error by the way? The sentence structure could have been improved on but I don't thing it was specifically grammatically incorrect, unless I'm missing something. DFTBA
I'm using this as the final project topic in my Third Year Oral Interpretation class this semester. It's worth %30 of my final grade and I'm basically getting most of what I'm saying from this video. I'm also using some statistics, but that's unimportant!
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hank says 50% of our water goes to water plants that are fed to livestock. if that's true, and if what John says is true, that would have to mean that we only have 20% left for everything else. could that really be true?
i went looking for something that was actually 117,000 degrees C, and couldn't find anything. The heart of the sun (the hottest thing i could think of) is 5800 K (5527 C), which is about a twentieth of that amount. John, you are living in a place that is twenty times as hot as the heart of the sun. I would advise you to get Henry out of there as soon as possible.
@vlogbrothers Lack of imagination inexplicably mingled with a strong work ethic. I don't understand why anyone would put so much effort and care into keeping their yard healthy but not put the thought into planting a garden. If you're not going to do anything with your yard, let it grow wild.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. Some people want to give their young children a place to run around, or live on soil that needs grass in it to keep it from turning into mud.
This man is completely misinformed and very stupid and so are all of you who believe his stupid rant, especially you Arbinator117... About 3% of all the consumed water goes to irrigate all of the parks, golf courses and lawns combined. Agriculture consumes about 92%. Go to the US geological survey website to find out the truth...
@MrThomas48 you need to give an exact link, because everything im reading there supports john in his statement that about a 3rd of our water supply goes to turf grass. I could have missed something important so please enlighten me.
I'm using this for my science project, I'm writing down negatives to front lawns and positives to vegetable gardens. THIS VIDEO IS MY ONLINE RESOURCE!!!
Aside from the rain thing we have a tiny country with many people, therefore smaller houses and smaller front 'yards' (they are GARDENS). With quite a lot of the smaller front gardens now people cover them in tarmac to park cars on or aesthetically pleasing gravel (note sarcasm).
You shouldn't think of it as mowing your lawn, you should think of it as active tanning. As millions of fangirls stalk you from the bushes to get pictures of your glistening topless body.
you do realize that you can recycle water and there will not be a shortage of drinking water for a minimum of 500 years assuming we dont start using it as a source for fuel
Front lawns keep getting bigger mainly because of setback requirements in building codes. I think it's out of the fear that some drunk driver will crash into your house.
But yes, they are useless. They offer little privacy other than keeping residents farther from he street that nobody's on. It's space that should be used for backyards.
I imagine the original front lawns were for something more like mansions/estates. For actual rich people. Not for average income citizens.
i have to say, as i watch this in the south of britain (where it is suppose to be relavtively warm), it is tipping it down an has been for the last 3 days.
I am a college student, but I like this idea so much that I promise that if John replaces his lawn with flowers, or a garden, or something besides turf grass, I will do the same once I own a house.
Ok, complaint number 1. LAWNS ARE NOT OUR FAULT. Complaint number 2. IT DOES NOT RAIN ALL THE TIME IN BRITAIN. IT JUST RAINS THE NORMAL AMOUNT. Apart from that, I agree entirely xD
You know I CAN imagine a world where every yard has a veggie garden... I've read Day of the Triffids, you see, and that has helped my imagination in that way. =D
allgreatfictions 2 hours ago
It's awkward because kim jong il is dead now...
freakinlucky13 1 day ago 5
THe ad was for lawn maintenance...
chocoflover 1 day ago
Is it just me or are those American front lawns HUUGE?!
OddSocks8991 2 days ago
Not fair... All those people have GIGANTIC front yards and they aren't even using them... My front yard is TINY and there's nothing to do in it. My old house had a medium-sized front lawn (which my siblings and I used often) but our backyard, depsite being massive, was full of fleas and rats and snakes. And the house before THAT... Actually, the house before that was awesome, I liked that house. Minus the MANY animal graves we had to dig in the back.
thatwhichisgiven 2 days ago
It is hotter than Kim Jong Il!... Would be if he died and went to hell.
Nice save... xD
DFTBA :)
StillBreathingMDP 4 days ago 3
This video helped me on my ACT test for the writing portion. I had to argue whether we should have more practical uses for front yards or beautified front yards. Obviously I chose the former. ;)
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FTL that is a LOT of water the yards are stealing.
toober1114 4 days ago
lawns are annoying in england as we have to mow them, because they grow too freaking well!
thing2liv 5 days ago
I live in England. I live in quite a small town/large village. I an tell you in all honesty, that I can walk all through my town/village and down every street and close, without seeing a front lawn. My family has a small lawn, but most of our small garden is concrete or soil and flowers. On the contrary, we tend to associate lawns with the Americans.
RaincloudPlay 5 days ago
oh america
curse trends!
ahappyhuman 5 days ago
if we didn't have pennies i would not have had enough coins to scrape together to get a snack for my trip tomorrow. Also, you are completely right about lawns
TheOnlySMAWJ 6 days ago
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turfbydesign 1 week ago
I'm Scottish and laughing my head off that John thinks it rains all the time in Britain. I live in the sunniest city on Scotland (Dundee, if you're wondering) and right now, we have ABSOLUTELY NO SNOW AT ALL. Sometimes, the English have it so lucky.....
itsawayoflife142 1 week ago
@itsawayoflife142 yay fellow Dundonian!
Charlie90900 1 week ago
@itsawayoflife142 Yes,it does rain all the time.
RaincloudPlay 5 days ago
@itsawayoflife142 I'm Scottish too (Glasgow), and it annoys me that we never get any snow as well :( It does rain a lot down here though - it never seems to stop, if I'm honest -.-
WeeTubaGirl 4 days ago
Whooo, go Britain! - I think I missed the point of this..
TheImaginaryBiscuit 1 week ago
He's right, I haven't seen the sun in days. But I do live in the driest place in England, so not all bad :) But currently there's snow...I don't like snow.
crayolaupyournose 2 weeks ago
@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
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@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
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@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
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@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
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@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
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@crayolaupyournose youre lucky, we live about 35 miles from the wettest place in Britan and it only snows about once every 4 years.Never any floods though, because we live on a hill.
Herringsmakegoodaxes 6 days ago
Us in Arkansas don't need fancy-shmancy sprinklers for our grass, it grows on its own :U
TheYellowWolfDragon 2 weeks ago
@SingularNinjular no we do not cheers to brits :)
teamjacobno1 2 weeks ago
Whoa you're pyshic .. he died. I cult u
Noisevilles 2 weeks ago
NO your evil
thegamemaster5500 3 weeks ago
@thegamemaster5500 I'm sorry, did you mean, "KNOW your evil" or "NO, you're evil"? because either way you meant it, you wrote it incorrectly. Also, there should be punctuation at the end....You should also probably reconsider the capitalizing of all of the letters in first word. DFTBA! ;)
Bbjenious 1 week ago
My dad grew up on a farm in Portugal and is really big on gardening. Our front yard is full of flowers, so the HOA has no reason to complain, and our back yard is so chock full of veggies that we can't eat them all ourselves. Our neighbors know that they can come over any time they like and help themselves to tomatoes, lettuce, and cucumbers, as well as more fruit than ought to be able to grow in North Carolina: lemons, figs, persimmons, oranges. Needless to say, my dad is very popular :D
bluemorningtide 3 weeks ago 19
This video is just fun!
BassetBuddy207 3 weeks ago
Yeah, us Brits don't water our lawns, but then most of us just pave over them anyway.
SingularNinjular 3 weeks ago
So... is your front lawna vegetable garden there mr.judgey?
MrDeatrich 3 weeks ago
@MrDeatrich He said it in the video
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@MrDeatrich No, sadly, because like many of us, John Green is subject to the evil that is the status quo.
Plyrx08 2 weeks ago
The colour of your wall is my favourite shade of John--I mean, green.
And, in your honour, I will make my lawn consist of mostly vegetables. The rest will be tulips and roses, and possibly trees.
And maybe a shrub or two.
coryldork 3 weeks ago
Every time John said status quo I imagined Joey Richter singing it.
MeowJustyn 3 weeks ago 12
@MeowJustyn whew! I'm not the only one!
ImJustCoolLikeThatXD 3 weeks ago
So us Seattlites are okay too on the front lawn thing . . . which is funny, cause most of us don't have one . . .
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So THAT'S who invented the lawn!
littlebassfisherman 4 weeks ago
It doesn't rain ALL the time in Britain. Also, there aren't many front lawns. There isn't room.
sophier24 4 weeks ago 4
can i just note th majorty of the UK doesnt have 'front lawns' anymore, huuuhahahahaaaraarrarraarrrr!
benjibunny14 4 weeks ago
My family is sort of the same way. I live in the city, so our front lawn is pretty small, and not so grassy. It has birck, two tiny trees, and some bushes. It's nice. In the back the yard is bigger, and it has 1/3 grass. 1/6 is a patio, and the other 1/2 is garden. We have veggies, herbs, and a couple decoritive flowers. I love my "Lawn" more than those grassy ones!
RosePetalsFalling 4 weeks ago
The Yeti has a name!
jasonblake49 4 weeks ago
We just got rid of our front lawn and covered it in gravel :D
themightywilliphant 1 month ago
I don't have a yard... I have a garden.
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TheFrenchmenPlatoon 1 month ago
but John, my mom always plants vegitables and flowers in our front/back yard :) the vegitables taste better and the flowers look nice! infact alot of people in Canada do that, maybe not the vegitables but the flowers :D they just look prettier
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That, John, is pathetic fallacy. We feel you man, we feel you through the heat.
CassiaAleriPrice 1 month ago
0:00 for John-fish!
Otherwisedull 1 month ago
I live in arizona where if we tried to have turf grass, it would die instantly.
So my front yard basically consists of a sea of razor sharp rocks that make your feet feel like theyre gonna die when you walk on them
charlieissofron 1 month ago
We killed America with grass. hehe. =]
Kobrag90 1 month ago
I have a forest for a front law. you're welcome John. you're welcome.
SkateAndCheerGirl 1 month ago
just watched this and the moment he said the Kim Jong Il thing...I died. YOU ARE A PROPHET MAN!!!!!
sicronj 1 month ago
My yard has no grass!!! WOO-HOO!!!
TheBriTeam 1 month ago
This video was the inspiration for a fourteen week poster project that I made this year in college for a presentation. Thank you John :)
oreo123cookie123 1 month ago
In other news, in Pennsylvania, where its never sunny and rains all the friggin time, yards are hardly a bad idea :/ Maybe not a great one, but not bad.
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First vlogbrothers video I watched! You have to wonder how I got to watching a video about turf grass. HMMMMMM...
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YES YES AND YES. I knew this nonsense when I was 12 and had to rake an acre yard's worth of cut grass. Sucha waste of time! ARGHHHH GARDENS ARE BETTER! Why don't people use like, lake water or something to water their grass? (I can say this because I live by a Great Lake, but still!)
Minano 1 month ago
LOL HE DID DIE. COINCIDENCE. <- more accurate
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Yeah, be jealous of our British rain.
Also, we have much smaller lawns, if someone saw a house with a lawn the size of the ones in your area over here, we'd think it's insanely large.
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This is why we now have tank water... (and some new estates have recycled water and fresh)
And why I live in a Townhouse
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Unknownboi88 1 month ago
"On the downside, they never get to see the sun. Also, James Murdoch."
You're hilarious when you're semi-insane, John.
Silverballoons 1 month ago 2
i just rewatched this video... 0:15 = IRONY!
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That's not irony...
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I like grass... I've seen people with very painful to step rocks instead of grass, but I think it isn't that awesome either... And just paving it over with concrete isn't easy and is terrible for the environment... Should we just grow tomatoes on our lawns?
JaguarRawr 1 month ago
I am British. I look out of my window, and what do I see? Concrete front lawns...
HariSlate 1 month ago
John is psychic he predicts the death of Kim Jong il
Lexm1tch311 1 month ago
I don't have a lawn! Jut a small flower and tomato patch. Townhouses ftw.
Glaucidae 1 month ago
^this video is why i don't live in suburbia. city living any day <3
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the only problem is the Department of Agriculture would not like us having vegetable gardens in our front yards because the big food companies would lose money.
jack16895 1 month ago
Why not use a barrel(or two)to collect the rainwater in?
stlkngyomom 1 month ago 3
Lawns are stupid. I'm all for nature but lawns are totally unnecessary.
tipomartins 1 month ago
my first vlog bros vid........months later i am a compleat nerdfighter
zombiecamelzzz 1 month ago
Kim Jong Il is dead...so yes, quite hot.
JL4Pope 2 months ago 109
When you were making this video it was raining over here in England. How I do know that? Because lady summer it rained pretty much every frigging day. Except for when I was doing my GCSEs in tiny rooms with lots of people when it was nice and sweltering.
swordfish1929 2 months ago
@swordfish1929 I was taking this make-up test with only a couple of other kids a few years ago, and we were in a room right next to a huge window. In the middle of the test, IT BEGINS TO SNOW. IN ATLANTA. ONLY ONCE A YEAR. We watched people playing as we took our test. AWESDRFTGHJ I feel your pain.
FlargTheKitty 2 months ago
So I heard Kim Jong Il died and the first thing that popped in my head was "John made a video about that!"
DisneyFanatic0716 2 months ago 4
LOL HE DID DIE. IRONY
XxsuccessfulloserxX 2 months ago 214
@XxsuccessfulloserxX Not Irony! He was old and mortal, death was going to happen at some point
thePirateQueenKt 1 month ago
@XxsuccessfulloserxX That isn't irony though XD It's funny, but not irony.
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@XxsuccessfulloserxX Not really, I mean everyone is going to die and he was getting old.
ginnyisdacoolest 1 month ago
@XxsuccessfulloserxX
Hardly ironic. Just a coincidence.
mrwho995 1 month ago
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Why do no Americans get irony? :(
mrwho995 1 month ago
@mrwho995 I'm sorry but that is an incorrect assumption. Yes, the term irony is often misused, however that is a fault among people of every country. Besides, i wouldn't comment on other people's mistakes, considering your sentence was gramatically incorrect as well. Not to worry though, no one's pefrect! :) DFTBA
Imallwrite212 1 month ago
@Imallwrite212
I've definitely noticed a correlation between being American and not getting Irony. It is quite a common British thing to say though that Americans don't get irony, so I'm probably just imagining it. Where was the grammatical error by the way? The sentence structure could have been improved on but I don't thing it was specifically grammatically incorrect, unless I'm missing something. DFTBA
mrwho995 1 month ago
@XxsuccessfulloserxX That is not irony
LMC931 1 month ago
@XxsuccessfulloserxX That is not irony.
LMC931 1 month ago
@XxsuccessfulloserxX The irony being that you misused the word irony.
Very clever sir, very clever.
fluffysucks08 1 month ago
OCCUPY FRONT LAWNS
flakemusic86 2 months ago 3
...is this bad that my chinese name is directly translated into 'Little Grass'?
KittyMariChan 2 months ago
At my school, I'm pretty sure most of that water actually goes to feed the OTHER type of grass. Jus'sayin...
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It doesn't rain that much :(
Okay so it does....
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I'm a stupid moron with an ugly butt and a big butt and my butt smells and i like to kiss my own butt
stude444 2 months ago
Persuasive Essay topic - check
JuliannaK1597 2 months ago 2
@JuliannaK1597 lol same here
HazaelG 2 months ago
Some woman got sued by the homeowners association for having a front yard garden. People are stupid.
blueisasomedancer 2 months ago
I'm not paying money for someone to pick radishes out of my front yard.
errOHneoS 2 months ago
Umm if it wasn't for grass I wouldn't have a nicely paid summer job. hahaha
Nolobot 2 months ago
I'm using this as the final project topic in my Third Year Oral Interpretation class this semester. It's worth %30 of my final grade and I'm basically getting most of what I'm saying from this video. I'm also using some statistics, but that's unimportant!
THANK YOU JOHN!
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JesusPaid4You 2 months ago
WOAH! i just started watching your videos. did you say you lived in indy? me too!
lucasB823 2 months ago
'it rains a lot in britain'
right the f*** on!
charliesbass 2 months ago
It's true, it does rain a lot in Britain :/
Jelfy13 2 months ago
Am I the only Brit here who doesn't have a front garden, even though it was a British
invention...
dav1n7hule 3 months ago
hank says 50% of our water goes to water plants that are fed to livestock. if that's true, and if what John says is true, that would have to mean that we only have 20% left for everything else. could that really be true?
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@PEEJ012 Seems legit. %20 is still a HUGE number!
justcoopit 2 months ago
Lawns cool down the neighborhood
huntoon 3 months ago
@huntoon ? what now?
PEEJ012 3 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@PEEJ012 I have heard lawns lower the temperature of the neighborhoods.
huntoon 3 months ago
My front yard's about the size of a postage stamp. And sometimes our neighbors mow our lawn before we do.
g2theIrishPianist 3 months ago
@g2theIrishPianist Just because you don't have a lawn, doesn't stop the fact that it WAS infact, invented by the British...
Foxspirt 3 months ago
most people in britain don't have front lawns love. I know because I live here and I've been all over britain.
kikibluex 3 months ago
Surprisingly sunny outside in England... total agreement on Murdoch though...
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whoskateswins 3 months ago
WOODY GUTHRIE!
tadlee 4 months ago
i went looking for something that was actually 117,000 degrees C, and couldn't find anything. The heart of the sun (the hottest thing i could think of) is 5800 K (5527 C), which is about a twentieth of that amount. John, you are living in a place that is twenty times as hot as the heart of the sun. I would advise you to get Henry out of there as soon as possible.
skydivinglibrarian 4 months ago 3
@vlogbrothers Lack of imagination inexplicably mingled with a strong work ethic. I don't understand why anyone would put so much effort and care into keeping their yard healthy but not put the thought into planting a garden. If you're not going to do anything with your yard, let it grow wild.
Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. Some people want to give their young children a place to run around, or live on soil that needs grass in it to keep it from turning into mud.
skydivinglibrarian 4 months ago
lol :D
jessicalilac 4 months ago
This man is completely misinformed and very stupid and so are all of you who believe his stupid rant, especially you Arbinator117... About 3% of all the consumed water goes to irrigate all of the parks, golf courses and lawns combined. Agriculture consumes about 92%. Go to the US geological survey website to find out the truth...
MrThomas48 4 months ago
@MrThomas48 you need to give an exact link, because everything im reading there supports john in his statement that about a 3rd of our water supply goes to turf grass. I could have missed something important so please enlighten me.
joeSCHMOEwithTheo 3 months ago in playlist Liked
So John, do you have that riding lawn mower?
jellyroxherpb 4 months ago
so...we are back on the penny thing I see....
bobthepurpleostrich 4 months ago
Does it count if we don't actually keep up our lawn?
hayhay509 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
I live in England and it does not rain ALL the time. I haven't seen rain for a month.
greatdslayarr 4 months ago
blinking is not John's thing
llamamuffinpanda95 4 months ago
frack, i love battle star galactica and I love that he said frack (but I dislike the new show)
AFIfreak4life1 4 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
Russian backyards have vegetable gardens...
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TheJollynerd 4 months ago
On behalf of the British, you're welcome.
UnitedKingdomify 4 months ago
We dont have lawn we have plants and veggies
ItsAmysCrazyLife 4 months ago
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!
I'm using this for my science project, I'm writing down negatives to front lawns and positives to vegetable gardens. THIS VIDEO IS MY ONLINE RESOURCE!!!
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Arbinator117 4 months ago 56
I wish I had veggies in front or back yard. But getting the stuff to grow is freaking hard in Calgary. At least I don't water them.
And John, watering or mowing on a hot day doesn't make sense. Don't do it. Be nerdy. Stay awesome.
IshikawaGoemon5 4 months ago
thank you for a proposal essay topic.... :)
QtLibby09 4 months ago
It costs 1.79 cents to make a penny! That just seems incredibly silly!
redmetalshoes 5 months ago 2
HA British win.
But sorry about that.
EllieBeeElite 5 months ago
Aside from the rain thing we have a tiny country with many people, therefore smaller houses and smaller front 'yards' (they are GARDENS). With quite a lot of the smaller front gardens now people cover them in tarmac to park cars on or aesthetically pleasing gravel (note sarcasm).
Nerdywrockfangirl 5 months ago 3
You shouldn't think of it as mowing your lawn, you should think of it as active tanning. As millions of fangirls stalk you from the bushes to get pictures of your glistening topless body.
LivingNexus 5 months ago 2
Because of this video, I'm writing my college essay on Status Quo bias. Thank you John(:
badgirlsgetyoudown 5 months ago
In Australia people rarely have front lawns, I suppose we weren't as influenced because we get even less rain than you.:)
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TheJollynerd 5 months ago
you do realize that you can recycle water and there will not be a shortage of drinking water for a minimum of 500 years assuming we dont start using it as a source for fuel
lpfan540 5 months ago
We're getting our front lawn replaced with rocks and long grasses !! I immediately came to comment on this video.
AndreaHatesHerName 5 months ago
If you move to BC you'll never worry about not-green-grass again :)
bashfulSmarties 5 months ago
and get a barrel to collect water and use that for stuff... if it rains enough...
bashfulSmarties 5 months ago
My front yard is filled with gravel and natural desert plants that do not need me to sustain them, except for removing trash and dead plants.
redbarron718 5 months ago
Front lawns keep getting bigger mainly because of setback requirements in building codes. I think it's out of the fear that some drunk driver will crash into your house.
But yes, they are useless. They offer little privacy other than keeping residents farther from he street that nobody's on. It's space that should be used for backyards.
I imagine the original front lawns were for something more like mansions/estates. For actual rich people. Not for average income citizens.
DKWtube 5 months ago
What do you mean? The other day I saw the sun for like 10 minutes. It was amazing.
sandstormxx 5 months ago 2
@sandstormxx If you want to enjoy some sun go to Greece!
PSspecialist 5 months ago
@addtek *too many chavs, but sure you think it rains in the Midlands? Try living in Swansea . Statistically the rainiest city in the UK.
Though we have got a beach, and the Gower so you have fun in the Midlands with your chavs, I'll keep my rain :3
thinkpinklivelime 5 months ago
The puff levels in this video are amazing. His hair is practically sticking straight out in every direction.
browneyednerd112358 5 months ago in playlist More videos from vlogbrothers
i have to say, as i watch this in the south of britain (where it is suppose to be relavtively warm), it is tipping it down an has been for the last 3 days.
I WANT SOME OF YOUR SUNSHINE!!!
clumbertennant 5 months ago
I am a college student, but I like this idea so much that I promise that if John replaces his lawn with flowers, or a garden, or something besides turf grass, I will do the same once I own a house.
dettonator11 5 months ago
Don't be hatin on the penny. It may cost more than 1c to make but bills only cost 9c and are worth more.
limaloloful 5 months ago
I live in Arizona. Our front yards are filled with rocks.
We win.
randomjuff 5 months ago
He blinked!
TheGfields 5 months ago
F*cking grass, sits there and takes my daily 4 billion gallons of water, GET A JOB GRASS!
TheAwesomeLabyrinth 5 months ago 49
the funny thing is, theres a ad next to this video thats selling turf grass. IRONIC.
awesomeness860 5 months ago
Guthrie... perhaps the greatest of all the woodys.
wolverineblue18 5 months ago
Ok, complaint number 1. LAWNS ARE NOT OUR FAULT. Complaint number 2. IT DOES NOT RAIN ALL THE TIME IN BRITAIN. IT JUST RAINS THE NORMAL AMOUNT. Apart from that, I agree entirely xD
thefictionalgirl 5 months ago
Dude, i live in the southwest and my front yard is made of rocks. Looks cool, doesn't need to be watered
captainmkeckles 5 months ago
Seeing a huge front yard a knowing it's in America. Because NO WHERE ELSE they have front yards of that size.
ApplesRubbish 5 months ago
Don't forget Nitrogen fixing into your soil by grass.
marmaladekamikaze 5 months ago
John, button your shirt please. You're running a video blog, not a porn studio.
13cmwright99 5 months ago 2
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lol:)
GeorgiaGrier28 5 months ago
Why isn't John President yet? Or, you know, supreme overlord of Earth?
ShilohProductionsUSA 5 months ago 2
We don't water our grass in New Zealand... even if it's 40 degrees celcius...
Skyuni123 6 months ago
Easiest Solution:
-Have native plants that grow without the need of chemicals and water (from you, rain water is needed).
My family have native plants, and they rock.
TheProjectWeird 6 months ago