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  • one word: sprinklers

    

  • i don't know ANYBODY who actually waters their lawns.

  • Thumbs up if you thumbs down a comment even thought it says you should thumbs up the comment because you did exactly as described in said comment. Just because you hate people who write thumbs up if so much. If there are more people like me, this comment will get many thumbs down. marvelous. This comment deserves it!

  • im so pidded,

  • Why do you water your lawn? Don't you have rain in America?

  • @likjewso Not where I'm from... It's very dry... But America is big, I'm sure there is rain in some places... Like Oregon...Yes... Lots of rain in Oregon...

  • I misread Rock & Roll as Rick Roll. Oh, the internet!

  • go to 0:26 and pause it. funny face. :)

  • The back of yo head is ridiculous!

  • JOHN GREEN IS COLIN SINGLETON! Yes, capslock was necessary. 

  • Haha! The add to the right of this is about taking care of lawns, that made me laugh :)

  • 94.6% of statistics are made up on the spot

  • @morganlizzie23 probably including that one xD

  • I still want to know what he meant by "radio pieces" :P

  • "So until I can gather up some nerdfighter courage I'm going to keep mowing the lawn"... 4 years later watch?v=-enGOMQgdvg&feature=fe­edu

  • @vlogbrothers So you're religious, but what kind? Islam, Buddhist, Christian?

    If i'm correct, LOOKING FOR ALASKA exemplified a couple Buddhist themes.

  • @whitepaaw They had one week where Hank and John discuss religion, so they talk about all that :)

  • Oh yeah, "Netherlands invading American Lawn Care" is in the tags.

  • id just like to point out that only 12 more likes are needed to make 1000 likes

  • hahaa, i love the list order of tags:

    'Netherlands Invading America Lawn Care'

    totally DFTBA.

  • 0:53 Property.

  • Do I spy with my little eye ....a rock and roll encyclopedia book. One words: EPIC

  • What about Fran, she wants to nerdfight too.

  • This was posted on my birthday 3 years ago!! :)

  • I was so sure at 0:50 that the rest of the phrase beginning "child p" was gonna be "ornography" and not "rodigies" and I was like whaaaaat!

  • 'I just said property funny' amused me because I'm from England and that's how we say 'property' so for me the second time sounded wrong.

  • After you said "property" the first time, I couldn't stop laughing!!!!

  • "I just said property funny".

    Thumbs up if you went back and watched him say "property" again.

  • You look to the left often in this video.

  • Rock and roll...in your pants.

  • hi, i use youtube alot it seems, i thought the book behind him said rick and rolled

  • No way! You really afraid of what the neighnours would think? Get local grasses. Or a vegatable garden. Or plant some trees and bushes and a water feature to make a pretty wood-like garden. Or get a vegetable garden. Or a zen garden....So many possibilities.

    Really? You would have other countries involved in the American political prosess? That sounds like trouble. I like Robert Heinleins idea in Starship Troopers (the book, not the dumb movie). You have to earn the right to vote.

  • YAY! uploaded on my bday!!

  • Lawn issues... I prefer not to mow it, and never ever to weed it, and call it an oxygen garden. :)

  • I went back and listened to you say "property" like four times. Just FYI.

  • THANK GOD I ENDED UP WITH THE YETI

  • pause it at 0:31 ... great face :)

  • The birth of my hate for grass. On my birthday too :)

  • FACE OF RAGE! Why's it not working? :'( it all green and black D:

  • 1000 thumps up!The Netherlands rule!

  • there are 157 murders in the netherlands every year, so all you need is a few action movies on american tv and your stats stand

  • I've been dumped via text message before, and that's certainly probably one of the crueler was to do it - they have the phone and could call, but chose not to. But, you're happily married now, with a baby too! So, everything always works out, and one can never give up hoping.

  • Hahaha the tags on this video: "Netherlands Invading America"

    funny stuff! :):):)

  • An abundance of Katherines themes in this video . Love it

  • you know, getting rid of all the grass (by going with concrete, i assume) would be kinda bad in an environmental way. At the very least, it reduces the area on which water can penetrate the soil, which can cause flood, so...

  • Moe and the lawns. That is all.

  • You made this vid on my b-day :)XD

  • ROCK & ROLL

  • I hope nerdfighters ostracized him for keeping the lawn, which should count as being ostracized by your peers

  • Yesss I was dumped via IM as well.

    Nerdfighters!

  • Ha, you said property funny.

    -.- But I say it like that all the time when I correct my stepdad when he says, "propeddy."

    There's two Rs in pRopeRty!"

    And when I say it, I always enunciate the T.

    So he's like, "Propaty."

    Ha. I just realized how much of a nerdfighter I am. :]

  • I've yet to understand why you're watering your lawn so much, rather, did water your lawn so much. I can remember only about 2 or 3 occasions when my dad needed to water the grass of our yard; that's 2 or 3 times in over 18 years. Does it not rain much in Indiana?

  • Woodie Guthrie poster :]

  • Rock & Roll in my pants.

  • yeah ahahaha

  • I kinda wish I had a cupcake right now :(

  • You should Juggle For World Peace!!!!!!!!!

  • Hmm, strangely this one is taking a while to load. It must be because it is being watched by tonnes of other NerdFighters and the awesome is just overwhelming the system!

  • John, let me tell you one thing. You do not want the Dutch government to rule America. Sure, there are a lot of good things here compared to America, but the things we're famous for, like legal weed and other soft drugs are all being banned, because apparently it has a 'bad' influence on the youth of this country. While actually statics show that because of our lenient rules the problems we experience here with drugs are nothing compared to other European countries, where it is in fact banned.

  • Just so you guys know, the poster on the wall with the guy holding a guitar is THE Woodie Guthrie poster mentioned in Paper Towns.

  • ok like that is on the day i had my birthday party, and its my lucky number... lol

  • he said duty.

  • teehee.

  • Your static is actually real

  • The neighbours are dubious, why?

  • yay the bookshelf is back! NERFIGHTERS!

    i'm totally having just about the best time of my life watching all of these videos from beginning to end... it's AMAZING. i love nerdfighters, being a nerdfighter, and the possibility of meeting john this weekend... but most of all, i love the audio preview guy trying to say "nerdfighter". awesome.

  • Comment 154:

    You were dumped over Instant Messenger?!

    She must of been a Decipticon.

  • wooo sounds good to me!

    watch out america, the dutch are coming!:D

  • haha xD

    hoo ha!

  • You looked so tired doing the mowing John. There is no such thing as good and evil.

    Im glad you are with the Yeti John. I think Younger people do make a difference which sadly the media does at the moment.

  • negative puff

  • Hey! This is my birthday :O!!

  • AUGUST 8th is my birthday! =D

  • mine too! Wohoo 8D

  • AHHH! its my birthday too (:

    haha......xD

  • I love the title!

  • soooo....whens our danny gunna get elected?

    crap i bet i misspelled that too.

  • drow watermelons in your front yard.

  • yeah i should be doing my english homework....

  • "I MADE THAT STATISTIC UP BUT I BET IT'S TRUE"

    haha legend :D

  • :( your video's are too addicting... how am I supposed to get nerdtastic grades at school when I can't do my assignments because I'm watching youtube...?

  • i know how you feel i have five exams next week but i am watching them instead :( DAMN THEIR AWESOMENESS.

    ok, i do still love them

  • i have the rock and roll book!

    Having the same book that was in a vlogbrothers video is sooooo jokes.

    I'm going to go hug that book now.

  • Hell yeah..

    A Dutch takeover of the U.S.

    doesn't that sounds awesome?

    i'm Dutch, xxx

  • That actually sounds like a pretty good plan.

    Yeah, I'm Dutch ;)

  • why is in widescreen?

  • Awesome is also two times sweeter than sugar and awesome is soo jokes when used in cupcakes.

  • If Only the World Had a Wicker Basket/

  • Try putting on a walkman while mowing the lawn - it really helps a lot.

    Concerning the other point: I know lots of under 18 year olds who know more about politics than most adults including myself. I kind of have the feeling as if lots of people are loosing interest in things as soon as they are allowed to participate in them. Like when you turn 16 drinking bekomes a lot more boring.

  • You can legally drink at SIXTEEN in Germany?? Duuuuude. That's so weird. You have to be 21 here in America. Siiiiick

  • That is exactly why you have a republican President who is obviously mentally retarded and lots of people around the world attack your embassies or at least think the average american is stupid...

    YOU START DRINKING AT THE WRONG AGE!

    People in Europe are generally fed up with drinking when they are around 21. That is the age when can really start deciding and changing things. Lots of good ideas f.e. come from Uni-Students, but if you are drunk all the ,you are not going to help improve society.

  • Actually, it's probably a production of the drinking which causes most of us Americans to be dumbasses. And having our teenagers drink at 16 would just produce another ridiculous problem America has to face. BOO ON DRUNK/BUZZED DRIVING.

    Hey, has that 'Rock and Roll' book always been there?

  • In Germany you have to be 18. But 16 is the legal age in the Netherlands :)

  • Mowing the lawn sucks! I hate the gasoline smell that attaches itself to everything you wear while cutting and the little particles that weld themselves to your skin.

    I think when I get a house with a lawn, I'm putting down astro-turf.

  • Wow, i finally found people who agree that people under 18 should be able to contribute to the running of the country they reside in. Wow, that as long, but true. Of course, I doubt that the voting age will change, because we can't vote to get the right to vote.

    How did women do it???

  • I don't understand the statistical comparison, even if it is true...?_?...

    There are more fictional murders than real murders every day, no matter what country you're in. Saying there are fewer real murders makes little sense as an argument. It just makes sense in that "yes, this is the way the fictional world works - it has a lot of fake murders."

    Population differences just make the comparison bend my mind even more... Ouch. Granted we do have a problem here with that whole thing...

  • rock & roll.

  • omg there is a magically appearing book! wow i never noticed that.

  • note the magically appearing book at about 0.53! even nerdfighters' books are made of awesome

  • ha, he said duty

  • Over ... instant message... that sucks.. a lot.

  • Get a rock lawn.

    If done correctly, it looks awesome.

  • i bet that statistic is true too

  • Mow the lawn more often...0.o

  • Why do they have "Christianity" books? Are they quite religious? :-/

  • I have books on a lot of different religions. But to answer your question: I'm religious; Hank isn't. -John

  • @vlogbrothers I love your punctuation. :)

  • Wow, that statistic you made up sounds good to me. I mean, we do have a lot of murders on our tv, and let's not even go into real life stuff...The Netherlands definitely should run our government. ;D

    And wow, someone dumped you over instant messenger after 2 1/2 years? You're right, that's pretty harsh. At least you have The Yeti now. :)

  • w00t!

  • Thing 1--You should move to South Florida where we have landscapers who mow the lawn for us.

    It's an incredibly depressing reversal of the whole profitting-from-slavery-based-­on-race-is-not-okay idea...but we don't have to mow our lawns.

    Thing 2--I love a guy who talks to his books.

    Thing 3--I also love any adult who believes in empowering the youth and giving them credit and generally not infantilizing them into incapable delinquents.Read The Case Against Adolesence by Robert Epstein.

  • punishment!!!! yay!!!!

  • get some buffalo grass...it's prettier and doesn't waste as much water AND you don't have to mow it as much! how cool is that?? Think about it.

  • I have one thing to say and that is : Rock & Roll in my pants.

  • It would be awesome if the Netherlands Ran our government.

    I mean, we wouldn't be in war and every day at exactly one o'clock in the afternoon, we would all have nap time. That would be a perfect world...

    *fantisizes*

  • I agree.

    Buy a boathouse! lol

  • Oh and the last I heard.. solicitation of any kind of minors is against the law. Be careful boys!!!!

  • Nerdfighter astro-turf??? roflmsaooooo

  • Oh my^^ John you're lookin so hot after having cut the lawn :) Suuuuuuch a shame that you're already spoken for... and that I'm living in Germany... and that I'd be too young anyway... XD The brotherhood 2.0 vids are always fun to watch, so keep it up :) if you can live with the fact that at least one person in Germany will watch and witness your life, that is :P

  • Im stopping the porn advertisement streak!! :D:D:D

    Right now the donor count is 196, and I REALLLY want to donate, but I'm 6 years below the credit card age. ]:

    16 hours in a Wal-Mart sounds amazingly fun..maybe I'll do it on tape :D

  • oh, i could never explain how much i love yuo guys!

    oh yeah, this may sound completly stupid, but i'm curious... why do you call your wife "the yeti"? i think it's oddly funny... but is there a reason?

  • Why, you can find out on the NEW WIKI! wiki.brotherhood2.*com (remove star)

  • We only need 10 more people so John can get the blended happy meal!!

  • Also, more people do drugs in North America than people in the Netherlands, even though it's legal there.

  • Haha I'm dutch, and believe me.. there are (political) killers in Holland. Heared of Pim Fortuyn getting killed? Or about Theo van Gogh who was killed about his thoughts about the Islam?

    Well, you're right.. it don't happen a lot. Hmm, now I don't know if I should be proud.. or not? =/

  • mmm mowing a lawn... makes me glad i live in an apartment >.>

  • Try planting thyme instead. Thyme carpets don't have to be mowed, and they are as evergreen as you can get so far north (down here in Zone 7b, they are evergreen). No neighbors with sense would dislike a thyme carpet, unless they were jealous.

  • Why do you call your wife "the yeti?" Mowing the lawn is icky, get that nerdfighter courage! And you're probably right about that statistic. . . . Sadly.

  • Watch the early ones! She's that yeti cos you only get rare sightings! And hopefully she's hairy too -- she can join my one woman nerd fighter campaign to Let Girls Be Hairy If They Want To.

  • haha. OK. Thanks for explaining! Greatly appreciated!

  • I like that campaign. ^_^

  • ahahahaha@your campaign.....i'll join....b/c i support girls and their freedom of choice! lol but i enjoy shaving off my leg hair! but hoorah to you and your hairy campaign!

  • I hate grass too. That's one thing that sucks about Indiana. lol.

    BTW! I just got my friend hooked on these brotherhood 2.0 videos. And I am going off to college next week and you and Hank have inspired me and my best friend are going to keep in touch by video blogs. YES! Nerd fighters!

  • I'll come down and cut your grass for you no problem

  • John! i watched your video last night but i just remembered that i didnt comment! great video! and i cant wait to see what your punishment is going to be!

  • Hi John, I am reading Looking for Alaska right now and I also borrowed An Abundance of Katherines from the library. Looking for Alaska is so good so far and I can't seem to put it down. You see I am wondering what you are counting down to in the book. I have a feeling the poor kid is going to die. How sad!

  • It's a facted the teenanger have the most powre to make a differs if we tryed. But we don't. wich sucks! Sorry I'm not that graet of a speller.

  • STOP IT!!! We don't wanna know!! Some of us wanna enjoy the movie!!! So Quit!!

  • John and Hank Greene. John, a author with well acomplished books, and Hank, a succesful blogger of things important to our Earth, WITH THERE POWERS COMBINDED,FORM A PATHWAY TO HELPING THE WOOORRLD. hank/john john/hank are the Captain Planet of the Internet. And I have every intention of taking advantage of your powers. "Nerd Fighters!Nerd it up!" *double live long and prosper gangsta style*

  • Wow, I feel amazing having convinced John that we should definitely take over the US political process. 1 US citizen convinced, about 296.410.403 to go...

    The numbers for income and general life perspective are the highest in Holland, Australia and Scandinavia. Plus my very city was voted the best out of 50 mayor European cities (each city judged by its respective citizens). So my take on it is we'd probably do a good job.

  • funkwurm, I'd have to say that you're not really going to convince me. I've lived in Europe and I definitely would not want Dutch people deciding the fate of Americans.

    I think I'd rather the French took a crack at it because I think they hate us less. (cont.)

  • When I was in Holland I went to eight different banks before one let me open an account and that was just because I finally said I was Australian. I went to Paris and had a great time. Holland is beautiful and the Dutch are wonderful people but they hate on Americans too much to be involved in our politics. IMO.

  • me and my brother just checked out an abundance of katherines at the library and they only had one copy(darn it!) so i have to wait for my brother to read it first then i'll reqad it and i can't wait to read it!

  • I don't see Harry potter on your selves. What does Hank have to say about that?

  • I total feel you about the lawn I hate it so much its a nessary awsome. We love the yetti.

    ps i think i spell yetti wrong. I agree with john on the underage thing and about the people from other countries because my father is not from here but he belives in the U.S's why or doing things and he's from africa.

    oh yeah can i be your secret kid?

  • can i be your secret son??

  • Man, I should become the Brother two point oh's publicist.. =D

  • communication is spelled incorrectly

  • its so it can fit into the box.. otherwise itd start a new line.. it wont be symmetrical..

  • Wait Im confused, you call your wife a yetti? My uncles latest ex, well we call her a Bulldyke wilder beast.. LoL..

  • i love that you totally just made up a statistic only nerdfighters can do things like that because were made of awesome

  • p.s. TEAM YETI!

  • ..but then i realized, i DO want the netherlands to. .

    haha so funny. . as a canadian i feel like i want to be involved in your country's political process because what your country does directly affects us and other countries, not to mention the global climate. . i want to contribute! lol

  • I agree, even in Australia whatever America does, our PM feels the need to back up whatever America's President says. Although I do reckon it's a load of bull, that's the way it is, so we should be entitled to have a say in your political process, after all theres more us (rest-of-the-world) than there is of you (Americans).

  • amen

  • perhaps daniel biss can help us on this one and by help i mean do.

    Number of murders seen on (american) TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000(from 'realitytunnel')

    Netherlands 2000 1.42, 2001 1.23, 2002 0.97,Last 0.97 (homicide rate per year per 100,000 inhabitants). population now 16,491,461 growth rate-0.49%- from 'wiki'pedia.

    :)

  • they made me take a test where I had to type the letters that were in the box, to make sure it was a human spamming not a computer. I failed the first time =(

  • I love John :)

  • maybe just one more after this, then I need to go back to studying..

  • I'm so spamming this.. o0o0o.. maybe it'll get into most discussed cause of me..

  • AUSSIE NERDFIGHTERS ROCK!!! \,,/

  • OH MY GOD! WE, The Netherlands, better in politics?? Did I hear you say that? :D Okay, please google Balkenende for me and check out the pictures you get. THIS GUY is ruling our country!! YES! It's Harry Potter! And although I like Harry Potter, I'm not sure I want him to rule our country! So, please, watch carefully what you're wishing for the next time.

  • just dont mow the lawn. save the planet. be different! haha

  • 73% of all statistics are made up.

    So was that one.

    I may have missed this somewhere, but why do you call your wife "The Yetti?"

    In addition, how does she feel about that label?

  • January 2nd.. if you can't find it on youtube, then it's on brotherhood2 dot com.

  • Gosh I've been wondering the same thing - Inquiring minds want to know...will check out Jan. 2nd - thanks DP!

  • yay, i wish you had a punishment that invloved peeps, waxing two limbs, and the happy meal... alas.

  • NO You do NOT want the Dutch Government running the US. They don't even know that the hell they're doing HERE, let alone what they'd do in the US.

    But then again, which country IS happy with thiere government? XD

  • I feel suddenly happy about the fact that I am allergic to grass and dust and can't do housework or yardwork.

  • A small part of me wishes I was allergic to grass.

    I was unaware that people actually had grass allergies.

    However, I do find it incredibly bad ass.

  • There are grass allergies. I'm allergic to like, everything, so my friends joke I should be in a bubble somewhere. But I'm allergic to plastic.

  • I'd have to agree with Hank on the Happy Meal Milkshake, so I just had to contribute xD

    Statistics for ya ;D

    Murder rate (per 100,000 people)

    United States 8.40

    Netherlands 2.00