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  • I can't stop looking at the lip balm. haha

  • Your videos are great for learning english

  • crashcourse led me here and now I'm catching up on all these ... must resist linking all these videos ...

  • Is that thing in the bookshelf behind you corndog lip balm??? 0_0 why do you own corndog lipbalm?

  • @garoofiya lololol, cause he loves corn dogs.

  • I think the word for that is "irony".

  • Have you heard of occam's razor? It's the opposite of the truth resists simplicity. I think the truth resisting simplicity is more true in regards to people, and occam's razor is generally more true in regards to science. Still though, they are complete opposites. Go figure.

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  • oxymoron

  • The word for that is "truthception".

    No. Nope, I'm not going to apologize.

  • I used to know the good and the bad side to Pokemon, then Black and White came out and I got confused.

  • dat poster

  • lol "alwees" XD

  • I'm pretty sure the word you're looking for is irony

  • The tragedy of tuscon?

    I live in tuscon and i dont know what your talking about

    wait, are we talking about the same thing?

    never mind TO GOOGLE!

  • @SomeGuyWithAFace9  Maybe i should of watched the video before i commented...

  • HOW DO I BECOME A PROFESSIONAL GOOFBALL!?!?!?!?

  • You know many times I've tried to explain that dollar coaster thing to people?!?! THANK YOU! :D

  • irony.

  • I think the word is "paradox."

  • @schmidtcs no it is as the top comment states an inception

  • Just having a total fangirl moment at the they might be giants poster :3

  • You wan't something frustrating?

    NO EDGE.

  • god i love the vlogbrothers! everything they do is awesome!

  • on the other hand there in KISS

  • Sexyness. You have all of it.

  • Truthception

  • The wisest man is he who knows that he knows nothing.

  • Mostly I'm jealous of all Hank's books. Also, lip balm

  • No top comments? heres my chance...BOOBS!

  • @kesem19999 stop

  • The hard part to wrap your head around is the concept of being graded and having your supposed intelligence gauged by a school system whose ideas and theories providing the foundations of the lessons and marking system are all wrong yet we're still made to feel inadequate if our answers aren't deemed "right" . It's ridiculous to cause all this stress in students who strive to be what flawed system has deemed correct when all of humankind has no solid, completely formed idea of what's going on.

  • Dammit stop making me procrastinate!!

  • why do u have unopened lip balm behind u?

  • its an oxymoron! durp!

  • i think you should do something about the monty hall problem just saying.

  • hybrid system wouldn't generate energy from nothing. if it used regenerative braking, some of the kinetic energy could be stored rather than being wasted as heat. YOU ARE WRONG!

  • Is the word an epigram?

  • MY FACE WHEN THE AMERICAN SCREAM MACHINE WAS ON THE VLOG BROTHERS. (Rollercoaster like 5 minutes from my house)

  • if we, as humans, are almost always wrong, couldn't the assumption that we are almost always wrong be wrong?

  • @talyashatzky there is an important difference between "almost wrong" and "always wrong" but yes, i supposed that's a possibility

  • @111randomness sorry ment almost always wrong

  • @talyashatzky and thus a paradox was created

  • @talyashatzky

    Well, yes. I think Hank's point here is to highlight the uncertaintiy of knowledge. Also the use of the quantifier, "almost", highlights the fact that this blanket statement has excpetions, and the speaker, Hank, knows that there are exceptions.

  • It's meta, isn't it? At least in concept, it's something that references itself. 

  • IRONY!!! Hank

  • it's a paradox. at first it would seem science and math would be the most difficult and language that we use everyday would be the easiest to use and manipulate but upon further examination we realize that science and math can have absolutes while language can not

  • irony

  • When hank said 'something you said to me recntly' is it abd that my brain went to 'I'll see you on Friday?'

  • the way you are reacting, is how i think about EVERYTHING!!

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  • Oh my gosh did you guys ever debate? like on a debate team? I want to hire you guys to write my value debate cases. agh.

  • I thought the third law of thermodynamics was that all motion stops at absolute zero?

  • uh.. what?

  • You say that everyone is always a little bit wrong.

    You are a little bit wrong.

    I am perfect.

    - haters gonna hate -

  • argh STFU

  • 3:20 principle, not principal

  • The simple truth explaining how there are no simple truths is a paradox

  • @FANGirl12596

    It's also a self-reflexive statement.

  • You say Species, I say Human beings. There's a big difference. I'd say we're pretty important.

  • By chance, did you marry a psychologist or neuroscientist?

  • Great, Hank, just great. You and your brother made Nerdfighteria, you own a website THAT ACTUALLY MAKES YOUR CAREER, and now you're a ventriloquist. Come on!!!

  • @Lyniex Clever video editing...

  • this is great.

  • simple truth about the unexisitance of simple truths...an oxymoron?

  • I love how his lips are moving when the sock puppet is talking :D

  • "wisest is he who knows he knows nothibg"-socrates

  • 1:04 There is a word for that.

    INCEPTION

  • @MegaRandomWaffle It's actually not....

    Definition of inception: Beginning; start; commencement.

    It is the idea at the root of an action. That is why the movie was named Inception.

    I am quite sick of people making up words by adding the suffix -ception and thinking that it has something to with something within another thing. It shows ignorance and stupidity.

    ^By the way the wasn't directed at you, it was directed at EVERYONE.

    To EVERYONE: Learn words...

  • I'm just glad this was posted on my birthday

  • Can someone explain the Toyota thing to me, please?

  • @InTheNameOfBoredom It's 'Voila'! Not 'Vwala'! Just fyi...

  • 1+1=2 Is a little bit wrong?

  • @EpicSuccuss Yes, you've made the assumption that we're working in Base 10. The answer could be 2, or 10, or 11.

  • @EpicSuccuss

    Yes.

  • @dudejohnny Wait do I know you from a 48/2(9+3) video?

  • @anticorncob6

    I'm not sure, possibly.

  • @anticorncob6

    and just so we're clear, the answer is 2. 

  • @dudejohnny It could be 2 OR 288. If you say otherwise, you've been misinformed.

  • @anticorncob6

    It's two. There isn't a logical reason for it to be 288.

  • @dudejohnny Better go tell Wolfram alpha to go fix their calculator.

  • @anticorncob6

    You could learn to use a calculator properly. Division occurs between two numbers, if your numerator and denominator have not been completely simplified, you're doing it wrong. I'm actually going to walk you through this step by step. 48/2(9+3). You see those brackets? That doesn't mean you add the numbers and the brackets magically go away. You can't divide until those brackets are resolved. Literally nothing you can do other than simply and multiply. Correct me please.

  • @dudejohnny Before I continue this conversation any further, let me ask, is this a complex fraction?

  • @anticorncob6

    No, do you know what a complex fraction is?

  • @dudejohnny greywolf424 said it was a complex fraction

    "@rudZ18 IT'S A COMPLEX FRACTION YOU IDIOT"

    I thought you would say the same. Yes I know what they are and this isn't one of them.

  • @anticorncob6

    No, I laid forth my case previously. I have 5 math courses this year, I do algebra all day everyday. That's why I'm so confident in my reasoning. If I can't dance around fractions then I can't graduate.

  • @dudejohnny I typed in "48/2(9+3)" exactly into Wolfram Alpha and it said 288. What could I have possibly done wrong?

  • @anticorncob6

    When typing in linear division you have to put the numerator and denominator into brackets because the computer doesn't know any better. Did you take math in highschool? People fail tests because of that very mistake. It's actually a lot of trouble to calculate rational expressions because sometimes you might need brackets in brackets and brackets if you have powers and all that.

  • @dudejohnny So go tell Wolfram Alpha to go fix their calculator since you just admitted it's wrong.

    And how do you know the denominator is 2(9+3), why not just 2?

  • @anticorncob6

    I didn't admit the calculator is wrong. I said you typed it in wrong. The denominator isn't 2 because 2 is factored out of the expression (18+6). There is no way for 2 to be part of the denominator and not the rest, because the two was factored out of the other expression, and therefore the expression (18+6) was also in the denominator. You can't simply make the factor a denominator of 42 at random. There has to be an association.

  • @dudejohnny I'll reply on pat's video so we don't clog the comments section.

  • I followed about 40% of that and the rest I was trying to understand but I was to slow

  • So a few months ago i had the idea to make roller coasters power them self

    after watching this video twice i realize you just told me i cant

  • THINGS DONT NEED TO BE SO COMPLICATED. HERE YOU GO:

    THINGS MAKE COTTON.

    COTTON MAKES T-SHIRTS.

    VWALA

  • I love you

  • Oxymoronic? Thats all i've got.... Sorry. As a geek writer i have failed :(

  • Exactly what I needed to hear before my final " you are always wrong". What now multiple choice tests?!?

  • But, but, if we are almost always a bit wrong, and we say that we are almost always a bit wrong, are we wrong?

  • This is my moto- when u reach 4 the stars, grab the lowest 1 :)

  • I think that, despite the impossibility of a completely self-sustainable amusement park, the idea of adding these fancy-shmancy brakes to roller coasters is intriguing. Maybe the electrical energy they generate could power the roller coaster's lights, or even the cotton candy machines!

  • If you,Hank ,are a "goofball" ....there is no hope for me D:

  • The car commercial isn't actually breaking the third law. Because it is not being created from nothing it is being created from the mechanical energy from the last ride then it's being transformed into electrical energy and then into mechanical energy. I'm probably inaccurate but please cut me some slack I'm a freshman in high school.

  • @synchrogirl978 Um, if it's being powered by the last one, then the last one has to get it's energy from, well, nowhere. It would just be recycling energy that you didn't have in the first place.

  • @IDontNotHaveAFace Ahh! I forgot to include something. I forgot to say that it would be started off with electrical energy and then they could just shut it off after a while. Thanks for correcting me though!

  • @synchrogirl978 The only problem with that is that it requires the system itself to never lose energy; this is called perpetual motion, and while it would be really awesome, it has never been achieved (as far as I know, that is -- science is changing all the time).

  • @Space55Invader Oh yeah :/ darn it

    but thanks for correcting me though

  • rofl, i remember on my history test i said that the magna carta was the first magnitized map... dear lord me...

  • Do you really know good from evil in Lego Harry Potter? Do you really?

  • YOU ARE WRONG. You do not know the difference between good and evil in Lego Harry Potter because it is based on Harry Potter where Snape was prtrayed as evil throughout the first 6.75 books. You only learn of his bravery at the very end of the last one

  • @grouch314 Snape might not have been "evil", but he was still a bad person. I'd say the major ambiguity is on the demonization of slithering as a whole, and also the SPEW issue.

  • They won't be space monsters, they will be minute genetically engineered stegosaurus and once I get around to mobilizing my adorable creation you wouldn't have a hope of fighting them.

  • Hank, I thought you were above using the word Asian to describe someone who is clearly from Japan. I hope you wouldn't call me, an average englishman, European.

  • So when you are telling us that we are always a little bit wrong, are you a little bit wrong, because then we aren't always a little bit wrong, so maybe you aren't a little bit wrong which would mean we are always a little bit wrong which would mean you are a little bit wrong...Do you see where this is going?

  • @heyitsrissa Ahhhhhhhhh. Too many paradoxes!

  • So, I go to an IB school, dunno if you've heard of it, and we have a class there called Theory of Knowledge, where basically, you talk about how we as a species don't know anything. Hank, you summed it up nicely.

  • Here's how you know someone is a nerd: give them links to a video called "Celebrity's new 'do" and one called "YOU ARE WRONG!" They will almost always chose "YOU ARE WRONG" because nerds try to decrease World Suck, and this mission first requires decreasing your own stupidity. Am I wrong?

  • your awesome!!

  • 115 people are decepticons.

  • math is the only true science (the rest are simply derived from math) that is a simple truth.

  • @doombybbr ...Can you spell idiot for me? Because that is what you are if you think that...

  • @chrantheman for what? if you are talking about the math thing you obviously do not realize the amount of math involved in other sciences, heck even the EXPERIMENTS involve math... so you are stupid for thinking otherwise... also thanks for using the word "idiot" as brain means idiot in the language it was first named in, so you are basically calling me a "brain" via reverse translation.

  • Roller Coasters aren't usually powered 'much' - they just get the momentum needed to get back to the start from the initial drop. Hence the 'coaster' part of the word.

  • Holy shiiza, you're a ventriloquist too?!!! AWESOME!!!

  • Remember, the best solution to a problem is usually the easiest one.

  • @Nerdfighterian because the more complexities the more likely that you fail somewhere along the way.

  • I know im late, but the commercial does not violate the laws of thermodynamics because they are simply harvesting the friction of the rollercoaster, just like the car. The roller coaster is powering other parts of the park, not itself.

  • My brain hurts...

  • Irony

  • You know the difference between good and evil in lego Harry Potter? Oh yeah, well Snape was evil, then good, then evil, then good, then evil, then good, so... not that simple either. XD

  • @Double2Edged Snape was always good but he got mixed up in the wrong crowd and took his anger and frustrations out on muggle born witches and wizards. Also being mean doesn't make you evil it just makes you a jerk.

  • @puertorrriquena I'm not sure, I know a lot of Potterheads have been debating the Snape issue for a long time. IMPO, I think Snape strayed to the wrong side in his youth, and had to struggle to get back. Sure, he was good in the end, but he did stray to the dark side for a short while.

  • @Double2Edged Yea it's a complex debate. I heard one girl go so far as she thinks Snape loved Potter but I think he just was reminded by his mother and his inability to help her. I wouldn't go on that much of a stretch but I think we can all agree Snape has issues and is complicated

  • it's weird because i was just thinking about how we as humans don't really KNOW anything we speculate and assume but often there is a bit of falsehood in almost everything today and I thought "hey let's watch some old nerdfighter videos" and I came across this. Love you guys :)

  • One appropriate word is Conundrum, my favorite word (one of)

  • 0:52 lol

  • i just relized that hank sock has a little guitar.

  • "You're always a little bit wrong."

    But what if that sentence is wrong?

    Then...

    Whoa. Paradox.

  • The word is neither irony nor paradox. The word would be meta.

  • The Corndog lipbalm!

  • Truthception?

    

  • "I feel like I need to do something now to prove I'm the professional goofball, maybe I'll just-" *SLAP* "Owwww!"

    Point proven, Hank.

  • THANK YOU!!! That Toyota commercial irritates the Frick out of me! How could people be so dumb

  • @GlitterIsLikeHerpes I'm liking this because I agree with your comment and also appreciate the hilarity of your name :D

  • What about "Okham's razor"? : the simplest answer is often the truest

    i mean it is true that we will always be slightly wrong, there will always be that little bit of grit in the lines but how often, if we fully concentrate our efforts on finding the truth in something, do we find that all our hard work we have poured into exposing the truth in question has meerly exposed that it was in fact a lot simpler than we thought. Perhaps its our definition of simplicity that needs to be examined.

  • The truth can never be found because it does not exist. We seek answers all our lives, but none are ever revealed because they were never there to begin with. So shall I say begin? Begin with what? What is now and shall be now forever; truth may as well be memory, something that changes according to the individual who bends and molds it to their liking, only happy memories remain. So shall I begin with my memories?

  • Some say they are voices, shadows in the head with no logical standing, pages full of meaningless scribbles one cannot seem to be rid of, unpainted histories of one’s unsaid words. These are emotions. People beg the question that it is right to think with just simple logic to obtain the truth or to follow where you’re crazed emotions lead you. I say neither, for none lead to the truth, and nor does a combination of both.

  • I really want to know who's autobiography that is... 

  • When you were asking if there was a word for that I said paradox, I feel smart :)

  • But we can get around being wrong by making our answers vague or undefined. E.g. x will act similar to y.

  • Is he married?

  • "a lie can get half way round the world before the truth can get its pants on." -winston churchill

  • You said I was always at least a little bit wrong.. WELL GUESS WHAT? You're a little bit wrong.

  • AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! When he slapped himself i fell over laughing :D

  • About the commercial...

    1) That's the 1st law of Thermodynamics not the 3rd.

    2) You could get some energy through that from gravity. (Not enough to power the roller-coaster let alone the whole park, but enough to slightly reduce energy usage.)

  • 2+2=4 WRONG! ?????

  • 0:53 LMAO

  • i am faarrr to high to follow this

  • Who is John?

  • this is important for people to realize that we are all wrong about a lot of things

  • Hank... Why do you have corndog lip balm...?

  • I wish I could think and like you.

  • Do I spy will Grayson, will Grayson? ;)

  • i like your glasses.

  • Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant. So Irony is nowhere near the word. It's not ironic, it's just coincidental.

  • @LawrenceGordon92 Hmm wouldn't that be sarcasm?

  • @RoseHath They are basically the same thing just irony is nicer and sarcasm is used often as an insult or just to be rude.

  • @LawrenceGordon92 Thanks for saving me the time of typing that. Of course, now I've used that time to type this instead. People will call it irony.

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