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  • Easy solution: forgive all debt today and start from scratch tomorrow.

  • I love Hank's note about the iron. What a cutie

  • press 3 to hear john say 'white man hears a tootsie pop'

  • The noise he makes at 1:36.

  • Westminster was here bro!

    

  • Hey there Vlogbrothers I love your stuff!

    I am a newly born Nerdfighter from England trying to promote my channel to the awesome nerdfighters out there. So if you got some free time for a laugh come on over :) Please thumb this comment up if you are reading it too

    Thanks John and Hank! :) DFTBA

  • ah 15.28 trillion dollars. 15.13 trillion GDP. just checked usdebtclock

    good times. good times.

  • btw can somebody elucidate on how gold standard works - i mean i get it, but how does it becomes unsecured debt anyway

  • The annotation at 12 seconds... XD

  • I got what the debt was. Then I watched this video and am confused as heck.

  • While I love hearing John talk about an idea that is vastly over my head, I can't help staring over his shoulder at that horrendous pile of boxes. Can't believe he was able to burn through all of those. That's 19 boxes, so like 140,000 sheets? Yikes!

  • and at AA- all bone fish grills will become red lobsters. lol

  • 7000th like!

  • the american economy is taking an arrow in the knee.

  • I just want to personally thank you for explaining in 5 minutes what has confused me, on some level, for my whole life. I struggle with understanding economics, so these videos are a great help. As we all know, it is impossible to have defendable opinions and intelligent debates without understanding the facts that contribute to the issues being discussed. Thanks so much John. DFTBA!!!

  • @StarWarsFreak516 Read "Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell, young padawan.

  • Woo! Australia! Come live here John/Hank, we have healthcare and it's not that hot here.. really.

  • Actually, the U.S. government has a SHITLOAD of fucking houses to lose if it defaults (and plenty of land it will also need to give to the Chinese). This shit currently belongs to U.S. "citizens", but in reality, U.S. citizens are now OWNED by the rest of this fucking planet, see.

    By the way, the U.S. probably won't default. Instead it will print trillions of useless toilet paper dollars to pay down its debt, at which point a loaf of bread will cost about $39,999.95.

    Thanks for playing!

  • I have made a video about top 20 countries by %GDP public debt... I hope you enjoy it!

  • John is always good for explaining the world when it fails to make sense.

    Congress would do well heeding your advice, John.

  • Liberal propaganda.. This video is half true, half "keynesian economics" based. If you want real lessons on economy, search for Peter Schiff

  • The Tootsie Pop is a lie??? John, you- you- you GLADOS!!!!!!!

  • @vlogbrothers yay for knowing things! I have a horrible habit of researching info for little details in my writing and then I get caught up and can't stop reading about whatever it is and waste a whole day that could have been spent writing. bad habits.

  • Congressmen should be forced to watch this. I'm not sure they understand the seriousness of the situation. Either that, or I'm voting for John Green next election, whether he likes it or not.

  • I was just watching 2009 videos where you're talking about being fat, and I would like to say you look really SKINNY here.

  • I was just watching 2009 videos where you're talking about being fat, and you look really SKINNY in this video.

  • i don't need problems, i need solutions!

  • Wow. Look at the TFioS-ometer. So few signed. Seems so long ago.

  • @KungfuCow5 Talk about it!

  • We told you,but nope,Usa this Usa that..thanks but We'll take it from here americans

  • I'm back TROLOLOL

  • @MegaCavaliersFan Once again, NIKON05 admits he is also Megacavaliersfan! What a creep - creating a fake account to attack me and then using it to write TO HUIMSELF!!!! on youtube in the vain hope he can restore his shredded dignity.

    What a Lloser.

  • hahahahaha You bet there is. Man enough to stay away are you  - not.

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  • Is there an echo in here?

  • @Nikon05 You'll LOVE your surprise sonny.... really. Time enough for that though

  • @Nikon05 Certainly seems to be one

  • @Nikon05 Is there an echo in here?

  • @Nikon05 Yes - The echo is because your head's empty.

  • @Nikon05 I hope you like your surprise child. TWO more Nikon 5s to join you. Just think... you can have an account cloning party -after all, you've cloned two yourself over the last couple of days haven't you. One of them mine, Bye Babez xxx

  • @NikonO5 the more the merrier :)

  • @Nikon05 I've got ALL your commnets ready in a sequenced spreadsheet - started it after the libel about my son - at HIS request. So bring it on wimp. Run to Uncle Bobby. I simply can't wait to share the kind of low life you are

  • @NikonO5 Is this before or after you and your son started sending me abusive comments and messages from multiple accounts?

  • @Nikon05 If he did then prove it - I certainly can prove YOURS. I trust my son and he sYS HE DIDN'T do anything ABUSIVE AND HE CERTIANLY MADE NO PUBLIC ALLEGATIOTNS ABOUT YOU. He simply sent a message (or 2) I'm not sure how many to point out his reasonable performance in Drifitng - as YOU were challenging my honsety in telling you about him and saying filth about HIM. I have it all

  • @Itsmyopinionpal I have all the proof I need, I already told you that. not to mention the comment where you said you'd be paying a visit to my sleepy dublin suburb. That right there is a pretty serious threat to make online.

  • @Nikon05 OMG hahahahahaha!! You wanker!!!! I NEVER said I was going to pay a visit you stupid child!!!!! Read whatever you're reading again!!! I SAID HOW IS THE TOWN AND ENJOY THE COLD - I'M CERTAINLY GOING TO. LOLOLOL!!! Yu think that's a threat?? I fly overseas from the warm Sydney climate tomorrow you moron - to NZ South Island hiking! It's cold you stupid ignorant fool. LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!! PLEASE do go to Uncle with that. He;lll laugh you out of the room you cretin.

  • @Itsmyopinionpal That along with all the abusive messages certainly sounds like a threat as I'm sure many people will agree. Alot of cases these days of trolls actively tracking people down and attacking them

  • @Nikon05 Diddums. Don't kid yourself. You're worthless

  • @Nikon05 Better run along to Uncle just in case then eh? I mean if your worried it's safe to isn't it. Do be sure to take the abusive commnets you've made as wel as the slanderous allegations and sexual defamation of me and my family. Please also include the implied sexual harrassment of my daughters. I've got it all smart ass. You're in DEEP SHIT

  • @Itsmyopinionpal And when they ask why you started trolling me in the first place? After all, I'm sure you can remember how this all started right. An innocent question slated with abuse

  • @Itsmyopinionpal Hahahahahaha!!!! I can't believe how dumb you are!!!!!!!! Me? Come over there to find an insignificant sprog like you? Too funny!!! You DO have a big opinion of yoursefl don;t you!!!!! Trust me sonny. You're not worth a bus fare let alone anything else You sad arrogant misinformed spastic!!! hahahahahahaha!!!!

  • @Itsmyopinionpal Now sonny.. FUCK OFF, and don't EVER bother me again or I"LL be the one to formalise a complaint.

  • @Itsmyopinionpal I'm more than happy with that. That's why I stopped replying in the first place. I would assume this applies to the both of us? As in , I won't get any more replies from you on comments I wrote years ago? If so, then I couldn't be happier with ending this and not talking to you ever again

  • @Nikon05 Glad we sorted it out. No hard feelings old chap. ;) I've uploaded that video you wanted me to do for you. Just for your own private viewing until you let me know it's what you wanted. I'll make it public when you give me the OK, shall I? I think the sound track suits it really well. It's called 'Amateur Drifters'. You should have the link sonny. Check it out ;)

  • @NikonO5 already saw it. pretty funny alright.

  • @Nikon05 Thought you'd like it. I guess you get the Lyons share of the credit huh? ;)

  • @Nikon05 I knew you'd like it. Its getting LOADS of views... pobably since I changed it slightly - you'd LOVE it now kid. I'm SO Glad it passed internal audit anyway eh? Bye junior.

  • @Itsmyopinionpal Fair enough. and Sorry for saying those lies about your son. It was low. Bye

  • Prove it motor mouth I challenge you to PROVE it.

  • He has - and has only ever had ONE account. You're still lying aren't you!!!!! You're an absolute disgrace. Well, that latest allegation just made is also offensive, potentially libellous and will be ( is) included

  • @Nikon05 So, how's life as a junior internal auditor, Irish Mark?

    Such a senior management role eh? Muahahah. Fit for a Lyon. ;)

    Bye for now Babe

  • @NikonO5 For a man who doesn't wish to be bothered, you sure to talk alot.

  • @Nikon05 LOL! Nah no ecko- its dat small voice sayin >U wuz owned< ova n ova agin.

    btw i luv ur new driftin vid wif de spud farmers.... gr8 song choice 2! neve knew u had a sense a humor! i gues its cuz ur a mick afta all yea?

  • @Wunforceheaven lol. Thanks.

  • Guess who closed his account? LOLOLOLOL

    NIKON05 channel not available. Muahahahahahahahahaha!

  • @Itsmyopinionpal Yeah! It's back! Hahaha double minded as ever isn't he!!

  • Get this folks!!! Nikon05 has removed 79  comments (Yes SEVENTY NINE!!) that he wrote and then regretted! OMG Buahahahahahahah

    What a stupid, big mouthed cretin he is.

    LEARN TO THINK you child NIKON05!

  • How many comments has NIKON05 made AND THEN REMOVED in this video alone? hahahahahaha!! Now that really shows someone who thinks before he opens his big mouth doesn't it! ....not

    LOLOLOL!!!! What a thicko!!

  • Aliases of NIKON05

    1. megacavaliersfan. opened 2 days ago.

    2. itsmyopinionpai (using a capital i to clone my account. opened 1 day ago).

    Why would someone do that? Because he doesn't have to ball or brains to argue on his own account and needs pretend friends to help him out .

    Sad little child.

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  • @MegaCavaIiersFan That Nikon guy is actually alright. I've done some thinking. You don't have to keep defending me, its a bit creepy as a matter of fact. Anyways I already apologised to him and admitted I was wrong so its all good now.

  • @ItsmyopinionpaI Actually Nikon05 is far from alright - as you know becuse you ARE NIKON05 having cloned itsmyopinions account using a capital I (i) instead of a small L .. ( check the dare on profile foilks - its today) You (Nikon05) are actually talking about yourself when you say Nikon is alright whiich, frankly is pathetic - something a complete cunt would do.  You're a coward, a liar and THE most despicable low individual I have EVER had the misfortune to commuinicate with.

    FAIL

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  • @Nikon05 Yep - It was the acount I created in response to you creating it... ALSO 1 day ago moron. DUH! At leasrt I'm man enough to admit it - unlike you.

    YOu think I care about ITSMYOPINIONPAL? hahaha. Theresd a clue in the title dulard. You're so stupid that you used your NIKON05 account which was an active uploaded account to troll with and thus have to delete OVER 100 comments in the space of 3 days.

    THAT you child is DUMB!

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  • @Nikon05 As usual you completely miss the point. It's not how LONG it took to delete them Einstein. It's the fact that you wrote such shameful crap you NEEDED to delete them.

    That says it all about you.

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  • @Nikon05 Hahahah.. There you have it folks. by HIS OWN ADMISSION. Nikon05, (AKA itsmyopinionpai AND megacavaliersfan) your picture should be next to STUPID in the dictionanry. Sucked in YET AGAIN!!! Thats 7 times I've owned you.

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  • @Nikon05 See - you admit it was a ploy. So ALL the coments about pathetic, liar, etc that you have made apply to yoou then dont they!

    Nice work loser.

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  • @Nikon05 When you're beaten you run - Bye loser Nice smashing you again.

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  • @Nikon05 Run child - you're out of your depths and drowning in shit.

  • @Nikon05 You'll be "the Bigger and more mature man" will you? You mean the one who is so inadequate he had to clone TWO!! accounts in order to try and gain an advantage and STILL got smashed?

    Yeah - good on you. You must be so proud! hahahahahahah!!!

    Go practise on a pre-schooler somewhere. You're out of your league child.

  • @Nikon05 My guess would be the same reason you created itsmyopinionpai day ago. So, in the interests of efficeiency, I'll copy your own response.

    ----> "Changing the L to I, like the troll that you are. You're pathetic"

    You're not very good at this are you fool.

    But you have shock coming sonny ...and I'll bide my time xxx

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  • @Nikon05 Liar.

  • @Itsmyopinionpal I like how everything you accuse Nikon05 of doing , you've done yourself. Good that you accepted defeat though and closed MegaCaviiersFan after copying MegaCavliersFan. Changing the L to I, like the troll that you are. You're pathetic

  • @ItsmyopinionpaI What an absolute idiot you are Nikon05. You just wrote to yourself. ITSMYOPINIONPAL (me) is unable to write to himself is he. So there must be an alternative ITSMYOPINIONPAl with an i at the end. You REALLY think I care what impression you try to creat about a trolling accout? hahaha You're immature, shallown and astonishing stupidity!!

    I'm just so thrilled that you fake apologised (below) - and then used the SAME account continued your childish games. DO GROW UP

  • @Itsmyopinionpal OK OK OK. I admit it for fucks sake. I've been found out BOO HOO. I cloned your account cos you were beating me up and I couldn't handle it. OK??? YOU win !! OK!!

    Yes I am NIKON05!!! OK!!!

    Look, I'm sorry, I was dumb and I'm REALLY sorry about the awful things I said about you and your son. I can't believe I stooped that low. You argue well - I admit that. Can we please leave it now? I have work to do tommorow and its really late here now.

  • @ItsmyopinionpaI My God you are STUPID! Let me quote you, from the comment I'm replying to.

    "Changing the L to I, like the troll that you are. You're pathetic" Look very carefully at the two naems involved. Strangely, you've done exactly THAT to the itsmyopinion account.. And guess what? The one SAYING it is the one created 1 day ago.

    You just owned yourself - AGAIN! That's 6 times you've done it, child.

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  • @Nikon05 I didn't run for the hills kid. I've done some thinking though, and I was wrong this whole time. I admit, I did make the MegaCavaliersFan account in a fit of rage. But I was wrong this whole time. You're no more shallow than I already am. I hope we can end this, I've embarrassed myself enough for a lifetime

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  • @MegaCavaIiersFan You're such a loser, stop having fake conversations with yourself. lol.

  • You called it "a serious issue"... then a game. So, which is it?

    Grow up

  • @Itsmyopinionpal This debt crisis is a serious issue. Your attempt at trolling is a game. You're the worst troll ever, you don't even know what you're doing

  • It's about winning to you is it? Shallow.

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  • @Nikon05 Thank you for finally confirming my point - on a plate as usual.

    If you feel I'm "EVEN MORE SHALLOW" then once again you've admitted what t I've said all along - that you are shallow.

    I rest my case.. you lose.. I win.. (It's a game remember?)

    Write whatever childish response you like. You've now lost, as the first point I made was that you are shallow - as you've now admitted. Thats good enough for me... and very sweet.

    Bye Bye foolish child.

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  • The American Debt Crisis - a serious issue however, below, itsmyopinionpal is more worried about if someone is shallow based on their questions and their grammar. Just had to laugh - he is australian :)

  • @Nikon05 Yep. Dual citizenship. Even more worried about Nikon05's double standards though . 36 deleted comments after asking people not to spam? Not too worried about Grammar - funny how he first brought it up. Another of his double standards obviously.

    For the sake of the poor folks reading this, I'm now outta here. He's fried and tied as far as I'm concerned. The hole he's dug is nearly deep enough to emerge in Sydney. LOL!

  • 103 people are congressmen.

  • Incredibly shallow. (2) xxx

  • The American Debt Crisis - a serious issue however, below, Nikon05 is more worried about if he says HANK or AND in the Video. Just had to laugh - he is Irish :) 

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  • @Itsmyopinionpal English*

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  • "If you dont pay it back i get your house" lmfaooo

  • time to buy securities from some European countries who are recovering faster than the US.

  • no... tootsie pops?

  • heres a great idea, sense our government can't work together on how to get us out of their debt and we are slowly turning into a 3rd world country, and the inflow of new "citizens" are outrageous, maybe we should put america up for sale, or maybe half of it, sell it to the most rich country in the world, get on their money throw away the green backs, and live happy for a change.

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  • @Nikon05 Does it matter???? Wow. How shallow are YOU?

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  • @Nikon05 Hahahahaha!!! You check dictionary . com and choose the URBAN dictionary definition. That, you moron, IS shallow . The definition you thought applied is the one definition that DOESN"T relate to my comment. You absolute MORON!!!!  How about the one above it you fool? It says "lacking depth; superficial" It should have a picture of YOU next to it.

    American Debt Crisis - or Hank vs and. Tough one to decide huh?

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  • @Nikon05 You don't understand the word do you! Shallow, in the context I used means lacking depth, looking at something in a superficial manner, failing to delve below the surface.

    Worrying if he said Hank or AND is all of the above. Urban dictionary is just fine if you know how to use it however the definition you chose was comletely irrelevant to the context of my comment.

    Stupidity proven

    Now sonny, you run along & do what ever it is stupid people do. I'm over your simple ways.

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  • I've already ended it fool. You simply don't have the mental capacity to realise that a word can have more than the one meaning you are so desperate to apply here.

    Conversation over - run along now. I have no desire to waste any more time on your blunt mind so no more responses coming your way - they are wasted.

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  • @Nikon05 a question about GRAMMAR????? OMG you fukwit!!! Hank Vs AND is NOT Grammar!!!! It's ignorance. HIS N A M E is Hank. Hardly a Grammar issue is it now child?

    No wonder you moved to Ireland - you must feel very much at home. You'r as irish as anyone I've ever met - that's Irish as in an intellectual desription before you start on AGAIN about your sad roots in Watford. I'd have moved too.

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  • @Nikon05 I lived in England for 40 years you ignorant assumptive jerk. How wrong can you be??? I still own property over there, have in laws aroud the corner from watford in Croxley Green, boarding school in West sussex, Uni in Exeter, was in the lanes in Brighton the morning the Brighton bomb went off, I was introduced to Princess Di, when she opened a disabled home in Eastbourne that my company designed. Don't tell me where I have or havent lived you uninformed moron. You're wrong.

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  • @Nikon05 Jeex - Anyone with a modicum of intellect might actually read the intro under the video. (Now there's a thought Einstein.) Thats how you were supposed to know you imbecile! Hardly rocket science is it? READ the info. Not too hard huh? When you master that skill you'll see it shows H A N K S tumblr and .H A N K s twitter. DUH!!!!!! NIce hole digging loser

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  • @Nikon05 Me changing the subject? OMG you're too dumb to even remember that you asked HOW you were supposed to know about Hank!!!! As for provng you wrong - I just did it agian... and again ,, and again.

    Oh .. I've never ever told you where you have or haven't lived. Not once. You on the other hand clearly stated that I've never lived in England.. Ergo, you were wrong ...I wasn't. Loser.

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  • OMG EPIC FAIL!!!!!! YOU wrote "come's" you fucking loser!!!! Buahahahahahahah!!!!... At least 'you're' is a valid word - even if I made a typo. How do you explain "come's" Einstein? Only a real jerk would resort to grammar corrections. Guess you know you've lost. My work is now done here.

    Hilarious finish!!!! Really. Made my day !!!!!!! Loser!!!!!!!

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  • @Nikon05 I have three teenage kids and one in his 20's.  I happen to enjoy their company and have a very contempoary attitude. I really don'tgive a fuck if you've never heard someone (of 52) use that language. Get over it you narrow minded cretin.

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  • @Nikon05 Actually, my kids think you're a complete loser. Every single time you try to respond I hit it back and score a point. Hank or AND, HOw am I supposed to know his name... Yo never lived in England. Grammer correctitons when yours are so much worse! It's just incredibly funny.

    BTW. As you brought up grammar, 'Anyways' is incorrect English. The word is anyway. Another point scored loser. Toodle pip. :D Hope it's grey and cold like usual there - 35 degrees here today. LOL

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  • @Nikon05 You are incredibly stupid.. I was quoting all the things YOU have said to me. YOU said [I never lived in England[. YOU said [Hank or AND], YOU said [HOw am I supposed to know his name[...

    Once again you dip out and lose. What was it someone once told me... 'go back and re-read' wasn't it?

    PS: I own an Engineering Consultancy employing 7 people - and have done for 10 years. How do you think I got Australian citizenship at 42 without degrees and an MBA?  Learn to think sonny.

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  • Oh thank you thank you thank you - on a plate this time!

    Yes, my kids can certainly form an impression based on the writing of an person. Which, interestingly you say is shallow. How delightfully amusing. Because you judged ME based on my writng only 2 comments ago... and you've never met me. Oh dear. Can you work it out? Can you join the dots idiot? They spell SHALLOW - by your OWN admission - and I told you that hours ago.

    Game set & Match. You lose - catastrophically. Ciao dumbass.

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  • @Nikon05 Still shallow.