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  • I feel like you should do reviews of the literary themes, symbolism, writing style, ect. of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, and other awesome nerd-loved literature. Especially Harry Potter.

  • I'm a DANCER!

  • THE TENNIS COURT THING I LEARNED ABOUT THAT IN WORLD CIV

  • i think the most important question is why wern't the film makers given at least SOME sort of punishment for drowning a large amount of helpless animals for thier documentery... for a televition program. wether it was a true fact or not, that is desgusting.

  • the lemmings were MIGRATING not stupid. The force and fear of the ones behind the ones that know there is a cliff push them to there death. they can not see the cliff till it is to late in any case.

  • so THIS is how CrashCourse was born!! :D

  • Regarding the pain of others...in my pants. Wow.

  • "I'M A DANCER."

  • Talking about the French Revolution in school right now, saw in the textbook Marie Antoinette's last words, and thought of John :)

  • @max1311 Yeah because Wikipedia is a great source...

  • @1333melly accually it is.

  • @ahappyhuman that's my favorite kimya song!-3

  • They don't actually commit suicide, they just try to migrate, but if the body of water is too large they drown. But they don't know it when they jump. Source: Wikipedia

  • when stupid animals run, they jump off cliffs, but when forrest gump runs, he becomes a multimilloinaire?

  • i like the giants! kimya dawson! look it up!

  • the beginning of crash course

  • the french revolution is really interesting in total :P coming from an a level student with boring teachers lol i think its very hard to make it boring at least

  • I'd like to learn about music theory. Maybe Hank could teach it on crashcourse when he finishes biology. Please?

  • dear jhon, (see what i did there) I have an essay due, on monday, its is about the novel "the time machine" and here is the prompt, What is the main purpose of the time machine,and how does the author use the vehicle to dramatize the theme, purpose,and ideas?

    can you be of ANY assistance???

  • Oh, goodness! Today I wrote a paper on Rousseau, completely oblivious to the fact that he liked to be spanked. Good thing I finished it today, because now I don't think I will ever view him the same ever again.

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  • are they still selling the Esther bracelets??

  • @MusicChic357 yes, they are $5 DFTBA

  • @06koconnell1 thank you!! DFTBA to you! :)

  • @MusicChic357 Yes there are! go get one.

  • @agentjunieb thankzz! I will!!!! :)

  • You should talk about linear relations

  • But not the lobster? /shot

  • The Sci Show and Crash Course iring any bells?

  • tell us something about the history of U.S. imperialism! ;-)

  • is there a gif on tumblr of the "Seriously Green, come on!" gesture? There needs to be *nudge nudge, to all the talented&skilled people who make gifs for us lonely souls to use as a legit way to communicate with our peers online*

  • "im a dancer!" i laughed...hard

  • November 1st is my favorite day of the year.

  • The lemming suicide theory is a lie!!!

  • Anyone else notice the Poe bust in the background on the far left? :D

  • Whatever did happen to the Sing-a-ma-jigs?

  • and over a year later, scishow and crashcourse.

  • Every Universiy of Pheonix student is incredibly offended by your comment.

  • just another little tidbit that disney is in fact, satan

  • The Tennis Court thing is probably the only thing I remember about my grade 10 history class. Yay for making things more fair for the poor people!

  • Anyone else get drawn to this because they thought it was a Life of Brian reference?

  • please if this is not to boring can you help explain quadratic equations, i am in higher maths and are class has got stuck with the worst teacher ...thus we haven't really learnt anything ..please educate us :) DFTBA

  • scishow and crashcourse flashforward!

  • I demand a 'I'm a DANCER' T-shirt.

  • Having just finished reading 'Regarding the Pain of Others', I will agree that there is alot more that needs to be said on the topic

    also, read that book. I'd say it's 17-18+ but seriously, read it. Some of the things she discusses are incredibly relevant to modern life.

  • Pssst hey John! You're gonna be a teacher starting next year.

  • @awkwardfour TRUE!

  • that is SOOOOOOOO cruel *sniffle*

  • I love the "gig gig blegh" noise he makes at the lemming.

  • There is nothing quite like rewatching the archives of vlogbrothers, coming across this video, and remembering fondly that this was the first year I won NaNoWriMo.

  • Should've been something like "If there is no spoon why are you still here?" or "Is the cat dead yet?"

  • I want an "I'm a DANCER!!!!' t-shirt

  • at about 1.20 he looks/speaks like zoolander

  • Being a Daddy has greatly aged you, John.

  • YES. IT IS A WOEFUL LACK OF OUR MAGICAL EDUCATION THAT WE DON'T KNOW CHARMS TO HEAL.

    deathly hallows for the win!

  • farwell to arms please explain!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Awesome pumpkins! I can't even make a simple traditional one! My excuse?... I'm 13.

  • I'm a DANCER

    Would be a great t-shirt.

  • i know this video is pretty old, but will you talk about great expectations?

    DFTBA

  • I lived in the arctic for a few months this year. And there was this hill called suicide point. I heard many stories about how it got its name and one of them was the lemming suicide. I ended up placing a geocache up there and warned geocachers to be careful in the dark season because there is a large sudden cliff in the area.

  • they r so cue!

  • i saw him blink do i get a prize?

  • It's not so much that I wish the Green Brother's taught my school, though that would be awesome. I just wish I had known more about them when I was learning those things cause they make more sense when they explain them.

  • so um yeah, is it just me or does John look very attractive in this video for some reason? ...food for thought.

  • i'm defienetly making a nerdfighter pumpkin.

    DFTBA!

  • O.o I never thought to make Nerdfightastic pumpkins!~ Now I know what to do for Halloween, lol :3

  • What is the name of your digital camera? How is your lighting done? Awesome!

  • No seriously. You would be a good teacher.

  • I'm confused. In his rant about lemmings he first said they kill themselves when populations are to high and then said that they only do it because their stupid. Those points seem quite contraditary so WHICH IS TRUE!

  • @NotAnAIMBot They only do it 'cause they are DUMB!

  • John, you give most teachers too much credit. Now to your credit, the things you say are true about GOOD teachers, but it is not true for BAD or AVERAGE teachers even. Sadly, bad and average vastly outnumber good teachers at the moment and they don't teach context, they just teach tests.

  • I actually learn better with random facts. I am ADD so a list of random facts and interesting info is something I retain better than a teacher talking to me.

    Yes, concepts are better, but I can always expand on what someone has told me on my own.

  • Geometry. I don't understand geometry... at all.

    I draw during classes that cause me physical pain due to boredom.

  • @AnicaCruz I understand.

    I found it more productive in 10th grade to write the first draft of a novel than pay attention to our geometry teacher...who was also the football coach...not only did it make me hate math but the sports analogies in relation to math weren't helpful for those of us who weren't 200 pound jocks XD

  • Regarding the Pain of Others in Your Pants.

    That just proves that those three words makes EVERY book title way better.

  • It was this video that made me discover Nanowrimo. Now a few months later I have the 50,051 word draft on my bookshelf as a reminder that I can acomplish my writing dreams. Thanks John and I will see you at Leaky con

  • Lol, I've gone through 14 different videos looking for the title of Regarding the Pain of Others. -tired yet satisfied sigh-

  • But you do make the boring stuff interesting!

  • So pocahontas was 10 when she rescued the white dude, got caught at the age of 17 and married a guy in order to get out of jail, and died at the age of 21.

    The little mermaid dissolved and was taken by the "daughters of the air" and now the lemmings? .. Oh disney!

  • TWO Johns for the first time!

  • lol i love how the top-rated comment is really angry (sorta) and the next one says :I'm a DANCER"

  • Disney killed 1000's of lemmings?

    o.0

    WTF DISNEY!!!!!!!!

  • *educated sorry I don't know how I typed entertained

  • @lennic95 true but you can be informed without being entertained which is what he is saying they are doing.

  • No lie, but this was the very first vlogbrothers episode I ever watched, which was around 11/1/10...

  • How does one FORCE someone to commit suicide? I think there might be a different word for that, which begins with M.

  • @therohanicelf MOOOONGOOOOOOOSE

  • Referencing the Tennis Court Oath, I see.. :p

  • why is the "is it a good idea to microwave a galileo thometer?" the fetured video?

  • thumbs up if you didnt even get through the video before you googled lemming suicide....

  • "i'm a dancer!"

  • the skeleton nerdfighter gang sign pumpkin is being lit by a phone and the nose is on a piece of wire

  • freaking chemistry!!! i cannot write out balanced equations ,, blahh

    anywho DFTBA!!

  • You can't be educated with out being informed, though, can you?

  • @lennic95 Good opportunity for teachers then.

  • regarding the pain of others... in your pants.

  • I'm a DANCER.

  • Regarding the pain of others is in my course pack for English this semester! So excited~

  • more psychology class less gym class

  • I need to make this a goal in my own vlogs. As someone who is currently studying to be a teacher, it would probably benefit me.

    Also, further proof that all is not well within the Disney organization... dirty lemming killers... XD

  • I just saw the show top ten most extreme on Animal Planet and they did one on most extreme animal myths. I think the Lemmings commiting suicide was number two.

  • My history teacher last year told us that if you remember one thing from this class its this "don't be a lemming"

  • academic essays!!!! :(

  • I understand that teachers, In at least public school systems, have to teach the curriculum that the county assigns. HOWEVER! they most definitely do not have to teach it in such a boring way. I mean, teachers should totally pick up the "song Wednesday" trend:) haha

  • I would like you to teach us the symbolism of zombies in our modern day society.

  • yes, you are a dancer.

  • @caradactyl4 no you are dancer

  • OMG Thats what I'm gonna name my band! :D

  • I didn't know Disney was that bad! Wow!

  • Actually, the lemmings jumping off a cliff thing is a myth. A traveller saw one falling off a cliff and presumed it was committing suicide however, there has been no conclusive proof lemmings have ever actually committed mass suicide. Blame Disney, they made it popular

  • I would love to see anything about the American Civil War- a broad overview if possible.

  • I know this is a bit late but I would love a Russian revolution one if you decide to do more educating in the future :)

  • As a thought, perhaps the reason you haven't finished a draft of your book (At the time of this video) is too much time spent mastering the singamajig? Just sayin'

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  • I'm a DANCER.

    God I love Vlogbrothers

  • Please speak on the Subject of John Guy's colonization of Newfoundland, Canada. Thanks very much, love your work!

  • HEY!!!! WHEN WILL THERE BE MORE BRACLETS!!!??? I broke mine and my friend wants one too, but they are sold out. MOT FOREVER RIGHT?

  • Vlog Brothers gave good face....

  • You remind me of Q from star trek.

  • so im taking AP Euro right now, and I showed my teacher your french revolution videos and she LOVED it so she showed it to the whole class, and the other AP Euro classes :)

    Could you do a video on the age of Napolean? it's what we will b studying next... i know that he's crazy (my teacher said N. is her favorite historical figure because he's crazy) but I dont know if he was Louis XVI crazy or Rousseau crazy (his views on women were CRAZY).

    care to enlighten?

  • 26 people aren't people. They were the lemmings in the movie White Wilderness.

  • Regarding the Pain of Others… In my pants? :D 

  • @DiabolicalGenius39 AHAHAHAAHAHA

  • don't you think that forced suicide would be murder...

  • I REALLY like your wall!

  • I made the DFTBA pumpkin with the nerdfighter gang sign that you featured on this video!!! 

  • how's the draft coming along?

  • Dear John, Can you please fully explain the evolution theory? Like the Big Bang... What happened before hand? I go to a Christian School, and they refuse to teach anything but abstinance (even in my Mathematical Methods class :\)... Going into a public school, and studying philosophy, it would be good to have an understanding of the scientific creation of the world.

    TTFN <3

  • my band name is now consider the lemming

  • i made a tardis pumpkin!

  • @rebeccawesome You were right, I learnt redox in just under 2 hours and the test was so easy :)

  • English romantic poetry.. And linear equations. Yes. It would be nice to understand those.

  • same draft as last year?

  • can you explain bonding

  • i always thought lemmings sounded like a lemon flavored hard candy 

  • John, You remind me of my teacher, Mr.Darnell.

    He tells the truth. He says he hates the textbooks.

    We rarely use it. His saying for Columbus is,

    " He's white and greedy. "

    I love how you kinda look like and talk like him too.

    He has the same humor as you.

    The world needs more Hanks & Johns.

    I will have to show Mr.Darnell this.

  • OH I KNOW I JUST VOGUED HANK.

    I'M A DANCER!

  • I'm a DANCER!!! haha I lol'd

  • Ineffective strategy is ineffective.

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  • At work, I was berated because I don't know how to cut bread flat at a forty-five degree angle. For the sake of society, please explain angles so no one has to deal with such absurdity.

  • john i am absolutely interested with the creation of electricity though i don't fully understand it how does a magnet passing through a coil cause an electric field to occur?

  • Please talk about kinematics and dynamics (vertical motion too)

  • Physics I broke my arm and missed a bunch of school and have to teach myself physic mostly the graphing part

  • Is it me or is there an iphone in the pumpkin at 3:38?

    PLEASE EXPLAIN: Summation of Series, to me! I have a Further Maths AS exam in January and I am HOPELESS. Please help!

  • Quantum physics. It's all just a big dirty joke to me.

    Double-slit experiment? Yeah, right.

  • schrodinger's cat

  • The Moundbuilders! They're part of American history and most people haven't even heard of them.

  • The Citric Acid Cycle or photosynthesis-- commonly known but not commonly understood.

  • The Citric Acid Cycle. I am so confused.

  • Could you talk about the Newton Laws??

  • I'd like you two to discuss Stephanie Meyer and why she's so popular. She's on school reading lists now, which is a travesty to literature.

  • John you look exactly like my English teacher he has puff and everything!! But like you said the way you teach Nerdfightners isn't educational but very informing!! I discovered my English teacher wasn't at all like you personality/teacher wise when he actually started educating us instead of the non-educational but informing information you give Nerdfighteria... *sigh* (This teacher did Harry Potter with us and always makes references to the name Tom Riddle, I have a theory he's a Nerdfighter!)

  • Dammit John, you keep ruining stuff for me. First it was giraffes-- now when I look at them all I see are promiscuous sex beasts. Now you're trying to ruin my beloved Disney, by turning them into animal killers. Knowledge is power, but dammit ignorance is bliss.

    DFTBA XD

  • @lindsaylou04 Considering it's a YouTube comment, that was surprisingly well said.

  • @blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh Thank you :)

  • LEMMINGS WAS SO AWESOME!

  • i JUST got an email from you and i was like AJSKD;FJADS;JF OMG.

    then i realised it was a nanowrimo pep talk

  • AWESOME PUMPKINS!! XD

    next step: This star won't go out pumpkin pies for Thanksgiving!!! :3

  • I thought this said, "Consider the Following." I got excited, because I thought you were going to talk about Bill Nye! :D

  • Algebra confuses me. :|

  • did u go to Columbia University? im thinking about applying there =)

  • i think education is information with an opinion applied to it

  • NO SHAVE NOVEMBER !!!!!!!!!!!

  • uh.. can you help me with exponents? and exponential related equations...

  • Have you ever read Shatter? It's a slightly disturbing book, but basically it's about a messed up guy who kills women by making them kill themselves. Your comment about being forced to commit suicide reminded me of it.