United Kingdom

place · in 30 videos (2007–2013)

Mentions by year: 2007: 1 · 2008: 3 · 2009: 5 · 2010: 5 · 2011: 5 · 2012: 5 · 2013: 6

Threads

Hank asks UK Nerdfighters to email a campaign address so Paper Towns gets a UK publisher (2008) — ask, reported back, 2008–2009
John: do his level best to be in the UK in May 2010 (2009) — promise, open (no report in 2007–2013), 2009–2009
Paper Towns: UK publication (2010) — stage, launch, 2010–2010
Gatherings teased by Hank for the United Kingdom, for people who cannot get to VidCon (2012) — stage, propose, 2012–2012
Hank's UK trip with Katherine: the Natural History Museum and the Harry Potter Studio Tour (2013) — story, update, 2013–2013
John predicts US health care costs will keep rising fastest in the world until the US negotiates prices like Australia and Britain (2013) — prediction, unresolved, 2013–2013
Hank's day in Bath with Charlie McDonnell during his UK trip (2013) — story, tell, 2013–2013

What the videos say

2007

2007-12-20 · December 20th: HANK SHALL BE PUNISHED! — John says today's scavenger hunt clue leads to three numbers on three continents, starting in the UK, and that phone calls are now strictly against the rules. (00:03:29)

2008

2008-09-14 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — Hank tells John that Paper Towns is not going to be published in the United Kingdom, which angers many UK Nerdfighters. (00:02:29)
2008-09-14 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — Hank asks UK Nerdfighters only to email their name, age and location to a Gmail address, whose login he would give UK publishers to show demand. (00:03:01)
2008-09-14 · Hank Vlogs (and a String Quartet) — Hank thinks no publisher could refuse a big list of ready buyers and that UK Nerdfighters can get Paper Towns published in the UK quickly. (00:03:30)

2009

2009-01-05 · Israel. Gaza. PUPPY! — In 1947, when Britain still colonized about a fifth of the world, the UN decided British rule of Palestine should end and create Israel and an independent Palestine, with UN-run Jerusalem. (00:00:32)
2009-01-12 · SOMALI PIRATES! France Penetrates Chad! — John asks who is at fault for the piracy and the wars in Chad: the combatants, France, Italy and Britain for disastrous colonization, or us for not paying attention; he really wants answers. (00:03:25)
2009-04-01 · A Few Of My Favorite Things — Hank says a young musician, Tom, is trying to fool the UK iTunes chart for April Fool's Day and asks UK viewers to buy his song, but not before April 1. (00:02:11)
2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John announces that Paper Towns will be published in the United Kingdom by Bloomsbury, and thanks Bloomsbury. (00:01:01)
2009-08-12 · The Island of Nerdfighteria? — John says he is going to do his level best to be in the UK in May of next year. (00:01:01)
2009-11-11 · ChartJackers, Chris, Touring and Duckies — Hank says the song is so far in the top 100 of the US iTunes chart and the top 25 of the UK's, but needs many more sales for the top 10. (00:01:09)

2010

2010-02-08 · Hypocrisy: All They Want is Money — Hank says Rage Against the Machine got a profanity-laden 1992 song to the top of the UK Christmas charts, beating X Factor winner Joe McElderry by about 50,000 units through an online campaign. (00:00:29)
2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS — Paper Towns has just been published in the United Kingdom. (00:02:17)
2010-06-14 · Be The Change - vlogbrothers — Hank says Turing did a lot for the world and especially the British government, which did not do a great job paying him back. (00:00:41)
2010-06-14 · Be The Change - vlogbrothers — Because one thing about him was a little different, Hank says, Turing's entire country turned its back on him. (00:01:55)
2010-08-17 · Lust and Folly in London and Edinburgh — The description says John's UK trip was to support Paper Towns, which had just been published there. (00:00:00)
2010-09-28 · Stop Embarrassing Yourself — Hank says the United Kingdom (of Northern Ireland and Great Britain) contains Great Britain, an island of three autonomous countries: Wales, Scotland and England. (00:01:34)
2010-09-28 · Stop Embarrassing Yourself — Hank warns that saying 'I sure love it here in England' in a pub in Wales will get you punched: England is not a synonym for the United Kingdom. (00:01:50)

2011

2011-01-12 · Top Six Conjoined Twin Pairs in History — 'Jodie and Mary' (not their real names), born conjoined in the UK in 2000: Jodie's heart pumped for Mary; without separation both would die, with it Mary would; over the parents' objection a court ordered surgery. (00:01:46)
2011-07-22 · Your Yard Is EVIL — John playfully blames the British: the lawn is a British invention that makes more sense in rainy Britain, where it need not be watered with drinking water. (00:01:38)
2011-07-27 · 150,000 Autographs — John announces that all pre-orders of The Fault in Our Stars, wherever buyers live (the US, the UK, Canada, Malaysia), will be signed, and promises to get it done. (00:02:45)
2011-12-31 · How to Tip Properly — Hank ties US tipping to the American idea that everything should be controlled by the market, then comically links it to the UK getting QI and Doctor Who while the US gets History Channel apocalypse documentaries. (00:03:12)

2012

2012-02-14 · Things I Can Do — John says he has become obsessed with the brilliant YouTuber CGP Grey, who hates pennies and loves Britain, 'just like me except smarter', and tells viewers to watch him. (00:01:27)
2012-07-31 · Nerd Olympics — John says there is at least one known Olympian Nerdfighter, British gymnast Jennifer Pinches, who did the Nerdfighter sign in front of the world after her floor exercise. (00:00:29)
2012-10-23 · Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit — Contrary to the guess 'China', John says the plurality of that debt is owned by American individuals and institutions; China owns about 8%, Japan 7% and the UK 1%. (00:01:05)
2012-12-01 · VidCon 2013! — Hank tells those who cannot get to Anaheim that maybe gatherings will come to their part of the world soon, especially the United Kingdom, which is all he can say for now. (00:03:15)

2013

2013-08-16 · Harry Potter vs. Science! — Hank says the two must-dos of his UK trip blew his mind: the Natural History Museum, where he and Katherine got up early to be first in line, and the Harry Potter Studio Tour in Watford. (00:00:32)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says that, although free health care elsewhere is said to be paid for by higher taxes, the US spends more tax money per capita on health care than Germany, Australia, the UK or Canada. (00:00:08)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John tells Hank that he pays more in health-care taxes than he would as a Briton and, being privately insured, gets no health care for those taxes. (00:00:31)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says the US has more obesity but fewer smokers and less alcohol consumption, so compared with the British or French it is probably a wash. (00:02:47)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says the reason is that the US does not negotiate as aggressively as other countries with providers, drug makers and device makers, as the UK's NHS does when it puts a huge hip contract out to the cheapest safe bidder. (00:05:11)
2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says that until the US negotiates with health-care providers as effectively as Australians and British people do, its costs will keep rising faster than anywhere else without better outcomes. (00:06:41)
2013-08-23 · Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth — Hank says that when he asked Charlie to hang out while they were in the UK, Charlie wanted to take them to Bath. (00:00:10)
2013-09-20 · 42 Amazing Maps — Hank says Africa is very big: bigger than the United States, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, all of Eastern Europe, China and India. (00:02:46)