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All statements about England

59 statements about England in 46 videos, by upload date.

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2007

2010

  • 2010-02-05 · DARE TO SUCK — Maureen Johnson: Some things, like crossing roundabouts in England, have serious consequences if you suck at them, but in writing sucking has no real serious consequences. — 00:01:28
  • 2010-06-14 · Be The Change - vlogbrothers — Hank: In the 1950s Turing went to court and a jury convicted him of being a homosexual; being gay was then illegal in England. — 00:00:48
  • 2010-06-21 · You're Gonna Die — John: Truth or Fail option one, one of two purported facts: the US goal against England in the 1950 World Cup 'Miracle on Grass' was scored not by an American but by a Haitian. (unsure) — 00:02:57
  • 2010-09-27 (said on 2010-09-28, implied) · 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
  • 2010-09-27 (said on 2010-09-28, implied) · Stop Embarrassing Yourself — recommendation: 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. (playful) — 00:01:50

2011

2012

  • 2012-08-07 · An Open Letter to Students Returning to School — John says Germany had compulsory primary education from the late 18th century, that thanks to the Meiji reforms 90% of Japanese kids were in school by 1900, and England followed around 1880. — 00:00:14

2013

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2014

  • 2014-04-11 · What Boys Look For in Girls — Hank says cultures also differ in beauty standards for men, joking that in England men wear really tight pants. (playful) — 00:01:19
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John asks who the good guys were in the American Revolution: the Americans stood for freedom and democracy, except for slaves, who probably would have been better off under English rule. (hedged) — 00:04:41
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John says AFC Wimbledon is owned by its fans and was the first football club in England to come out against homophobia. — 00:00:42
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John says Ethiopia is as far from the outbreak as England is from Afghanistan, mocking the 'same continent, ergo Ebola' inference. — 00:00:40
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains English means from England, a country inside the United Kingdom, while British covers the whole UK, including Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish people, who may not like the label. — 00:00:55
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: John comes from a Hebrew name meaning 'God is gracious' and was the most popular name in England for about a thousand years, until it declined around the time he was born. (playful) — 00:02:22

Also named in: Warm Things for Cold Times

2015

  • 2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John says that for the past couple of years Nerdfighteria has been sponsoring AFC Wimbledon, an actual professional soccer team in England. — 00:00:02
  • 2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John says AFC Wimbledon play in League Two, the fourth tier; they are fan-owned, were England's first club to take a stand against homophobia, and rose from the ninth tier. — 00:00:07
  • 2015-01-04 · The Best Worst Thing — John has to get on an airplane so he can spend 14 hours in England. (playful) — 00:03:21
  • 2015-03-31 · Hank's Haircut and Related Existential Crises — John says AFC Wimbledon is a real professional team in England that started 13 years ago from nothing but fans who had the idea to make a team. — 00:02:38
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John: Rosianna Halse Rojas is here: the brothers have brought her from England to the United States on a visa; John can't yet reveal the full plan, but soon. — 00:01:14
  • 2015-11-03 · Monkey Hangers — John says Hartlepool is a city in north-east England of about 93,000 people. — 00:01:18

Also named in: The Road Less Traveled By

2016

  • 2016-06-28 · New Iceland — John: The coalition would create New Iceland: great weather, Björk, a soccer team apparently better than England's, and only a two-hour flight from New York, Madrid or Marrakesh. (joke) — 00:02:16

2017

  • 2017-08-04 · Why Bullets are Good for the Environment — Hank says that in 1937 people bought guns mainly to hunt, so the tax effectively taxed hunters to protect land for them and keep hunting from becoming a rich person's sport as in England. — 00:01:14

2018

  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: Project for Awesome donors joined John this weekend (10–11 March 2018) in England to watch AFC Wimbledon's 2-1 win over Oxford United, and greet Hank. — 00:00:02
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John: His 27 hours in England reminded John that Americans get news from such divergent sources that they don't hear the same stories, let alone agree on them. (playful) — 00:00:25
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — John: Jerzy Dudek was a 10-year-old in a Polish coal-mining town in 1984, played for a third-tier Polish team, then moved to Holland and England, joining Liverpool in 2001. — 00:00:52
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — John: Every World Cup England's fans expect an early exit; the team reaches the quarterfinals, loses there, and fans are shocked it did exactly what it always does. (playful) — 00:01:08

2019

  • 2019-10-01 · Why Are Poor Countries Poor? — John: Most Sierra Leoneans descend from long-time West Africans, but many former slaves in the British Empire were resettled there, so some trace descent to Canada, England or Nigeria. — 00:00:29
  • 2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John says pineapples were eventually grown in Europe, never in quantity; his favorite pineapple painting shows English gardener John Rose giving King Charles II the first pineapple grown in England. — 00:01:56

2020

  • 2020-02-21 · The Muck of Millennia — Hank says 'mudlark' is the self-assigned name for people who walk muddy places in England to see what they can find. — 00:01:03
  • 2020-06-30 · i like it — John: James, a really good teammate from England, told them about English football, stadiums of singing fans, and that the best team was Liverpool; they believed him. — 00:02:07

2021

  • 2021-02-02 · I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again) — John: Almost 700 years ago a chronicler of the Black Death in England wrote that virtually none of the lords and great men died in the pestilence. — 00:02:26
  • 2021-02-09 · Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love — recommendation: John loves Rosianna's videos, especially her unhurried travel vlogs, such as bicycling across England. — 00:02:23
  • 2021-07-13 · The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make — John finds nation-states weird: England and Scotland are different nations in international soccer but the same one leaving the European Union, which is not a nation though it does most things nations do. — 00:00:33
  • 2021-07-30 · Can You Trust Science Too Much? — Hank: A big, well-designed ivermectin study is under way in England; it is worth running because several non-randomized, non-placebo-controlled observational trials showed strong positive effects. — 00:02:04

2022

  • 2022-07-12 · Nauseous Puddle Water — John says that in 17th-century England King Charles II, concerned about political talk in coffee houses, began a PR campaign against coffee that included an anonymously written petition, which says coffee leads men to waste their time and money on nauseous puddle water. — 00:00:00
  • 2022-07-12 · Nauseous Puddle Water — In a comment John wryly calls England impressive for keeping a semblance of hereditary rule, then wonders whether inherited power and property, like nepotism and land inheritance, are also problems. — creator comment
  • 2022-10-11 · Most People Have Never Been 20 — John says in early-1800s Sweden a 10-year-old's life expectancy was around 46, and in 1841 England a 20-year-old's was around 60. — 00:01:27

2023

2024

  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says teams sometimes move in American sports, like the St. Louis Rams becoming the Los Angeles Rams, because US teams are franchises; it had never happened in England, where teams are community assets. — 00:00:20
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John jokes Wimbledon have not been good since returning to professional football: no professional team in England has lost more games in the last five years. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says only four of England's 92 professional teams were profitable last year (2023), Wimbledon among them because, with no rich owners, it has to be. — 00:01:17
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John does not care that the club is perpetually underfunded: he is in love, so he flew to England with his friend Stuart to cheer against the Milton Keynes franchise. — 00:01:30
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John jokingly dismisses usual English tourism, such as seeing Shakespeare's second-best bed in Stratford-upon-Avon or ancient castles, as boring. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says this is Bromley's first season in England's professional football league, an old-school experience from the narrow turnstiles to the away fans' lounge. — 00:00:58

Also named in: BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story

2025

  • 2025-02-11 · What's at Stake — John says densely populated communities fared worse: in early industrial England about one in three people were dying of tuberculosis. — 00:02:26
  • 2025-03-25 · Taylor, Dr Pepper, and My Anxiety Strats: It's Question Tuesday — John: Asked to connect Taylor Swift to TB, John cites a line of her song about the lakes as a reference to England's Lake District, where poets and others with tuberculosis were often sent to recover. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank says Lady Mary had the procedure performed on her son in Turkey and became its advocate on returning to England. — 00:01:27
  • 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank says English anti-royalists did not cite their hatred of the king but said the procedure came from scary Muslims and stood in the way of God's will. — 00:03:56
  • 2025-04-25 · How We Form Opinions — Hank says many overcame the effect: some Boston doctors were convinced, and in England public enthusiasm, strongly anti-smallpox, quieted the dissenters. — 00:04:25
  • 2025-05-02 · I Found the Dumbest Time Zone — Hank blames England: the Royal Society proposed two whole-hour zones for India, but the colonial government found that too complicated and went halfway between them. (playful) — 00:02:35
  • 2025-05-02 · I Found the Dumbest Time Zone — Hank says Spain belongs in England's time zone but uses Germany's, because Franco put it there to curry favour with Hitler, so Spaniards eat lunch and dinner late. (playful) — 00:03:04
  • 2025-11-24 · Good Store Holiday Gift Guide LIVE with Hank and John — John tells Hank he has been traveling to Denmark and England; in Denmark he attended the Union Conference on Lung Health with Henry Reider, whom viewers know from Everything Is Tuberculosis. — 00:00:00

2026