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October 24th: RANDOM NERDFIGHTING

2007-10-25 · John · watch on YouTube · Nerdfighteria · comedy performance

John thanks Hank for recalling that nerdfighting is about bringing people together, jokingly settles that nerdfighters fight for nerds, recommits to his failed toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge for Friday, and runs through Kiva, EcoGeek's PC Magazine honour and two viewer votes.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; filming inside; thanks Hank for yesterday's reminder that nerdfighting brings people together

  • ★★ John thanks Hank for reminding him in yesterday's video that nerdfighting isn't about tearing people apart but about bringing people together. — 00:00:09 · nerdfighter

00:00:36 — Mock museum titles for Hank's still shot; commenters ask whether nerdfighters fight for or against nerds; nerdy faces

  • ★★ John says a few commenters have asked whether nerdfighters fight for or against nerds, reasoning that stain fighters don't fight for stains. — 00:00:36 · nerdfighter, nerd

00:01:34 — Freedom fighters and Power Rangers: nerdfighters are for nerds; recommitting to the failed toilet-paper-and-Nepal challenge for Friday

  • ★★ After worrying that his Nerdfighter shirt suggests fighting against nerds, and puzzling over freedom fighters and Power Rangers, John concludes that nerdfighters are for nerds. (playful) — 00:01:34 · nerdfighter, nerd > «Nerdfighters are for nerds, Hank.»
  • ★★ A nerdfighter pointed out that John never completed the challenge he set himself on January 2: he talked about Nepal but failed to eat the five sheets of toilet paper. (playful) — 00:01:34
  • ★★★ John commits to eating five whole sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal on Friday. (playful) — 00:02:13 > «On Friday, I am going to eat five whole sheets of toilet paper while discussing the political situation in Nepal.»

00:02:42 — Three things: Kiva ran short of listed borrowers, go back to lending; PC Magazine names EcoGeek a top-100 site; vote for secret siblings' film and a nerdfighter's scholarship; sign-off

  • ★★ John says Nerdfighters have supported Kiva.org for months, a website that lets regular people be microfinanciers. — 00:02:42 · Kiva, Nerdfighteria, microfinance
  • ★★ John reports that Kiva.org recently had more people wanting to lend than listed developing-world entrepreneurs; there were more borrowers, just not yet on the site. (playful) — 00:02:42 · Kiva, microfinance
  • ★★★ John tells viewers that borrowers are back on the site, so everyone can go back to making loans at Kiva.org. — 00:03:12 · Kiva, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ John reports that PC Magazine named Hank's EcoGeek.org one of the 100 best websites on the internet. — 00:03:12 · EcoGeek
  • ★★ John asks viewers to watch and vote for a film by two secret siblings, and points to a scholarship vote for a nerdfighter (names omitted), with details linked. — 00:03:12 · secret sibling

Humor (significant)

  • John imagines museum titles for the still frame of Hank's previous video. — 00:00:36 > «Bucktooth McGee has seen the face of the Lord?»
  • Testing whether nerdfighters fight nerds, John asks if Power Rangers range against power and gets lost in the phrase. — 00:01:34 > «Does it mean that they're rangers of power? Or rangers with power? Or rangers in favor of power?»
  • Kiva became so popular that lenders outnumbered listed entrepreneurs. — 00:02:42 > «They ran out of poor people.»
  • After EcoGeek is named one of the 100 best websites, John claims to know how many websites exist. — 00:03:12 > «There are like 8 or 900.»

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