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Nood Ood, Drums, Donuts, Fish, the USDA, P4A and SLEDDING!

2012-12-28 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Personal life · personal update

In a deliberately rambling holiday video, Hank muses on drawing hundreds of hanklerfish and adult pride, questions why the USDA rather than HHS judges food health, asks the community to vote on splitting the larger-than-expected P4A 2012 money among ten charities instead of five, and goes sledding.

What is said

00:00:00 — Holiday greeting; twins contemplation; colouring 'nude Oods' and 300 hanklerfish drawings; getting good by repetition; adults not supposed to be proud

  • ★ Hank offers a holiday 'contemplation': if two sets of identical twins married, would their kids be siblings or cousins? (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★ In the description Hank answers his question: the children of two pairs of identical twins who marry would be biologically siblings but genealogically cousins. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank mentions colouring in 'nude Oods', something 'you decided' at 4 a.m. on December 18th would be a good use of time, and says his 300 pieces of hanklerfish art are almost done. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says he has become extremely good at drawing hanklerfish, his lesson of the year being that doing something 10,000 times makes you pretty good at it. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank admits he is proud of his drawing and suggests that adults are somehow not supposed to be proud of their accomplishments anymore. (hedged) — 00:00:50

00:01:19 — No cookies, only donuts; why does the USDA rather than Health and Human Services decide what's healthy?

  • ★★ Hank says the donuts they had contain, according to the USDA, 45% of his daily allowed saturated fat. (playful) — 00:01:19
  • ★★ Hank questions why the USDA, responsible for the agriculture industry, decides what is healthy in food, arguing it should be Health and Human Services, responsible for Americans' health. (hedged) — 00:01:19

00:01:50 — P4A 2012 raised more than expected; proposal to split among ten charities instead of the top five; community poll

  • ★★★ Hank says the Project for Awesome raised more money than anybody expected. — 00:01:50 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Hank says the plan was to split the money among the charities in the top five P4A videos, but with so much raised they are talking about expanding to ten charities. (hedged) — 00:01:50 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★★ Because this was not the original plan, Hank leaves it to the community: a poll on Our Pants, linked in the description, asks whether to split the money among five or ten charities. — 00:01:50 · Project for Awesome, Nerdfighteria

00:02:19 — Poll on Our Pants (link in description); sledding with the ones you love in Missoula; sign-off

  • ★★ Hank says they think it might be nice to have more winners and that the money would do more good spread across more charities. (hedged) — 00:02:19 · Project for Awesome
  • ★★ Hank recommends sledding with the ones you love this holiday season, showing his own sled runs in Missoula. — 00:02:19 · Missoula, Montana

Humor (significant)

  • Hank, now 'extremely good' at drawing hanklerfish, acts out how his very first anglerfish drawing went. — 00:00:00 > «oh, oh, what, octopus?»
  • After saying adults aren't supposed to be proud and asking himself what an adult wants to cook, Hank gets excited about a cookie that doesn't exist. — 00:01:19 > «I'm gonna go get a cookie! We didn't have any cookies.»
  • After a serious-sounding argument that HHS, not the USDA, should judge food health, Hank dismisses both agencies. — 00:01:19 > «But I'm not paying attention to either of them, because donut.»
  • The first sled run goes fast and ends face-first in the snow; asked how the face is, the answer is upbeat. — 00:02:19 > «My face is awesome!»

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