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Jun 5th: S-S-S-Somethin From the Forum

2007-06-05 · announcement · Hank · 3:27 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria (also: Personal life, Books & writing) · mode: Announcements · tags: community lore, punishment or challenge, self correction

Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, named 'My Pants', which made his video late; he also recommends M. T. Anderson's Feed, frets about friends' babies, reports a Weather Channel interview request, and retracts his McCain remark.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Friends' cabin at Seeley Lake; Katherine the only woman not pregnant; not baby time for Hank yet

  • ★★ Hank and Katherine visited friends' cabin at Seeley Lake this week (week of 4 June 2007); it was weird for Katherine to be the only woman there not pregnant. — 00:00:12 · Katherine Green
  • ★★ Hank says it doesn't feel like baby time for him yet, though many friends are having babies; he jokes that his future baby would have no friends its age. (playful) — 00:00:12

00:00:44 — A baby with no friends; books about infertility; Feed read 'in my pants': terrifying, recommended

  • ★ Hank calls that a stupid fear unless people lose the ability to have babies, the subject of two books he read lately and a movie; seeing pregnant friends reassures him. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:44
  • ★★★ Hank has just read Feed by M. T. Anderson, says everybody was right about it, and suggests viewers buy it: it was very good. — 00:00:44
  • ★★★ Hank found Feed entirely terrifying and more pessimistic about society than he'd like, but says it's important to recognize such issues and that we live in a very strange society. — 00:01:13

00:01:37 — Weather Channel wants to interview Hank for a global-warming show; video late because of the forum

  • ★★ The Weather Channel emailed Hank asking to interview him for a new show on global warming; he doubts many will watch but thinks it's very cool. — 00:01:37 · climate change
  • ★★ Hank says today's video is late because he spent all day and much of last night making the forum John challenged him to build. — 00:01:37 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum

00:02:06 — The forum launches: address, the name 'My Pants', registration, not replacing comments, McCain retraction thread, suggestions for sections; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank launches the Brotherhood 2.0 forum, linked in the sidebar and at the Brotherhood 2.0 site's /mypants address; registering takes about 15 seconds. — 00:02:06 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★ Hank names the forum 'My Pants', so discussions can be continued 'in my pants' with a double meaning, calling it one of his more brilliant ideas. (playful) — 00:02:06 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum, in your pants
  • ★★ Hank says the forum won't replace the comments but adds to them, and viewers need not use it, though he expects interesting things there. (hedged) — 00:02:35 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★★ In a forum thread Hank regretted his earlier remark and says he is never actually going to vote for John McCain; sometimes you just like to make your older brother mad. — 00:02:35 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★★ Hank asks viewers to suggest, in the forum's thread on what to include, any section or sub-forum they want so he can create it. — 00:03:04 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum

Humor (significant)

  • Hank worries about having a baby now that all his friends are having them. — 00:00:44

    “it won't have any friends. Because all of the other babies will be so much older than him.”

  • Having just read Feed 'in my pants', Hank repeats one line over and over. — 00:00:44

    “I don't want a Wikipedia brain.”

  • Hank imagines how viewers will react when his global-warming interview interrupts the Weather Channel. — 00:01:37

    “Stupid! There's always something on! I just want to know what the weather is! This stupid kid's talking!”

  • Hank explains how discussions will continue in the forum he has named My Pants. — 00:02:06

    “you're not sure if the discussion is going to happen in your pants, or if you're discussing John McCain in my pants”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

Central: Brotherhood 2.0 forum · Feed

Also: climate change · in your pants (“we'll continue this discussion of John McCain in my pants”) · John McCain · Katherine Green · Seeley Lake, Montana · The Weather Channel · Wikipedia

Only in the description or credits: M. T. Anderson

Also centred on Feed: February 21st, 2007: The Wikipedia in Your Mind

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