You're right..I should use the bathroom sitting down! Fewer messes to deal with, fewer people getting mad at me...it's perfect! Thanks VlogBrothers! - A girl
That knot is going to be extremely helpful in an ongoing project for me and many people who are trying to change the world. That's right. Your tip on knots is going to save the world. Congratulations, Hank. You're a superhero.
The figure eight knot is also a very important and common rock climbing knot, especially in top-roping. it usually is the knot that ties your harness to the rope, and in consequence, anchors you to the rock.
OKAY Y'ALL DO NOT DO THE RAZOR THING UNLESS YOU HAVE WASHED YOUR JEANS AT LEAST ONCE!!! I TRIED IT ON SOME NEW JEANS AND THE CHEMICAL COATING THAT THEY PUT ON JEANS GOT ON MY RAZOR AND THEN IN MY FACE
Peeing sitting down is my default if there are no urinals and the toilet seat is decently clean. Always has been and I've never understood why it's weird, since it's more comfortable to sit, there's basically no aiming required (thus no cleanup), and you have fewer issues where the last drop or two ends up in your pants.
I love it when you use german words. You make our language (me being german, us being the germans) sound so much funnier. THANK YOU! And thanks to John as well, who keeps using them in his wonderful books :)
I tried the razor trick this morning and could not believe the results. Definitely worth taking the minute to do. Hank, you've done it again. Sheer brilliance.
You mentioned a Unitarian Universalist church at the end, this made me happy as I am a Unitarian Universalist and nobody seems to know what that is. Thank you for brightening my day.
yes sitting down is more sanitary. even better would be if all toilet visitors, standers or sitters, would out down the LID before flushing. This would also put a stop to the conflict about leaving the seat up or not since everybody now has to lift it up regardless of how they want to position themselves. Besides, a closed toilet is a classy toilet.
@Banasre close, but a square knot commonly involves two ropes, where you cross the right-hand rope over the left one, then bring the new right hand rope through, then cross the left-hand rope over the right one, then bring the new left hand rope through, and pull tight. It should make a vaguely squareish shape.
Don't mean to necro this, but I was curious enough to track down the referenced episode. For those wondering, it's mental floss episode 224, and John maybe doesn't debunk it so much as rub a razor on his shirt for a sec, feel weird, and call it a fail.
The reef knot is for tying two lines of the same width together, but this double eight knot thing you have going on seems to be possibly better. Sailing camp possibilities...
Look best way to minimize NOISE when peeing is to AIM AROUND the water and it helps to stay quiet at night when you don't want to wake anyone. Been doing it for years.
lol i pee sitting down as well. i think it is funny how people can freak out over a way a person (especially men) releases their liquids. just because i don't want to get pee/toilet water splattering onto my feet/ legs as it hits the water does not make me less of a man. what we think of as man is only what society tells us it is. it is much more than that and frankly it is quite ignorant to follow society on many matters.
***** well the second one was a reply to B Brown who seems to have removed his comment or something, answering his query on how I pee while standing up. It's also good for watersports. google it if you need to.
Liarra Sigla Now it makes much more sense. But still. How is that supposed to work? I know there are funnel like devices for that, but a strapon would be highly unusual... Unless you walk around the entire day with that thing. The problem is that you use the kinetic energy of the fluid to dispose into the device. Like that I imagine urinating would take awfully long. Besides, it should be possible with some training and squeezing to do it even as a girl standing up. But at the end it's much more comfortable to sit down no matter your gender.
Alex, this is much appreciated. I commend you for being the first to commend me, and commend myself for being the first to commend you for being the first to commend me. We really seized the initiative there.
there are a couple other really handy knots out there that could serve a man quite well. the clove hitch, taught line hitch, bowline (particularly the one-armed bowline around your own waist). oh, and my favorite for joining two lengths of rope is the sheet bend (or sheet bend with a bight for easy removal)
The figure eight knot is what I use when I belay people in indoor rock climbing. (For those unaware, basically, if you've ever seen indoor rock climbing, belaying is when someone climbs with the actual rope, not the automatic ones.) :D
I learned that you can also do the razor backwards on your arm, which is great if you're already in the shower or something before you remember. And making sure it's dry before you put it away helps prolong its life too!!
There's a much easier way to tie two strings together (as long as you don't need them coming apart again). It's called a fisherman's knot. Basically you take two strings, lay them parallel, and tie the working end of each one in an overhand knot around the standing end of the other. Then just pull on the standing ends and the knots will butt up against each other. It was originally used for connecting two lengths of fishing line.
Trace figure 8s? rock climbing knot. it's self tightening so if you fall on it, it just tightens and keeps you from falling out of your harness. not dying? me gusta.
OMG I've been doing that razor thing for a few years now. For girls shaving their legs, etc- When it starts getting blunt...rub it in the opposite direction 10 times and it will be sharp again. It has seriously saved me a freaking lot of money since I found out. Also keeping your razor blade end in Olive oil keeps it from rusting...which makes them last even longer. And Olive oil is really good for your skin and washes off your skin easily with soap.
That figure 8 knot!! I thought I was just doing the first knot wrongly. So that's the reason why cellphone-packed foods in our place are easier to untie than whatever ties that I do myself.
If you read John's book "An Abundance of Katherines" that word is used. In Germany sitzpinkler means "man who pees sitting down" but can also be used as a term for a coward - as explained in the book :)
Things That I Love About This Video and By The Transitive Property Things That Make Me Love Hank Green Even More: 1. 3:26. The fact that you are in that small percentage of men who can say that they're not "overly concerned with the irrational constructions of our society and culture." 2. 3:45 The fact that you played a show at a Unitarian Universalist church with a Wizard Rock band. As a UU (there aren't actually that many of us) that makes me nerdishly happy. :3
By the way, the name for what Hank just did to his razor is stropping. It works best if you use leather instead of denim, and should also be done on knives.
I learned the figure eight knot in P.E. class for rock climbing, and my teacher taught us how to make it by telling to "1. Make a head (make a loop) 2. Choke it (wrap around it) . 3 Then poke it in the eye (thread through the loop". I thought that a little to "creative"
Hank, startded using the Reach Flossar long time ago, dentist has noticed the improfement, instead of saying "got some work to do here", now he says "keep doing what you're doing". Wish it had been aroundt during childhood, maybe wouldno hae a mouth full of cavity fillings. O'course the price of Reach Flossar refills is wherr they getcha, but still worth it compared to the whey things werr.
If you want them to go the same way, just hold them together and tie a figure 8 at the end. If you want them to go opposite ways, tie the knot on the end of one, then with the end of the second rope trace the path of the first rope. Follow the path exactly though, the two ropes have to lie next to each other for this to work. It takes a bit of practice, good luck =)
@FoldingFlowers That was absolutely a figure 8. Clove hitches are completely different. At the most basic... a clove hitch is a hitch and not a knot. The figure 8 is a stopper knot, and it looks exactly like Hank showed- you can tell because it's free standing and looks like an 8. A clove hitch has to be around something to keep its form. (Although I've never seen it done with a USB cable, that made me laugh. Thank you Hank!) Pee sitting down? You're awesome.
we had to tie the figure 8 knot in my outdoor adventure class! that's how we connected the caribbeaner to our harness and kept us safe while we climbed rocks and stuff :D
That razor trick is kind of neat, but the truly awesome men are the ones who use either safety razors (the old school razors that are a permanent housing for the blades and you periodically change the blades) or straight razors (like, Sweeney Todd style).
I went to an anime convention called anime matsuri you should check it out, the cool thing is that there was a whole panel devoted to Harry potter, quidich( I don't know how to spell that), and wizard rock
"Announced Eventually" is actually an amazing book title, especially considering noone will believe you until you show it to them, and maybe not even then.
![Quando Rondo - Life Goes On [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eIf3fhMXAow/mqdefault.jpg)
I am a lady who uses disposable razors and I am SO GLAD you talked about honing razors. THANK YOU. It's amazing.
You're right..I should use the bathroom sitting down! Fewer messes to deal with, fewer people getting mad at me...it's perfect! Thanks VlogBrothers!
- A girl
thank you
She's being sarcastic, it's a joke...
Glad y'all liked it XD
I second this!
- A trans man
obviously!!!!
I'm a man, and I always pee sitting down. Not out of consideration for others, but out of laziness. I hate standing.
+SapientSpaceApe WE FOUND COLIN SINGLETON!!!
In 2011 Hank made this for all father's including his brother. Now in 2016 Hank is going to be a Father!!!! : )
2011 Hank seems so much more *relaxed* than 2021 Hank... He has no idea what he's in for.
Welp, neither did you, sweet summer child
@@derAtzedon’t worry, it’s not so bad
"And this is really easy to undo, and if you ever need to..." *realizes it looks like a noose* "Uhm... fatherhood's hard, but it's not that hard!"
+Bryan Cotto OOOh now I get it
That knot is going to be extremely helpful in an ongoing project for me and many people who are trying to change the world. That's right. Your tip on knots is going to save the world. Congratulations, Hank. You're a superhero.
The figure eight knot is also a very important and common rock climbing knot, especially in top-roping. it usually is the knot that ties your harness to the rope, and in consequence, anchors you to the rock.
Rock climbing nerdfighters FTW 🖖🧗♀️
OKAY Y'ALL DO NOT DO THE RAZOR THING UNLESS YOU HAVE WASHED YOUR JEANS AT LEAST ONCE!!! I TRIED IT ON SOME NEW JEANS AND THE CHEMICAL COATING THAT THEY PUT ON JEANS GOT ON MY RAZOR AND THEN IN MY FACE
Peeing sitting down is my default if there are no urinals and the toilet seat is decently clean. Always has been and I've never understood why it's weird, since it's more comfortable to sit, there's basically no aiming required (thus no cleanup), and you have fewer issues where the last drop or two ends up in your pants.
I love it when you use german words. You make our language (me being german, us being the germans) sound so much funnier. THANK YOU! And thanks to John as well, who keeps using them in his wonderful books :)
"fatherhood's hard but not that hard"
I JSUT GOT THAT JOKE IM CRYING
it doesn't matter you account name is "it doesn't matter"and you enjoyed that joke... clearly a dark individual
I sit to pee because I have a lot of times I think I also have to poop, but usually they're just farts. I know it's TMI, but it's related TMI.
I tried the razor trick this morning and could not believe the results. Definitely worth taking the minute to do. Hank, you've done it again. Sheer brilliance.
You mentioned a Unitarian Universalist church at the end, this made me happy as I am a Unitarian Universalist and nobody seems to know what that is. Thank you for brightening my day.
yes sitting down is more sanitary. even better would be if all toilet visitors, standers or sitters, would out down the LID before flushing. This would also put a stop to the conflict about leaving the seat up or not since everybody now has to lift it up regardless of how they want to position themselves.
Besides, a closed toilet is a classy toilet.
that awkward 5 seconds when you forget guys don't have to sit down to pee and then feel really stupid
annabelle mayes I haven't ever experienced that. Because I'm a guy
+derik yolk it's almost like the joke wasn't aimed at guys...
I'm on a vlogbrothers binge..... Whose with me?
@Banasre close, but a square knot commonly involves two ropes, where you cross the right-hand rope over the left one, then bring the new right hand rope through, then cross the left-hand rope over the right one, then bring the new left hand rope through, and pull tight. It should make a vaguely squareish shape.
This is the first Vlogbrothers video I ever saw. Now I am watching it once again.
The sit pee is fine I guess, but a good stand crap can change your life.
lololol
Haaaank, how do you know how to do all the stuff? Every single of the stuff? Also I'm a 22 year old girl, not a father..... Yet. Wait, what?
Best. Comment. Ever.
Must be 27 now.
It's funny that John debunked the razor hack on mental floss...
+Athrun000 Let's be honest, Mental Floss hasn't historically done a ton of life hacks justice.
Don't mean to necro this, but I was curious enough to track down the referenced episode. For those wondering, it's mental floss episode 224, and John maybe doesn't debunk it so much as rub a razor on his shirt for a sec, feel weird, and call it a fail.
I love that you have Kodocha on your bookshelf.
I am SO excited to try the disposable razor trip.
Vlog Brothers - Teaching life hacks before life hacks were even a thing
Hank this is bothering me so much. What is the yellow stack of books behind you?
Hank Green-Noted Sitzpinkler
i love it in the description there's tons of url's and stuff and in the end there is a bunny :D love you Hank!
Haha no problem :) I'm glad I could help out a fellow Nerdfighter!
fatherhood sucks. but no that much. (the noose knot) hahahaha
Why would I want to decrease the noise of my urine? I pee in the middle of the bowl to assert dominance.
1) mark your territory
2) assert your dominance
The guidelines to life
Pee on the inside rim of the bowl so it isn't in the water.
hank is a sitzpinkler
The reef knot is for tying two lines of the same width together, but this double eight knot thing you have going on seems to be possibly better. Sailing camp possibilities...
Look best way to minimize NOISE when peeing is to AIM AROUND the water and it helps to stay quiet at night when you don't want to wake anyone. Been doing it for years.
Sitzpinkler!
lol i pee sitting down as well. i think it is funny how people can freak out over a way a person (especially men) releases their liquids. just because i don't want to get pee/toilet water splattering onto my feet/ legs as it hits the water does not make me less of a man. what we think of as man is only what society tells us it is. it is much more than that and frankly it is quite ignorant to follow society on many matters.
I pee standing up.
um, I'm not a man.
B Brown I have a hollow strapon.
Liarra Sigla So many questions about those comments.
***** well the second one was a reply to B Brown who seems to have removed his comment or something, answering his query on how I pee while standing up.
It's also good for watersports.
google it if you need to.
Liarra Sigla Now it makes much more sense. But still. How is that supposed to work? I know there are funnel like devices for that, but a strapon would be highly unusual... Unless you walk around the entire day with that thing. The problem is that you use the kinetic energy of the fluid to dispose into the device. Like that I imagine urinating would take awfully long. Besides, it should be possible with some training and squeezing to do it even as a girl standing up. But at the end it's much more comfortable to sit down no matter your gender.
Whats a VHS?
im kidding
Dramatic lighting. Awesome.
I learnt a bunch of knots during a sailing introductory course and also at a camp but to this day the figure-8 one is the only one I remember.
i pee sitting down at night so i don't wake anyone up
i sit too, its much better
lol i m already doing that with my Shaving Razor, even pee the same way u did. lol
I love that based on camera quality I can always tell which green bro book they're talking about!
Alex, this is much appreciated. I commend you for being the first to commend me, and commend myself for being the first to commend you for being the first to commend me. We really seized the initiative there.
I don't think I understood the noose joke when I saw this video before
Brennan Lowes same
DON'T DO THE "RAZOR HACK" on your skin, because it will shave it.
Sitspinkler
there are a couple other really handy knots out there that could serve a man quite well. the clove hitch, taught line hitch, bowline (particularly the one-armed bowline around your own waist). oh, and my favorite for joining two lengths of rope is the sheet bend (or sheet bend with a bight for easy removal)
The figure eight knot is what I use when I belay people in indoor rock climbing. (For those unaware, basically, if you've ever seen indoor rock climbing, belaying is when someone climbs with the actual rope, not the automatic ones.) :D
I learned that you can also do the razor backwards on your arm, which is great if you're already in the shower or something before you remember. And making sure it's dry before you put it away helps prolong its life too!!
The razor thing is like the most useful bit of info I've learned all day.
There's a much easier way to tie two strings together (as long as you don't need them coming apart again). It's called a fisherman's knot. Basically you take two strings, lay them parallel, and tie the working end of each one in an overhand knot around the standing end of the other. Then just pull on the standing ends and the knots will butt up against each other. It was originally used for connecting two lengths of fishing line.
The figure eight know and double figure eight knot are also used for rock climbing.
Cleaning your razor with cotton wool and isopropyl alcohol (rubbing alcohol) helps as well.
i did the razor thing just right now then shaved. it was the smoothest thing ever! thank you! hank :)
Favorite vlogbrothers video ever.
Love the use of a charger for demonstration of knots
I just noticed there are all 6 Scott Pilgrim books on Hanks' shelf. I congratulate you, you awesome person.
Trace figure 8s? rock climbing knot. it's self tightening so if you fall on it, it just tightens and keeps you from falling out of your harness. not dying? me gusta.
OMG I've been doing that razor thing for a few years now.
For girls shaving their legs, etc-
When it starts getting blunt...rub it in the opposite direction 10 times and it will be sharp again. It has seriously saved me a freaking lot of money since I found out.
Also keeping your razor blade end in Olive oil keeps it from rusting...which makes them last even longer. And Olive oil is really good for your skin and washes off your skin easily with soap.
Hank and John are my 2 favourite persons in the world
HANK. THANK YOU WITH THE RAZOR THING. OMFG I LOVE YOU FOR THAT.
that really good knot thats easy to untie is used for climbing!
this was my favorite vlogbrothers video
That figure 8 knot!! I thought I was just doing the first knot wrongly. So that's the reason why cellphone-packed foods in our place are easier to untie than whatever ties that I do myself.
I hone my razor like that now and told my mom about it and we have to buy a new pack of blades maybe once a year now. Best advice ever, Hank.
If you read John's book "An Abundance of Katherines" that word is used. In Germany sitzpinkler means "man who pees sitting down" but can also be used as a term for a coward - as explained in the book :)
Thanks for all the awesome advice, Hank! I'll have to practice that knot.
French the llama thanks so much. I was trying to figure out how to do it and explain it, and this is perfect. So thanks
Things That I Love About This Video and By The Transitive Property Things That Make Me Love Hank Green Even More:
1. 3:26. The fact that you are in that small percentage of men who can say that they're not "overly concerned with the irrational constructions of our society and culture."
2. 3:45 The fact that you played a show at a Unitarian Universalist church with a Wizard Rock band. As a UU (there aren't actually that many of us) that makes me nerdishly happy. :3
By the way, the name for what Hank just did to his razor is stropping. It works best if you use leather instead of denim, and should also be done on knives.
I learned the figure eight knot in P.E. class for rock climbing, and my teacher taught us how to make it by telling to "1. Make a head (make a loop) 2. Choke it (wrap around it) . 3 Then poke it in the eye (thread through the loop".
I thought that a little to "creative"
Hank, startded using the Reach Flossar long time ago, dentist has noticed the improfement, instead of saying "got some work to do here", now he says "keep doing what you're doing". Wish it had been aroundt during childhood, maybe wouldno hae a mouth full of cavity fillings. O'course the price of Reach Flossar refills is wherr they getcha, but still worth it compared to the whey things werr.
many places that have indoor rock climbing use the double 8 knot/loop so that is a very legitimate knot/loop :)
If you want them to go the same way, just hold them together and tie a figure 8 at the end. If you want them to go opposite ways, tie the knot on the end of one, then with the end of the second rope trace the path of the first rope. Follow the path exactly though, the two ropes have to lie next to each other for this to work. It takes a bit of practice, good luck =)
You should tie the floss into a loop. This way it's much easier to hold and you don't have to wrap it around your fingers and "purplify" them.
I use it for abseiling (meaning that I am relying on it continuously, rather then just a back up).
@FoldingFlowers That was absolutely a figure 8. Clove hitches are completely different. At the most basic... a clove hitch is a hitch and not a knot. The figure 8 is a stopper knot, and it looks exactly like Hank showed- you can tell because it's free standing and looks like an 8. A clove hitch has to be around something to keep its form.
(Although I've never seen it done with a USB cable, that made me laugh. Thank you Hank!)
Pee sitting down? You're awesome.
Seeing as this is vlogbrothers, I liked and favorited this video before it even loaded.
we had to tie the figure 8 knot in my outdoor adventure class! that's how we connected the caribbeaner to our harness and kept us safe while we climbed rocks and stuff :D
do i see the Scott Pilgrim novels back there? Hank you just became my favorite person ever.
Hank, please do an entire video on knots. Do you like to bind or be bound?
That razor trick is kind of neat, but the truly awesome men are the ones who use either safety razors (the old school razors that are a permanent housing for the blades and you periodically change the blades) or straight razors (like, Sweeney Todd style).
@BingleBanner I love you. My favorite Up quote.
"Now let's talk about knots..."
Well, I'm not really that interested in infomercial hooks, but what the hell? You got me on the edge of MY seat!
I love the advice on razors
the razor bluejeans thing is AWESOME!!
Also the figure eight knot is good for rock climbing.
Hank, can you please do a video on the differences between a nerd and a geek?
the figure 8 knot is what you use when rock climbing. example of how good it is.
It's a reference to John's book "An Abundance of Katherines".
I rarely comment, if ever; however, I felt the need to thank you for that razor tip. Thank you, that tip made my life a lot less painful.
I went to an anime convention called anime matsuri you should check it out, the cool thing is that there was a whole panel devoted to Harry potter, quidich( I don't know how to spell that), and wizard rock
the figure 8 loop is also used in rock climbing
Sitzpinkler! Yay for German put-downs. Also, I feel like that razor trick is going to come in handy.
And HOLY CRAP! That razor trick will help me a lot!
The figure-8 loop part was too great.
"Announced Eventually" is actually an amazing book title, especially considering noone will believe you until you show it to them, and maybe not even then.
Love the bunny at the end of the description