I Closed My Boob in a Door

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    I think that there's more to say on "Boob in a Door" discourse. I did see some folks who were like "The boob in a door tweet ruined the book for me" which makes me think:
    1. I probably should have found another way to make the point April's tweet is making after I heard from people that it was weird (even if I was technically correct that a real woman would absolutely tweet that tweet...since lots of real women have.)
    2. I worry that sometimes "It vital that we are aware of the inequities of the world" that can be interpreted as "I should lot allow myself to enjoy perfect things and also I should be hyper vigilant for anything that may be imperfect...and thus I should not enjoy anything" that I think is not great.
    But hey, it's always been a mess out here. You can get my books at places where books are sold!!
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  • @thore3874
    @thore3874 Місяць тому +5585

    Apparently the german translators had an idea how that might happen, because they specified that the door was indeed a "Schiebetür" = a sliding door.

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  Місяць тому +2213

      AMAZING

    • @louismyers8845
      @louismyers8845 Місяць тому +88

      Thank you for sharing!

    • @CharlieTheNerd91
      @CharlieTheNerd91 Місяць тому +417

      Translator here, I wanted to say this but you were faster haha, either the translator had some special insight, or he added his own logic to the translation (which you generally should not do on your own accord in our job, especially not when directly quoting someone as you add words to their mouth) :D

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  Місяць тому +645

      ​@@CharlieTheNerd91 I think that I did say somewhere on the internet "maybe it was a sliding door" but I would be surprised if the translator saw that!!

    • @warxdrum
      @warxdrum Місяць тому +85

      @@CharlieTheNerd91 the translator also removed the slight colloquialism inferred by the "you'd", but i get that keeping something like that in German is hard to do.

  • @yesterdaydream
    @yesterdaydream Місяць тому +3791

    Buben Adore is my new drag name

  • @chaeburger
    @chaeburger Місяць тому +415

    I'm not a woman, but I was classically trained as a woman. I have closed my boob in a door several times. It could be because I have unorthodoxly large boobs or it could be my lack of coordination.

    • @ginaroussos
      @ginaroussos Місяць тому +149

      “Classically trained as a woman” 😂 love this as a conceptualization of socialization lol

    • @RyanMcLeodsAwesome
      @RyanMcLeodsAwesome Місяць тому +95

      This is probably my favourite way I've ever heard anyone say they were AFAB.

    • @Sparrow-wy6mf
      @Sparrow-wy6mf Місяць тому +56

      Oh my god, "classically trained as a woman" can I use this???

    • @Ghost-lt4sf
      @Ghost-lt4sf Місяць тому +36

      I too would like to use “classically trained as a woman” 😂

    • @Jesse-ri5ud
      @Jesse-ri5ud Місяць тому +36

      ok, new way to describe my experience with and relationship to womanhood unlocked, thanks 😂

  • @delecti
    @delecti Місяць тому +331

    I interpreted that line as like, closing a door while being slightly in its path. So rather than like "pinching my boob between the door and door frame", more like "smacking a door into my boob". I've done that before, and I would *absolutely* describe that as "closing my boob in a door" while tweeting about it in an attempt to cultivate a public image, like April was.

    • @Me-vn3gz
      @Me-vn3gz Місяць тому +15

      exactly, that’s what i thought too, it’s for sure happened to me

    • @kira540
      @kira540 Місяць тому +15

      +++
      pinching your boob between the door and door frame would be worlds more painful and also very difficult, but closing a door and your boob being in the way isn’t a huge deal if you have big boobs (I probably don’t even notice when it happens… it’s normal for them to get in the way lol)

    • @kimono5484
      @kimono5484 Місяць тому +3

      Thanks for this explanation. That hadn't occurred to me. All of the people who posted about it on Twitter, I wonder which scenario actually happened to their boob.

    • @ZedaZ80
      @ZedaZ80 Місяць тому +18

      "Babe, I just slammed my boob in the door. I didn't need that boob anyway." Is something I've said at least twice, and what actually happens is I lose my balance and try to grab the door for support and it starts to close, so I try to get out of the way, and my rib cage is clear, but not my boob, and then I briefly feel like I died.

  • @willhouston588
    @willhouston588 Місяць тому +1723

    I went to school for 4 years for creative writing and one of the lessons that kept coming up was "It doesn't matter if something actually happened; if it seems implausible, the reader will reject it." Prime example right here.

    • @myladycasagrande863
      @myladycasagrande863 Місяць тому +417

      Reminds me of the classic distinction between real life and fiction: fiction has to make sense.

    • @willhouston588
      @willhouston588 Місяць тому +35

      @@myladycasagrande863 Exactly!

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +125

      Reminds me of the movie Freedom Writers. So many people were upset about that movie because "why does the Nice White Lady have to save the Urban Black Kids?" And I'm just like, "I see where you're coming from, but.... it's a true story about real people who were, in fact, those races... The real people are even shown at the end of the film..."

    • @flowerheit4512
      @flowerheit4512 Місяць тому +65

      ​@@KBRoller i know this is getting kind of off topic but i think people largely have more of an issue with the fact that the story about the Nice White Teacher helping the black kids gets made with like, a real budget, and the same movie with a Black teacher very rarely gets made at all

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +8

      @@flowerheit4512 I mean... isn't that what the very famous film To Sir With Love is about?

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews Місяць тому +2972

    "Boobinadoor" sounds like some kind of Medieval name for a very specific type of siege soldier or something.

    • @Steph-zo5zk
      @Steph-zo5zk Місяць тому +47

      A classy alternative to toad-in-the-hole

    • @ronanmcintyre
      @ronanmcintyre Місяць тому +88

      Boubinador, a knight trained at Académie Boubin in Versailles

    • @sjester9
      @sjester9 Місяць тому

      The Boobinadoor family, neighbors to the Fuckbythenavel family.

    • @mk_rexx
      @mk_rexx Місяць тому +23

      Boobinadoor started sounding like an actual word the more Hank mentions it

    • @Braindeaddefault
      @Braindeaddefault Місяць тому +14

      A disconnected 90s board game.

  • @annemcrowell
    @annemcrowell Місяць тому +782

    I didn't even blink at this when I read AART, because I once closed my boob in a pair of crash cymbals. That has to have happened less frequently than door boob incidents, if only because there are so many more doors in the world.

    • @blootooth00
      @blootooth00 Місяць тому +75

      Ah yes, the all important question is not "Are there more doors or wheels" but actually "are there more doors or cymbals?"
      The answer may not surprise you 😂

    • @mariannetfinches
      @mariannetfinches Місяць тому +61

      You definitely deserve some sort of trophy for having done that. Not because it's hard, necessarily, but it sounds impressive & like it warrants compensation

    • @doctormo
      @doctormo Місяць тому +44

      Cymbalism!!!

    • @missybarbour6885
      @missybarbour6885 Місяць тому +18

      Ba dum tissss

    • @hotgirladjacent
      @hotgirladjacent Місяць тому

      ​​@@missybarbour6885 Ba dum *tittssss

  • @cranepetty6418
    @cranepetty6418 Місяць тому +670

    Hearing you say "I've never had the experience of being a woman or being seen as a woman" meant a whole lot to my trans heart. Because I suppose I have never been a woman, but I was seen as a woman for 23 years. And in a pinch, I could tell you about my experiences with womanhood- not because I was a woman, but because I was thrust into it.
    Thank you for using language mindful of experiences like mine!

    • @geeksdo1tbetter
      @geeksdo1tbetter Місяць тому +20

      This!

    • @Jackbarrany
      @Jackbarrany Місяць тому +4

      🧠 🤸

    • @waffles3629
      @waffles3629 Місяць тому +22

      Same. I'm not a woman, but I know what it's like to be seen as one.

    • @adora_was_taken
      @adora_was_taken Місяць тому +9

      @@Jackbarrany what does that mean? please enlighten us.

    • @kimono5484
      @kimono5484 Місяць тому +26

      ​@@adora_was_taken they're so excited about hank using inclusive language that their brain is doing cartwheels. That's my autistic interpretation of the emojis, which I am honestly not great at interpreting. But that's my take.

  • @murrmurishka
    @murrmurishka Місяць тому +2848

    Hank has mentioned ‘a boob in a door’ exactly 24 times in this video. This is the content I’m here for!!

    • @vlogbrothers
      @vlogbrothers  Місяць тому +663

      Thank you for doing the work...

    • @MaiseNow
      @MaiseNow Місяць тому +80

      And this is the kind of statistical comment that I'm here for too!

    • @vanessapierson4913
      @vanessapierson4913 Місяць тому +3

      +

    • @murrmurishka
      @murrmurishka Місяць тому +61

      @@MaiseNow For a video of 5:28min length it’s a boob for every 14 seconds! 🤯 pretty remarkable for something that is a not an rnb/rap song

    • @magicoA
      @magicoA Місяць тому +17

      It very much started to have the same energy as the "Am I pregnant?!?" video

  • @nonexistent-best-friend1693
    @nonexistent-best-friend1693 Місяць тому +1306

    not a woman but i’ve done it….large chest + sliding shower door + retriever who desperately wants in to the water = perfect storm to slam a boob in a door

    • @silver6071
      @silver6071 Місяць тому +71

      So the translator was onto something xD Thank you for the insight

    • @jackdawjames7696
      @jackdawjames7696 Місяць тому +7

      Bahahaha, oh jeeze

    • @sirnate9065
      @sirnate9065 Місяць тому +5

      ouch!

    • @lilaculots
      @lilaculots Місяць тому +14

      oof, with wet (thus more fragile) skin too... flex tape ain't gonna fix that

    • @EMLtheViewer
      @EMLtheViewer Місяць тому +5

      It’s a truly human experience

  • @robertwinslade3104
    @robertwinslade3104 Місяць тому +33

    As a guy who has accidentally sat on one of his own testicles, I wouldn't doubt that something like that is possible for a second

    • @Siberius-
      @Siberius- Місяць тому

      Have you ever closed your nuts in a door?

    • @jenniferpearce1052
      @jenniferpearce1052 Місяць тому +3

      I've never seen a guy move them out of the way before sitting down, so I'm more curious how this does _not_ happen than how it does happen!

    • @antonliakhovitch8306
      @antonliakhovitch8306 28 днів тому +3

      ​​@@jenniferpearce1052I've had people ask me this before. I'll give it my best shot:
      1. They protrude from the *front* of the body (more or less), so they're out of the way of the thighs when standing and they're not underneath the body when sitting.
      This does, however, mean that they *are* in the way of the thighs when sitting. This is why you rarely see men sitting with their thighs touching each other.
      2. Everyone bites their tongue sometimes, but it's still mind-boggling how our tongues manage to so dexterously dodge our teeth so many times per day without us ever needing to think about it.
      I think it's a similar process here.

  • @hywodena
    @hywodena Місяць тому +372

    This is a great case of "it hasn't happened to me, I can't imagine it happening, therefore it can't happen"

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +31

      "Every time I walk outside, it's cold! Global warming doesn't exist!"

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому +30

      This has got to be one of my greatest pet peeves lol
      Romance readers do this all the time with the "character accidentally said a thought out loud" trope.
      "I'VE never said something out loud by accident! Nobody would ever actually do that! Utterly ridiculous"
      Congratulations. Do you want a gold star? Some of us make airhead mistakes sometimes.

    • @SamAronow
      @SamAronow Місяць тому +3

      “Of course crystal skulls are real. Could you make one of these?”
      “No.”
      “Could anyone?”
      “Yes.”

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +5

      @@holliebrokaw3716I didn't know that was a thing... I'm in the constant habit of thinking out loud, and it takes conscious effort to moderate myself and make sure I don't say the wrong things out loud in front of the wrong people 😂

  • @TheGinger336
    @TheGinger336 Місяць тому +2591

    I can personally confirm it’s possible… a thing I never thought I’d put on the internet

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Місяць тому +149

      Even without a slidin door ive managed it, but thats just dyspraxia for ya; i can and will be clumsy in new and inventive ways each day

    • @daemoneko
      @daemoneko Місяць тому +69

      thank you for your contribution to this scientific research

    • @Jamie_says_weirding_is_real
      @Jamie_says_weirding_is_real Місяць тому +17

      Your secret is safe with us. 😉

    • @ThatOneIrishFurry
      @ThatOneIrishFurry Місяць тому +48

      @@SylviaRustyFae oh god as a dyspraxic trans women i guess this is what i have to look forward too

    • @WritersRite
      @WritersRite Місяць тому +4

      Same! 😮

  • @Kjane921
    @Kjane921 Місяць тому +1282

    I always took the whole boob in a door thing to just mean that April had much bigger boobs than I do. Like, even the experience of having boobs is not universal, because there is no way on earth I could close mine in a door, but I don’t know what it’s like to have big boobs, so maybe it’s possible?

    • @francescakyanda9182
      @francescakyanda9182 Місяць тому +39

      I have big boobs and this has NEVER happened to me 😂

    • @SentencedToBeth
      @SentencedToBeth Місяць тому +147

      Mine are frankly massive. I don't think I've ever done it, but it's totally possible. You could be talking through the crack of a door, and push shut to soon. The pinch would be nasty.

    • @flawedmind
      @flawedmind Місяць тому +103

      @@francescakyanda9182I also have a large chest and have never closed it in a door, but as much as they get in the way of friggin everything, I’m not surprised it actually happens.

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Місяць тому +102

      I dontve big boobs, theyre somewhere in btwn B/C, but ive managed it before, and ive managed to catch one of my boobs on prty much every object in existence
      The one that comes to mind first is that i closed the fridge and smacked my boob before, just bcuz of leanin over and not bein used to them yet
      Bein transfem and dyspraxic, i feel like im dbly at risk here just cuz im clumsy and ive got these new body parts that i didntve for the first few decades of my life

    • @jennenny87
      @jennenny87 Місяць тому +46

      ​@@SylviaRustyFae I am cis but strongly suspect that I'm dyspraxic, so I feel you! I am super clumsy in general, but my penchant for injuries reached new and impressive heights during puberty and pregnancy - two times when your body suddenly and dramatically changes shape, so I absolutely get how this would make it more likely! ...also you may have just talked me out of ever getting a boob job. 😂 Anyway, I hope that you adjust to your new shape soon and boob-related injuries decrease for you. Even moderately sized ones take some getting used to. 😆

  • @10LettersIsTooLong
    @10LettersIsTooLong Місяць тому +233

    Love the census!
    I also don't know what it's like to NOT have boobs. I asked my trans friend who got theirs removed what it was like and they said, "My chest gets cold now!" And I said, "WHAT?!" Blew my mind! I immediately turned to my husband and said, "Does your chest get cold?!" And he said yes and just. Wow.

    • @kaspianepps7946
      @kaspianepps7946 Місяць тому +14

      It's not something I've personally noticed since top surgery, but it might be related to not wearing a bra/binder.

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Місяць тому +9

      I can answer this! I don't bind or wear a bra, and haven't for years. As long as i'm wearing a shirt that covers all of them (ie no sideboob visible), they're not usually cold. The only times I can think of it happening were when they were chafed for unrelated reasons and when I was going through withdrawal coming off my SSRI. That's not to say it doesn't happen - i just don't remember ever noticing it outside of those situations

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому +16

      Fellow boob haver, and uh I feel like my chest gets cold. It's just that also includes the boob getting cold.
      I'm struggling to understand what "my chest gets cold now" even means. Do they mean like in their ribcage??

    • @iiiiitsmagreta1240
      @iiiiitsmagreta1240 Місяць тому +9

      You mean that when my boobs grow in, my chest will just be warm forever? 🥺

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Місяць тому +5

      @@iiiiitsmagreta1240 potentially, yeah!

  • @caseyleichter2309
    @caseyleichter2309 Місяць тому +125

    "Man boobs" exist and are a thing, so when I first saw the title I thought: a) Hank is way too slender to have man-boobs; and b) If it happened to him, it's probably more like a door smashed into his chest from being opened from the other side by someone else. Imagine my surprise to find out what the vlog was actually about! (BTW I can confirm, as a woman, boob-door conflicts can absolutely happen, and yes, it does hurt like a mofo.)

    • @blootooth00
      @blootooth00 Місяць тому +11

      I had the exact same train of thought, and I am still basking in the joy of this video being the funniest possible version of what I might have expected.
      In Hanks words, "I don't know what it's like to have a boob, LET ALONE TWO" 😂

  • @BubbyFish
    @BubbyFish Місяць тому +1061

    The German version actually specifies that this is a *sliding* door, the plot thickens...

    • @CharlieTheNerd91
      @CharlieTheNerd91 Місяць тому +32

      That is why when we translate contracts, we usually add a line like "in case of disputes the English version of this contract is the only valid one", if the translation adds more details (without the author giving them) something went wrong haha

    • @PixieApples
      @PixieApples Місяць тому +12

      A sliding door feels more plausible to me but now I think I need to check

    • @PixieApples
      @PixieApples Місяць тому +17

      Can confirm - sliding door more plausible 🤣

    • @AUnicorn666
      @AUnicorn666 Місяць тому +4

      @@PixieApples does this mean you are going to try and get your boob in a door? lol! imagining you having to o through a ton of work to find a sliding door just to try multiple times to get it in a door and then having a eureka moment! "AH HA! I have done it! Ow"

    • @robertofontiglia4148
      @robertofontiglia4148 Місяць тому +4

      @@CharlieTheNerd91 Well I live and work in Canada, and on my work contract it says that both the French *and* English versions of my work contract (which I was sent at the same time) are binding. Canada!

  • @rhlsy3209
    @rhlsy3209 Місяць тому +1372

    I can’t tell you how fast the title made me tap that notification

    • @Downthewell707
      @Downthewell707 Місяць тому +20

      Me 2!
      I didn't know how he could do it.
      I've done it, not comfortable!

    • @aadhaarmurty1180
      @aadhaarmurty1180 Місяць тому

      (9^2)th like

    • @jon1913
      @jon1913 Місяць тому +5

      It made me very hesitant because I'm on a work computer, on my work network. I got the reference but thought twice about opening a link with "boob" in the title at work.

    • @ElizabethLopez-hx6xv
      @ElizabethLopez-hx6xv Місяць тому +4

      Haven't yet had the pleasure of reading past book 1 of AART and have somehow managed to miss all the boobinadoor discourse! So I didn't realize it was talking about the book and immediately clicked because if Hank managed to close his non-existant boob in a door then I need to watch to be vigilant of this danger seeing as I'm significantly more at risk of this happening... ya know because I like *actually* have boobs 🤣

  • @SweetChuckPi
    @SweetChuckPi Місяць тому +254

    The discourse I hate the most on the internet is, "All members of group X have a completely universal experience." Especially when framed from a member of that group.

    • @blarghblargh
      @blarghblargh Місяць тому +4

      "It is called Mary-o twins, they look the same"

    • @TheGuindo
      @TheGuindo Місяць тому +2

      @@blarghblargh "How in the hell?!"

    • @dreamfaller6372
      @dreamfaller6372 Місяць тому

      Yesss thank you!💯

  • @BrianComradovichRadovich
    @BrianComradovichRadovich Місяць тому +131

    You know, I read the title and immediately flashed back several years ago to a turning point in my own life. Where I'm hunched over in the driver's seat of my car, bruises forming on either side of my head and demanding of myself: "FFS, your friends call you 'the smart one', you have a law degree. How the heck did you just slam your head in the car door?!?"
    It's a turning point, because prior to it the idea of people slamming unlikely body parts in doors was ridiculous sounding. Then immediately afterwards, literally everything seems entirely plausible. Could be brain damage, but if you say you slammed something in a door, I'll believe you. You don't need to explain yourself further.

    • @addiegraves3
      @addiegraves3 Місяць тому +7

      Hahaha, clarity of potential brain damage 😅

  • @lizwrites2463
    @lizwrites2463 Місяць тому +533

    I’ve been so convinced your sensitivity readers just left it in for kicks

    • @justyourlocalrat_
      @justyourlocalrat_ Місяць тому +22

      this is so funny to me honestly

    • @Kazzzack
      @Kazzzack Місяць тому +57

      Maybe they just wanted to see the discourse, which was the correct decision

    • @sallyoldford9237
      @sallyoldford9237 Місяць тому +4

      Meanwhile I didn’t even question it because I’ve done it

  • @hps362
    @hps362 Місяць тому +420

    1:51 that pause before "LET ALONE TWO" completed this moment. Perfect comedic timing. I burst out laughing.

    • @basslinedan2
      @basslinedan2 Місяць тому +6

      It's not often I actually laugh at content but this got me

    • @Mimi-Forever
      @Mimi-Forever Місяць тому +5

      I missed that the first time, thank you 😂

    • @waffles3629
      @waffles3629 Місяць тому +5

      Same, like LMFAO 😂

    • @michellemah2674
      @michellemah2674 Місяць тому +4

      Agreed, perfect delivery 👌

    • @kieleyevatt2232
      @kieleyevatt2232 Місяць тому +3

      I cackled at this

  • @jennenny87
    @jennenny87 Місяць тому +42

    I don't think it would physically possible *for me* to close my boob in a door without some concerted, conscious effort, BUT given that my ADHD self has closed my own foot, hand, arm, leg, shoulder, hip, hair, and FACE in a door MORE THAN ONCE... Yes, I absolutely believe that this is a thing that happens to people.

    • @annahackman2539
      @annahackman2539 Місяць тому +1

      Same!

    • @jennenny87
      @jennenny87 Місяць тому +2

      @@annahackman2539 haha I don't know if I'm glad I'm not the only one or just sorry there are others who know the struggle.

  • @lousielouise8716
    @lousielouise8716 Місяць тому +44

    Pinched on the hinge, sliding door, just being too close when I shut a door, absentmindedly standing in the doorframe and shutting it. All real examples. I cannot WAIT for top surgery.

  • @queenvitamin21
    @queenvitamin21 Місяць тому +200

    Heard Hank talk about this discussion on (I think) Delete This! back when I was a boy and imagine my surprise when I transitioned and accidentally closed my boob in a door

    • @geeksdo1tbetter
      @geeksdo1tbetter Місяць тому +8

      The special joy of being a Nerdfighter, when the content matches your real life!

    • @englahoelstad2356
      @englahoelstad2356 Місяць тому +4

      funniest comment yet

  • @ryanricker1976
    @ryanricker1976 Місяць тому +164

    I’m super pregnant and closed my belly in a door yesterday and thought of this

    • @hopeo-w5961
      @hopeo-w5961 Місяць тому +4

      oh my god. that is terrifying. Like the whole belly?

    • @FinneasJedidiah
      @FinneasJedidiah Місяць тому +24

      ​@@hopeo-w5961I have no idea what you're imagining, but if you think it's 'terrifying' you are most likely imagining something much worse than what actually happened 😂

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому +5

      Literally while watching this video and walking I just shut mine
      The baby definitely felt it

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому +5

      ​@@hopeo-w5961I JUST did this like 30 seconds ago.
      I rammed my belly into the door jam, grabbed the door knob and like fell sideways.
      I shut like half the belly in there lol

    • @hopeo-w5961
      @hopeo-w5961 Місяць тому +2

      @FinneasJedidiah lolol. No it just sounds like it would hurt so badly and that scares me. 😳

  • @taylorcarmen5336
    @taylorcarmen5336 Місяць тому +41

    The fact that this could be hard to do is kind of the point. Like we've all injured ourselves in some seemingly impossible way,

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +16

      Me: "I once was on roller blades, holding onto the shirt of a friend who was speeding away on a go-ped, and as soon as I let go, my roller blade hit a rock. I went flying, flipped about 120 degrees, broke my ankle, sprained my wrist catching myself, tore up a bunch of my skin... fun times."
      People: "No one would be that stupid."
      Me: "Hi, it me, I'm No One and also That Stupid."

    • @cloudkitt
      @cloudkitt Місяць тому +4

      Which sounds like a much more reasonable reading of the situation than "MAN DOESN'T KNOW THAT THIS THING THAT HAPPENS IS IMPOSSIBLE," but what're you gonna do, lol.

    • @PinkHairDontCare
      @PinkHairDontCare Місяць тому +2

      Right? I didn't even question it in the book because I've done so many ridiculously clumsy and self-injuring things that this seemed plausible as well.

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Місяць тому +1

      I find it weird no one is talking about that. It's noteworthy because it's hard to do

    • @lightishredgummi9654
      @lightishredgummi9654 Місяць тому +1

      @@KBRoller "NO ONE is stupid enough to-" _there is _*_always_*_ someone stupid enough_

  • @picksleydust4985
    @picksleydust4985 Місяць тому +8

    I think this is a temper to the old adage of "write what you know" because, yeah, a basis in your own experience - in Hanks case, getting big online - is great to have a strong skeleton for narrative. However, writing what you don't know with earnest and thoughtful research and talking to people who live different lives is pivotal for us understanding each other better.
    I have never shut my boob in a door, and i may have looked at this sideways in another time. But now i know it does happen and i feel like I'm just a little bit better and more empathetic as a person. Thanks Hank. I'll go full the census now

  • @Catsandpixels
    @Catsandpixels Місяць тому +542

    I was very confused by that line. But I hadn’t had boobs in a few years so I could not test it and my wife didn’t want to help me lol.

    • @Kblmquist
      @Kblmquist Місяць тому +37

      So the but it’s for science didn’t work?

    • @Catsandpixels
      @Catsandpixels Місяць тому +46

      @@Kblmquist no. she said she didn’t want to be the test subject

    • @osmium3691
      @osmium3691 Місяць тому +35

      @@Catsandpixels I'm so sorry you're married to someone who has no appreciation for science XD

    • @Siberius-
      @Siberius- Місяць тому

      I hope she doesn't find herself in charge of school curriculums, because she would probably terminate the science classes

  • @Vostro-
    @Vostro- Місяць тому +67

    "it makes me want to write more fiction" don't threaten me with a good time

  • @mariannachierici2944
    @mariannachierici2944 Місяць тому +33

    Yeah, it happens. It happened to me last month.
    While I was on mammography shift. Yes, I'm aware of the irony.
    I wanted to exit the room, but my right feet managed to step in front of the steel door I was opening, so when I stepped forward and tried to go through what I thought was the I-opened-it-wide-door my right boob slammed on the sharp side of the it was-not-supposed-to-be-there-door.

  • @lutilda
    @lutilda Місяць тому +24

    As a Neuro spicy woman... I've done things like this. Not a full door, but a cabinet door. 😅

  • @Izzy-Maurer
    @Izzy-Maurer Місяць тому +422

    As a person with boobs, I can tell you that even though I don't remember ever having specifically done this, I didn't blink at it in the book. It didn't even cross my mind to wonder if it was possible/plausible!

    • @lutilda
      @lutilda Місяць тому +24

      Same 😂 I don't have a memory of it happening, but I always run into things and stuff like that so I don't doubt that it's happened 😂 Apparently it wasn't unusual or surprising enough to remember, though lol

    • @xzonia1
      @xzonia1 Місяць тому +4

      True. I didn't think twice about it while reading the book, but now that he's shined a light on the line, it has me wondering how is that possible. Lol

    • @dreamerfreak4604
      @dreamerfreak4604 Місяць тому +20

      As someone with boobs on the... larger end of the spectrum, same. I never questioned the plausibility of this.😂

    • @dragonflies6793
      @dragonflies6793 Місяць тому +2

      Same here!

    • @RutabegaNG
      @RutabegaNG Місяць тому +5

      Yeah, there is that. I've never done it but it didn't even cross my mind that it was implausible.

  • @nickfcarter
    @nickfcarter Місяць тому +272

    Truly one of the lines of all time

  • @Rayowag
    @Rayowag Місяць тому +14

    Losing it over your "und doch" reading because you sound like the German voice of Gru from Despicable Me when saying it lmaooo

  • @GrayVBoat
    @GrayVBoat Місяць тому +11

    The thing is, humans are clumsy sometimes. There are all kinds of doors, too. Chances are, if you can think of a body part, then it's quite possible that somebody, somewhere has closed it in a door of some kind or another.

  • @kyleanderson4068
    @kyleanderson4068 Місяць тому +142

    It has the same rhythm to the opening line of "Call Me Maybe": "I threw a wish in a well."/"I closed my boob in a door."

    • @KBRoller
      @KBRoller Місяць тому +47

      Why is my immediate thought that the next line must be "don't ask me how long it's sore"? 😅

    • @Me-vn3gz
      @Me-vn3gz Місяць тому

      +

    • @kyleanderson4068
      @kyleanderson4068 Місяць тому +1

      @@KBRoller ok but that works so well

    • @protondium_8927
      @protondium_8927 Місяць тому +30

      ​@@KBRoller
      🎵I screamed aloud and I swore, 'cuz it was in my way🎶

    • @missybarbour6885
      @missybarbour6885 Місяць тому +27

      🎶The door was closing too fast, I'm no good at hauling ass

  • @junespaintbrush
    @junespaintbrush Місяць тому +174

    Being an absent-minded person prone to weird little injuries, I never doubted that boobinadoor could happen. I was merely grateful that I hadn't yet managed that one!

    • @v0id_d3m0n
      @v0id_d3m0n Місяць тому +5

      "I never doubted that boobinadoor could happen"
      I don't think I've ever seen a more beautiful string of words 🥹

    • @jfabulous
      @jfabulous Місяць тому +1

      It's a bad time, I would not recommend it! I've done it with a car door which SUCKS

  • @Ghostly_Gal_
    @Ghostly_Gal_ Місяць тому +2

    When the Smosh podcast episode with you as a guest came out, you guys talked a bit about your book, and midway through I stopped it, went out, and bought your book. Less than a week later I bought the next in the series. I’d say that podcast was pretty good advertising 😂

  • @SentencedToBeth
    @SentencedToBeth Місяць тому +20

    Once they get past a certain size, you can pretty much hit/ bump/ get stuck/ pinched/ squished on pretty much anything. People with small boobs see "punched in the chin with their boob" and think it's fake. I straight up punch myself with one every few months.

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Місяць тому +1

      While I would never have thought that possible prior, I also wouldn't have questioned it because I occasionally accidentally punch myself in the face when trying to do stuff, so. No reason to doubt it lol

  • @AbbreviatedReviews
    @AbbreviatedReviews Місяць тому +372

    You know those moments where you hear a thing so many times it stops having any meaning?
    That's "boob in a door" for me now.

  • @nintando
    @nintando Місяць тому +150

    sorry the WHAT discourse

    • @erkindanger
      @erkindanger Місяць тому +42

      The boobinadoorscourse.

  • @octia2817
    @octia2817 Місяць тому +2

    Question in the census
    67. When did you start watching Vlogbrothers regularly?
    doesn't have the option 2023

  • @stedwards311
    @stedwards311 Місяць тому +2

    This is the best _possible_ use of the sentence "I don't know how it's possible, but I know there are people who have figured it out"

  • @SpaveFrostKing
    @SpaveFrostKing Місяць тому +70

    I was gonna say, "while this could happen, it also sounds a lot like something someone would say on twitter for engagement" and then I looked into it and Hank's even said April isn't above exaggerating a situation for twitter.

  • @PlantsCatsTattoos
    @PlantsCatsTattoos Місяць тому +29

    I closed mine in a dishwasher door before. Leaned over with no shirt and slammed the door right on it. Let me tell you, the pain.... 0_O

    • @emilymartin5418
      @emilymartin5418 Місяць тому +4

      Caught mine in a tent door zip once. They really can get in the way so much.

    • @jiggyprawn
      @jiggyprawn Місяць тому +2

      😣

    • @twojuiceman
      @twojuiceman Місяць тому +11

      Is the 0_O your facial expression or an illustration of the results?

    • @PlantsCatsTattoos
      @PlantsCatsTattoos Місяць тому +7

      ​@twojuiceman ha!!! It is the old school emoticon face, but honestly, 0_O looks like the temporary after as well -_-

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому +2

      ​@@emilymartin5418 AHHHHHH

  • @alexisfa13
    @alexisfa13 Місяць тому +2

    I find this discourse very interesting. I'm not a woman, but I have ADHD, and many friends with ADHD, many of whom are women, and our lack of spatial awareness when it comes to our bodies is so strong that "having a boob caught in a door" sounds not only entirely possible, but bound to happen eventually.

  • @QuotePilgrim
    @QuotePilgrim Місяць тому +12

    I mean of course the people in that subreddit didn't even bother looking up whether that was a thing that had ever happened. The whole point of it is to mock authors, they don't care if the mocking is justified (and yes, a lot of the time it is), they just want an excuse to do the mocking.

    • @kingcrimson4133
      @kingcrimson4133 Місяць тому +4

      You said it better than I ever could have. That's the problem with any subreddit whose premise is even slightly mean-spirited, it always spirals into a den of toxic negativity within a year or two.

    • @holliebrokaw3716
      @holliebrokaw3716 Місяць тому

      Ah yes, this has been the downfall of many a themed Facebook group and Twitter accounts

  • @lizwrites2463
    @lizwrites2463 Місяць тому +73

    OH MY GOD IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT THIS SENTENCE FOR YEARS I NEVER THOUGHT ID GET CLOSURE!!!!

    • @Tim3.14
      @Tim3.14 Місяць тому +52

      Unexpected closure is how many boob-in-a-door accidents happen. Probably.

    • @HereForEvermore
      @HereForEvermore Місяць тому +2

      @@Tim3.14 😂😂😂

    • @carmillachoate
      @carmillachoate Місяць тому +1

      ...I see what you did there

    • @mhawang8204
      @mhawang8204 Місяць тому +3

      @@Tim3.14 you won the internet 😂

  • @ReadingAce
    @ReadingAce Місяць тому +136

    This is real. It happened to me, and it was a fridge door at that! (and I definitely tweeted you about it when it happened) NOT EVEN NERDFIGHTERS ARE SAFE!!! 🤣 anyway now I need to reread AART.
    I got the email with the census link earlier today and already filled it out, whooooo!

    • @mariannetfinches
      @mariannetfinches Місяць тому +10

      The fridge door is the most door for this

  • @soffeebeans
    @soffeebeans Місяць тому +4

    Twice. Sliding balcony door at a hotel and a pantry door situated on a corner, where I was trying to be all cool and just lean around the corner. I slipped and fell forward, catching my hand on the pantry door instinctively, which of course shuts the door.
    If you have ever caught a belt loop on a door handle, you have experienced the "how did I even manage to do that" feeling that comes with.

  • @JoeyKlu
    @JoeyKlu Місяць тому +1

    I know a guy who did this. He's big and he works as a mechanic, he was reaching over the roof of a car and the driver's door swung back in on him.

  • @MrBinthestudio
    @MrBinthestudio Місяць тому +70

    In my humble opinion, there's nothing funnier than someone who doesn't speak German trying to read German!

    • @anniesoernym
      @anniesoernym Місяць тому +9

      It sounded ADORABLE!

    • @rge9992
      @rge9992 Місяць тому +16

      I was very happy he specified it was German and showed the text, because I couldn’t have told what he was saying from him reading. I am German. Nevertheless, I enjoyed his enthusiasm.

  • @tdolan500
    @tdolan500 Місяць тому +40

    As someone who has opened a door into the side of their head with such reckless abandon that they blacked out for a few seconds. I can completely understand how the ladies out there are getting their boobs in the way of a closing door and can empathise with them.

    • @blootooth00
      @blootooth00 Місяць тому +7

      One time I was baking cookies, and turned on the oven light to peer into the oven and watch the cookies. I was talking with my mom, and my brother was doing dishes. God knows why, but after a few moments of looking at the cookies, he walked over and opened the oven with such a force that the handle struck my head like a hummer and I was slammed to the floor. I didn't black out, but it made my eyes roll in my head like billiards balls. While I'm still stammering a response that is somewhere between anger, confusion, and indignant suffering, he declares "YOU SHOULDNT PUT YOUR FACE NEAR DOORS WHEN PEOPLE ARE OPENING THEM." Meanwhile my mother was in tears laughing that her adult son had just been crippled by a delighted 15 year old.
      The moral of the story is I wish my brother would open a door into the side of his own head, and I empathize with anyone who has slammed their boobs in a door

  • @MichiruEll
    @MichiruEll Місяць тому +10

    Boob in a door reminds me of the concept of holding in period blood. Because, unlike most people with vaginas, I actually can hold in my period blood for a time due to a weird combination of anatomy and overactive muscles. Not a universal experience, but at least one woman in the world can do it.
    Anyway, off to answer a census!

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Місяць тому +2

      I could too, when I still menstruated! If it was a lot of blood I couldn't, but some I could. Definitely surprised me to find out most people can't do this

    • @kieleyevatt2232
      @kieleyevatt2232 Місяць тому +2

      ​@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Ah the joys of an overly tight pelvic floor

    • @geeksdo1tbetter
      @geeksdo1tbetter Місяць тому +1

      No way! For how long?

    • @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo
      @HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo Місяць тому +3

      @@geeksdo1tbetter it depends on how much blood is in there. If it's a small amt then more or less indefinitely (until I would go to the bathroom). If it was more then maybe an hour? If it was a lot then a few minutes.
      And it's not exactly comfortable, even just a small amount. It's rather distracting, actually.
      Times may be a bit off, it's been 8 years since I menstruated xD

    • @geeksdo1tbetter
      @geeksdo1tbetter Місяць тому +2

      @@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo bodies are amazing!

  • @FudgeYeahAmerica
    @FudgeYeahAmerica Місяць тому +3

    Literally, your book gave me a good perspective on what goes on with a Twitter Main character. And people who are famous or terminally online or both

  • @thewinterizzy
    @thewinterizzy Місяць тому +72

    Census time census time census time!!! 🗣️📊

  • @adamphilip1623
    @adamphilip1623 Місяць тому +47

    My friend literally has done this, in a wardrobe door no less 😂

  • @HorsesCanRunFree
    @HorsesCanRunFree Місяць тому +4

    I closed my boob in a laptop yesterday, so I’ve stopped questioning what’s possible

  • @DessMelissa
    @DessMelissa Місяць тому +1

    You can tell that you talked to so many people and got all sorts of perspectives. I, a woman, found that tweet and many things from all the women in those books very relatable.

  • @melb3950
    @melb3950 Місяць тому +88

    The title was definitely unexpected.

  • @ShalomDove
    @ShalomDove Місяць тому +79

    I mean… it’s not an everyday occurrence… but it’s definitely a funny image.

  • @mekiyahhazbin1720
    @mekiyahhazbin1720 Місяць тому +1

    Not a woman, but ive closed doors on my own nose. People underestimate how dangerous doors can be

  • @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721
    @vigilantcosmicpenguin8721 Місяць тому +1

    Someone needs to write a research paper surveying the existing literature about closing boobs in doors. We need to examine the mechanism by which this occurs.

  • @CharlieTheNerd91
    @CharlieTheNerd91 Місяць тому +44

    Hi, German translator here, in the translation of the tweet it specifies that it was a SLIDING DOOR, either the translator had some special insight, or he added his own logic to the translation (which you generally should not do on your own accord in our job, especially not when directly quoting someone as you add words to their mouth) :D

    • @rdizzy1
      @rdizzy1 Місяць тому +3

      Sliding door is still a door nonetheless.

    • @CharlieTheNerd91
      @CharlieTheNerd91 Місяць тому +3

      @@rdizzy1 True, but it is kind of a crucial detail, and it appears the translator just made it up, so he changed someones direct quote and added context that does not exist. Just not what you are supposed to do (unless it was discussed with the publishers/editors/authors)

    • @aivylotus4583
      @aivylotus4583 Місяць тому +3

      The translator is Katarina Ganslandt. Might be her special inside. Why did you default to he/his?

    • @UltimateKyuubiFox
      @UltimateKyuubiFox Місяць тому +5

      @@CharlieTheNerd91Hank mentioned online it was probably a sliding door. It’s possible she took that into account.

    • @CharlieTheNerd91
      @CharlieTheNerd91 Місяць тому +2

      @@aivylotus4583 Insight*
      You are right, it might be the case (I hope it is not). It changes nothing in about the fact that that is not something you should ever do as a translator (again, unless specifically told to do so or givenn the freedom to do so which is not very commn in this type of project). As a translator you are there to translate the word and the idea in the appropriate tone, you are not supposed to add details or change the story, if the author does not speak the language you translate to, he has (to a degree) to blindly trust your work, which adds a layer of professional responsibility.
      as for your question, I defaulted to the male pronouns because that is just how I (and the vast majority of people on or pretty little planet) communicate, I am fairly certain everyone else perfectly understood what I meant. In my personal opinion, being gender inclusive in everyday speech and writing is often counterproductive because it easily kills legibility and pulls you out from the material you are reading, in German "Gendering" can get out of hand very quickly because in many cases you have to break traditional grammar and use relatively new guidelines/rules that are more or less defined and standardized, there are a few different ways of approaching gendering (weird word, but that is what it is called), and none of them is easy on the eye. All of that being said after 8 years and a few thousand sucessfull projects, I can only think of one client that specifically wanted to use gender-inclusive speech in English and one in Geman which was recently, and the client herself was aware that it does not look good on a blog, but she wanted to do it to make a point, and well, I work for her so I did what I was asked to do.
      If your question was intended as more of a jab at me for "assuming her gender" I am really sorry if that offended you in any way, that was not my intention, if I knew she was a she I would have used female pronouns, but again I don't think that is what most people would take away from what I said. In the end, in this case, the gender of the translator is completely irrelevant because it is about the profession, and you have to do your job professionally whichever gender you are not saying that she did not, but just to explain why it does not matter, even if she had the "insight").

  • @annajoymyrick3324
    @annajoymyrick3324 Місяць тому +21

    I immediately lost count of how many time the phrase “boob in a door” was uttered 😂😂

    • @zyaicob
      @zyaicob Місяць тому

      Someone counted 24

  • @aze9609
    @aze9609 Місяць тому +1

    I read the title to the melody of "I crashed my car into a bridge"

  • @TheFirstBhau
    @TheFirstBhau Місяць тому +2

    [2:37] I like to think that women could not pinch their boobs in a door before Hank published that book with the only reported instances of boob in a door coming from people that read the paragraph and were then cursed by Hank's writing

  • @tatayakka285
    @tatayakka285 Місяць тому +60

    this title bro😭😭

  • @phionella7
    @phionella7 Місяць тому +81

    I don't think I've ever been so grateful for my flat-chestedness. I can only imagine how bad it would hurt to have your boob closed in a door.

    • @katw2254
      @katw2254 Місяць тому +11

      its got its perks

    • @katw2254
      @katw2254 Місяць тому +22

      disreguard the fact that i could add a t to the first word and that sentice would be very different. i did not think of that before I sent it loll oop

    • @phionella7
      @phionella7 Місяць тому +2

      @@katw2254 lmao, 😂😂

    • @Kblmquist
      @Kblmquist Місяць тому

      And this is why I would never be able to write a good book. I would have just gone with the old finger in a door. As creative as my ADHD brain can be, this is something my brain just can’t achieve.

    • @shotime369
      @shotime369 Місяць тому

      The mammogram comes for all of us eventually

  • @TG-nd9rj
    @TG-nd9rj Місяць тому +3

    I'm only 25 and I've done this multiple times. Don't ask me how, I can't explain it either, but it does happen. A lot.

  • @kristinisreading4866
    @kristinisreading4866 Місяць тому +4

    I just answered the survey and said I like Vlogbrothers videos that discuss deep issues. 😂

  • @NaviDoodlez
    @NaviDoodlez Місяць тому +24

    i read that title in Daffy Duck's voice!

    • @kiyahforever
      @kiyahforever Місяць тому +3

      I went back and read it in daffy duck's voice, except it was actually donald duck's voice 😂 Not the same......

    • @jultejock7185
      @jultejock7185 Місяць тому +2

      SAME!

    • @thatboringone7851
      @thatboringone7851 Місяць тому +1

      "I closed my boob in the car door"
      "You closed your boob in the car door!"

  • @skylerwitherspoon
    @skylerwitherspoon Місяць тому +13

    "let alone two" 😭 hank

  • @paulunga
    @paulunga Місяць тому

    Imagining a world in which authors are only allowed to write characters based on themselves and their particular experiences sounds like a new kind of hell.

  • @schrodingerscat4503
    @schrodingerscat4503 Місяць тому

    Weird enough to not have happened to most people, but not weird enough to have never happened to some

  • @acetrainer5564
    @acetrainer5564 Місяць тому +79

    I did the census! Sad to see the same old faults with it are still persisting... Why am I ranking my favorite coffee roast when I have never and will never drink coffee??? And there's no way to say that??? This is the case for dozens of questions and it makes me frustrated every year.

    • @shaynannigans
      @shaynannigans Місяць тому +4

      Are the questions required or can you skip them? Too late now since you finished it already 😅

    • @Diabloto96
      @Diabloto96 Місяць тому +8

      just... don't answer those questions??

    • @acetrainer5564
      @acetrainer5564 Місяць тому +17

      @shaynannigans Some are "required" in that the ranking is dragging and dropping options that begin in a set order, so there will be results no matter what. I use about 2 social media platforms, I dragged them to the top. The rest are just random all.

    • @acetrainer5564
      @acetrainer5564 Місяць тому +7

      @@Diabloto96 You can't. They begin with a default ranking.

    • @jaystreit3777
      @jaystreit3777 Місяць тому +6

      If they change the questions even slightly, it changes the results, and because they want to compare these results with other years, it’s better to lives with the faults then to start all over again

  • @anna._olsen_
    @anna._olsen_ Місяць тому +8

    Wonderful video, but my comment comes from the nerdfighter census. On the question about the down time in the P4A, I actually really enjoyed it because it gave me less FOMO and allowed me a time to just rest. The whole weekend I was scared of missing out on niche p4a lore but I didn’t have to worry about that when I was sleeping. It really was a nice few hours. There was no “other (please specify)” box for that question but I wanted it to be said.
    DFTBA

  • @xerk2945
    @xerk2945 Місяць тому +2

    I haven't read An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (I own it, just haven't read it yet) and I thought this was Hanks weird way of telling us he got a mammogram. 😂

  • @Colorcrayons
    @Colorcrayons Місяць тому +10

    Hell, I'm a guy, and I have clenched my pectoral within the confines of a door jam.

  • @MxEverybody
    @MxEverybody Місяць тому +27

    Hank… I believe you are in a unique position to do research on something no one else can do research on

  • @TheKingShyGuy.
    @TheKingShyGuy. Місяць тому +21

    AYEO why was I thinking about this quote yesterday??? I genuinely don’t remember why

  • @turingtestflunker
    @turingtestflunker Місяць тому

    It does happen. And it ABSOLUTELY makes you feel ridiculous

  • @rhiannamonahan6391
    @rhiannamonahan6391 Місяць тому

    Can’t believe it’s already census time!
    I have been filling out the census since 2014 when I was 13 years old and in school. I graduated medical school last summer and for the first time was able to put in that I had a degree, a full time job and a good income. Doing this each year makes me realise how much I’ve grown and changed. Here’s to another decade 🥳

  • @silverandexact
    @silverandexact Місяць тому +22

    I just finished rereading this book and it's AMAZING in every way but that line still bothered me. Of course it's thoroughly researched though. It's Hank Green. 😂

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Місяць тому +4

      It nvr bothered me, but ive done it, and not even with a slidin door. Im just dyspraxic and thus able to be clumsy in the most absurd of ways

    • @silverandexact
      @silverandexact Місяць тому +1

      @@SylviaRustyFae I think I also have dyspraxia (I'm Dx AuDHD) yet still can't imagine it. But brains and bodies are weird!

    • @SylviaRustyFae
      @SylviaRustyFae Місяць тому

      @@silverandexact If it helps, someone mentioned shape can be part of it too; and i think thats rly whats got me so screwed here
      I went three decades of my life without them, so those first few yrs with them i was more likely to just catch them on things in general. But also they arent at all close together; in fact, they cud not rly be further apart from each other, each sticks out slightly not just in front of me but also to my side; so if my arms not blockin it, its quite a lot easier to catch it in either direction
      I think the biggest factor tho is just that theyre smth i had to get used to bein there, and had three decades of exp of them not bein there playin against me when it came to my muscle memory
      Its a perfect storm with all those things, tho i also know ive seen plenty of other transfems talk about exps with smackin boobs way more than one rly wudve expected. Usually whilst also mentionin how euphoric it feels even tho it hurts a ton; its just, it hurts cuz theyre finally there to get in the way all the time

  • @callmesra
    @callmesra Місяць тому +34

    I mean… no bra and a sufficiently large bust would make it pretty possible, I think! I shockingly haven’t done this but it certainly didn’t strike me as odd, just made me think she must be fairly busty. Once you get past a certain size they just don’t stay in place very well outside of a well-fitted comfy bra!

    • @emilymartin5418
      @emilymartin5418 Місяць тому +7

      Reminds me of Dawn French being interviewed by Graham Norton years ago saying she felt sorry for people with small boobs because they won't ever have the experience of waking up with one in your armpit.

  • @Renastarsong
    @Renastarsong Місяць тому +1

    Boob in a door discourse cracks me up because, while never having caught my boob in a door, I can ABSOLUTELY imagine that happening. Have caught it in a drawer multiple times though. Would not recommend.

  • @davespriter
    @davespriter Місяць тому

    i have multiple friends with large enough followings that if they post basically anything about their lives, someone will be like “nah that didn’t happen.” it could be literally anything. it’s just funny at this point
    that said, i’d probably also have read that line, thought “well that’s a bit too zany” and then moved on with my life never knowing that anybody had ever experienced it. it’s fascinating that the internet is a technology through which we can learn about what body parts people have shut doors on. what a time to be alive

  • @emersonjakes8119
    @emersonjakes8119 Місяць тому +5

    Just finished re-listening to AART yesterday on Libby so I could finally listen to ABFE only to find out my library has a 38 person hold list on Libby for ABFE

    • @geeksdo1tbetter
      @geeksdo1tbetter Місяць тому +1

      Yo! You should have a Nerdfighteria meet up ... at your library!!

  • @salamanda11
    @salamanda11 Місяць тому +4

    As a small-boobed person, I find the prevalence of this occurrence very confusing.

  • @GamblingTimeKaraoke
    @GamblingTimeKaraoke Місяць тому

    Always look forward to census time! Thanks for the post work unwind activity!

  • @Yossus
    @Yossus Місяць тому

    Ever since I got the notification about this video, its title has been stuck in my head sung to the melody of Love is an open door

  • @naastyaaaaaaaaa
    @naastyaaaaaaaaa Місяць тому +7

    This is now my favorite video you've ever made.

  • @charlizepate
    @charlizepate Місяць тому +4

    I was just thinking about this literally yesterday, Hank. This is my second premonition proved right today.

  • @Philosina
    @Philosina Місяць тому

    Saw last years census video. First time participating today! I was so excited to click the link ^^

  • @graceisNERD
    @graceisNERD Місяць тому

    Filled out the census! Always love to see the data!

  • @stevegeorge6880
    @stevegeorge6880 Місяць тому +11

    Best title since the giraffe nookie videos

  • @MichiruEll
    @MichiruEll Місяць тому +3

    Back from census: the streaming services question is missing a "none" option :) We get all our Entertainment from youtube/twitch.
    Also the Veritasium question was extremely random. Also should have had options like "I've watched him before".

    • @theoriginaledi
      @theoriginaledi Місяць тому

      Right?? I love Veritasium but that question was extremely random and weird. I hope he explains it in the census debrief video.

    • @tomatenmagnet
      @tomatenmagnet Місяць тому

      +

  • @fishsticks2965
    @fishsticks2965 Місяць тому

    we need a new office tour! I love seeing how its been evolving over time and seeing all the changes, it looks so incredible and so you!

  • @clairemckinley691
    @clairemckinley691 Місяць тому +2

    I remember when I read this part in the book I got up and went to all the doors in my house seeing if I could shut my boob in them. It was a bit hard but possible, though I couldn’t imagine it happening to me by accident. I came to the conclusion that you have to have the right boobs and the right door coming together in the most wrong combination for it to work