Here at Never Sneezers International™ we would like to inform John Green that sneezing is, in fact, never normal. We never sneeze. We do not have to justify the times when we do sneeze .. because we never sneeze. John, if you need help for your severe sneezing problem, we can help.

@StarlightJosh

3 жыл бұрын

Omg

@nafii99

3 жыл бұрын

Are you guys bunch of Voldemorts?

@StarlightJosh

3 жыл бұрын

@@nafii99 oh yuh he has a strange nose

@JDSileo

3 жыл бұрын

And just like that we have a cult. #ThanksJohn

@marinar1380

3 жыл бұрын

@@nafii99 Hi Nafiul, here at Never Sneezers Int.™ we can neither confirm nor deny membership status, but we are non-partisan and accept wizards of all allegiances.

How often do you think about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge? Oh, you know, a normal amount. Thinking about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge isn't normal. I never think about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge.

@MalloryCorben

3 жыл бұрын

This… this is funny.

@DragonAbode

3 жыл бұрын

This has become the next link in the sneeze activated chain. If this situation continues to develop. It won’t be long before every single Green Brothers fan is locked in a paralysis of sneeze-induced, memory recall, of things that are not normal

@jadenfedorchak8335

3 жыл бұрын

Therapist: Doctor Neversneezer Scrooge isn't real, they can't hurt you. Doctor Neversneezer Scrooge:

@alihijazi4451

3 жыл бұрын

How often do you think about how much you think about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge? Oh, you know, a normal amount. Thinking about how much you think about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge is not normal. I never think about how much I think about Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge.

@Trainlevel2

3 жыл бұрын

You made a Neversneezer out of Neversneezer, and I'm wondering how far this rabbit hole goes... is it perhaps Neversneezer all the way down?

I clicked so fast when I saw the title. I've been thinking about "sneezing is not normal" for weeks.

@ireallyhatemakingupnamesfo1758

3 жыл бұрын

I haven't been thinking about it, because I NEVER sneeze

@ginaj1814

3 жыл бұрын

Same! I can't get it out of my mind.

@modestysnooze6154

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I am still thinking it.

@rebeccagee8894

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh! 😂😂 I saw the notification on my phone and the title and had to wait til my lunch at work to watch it! I sneeze a bit and I think of this question every time 😂🤣

@az-cv1ql

3 жыл бұрын

Same, same 😂

Here's my personal but profound take on sneezing. I don't have nearly any memories of my Grandpa left, but the one that somehow stuck with me was how loud he would sneeze. It would be boisterous, cartoonish, and prolonged. It would make me laugh, and one time I asked him why he sneezed like that. He told me "You don't sneeze very often, so you might as well make them count." It just captivated me, and I really like the message it brought with it.

@Yeah...NotReally

Жыл бұрын

Iconic

@wittywarbler1117

Жыл бұрын

i wonder what percent of his lifetime sneezes that he "made count?" 50%? 60%? we may never know.

@turquoisewitch.wild-owl

Жыл бұрын

LOL, my uncle sneezed that loudly, and I hated it and thought it was obnoxious! What did I do, I fell in love with someone who also ended up sneezing that way. I'm so grateful our children never inherited his sneeze, they got my quieter one! Whew!

@safaiaryu12

11 ай бұрын

My dad does this, too, though he never told me that excuse!

My parents were at a movie decades ago and a lady sneezed behind them. Her husband, rather loudly and rudely said "I told you not to sneeze!". It's been a running joke in the family since then.

@firiel2366

Жыл бұрын

"Nice, Ron!"

@lemonsAndFun

Жыл бұрын

@nrdkraft

Жыл бұрын

That would be a running joke among mine too if we had heard that, that may be the most laugh-inducing arrangement of words I have ever heard😂😂😂😂

@ButMadNNW626

Жыл бұрын

A couple years back, I sneezed in the middle of family dinner and my sister snapped, “Stop that!” Me: 🤨 To this day, neither of us know what she was thinking to prompt such a reaction. Did she interpret it as me interrupting the conversation or saying something snarky? No idea.

@azorthegreat2112

11 ай бұрын

Maby it was the doctor 🤷‍♂️

I never sneeze. Sneezing is not normal. However, occasionally I exhale just that little bit faster than typical.

@lonestarr1490

3 жыл бұрын

With eyes closed, obviously.

@miriam4235

3 жыл бұрын

I hope this is what I think about every time I sneeze in stead of the doctor.

@charliespinoza1966

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@curiousnerdkitteh

3 жыл бұрын

Is sneezing on a continuum? How fast does it have to be to be a sneeze? And in that case, are we considering time to be relative or not?

@livaliberte4275

3 жыл бұрын

That somehow seems worse

“Sneeze-adjacent phenomenon” seems like an obscure yet devastating insult

@TJStellmach

3 жыл бұрын

"No, YOU'RE a sneeze-adjacent phenomenon!"

@ManInJapan

3 жыл бұрын

Also a good band name

@francescafrancesca3554

3 жыл бұрын

@@ManInJapan JAJAJ! You're correct!

@katietoole8345

3 жыл бұрын

Or a solid name for a ska band.

@fuzzythoughts8020

3 жыл бұрын

"The words coming out of your mouth sound like some kind of sneeze adjacent phenomenon"

To counteract the “Sneezing is not normal”, I have a distinct memory of in kindergarten, I was chilling on the playground with my friend, and I sneezed 🤧 She jokingly said “the more you sneeze, the more I like you. The more times that a person sneezes, the more that I like them”. So even up until this day, sometimes when I sneeze, I remember that moment. 😆

When I was a little kid I thought that 'breathe through your nose' was some weird adult joke that I didn't get because you can't breathe through your nose, that's not how noses work. I may have had really bad allergies as a kid... 😂

@daledickey8400

3 жыл бұрын

Were your parents smokers? Mine whole family smoked, I was always congested, after I moved out it cleared up.

@Hawkeye446

3 жыл бұрын

@@daledickey8400 Nope, just normal allergies. Dogs, cats, pollen, dust, sulphur, cockroaches, mold, that kind of stuff. 😂

@qpSubZeroqp

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hawkeye446 wait, allergy to cockroach?

@dampintellect

3 жыл бұрын

@@Hawkeye446 A little bit of black mold there, some birds nesting in the wall, a small overwhelming bird mite infestation. the normal stuff.

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

@@qpSubZeroqp Fun fact: If you go to an allergist, there's a 99.9% chance they'll test you for allergy to cockroaches. It's very routine to do. I know this because I'm allergic to cockroaches; I only found out because my allergist tested me. When I asked her WHY???, she said it's an extremely common allergy to have. Who knew (aside from allergists)? *shrug*

John, it’s worse. On the pod you read that it was their ALLERGIST!

@KiwiVlogs

3 жыл бұрын

+ !!

@avamasquerade

3 жыл бұрын

Well now their medicalization of a stupid human thing makes more sense...

@emcaco

3 жыл бұрын

Has this doctor never been in a dusty attic If they sneeze do they think it's haunted

@themaskedmysadaean8885

3 жыл бұрын

@@emcaco Not likely; they'd probably think you're allergic to dust, which isn't unreasonable, but one doesn't need a weakened or odd immune system or lungs to be allergic to dust or mold. They're fundamentally things your lungs don't need.

@davec8385

3 жыл бұрын

+

This reminds me of someone I used to work with, who repeatedly claimed that they "never got sick". It was attributed in part to some supplement they took. They would get stomach bugs which were attributed to food poisoning (so it doesn't count somehow), and then they would get colds and flus which they would bring to work and claim were allergies. "It's so weird, I wonder what I am suddenly allergic to in the middle of January in New York City. And I almost feel like I have a fever!" And then everyone in the office would catch their "allergies" and I would end up with some horrible lingering bronchitis because I have a primary immunodeficiency disease. Good times!

@ShelbyKDT

3 жыл бұрын

Ah jeeze. That sounds horrible.

@ryanlangan1060

2 жыл бұрын

I find it endlessly fascinating how people will lie to themselves in order to avoid a truth, or maybe to try to manifest an outcome?

@reidleblanc3140

Жыл бұрын

MLM

@key37raminus

Жыл бұрын

..... that's sad.

Here’s my explanation: the doctor needed their patient to be more specific and quickly came up with a way of explaining that there is no “normal” amount of sneezing. They were probably having a tough day at work or didn’t get enough sleep. Because of that, they oversimplified their explanation to the point where it became a hilarious lie.

@stevenpetrillo9527

Жыл бұрын

No. It was clearly malicious. Specifically to infect us all with their mind parasites.

@rileylittleraven

Жыл бұрын

That's a plausible, if troubling, explanation for the "not normal" statement, but I don't think it covers the likes of "I never sneeze.". It's too confident and self-assured.

@lostinc6791

Жыл бұрын

My theory is she missheard the doctor lol he was trying to make a point about his degrees.. and she heard I never sneeze lol

@saber1epee0

Жыл бұрын

Now THAT is an Hamartia of Generosity

@gomjabbar6246

Жыл бұрын

@@rileylittleraven I seem to remember that doctors work crazy shifts, especially in hospital settings because there is a statistically significant increase in mortality for every change of responsibility of patient care.

They’ve turned the AFC Wimbledon stadium into a vaccination centre and I got my shot there and I felt proud to be a Nerdfighter ☺️

@vlogbrothers

3 жыл бұрын

Yay!!! I'm so glad you got your shot, and that you got to see Plough Lane! I hope you'll have a chance to see a game there next season! I want to see the stadium so badly. -John

@viviantompkins7925

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so cool! 💙

@weslee104

3 жыл бұрын

that’s awesome!!

@knitterknerd

3 жыл бұрын

This is a beautiful story!

When I heard this, I immediately started a cross stitch that says “It’s not normal to sneeze.” I was going to send it to John, but I started to worry that too much time had passed, and he would have basically forgotten about the whole thing. I see that I was incorrect.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

3 жыл бұрын

There's never a bad time to send someone a cross-stitch.

@nicoka484

3 жыл бұрын

Ngl he would probably love it at anytime

@grumblefkitty

3 жыл бұрын

What would be best is if he did forget about doctor neversneezer Scrooge, and your cross stitch reminded him. 😉

@rosequill7925

3 жыл бұрын

Now I also want to cross stitch this and give it to my mom who has really bad allergies. Thank you for the idea!

@annetteberkin2725

3 жыл бұрын

Please tell me you stitched it on a handkerchief for when he sneezes?

When I was in Fourth Grade, a female classmate said "I never fart," and I believed her. I thought about her not farting every time I farted for at least a year after that. I forgot about this until now with your "I never sneeze" story.

@theartist_harlivi

3 жыл бұрын

I used to do my best to never ever fart, burp etc until I was in late 20's. It all would have come out in sleep though. I was/am pretty sick now. It's all very natural and when you stop your bodies natural processes things start to wrong. Thankfully I've gotten used to the fact everyone has to burp, fart and go to the toilet lol

@kpancost

3 жыл бұрын

My mom truly believed that my sister, who had muscular dystrophy and was in a wheelchair, could not fart. I have no idea why, as I had heard her fart plenty of times, but for some reason mom believed this until Robyn was in her twenties.

@LisaJPStuff

3 жыл бұрын

My Nan wanted us to believe that she never ever farted, I'm the stupid grandchild that always wanted to argue with her that she must because it's a perfectly natural bodily function, but she'd just glower at me. 😆

@chilicheesevlog

2 жыл бұрын

As children our mom told us she never farted and had never farted, so naturally my sister and I both have (very different 😂) recollections of the “first” time(s) she did so and you best believe they both involve us running to anyone who would listen and shouting at them that our mom had finally farted 😂

@Bushwhacker-so4yk

2 жыл бұрын

@@theartist_harlivi I *wish* I never had to burp, fart, or go to the toilet, haha.

I just sneezed and instead of just thinking about Dr NeverSneezer Scrooge, I thought about this video talking about thinking about her. This isn’t the layers I wanted in my life.

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

Lol. I just re-watched this video because I couldn't remember why it had that odd title. I'd already forgotten. X)

@SecretSquirrelFun

2 жыл бұрын

Very meta

@BenjaminAlexander

Жыл бұрын

layers for warmth...

Makes me think of that John Mulaney bit where he says "The things crazy people say mean nothing to them, but they mean EVERYTHING to me"

@karyon1007

3 жыл бұрын

+++++

@m.w.kaplan447

2 жыл бұрын

yeah this

@sneakyjackson5271

2 жыл бұрын

“Hello? Hush!” * hangs up phone *

The one dislike is someone with terrible allergies.

@YourMamas

3 жыл бұрын

Omg that’s what I’ve thought

@namitaseshadri2638

3 жыл бұрын

or from scrooge mcneversneeze or whatever

@urmomlovesclover206

3 жыл бұрын

SORRY THEY LIKED IT IM SCREAMING

@ChiefIceCube

3 жыл бұрын

2 dislikes

@malup1117

3 жыл бұрын

Lol I have terrible allergies but I love this vid 😂

I read this as "snoozing is normal" and felt validated for a second

@JukeboxTheGhoul

Жыл бұрын

Snoozing is normal! Sleep well!

Hey I just want to say that the day that the episode featuring Dr. NeverSneeze was one of the worst days of my life up to this point. I was driving across country with my mom and our cat had medical complications in the car and passed away before we could get her to an emergency vet. Your podcast was the one bright spark in that horrible day and made us laugh until we cried. I hope you guys know the impact that you make on people's lives.

@seabb

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry for the loss of your cat :( losing a pet is always hard but the fact it happened like that must have been heartbreaking. hope you're doing better now 💕

@sortasamm

3 жыл бұрын

@@seabb still have hard days, but doing my best to remember the best parts of the ten years we had her.

The "sneezing is not normal" thought is itself spreading contagiously among the inhabitants of this planets. So fittingly meta.

Leave it to John green to make a goofy story about a doctor who claims to never sneeze into an existential question about what we pay attention to. I love it! Good work!

@gailrawson682

3 жыл бұрын

And this is why I love him. He is like a deeply thoughtful and genuinely likable Felix Unger

@EarlGreyCrochet

3 жыл бұрын

++

So, true story; I had to watch this again after sneezing. Something occured to me. You are concerned about making the world somehow worse by perhaps making us concerned about sneezing. What you have actually done instead is bring incredible mirth to our lives by sharing the amazing "Neversneezer Scrooge" nickname. What a delight. I'll think about it and smile everytime I sneeze.

What gets me about the doctor story is that Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge didn't offer some kind of study or medical reason for thinking sneezing isn't normal. It was just "I never sneeze," which comes across as anecdotal at best and a bizarre flex at worst. I hope Sarah found a new doctor after that. That sounds like the kind of guy who would recommend his own proprietary "anti-sneeze" nutrition supplements to his patients.

@reidleblanc3140

Жыл бұрын

This is how essentially all doctors work. Studies don't exist. Real experiences don't exist. Only their own headcanons.

@William0271

Жыл бұрын

Are you dense? People don't memorize sources for everything they know. It's not surprising the doctor wouldn't think it's normal if they barely do it and unless specifically asked for one, they wouldn't have a source ready and even so they certainly wouldn't have it memorized. You sound like the type to go "SoUrCe? SoUrCe?" anytime someone makes a basic statement like "The weather looks nice the evening" or "Lightning usually proceeds rain"

@paigemama5904

Жыл бұрын

He also never menstruates so

Nursing student here. I’m gonna go with the notion that remembering Dr Never Sneezer Scrooge will remind me that what I say, no matter how insignificant it may seem to me, could stick with my patient’s in ways I never thought. So, maybe you’ve made my nursing practice a little better. There’s that.

@GTaichou

3 жыл бұрын

As someone one week out from a procedure where my whole team has overly-casually made comments that have hiked my anxiety since, thank you for being so considerate in your practice. ❤️

@-Me_

3 жыл бұрын

Ty for ur future doctor services. Dont worry, covid will still be here when u are a master of ur field

@johnlewis8934

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good way of looking at it

@comettripper

Жыл бұрын

@@GTaichou hope it went well♡

@Sleepless_Sam

Жыл бұрын

o7

Finally. Someone brave enough to say it!

@spidunno

Жыл бұрын

cant believe it

If everybody stopped sneezing it would probably take a long time for anyone to notice.

@celinepope

3 жыл бұрын

It's like the Netflix movie "Awake" but with sneezing...

@jek__

3 жыл бұрын

It would probably take until the next allergy season at the most, and I would bet much sooner. There are people who deal with sneezing very regularly. For example people who are allergic to a certain type of pet who have a friend or family member or family member of a friend who owns one of those pets. I'd say if everybody stopped sneezing it would take at most 48 hours for the whole world to be aware

@ShelbyKDT

3 жыл бұрын

We would at least become aware when we start NOT expelling things to which our bodies think we're allergic. And then people start dying from inhaling dirt.

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

I typically sneeze a few times a day, so I think I'd notice within 24-48 hours that I hadn't sneezed and look for a reason why.. I'm sure I'm not alone. We chronically sneezy people would alert the rest of you pretty quickly. Lol :)

@PersonMann

2 жыл бұрын

@@xzonia1 yeah, same situation here. i don’t think a couple days go by on which I never sneeze at all. so for people like me it’d be pretty quick to notice.

This doesn’t in any way solve the attention economy problem, but I don’t think you made the world worse by sharing Sarah’s story. Sneezing and thinking of you and many nerdfighters being baffled when you sneeze makes me laugh every time I sneeze. And that has made me feel less alone in a time of relative isolation.

This is the new "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

@papalosopher

3 жыл бұрын

The things you hear in an IHOP, eh?

@knitterknerd

3 жыл бұрын

My brother's response to that bit was, "I've watched anime, I've heard much weirder sentences."

@deactivated-78936

3 жыл бұрын

you just unlocked a memory of that quote I forgot I had

@Narrator007

3 жыл бұрын

@@deactivated-78936 Just try not to wind up dead in a bathtub in three days, okay? ;)

@stickyfeet7

3 жыл бұрын

i was thinking exactly that the whole time i was watching this video!!!

The title alone tells me this is going to be a classic

NeverSneezer Scrooge 1:32 I’m just remembering there is a scene in “A Christmas Carol” where Scrooge sneezes after being visited by three ghost. Earlier Mrs. Cratchit had remarked that Scrooge was too miserly to even sneeze.

Was playing this in the background and had an Involuntary “what?!” As soon as I heard “sneeze denying physician.” I’m sorry to say you have perpetuated the problem, but thank you.

me and my fellow people with spring allergies just out here like damn

@LustStarrr

3 жыл бұрын

Cat allergies too, & probably everyone else who experiences allergic rhinitis!

@lourobin5927

3 жыл бұрын

damn, only spring? mine last from march til spetember

@justjukka

3 жыл бұрын

My allergies make me cough :(

@LustStarrr

3 жыл бұрын

@@justjukka - that must suck during COVID!

@Jemdawg1000

3 жыл бұрын

big facts. also love you man

Here’s something that fundamentally changed my sneezing experience forever: In 2012 I started a vlog inspired by the Green Bros, and in one of my videos I sneezed while filming. I thought it was funny, so left it in. I then started to get some weird comments on that video (like “ur pretty, more sneezing plz”) at which point I realised my video had been put on a playlist called Pretty Girls Sneeze, which was primarily incredibly short videos of girls sneezing. Then I started to get private messages offering me money in exchange for videos of myself sneezing. I did not respond (missed side hustle?). Now whenever I sneeze I think about how I essentially inadvertently made sneeze porn.

@rs3rd464

3 жыл бұрын

Now I want to look up this video. This better not awaken anything in me.

@mlemleh

3 жыл бұрын

@@rs3rd464 Bahaha! “This better not awaken anything in me” is definitely a phrase I will be stealing for future use.

@zolacnomiko

3 жыл бұрын

Man there's a lot of weird out there....

@ultimasurge

3 жыл бұрын

@@zolacnomiko this isn't even a bubble on the top of the bottomless abyss of weird that exists in reality. take solace in knowing you most likely will die never knowing how weird things are.

@osmium3691

3 жыл бұрын

@@mlemleh I believe "This better not awaken anything in me" is a quote from Community. Also, taking random women's sneezing videos and compiling them together sounds incredibly creepy. As well as messaging women to ask for more

Doctor NeverSneezerScrooge: "I never sneeze" Doctor Membrane: "NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!!!!"

@halfwayinfinate6342

3 жыл бұрын

I have been awaiting the day to find such a reference in a KZread comments section, I was there was another movie it was so great

I ❤️ that you said making the podcast is the highlight of your week because it’s two uninterrupted hours that you get to spend with your brother.

I was listening to the pod with my boyfriend and during that bit he SNEEZED 5 TIMES!! let me tell you, I was very concerned on account of how it's NEVER NORMAL TO SNEEZE

I have a chronic illness and can heartily agree that I dislike how many times a doctor has said something completely preposterous to my face - and how much that's stuck with me!

@crypticmedicine

Жыл бұрын

Fellow chronic illness club member here, that's rough buddy. 🫂 Hope you're doing ok!

@jmackmcneill

Жыл бұрын

"The discharge from the wound cannot be blood, therefore it is not bright red."... an actual thing said by a surgeon reading from the textbook about a condition he had never heard of before the consult about a condition that NORMALLY leaks pink fluid.

@reidleblanc3140

Жыл бұрын

yes!!! the amount of times doctors have told me completely FALSE information or obviously tuned me out for entire appointments... Just last week I had an appointment where a doctor had basically made an alternate-universe headcanon of me who had completely different symptoms and refused to be corrected.

It finally happened. I sneezed just now, and immediately heard John's voice in my head saying, "sneezing is not normal".

I have had a similar experience, near where I live, there's a "Used Cows For Sale" sign - for many years, google had no answer for me. It was at least a decade before google gave me an answer to this question of "What makes a cow 'used'?" and even after I know - every time I see a cow, I immediately think of that dumb sign.

@kaity2775

3 жыл бұрын

But what was the answer

“The average person sneezes" factoid is actually just statistical error. average person sneezes 0 times per year. Sarah, who wrote this letter and sneezes over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

@rukbat3

3 жыл бұрын

This needs more upvotes.

@salama931

3 жыл бұрын

+

@pintpullinggeek

3 жыл бұрын

Are we using "factoid" here in its proper literal sense? (i.e. a piece of unreliable information that has been repeated so often it becomes believed to be fact.)

@jmz1736

3 жыл бұрын

Sneezes georg

@yael9455

3 жыл бұрын

God, I miss spider Georg. He was the pinnacle of meme culture. No meme has succeeded in making me as happy as he has since.

My two unforgettable favorites from Dear Hank and John are “Sneezing isn’t normal. I never sneeze.” and the person who secretly learned the violin.

@redballetbun

3 жыл бұрын

How could you forget Ryan?

@MattPalka

3 жыл бұрын

It definitely goes into the bit hall of fame for DH+J. Some bits just deeply stick.

@barryroxmisox

3 жыл бұрын

beccabeccaboo Oh I didn’t forget Ryan, lol. I enjoyed that callback in this week’s episode. Ryan is a solid third place for me hahaha

@MattPalka

3 жыл бұрын

@@barryroxmisox Hahahahaha get in line, Ryan.

@weirdral

3 жыл бұрын

I always hoped Pia would write back and let us know what happened with the secret violin lessons, but I don't know if she ever did.

I think what we casually pass as "normal" can become really weird from certain perspectives. Like when "normal" people have no problem reading graphs in specific hues of yellow and green, and I'm like "they're the SAME COLOR! How can you tell them apart!" Then I go on drinking a glass of milk, which I can digest, no biggie, only to find out that I am the mutant. Not my friend who gets gassy just from watching me consume dairy. If this is a simulation, we're still in Early Access.

@benfromthesewers1688

9 ай бұрын

Late but. Why some people can drink milk and some can't comes down to evolution. In europe huge population can drink milk, especially countries with big milk culture where almost everyone can drink milk but in america many can't especially black people so americans sometimes tend to add digestive milk enzymes to some milk products. That's not all! Let's go to oceania and there's group of people thanks to evolution can hold breath under water for more than 5 + minutes! how crazy is that?! Evolution is amazing.

John, I put off watching this video for over a month (despite watching all of your videos promptly since 2007) because I so deeply disagreed with its title and I didn't want the knowledge that sneezing might not be normal to be in my brain. The crazy thing is that even though I didn't watch it, the knowledge stuck anyway and bugged me every time I sneezed for the last month! And so today I finally watched your video and it turns out the phenomenon you discuss is even more potent than you could possibly imagine. Somehow this insidious idea made its way from your unwatched video and into my sneezing. I don't know what that means but it turns out you should be more scared of it than you were before. So you're welcome for that.

@marthawilkinson3238

2 жыл бұрын

Well dont worry!! I just googled it and apparently if you sneeze up to 4 times a day you're normal 😂😂

SNEEZING IS NOT NORMAL I NEVER SNEEZE- an actual physician

@sjoerdvanbavel6043

3 жыл бұрын

An actual physician, who went to medical school and was employed by the medical institute attended, said this. I can't even

@scittw22

3 жыл бұрын

Sometimes idiots are good at passing tests. These idiots can unfortunately be in many fields including medicine

@WhaleTank

3 жыл бұрын

What is worse was that she was an allergist!

@TaunellE

3 жыл бұрын

I sneeze alot alot every day.

@namitaseshadri2638

3 жыл бұрын

@@TaunellE that’s not normal. I never sneeze!

this makes me think of how one time, a popular youtuber told me that he intentionally mispronounces or misspells a word in every video so that people would correct him in the comments and that would increase the engagement and thus the views. and since i heard that, i notice so many popular creators doing it all the time and i wonder if it's intentional and i can never just shrug and go "hmm, guess they learned that word by reading it" anymore and i hate it.

@RedSunT

3 жыл бұрын

oof. thanks for sharing, i guess ...

@autumnshaymartin

3 жыл бұрын

Don't be shy. What's his name

@dcd2994

3 жыл бұрын

Is this Babish and his saucepin

@annafantasia

3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god this is brilliant though, I didn't know this was a thing. (But I also am always pleased when I think a person probably learned a word by reading it, so maybe now I will be disappointed too... we shall see)

@vlogbrothers

3 жыл бұрын

Y wood a youtuber do that? ust to incrase engagment for the algorhythm? -Jon

2:25 “Grease 2 is the canonical Grease movie” - OK, I’m definitely going to be thinking about this for far longer than it deserves. Grease 2 is clearly the *superior* Grease movie. But if it’s *the canonical* Grease movie - does that mean that the events of the first movie aren’t considered to have occurred in Grease 2’s timeline? Is Grease accepted by only part of the Grease fandom, making it deuterocanonical? Is there a Frenchy/Rizzo fandom schism?

@dawncathlene

2 жыл бұрын

I scrolled until I found someone mention Grease 2. And you very clearly have good Grease taste. It's unapologetically the better of the two.

I once had a doctor tell me you can’t have an allergy to mold. Takes all kinds, I guess.

John Green: insipid comments stick in my brain far more than uplifting or helpful information. Also John Green: [can recite 18 inspiring poems in their entirety from memory]

@kunzerrc

3 жыл бұрын

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@dcd2994

3 жыл бұрын

Can he? I remember a DH&J where he said he looks them up as required

@Efflorescentey

3 жыл бұрын

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@hannahkeely9889

3 жыл бұрын

Also a lot of people's last words. Though some of those are kinda crazy.

@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721

3 жыл бұрын

@@hannahkeely9889 There's a reason "Honeybun, how do I look in the face?" sticks with you.

As someone with ACHOO syndrome (yes, it's a real thing), it's hard to remember that not everyone sneezes every time they walk from an area of dim light to an area of bright light.

I’m coming up on two years of this knowledge that sneezing is not normal and that somewhere, someone never sneezes. And has my life been dramatically different? No. But it has been different.

When I was a kid I heard that someone had the hiccups for 68 years. Every time I get a semi-long bout of hiccups, I think maybe this is the time I just never stop hiccupping.

I have NEVER clicked on a notification so fast. "Sneezing isn't normal, I never sneeze" lives in my brain RENT FREAKING FREE.

new conspiracy theory dropped: sneezing is what happens when ghosts punch us.

@ClimbaRock5

3 жыл бұрын

I buy it

@turoni314

3 жыл бұрын

So we feel ghost punches coming a bit before but sometimes they sneak up on us?

@phosphenevision

3 жыл бұрын

Boy I sure am haunted

@berrybread7215

3 жыл бұрын

@@turoni314 Yes, they have versatile methods.

@gailrawson682

3 жыл бұрын

As someone with HORRIBLE sinuses, I would love for that to be true! Being a ghost must be terribly frustrating, after all.

Let’s go ahead and add “whispering ‘this is not normal’ after every sneeze” to the list of weird stuff I do/say because internet. Thanks internet!

@justincenter4061

3 жыл бұрын

I have trained mysef to say "pika" before I sneeze. My life is 100 times better since I started doing this.

It’s been almost two years and not a day goes by that I don’t think to myself “sneezing is not normal, I never sneeze.”

I just want to see a cartoon villain shouting with wrath I NEVER SNEEZE

@deekshas3936

3 жыл бұрын

Okay why did I read this in the voice of the Hulk?? I can totally picture this scene in Thor: Ragnarok: Thor teasing Hulk about something related to sneezing and Hulk screaming "I NEVER SNEEZE RAAAAHHHRRR"

@benvoliothefirst

3 жыл бұрын

@@deekshas3936 Seems like something Skeletor would say. Technically, since he doesn't have nostrils...

@vinicius99157

3 жыл бұрын

@@benvoliothefirst that would be awesome

@bricabroccoli

3 жыл бұрын

Or Jupiter Ascending's Balem! I can very nearly literally hear it when I picture it. It just seems right

@daneelcayce

3 жыл бұрын

**grumbles in "writing a superhero story and now I gotta do this"**

I heard the "sneezing is not normal" clip and it got me to listen to the podcast, and it has been a great comfort in the month that has followed, and I've now listened to about 90 episodes, so while sharing the doctor's statement may have made the world marginally worse, it also introduced new people to a wonderful podcast, making the world marginally better.

10 years ago, I was diagnosed with a bad heart and had a defibrilator implanted in my chest. Since that time, I will periodically get nauseous and then sneeze. It's not real nausea like from an upset tummy. I've learned to tell the difference. None of my doctors understand it other than to say some of my wires got crossed. Seriously.

@kjpcgaming9296

Жыл бұрын

Having had a stent put in my aorta - now nearly 8 years ago I can completely identify with having the doctors' idiotic self indulgences put in your head whilst they're purportedly saving your life. Everything from the anesthesiologist fancying himself a comedian just before you're about to have a surgery with a 50/50 chance of survival to the surgeon coming in the room for the first time and asking "why didn't the other hospital do this surgery immediately"! OMG.

@Kira_Martel

Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh, I have this too. I don't have a heart condition, but I do get a little wiggly wave of nausea which triggers a sneeze. I've tried researching it before, but could only find info about people who sneeze after eating, on a full stomach. Mine was the opposite, I noticed it was happening when my stomach was completely empty. My hypothesis was that it had something to do with blood sugar, but then I thought it was maybe a vagal nerve reflex kinda thing.

@davidlewis1787

Жыл бұрын

Weirdly, I get hay fever and sometimes I feel like I need to sneeze but it doesn’t quite get there which is annoying if it happens a lot… I tap my chest over my heart which makes the sneeze come, maybe it’s linked it has always intrigued me as to why it works

@danielguy3581

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, but I find the phrasing "I was diagnosed with a bad heart" hilarious. Like: "oh no, doctor! What is wrong with it?" Dr.: "Well, you know, it's just not very good, now, is it"

Is it also possible that this person really hasn't ever sneezed? Something just is not functional in their system and the sneeze response doesn't work? I know there are some who sneeze when they get too full, and some who sneeze at sudden exposure to sunlight so.... why not the opposite? A lack of sneezing. Or the dude was weird.

@poshun9407

3 жыл бұрын

My guess is that the patient didn't remember exactly what the doctor said to them. We are also hearing the story at least 3rd hand. Humans are really bad at remembering.

@AquaFrangi

3 жыл бұрын

I sneeze when I brush my hair 😂 the pulling sensation of my hair/scalp makes me sneeze every time lol

@key37raminus

Жыл бұрын

I'm thinking of this too, what if there is actually a person with this symptom? Unable to sneeze. But why would they become a doctor, and nurture the belief that there must be something wrong with EVERYONE ELSE IN THE PLANET, and that sneezing is not normal?

@Envy_May

Жыл бұрын

couldn't it just have been hyperbolic lol, like if the patient was asking something like "how many times a week/month is the normal amount of sneezing" and the doctor being like "it's normal not to do so at all" - "i never sneeze" to mean "i don't sneeze regularly", not "i have never sneezed once in my life"

The fact that so many of us now have the exact same thought everytime we sneeze makes me feel even more a part of this community in a way that is wonderfully weird and weirdly wonderful.

I sneezed in the shower and thought "sneezing is not normal, I NEVER sneeze" and then about the washing the calves guy. These people are in my brain because of Hank and John Edit: John, you didn't make my life worse by sharing, you made it more hilarious

@vlogbrothers

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry. -John

@thedoctor2351

3 жыл бұрын

@@vlogbrothers Please don't be sorry, things like this make existence less painful. Keep spreading stuff like this, please

@anthonythomas7167

3 жыл бұрын

wait, there's an actual person who says it's not necessary to wash your lower legs?

@GigaBoost

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonythomas7167 of course you don't have to, the water rinses down there anyway

@thatjillgirl

3 жыл бұрын

@@anthonythomas7167 I don't usually do a focused wash of my legs because they get washed by the run-off from washing other parts of my body when I shower every day. But that's different from saying that they just don't need any kind of periodic cleansing.

"Sneeze adjacent phenomenon" is now a phrase I have at my disposal. Thanks!

I'm constantly trying to make people around me listen to Dear Hank and John because I need someone to understand these references 😂 Like when I say Ryan 13 times or give people a look of dread when they sneeze. God I love your podcast, it's such a source of joy to me!

I’m calling it now: “A Sneeze-Adjacent Phenomenon” is absolutely the title of John’s next book.

@ManInJapan

3 жыл бұрын

It is definitely the surprise sequel to a beautifully foolish endeavour.

@MalloryCorben

3 жыл бұрын

I need it on a DFTBA shirt. P4A Perk? Pizzamas! Sneezamas!?

I've been so concious of my sneezes since I've heard that story from the podcast and I'm honestly so surprised that I've sneezed ONLY ONCE since then!! I consider myself a proud sneezer and I thought I've been an above average sneezer all my life but this revelation has me shattered

@vlogbrothers

3 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness you sneezed at least once; otherwise you'd be wondering if the podcast made you into a neversneezer! :) -John

@gaudaddy

3 жыл бұрын

@@vlogbrothers omg no! That would've been awful

@sarahvasquez8552

3 жыл бұрын

Which podcast episode was it??

@gaudaddy

3 жыл бұрын

@@sarahvasquez8552 episode 290

hi John, I've been a huge fan of you and your brother for years and I've tried to reach out a few times. I don't think you ever saw my comments which is understandable considering you get quite a lot of them. I don't need for you to see this -it's enough just to be able to read your books and watch your videos- but on the off chance you do see this, I just want to say thank you for creating characters I can relate to, thank you for making a community here on KZread where I -and so many others- can feel safe and at home, if even for the average 3-5 minutes. you and your brother have had such a large and important role in my childhood and you both do so much good for so many people. I'm proud to be a nerdfighter and I'm just glad I get to exist at the same time you and Hank do. DFTBA -Alex

when i sneezed once two days ago i started crying and never stopped because i knew not a single soul on this earth could accept me for committing such a horrific act

i am actually reminded of an old lewis black bit when he talks about overhearing a statement that stuck in his brain, "If it weren't for my horse I wouldnt have spent that year in college"

@shandiw7749

3 жыл бұрын

And this reminds me of a Paul F. Tompkins bit where him and his friends overheard a guy say "As soon as I get my 200 bucks - I'm outta here like Steve Martin!" and them never being able to figure what the hell he was referencing.

@TerminalThiccness

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that one too! Along with that line from 'Point of No Return' "I never did mind the little things." I think that damn phrase EVERY time I'm angry and ready spit tacks as somone.

@Efflorescentey

3 жыл бұрын

If anyone’s not seen it: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aWd7rcqIp8u2qtY.html

You can tell that “sneezing isn’t normal, I never sneeze” has wormed its way into his brain, cause this is the third time I’ve seen John talk about it outside the podcast.

@rugvedkulkarni1593

3 жыл бұрын

You remember what the other two cases were?

@evanbrooks1926

3 жыл бұрын

@@rugvedkulkarni1593 I believe they made a few TikToks about it.

Now instead of thinking of this doctor, I’ll think of how easy it is to get misinformation stuck in my head. That’s a pretty great thing to be aware of every time I sneeze. Thanks Hank. You used the attention economy for good 🙌🏽😂

I do appreciate you telling me about this, because it has remind me about the existence of Dear Hank and John, which I have started listening to and enjoying. So thanks for telling me that sneezing is not normal. It's made my days a bit brighter.

This has singlehandedly ruined the last 46 days of my life

John: this anecdote has burrowed into my brain and refuses to leave, oh dear. Also John: Hello one million people, let me tell you a story.

@lorenmanchester1778

2 жыл бұрын

This is what I thought too

I had a chiropractor tell me when you walk, your suppose to touch your toe to the ground first, then your heel. He claimed to walk this way. To this day I sometimes try walking by touching my toe down first, but it's just not how ANYONE walks

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

Ballet dancers might walk this way, but the rest of us, no. Lol

I love that, now that I am watching this video again, I remember having seen it before and thinking about how I would probably have the story live rent free in my brain, YET now I know that it did not. Even recently hearing the same person say "sneezing isn't normal, I never sneeze" in a different video was not enough to bring this back to my conscious memory. Will I forget this again? Time will tell, but if so, I may never again know what time had to say.

"Dr. Never Sneezes Scrooge". The best.

@joaquinplacides2

3 жыл бұрын

(help i don't get it :

@smfrie82

3 жыл бұрын

@@joaquinplacides2 NeverSneezer* sounds like Ebenezer, Scrooge's first name

"I never sneeze" is the scariest phrase I've ever heard in my life

@dsteere2303

3 жыл бұрын

Especially coming from an allergist!

Few days after that podcast, my told me that one doctor (obgyn) in a TV program said that period pain isn't normal. I think they were classmates. Now I think about them both, when I sized and when I'm on my period. It's time to find and optometrist that says that not having a 20/20 vision isn't normal.

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

I am not an optometrist, but having 20/20 vision isn't normal. Only 35% of adults have 20/20 vision naturally (without taking corrective measures). 20/20 is just a measurement ... how well do you see something 20 feet away from you? If you see it at the "standard" visual acuity level, you have 20/20 vision. If you see it as well as others typically see things at 50 feet away, you have 20/50 vision (ie you're near sighted ... see things up close well but not far away). Conversely, a person with 20/15 vision can see objects at 20 feet that a person with 20/20 vision can only see at 15 feet (so you see farther away easier than the standard; you're far sighted). Also, it's not normal to have pain with periods, though most people will say it is normal. It's a very common experience, but it's not normal. The pain is a sign that something is wrong. Most women do experience pain at least sometimes. The most common form of pain on periods is cramping. We cramp because we don't normally exercise those muscles except when on our period. I had horrific period pain most of my life until a doctor finally fixed the problem for me a few years ago. I had excessive lining and a cyst. She removed both, and I've been pain-free for the past few years, thankfully. Either might grow back, but so far I'm fine. The suffering wasn't necessary, but my whole life people told me period pain was normal, even some doctors, so I never tried to get it fixed; I didn't think it could be fixed. I wish I could go back and tell myself as a teen you CAN fix this! All that suffering for nothing. To prevent cramps, exercise more. The more you use those muscles in everyday life, the less likelihood you'll cramp while having your period. That's not a guarantee, though, as too much exercise can also cause muscle cramps. :/ However, sneezing is a normal response to environmental stimuli. The doctor who said it's not normal is wrong, or the story got skewed somewhere along the way from what the doctor had actually meant and became this meme.

Okay, I had only read the title of this video until now, and yesterday I sneezed a LOT (for me, like maybe 5 times??) and I could not stop thinking about this video title. Now here I am. Well done.

Maybe to balance out people like me, who sneeze constantly, special humans are born who can't sneeze. But what if they want to sneeze? Maybe "sneezing is not normal" is actually cry for help?

@andreefontenot8035

3 жыл бұрын

YES! “Normal” IS a statistical term; it’s the middle of the Bell Curve. So if you’re three standard deviations from normal, then Dr NeverSneezer Scrooge is too, in the other direction.

I’ve never felt more part of an “in crowd” than when recognizing this podcast reference, which has been haunting me ever since it’s release. I fear I will never be the same.

@jillnelson7

3 жыл бұрын

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@hannahkeely9889

3 жыл бұрын

I only recently started listening to the podcast and I also follow them both on TikTok. It's been really strange to hear how much they talk about the same stuff across different platforms.

It's become a battle cry in my house. Every time someone sneezes we say "it's not normal to sneeze"

I love that I heard this on the podcast and now it's here, on the front page of my KZread account.

"sneezing is a moral weakness" -me whenever i sneeze from now on

@fossilfighters101

3 жыл бұрын

you sneeze out your sin

Imagine if some yahoo went around saying, “butt is legs!”

@iemmasoprano321

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHA

"Value to be had in saying the stupidest possible things in the loudest possible way" gave me a flashback to teaching HS... I had a student that I will NEVER forget, who declared with all his chest that there was more money in Las Vegas than in the US. He also declared that because he bought a snickers bar he now owned a part of a fighter jet, because taxes. Now, I am proud of the man that kid grew up to be, but he definitely made me wonder for a bit.

This is like when someone said to me "I don't like eating bananas because the texture is like eating a poo" and now I can't eat bananas without thinking about this

"Normal" is a misused word. It means "expected" but people use it to mean "desirable" or "good" 500 years ago it was normal to die from strep throat, that was not desirable, but it was normal. During the pandemic it's been "normal" (expected) to not see family often, but that sure isn't the same thing as "desirable" By definition, normal implies a context - normal when? normal where? - and so "normal" changes over time

@Cynthia63636

3 жыл бұрын

The problem is with the "i never sneeze" though

@colonelb

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cynthia63636 Yeah - that is strange. With my "love of speculation with no medical training" - I'm guessing what the doctor was trying to say was more like "sneezing is a reaction to something foreign in your nose and not something your nose should be doing unless there is a problem, and I being a doctor who takes pride in his nasal cavities for some strange reason, perhaps things are going badly in my life and my nasal cavities are the only source of pride I have left in my life, I don't have problems in my nose" And it looks like we have a bunch of sci show videos on sneezes, way to be proactive Hank!

Over ten years ago my friends mom told me “the whiter the bread the sooner you’re dead.” I have never eaten white bread without thinking about it.

@wannabaninja

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing. I’ll never look at white bread the same. 😅

@ollieelastname674

3 жыл бұрын

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@Booksds

3 жыл бұрын

I am currently eating a sandwich with white bread, thanks for that

@holobookthief

3 жыл бұрын

My mom did this but it was “The slower you walk the faster you die” and now every time someone says I walk too fast I’m like “but I don’t wanna die 🥺”

@Efflorescentey

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been trying to find my way back to grain bread, I think you’ve done it 😂

Love the underlying message. Well done.

If it makes you feel any better, I laughed heartily at that podcast and the Dr NeverSneezer Scrooge joke. I think you made the world a better place.

Dr. Neversneezer Scrooge: sneezing is not normal Me, faintly hearing my cat having a sneeze attack in the other room: I heckin’ knew it

I've had this conversation too many times since this episode

One year later and I still think about you telling this story every time I sneeze.

I think you made my life better by sharing this with me so that I can also always think of Dr Neversneezer Scrooge when I sneeze. And fwiw, these silly things usually prompt me to start asking questions and doing research, and then I end up learning actual facts, so it helps me at least!

When you first shared this on the podcast I had an immediate thought that has not left me. I am a registered nurse, and I have worked alongside many doctors. I know how important getting a good history is, and I know getting good history from a child can be challenging. I hypothesize that the doctor felt Sara(h?) was not considering the question as seriously as she could have, and so the doctor lied in order to get the patient to consider the question more seriously. I have not had the idea lodged in my brain since hearing the story, so perhaps this idea could help to unlodge idea from the brain of you and others?

@autumnshaymartin

3 жыл бұрын

Very possible! When John first repeated the phrase I immediately assumed the doctor must have meant "Sneezes happen for a reason. Sneezing without a reason is not normal." The only part of the interaction that seemed kinda wild was when he said "I never sneeze" but there are a few reasons this doctor could have had for saying that, and some of them make sense to me. What he said didn't stick with me in the same way it seems to have stuck with other people, but maybe there's something wrong with me lol.

@thatjillgirl

3 жыл бұрын

@@autumnshaymartin Yes, that was my generous read as well, that the doctor meant "sneezing is not normal" in the sense that SOMETHING causes a sneeze and your body wouldn't just do it for no reason at all. But then he follows it up with "I never sneeze"????? And that's where he loses me. It seems like an obviously untrue thing for a human being to experience, so one wonders why he would feel the need to add it on.

Okay, but I STILL think about how John Green puts water on his cereal.

@woodfur00

3 жыл бұрын

So do I

@lizisalion

3 жыл бұрын

Same!! And that he doesn't like mayonnaise.

@joanapplegate6354

3 жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one 🤭

@woodfur00

3 жыл бұрын

@@lizisalion Will I be starting a fight by defending John on this one?

@xzonia1

3 жыл бұрын

@@lizisalion I did not know this. I also don't like mayo. I feel less alone now. :)

My mind keeps trying to delete this memory for the sake a sanity, but you and Hank keep bringing it up. And for that I thank you

That episode made me laugh out loud on the street and ALSO I NEVER FORGOT ABOUT IT AND ESPECIALLY WITH A HAYFEVER ATTACK OVER THE WEEKEND I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT THIS SO MUCH AND I AM SO HAPPY THAT OTHER PEOPLE THINK ABOUT IT A LOT TOO!