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Macgyver Gets Lazy

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  • Grantismo, on 07/02/2008, -67/+382XKCD OMG GAIZ LAWL LAWL LAWL!!!
    • reyesz, on 07/02/2008, -31/+7i don't get it
      • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -4/+29thats because your brain has a built-in idiot filter.
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -10/+41digg up the stupid people, clever...almost ...too clever.






      no i was wrong, still really stupid.
    • saqer, on 07/02/2008, -14/+2shutup
    • Newedge14, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4Or you could just simply complain about it like the rest of us.
    • yossariantwin, on 07/02/2008, -3/+4you're half right. digg shouldn't digg "periodical" content. it seems a little lazy. too many "easy diggs"
      XKCD is pretty good, if people haven't seen it already, welcome to the internets.
      • elnerdo, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Digg doesn't digg anything. People do. Blame stupid people.
    • rentmitchum, on 07/02/2008, -5/+6LOL I NO RITE?!!!!ONE!
    • alperea, on 07/02/2008, -5/+7That comment is more funny than the actual link
    • Grantismo, on 07/03/2008, -0/+21)Post first on an xkcd submission
      2)Pretend to hate the comic through witty cynicism
      3)+300 diggs
      4)????????
      5)Profit!
  • db0255, on 07/02/2008, -29/+9Must be a Monday, Wednesday, or Friday.

    *don't say "time zones"
  • nudeinfl, on 07/02/2008, -23/+10Of course he is lazy these days. He is like 100 years old.
  • wjh104, on 07/02/2008, -22/+3Macgyver uses paperclips. Not guns. Bull...
  • stillboy, on 07/02/2008, -6/+275Alt text: At the time of this writing, Wikipedia has a wonderful article titled 'List of problems solved by Macgyver'.

    awesome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solv ...
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -4/+26Wouldn't it be smarter to list the problems macguyver CANT solve? (if there are any?)
      • rald84, on 07/02/2008, -1/+11Pirates (2x15)

        In a rare unsuccessful MacGyverism, MacGyver fails to blow open a hatch with a bilge pump, a hose, and a dock buoy. MacGyver is stuck in the bilge of a ship that is taking on water. He has the idea that he can blow open the locked hatch by overfilling a buoy with water until it explodes. He pokes a hole in the buoy, inserts a tube, connects the end to the bilge pump, and fastens the buoy to the hatch with an angle brace. Unfortunately the buoy tears instead of exploding, causing the water to spill out and defeating the MacGyverism. MacGyver escapes from the predicament by finding a nearby tank of compressed gas and knocking open the valve, sending it shooting up through the hatch, blasting it open.
    • aadsfasdf, on 07/02/2008, -0/+34Holy ***** I thought it was just an exaggeration.

      "MacGyver starts out in Berlin, trying to escape with a microfilm containing government secrets. He takes the place of a dead person and is carried in a coffin towards a bridge, where he is dumped into the water by friends. Upon hitting the water, Mac hits a button and turns his coffin into a jet ski, riding away to safety."
    • estvir, on 07/02/2008, -1/+18From the PILOT episode, no less:

      "MacGyver defuses a highly advanced nuclear warhead using a paper clip to short circuit the timing device."

      I really need to buy the MacGyver boxset.
      • eonblu, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3My friend bought the first season and we watched all of it. I can't count how many times I said "What!? You can't just do that! That would never work." But...entertaining nonetheless. Seeing as how I was a child when the show was new, it makes me wonder if the people who watched it thought it was genius.
      • mdc921, on 07/02/2008, -2/+1"MacGyver box set - includes all the tools you need to be like MacGyver himself, a paper clip and some gum."

        That's all you really need.
      • acdcfanbill, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I was buying the season sets, until they announced that only the set with all the seasons would get the two TV movies. After that I sold my sets and said '***** you paramount' and decided to dl everything.
    • t2t2, on 07/02/2008, -3/+20http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ ...
      Seriously now...
    • hotpuck6, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7"When the gelatin dissolves in the water, the sodium reacts violently with the water and causes an explosion which blows a hole in the wall. ("MythBusters" busted the size of the explosion but verified that pure sodium does cause an exothermic reaction when mixed with water, just not enough to destroy a concrete wall. This was possibly not an error, but rather a way to stop the show's more industrious viewers from producing a dangerous explosive.)"

      Lol, they question the integrity of MythBusters to try and uphold the integrity of Macgyver, ignoring the fact that their show is totally fact based, and Macgyver is "make up a bunch of ***** that seems cool" based.
    • Caleb83, on 07/02/2008, -3/+1I dugg your comment for being more amusing than the digg article I'm commenting on.
    • mattrh, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2"MacGyver uses his pocket knife to disarm the self-destruct device of a downed military satellite. He then uses parts of the satellite's retrieval system - namely metal tubing and large sheets of flexible plastic - along with duct tape to fashion a makeshift hang glider."

      Best episode ever.
    • tas08, on 07/02/2008, -1/+3The fact of this wiki's existence is better than the comic.
    • xkorbin, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1MacGyver destroys a building with a propane tank, a grindstone, and some ball bearings.

      It's things like this that make laugh.
    • mattousai, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I wonder how many hits that page got today
  • blademanx, on 07/02/2008, -22/+198To be honest, I don't see why people are always so angry over xkcd on digg. Yes, we know that we can just go to the website on our own, and yes, we know that the submission isn't going to introduce any diggers to new or interesting info or sources. So if you don't like it, just bury the damn thing and spare us your cynicism.
    • bzkt, on 07/02/2008, -9/+14I can not agree more. I for myself isn't a big fan of xkcd, but I really enjoy some of them, and the best ones tend to become popular on digg. In that way I don't have to sort through everything on xkcd to find the best ones, they get presented to me through digg.
      • scottsutherland, on 07/02/2008, -2/+40The problem is it's not just the best ones that become popular on digg, it's every ***** one of them. By submitting every single comic, the mediocre ones get mixed in with the genius ones, and XKCD loses its flair.
      • Jesse, on 07/02/2008, -4/+16And not just that, but if you say anything negative at all, you get dugg down. Observe: Personally, I do not like XKCD.

        Behold the mob believe that I have to enjoy what they enjoy!
      • skealoha86, on 07/02/2008, -7/+12There's a war going on in Iraq.
      • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -7/+2Jesse :when you ask the mob to do something, they will 99.9% of the time do the opposite to make themselves feel rebellious/to piss off the guy that thought he could predict their actions.

        Sutherland: I don't think xkcd minds the extra traffic, most sites would love to have their stuff posted regularly on a major site that thousands and thousands of people view and click links on. I also don't think simply by posting some bad in with the good that its hurting xkcd. Their brand of comedy doesn't always hit a homerun , but some of the comics are so wild you'll never forget and that keeps people coming back.
      • slvrbullet87, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1@Skealaha

        Why does everything have to be about serrious issues? Everybody knows there is a war going on in Iraq, doesnt mean that is the only thing we should think/talk about.
    • Myonosken, on 07/02/2008, -3/+9It should be noted that the number of submissions HAS dropped recently- admittedly they haven't been as brilliant as usual recently though.
      • TheKillDoctor, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3When stick figure drawings become brilliant. My refrigerator is filled with them!
    • fxu1989, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7Don't mind if I do.

      Like I will get buried, as well.
    • ledguitar, on 07/02/2008, -4/+5I agree. I come to Digg to get all my media from one source. And if i save the time from going to xkcd separately by going through Digg, then no problem there.
    • khouros, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4It isn't all that spectacular of a web-comic, especially for one so filled with juvenile narcissism. There are better ones out there that don't appear on the front page so often (or at all?).
    • ohmahgawd, on 07/02/2008, -2/+9I've rarely dig XKCD because it usually barely pulls a chuckle out of me. There are some genius hilarious ones out there of course that deserve a good popular spot here, but it seems diggers are such fanboys to this comic that they'll dig the mediocre, and I dare say bad ones too. The popularization of this comic just shows that some diggers don't even dig it based on how good that particular comic is that day, but on how popular the comic is on the whole, which is where systems like Digg actually fail, since it allows something that really doesn't deserve to be dug to be. It sort of reminds me of Democracy on a whole these days...

      I'll probably be dug down. But oh well. You can't handle the truth!
    • Lollerskater, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7I actually wasn't going to bury this one because it was one of the better xkcd's I've seen in quite a while. But thank you for reminding me of why I actually bury most xkcd submissions: I just don't like it.

      And until Digg allows us to filter xkcd from the articles without having to deselect the entire "comics & animation" category this is the only thing we can do. :(
    • peevatoe, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2I just don't find most of them funny
    • arjie, on 07/02/2008, -2/+4Ah, we _could_ subscribe to the RSS feed. But we do this anyway. It's a ritual, almost.

      Years from now, the reason will be forgotten and it will be just a mindless motion. As the week progresses, a man will pick up his shovel and digg up the xkcd stone, and he will read from the Stone, and people will rejoice. But there will be other men, who wish to hide the stone and they will bury the Stone. It will take a week for the man to find the stone again, but he will.

      And there will be Wars of the Stone, where xkcd is defended by long haired men with katanas, and fierce red-cape wearing balloonists, and the Stone will be lost. But it will be found. Dugg up by another man somewhere, and all will be as it was before.
    • listrophy, on 07/02/2008, -2/+2Or, instead of traumatizing yourself by actually SEEING the xkcd on the front page, you could filter out anything with "xkcd" in the title or description with my script. User-customizable digg filter: http://dgg-script.blogspot.com/
    • smrekar, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1it is aparently the vocal minority. At the time of this writing there are 1407 more people who appreciate it, then those who don't. at 9:33am PST - I am thinking there is a trend.
    • Caleb83, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3yeah, but if I bury it, it still shows up, it doesn't dissappear, I still have to look at it. Buries should remove articles from the front page (as long as you are logged in). But good advice nevertheless.
    • Iztikeit, on 07/02/2008, -0/+0I just don't find most of them humorous. Dry humor is one of the easiest forms.
  • leighlee, on 07/02/2008, -2/+20My life is better after seeing that Wikipedia article.
    Now I know to plug a sulfuric acid leak with chocolate. Hell yeah!
    • JeddHampton, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7and MythBusters proved it possible!
  • kickcows, on 07/02/2008, -3/+18Where's the paperclip? Geez.
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5what do you think he built the gun out of ? a paperclip and his gooey 80's man-essence.
      • dsmx, on 07/02/2008, -0/+10He built it with a gun with no bullets and some bullets.
      • celkin, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2Dugg for Simpsons reference
  • jluebbert, on 07/02/2008, -20/+5Duplicate: http://xkcd.com/444/
  • Grjemo, on 07/02/2008, -10/+47Guys, before we go any farther, lets not talk about xkcd itself. Talk about the COMIC. If you have to bitch about xkcd, do it here in this thread.
    • benologist, on 07/02/2008, -1/+29There's only so much you can say about a very short comic....

      "lol"

      Can we get back to bitching about xkcd outside this thread now?
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -4/+1people listen on digg, i promise.

      anyway, if people want to bitch about xkcd they will, we can digg them down, but its just a waste of effort, for them and for us. People will continue to post xkcd comics here, and people will continue to complain about it.
    • cheeseplease, on 07/02/2008, -5/+7Goddamnit why does this ***** always reach the ***** front page we should ban this don't digg this piece of turd comic if I want to read XKCD I get an RSS this is ***** and blahblahblah etc.
    • hotpuck6, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8i pooped.
  • Wenchmark51, on 07/02/2008, -6/+13I really like the mouse hover commentary on every comic, it adds a little to each one.
    • akiteonastring, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5i didn't even know that!
    • shondell, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6OH MY GOD! WHAT ELSE HAVE I BEEN MISSING!?

      all of a sudden...I feel...so empty
    • admdrew, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1I'm happy that Firefox 3 shows the title text on multiple lines... it was frustrating in older Firefoxes to need to view the source to see the rest of the text.
  • oughterator, on 07/02/2008, -15/+2inaccurrrrrraaatttteeee....
  • Rozza, on 07/02/2008, -2/+10MacGyver uses a pulley system fashioned from torn fabric, bailing wire, and toy car wheels to assist a small dog in crossing a busy road
  • spankaccount, on 07/02/2008, -4/+36Macgyver becomes a realist.
  • skizzy, on 07/02/2008, -16/+4This cartoon is plain out gay
    • facereplacer, on 07/02/2008, -6/+3no way. Being gay is much better than an xkcd comic.
  • Naskin, on 07/02/2008, -3/+7Yeah right, Macgyver isn't getting lazy, he's hovering above the ground! I can't even do that even when I think about it really hard!
  • Ryan166, on 07/02/2008, -4/+11Its funny because he could have just shot the guard in the head.
  • Farmer77, on 07/02/2008, -12/+8Hey, this one is actually funny!
  • RoflCoptah, on 07/02/2008, -2/+11hmm if it were snake, it'd be like, bam CQC
  • gameradam, on 07/02/2008, -7/+12It wouldn't be Digg without XKCD hitting the frontpage at least once a year/month/day/second.
  • tumples, on 07/02/2008, -12/+5I think it is time for some people to realise that yes, we all know it comes out on a Monday Wednesday or Friday, but it gets to the front page each time because people like to talk about it in the comments.

    I thought it was a good comic.
  • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -10/+4The simple things really are the best.
  • barkingfrog, on 07/02/2008, -12/+4BOOM HEADSHOT!!!
  • CarStan, on 07/02/2008, -14/+6This list alone is worth digging. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_problems_solv ...
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -1/+8too cool to post a reply under the guy who posted it first? =P
  • Hurlzz, on 07/02/2008, -11/+3Finally something understandable for once. What's the world coming too?
  • dylio, on 07/02/2008, -12/+4::Insert comment about XKCD being lame, awesome, or how it's killing Digg::
    • Halsfield, on 07/02/2008, -2/+5*inserts comment that could've just been left out*
  • VinnieDaMac, on 07/02/2008, -13/+14One of the few XKCD comics I actually get, but it's still not that funny....
  • asdfer, on 07/02/2008, -3/+5Actually MacGyver replaced Kurt Russell, then led SG-1, used guns a lot.
  • etjrowe, on 07/02/2008, -8/+79Didn't any of you ever watch Macgyver? He hated guns.
    • Spelvin, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5Yep him and Dr Who both have a strong dislike for guns.
    • casenumber17421, on 07/02/2008, -3/+27hence the joke of the comic?
    • acdcfanbill, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1Mac hated guns cause RDA is a staunch gun control advocate, if I recall correctly, the pilot is the only one where Mac fires a gun.
  • nytejade, on 07/02/2008, -7/+7Not very original, this one. :(
  • NecroDigg, on 07/02/2008, -5/+7This one is actually funny. the last few have been kinda lame lately.
    • BradMW, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Actually the Discovery Channel one is pretty much the best ever.
  • xDynaBlade, on 07/02/2008, -3/+4It's a sham, that guy's not a guard. He's clearly a train conductor. Look at his hat!!
  • raggles, on 07/02/2008, -9/+9*Insert generic snide comment about how digg users should just subscribe to an RSS feed from XKCD rather than find the new comic on digg every other day.*
  • zip000, on 07/02/2008, -2/+3From the referenced Wikipedia article:
    "To throw his opponents off balance, MacGyver builds bombs out of swamp gas, bamboo shoots, and mud."

    Awesome.
  • thetacticus, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5do you think mythbusters can disprove this macgyver feat?
  • Ljay90, on 07/02/2008, -5/+36Macgyver ain't the only one getting lazy...
  • Pic0, on 07/02/2008, -5/+8This comic is confusing.

    He doesn't like guns, does this take that into account? or is his laziness that he now accepts guns as good?
    • ZimbuTheMonkey, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Laziness made him forsake his principles.
  • enderwigin, on 07/02/2008, -6/+2I may be geeking out here but Mac hates guns, he regularly dissembles them to make something else. But that is one damn funny XKCD.
  • ninjaface, on 07/02/2008, -16/+15***** this ***** comic already. Keep this ***** off the front page of digg. xkcd sucks!!!!!
  • jbu311, on 07/02/2008, -4/+11Thought this one was actually funny for once.

    BUT STILL... AUTO-BURY!
  • spyd4r, on 07/02/2008, -4/+7do we really need to post every xkcd update? ffs.
  • taumeson, on 07/02/2008, -7/+3mac would never use a damn gun. buried.
  • MojoJonJon, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7MacGruber's way cooler
  • gregnorc, on 07/02/2008, -4/+11Digg user gets lazy...

    "I'll submit this popular webcomic which everyone has subscribed to the RSS feed of anyways to digg"
    • olddirtycr, on 07/02/2008, -1/+1I don't, because theres no point, becauses its always on digg.
  • stinger666, on 07/02/2008, -2/+3I think it's the first time I get a xkcd comic
  • userperson, on 07/02/2008, -5/+1"Macgyver Gets Lazy"
    The Military is very lazy,
    they stole this one idea from MacGyver,
    and variations on it is all they use.
  • miquonranger031, on 07/02/2008, -3/+6under bury there should be an xkcd option...ugh.
    i love the comic, but still...if i want to read it, i'll read it.
    it seems to be coded into the algorithm
  • zakool21, on 07/02/2008, -4/+1The one before it about poison ivy is much better. Dugg for at least getting me there....

    Policy: If I end up at a more entertaining page than that which was Dugg, I'll still Digg the original story.
  • gmtwilight, on 07/02/2008, -1/+2XKCD, proof that anyone with the drawing skills of a retard can have a webcomic.
  • JDPoZ, on 07/02/2008, -0/+1My fave macgyver video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0t29VMq9gk

    MAACGYYVVVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR!!!
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