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Favorite Comment: Fixer Violet says, “Oohh! So *that’s* what pirating cable is.”
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Makes sense to me- isn’t that a union jack?
Hey, you. Get off of my cloud.
GET OFF MY PLANE!
Hilarious!
i see what your trying to do there but i dont think it worked. no.
He’s just trying to yank your cord.
Well, you’ve got the center pins connected, but not the outer shells… so, great idea if it weren’t for the whole problem of needing a complete circuit! ;-D
To bad the outer sheath is an EMF shield… learn to not be a retard.
actually it’s the signal ground and nothing to do with EMF
learn not to be a retard, then look like even more of a retard by calling someone who is right a retard.
wakakakaka.. LOL.. epic fail..!!!=))
being “retarded” in any “real” way is serious. don’t go around calling someone “retarded” is extremely rude and offensive to mentally retarded people and all others like that. think before you act/speak/type. be grateful you have your health and don’t use a serious condition as an insult. stereotyping can completely ruin your life. its like being gay is bad or something. its not! don’t use things like this as an insult. especially if u haven’t experienced or met people in these situations, it’ll make you a bygomist! (thats not a good thing! hitler was one)
Sorry, i can’t spell!!!
Well, the ground would be carried by the other lead. they’re typically tied together at both ends. So it probably worked just fine.
Well no actually, soundengineer has a point (and the name is a bit of a giveaway), you do need to connect the sheath. Remember when you were 10 and learning about “completing the circuit”?
haha actually you don’t need to connect the ground to pass audio through the leads. You may experience ground hum though.
Yup, the only thing missing is some tinfoil conductors on the legoman.
Well if they are both plugged into the same devices in the case of left+right you can usually getaway with this for both the outer connections are bridged… Usually.
No thicko, it’s not a Union Jack, nor a Union flag, it appears to be a saltire, or St Andrew’s flag, i.e. the flag of Scotlamd, not the flag of the United Kingdom (or her navy).
That stick up your butt has a stick up its butt.
Actually it’s not a flag at all, it’s a uniform.
A red coat to be precise
You know, of the British army?
anyway, here’s a link to a picture of the minifigs: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/avitdc/Army/101_4312.jpg
New video game for Christmas = win.
Not having the correct cables to hook the new video game to Grandma’s TV = fail.
Borrowing LEGO(tm) guy from your little brother’s present to MacGyver a cable = EPIC WIN!
I remember doing this with a Commodore 64 in the 80′s. Minus the LEGO guy. Just touching the 2 cables and taping them together worked well enough!
I love it.
Unfortunately, this won’t work, as there’s nothing connecting the shields on those cables. Nice try, through.
The outside connector is probably ground on both cables and both are likely to be connected together at both ends, so it is only necessary to have one of them connected.
Actually it works, I used the same technique (except tape instead of lego) to link one channel of my Wii to the amp
Yeah it would work, you don’t need to connect the grounds to get signal to pass through the wire. This is obviously not the perfect fix because you may get a ground hum if the devices connected aren’t properly grounded. And the signal may be lower on that channel because the contact area is smaller than an actual RCA barrel.
it will work because components share ground on the line level signal so if the red has a barrel connecting the ground, the white would not need it. Nice fix, a little disapointed that there was no duct tape used, though!
Oohh! So *that’s* what pirating cable is.
Win !!
“ARRRR matey, I can’t feel me legs”
Becaz ye got termits in yer legs!
quick an easy way to build yourself a solution to the problem. or is that construct? whatever I’m gonna lego of that thought.
I’m I the only one noticing that the lego is wearing 1970′s porn star moustage?
It’s appropriate, I guess. It does look like he is giving both of those adapters a hand job.
My first thought , what’s Freddie Mercury doing there?
It’s the Queens’s Navy after all.
Given the gender of the jacks, he must be the male man.
Those blasted music pirates are at it again!
Okay, whatever anybody else thinks, this has my vote for Best Kludge Ever.
I second that.
Definitely the *cutest* kludge ever…
Epic. Truly Epic. I would have never thought about that. Kludge for the record books!
Don’t laugh too hard. I used Legos last week to convince my company to spend $20k on a measuring device.
They all laughed pretty hard at first. Once the test was successful, there was only the sound of praise.
Actually, this will work, but many dB will be lost (due to the increased resistance (or lowered conductance)). Also, for those who say that the shielding is necessary to get the wire to work, it’s true if you have symmetrized wires AND if you want to avoid the noise (electromagnetic noise got via the antennae property of the wire).
That is quite possibly the greatest thing I have ever seen, ever. Or at least in a pretty long time.
Great Scott! 1.21 Gigiwatts!
I swear, at first I thought someone was torturing a minifig by hooking up a battery to his nipples.
Hey, your not the only one…..
Until you can get the right cables,I guess you can soldier on with this:-p
Lego pirate FTW!
They should’ve used duct tape instead
“Sorry, Mr. Hammer, but I CAN touch this…”
This actually does work just fine and without loss if between components (would not work to a speaker). This is 3 leads just like a stereo headphone jack. And if you’ve ever tried tape, the Lego guy is much easier.
Not exactly UL approved and yet sooo awesome!!!
Feel the music!
Pirate radio!
My 9 yo says the lego has on the wrong face, he should look shocked.
Now that’s improvising
male-male? Don’t ask/don’t tell.
M-M? Maybe that’s why he’s smiling. . . there are simply so few female hairdos in the Lego sets, plus the bodies are so two-dimensional. Makes for so little fun. Could’ve used a pn#4214559 with a bit of adjusting.
Uh, what? You mean this?
http://www.tentoy.com/shop/goods/goods_view.php?goodsno=186788563
I don’t get it.
this kludge is older …. you just have to watch “Down Persicope!” again… it was the radio-guy making it an epic movie !
Oh yeah, Fred Randall(?) of Rocketman infamy!
That wouldn’t work by itself because the grounding isn’t touching on that channel. But it would work if it’s being adapted to a headset jack on either end, because that connector uses a shared ground for left and right.
Either way, it’s a pretty terrible solution.
The lego dude doesn’t seem content with the solution either.
I hope you realize that ground is not necessary for cables to work, it just reduces hum.
As long as there is one ground connection between both devices, it’ll work. Which can even be mains ground, provided both devices’ chassis are connected to that. Only if you have some high-end dual-mono kit it won’t, but then you won’t have these $1,95 cables either. You may or may not have LEGO, but that’s another matter entirely.
This would be a pirate conducting a Man in the Middle Attack
Aghhhhhh!
I think its supposed to represent a southern soldier from back in the day. The union is between white and black, and this photo is supposed to represent that it worked. Also to be humorous because it may actually work.
Whoa- you spend too much time thinking, fella.
I’ve seen this cartoon before, but last time Superman wasn’t wearing a tricorn hat: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkNw0SjBq40
Arrgghh! Who doesn’t love a Lego???
[insert Village People joke here.]
I thought those Village People were bigger! (in the pants)
P.S. I’m a 27 yr old young Jewish guy who still lives with Mommy and Daddy and has never been laid.
aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
For everyone trying to figure out the pattern on the soldier’s chest, it’s just two criss-crossed bandoliers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandolier
This kludge is sweet!
The technical name for a device of this nature is a “gender bender”, and that is the greatest one I’ve ever seen.
When Radio Shack is closed it’s nice to know you can just raid the kids toy box. We didn’t have a Lego Man, but did try it with a Hello Kitty eraser with bendy arms. Check. Submit my vote for Cutest Kludge Ever!
I thought those Village People dudes were bigger!
The TV company cut costs by sending lego men to examine stuff.
does this remind anyone else of that movie, Periscope Down?
freddy mercury joke here
You NEVER make them touch!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6542403962490499100&ei=DBZcS6bODoHEqgKc5bDgCg&q=slow+jerk#
Connected.