Comments on: Strength of LEGOs

By: flamingmccreeper

flamingmccreeper — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 21:34:32 +0000

i’m always making cars out of legos (i’ve been saying that ever since my first set), whenever i take (or at least try to) take apart the cars it won’t come apart, but when ever i accidently drop it about a foot or so it smashes into a million bits. i just don’t get these damn legos.

By: Miniman501

Miniman501 — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:42:37 +0000

Why does everybody call them “legos”? They’re called lego pieces (or bricks)

By: ---..-.

---..-. — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:41:21 +0000

What about when the piece you want is attached to another piece?

By: the_strange_cat

the_strange_cat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:55:07 +0000

Yes! Exactly my thought. Those things are SHARP!

By: the_strange_cat

the_strange_cat — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:52:40 +0000

Blargh. This was stupid the first time you posted it. I know how to describe you…no, not real man…desperate man is more my thought.

By: Someone

Someone — Sun, 30 May 2010 13:10:01 +0000

You said that somewhere else. How in hell is anybody supposed to look you up? By the name Todd? Not that anybody would, of course.

By: John Curd

John Curd — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:06:51 +0000

So true…

By: :O

:O — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:41:16 +0000

Maybe if you called them LEGO they wouldn’t fall apart

By: not"legos"

not"legos" — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:38:12 +0000

Well why don’t people say “fishes” and “mouses”? Don’t say “legos” or you’ll sound like an idiot.

By: überRegenbogen

überRegenbogen — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:55:07 +0000

Except that Lego is a name, and names do not get pluralised in english.

By: Shane

Shane — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:52:07 +0000

You left out two parts of this graph. “Strength of Legos when under a bare foot” and Strength of legos when under a bare foot in the dark”

By: Riot

Riot — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:00:42 +0000

Not in its native language

By: catgirl

catgirl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:01:29 +0000

I found a random tool in my house that works well for getting legos apart. It’s metal and I think it’s meant to push back overgrown cuticles. It came with a nail clipper and file set. Anyway, it works pretty well, even for the thin legos. If that doesn’t work, I use my teeth as a last resort.

By: catgirl

catgirl — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:58:49 +0000

Since this graph is written in English, it is acceptable to use the standard English pluralization, which is either Legos or legos. Language changes. Get over it.

By: SackSomething

SackSomething — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:22:14 +0000

Just so you know, Lancer, I am not a grammar nazi. Hence, the typo, for if I was a grammar nazi, I would have cared about it, but I didn’t even notice it until you pointed it out. But thanks anyway for doing so.

By: Black Ice

Black Ice — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:44:04 +0000

Ugh, so true! I’m pretty good at taking legos apart cause I have long, strong nails, but occasionally I’ll run into a couple that are CEMENTED together. XP

By: Meggorie

Meggorie — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:39:26 +0000

So true!!! I actually laughed out loud, literally, at this one!

By: icefaerie95

icefaerie95 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:43:29 +0000

shut up, ok?

By: Devylan

Devylan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:57:49 +0000

No, but it is easier to say than Lego.

By: Erica

Erica — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:13:52 +0000

Industrial strength also when you step on it barefoot.

By: Dover

Dover — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:06:29 +0000

1. That’s what two brick separators are for, they’ve been produced by the Lego Company since ’88.

2. What happens when you need to match the difference of something adjacent? Two plates on top of each other does the job.

Lego bricks is the official pluralization because enough people call every building toy “legos” and therefore bring down the good name of Lego. Legos is acceptable if you plan on encompassing everything that the brand entails and nothing that it doesn’t.

By: Eärossë

Eärossë — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:31:44 +0000

I don’t even touch my brother’s LEGOs anymore. I just touch them and they fall apart.

By: Bo

Bo — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:21 +0000

Legos is easier to say that Lego???

By: überRegenbogen

überRegenbogen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:10:13 +0000

As long as we’re picking on language:
“I couldN’T care less”—as in “I care so little that a smaller amount is not possible”. ☺

By: überRegenbogen

überRegenbogen — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:05:58 +0000

My brothers and i grew up calling them Lego blocks. (Back in the pre-Duplo days, when the big ones were huge and not compatible with the little ones.)

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:51:52 +0000

If you would have “caught it” then it would have just broken in two somewhere and then there’d be even MORE of a mess to pick up or put back together. It’s like how when you were a kid and you’d put a whole bunch of markers together end to end: if you stop it when it’s going full force it just breaks at the point you’re stopping it.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:50:07 +0000

I’d like to see you watching several days of work come crashing down knowing it was your fault and any attempts of yours are futile to save it and watch how YOU react.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:45:37 +0000

Just to clarify I don’t really mind that. Just thought I’d point that out. I could care less about it, just find it humorous that nobody has pointed it out yet.

By: Lancer

Lancer — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:44:30 +0000

You know… I find it hilarious that you’re talking about that when if you look at the Y axis labeling it says “Strenght” of Bond. If you’re going to go all grammar nazi might as well take a look at the spelling too.

By: Helina

Helina — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:47:54 +0000

It was like he just gave up on catching it without even trying.

“Whoa, what? Aww, screw it.”

By: Lucy

Lucy — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:43:40 +0000

The joke.
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Boon’s head.

By: The Architect

The Architect — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:00:10 +0000

The guy in the video was a moron at normal speed. Slowing it down several times only confirms that.

By: konkonsn

konkonsn — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:29:31 +0000

Scratched legos* are the marks of trial and error, a good lesson for anyone not afraid to fail.

*I don’t care what your grammar book says, legos sounds fine to me.

By: midian454

midian454 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:36:50 +0000

thankyou, saves me venting

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:11:21 +0000

The guy in that video has really bad reflexes, I would’ve caught that thing before it hit the floor!

By: TheObject

TheObject — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:55:26 +0000

Lego use fail. If you know how to put them together, then nether the second bar nor the third apply.

1. Never stack them directly on top of each other. This makes them hard to take apart as there is no place to get leverage. Stack them where one overhangs from the other.

2. Never stack them directly on top of each other. This reduces the stability of the finished product. Have you ever seen a brick building? The brick positions are staggered for stability.

Teeth, knives, brick removal tools. All failures of proper use.

By: Hesuchia

Hesuchia — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:04:28 +0000

Hey, don’t underestimate the manliness of legos.

By: Ripley

Ripley — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:59:37 +0000

The strength of the Lego is unmatched at night when you step on it going to the bathroom in the dark.

By: papajon

papajon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:39:18 +0000

Well it should be “legos” because that’s easy and succint. But noooooooo! They have to protect corporate trademarks! It’s all about the money folks. No wonder Obama is at war with corporate America: Companies like Lego(s) must be evil! Eeeeeevil!

By: cakeislie

cakeislie — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:29:24 +0000

The thin ones are the worst… especially when you just cut your nails

By: Turi

Turi — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:25:07 +0000

LEGO is the company, not the product. Singular is “lego brick,” plural is “lego bricks.”

By: jared

jared — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:04:04 +0000

The proper term is “Lego”. “Legos” is grammatically incorrect.

Oh, and brick separators are the best.

By: stale56

stale56 — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:49:16 +0000

You have no idea how many of my legos have teethmarks…

By: Lego las

Lego las — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:43:25 +0000

I figured out early on to keep a pocketknife around when legoing, otherwise you end up with all these legos with teethmarks on the edges

By: nfitzgerald

nfitzgerald — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:41:09 +0000

Fun Fact: the plural of “lego” is “lego”. People who call them “legos” go to hell when they die.

By: Chastity Bono

Chastity Bono — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:28:59 +0000

Oh Todd, you are clearly the only man for me. Because of you, I have changed my mind about everything and I just want to be your woman. However do I reach you?

By: Imperiss

Imperiss — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:25:32 +0000

“Lego Tower – Rest in Pieces”

fixed

By: boon

boon — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:42:34 +0000

You’re still building legos and yet you call yourself a real man ?

Bwahaha yeah right !

By: edge

edge — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:39:03 +0000

Lego Tower – Rest in Piece

By: Todd

Todd — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:15:55 +0000

I can always take apart my lego. You’re all wusses.

Any woman want a real man, look me up.