"... perverted MacGyver..."!!!

1. I hate writing lists like this.
2. but only because I'm afraid I don't have enough cool stuff to put on them
3. I swear.. a lot, but I get away with it... in person, because I'm Irish, and in writing, because I'm an eloquent motherfucker
4. When I was a kid, I really wanted to be a space shuttle pilot. My entire room was covered in space posters, until I was eventually convinced this wouldn't happen in my early teens (kinda hard to be a shuttle pilot when you live in a country with no space program or even an airforce).... at which point....
5. I started listening to heavy metal and for years I wanted to be a touring musician. Played in a few bands, even recorded some stuff, but I was never really that good, but I did teach my brother to start playing
6.... who is now waaaay better than I ever was, has a degree in music and releases some of my favourite music.
7. I am by a long way the most level-headed member of my family.
8. I like to think I'm resourceful (read as "watched one too many episodes of macgyver as a kid") and set myself little challenges all the time (like trying to break into my own house)
9. I've been arrested once and spent a night in a cell
10. I love the mountains (snowboarding, mountain biking) but didn't realise this until my late 20s. It's one of my great regrets that I didn't start these things sooner.
11. I'm a 3rd dan (soon to be 4th!) black belt in Aikido, but....
12. I haven't been in a fight since high school.
13. A small immature part of me really wants someone to attack me so I can find out.
14. The rest of me isn't nearly that stupid.
15. I love to cook (especially BBQ), and will happily spend all day preparing a meal for my wife or my friends.
16. I don't have or want kids, but I get on great with them (I suspect they think I roughly as mature as they are).
17. I teach a kids Aikido class.
18. I'm very good at my job, but it's just a means to an end for me. If I never needed to work again, I wouldn't.
19. No-one will read this far.
20. I think people are basically good, but they're also stupid and easily manipulated... this goes for me too.
21. I really want to travel again, but life keeps getting in the way.
22. I'm a total geek.
23. I like to look at everything from all angles, but there are somethings I have no time for (homepathy, racism, homophobia, climate deniers, etc). I don't believe in debating these people.
24. I sometimes wonder if I should put my money where my mouth is and run for public office, but then I remember that that would seriously cut into my snowboarding/mountainbiking/aikido-ing time.
25. I am very tempted to delete this list.

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Didn't they already do a modern MacGyver in the shape of Burn Notice?

Look, just... just stop. I propose a 5 year moratorium on this bullshit. No more remakes, reboots, reimaginings, retools or re-anything-bloody-else. Write something original for 5 years and then you can go back to the treadmill if you really want.

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Loved MacGyver.

The theme song sounded like the theme song to Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers.

Similar to how the theme song of the X-Men cartoon sounded like Whitney Houston's I'm Your Baby Tonight.

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I assume this is it as it has the MacGyver i phone touch thing in it.
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Yeah I think @newtboy got it, didn't he? I know it was a pretty elaborate setup they created to get out of there--in the movie. It was fun to watch, but too long ago for me to remember all the details perfectly.

Even MacGyver had some events that were pretty close; though I can't exactly remember if he ran into this situation (though he went through a padlock using something akin to this, if I remember right).

totally worthy of hash tag macgyver

What else does MacGyver like?

most of the Red Bull Flugtag gliders, which have no engine and are built to crash into the water 1 time only, have flown further than this thing ever will.

MythBusters built a safer plane (which didn't fly) from bamboo, garbage bags, and duct-tape (MacGyver episode)

Oh, man that was disturbing.
..and if this doesn't convince you that it isn't easy to dig yourself out after an avalanche.. remember that in episode S02E16 "Out in the cold", MacGyver was buried in an avalanche, and couldn't get himself out. Good thing Pete is such a good friend and wouldn't let the rescue team stop looking until Mac was able to fashion a blow gun from his ski pole, and a signal parachute from his bandana and a zipper pull.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG3Iapth75I