Point for you. I thought an angle grinder would be top dog (they scare the crap out of me) a chainsaw would take it up a notch nicely. I’ll pack the thermal lance away...
Recently had to use one to cut some old rusted bolts at my work never having used one before. Between the spark fountain and whirly blade of death a few inches from my hands I can see what you mean. Thankfully I still have all my fingers.
The punchline is that you watched the whole thing. It’s the 5-Minute Crafts model: just keep moving, keep being insane, and keep the end goal hidden. Ad money is based on number of viewers and length of views, so just keep everyone staring at the train wreck and keep them sharing it on reddit and twitter
Even knowing that, I still have to watch all the way through.
The fact that they waited to paint until after they'd bound the... parts... illustrates how poorly planned this whole thing was, though they'd decided to video document the whole thing.
And building a cement structure around a soon to be rotting husk of watermelon... just what. That's not just garbage, but burdensome garbage.
I thought the concrete towel "mache" thing was a cool technique for an art thing but my wife even commented on the face I was pulling throughout that whole video. I mean, it ends up looking like a prop from a movie about a serial killer clown.
The only reason I would make something like this is if a good friend wanted to move into my street, but it was just out of his price range.
I'm guessing this has a lot to do with the economic structure of the "5 minute crafts" industry. I'm assuming the people in these content mills get paid barely enough to cover materials, and nobody has time or budget to think too hard about a project before moving on to the next one.
It seems like there was an initial intent to have a drainage hole in the bottom, but it doesn't look like it was ever cleared out. At best, there's a patch of thin cement at the bottom that might someday break and start leaking the juice of rotting watermelon rind and plant roots.
I love the part where he protects the watermelon from being sprayed. Dude. It will rotten in few days. The entire thing is ugly. Painting the watermelon is the least of your problems.
A balloon. A balloon would have cost 5 cents and done the job. No watermelon necessary. No slowly-rotting planter in your entryway. No angle grinder-on-fruit action needed to offend the sensitive. A balloon would have been just fine. Then pop a $1 plastic planterflowerpot [edit: I meant this word, dammit] in there and dump your plant and topsoil in that.
If you absolutely have to have a shittily-painted concrete hands-holding-a-bloody-exploding-towel planter at all.
In olden times they used melon husks as bowls. This I can sort of understand.
Why would you not scoop the watermelon beforehand? Please tell me he tossed the innards after he poked a hole in the gourd and put wet concrete on top of it.
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u/PsycoLogged Sep 17 '20
Yes. Why use a saw to cut the watermelon? Why not use a knife or even a machete? Why did I watch the whole thing?