Things to make with cement

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This channel brought to you by the Cement Marketing Council?

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how about a monitor stand that’s less than 1k

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seeing some of those real-objects-covered-in-cement ideas reminded me of Bucket of Blood. HA.

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I mean, if everything they have is dipped in cement, they’re gonna be pretty Popeye’d out…

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How to make a Brutalist home more brutal.

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…and then dipped in cement.

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I got a twitch every time it said, ‘Let Dry’.

CONCRETE DOESN’T DRY – IT CURES.

/pedantry

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Not only that…

Cement is the BINDER, the finished product is CONCRETE, MORTAR, STUCCO, or GROUT.

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Something tells me Uncured Concrete warning signs would be even less effective.

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i like the fabric-dipped ideas, but most of these left me pretty meh.

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Hey now, waitaminit that’s not pointy metal like Trump’s wall.

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No, no it’s decontextualizing D’Corbusier. Not curing. [Embraces brutalism, makes speakers that can only play the first 10 Cure albums out of slip and CO2-breathing flow batteries (yeah, but they make methanol as storage media) and a RasPi2] Okay curing.

Cure-Damaged Cement! Float not here! [Scores curing cement] That stuff really absorbs, er quietly distorts sound okay.

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Wow. Remo Williams. There’s one that doesn’t get dusted off very often.

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…a waste of perfectly good toilet paper…

On the other hand, building a fire pit out of concrete ‘books’ would make a ghastly homage to Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

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more like DIWHY?

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