Technically it's a concrete mixer, not a cement mixer

December 13, 2016 9:26 PM

Disco ball mixer. Candy striped mixer. Football mixer. Street art mixers. Mixer art, various. Concrete Products fleet graphics awards. Christmas light mixer. Sunshine mixer. Ocean flame (?) mixer. Matroyshka mixer. Polka dot mixer. Shoe mixer. Asparagus, strawberry, and corn mixers.
posted by Eyebrows McGee (23 comments total)

There always used to be hand-painted (not decal, like the link) football concrete mixer trucks in DC, or possibly one that I saw repeatedly, but oddly I cannot find any pictures.
posted by tavella at 9:53 PM on December 13, 2016

This article mentions it, but still no pictures.
posted by tavella at 9:56 PM on December 13, 2016

Slim Gaillard put it best. Or should I say "put-ti-put-ti" best (live performance with much flourish and additional stuff)
posted by oneswellfoop at 9:58 PM on December 13, 2016 [2 favorites]

Oh man, I want a disco mixer.
posted by limeonaire at 10:05 PM on December 13, 2016 [3 favorites]

I would settle for renting a disco mixer for parties!
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 12:01 AM on December 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I don't think I've seen done-up mixers before, but now they seem necessary and inevitable.
posted by cotton dress sock at 12:07 AM on December 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I have to give this FPP credit for all the concrete examples. They really help cement the images into my memory.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:16 AM on December 14, 2016 [11 favorites]

Disney Princess mixers.
posted by ckape at 2:27 AM on December 14, 2016 [5 favorites]

I heartily endorse this product.
posted by oheso at 3:36 AM on December 14, 2016

Space capsule mixer.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 3:55 AM on December 14, 2016 [4 favorites]

Want player piano roll mixer. Why is there no player piano roll mixer?
posted by Jane the Brown at 3:59 AM on December 14, 2016

The shoe mixer link goes to a weird place. Otherwise, these are 100% wonderful.
posted by kinnakeet at 4:06 AM on December 14, 2016

Technically it's a concrete mixer, not a cement mixer

Even more technically, those are concrete transport trucks. Not all concrete mixers are vehicles.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 4:30 AM on December 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

That Disney Princess link... is evidence of a very specific fetish.

I bet they feel all mixed up inside about it.
posted by GenjiandProust at 5:02 AM on December 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

That space capsule is great, both the mixer and the backstory! Sure to confuse future civilizations.
posted by TedW at 5:46 AM on December 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

I used to be really scared of cement mixers when I was a kid, because I read a story about someone working on the Hoover Dam who fell in while they were pouring concrete and got buried alive instantly. So as far as I was concerned, wet concrete in volume was A Recipe For Death. I imagined that if I tripped and fell behind a cement mixer at the wrong time it would mean certain horrible death by crushing/suffocating. Years later I saw a cement mixer actually pouring the concrete out and realized that it goes hella slow and at truck-pour volume it would be really hard to die by concrete entombment.
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:34 AM on December 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

I used to be really scared of cement mixers when I was a kid

So was I, mainly because of a scene in "The Incredible Hulk" TV show where Bruce Banner is beaten up, wrapped in some plastic, dropped into a hole and then covered in wet cement. That show could be goofy, but it could also really bring the terror sometimes to the young and impressionable.
posted by AlonzoMosleyFBI at 6:54 AM on December 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

In 8th or 9th grade my parents had an extension put on the house, which involved digging a big rectangular pit in the center of where the new room was gonna go and filling it with concrete, presumably to support some of the weight. I secretly peeped through the blinds and watched the workmen pouring the concrete in, to make sure they didn't stash a body in there first. YOU JUST NEVER KNOW
posted by showbiz_liz at 7:08 AM on December 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

Hey, it's a classic way to hide a body, ask anyone who had a thing for true-crime books as a teenager. Ahem.
posted by tavella at 8:24 AM on December 14, 2016

After 9-11 when there was a lot of construction down here, a lot of workers, some ruffled feelings, and for some reason a fair amount of on-the-clock construction workers spending all day at local bars, one of these bar-dwelling workers took offense at something I said, wanted to fight but his friends held him back. He points to the AT&T Building across the way at 33 Thomas Street, and says, "I put 11 bodies in the foundation of that building, and I've got a place for you in mind!"
posted by StickyCarpet at 8:45 AM on December 14, 2016 [3 favorites]

Imma let you finish but Andy Griffith had the best cement mixer space capsule of all time.
posted by ckape at 10:15 AM on December 14, 2016 [1 favorite]

He points to the AT&T Building across the way at 33 Thomas Street, and says, "I put 11 bodies in the foundation of that building..."

They were probably all hardened criminals.
posted by Greg_Ace at 1:05 PM on December 14, 2016 [2 favorites]

My take on the "11 bodies" thing was that this guy is probably exaggerating, it was more likely only 4 or 5.
posted by StickyCarpet at 7:23 PM on December 14, 2016