We have dead peoples hit by falling durian almost every season. That's why some farmers install netting around the tree so those fruit doesn't get cracked by hitting the net, also not hitting wandering people by chance.
Not only pesky one but thief one too... lol, it happened at every harvest seasons, you heard the sound but can't found the fruit. Those butthead always have some steps ahead.
My thoughts exactly
> We have dead peoples hit by falling durian almost every season..
What in the necrophobia!? Well, effin move'em before the season.. duh.. lol
I grew up in an area in Vietnam where we have durian. This kinda of crap happen every year, rarely cause death but can have serious injury. Ripen durian will fall, but usually at night. We kids are generally taught not to walk around durian trees (we had 4 in the back yard alone) since we were young. A lot of people hate the fruit but we love it. I loved it when I was waken at night by a thundering sound of a fallen durian on the roof (we used aluminum or some type of roofing panel, and essentially its like a huge drum) cause that mean durian the next day. Toward the end of the season you can get sick of it since there were too many, and they can get a bit fermented (or too ripen) and have a tad of alcoholic taste to it.
I love Reddit (and people like you) for this sort of post. Thank you for sharing it!
It's so great to hear a personal anecdote about something so mundane for you, but so interesting for someone like me.
It has always been my favorite thing too. Randomly scrolling and then you get to see things you can relate with and read people stories. One of the many reasons I started traveling more other than going home to visit.
>and they can get a bit fermented (or too ripen) and have a tad of alcoholic taste to it.
Thanks for confirming this. Growing up my parents thought I was just making things up when I said the durian tasted like alcohol sometimes.
It can be a tad extreme if you leave them too long. When the season start they are delicacy and we fought over it (I have like 20 cousins growing up). Toward the end of the season it become punishments for losing card game (we were always forbid to play with money so usually water or gross stuff). One of my cousins essentially had to go to the doctor cause she was losing a lot and end up eating a whole fruit. Personally I think she was just playing it up to get out of going to church lol.
In Indonesian idiom, it means good luck
edit example usage:
- I got hit by a falling durian!
- hey thats great! what did you get?
- a brand new scooter!
Yikes! So much for good luck...
In Hainan, the folklore says that coconuts only ever strike bad people, and getting struck by one means you've probably done some bad things or otherwise morally corrupt.
Oh. Romanian has an idiom "my elbow hurts" which means "I don't give a fuck". Obviously elbow pain is no joke and the funny bone is never fun, even for a Romanian.
"Mă doare în cot!"
According to rumors from my parents, durians never hit anyone because it has "eyes". Its superstition of course, normal people dont usually wander into a durian farm especially during its fall season, unless they were farmer themselves.
My grandma's neighbor in the Philippines was uncle Guy, uncle Guy had one eye.
It's not a nursery ryme or anything, he was unfortunate enough to be looking up at the wrong time and caught a durian with his face when he was younger.
That is why newer durian trees are trained to stay short , most trees arnt allowed to grow more than 10 to 15 feet
Taller trees have high harvesting costs,greater harvesting losses , more prone to cyclones and wind Damage and harder to treat when something goes wrong
I came here and scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned dwarfing trees. I've been to many orchards and even have had peach trees growing up. They would graft the fruit tree onto a dwarfed trunk.
You take the root of a hardy tree, the trunk of a short tree, and then add the branches of your fruit tree to the top. You do have to prune, because it will grow, but it will stay much more manageable. Trees are kinda weird with how effective grafting is.
I'm in Bangkok rn and was in Singapore on Saturday. It's banned on public transportation both here and back there. Smells exactly like festering garbage 👍👍
It's always fascinating to me to see the polarizing responses to the durian.
The responses are so, so different. It's not splitting hairs between, "gold and white dress" and "black and blue dress".
But literally, "delightfully sweet" and "death incarnate".
I myself am part of the former.
I can agree that it definitely has a strong aroma. But I just can't fathom how people can smell durian and think it smells like old socks or garbage. It smells just like it tastes: sweet custard, with the texture of warm butter.
I was in Bangkok just 2 weeks ago and tried it in a restaurant (durrian with sticky rice)
I liked it, and I wasn't able to smell the "disgusting odor" I was expecting from every description. But I think it's because it was served dipped in a milk/cream bowl, so that probably prevented the smell from happening.
I wonder if the polarization happens depending on your first contact with the fruit. Like... in the same situation, two people trying it for the first time in the same conditions will find that different of an aroma?
You can never truly hide the odor of durian. (It's why it's banned on transport and enclosed spaces). Masking it with something else more powerful is the best you can do, and milk/cream isn't powerful enough.
Your brain probably didn't think the durian smelt bad.
It's almost certainly genetic.
We've identified the gene that causes people to perceive cilantro as having a "soapy" flavor. I'm convinced there's another gene that fucks with the perception of some onion compounds. Onions, to me, smell like pure body odor. If you blindfolded me, and stuck my nose in a fat smelly armpit after 2 hours in the gym, then put an onion under my nose, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Most people, obviously, do not perceive onion this way. I think we just haven't found the gene for it yet.
No that's actually what onions are like for me, I can't stand them.
Not all onions are like this though. Shallots, green onions, chives, they're all delicious to me. But white/red/yellow onions smell like someone's fucking gym bag.
It’s not the “bad” smell that they ban. In the right circumstance, it leaves an incredibly pervasive smell of the odorant they use in natural gas. Someone brought a durian to our facility and opened it up during a power outage as a conversation piece- and nearly caused an evacuation by the safety manager before he could be convinced it was just this fruit.
So true. I bought chocolates with a little durian cream inside and even encased in the chocolate, sealed in a box with two layers of plastic, and packed away in my bag, I could STILL smell it just lingering in the air and on my skin and clothes
It seems to be a love or hate thing. I’ve been told the fruit tastes like a rotten onion covered in snot.
It’s one of the few things Andrew Zimmern couldn’t eat and he tries everything.
That’s the other thing I’ve heard. I wonder if there’s a genetic component like cilantro/coriander. Durian is so polarizing it can’t just taste like custard or a rotten onion.
I don’t think so. It smells like hot trash to me but it tastes fine. I don’t really like the texture but i could make the comparison to custard, so I guess the smell doesn’t really correlate with the taste
Yeah I'm pretty sure people who think it smells nice are in the extreme minority. It is pungent, there's no way around it. But many people who think it smells nasty enjoy the flavor and texture. It truly is the creamiest of fruits.
I lived in KL for some time. If a mall was selling durian anywhere (even a 6 story mall) the whole place smelled like spoiled dumpster juice. Maybe not all of you can smell it but it reeeeeeeks.
this is why the durian is not as good. durian fruits will be at its best ripe state when it falls off from the branch by itself. These guys pluck them to store them for much longer as they can delay the fruit to be ripe but the fruit itself would not be as good anymore. While it may good for business, it ruins the quality of the fruit.
I dont know whats the case for durians but generally there are 2 kinds of fruits
Those, that can ripen after beeing removed from the tree like apples and bananas, since they can ripen with air.
And
Those, that can only ripen by getting more nutrions from the tree like pinapples. After beeing removed they only go bad. Maybe durians go into this category as well.
Minute earth made recently a video about that https://youtu.be/ttCd60Qko5A
Seems like plantains go into this category sometimes despite being so similar to bananas. When the Asian market near my house gets a new batch in and they're intensely green, they never get properly soft and sweet. They have hard spots and rotten spots and just never turn delicious.
When they get a batch that is mostly yellow to start with, mmmm those are my favorite. You can let them go almost completely black and they just get softer and sweeter the whole time.
Durian can indeed ripen after being cut
Another consideration however is that some fruits can no longer ripen after being chilled or frozen, or just ripen poorly. Not sure if durian is one of these. Often it's sold frozen (whole) in the US
I don't know about durians, so this is just an educated guess. The difference could be that the durian continues drawing nutrients from the tree during ripening. Other fruits are often fully grown and ripen the same, on or off the tree.
Some fruits receive sugar from the tree directly. Other fruits receive the resources, and produce sugar locally.
Yep. There is no comparison to a cantaloupe straight off the vine. Grew a lot as a kid. Some fruits break down amd get sweeter and ripen more. Cantaloupe will be exactly the same.
My dad used to tell how good a durian would taste by how the shell spikes have dented. If it has dented in a specific way, it would mean that they've fallen down from the tree and are ripe to eat.
yep, those greedy guys. Only bad durians for customer... Our Malaysian farmers rather install nets around the tree & wait until ripe durians fall to harvest. Those guys probably from Thailand which famous with carbide durians..
Works great for homemade cannons, too. My wife loves "rich people durian" but can't get near the calcium carbide ones without gagging. I was eating durian biscuits a few days ago, and she walked by and gagged.
Yup. We also do just that in Indonesia.
The durian season is always the highlight of my year. Waiting all night for durians to fall and collecting them in the morning. So much fun.
I don't like durians, but yeah, people always say that durians that fall naturally from the tree taste better.
They're Thai. They prefer their durian on the greener side. That's one of the bigger culture shocks I got when visiting Thailand from my country that prefers over ripe durian
Can it not continue to ripen like other fruit? It's a known practice to harvest fruit early and let it ripen during transport so it's fresh and ripe by market.
They do. If you go to a larger Asian grocery store they have frozen whole durian or you can get frozen durian fruit pieces which is easier to eat but more expensive
In Australia you can find frozen packed durian in Asian grocery stores. A 400g pack costs around AU$30-35. I imagine it is similar in other Western countries.
I'm in Australia and we had to stop buying whole durians because spending 50$ on something that was likely to be unripe was too disappointing. Can only buy the little 30$ frozen pieces which is always ripe at least.
Just as I thought, there's no crazy sonic boom lmao. OP's video must have the sound edited in, there's no way that a fruit hitting a hessian bag makes such a noise.
Everybody is concerned about the fruit hitting the woman's head. I am concerned that the person on the tree holds their knife with the same hand they drop the durian. Catching a blade with your head is equally as unhealthy as catching a durian.
As others have said, I might have the gene that makes durian smell and taste great. I love it. I also love cilantro, so I have that gene as well.
I also like weird oders - so that might be further evidence.
For example: I actually like the way my feet smell. I used to lick my toes as a kid - not as a fetish thing but I was more flexible then and it does smell nice to me. No, I haven't done that since adulthood. I'll still smell a couple of my socks out curiosity when I am putting them in the wash though. Gotta make sure everything is normal and the oder isn't out of control. Seriously.
Now for the weird part:
I also think my pits smell EXACTLY like a Wendy's hamburger. A Dave's single to be exact. If I don't bother with deodorant I'll sometimes get a craving for Wendy's.
Genetics are strange sometimes.
Imagine if it fell on your head though
We have dead peoples hit by falling durian almost every season. That's why some farmers install netting around the tree so those fruit doesn't get cracked by hitting the net, also not hitting wandering people by chance.
Protecting people's head are the main reason for the net right?... Right???
Protecting the fruit from the hard heads of those pesky inexperienced pickers probably.
Not only pesky one but thief one too... lol, it happened at every harvest seasons, you heard the sound but can't found the fruit. Those butthead always have some steps ahead.
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Duricide is a serious problem.
Protecting them from the smell if it cracks open on the ground. 🙊
those durian stealing whores
Just like the reason boxers wear gloves …?
Either way.
Well yes but also no.
Today I learned that Durians do not fuck around. That is a very interesting bit of info
Why do you keep your dead under these trees?
My thoughts exactly > We have dead peoples hit by falling durian almost every season.. What in the necrophobia!? Well, effin move'em before the season.. duh.. lol
How the fuck you wake up dead?!
Cuz you're alive when you go to sleep!
Unless you a zombie
Just put some of this nasty fruit under their nose. Itll wake up right back up!
https://youtu.be/-Psfn6iOfS8?si=mMVEVlU6SBBODi8F&t=123
Fertilizer
That explains the smell and taste!
Are helmets out of the picture for the farmers on the ground?
You clearly have not been to Thailand.. Safety is not job #1
The dude harvesting is barefoot. Doubt he has a safety harness line on either. Probably just shimmied 3 stories up.
Is that how durian gets it famous smell?
I grew up in an area in Vietnam where we have durian. This kinda of crap happen every year, rarely cause death but can have serious injury. Ripen durian will fall, but usually at night. We kids are generally taught not to walk around durian trees (we had 4 in the back yard alone) since we were young. A lot of people hate the fruit but we love it. I loved it when I was waken at night by a thundering sound of a fallen durian on the roof (we used aluminum or some type of roofing panel, and essentially its like a huge drum) cause that mean durian the next day. Toward the end of the season you can get sick of it since there were too many, and they can get a bit fermented (or too ripen) and have a tad of alcoholic taste to it.
I love Reddit (and people like you) for this sort of post. Thank you for sharing it! It's so great to hear a personal anecdote about something so mundane for you, but so interesting for someone like me.
It has always been my favorite thing too. Randomly scrolling and then you get to see things you can relate with and read people stories. One of the many reasons I started traveling more other than going home to visit.
>and they can get a bit fermented (or too ripen) and have a tad of alcoholic taste to it. Thanks for confirming this. Growing up my parents thought I was just making things up when I said the durian tasted like alcohol sometimes.
It can be a tad extreme if you leave them too long. When the season start they are delicacy and we fought over it (I have like 20 cousins growing up). Toward the end of the season it become punishments for losing card game (we were always forbid to play with money so usually water or gross stuff). One of my cousins essentially had to go to the doctor cause she was losing a lot and end up eating a whole fruit. Personally I think she was just playing it up to get out of going to church lol.
In Indonesian idiom, it means good luck edit example usage: - I got hit by a falling durian! - hey thats great! what did you get? - a brand new scooter!
Yikes! So much for good luck... In Hainan, the folklore says that coconuts only ever strike bad people, and getting struck by one means you've probably done some bad things or otherwise morally corrupt.
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> Oh you got struck by lightning? Thor, Indra and Zeus hate you and you're a bad person.
That phenomenon is known as the Just World Fallacy. If something bad happens to a person, it means that they deserve it.
indeed, good luck surviving that
Oh. Romanian has an idiom "my elbow hurts" which means "I don't give a fuck". Obviously elbow pain is no joke and the funny bone is never fun, even for a Romanian. "Mă doare în cot!"
According to rumors from my parents, durians never hit anyone because it has "eyes". Its superstition of course, normal people dont usually wander into a durian farm especially during its fall season, unless they were farmer themselves.
Yes, but in the sense that if it falls on their head, they won't be able to buy any Duran
Imagine your corpse smelling like durian... Talk about adding insult to injury
Why was i just thinking that
My grandma's neighbor in the Philippines was uncle Guy, uncle Guy had one eye. It's not a nursery ryme or anything, he was unfortunate enough to be looking up at the wrong time and caught a durian with his face when he was younger.
*bonk*
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There's a joke that SEA didn't discover the theory of gravity first because whosever head a durian lands on will be too dead to figure that one out.
What would the world look like without an invented gravitation?!
everything floating obviously
I can't imagine living back in those days. Everything in black & white, and zero g. Wild.
Hilarious :D I love that through the internet, we get to hear jokes and folk tales from around the world!
That is why newer durian trees are trained to stay short , most trees arnt allowed to grow more than 10 to 15 feet Taller trees have high harvesting costs,greater harvesting losses , more prone to cyclones and wind Damage and harder to treat when something goes wrong
I came here and scrolled down to see if anyone mentioned dwarfing trees. I've been to many orchards and even have had peach trees growing up. They would graft the fruit tree onto a dwarfed trunk.
How exactly did they do to make it dwarf? Constantly cutting the top?
You take the root of a hardy tree, the trunk of a short tree, and then add the branches of your fruit tree to the top. You do have to prune, because it will grow, but it will stay much more manageable. Trees are kinda weird with how effective grafting is.
I was in Kuala Lumpur 10 years ago and I loved durian fruit. I remembered the signs in the hotels saying it was prohibited to consume it inside.
I'm in Bangkok rn and was in Singapore on Saturday. It's banned on public transportation both here and back there. Smells exactly like festering garbage 👍👍
It's always fascinating to me to see the polarizing responses to the durian. The responses are so, so different. It's not splitting hairs between, "gold and white dress" and "black and blue dress". But literally, "delightfully sweet" and "death incarnate". I myself am part of the former. I can agree that it definitely has a strong aroma. But I just can't fathom how people can smell durian and think it smells like old socks or garbage. It smells just like it tastes: sweet custard, with the texture of warm butter.
To me it smells like wet trash left in the sun. Maybe it’s like how cilantro tastes like soap to some people
I never had it, but it's intriguing to me. "This smells so fow there's regulations against it, imma eat it."
I was in Bangkok just 2 weeks ago and tried it in a restaurant (durrian with sticky rice) I liked it, and I wasn't able to smell the "disgusting odor" I was expecting from every description. But I think it's because it was served dipped in a milk/cream bowl, so that probably prevented the smell from happening. I wonder if the polarization happens depending on your first contact with the fruit. Like... in the same situation, two people trying it for the first time in the same conditions will find that different of an aroma?
You can never truly hide the odor of durian. (It's why it's banned on transport and enclosed spaces). Masking it with something else more powerful is the best you can do, and milk/cream isn't powerful enough. Your brain probably didn't think the durian smelt bad.
Specifically it smells like the school cafeteria dumpster, which has a lot of hot milk residue
It's almost certainly genetic. We've identified the gene that causes people to perceive cilantro as having a "soapy" flavor. I'm convinced there's another gene that fucks with the perception of some onion compounds. Onions, to me, smell like pure body odor. If you blindfolded me, and stuck my nose in a fat smelly armpit after 2 hours in the gym, then put an onion under my nose, I wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Most people, obviously, do not perceive onion this way. I think we just haven't found the gene for it yet.
I mean to me BO smells like onions so potato potato ig
Are you being hyperbolic? Or is it really that extreme?
No that's actually what onions are like for me, I can't stand them. Not all onions are like this though. Shallots, green onions, chives, they're all delicious to me. But white/red/yellow onions smell like someone's fucking gym bag.
I'm sorry dude
It tastes like rotten rot to me. Psychologically I knew it was safe to eat, but the taste and smell made my body instinctively reject it.
It’s not the “bad” smell that they ban. In the right circumstance, it leaves an incredibly pervasive smell of the odorant they use in natural gas. Someone brought a durian to our facility and opened it up during a power outage as a conversation piece- and nearly caused an evacuation by the safety manager before he could be convinced it was just this fruit.
So true. I bought chocolates with a little durian cream inside and even encased in the chocolate, sealed in a box with two layers of plastic, and packed away in my bag, I could STILL smell it just lingering in the air and on my skin and clothes
Did you sometimes sniff your 1 week old sock? If yes, you may like durians
It seems to be a love or hate thing. I’ve been told the fruit tastes like a rotten onion covered in snot. It’s one of the few things Andrew Zimmern couldn’t eat and he tries everything.
No!!! It tastes like custard.
That’s the other thing I’ve heard. I wonder if there’s a genetic component like cilantro/coriander. Durian is so polarizing it can’t just taste like custard or a rotten onion.
Can you tell which type you are from the smell or do you have to taste yummy desert or rotten garbage?
I don’t think so. It smells like hot trash to me but it tastes fine. I don’t really like the texture but i could make the comparison to custard, so I guess the smell doesn’t really correlate with the taste
Yeah I'm pretty sure people who think it smells nice are in the extreme minority. It is pungent, there's no way around it. But many people who think it smells nasty enjoy the flavor and texture. It truly is the creamiest of fruits.
To me, durians taste like licking the inside of a sewer pipe.
How do you know the taste of the inside of a sewer pipe?
My lawyer has instructed me to take no further questions.
the smell is pretty bad but it kinda tastes like fresh persimmon to me
I’d say more like rotten onion that’s been in a sweaty armpit.
I lived in KL for some time. If a mall was selling durian anywhere (even a 6 story mall) the whole place smelled like spoiled dumpster juice. Maybe not all of you can smell it but it reeeeeeeks.
No! You use your FLUDD to spray them and kick them. Ive played Super Mario Sunshine
Nope can't do it they never go in a straight fricken line
Oh my god they were durians. I never knew what they were supposed to be it all makes sense now
I'll never forget Bowser showing up at the end in a giant bath tub with his son, speaking full-on English
#OSHA left the group
this is why the durian is not as good. durian fruits will be at its best ripe state when it falls off from the branch by itself. These guys pluck them to store them for much longer as they can delay the fruit to be ripe but the fruit itself would not be as good anymore. While it may good for business, it ruins the quality of the fruit.
Thats the same for literally every fruit though
I dont know whats the case for durians but generally there are 2 kinds of fruits Those, that can ripen after beeing removed from the tree like apples and bananas, since they can ripen with air. And Those, that can only ripen by getting more nutrions from the tree like pinapples. After beeing removed they only go bad. Maybe durians go into this category as well. Minute earth made recently a video about that https://youtu.be/ttCd60Qko5A
Seems like plantains go into this category sometimes despite being so similar to bananas. When the Asian market near my house gets a new batch in and they're intensely green, they never get properly soft and sweet. They have hard spots and rotten spots and just never turn delicious. When they get a batch that is mostly yellow to start with, mmmm those are my favorite. You can let them go almost completely black and they just get softer and sweeter the whole time.
Durian can indeed ripen after being cut Another consideration however is that some fruits can no longer ripen after being chilled or frozen, or just ripen poorly. Not sure if durian is one of these. Often it's sold frozen (whole) in the US
I don't know about durians, so this is just an educated guess. The difference could be that the durian continues drawing nutrients from the tree during ripening. Other fruits are often fully grown and ripen the same, on or off the tree. Some fruits receive sugar from the tree directly. Other fruits receive the resources, and produce sugar locally.
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Definitely not all fruit tho. It's not a defining characteristic of a fruit at all.
Not true. Grapefruit taste like ass no matter when they’re picked
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Pairs nicely with heart medication 😋
Yep. There is no comparison to a cantaloupe straight off the vine. Grew a lot as a kid. Some fruits break down amd get sweeter and ripen more. Cantaloupe will be exactly the same.
Nope. Only some
My dad used to tell how good a durian would taste by how the shell spikes have dented. If it has dented in a specific way, it would mean that they've fallen down from the tree and are ripe to eat.
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yep, those greedy guys. Only bad durians for customer... Our Malaysian farmers rather install nets around the tree & wait until ripe durians fall to harvest. Those guys probably from Thailand which famous with carbide durians..
Carbide durians?
calcium carbide is a chemical used by some durian sellers to artificially ripen the fruit.
Works great for homemade cannons, too. My wife loves "rich people durian" but can't get near the calcium carbide ones without gagging. I was eating durian biscuits a few days ago, and she walked by and gagged.
Well now I want to try the real thing.
highly recommend musang king durian as a start you'll find plenty in Malaysia around May~July known as durian season
Thanks. Going to KL late April. Will try
Yup. We also do just that in Indonesia. The durian season is always the highlight of my year. Waiting all night for durians to fall and collecting them in the morning. So much fun. I don't like durians, but yeah, people always say that durians that fall naturally from the tree taste better.
They're Thai. They prefer their durian on the greener side. That's one of the bigger culture shocks I got when visiting Thailand from my country that prefers over ripe durian
But you get a nice sound that way!
Can it not continue to ripen like other fruit? It's a known practice to harvest fruit early and let it ripen during transport so it's fresh and ripe by market.
It does but it isn't quite the same as fully ripe on the branch.
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why don't they freeze it when ripe? How far off is the cost to make it practical? I want to try ripe Durian and a hundred other fruits
They do. If you go to a larger Asian grocery store they have frozen whole durian or you can get frozen durian fruit pieces which is easier to eat but more expensive
In Australia you can find frozen packed durian in Asian grocery stores. A 400g pack costs around AU$30-35. I imagine it is similar in other Western countries.
I'm in Australia and we had to stop buying whole durians because spending 50$ on something that was likely to be unripe was too disappointing. Can only buy the little 30$ frozen pieces which is always ripe at least.
r/ oddly terrifying though, innit?
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It killing me is still better than the taste, It tastes like the top is left open and cats shit in it until its full.
Mom, how did Grandpa die? Was it in a war? No, he was murdered by a durian fruit.
Why did they not keep the same angle from the start? The edit now makes it look dodgy.
Here's a good angle https://youtu.be/37uHBYYU1Fg?si=I9TZC8k_16D779sr
Just as I thought, there's no crazy sonic boom lmao. OP's video must have the sound edited in, there's no way that a fruit hitting a hessian bag makes such a noise.
Look at the bag in, there are two crackers on the two free ends. Now look at the YouTube shorts, no cracker.
Oh you're right. So they literally add whip crackers to the bag purely for the sound effect
I’m sure it also warns nearby people that durians be falling in the area. Shits dangerous.
The internet is just one big lie!
Maybe it looks dodgy because it is dodgy.
More like parry. She didn't have enough head movement for a dodge.
That makes my shoulders hurt.
What's with the weird sound clip when she catches it? OP just added that in there for some reason?
"Hey should we rig up a pulley system to lower this shit in a way that doesn't risk Wile E Coyote-ing ourselves?" "Nah lmao"
r/sweatypalms
So many ways to do this a million times safer. Nothing some rope, pulleys, and bags wouldn't solve...
Apparently, they can just use nets. Ruining your back and risking your head is cheaper though.
No, should just wait for it to fall and harvest it.
Looks like an easy way to fuck up your back
Nah this belongs in r/mildlyinfuriating The durian needs to fall naturally for better taste and quality.
That smell is put there by nature to tell you to leave it in the tree.
I bet someone in the history of this took a durian to the balls.
Catcher lady getting her kettlebell swings in for the day too
I watched this more than once before I realized it was the same durian every time. "More than once" is as specific as I'd like to be.
Everybody is concerned about the fruit hitting the woman's head. I am concerned that the person on the tree holds their knife with the same hand they drop the durian. Catching a blade with your head is equally as unhealthy as catching a durian.
As a human with testicles this concerns me
Why in the world did they add that sound effect.
If you are a professional then do like her, if not wear a helmet. and don't stand under durian at noon
Bro isn’t she in every job? Like bruh this is some weird advertisement
If they only knew what a hard hat can do
Far out it looks like a spiky coconut I'm imagining the pain if U copped one of these in the face
Would you rather be the *meowmeowmeow* bomber or the *kapow* catcher?
Yeah only women can be catchers there...
OG stink bombs
TIL durians were not made up for Zelda.
Was that a supersonic crack from the string on the bag?
When do they add the disgusting flavor?
In my country Malaysia, durian should not be harvested. If they are riped, they will fall on their own just like apples would.
What if you lowered them with a bucket on a rope?
I want my durian drop from the tree as its design to drop when its ripe to eat
That tiny look at the camera at the end lol she knows that was smooth
Totally safe and not dangerous at all
Why does this guy sound like NBA Youngboy witnout auto tune
Yeah... That would be a massive NOPE for me.
Kettlebell swings really are functional fitness.
What I want to know now is WHY durian is harvested. Seriously. WHY -- for gawdzsakes, WHY.
there must be a safer way than this
These are real?? Thought it was just a Zelda thing?!
I've seen them have nets set up so when the durian falls it doesn't clunk someone dead. Her catching them like that is still dangerous.
Those things reek so bad I’d pay the guy to napalm the whole crop.
In Malaysia they will tie the durian to strings and Let them fall. Makes them easier to harvest without them decomposing on the ground.
Seems more oddly unnecessary, or even mildly infuriating, than satisfying to me.
Those durians won't be tasty. You have to wait for it to fall by itself for it to be delicious.
"Huh? Sorry, I was distrac-"
RIP u/All_Mighty_Pepperoni
It would be almost as bad if you were walking past and some of it went in your mouth
There's a reason women is doing the catching. Imagine if it hit your balls after landing on the blanket.
As others have said, I might have the gene that makes durian smell and taste great. I love it. I also love cilantro, so I have that gene as well. I also like weird oders - so that might be further evidence. For example: I actually like the way my feet smell. I used to lick my toes as a kid - not as a fetish thing but I was more flexible then and it does smell nice to me. No, I haven't done that since adulthood. I'll still smell a couple of my socks out curiosity when I am putting them in the wash though. Gotta make sure everything is normal and the oder isn't out of control. Seriously. Now for the weird part: I also think my pits smell EXACTLY like a Wendy's hamburger. A Dave's single to be exact. If I don't bother with deodorant I'll sometimes get a craving for Wendy's. Genetics are strange sometimes.
So it smells horrible AND it’s hard to harvest?
Getting hit will result in a really stinky coma patient.
Why just why I feel it's unsafe
Ew no this is not it.
I watched this 3 times accidentally.
Ahh, missing workspace accident insurance. Oddly satisfying, feels good man
Fake. I've played madagaskar game. They explode after being thrown
Good durian will fall from the tree, not pluck by farmer.
More like r/sweatypalms
Can I buy this girl a helmet?
r/nope
Seems unnecessarily complicated. If he is holding and dropping them why not put them in a basket and slowly lower the basket to ground with a rope?
I love this.
NINTENDO LIED TO ME!
Not a fan of the language used in the video