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Variable 5 posted:Libby Ellis. You evil bastard
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Jan 6, 2022 22:48
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Upgrade posted:Big difference if it’s a keyboard vs an upright vs a grand piano She says the sister had a Keyboard that broke when she was partying with friends and the parents bought a $25k grand piano for the Christmas present. Also that after she sold it she gave them back most of the money.
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Jan 6, 2022 22:49
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It's absolutely true that you can get a used home upright piano for the price of "come with a truck, RIP grandma." She said "new," though, and if someone else got a car I'm betting it was a new acoustic upright. Which is a weird gift to give your non-piano kid! I find it VERY strange that they did that. You can get a really good Yamaha Arius digital with weighted keys, realistic key action, and cabinetry that makes it look like furniture for $1-2k. I've got one, they're great. If she's already into piano and a member of a family that rolls this deep I'd be surprised if she didn't already have that or something like that from Kawai or something. Or at least something like a P45. If she's really got nothing and she's trying to start, "I want to be a concert pianist" is some silly poo poo. There are people her age who have been at it every day since they were 4. I started at 33, I'm absolutely not saying don't get a piano and learn piano - but if the family is acting like the OP "killed her dream" or whatever that's nonsense. Weird family. Toxic and rich. e: $25,000 and they got a (I assume/hope baby) grand holy poo poo TheScott2K fucked around with this message at 22:54 on Jan 6, 2022 |
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Jan 6, 2022 22:52
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How do you get a grand piano delivered to your house? Like, logistically. Do they go in sideways with the legs off and then you screw them on and five burly guys turn it upright?
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Jan 6, 2022 23:09
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Upgrade posted:Big difference if it’s a keyboard vs an upright vs a grand piano Yeah, this is a pretty crucial detail that seems to be kinda fudged around in the OP Zore posted:She says the sister had a Keyboard that broke when she was partying with friends and the parents bought a $25k grand piano for the Christmas present. Also that after she sold it she gave them back most of the money. Is this in the comments or something? Because jfc, even if you can easily afford that, buying a $25k baby grand for someone whose pianist career is still in the "dream" stage is insane e: haveblue posted:How do you get a grand piano delivered to your house? Like, logistically. Do they go in sideways with the legs off and then you screw them on and five burly guys turn it upright? More or less, yeah
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Jan 6, 2022 23:10
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They lift it on a rope and pulley system up to one of your windows, sometimes accidentally dropping it on an unsuspecting cat or rabbit hunter that happens to be passing underneath.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:11
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haveblue posted:How do you get a grand piano delivered to your house? Like, logistically. Do they go in sideways with the legs off and then you screw them on and five burly guys turn it upright? Yes, but you don't need 5 burly guys. They are only in the 500 lb range, so 4 regular mover sized guys can do it fine. They have a specific jig/packing/thing that the piano sits on and gets strapped to on it's side, so the can bring it in on a dolly.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:12
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haveblue posted:How do you get a grand piano delivered to your house? Like, logistically. Do they go in sideways with the legs off and then you screw them on and five burly guys turn it upright? There are people who specialize in moving heavy/large objects, the term is "rigger". You hire riggers and they show up with anything needed from nylon straps to a crane. It's an entire business by itself, they carry specialized insurance and everything.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:13
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The porn star greeting card guy is a sub who told his domme about the the secrent santa and she said "spend that money on me." 1,000% certain 0% uncertain it is this
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Jan 6, 2022 23:14
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Uncle Enzo posted:There are people who specialize in moving heavy/large objects, the term is "rigger". You hire riggers and they show up with anything needed from nylon straps to a crane. It's an entire business by itself, they carry specialized insurance and everything. Riggers are not who you want assembling and placing your baby/grand. But if it has to go somewhere the dolly can't get it like up steps the actual piano movers may bring them in to move it to it's final location.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:14
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Uncle Enzo posted:There are people who specialize in moving heavy/large objects, the term is "rigger". You hire riggers and they show up with anything needed from nylon straps to a crane. It's an entire business by itself, they carry specialized insurance and everything.  "Rigger" generally refers to operations where things are lifted off the ground (by more than just "okay, one more step up the front staircase"), if you're bringing a baby grand into someone's first-floor living room then you're just talking about plain ol' moversSource: I'm a theater/trade show rigger
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Jan 6, 2022 23:15
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I just remembered that my parents had a stand-up piano in the house for two or three years when I was a kid and I have no idea where it came from or where it went.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:16
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Same except when I visited for Christmas I noticed the key cover had been incorporated into the headboard of the guest room bed. That piano is almost assuredly dead and gone. 
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Jan 6, 2022 23:20
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Honestly you gotta be REALLY into piano to make paying retail for an acoustic worth it. The digitals are real drat good and even insanely nice ones cost a lot less and come with a lot of conveniences. Just have so many questions about this story.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:23
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kntfkr posted:The porn star greeting card guy is a sub who told his domme about the the secrent santa and she said "spend that money on me." 1,000% certain 0% uncertain it is this i hate that this makes so much sense
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Jan 6, 2022 23:23
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TheScott2K posted:Honestly you gotta be REALLY into piano to make paying retail for an acoustic worth it. The digitals are real drat good and even insanely nice ones cost a lot less and come with a lot of conveniences. Seriously, the only people I've known that had actual, good baby grand pianos in their houses were my college voice coach, my college piano accompanist, my college choir director, and my current choir director. All people with extremely good reason to have nice grand pianos in their houses. Even most of the people I know that play piano professionally (private voice coaches, church pianists, our choir's piano accompanist etc) just have plain uprights in their own homes, and only ever get to use actual grand pianos at rehearsals/concerts.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:34
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Knormal posted:They lift it on a rope and pulley system up to one of your windows, sometimes accidentally dropping it on an unsuspecting cat or rabbit hunter that happens to be passing underneath. That’s particularly a problem with Acme pianos.
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Jan 6, 2022 23:38
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:You evil bastard Why. Why after so long on the internet and SA have I still not learned to temper my curiosity 
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Jan 7, 2022 00:10
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
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Jan 7, 2022 00:11
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My(F27) friend(F27) set me up on a date ... now I'm thinking about our friendship's sincerity quote:
GodDAMN, a "friend" who could compete with all the hateful undermining step-parents, it's-just-a-prank bros, mindfucking exes and narcissist in-laws in this thread.
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Jan 7, 2022 00:52
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I just remembered that my parents had a stand-up piano in the house for two or three years when I was a kid and I have no idea where it came from or where it went. When my mom sold the house she had lived in for 29 years, she just left hers there. Buyer’s problem now.
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Jan 7, 2022 00:55
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https://twitter.com/redditships/status/1479239974713237508
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Jan 7, 2022 00:57
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Hey, do it properly. I edited nudes sent to me by a friend quote:This actually happened today. Throwaway account since most of my friends know my main account. I think this one's actually wholesome.
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Jan 7, 2022 01:00
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Variable 5 posted:When my mom sold the house she had lived in for 29 years, she just left hers there. When I shifted to a digital the family who took my upright gave me a bottle of wine for it. Was good wine.
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Jan 7, 2022 01:01
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QueenAnnesDead posted:My(F27) friend(F27) set me up on a date ... now I'm thinking about our friendship's sincerity The saddest thing here is 'I'm aware no person could find that attractive'. That is just never true. Not ever, not for anyone. *Somebody* will. Whether *you* want to date that person is another question.
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Jan 7, 2022 01:03
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I just remembered that my parents had a stand-up piano in the house for two or three years when I was a kid and I have no idea where it came from or where it went. We had two stand up pianos in my house growing up for some reason and eventually the one upstairs got so out of tune and we were so unable to afford getting it tuned whilst needing the room that we had to get rid of it. Nobody wanted to buy an old, cheap out of tune piano so we threw it out of a window into the back garden then smashed it to pieces with sledge hammers. Patrat fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Jan 7, 2022 |
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Jan 7, 2022 01:06
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Can't hear about piano aquisition without thinking of da joose.
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Jan 7, 2022 01:12
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I recently moved and spent more money on piano movers moving a piano than I paid for regular movers to move literally everything else
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Jan 7, 2022 01:30
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that's nothin', you shoulda seen what it cost to move my pipe organ
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Jan 7, 2022 01:33
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Foo Diddley posted:that's nothin', you shoulda seen what it cost to move my pipe organ You joke but my family has a small pipe organ rotting a barn that a previous owner left
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Jan 7, 2022 01:37
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HopperUK posted:The saddest thing here is 'I'm aware no person could find that attractive'. That is just never true. Not ever, not for anyone. *Somebody* will. Whether *you* want to date that person is another question. Couldn't agree more! The guy - who was, I acknowledge, duped into a fake date and told god knows how many lies - didn't need to go into a detailed explanation of 'everything wot's wrong with fat birds and why I would never'. Huge rear end in a top hat, for sure, but also weirdly oblivious of how all-pervasive the conventional feminine beauty standard is. Don't worry, the specific fat woman you're speechifying at has definitely encountered it. This story struck some strange echoes for me. I suddenly realized I've often seen conventionally attractive women - who are quite Nice People, Really - "offer up" an absent fat friend, then backpedal in horror when, predictably, the dominant culture manifests in some man's casual cruel remarks. I used to think they were falling to the temptation of performative sisterhood, and trying to display allegiance to enlightened ideas of beauty while looking like advertising models. But now I feel like there's something... darker and uglier inside. Case in point. Winter, eleven years ago, just vividly came back to me. I was out to dinner with a large group of Terribly Nice People, Really. Three or four of my old college friends, who happen to be very beautiful, were fondly teasing one of the Nice Young Men who was single. Telling him what a catch he was, encouraging him to get out there. Then they got louder and more excited , showing him photos and things on their phones of a moderately famous lady they all knew. She was becoming a successful pastry chef with a TV show and a boutique shop. Feels a bit grubby to say this, but so you can get the whole picture, she was/is telegenic - Rubenesque, "but" extremely pretty, sparkling smile, huge winning eyes, the works. Conventionally attractive WHILE fat. (I'm sorry if I've fumbled this) Anyway, it was very lighthearted and cute, "think of all the eclairs you could get!", and four or five young men clustered round to look. Then one said, unthinkingly, "looks like she also eats too many pastries, though..." And for a split second it was absolutely clear from the men's faces that they - would never. There was this woman, in absentia, without her knowledge or consent, as if stripped and prodded and pushed to the floor in disdain. Sounds hyperbolic, I know. They were as Nice as Nice Young Men get, and looked sincerely contrite a split-second after. One I think outright apologized, the one being match-made said some very correct things, I had a wry laugh at how their eyes turned towards us, the fatter women at the party, with real guilt for having perhaps hurt us. What's really obsessing me today, though, is the look of guilt and shame that flashed across the faces of the nice, no really very nice, beautiful (slim, fit, marathon-running) women. I know them well, and I think now that just under their superficially innocent intentions, the appearance that they had good-heartedly overestimated the niceness of Nice Young Men, they knew what was going to happen. It's not hard to imagine the occasional temptation of getting a heady shot of reinforcement from the system that privileges you, but which you feel morally obliged to criticize. Plus, the shameful satisfaction of being reassured of one's universal desirability can stay somewhat submerged. On the surface, you can feel legitimately regretful, and deplore the insidious sexism that has tripped you up. This feels like a trope now, a minor social form that I've often seen without thinking about it. I'm recalling a lot of very small incidents. Odd sort of Thursday night with the r/relationships thread.
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Jan 7, 2022 02:11
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AITA for uninviting my cousins from my wedding for feeding info to my mom?quote:I (28M) am an only child. When I was 12 my parents divorced when my dad found out my mom cheated on him. This was devastating to my dad. My parents were best friends and started dating when they were 17. I played sports and my dad was my coach so I had a much closer relationship to him then my mom. I was suppose to spend one week at my moms then the next week at my dads. But I would usually just lock myself in my room at my moms. Usually my dad would drop me off and I would get on my bike and ride the couple miles back to his house. My mom would ask me things and I would literally pretend like she didn’t exist. It got so bad that lawyers got involved thinking my dad was turning me against my mom. My dad encouraged me to spend time with my mom, but I couldn’t. My mom tried putting us in therapy but I would just sit there till the time was up not saying a word to her. Eventually my mom broke down and let me just live with my dad.
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Jan 7, 2022 02:23
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Batterypowered7 posted:The instructions said to read the bolded parts only, my good goon. I don't think the OPs gender was mentioned in the bolded sections. Good to know who would instant fail that one prof's tests.
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Jan 7, 2022 03:01
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Mx. posted:AITA for uninviting my cousins from my wedding for feeding info to my mom? Op needs a whole lot of therapy immediately
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Jan 7, 2022 03:07
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Hey, do it properly. This sounds like something I'd do. If, you know, I could edit photographs.
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Jan 7, 2022 03:13
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rotinaj posted:Op needs a whole lot of therapy immediately Nah. The mom is constantly trying to insert herself into the OP's life despite a clear message of "stay gone", and the cousins were leaking information for over a decade. That's a hell of a betrayal.
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Jan 7, 2022 03:18
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Response is not proportionate
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kimbo305 posted:Good to know who would instant fail that one prof's tests. Reminds me of a professor that made it so that leaving a question blank on the final exam would earn you zero points, but choosing the wrong answer would actually lose you points (to discourage guessing, you see).
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