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Cost of moving a piano?
Well in my opinion, of course you should hire a professional piano mover.
Your main question though seems to be the value of your parents gorgeous old mahogany upright, versus the cost of moving it.
Old upright pianos are a testament to a time gone forever, 60 to 100 years old and still functional some still viable as musical instruments, no modern made piano compares. 20 years now moving pianos and at first we never junked these instruments, but as of late they are... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by pianomover
at 12:38 AM on August 30, 2008
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How do I let a guy know I want to sleep with him?
He's a boy so sex should generally be an inevitability if you are around him long enough.
Please don't gender stereotype. This one is old, tired and lame. Not all men are hounding for sex 24/7 and the idea that sex is something women should be able to have from any party merely for the asking isn't particularly productive either.
No reason to just give it away, make him earn it, which he will likely do if he tried... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by DarlingBri
at 7:48 PM on August 25, 2008
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Once in a lifetime
Gee. Yet another article aimed at blaming consumers for the coming darkness. The article seems to completely ignore the economic issues that have pushed many families to incur high debt...like stagnating income, loss of benefits, healthcare costs, etc.
posted to MetaFilter by Thorzdad
at 5:02 AM on August 20, 2008
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Danieal Kelly
I read this is the news today and my first thought was OMG, is this what society's coming to? because its not just this, what about the guy that randomly lopped some other guy's head off in a bus? like hello? wtf is the world coming to?
stepping back from the details of the situation at hand and reading Straightener's insightful sharing of the realities makes me wonder whether there are deeper or unseen systemic issues here that seem to point towards a breakdown of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by infini
at 3:25 AM on August 3, 2008
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So Open it Hurts.
An unexamined life might not be worth living. But it sure is a hell of a lot less annoying.
posted to MetaFilter by spoobnooble
at 5:32 AM on July 29, 2008
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Pregnant Man Gives Birth. That's a fact.
I can't decide on this. I'm not trying to be an asshole, but I really have torn feelings on the matter, and they all centre on the child.
I really do not care if a b(iological)-woman wants to become a l(egal)-man, or if a b-man wants to become a l-woman. It's none of my business. By the same token, I don't care of someone tattoos, brands, splits their penis, splits their tongue, or surgical creates 23 vaginas on their torso.
All of those things... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kickstart70
at 9:06 PM on July 25, 2008
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a beautiful life
As it is, all their energy, creativity and cash goes down the big-city rent hole. What a waste.
Yes. Becuase working at WAL•Mart or Starbucks in the burbs is SOOOO much more fulfilling than pursuing your dream to be an artist surrounded by other artists in a thriving major city.
Dang! Just think of all the wasted opportunities to work in office parks or warehouse stores that are going unfulfilled!
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist
at 6:55 PM on July 25, 2008
Nobody— and I mean NOBODY— should feel guilty getting money/help from their parents IF their parents can afford it and are willing to help.
I left home at 17 years old. Went to college. Never came back from more than a couple of weeks during summers until I was 21. And I've lived on my own sense. Occasionally I would get the nerve up to ask my parents for a couple hundred bucks here and there. But it made me feel like shit. Most often no matter how broke and pathetic I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tkchrist
at 6:37 PM on July 25, 2008
Can't really identify, as I've had no parents since I was 12, and not even a foster parent since I was 17. These kids think life is so tough, but it's a lot tougher when you're all on your own at 17 and it's do or die. So I made the Army my parent for four years, to get me over the late teen hopelessness hump. Worked out okay I guess. Didn't much like getting shot at though.
posted to MetaFilter by jamstigator
at 7:36 PM on July 25, 2008
This is nothing more than America's weird class issues popping their ugly head up again. This article basically boils down to "rich people can afford to do things for their kids that you wish people had done for you, so hate them!" But thats silly. Families have always been giving and taking from each other. Thats what makes it a family. You remember when Generation X had the whole slacker thing because they refused to move out of the boomer's basements? Well, now we're hearing the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Kiablokirk
at 2:04 AM on July 26, 2008
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he could bear to wait no longer
I have trouble with the notion of unlimited agency in situations like this. Simply put, unless negligence is involved, no train driver ever chooses to kill someone who decides to stand on the tracks.
Human beings do not, and cannot, have perfect control over the systems we unleash on the world. If you want to get all Philosophy 101 and call that viewpoint a slippery slope I guess I can see some merit in that, but this is a freakin' train, not Napoleon invading Russia.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by saysthis
at 11:40 PM on July 20, 2008
I once talked to an MTA engineer in Manhattan who had been driving for 17 years and has had this happen to him not once but twice. I was sitting across from the engineer's cabin at the front of the train, and we had been stopped for about 5 minutes, when the door of the cabin swung open and he just looked outside, checking out the mostly empty front car, not saying anything.
I asked him what the hold up was, and he told me there was an "incident" on a car ahead... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime
at 12:39 AM on July 21, 2008
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Fritzl, all too nonfictional
Has no one linked to elfriedejelinek.com yet?
Spice's review is one of the best critical essays I've read in quite a while, even by the elevated standards of the LRB. Avoiding sensationalism while tying the Fritzl story to a serious discussion of contemporary literature is no mean feat; topping it off with a more serious discussion of Jelinek than the dopey condemnations we usually see (especially in English) is a real achievement. I thought the closing paragraph was... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by RogerB
at 12:23 PM on June 8, 2008
There's an English translation of her essay about Fritzl, "The Forsaken Place", available on her site.
posted to MetaFilter by jokeefe
at 12:33 PM on June 8, 2008
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Abortion as Art
Why is something more offensive in art than in real life? Whether it's (apparent) serially induced abortions or the dog (apparently) starving to death in the gallery? Because art is frivolous? Does that mean the women having serial abortions in real life and dogs starving to death in the street are necessary? Is that why you fainting 19th century gentlefolk are here in the salon with your critical language and your smelling salts instead of out in the streets protesting and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fleetmouse
at 3:17 PM on April 17, 2008
I'm pro-choice, and I have to admit that when I first read this link, I was so disappointed just imagining the field day that "pro-life" groups will have with this. But the more I think about it, the more apparent it becomes to me that no one on either side is going to change their mind because of this, and no one is going to see this woman's actions as typical or widespread. Similarly, from an artist's perspective I often cringe at this kind of work because of the reputation it gives... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by sleep_walker
at 5:34 PM on April 17, 2008
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Free Range Kids
They aren't our kids but they are our kids.
This has been my experience as well. I'm sure that the vast, vast majority of adults have a healthy, functional instinct to protect children. I'm not a "kid person," but I know when I see children on their own I naturally want them to be safe - I won't interfere with them, but I also watch for anything that seems distressed or off about the situation. I wonder, though, with the media saturation of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by louche mustachio
at 12:58 PM on April 12, 2008
What I think is ironic about this trend to overprotect our kids is that US culture also places a great value on teaching infants to be independent. We're encouraged not to pick up and cuddle them too much, to leave them with sitters, send them to "School" while still infants, get them sleeping on their own from birth and weaning them early. And then they get bigger and we lock them in the house and wrap them in bubble wrap.
My 13 year old is allowed pretty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Biblio
at 1:29 PM on April 12, 2008
I really wish I could chime in along with most of the people on this thread about how my childhood was free and unfettered, how I walked for miles through the woods unharmed and am a happy, healthy adult for it.
But I can't.
None of the restrictions these kids are put through are new to me. Even though I was born in 1970. I was never allowed to leave our yard unsupervised until I was about ten; in fact, it was an uphill battle for me to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by webmutant
at 4:49 PM on April 12, 2008
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