Funny

That customer sounds insufferable. Might well be the fault of the company but him going on about how much his house cost (and the sofa) makes him sound like a right tosspot.

Why anyone pays for a piano is beyond me. If you'll take it out of someone's house they'll gladly hand it to you. The very great musician Neko Case made a piano orchestra out of several free pianos she put in her barn to record with.

PIVEHHHHHHT

SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UUUUUUUP!

"Hey Ross, when you were yelling 'piv-AT piv-AT,' what did you mean?"

I have a reservation at Esprit de Escalaire for 3 weeks ago if you're free.

It's a "Friend's" meme.

You haven't been doomscrolling enough lately.

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/73184

I still have no idea how people get grand pianos into their houses.

Do a barrel roll!

Per the article posted in the comments, this is a new-build. In the UK, 90% of them are built in the same style that uses a lot of traditional features.

I do agree with the old homes being awkward though. Our staircase is straight, but narrow and very steep. The house itself was probably well built, but the decades of renovations made to it are not necessarily well done. We've found that we've had to strip rooms down to the brick and dirt floor to do it properly.

Older homes are not build to last. Older homes are just worth preserving. I live in the Netherlands we have a shit ton of old homes, if these homes weren’t repaired or renovated across the centuries most of them would have collapsed. Before modern build codes, like before the 20th century, it wasn’t uncommon for an old home to just collapse with the inhabitants in it.

In many Dutch cities old homes are literally sinking into the ground, but instead of demolishing them most owners put in a new foundation. If it was an ugly modern glass box it would have been razed to the ground without a second thought.

... and no 90º angle is actually 90º

Long time ago, first time my wife left me alone for a week since we got together, I decided to go on a Xanax bender. I didn't remember a fucking thing. But, we had a basement with a spiral type stairway where the washer and dryer were. She came home and went to wash her clothes and yelled, "what the actually FUCK!?" there was an entire sheet of plywood wedged in that stairwell, impossibly stuck. She demanded an explanation that I simply could not provide so I played it off like I was doing a building project down there and it got stuck. I had to sawzall that thing to get it out. When we went down we discovered I had built an entire grow cabinet for weed which was entirely up and running. I was like, "surprise!"

She was surprised alright, but not as much as I was lol.