[Closed] Is hanging a flat panel TV on the wall "pleberian" (sic)?

Your social class is inversely proportional to the size of your TV and the amount of facebook friends you have

I don't have a Facebook account or a TV - I must be King of England. And here was me thinking it made me an antisocial luddite.

Other benefit of wall mounting is the toddler can't stand smack bang infront of it blocking everyone else's view.

A colleague and his wife were so pleased with their first child, they went for another. Only to have twins. He calls them the Wrecking Crew.

He went into the living room one day to find them bouncing a chair off the screen of his non-wall mounted plasma TV. Ouch!

* Captain Flashheart to the Forum please *

He'll know. 😀

Just thinking back to when I was a wee girl, my parents had a TV that was inside a tasteful mahogany cabinet. To view, the doors were opened.

Personally, I just don't get this need for a huge monstrosity. Mine's the smallest size flatscreen and I still think it's a bit in your face. Not on the wall obviously.

Really couldn't comment about whether wall-hung is chavtastic. 🙄

Elf - good pic. 🙂

Omitn I assume you've seen this:

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molly - that's genius..!

😯 😆 at mol's pic

Is that gloss, Mol?

Please tell me it is... 😆

Bloody eck, it's taken 3 months 12 days and no idea how many hours and minutes, not to mention four or five bans, but he's finally made me laugh...

That leftwingsinglespeedridingarguementativeegomaniacalkeyboardwarrior...

edit: answer to OP - yes its chavtastic.

Please don't put it above a fireplace - you'll get neck ache and it's like sitting in the front row of the cinema - great if you're under 10 but otherwise not optimum.

I don't get this. We have our CRT on the floor at the moment as we've not bought a flat screen yet, well we have but it's on the bedroom wall, but the previous house owner had one above the fireplace and quite frankly it seems like the best place for it. Out of the way, not particularly high and doesn't require straining of the neck. I find myself sat in the sofa with a bent neck with the classical CRT on a stand, with it on the wall I get to put my neck in a nice vertical straight position and look just over horizonally. But I can only see that being worse for a 10 year old due to their diminutive stature.

That may be one of the best pics ever taken. I love the little brother in it.. and the fact that Sesame street or whatever it is is still playing underneath the paint.

I've wall mounted ours, well stair mounted as we have stairs with chunk banisters in the lounge. Is much tidier like this and has given us more room, the stairs also provide a nice neat out of the way place to hide the dvd player and amp. Cables are complete hidden too without drilling anything.

That may be one of the best pics ever taken. I love the little brother in it.. and the fact that Sesame street or whatever it is is still playing underneath the paint.

Justin Fletcher / Mr Tumble was obviously on. It was either E45 or a dirty protest required!

What's the name of the TV woman who lives in and renovated a manor house?

Lol at the E45 creme episode.

OMITN - imo seeing as you are 'upper middle class' I'm with C_G and would just go for a tiny telly. Really don't like those big flat screen monstrosities. All focus will be on your lovely woodburner anyway.

so we can watch [s]it[/s] porn from bed

mounted in the wall with cables hidden = middle class

Had no choice for our 42" plasma as it is too wide for the alcoves 🙁 . So the AV10 is for sale on ebay 🙁 . We also have a 32" on a bracket, with one small cable hanging down to the furniture. this was because the previous owners tried to turn the wall into swiss cheese before moving, and I haven't fixed it yet.

Tv in bedroom. I can't think of anything worse. Its worse than mirrored wardrobes- although that has better entertainment benefits.

Tv on a wall makes it the focus of a room and tells visitors that that's your priority. What next a 50" tv with sky package? Cough chav 😉

Tv on wall in a hobby room? Nay probs tho IMO.

Tv in bedroom. I can't think of anything worse. Its worse than mirrored wardrobes- although that has better entertainment benefits.

Why?

Bedrooms are for slap n tickle and sleeping not TV. You 80's throwbacks 🙂

My advice, buy a 50". I bought one after worrying what it would be like going from 32", it's great to watch in my relatively small living room and my only regret is I didn't buy a 60"! I also cut out a 50" piece of cardboard to get the idea first.

Sarah Beeny... That's her.
Anyway they didn't want a TV on view all the time and had a [url= http://www.aglassofitsown.com/mirrors/would-you-use-a-tv-mirror/ ]TV mirror[/url] put in, from what I saw, it worked.

Ok, breath deeply, for a first time ever public agreement with hora on the forum. 😯 TVs in the bedroom are wrong, no explanation needed, they just are.

A TV on the wall in your living room is fine providing this means that there wont be one in your sitting room.

Tv on a wall makes it the focus of a room and tells visitors that that's your priority.

So what do you do in your living room then? Discuss Proust? Violin recitals? Hardcore sex on the rug?

The TV is one of the foci in our room because we like TV, films and Playstation games. And I'm proud of it 🙂

Bedrooms are for slap n tickle and sleeping not TV. You 80's throwbacks

🙂 Sometimes (most nights) I can't sleep - why would I not want to watch TV? If you go downstairs to watch TV you then wake yourself up to get up and go upstairs. Daft not to.

We have...

Lounge - 40" LCD on a stand (at some point to be replaced with 55" which will be wall mounted)

Bedroom - 32" widescreen CRT (which will be replaced with 40" from lounge and wall mounted). TV is great in the bedroom for watching together, for Mrs STR to watch when I have footy on in the lounge, or indeed for porn.

Games room - 26" LCD wall mounted. Used for daughter and friends playing on the Wii, or Mrs STR to watch on the treadmill.

Daughters bedroom - 22" LED/LCD wall mounted at the end of her cabin bed.

Kitchen - defunct CRT portable (on a wall bracket) that used an analogue aerial. This will be replaced with a 26" wall mounted LCD at some point and Sky piped through.

Our house isn't huge, so with limited space flat tellys wall mounted is ideal.

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I've mounted a couple (of lcd monitors) on those articulating arms which are great for swinging them out of the way.

Big screen mounted high looks crap IMO, keep it smaller and low and capable of being moved out of the way (I put the GF's one in such a way that it could be swung back into a press cupboard)

My BIL suggested to me that a flat panel TV on the wall is "pleberian"*, and that it ought to go onto a nice piece of furniture.

The actual word is Plebeian and to use such a word in text is rather fickle.
as its simply down to the individual where whom wants to place it.
Presume thats why the TV comes with a supplied stand and then
you have the option if you want to place it upon a wall
with a secondary optional bracket.

Don't think you find many poorer classes having such luxuries
if thats what you are saying has thats what Romans classed
the working class that had no future as Plebeians.

Your Bil sounds a right Knob

As a Sky engineer I get to see a multitude of TV installs day in,day out and unfortunately the Bulk of wall mounted TV's do tend to reside in the Council/Rented houses with various levels of success.

A wall hung TV done properly can look and function well,ie.TV in proportion to the room,hung at the correct height with ALL cables hidden in a conduit within the wall,DVD,surround sound,games consoles all kept in a nice enclosure either below or to the side..

However 95% fail to achieve this and just look plain $h!te in comparison.

For me if you can do it properly go for it otherwise just get a nice stand for it (Tip: not a Black glass one unless you really like dusting every 5secs)

Coffeeking I normally have a worn mtb mag by my bed, within 5mins I'm falling asleep. If I had a tv I would be up till 11 onwards as TV's stimulate me, I'll find something of interest.

There's an old rule I read somewhere- keep the bedroom purely for sleeping. It trains your mind to fall asleep quickly. Works for me! When I'm in there I feel relaxed.

I must admit I'm not a big fan of tv's in general or footie.

What's wrong with a proper antique Victorian telly cabinet.

sharkbait - Member

so we can watch it porn from bed

FTFY paulo

Cheers 🙂

My post reads abit like a pompous ****- its not meant to!

The actual word is Plebeian and to use such a word in text is rather fickle.

fick·le/?fik?l/
Adjective: Changing frequently, esp. as regards one's loyalties, interests, or affection.

How is that fickle?

Also, you might want to look up what [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic ]sic[/url] means.

I think it's only mainly plebiscopalians that use the wall mounted configuration..

I think it's only mainly plebiscopalians that use the wall mounted configuration..

I think having a TV full stop is pretty chavvy, but wall mounted is definitely 100% chav.

Feng Sui?

footflaps - Member

I think having a TV full stop is pretty chavvy, but wall mounted is definitely 100% chav.

I love the narrow mindedness of people who choose to detatch themselves from certain aspects of life and cast aspertions on those that don't.

Actually, I'm lying, I generally think they are complete tits.

Well if it's chavy, I'm a Chav. Victorian terrace with cupboards built into the alcoves either side of the fire place. I've mounted a tv on a swing out bracket in one above one cupboard so it pushes flat into the alcove and yet will be visible if we have a room full. Wires drop down behind a false wall into the cupboard where the DVD players, sky box etc sit. Surround sound is achieved by routing cables through the ceiling, and down into the other alcove to avoid any wires being visible. Its as large a tv as will fit without over powering the room. Oh, and the alcoves are painted terracotta red...
I like being a Chav!

Gosh I too totally agree with Hora 😀

Children should not have a telly in their bedroom, it's a room for rest, relaxation and sleep. It causes them to have short attention span which is not good in the classroom. Telly can stimulate a childs mind. Lots of books in a child's room is fine.

I love the narrow mindedness of people who choose to detatch themselves from certain aspects of life and cast aspertions on those that don't.

I love how easily some STWers are wound up 🙂

I love the narrow mindedness of people who choose to detatch themselves from certain aspects of life and cast aspertions on those that don't.

Telly isn't a valuable aspect of life though, it's more like visual morphine designed to dull the wits and pass the time quicker in the evenings so you don't have to talk with your family.

I love how easily some STWers are wound up

Good, innit.

Oh, and for all the bores, BIL did say "pleberian". He's dyslexic. It made me laugh and I use it lots now.

I know what I'd like, and no, it won't be looking cahncil, as Fred might put it.