TOTALLY A TAAT do you think big tellies are common?

[LennyCrabsticks]

And if so, can you explain why?

I'm fascinated by the whole concept.

Educate me.

They are only viewed as common by twats. Twats aspiring to be something that they will never quite be.

No, we have a huge telly box because we have a huge sitting room!

What do you define as common?

What is it based on? Education, income, professional status?

Ive got a 55 inch telly, don't give a monkeys if anybody thinks that makes me common, me and DP love watching telly and spend a lot of time doing so, so we got a big tv.

Yes Vito and technology has moved on so much we can all have that at home cinema experience

theoretician, i disagree because personally we don't watch telly like that. i dislike being absorbed by it, i see it as very different from a cinema, all consuming experience. i see it a conversation starter and just have it on in the background, i read and mn at the same time dipping in and out. i don't even face it most of the time. if i sat that close to something that big then i'd have to give it more attention than i want.

Also, not sure how huge all of your living rooms are but i've never been able to sit further away than 8ft from the tv. Last house was probably more like 5ft, current house must be about 7ft.

Our room is 18 foot long

I love this thread. Yes, I do think they're common but I still love them. I think the "commonness" comes from the stereotype of families shivering in under-heated, damp council houses, clad in clothes from the market, eating cheap food BUT watching a heeee-ugggggge TV. Priorities, innit.

But I bet the Queen has a 70" plasma.

I do loads of common stuff, despite being a snob. I wear hoop earrings, hoodies, have leopardprint car-seat covers and smoke like a chimney. But I went berserk the other day when DS2 said "haitch".

pink - do you sit against the wall at one end and have the telly on the wall at the other? how wide is it?

Those people do that as tvs are cheap and its very expensive to heat your home, buy fancy food and sort out damp problems. I doubt not having a tv would make any difference in those situations

Its 15 foot wide but its 30 foot long if you cont dining area bit. Its not very big as its a flat

that's not really the norm is it tho pink?

Isn't it? I live in a block of flats in a tiny property in an area where most people are very poor

sorry, i just re-read it and i thought you said 30ft if you DON'T count the dining bit. i see what you mean. my last flat was like that (13'x30' iirc).

I'm just chipping in to say that I am sick of seeing 'council house' pop up every single time a thread like this is on here. A council house seems to be the epitome of 'common'.

We live in a council house in Greater London. It is not a run down area. It is one road of council housing surrounded by houses worth half a million pounds. We are in the catchment for the best schools in the borough. It is not damp, or grubby. It is a perfectly nice 3 bed house. It has double glazing and central heating and cavity wall insulation . It has solar panels on the roof and insulation in the loft. It has a pretty front garden and massive back garden. No glue sniffers or drug dealers that I know of! We pay rent and look after this house like it was our own. It is our home.

We are common though! DH drives a White van for work. We have a 47 inch tv on the chimney breast and we have artificial grass in the garden.

That may be London, but Manchester council estates are not like that.

If your telly is bigger than your dining table at least one of your kids will get an asbo, that's a statistically proven fact

Oooo, I'd love artificial grass.

Wow that's an amazing council house - not like that around here either!! (in an ex council house and would love to move)

oh oh oh we are getting artificial grass. is it still common if you get it in a post modern ironic way and have sculptures of cows on it?

happy2 i agree, my gps lived in a 3 bed semi council house in surrey, it was lovely and had a huge front and back garden. My parents live in an ex council house on an estate which is till about 50% council and the houses are 'worth' almost half a million.

Yes and No.
If there's a massive fucking TV that dominates the Sitting Room... I judge it as common.
If it's elsewhere. I don't see it and therefore don't judge, because I don't see it by virtue of it's position.
I don't like to see a television as the focus of a room. They're big black ugly black or silver things ; they're not things of beauty, just functionality.

I live in a lovely ex council house, too, with plenty of council tenants in the street. One of the nicest parts of the city, excellent schools, garden, just outside the walls of a beautiful touristy city, within walking distance of just about everywhere I would want to go, lovely solidly-built 1930s house, nice front and back garden. It's fairly small, but I like it that way. I was looking through RightMove a while ago, and the only house that I liked significantly more than mine cost a million pounds, and it was only five minutes walk away.

It is a great house and we are very lucky. Of course I know not all council housing is like this, but my point is we are still council tenants and we are none of the things people seem to think of when you say council. There are plenty of families just like us. Working hard, paying our way, living in a council house.

I've got a 65" plasma, as df is an AV fan we got the best telly we could buy, it cost a couple of grand so it is the most expensive item in the room and it is the main focus in the room.

We have had projectors with screens that fill the wall but sadly we sold them.

I love our telly and don't give a fuck if anyone thinks I'm common, I am!