To hang my matriculation photo up in the toilet?

[Pluckedpencil]

I saw it at an old friend's house once and it made me smile. Just considering it as I have no space for it anywhere else since we moved house! Is anyone else encumbered with an Oxford/Cambridge matriculation photo? Where do you hang it or do you just stick it in a cupboard? DH thinks it's interesting but I can't think of where it should go! It's not like a graduation photo that your parents keep. It is the group one of the whole college matriculating in that year. Daft problem I know but DH is poised with a nail...

Put it where you want.

Mine was somewhere at my mum’s and is a bit mouldy now to be hung anywhere.
We look so young and such a motley crew, except for the resplendent, flaxen Dutch baroness sat in the middle. I was at an all women’s college so we all have those soft floppy mortar board substitutes on and thin black ribbons in lieu of ties.

It’s awful how few people I remember now.

Depends, how pretentious do you want to look?

Not in the toilet, come on girl!

Depends. Do you want to display it for yourself or to show people?

If it's for you, hang it in your bedroom with pride and enjoy it. If you want everyone to see you in a matriculation photo, then the loo is a good place. Or the hallway next to where you hang coats.

DH’s matriculation photo is in PILs hallway. But no YANBU- the downstairs loo is the traditional place for those kind of photos.

If ever I have a big enough house I might get my old boat club pics framed and stuck in there. Our invitation to a Buckingham Palace garden party is in a frame in the upstairs loo!

I must admit I binned mine
I was looking at it and thinking I would never hang the thing up so why do I still have it

I don't think it's pretentious. I think it's an interesting thing to look at (I do not have one). Put it in the loo

I'm not interested in that kind of thing and wouldn't want strangers hanging on my wall! Bin for me. Toilet for you :)

Mines on the wall of the stairs along with graduation cert and some sports team photos.

I think it shows a casual distain for the privilege that allowed you to go to an Oxbridge college, much like the way people always mention that they 'never graduated' from Oxford. And before you ask yes I do have a massive class chip on my shoulder.

Husband has one of these, I call it's 'Where's Wally'

@ThePlantsitter

I think it shows a casual distain for the privilege that allowed you to go to an Oxbridge college, much like the way people always mention that they 'never graduated' from Oxford. And before you ask yes I do have a massive class chip on my shoulder.

Casual disdain is a good description. There is also a feeling that you should be ashamed of your achievement (I used to avoid saying where I went to university). But actually, I was fortunate to be able to go to Oxbridge. I had enjoyed my time there, did well, met some of my best friends (most of whom are in said photo so it's not just a load of strangers) so no I'm not going to hang the photo in the loo.

As an aside I really don't get the obsession on MN with not hanging photos of yourself in your house. I like being reminded of what I have done and where I've been!

Thanks for the quick opinions! I think casual disdain isn't really what I was going for, it was more a rueful reminder of how some parts of your life can feel so important at the time but afterwards they can become really quite insignificant in the course of things. Plus it's a great Where's Wally, it's true!! Thought it would be good toilet viewing! In the end we have settled for a corner of the hall at eye level so you can study all the terrible haircuts . I will send a photo when it's all sorted!

If you have stairs I would put it going up them! I didn't go to Oxbridge but my partner did and is also reluctant to hang his picture because he thinks it's pretentious so it's just sitting in the loft. I enjoyed the bit in I May Destroy You where one character visibly recoils when he's asked where he went to Uni and knows the judgement that is coming when he says Cambridge!

Is this the photo with you kneeling down pulling on some blokes fingers? Partner went to Cambridge and we went to something for a masters ceremony. Honestly it was a most bizarre spectical-rather like the ministry of funny walks!

Do you have any room that you use as an office or study?
I was lucky enough to have a small extra room where the computer lived so hung things like there.
The advantage - to me - was that, generally, only our immediate family went in there, so it didn't look "on display", however casually.

That may be seen as a disadvantage by some though.

Too late...but yep downstairs loo or hallway, both are fine.

Not pretentious & not disrespectful.

'Where's Wally' 😂

I have no idea where I’d put mine. My parents have the picture of just me at matriculation. I don’t think I bought the one of the whole year.

Traditionally always the downstairs loo, along with cartoons of you when you become an MP. Has no-one on this thread read the Sloane Ranger's Handbook??!!!

Has no-one on this thread read the Sloane Ranger's Handbook?

I did.
And it was one of the books I used to keep in the downstairs toilet... er...loo...I mean lavatory

(Cue many MNetters shaking and crying at the thought of germs on books)

I haven't even opened ds1's, it's still in the cardboard box. He graduated last year.

@nancypineapple

Is this the photo with you kneeling down pulling on some blokes fingers? Partner went to Cambridge and we went to something for a masters ceremony. Honestly it was a most bizarre spectical-rather like the ministry of funny walks!

No its the big group photo of everyone who started in your college that year. Like a school year group photo. So some strangers but also your friends. And in 30 years you may realise that the person behind you with the odd haircut is now really well known. Some people also have the individual photo (again like school photos) but I think it's the group one most of us are talking about.

And Oxbridge graduation ceremonies are a bit weird but personally I liked the traditions and idiosyncrasies (not everyone does though!)

@ThePlantsitter

I think it shows a casual distain for the privilege that allowed you to go to an Oxbridge college, much like the way people always mention that they 'never graduated' from Oxford. And before you ask yes I do have a massive class chip on my shoulder.

I went to an oxbridge college - I am not from a privileged background AT ALL. Yes, the vast majority of Oxbridge students are privileged but not all.

Mine is in a cupboard. My college friends are from my subject or other years so it's not a group that means anything to me. The friends I have from that time are still my closest confidantes and supporters and I wish I had a group photo but I am old - we were still using camera films and I don't have many photos.

My sister went to another university and has displayed her hall of residence photo in her house - it is her (still) dearest friends - as they looked when she first met them and a memory of a very special time in her life. I think that's lovely, not pretentious.

We put my second husbands commission cert and his officer cohort photo taken at Sandhurst in the toilet...

@DameCelia

Traditionally always the downstairs loo, along with cartoons of you when you become an MP. Has no-one on this thread read the Sloane Ranger's Handbook??!!!

She said "toilet", so probably not!