Wouldn't Old Money people have more than one room with sofas etc, where a tv would be appropriate?
It probably just isn't the most public space in the house.
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sumi - Jul 28, 2008 8:10:48 am PDT #9901 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2008 8:11:59 am PDT #9902 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is TV déclassé? I can see it being so in the '60s and '70s, but....
Gadget_Girl - Jul 28, 2008 8:12:37 am PDT #9903 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Yikes, my family almost always had a small TV in the kitchen, the family TV in the den and no TV in the living room.
sumi - Jul 28, 2008 8:12:41 am PDT #9904 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Well, in the public living room - you're supposed to be visiting with people.
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 8:13:39 am PDT #9905 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
eta: I guess it also depends on how high you hang it.
Heh.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 8:14:26 am PDT #9906 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The little b&w in the kitchen.
Heh.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 8:15:37 am PDT #9907 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think anyone with both a living room and a den has the TV in the den -- even my other grandmother who has the plastic on the sofa in the living room.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 28, 2008 8:15:47 am PDT #9908 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We had a tv on a little wheelie cart that we could swing back and forth between the living room and the dining room. We ALWAYS watched the news while we ate dinner. And listened to my grandpa bitch about Jimmy Carter. Or maybe dirty eye-talian food when we were served pasta. Yes. My grandpa was sometimes Archie Bunker. And I am half italian.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 28, 2008 8:16:11 am PDT #9909 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The den/family room.
Hey we had one of those. We were old money, and I didn't even know it. The lack of money might have had something to do with it.
§ ita § - Jul 28, 2008 8:17:52 am PDT #9910 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even though flat-panel TVs are all the rage now, they still stick out like a sore thumb when you aren't using them. However, Pottery Barn has fixed all of that with their new Picture Frame for flat-panel displays. Now you can make it look like art, and stay functional.
Stick out like a sore thumb? Has this guy ever seen a CRT, with his definition of sticking out? Also, relatively speaking, those flanges certainly bring a whole lot of attention to the new tech. And not in a nice way.