Who notices that someone is better at mounting tvs? How does one notice this? What is this made up scenario?
Professional handymen, electronics installers, contractors, people who do this kind of thing for a living.
I’m one of those. Anyone else think it looks a tiny bit higher on the right hand side? Lol
Definitely.
I think it’s pretty hard to judge by eye, at an angle, in a poor quality picture.
But I’m also not a professional, nor was I answering a question about this particular mount’s levelness.
Better work with the cabling, perhaps. In this picture you can see that there’s a new work box in the drywall so he’s running hidden cables. There could be drywall patching or he’s really good at making the holes so there doesn’t need to be patching.
He could do more types of mounts than this guy is used to.
He could be faster.
Is that you’re completely unimaginative so you can’t come up with ways someone might be better or do you have so little respect for trades that you think there can’t be skill involved?
Pros notice tiny details that most people don’t even think of.
Maybe they did the job 5 minutes faster or the mount job just looks cleaner than yours.
One example: Check the screws on your electric outlet/light switch faceplates. If the screws are aligned, your electrician gave a shit about their work
I see it all the time.
Like someone shares a photo their desk and their setup is so slick. Or someone shows off their kitchen. Those are things I like a lot and want to improve. So rather than scroll past, or leave a hater response, I ask questions to pick up what they’re dropping. You can try that.
That doesn’t address the quality of hanging a TV. The things you mentioned are superficial. Being good at hanging a TV is structural. The only way one would know if another was good or bad at it is if the TV eventually fell off the wall or was loose, which one could not see from a FB post.
It probably has to do with routing cables through the wall more than anything
Just because you don’t do something doesn’t mean nobody does. Maybe don’t assume something is made up just because you’re unfamiliar with it.
Yeah this is a weird one for sure. I hate to be a “nothing ever happens” person but this one didn’t happen like the caption says it did.
“okay, the camera is rolling, now whip out your dong and fuck that TV like it’s your mother’s sister!”
15 seconds later
“damn, how do you even… in the hdmi… it comes back out of the coax?! could you teach me how to do that?”
and from that day forward, it was a duo of TV mounters
Presumably somebody that mounts TVs for a living.
You don’t post videos of your TV mounting skills on Fb??
And why would anyone hate on someone for being good at mounting a TV?
Advertisement for whatever slrpnk dot net is trying to sell?
I definitely have friends who I know are a lot better at this kind of stuff than I am (mostly because they get less anxious over what happens if they screw up but…). I have never seen a difference once the tv is mounted because… you can’t see the fricking mount once the TV is mounted.
I dunno. I also kind of have problems with the underlying premise too. Yes, toxic masculinity is a massive problem and people very much do not realize how few “male role models” there are for kids who aren’t bald human traffickers and the people who sniff their chairs. But “Hey dude, I see you are a super masculine strong man with a bubble level” is not the answer.
The answer is to teach kids they don’t NEED role models that fit the same gender roles they do (or, more often, their parents think they should). An athlete is an athlete and a smart person is a smart person. Same with being “handy”. This is a lesson girls/“girls” were forced to learn long ago and is one boys/“boys” would benefit from. Because then you don’t need to say “Well, I like what this person is saying but they have the wrong genitalia and aren’t muscular enough”.
That’s another lemmy instance.
Knew that part but figured it was an article based on the link. Apparently just a picture of a facebook post.
So… no idea what that facebook post was trying to sell but I guess this is why all that AI nonsense is spammed endlessly on that site.
They’re not trying to sell anything.
This is the internet. Always assume people are selling something.
In this case? MAYBE it is someone advertising their handyman service (doubtful because this is a nonsense premise). More likely? It is the same as all those posts about the fucking aligator or puppy and all the ai generated jesus missing a leg and wearing a military uniform pictures where people say “Why don’t these posts ever go viral”? It is nonsense that boomers stare at and share.
Which in and of themselves are “harmless”. But when the metrics for those posts get high enough? THAT is when the owner of those bots post ads.
Screenshotting with no citation kind of undermines that so… good? But it is important to understand why content like this exists.
Take off the tinfoil hat and go touch some grass.
You are wildly naive if you view things this way
My step-brother and I weren’t family until a decade ago. He goes into incel mode and projects his insecurity by hating on everybody.
But today, he shared this with me about something he wants to get better at as he was getting tired of being angry all the time.
So hopefully this message gets across to more people.
Y’all were always family even though you never met.
Do you know how step siblings work?
Yes, you fuck them when they get stuck under a bed
Clearly…Do you know how kind words work.
I’m an angry individual lately due to society’s failings and being constantly lied to and jerked around with ally business dealings…thanks for reinforcing the stereotype of society crumbling under capitalism. Really helps when I’m trying to be a different person. No reply needed.
True kings fix each other’s crowns.
I like this a lot. Thank you king.
Nice message, but the thought of the existence of a competitive scene of contractors specializing in mounting TVs is hilarious. Also, that mounting plate is crooked af.
My workplace has been going through some remodeling and I’ve been spending time shooting the breeze with the electricians especially, and they will spend countless hours giving their opinions on the work of the previous contractors!
The type of conduit used vs what they would have run, the number of cuts and fittings used, etc. They tell me about going into the local Walmart and judging the wire runs there. I have no doubt the residential ones are judging people’s TV installs when they’re in someone’s house! 😆
It seems like healthy fun though, I’ve never seen anyone actually say anything real negative. Now when they mention the carpenters paying no mind to how the electrical will need to go, then that’s where it gets dirty!
I work for an internet/phone company and… well, I try not to do this. Like, I kinda worry it comes off as unprofessional, ya know? But sometimes, you just see some shit. Like, I need the person who owns the house to understand that yes, the person who wired your house is a moron because no, wirenuts are not an acceptable way to splice cat5e ethernet runs.
I love some of these older, circa 1950s home where everyone came back from the war and decided that since they could handle Germany that they could handle building a house between them and all their brothers.
I admire their spirit at least, if perhaps not their electrical skills!
Oh. I’m sure electricians get to see some real sketchy shit. Some old two pair phone wires spliced in a shitty way might suck, but at least it’s not gonna start a fire or kill somebody… probably.
It’s also way too high up.
Sometimes when im feeling passive aggressive I look at that subreddit
Audio/video contractors are absolutely a thing. It involves a lot of TV mounting, but there’s usually a lot more behind the scenes.
Source: I am one
It’s a sign of the times that this is upvoted so much. When I was growing up, this was called normal behavior and was boring and nobody talked about it.
If nobody talked about it, how do you know it was normal behavior?
Because we all did it, our entire family, all of our friends and every coworker.
But these were strangers.
I had a plumber once, older guy, who was really eager to teach somebody the trade. He “made” me do half the work and I didn’t even mind because I learned how to do a lot of shit I didn’t know how to do before.
Be coachable in life and you will be surprised the info you can get from qualified people for free.
Also if you are handy you always have a fallback job if your 9 to 5 shitcans you unexpectedly.
Anytime I need to seek something outside my skillset, I basically offer myself as “apprentice for the day” and you’d be surprised how many will take you up on it.
Like, you hire a contractor to do work for you and ask them to let you apprentice for them at the same time and they go for it? I would love doing this so I don’t have to hire a contractor the second time! What do you say to them to get them to agree?
Yeah some of them are keen, some of them like an extra pair of hands to steady things, or a good chat. You’ll always learn something even just by watching them.
We all need community
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Pop pop!
All these people in the comments complaining that the bar isn’t level when the picture is just taken from a slight side angle? 🤦♂️🤦♂️ literal perspective problem 😂
Also people being like “lol no such thing as a TV-bar-hanger-contractor”… Audio/video contractors of course do this??? Like, who said its the only thing their job entails?? 😂
put a bubble level on it and prove it to me >:(
At least it’s the right height off of the ground… Too many people put that shit way too high.
It definitely is crooked lol The angle of the picture doesn’t matter you can still see that it’s crooked 😭 lmao
But yeah people be hating for no reason
Bet it’s level just the house is crooked
🤣
The post literally says he is learning, so I can imagine a crooked mount.
Conspiracy brainstorming about whether a dudes tv mount is level is kinda toxic behavior.
That bar is not straight i hate it.
Or if it’s anything like some of the places I’ve lived, it’s straight but the walls aren’t…
Burn it down, we are starting from the beginning…
Poss optical illusion from camera angle, also poss irrelevant once the display is in front of it.
Yeah. He wants to improve!
lesson #1 will be leveling 😂
Imagine how much more common this positive vibe would be if people wouldn’t need to spend at least 1/3 of their life trying to meet ends in competitive environment
Everyone better than me is inspiration
No one’s better than you. You’re unique and amazing!
Someone might be particularly good at something you didn’t learn enough yet :)
I think asking is the part that’s hard to work on. Most people love to help eachother out, but the “self sufficiency” mindset holds is back from asking eachother.
Two Kings in that post!
and remember, don’t just ask, also teach. When the opportunity arises, take it.
Weird that someone could see someone being better than them at something so their first thought is to “hate on them” rather than respecting them
It happens all the time. Literally here in the comments too.
r/tvtoohigh
It’s not terribly active but there’s !mensliberation@lemmy.ca
