Who notices that someone is better at mounting tvs? How does one notice this? What is this made up scenario?
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?
Why the hostility? I would’ve asked this question if they hadn’t, and I don’t consider myself unimaginative or disrespectful. Just uninformed…
Who notices that someone is better at mounting tvs? How does one notice this? What is this made up scenario?
Do you honestly think someone asking, “What is this made up scenario?” is asking their question in good faith?
Before this thread, I thought “mounting a tv” just meant nailing the support into the wall and screwing the tv into the support. I chose to read their comment as being incredulous about a random post on the internet, which is entirely reasonable. It would be easy enough to lash out at random people on the internet but I figured I’d try to be positive on a post about positivity lol
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
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.
“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
Why would you hate on that guy.
picture of two guys kneeling in front of a wall
Bullshit feely caption that doesn’t make sense to any who understands the words being used
Internet: omg, so wholesome!
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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.
And why would anyone hate on someone for being good at mounting a TV?
Presumably somebody that mounts TVs for a living.
You don’t post videos of your TV mounting skills on Fb??
You are on lemmy. This things get shared here. Same is true for every other social media.
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.
True kings fix each other’s crowns.
I like this a lot. Thank you king.
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.
Wholesome
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.
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.
He didn’t say he was any good, just better
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 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.
We all need community
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Pop pop!
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…
Yeah. He wants to improve!
You don’t like gay bars?
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 :)
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.
Can’t tell if that mount is way off-level or not. Based on the floor moulding, it looks like it’s lower on the left than right. OCD = triggered
He’s calculated the precise amount the house will settle so that the TV is level in the end. THAT’s how good he is.
Did he calculate how much the house was going to sink as well? Because that TV is too bloody high.
If it’s high enough, level to the ceiling not the floor
It’s not terribly active but there’s !mensliberation@lemmy.ca
I’m a labourer; I take pride in my work, I am always learning, and I am very pleasant to others. Meanwhile financialised capital markets ruin the world while making the rich even richer. And there’s no way mounting televisions is paying well enough to own your own house anymore. So if that’s where positive masculinity will get you nowadays, it doesn’t surprise me that young men are frantically casting about for an alternative. The real problem is the logic of capital.
Not hating or anything, but it’s always dude that dk TV mounting that are like this.
Sure, we need more positive masculinity, but problem is, same “empowered” women shaming men for it, i mean, i am man and with my friends I’m very very close, supportive, and kind, every time “empowered” women see it, they shame the fuck out of you, if your don’t show healthy positive masculinity and closing off, then you get shamed again, if you try to become independent of others opinions and be healthy positive yourself then you get shamed again, there’s simply no winning this, you gotta accept that some people, men women, elderly, peers, will hate you no matter what, until you accept this simple fact deep into your soul, and start loving yourself and living for yourself, you can’t truthfully be positive and healthy masculine man, speaking from personal experience
Key word:
some
As another commenter said, haters gonna hate, be they men or women. You can help others, and know you’re right for that. If someone takes issue - it is their problem, not yours. I’d even argue that anyone shaming you for positive masculinity is a bullet worth dodging.
Absolutely agree
This goes for men and women. Haters gonna hate. Fuck em. Live for you and the people that truly care about you.
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