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[MorleyDev]

Odd question but I've recently realised that at the age of 19 and attending University far away from home, I've never actually had a poster on my wall in any of my bedrooms, at least not since I've been old enough to pick the wall decorations for myself (I vaguely remember having a power rangers poster back when I was a very little child, but it was my dad who picked and put it up and I never really gave a crap about it xD).

Literally, I've just never really thought "hey, that wall there that keeps my dry and warm and night? It needs a very large picture of a book cover on it! Next to a half-naked lady!". I mean...why? Odd question I know, but I can only think of two reasons:

A) To let everybody who enters your room know what you like.
B) To remind yourself what you like.

A...well, I've just never been that big on showing off my movie/sexual preferences, and B...well, I'm not senile xD

So yeah, why do people have posters? Do you have any? And should I perhaps put some up, if only so the people who look in my room don't think I'm some weird alien robot from the earth's core or something? ^^

And if so what's the acceptable pop culture/anime/soft-core pornography balance? :S

[3]

Why do people put paintings on walls?

[MorleyDev]

Why do people put paintings on walls?

Again, I haven't got a clue and have never thought to do that either ^^

[Criptfeind]

Do you put anything on your walls?

[3]

The correct answer is "because they look good". You like something? You find the aesthetics of that something appealing? You want to be reminded of that something? Better find an easy way of getting a chance to look at it, then.

[Enzo]

A) To let everybody who enters your room know what you like.
B) To remind yourself what you like.

C) Because they are AWESOME.

In my room I have:
A fold-out poster from an early nineties comicbook in which Lobo and Etrigan are fighting on a giant pile of weapons, and Lobo is literally throwing a kitchen sink at Etrigan.
An old 40's-style pinup of a girl with binoculars.
A large sketch of a borderline-grotesque naked person curled up in a ball, nicknamed "The Lumpy Nude".
A motivational poster/calender poster from 1979 with an Orangutan slouching in a zoo around and the words "Just when I knew all of life's answers, they changed all the questions."
And a few less noteworthy others.

Every time I look up at my wall, I am reminded how awesome the word can be.

[Aqizzar]

When I was about six years old, my family moved into a house where I got a loft-bedroom, with angled walls.  On the angles, I had an array of maps - town, county, state, country, world, solar system.  At my next house, my walls went largely undecorated, until my father gave me some posters of chicks in bikinis for my 13th birthday, so I was kinda obligated to hang them up.  Not that that's a bad thing.  When I moved into a college dorm, I put up my pirate flag and a really cool world map, because it was a dorm and that's exactly the kind of place you personalize.

Where I live now, I have the flag, road signs, paintings, tomb rubbings, and trophies and curios, and one of these days I'll finally break down and buy a Road Warrior movie poster off eBay, not including all the stuff I have in storage.

I honestly don't know what the "theory" behind putting up decorations is, especially stuff like posters.  I suppose it's a way of celebrating to yourself, and making the space more yours.  A subconscious way of saying, "this is my home, this is my place, because I'm surrounded by things that matter to me".  Only with less pretentious psychobabble.

_{Interestingly enough, Firefox considers "psychobabble" a correct word.}

[MorleyDev]

Do you put anything on your walls?

I have a mirror that was there when I moved in...that's about it. I use it to make sure I look presentable before I leave. More convenient than the checking in bathroom ^^

Guess I've always just been about functionality instead of aesthetics xD The fact that I sleep here and pay rent is ownership enough for me Plastering it with things that inevitably get boring just seems like you're encouraging them to get boring...

Though maybe I should get some to at least pretend I have a soul 

[Aqizzar]

I fail to see how blank walls could be less boring than literally anything you could hang up.  Even when I lived in an efficiency apartment after losing all my furniture, I went to Walmart and bought some bullshit paint-prints just to have something breaking up the giant blank squares.  Difference is activity, and activity is better than nothing.

[MorleyDev]

Well what's worse, something completely unremarkable and therefore not even worth boredom, or something that was remarkable but overexposure made unremarkable? Boredom isn't apathy so much as the awareness you could be interested or doing something interesting but aren't...

I guess I just find it strange how I don't get something so common place xD Then again I don't enjoy hugs either so I guess I'm just weird ^^

[3]

You can either live in the past or the present. If you find things uninteresting then change them; if you don't like it being up, it's got no place where it is.

[Aqizzar]

Something totally unremarkable in the first place.  My mounted jackelope head and Camel Cigarettes lamp have graced my walls for six years now and are thoroughly dusty.  But even though I've seen them so long and so often they barely register as existing, sometimes they'll catch my attention and I'll chuckle a little, at my little fortune of total bullshit decorations.  Because they're mine.

[MorleyDev]

But if they barely register as existing then why have them in the first place? :S Bah, people confuse me sometimes -.-

[Criptfeind]

Cause they still offer some entertainment. He just said that.

It will not get boring via over exposure, because it is more of a mental note then anything else. And if you move past it you can always take it down.

[Patchouli]

I have this really awesome Bruce Lee poster on my wall.

When I brush my teeth and wander around the room, I like to imitate the pose and pretend it's a mirror.