I have to agree with ignipes, HP is enough of a global force that being fannish about it (for certain values of fannish, anyway) is sort of generally socially acceptable.
As for Gerard, I think it would probably depend heavily on whether or not they even recognized him. Five months ago, I wouldn't have, and had I seen a poster of him on the wall of a new acquaintence, I wouldn't have thought much beyond, "who's that dude, anyway?"
I would, frankly, be far more likely to notice a, for example, Justin Timberlake poster, in which case I may have gone so far as to privately arch an eyebrow (I just don't *get* boy bands) but, you know, I kind of don't have much room to talk.
I kept my Bon Jovi/Gn'R and Metallica posters up on my wall (the '80s ones, from when they had The Hair) until I graduated from college, when I had an attack of I Have to Be A Grown-Up Now and took them all down. And so I put up posters for the Hobbit and mythical creatures instead. er.
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Date: 2008-06-17 02:54 am (UTC)I have to agree with
As for Gerard, I think it would probably depend heavily on whether or not they even recognized him. Five months ago, I wouldn't have, and had I seen a poster of him on the wall of a new acquaintence, I wouldn't have thought much beyond, "who's that dude, anyway?"
I would, frankly, be far more likely to notice a, for example, Justin Timberlake poster, in which case I may have gone so far as to privately arch an eyebrow (I just don't *get* boy bands) but, you know, I kind of don't have much room to talk.
I kept my Bon Jovi/Gn'R and Metallica posters up on my wall (the '80s ones, from when they had The Hair) until I graduated from college, when I had an attack of I Have to Be A Grown-Up Now and took them all down. And so I put up posters for the Hobbit and mythical creatures instead. er.
(i may not be making any sense either?)