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Classmate with TV in bathroom

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:11

My son goes to a state school and his classmate keeps going on about having a TV in his bathroom. Aibu to think this is the most pointless and ridiculous thing ever!?
No amount of money would make me even consider having that!

my son said he keeps bragging about it so I said he should tell him to take a book to the bog instead!!! 🤣

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MrsSkylerWhite · 15/03/2025 11:21

Doesn’t the steam damage it?

Cookiecrumblepie · 15/03/2025 11:20

OP you are one of those foul parents that doesn't understand that they are an adult which is different from being a child. This is a CHILD. Stop slating the child and grow up. Who gives a shit what someone has in their house. GET A LIFE.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:20

And come in no one likes the kid who constantly brags!!! In my sons class everyone has the same gripes about him!

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:19

@SharpTiger yes I probably would

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SharpTiger · 15/03/2025 11:17

You would find my home very tacky then OP. I also have an echo show in the kitchen, as I like a film on in the background when I cook. Arguably what's more tacky is finding umbridge that an 11yr old child can watch a film whilst he has a soak.

LightDrizzle · 15/03/2025 11:17

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:58

It’s true though money can’t buy taste! Many examples of that out in the real world.

Taste is a construct that changes enormously over time and differs enormously across space and culture. It is not an absolute or a virtue. Your taste and mine is not innate.

When pigment and dyes were expensive and sheen and glitter were only derived from precious materials the court and churches and cathedrals were gaudy as fuck. The beautiful mellow antique furniture of great English houses has faded from the riot of brightly coloured marquetry it came out of the workshop with. Good taste tends to be based on what is expensive and/ or hard to achieve. Colour and bling have been mass produced and accessible for a couple of hundred years now and in most of western Europe we have a toned down aesthetic that involves expensive natural materials like oak, stone, cotton and linen.

We are very inventive when it comes to excluding the hoi pillow from our club. Generally as soon as they get their grubby mitts on something we move on.

Money really can buy “good taste” and frequently does, however some people don’t share your taste or that of the English upper classes and spend their money on what they do like, according to their own taste. Are they lesser?

mickandrorty · 15/03/2025 11:12

I would love a tv in the bathroom, I might get to watch something for 10 mins that i actually wanted to watch and without someone talking all over it!

minnienono · 15/03/2025 11:12

Bit bizarre but I find it weird that people have TVs in their kitchens and dining rooms too, I don’t have one in the bedroom either. We also have no working games system as the Wii won’t work on the “new” tv (that’s 5 years old) some people may think we are odd too, we choose to spend our leisure time watching broadcast tv together sat on the sofa at the time it’s broadcast (I know that is weird) or going out Grin

Uyt · 15/03/2025 11:11

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:06

I’ve taught them not to!

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Kids don’t always do what they’re told, your kid are probably bragging at school. As do most kids, they share things they find cool, or things they did or have that are fun.

Ponderingwindow · 15/03/2025 11:11

I have a tv above my soaking tub. The soaking tub was ridiculously expensive to install. The tv was a cheap add on. The real luxury is that my child doesn’t use that bathroom.

Ooohee · 15/03/2025 11:10

Jesus. You’re actually just slating an 11 year old boy at this point. He’s not hurting anyone, leave him be.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:09

He seems spoilt and entitled and it’s not the only thing he’s bragged about! @pizzaHeart

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pizzaHeart · 15/03/2025 11:08

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:50

Not something I would brag about!

But you are not 11 y.o. that’s the main difference.
I wouldn’t put TV in the bathroom but I wouldn’t start a thread on MN slagging 11y.o for talking about it.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:08

Yellowbananasarebetterthangreen · 15/03/2025 11:07

"We're" - well you arent going at all are you. Your son is.
Plus I dont get why you mentioned that its a state school - how is that relavant?

But yes I do agree with you - a tv in a bathroom seems ridiculous to me.

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I did mean he is and his sibling will hopefully.

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Yellowbananasarebetterthangreen · 15/03/2025 11:07

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:28

@pizzaHeart year 6. He seems to brag about a lot of stuff! Luckily we’re not going to the same secondary.

"We're" - well you arent going at all are you. Your son is.
Plus I dont get why you mentioned that its a state school - how is that relavant?

But yes I do agree with you - a tv in a bathroom seems ridiculous to me.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:07

Ooohee · 15/03/2025 11:06

Then clearly you’ve won, you are so much better than all the other school mums 🤩

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Maybe I am but at least I don’t brag!

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Ooohee · 15/03/2025 11:06

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:06

I’ve taught them not to!

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Then clearly you’ve won, you are so much better than all the other school mums 🤩

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:06

whatsappdoc · 15/03/2025 11:05

It would be interesting to hear what your own children brag about. Eg. My mum thinks she's better than your mum.😛

I’ve taught them not to!

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whatsappdoc · 15/03/2025 11:05

It would be interesting to hear what your own children brag about. Eg. My mum thinks she's better than your mum.😛

ShyMaryEllen · 15/03/2025 11:05

I can't imagine wanting one, but I couldn't care less how other people spend their money, or what they do in the privacy of their bathroom.

When my children were young we got a TV in the kitchen (one of those ones with a built-in VCR 😂) and snooty friends made a point of saying how they didn't watch enough TV to warrant such an aberration, completely missing the point, which was that it didn't mean we watched more than they did. It was more that we wanted more choice of where to do so. The children often had friends in watching or playing games on it, and I could see what they were up to when I wandered through or put the kettle on. It freed up the main TV (and sitting room) too.

Why is the fact that the child goes to a state school relevant, and why do you see choice of TV habits as being about money? I think that says more about you than the TV says about the other family.

loadalaundry · 15/03/2025 11:03

@Gregoriouppy

something akin to this but France had them years ago

www.lisnawaters.co.uk/lw11-white-900mm-x-900mm-quadrant-hydro-shower-cubicle

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 11:02

Ooohee · 15/03/2025 11:01

I can’t believe you’re on here sneering at an 11 year old child. Of course he’s bragging to his friends, he thinks it’s cool!

It’s more about the parents actually. Should have told him not to.

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Ooohee · 15/03/2025 11:01

I can’t believe you’re on here sneering at an 11 year old child. Of course he’s bragging to his friends, he thinks it’s cool!

loadalaundry · 15/03/2025 11:00

I think it’s tacky, like having a TV in the bedroom.

Why is it tacky? I don't have one anymore but used too, now I just use the ipad as I said.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:59

loadalaundry · 15/03/2025 10:59

do they have inbuilt radios!?

My parents have a shower with inbuilt radio but it's years old.

That’s cool!

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