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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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loadalaundry · 15/03/2025 10:59

do they have inbuilt radios!?

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

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:58

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

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LightDrizzle · 15/03/2025 10:57

So yes, it’s really about the taste and not the boasting per se. Look at the vulgarians! Money can’t buy taste! We are still superior!

It was predictable that the involvement of a TV would bring the Mumsnet tastehounds baying. I wonder if we’ll see it referred to as a tele?

As I said, taste is learned, as it kindness and tolerance. I’d be more worried about your son picking up on sneering as to taste than about him catching the common from this jumped up vulgar little chap who thinks his bathroom is the dog’s bollocks.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:56

Or just take a shower! More inclined to have the radio on tbh.
do they have inbuilt radios!? Lol

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ChungkingExpress · 15/03/2025 10:56

AquaPeer · 15/03/2025 10:53

Thinking TVs around the house is tacky also old fashioned class based sneering, like the people who proudly tell you their mum wouldn’t let them watch itv as if this just doesn’t make their mum sound like a dimwit.

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Yep I have tons of hobbies, spend most of my free time reading or hiking but I also have a TV in the bedroom because I like nothing more, after a big hike, than to have a hot in bed with a good film.

Having a TV in the bedroom doesn’t mean I don’t have a life beyond the screen!

FloppySarnie · 15/03/2025 10:55

It’s clearly for when you’re in the bath, not on the loo. I don’t understand why you think it’s odd. Baths are quite boring. I like the idea of being able to watch something while I soak.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:54

whtever floats your boat I guess but I think it is. ESP at home!

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Iwantmyoldnameback · 15/03/2025 10:53

I can remember taking my portable into the bathroom and watching Emmerdale in peace when my kids were small. It was bliss. I also stayed in a hotel where you could see the TV from the bath if you left the door open. I don't see how it's tacky.

AquaPeer · 15/03/2025 10:53

Thinking TVs around the house is tacky also old fashioned class based sneering, like the people who proudly tell you their mum wouldn’t let them watch itv as if this just doesn’t make their mum sound like a dimwit.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:50

Not something I would brag about!

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:49

Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 15/03/2025 10:48

How is it powered? It must be built in because you can't have sockets in a bathroom, so it's been installed on purpose, not just propped up against the wall - it's an integral part of the bathroom design.

Not my thing, but I won't even have a TV in the bedroom. Bathrooms with TVs always strike me as a bit naff, like people can't even be away from a screen for long enough for a wee or a soak - take your iPad in if you want to watch in the bath!

Yea it’s tacky exactly!

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:48

REDB99 · 15/03/2025 10:47

I think it’s tacky, like having a TV in the bedroom. Do something else! If every room in your house revolves around the TV I’m assuming you’re pretty limited in your hobbies / interests. There’s one TV in my house, in the living room where it belongs. I also agree that with modern technology why do you need a TV in the bathroom, just take a device in to watch something in the bathroom if you want.

Yes this! Agreed!

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Vroomfondleswaistcoat · 15/03/2025 10:48

How is it powered? It must be built in because you can't have sockets in a bathroom, so it's been installed on purpose, not just propped up against the wall - it's an integral part of the bathroom design.

Not my thing, but I won't even have a TV in the bedroom. Bathrooms with TVs always strike me as a bit naff, like people can't even be away from a screen for long enough for a wee or a soak - take your iPad in if you want to watch in the bath!

REDB99 · 15/03/2025 10:47

I think it’s tacky, like having a TV in the bedroom. Do something else! If every room in your house revolves around the TV I’m assuming you’re pretty limited in your hobbies / interests. There’s one TV in my house, in the living room where it belongs. I also agree that with modern technology why do you need a TV in the bathroom, just take a device in to watch something in the bathroom if you want.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:46

EliGemstone · 15/03/2025 10:44

I have one!

It was here when we moved in. Our en-suite has a jacuzzi bath and there’s a tv built into the wall at the end. I have no idea how to use it, and never use that bath anyway so it’s very redundant. No point going through hassle and expense to get rid of it so it’s just there. It’s very discreet.

Personally, I don’t see the point but then again, I read in the bath so if tv is more of your thing while soaking and relaxing, I get why people would have them.

But it was there when you moved in so I get it. They actually got it put in.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:45

@LightDrizzle because i think it’s quite kitschy.

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EliGemstone · 15/03/2025 10:44

I have one!

It was here when we moved in. Our en-suite has a jacuzzi bath and there’s a tv built into the wall at the end. I have no idea how to use it, and never use that bath anyway so it’s very redundant. No point going through hassle and expense to get rid of it so it’s just there. It’s very discreet.

Personally, I don’t see the point but then again, I read in the bath so if tv is more of your thing while soaking and relaxing, I get why people would have them.

Comedycook · 15/03/2025 10:43

Yabvu....so odd that you even thought it worthy of a thread on here. Someone has chosen to spend their money on something you wouldn't want...stop the press!

AquaPeer · 15/03/2025 10:43

TVs are pretty cheap (presumably the mention of state school was made under the idea you need loadsa money to have a bathroom tv?)

however its massively old fashioned, like something from the 90s. Who wouldn’t take their iPad or phone into the bathroom if they wanted to watch something?!? (Both of which cost far more than a tv, to your point)

LightDrizzle · 15/03/2025 10:43

Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:20

Because it’s a strange thing to have and why brag about it!? It’s more about the bragging tbh

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But it pretty much nails the definition of a luxury, something unnecessary but relatively expensive that brings pleasure to the user or owner. I’m surprised that even if it isn’t to your taste that you can’t see that.

This boy thinks his house has got a super cool, luxury thing and he’s boasting about it as people down the ages have boasted about their Sindy’s Dream House/ their mum and dad’s garden bar/ sports car/ hunter/ phaeton. Most children boast at some point and are then socially conditioned to do it more stealthily. With social media we are all boasting as never before but always #humble of course.

I’d be wary of your son picking up any sneering about taste in this case. Almost all taste is learned and it is often riddled with class distinctions and scorn.

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Gregoriouppy · 15/03/2025 10:41

Tiredalwaystired · 15/03/2025 10:39

Why is it relevant what type of school he goes to? It’s ridiculous whether the parents pay for education or they are state educated.

I guess it’s a cliche of private schools, most who attend are rich Russians or footballers kids and that’s where you expect it. (Friend teaches at private and that’s what she has told me).

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Tiredalwaystired · 15/03/2025 10:39

Why is it relevant what type of school he goes to? It’s ridiculous whether the parents pay for education or they are state educated.

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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.

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pizzaHeart · 15/03/2025 10:27

What age?
I’m not surprised that he is going on and on about this, some people are just the type who always boasts and stays like this way into adulthood.
I wouldn’t put tv into bathroom for health and safety reasons. I read far too many detectives stories where victim was electrocuted. However depending on the style of the bathroom and how often people take bath it might be ok for them .

loadalaundry · 15/03/2025 10:20

in the days of portable tech seems pointless to have it mounted/built in