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Dp won't allow us to have sky as it is "too council house" 😡

133 replies

Harboromummy · 22/03/2016 19:42

We are moving into a new house, we need tv/internet ect. He's refusing to have sky because "the dish looks awful and it looks like a council house" 😡😡😡

He won't even discus the idea, because he also thinks I won't have time to watch tv, you know being a sahm to three!

😡😡😡👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

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Chocolatteaddict1 · 22/03/2016 19:43

Yeah he sounds like a knob

TheSpottedZebra · 22/03/2016 19:43

Get it yourself?
Get Nowtv and don't tell him?

usual · 22/03/2016 19:43

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RJnomore1 · 22/03/2016 19:43

I'd have the fucker mounted on a sky dish and call it conceptual art. Not at all council house and there you go two problems solved at once...

Chocolatteaddict1 · 22/03/2016 19:43

Does he always get you to STFU with stuff?

MartinaJ · 22/03/2016 19:44

twat

Harboromummy · 22/03/2016 19:44

Yeah he wants nowtv. Virgin isn't an option because they haven't fitted the cables yet

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Shannaratiger · 22/03/2016 19:45

Just get it.

HermioneJeanGranger · 22/03/2016 19:45

He does realise NowTV is run by SKY, yes?

Sanchar · 22/03/2016 19:45

Why does he get to veto it??!?

I would be telling him to shove it and that he doesn't have to watch it.

We don't have TV/sky anymore, just Netflix, but cbeebies saved my sanity when mine were toddlers.

polkadotsrock · 22/03/2016 19:46

The next time you're at home and he's at work just order it. Job done. He's hardly likely to rip it down is he?

CrazyMary · 22/03/2016 19:46

Ltb??? HmmWinkGrin
Can you get it anyway. He doesn't have to watch it since he is being a twat

Pico2 · 22/03/2016 19:46

That's a bad reason. But isn't Sky really expensive?

Floggingmolly · 22/03/2016 19:46

You can't see ours from the front...

Fannyfannakerpants · 22/03/2016 19:47

Talk talk? You can get it through broadband and it has sky and you can log on to now tv and netflix.

glenthebattleostrich · 22/03/2016 19:47

I live on a very naice development with zero social housing. Most houses have sky. The council estate across the road , most have sky.

We all just like good telly. Your h is being an arse

ElderlyKoreanLady · 22/03/2016 19:48

Is he always that snobby?

HooseRice · 22/03/2016 19:48

Friend of mine's DH used the same reason not to have a trampoline for their young DDs. He's a twat too.

Pinkheart5915 · 22/03/2016 19:48

I do agree with him that the dish doesn't look fantastic, I don't know if that would stop me.
Do you have to have a dish with sky?
I have virgin for cable tv and Internet and don't need to have a dish.

voodoolooloo · 22/03/2016 19:48

Nail him to the wall and charge people to come and throw stuff at him. Maybe if you stuck an aerial up his arse you'd get the sky channels for free?! Grin
Too council. What a twat!

Stratter5 · 22/03/2016 19:48

My dish is at the back of the house, depends which way your house faces.

He is being ridiculous. Laughably ridiculous. Just order it, and tell him it's non negotiable

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 22/03/2016 19:48

He's definitely a Lower Middle with that attitude.

Tell him all the Middle Middles and Upper Middles have Sky.

How can you have bbqs with friends to watch The Ashes if you don't have Sky?

mummylila · 22/03/2016 19:49

YANBU!

To be fair tho sky is rubbish, I go to bed at 9pm a lot because there's nothing on it worth watching

voodoolooloo · 22/03/2016 19:50

Oh and yeah. My house is in a very leafy ( as in many trees not particularly posh) area. My dish is on a six foot pole at the top of my back garden. Now that's what I call council house, and yeah it is Grin

IfNotNowThenWhenever · 22/03/2016 19:50

I think there are about 3 satellite dishes on my house for some reason. It's uber council. It's even on an estate.
I don't know why I have got a pit bull yet. I guess it's only a matter of time. ..