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

[Harboromummy]

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!

😡😡😡👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

[NeedACleverNN]

It's our phone bill aswell. Our actual telly usage is cheap but the phone calls keep boosting the price up.

[RJnomore1]

I've just checked, ours was £95.88 this month

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And it's £27.99 extra every time there's a decent boxing match on.

I'm starting to agree with the dh. Every football match I want to watch is on bt too.

[RJnomore1]

I exaggerate. £17.99 which is bad enough.

[Eustace2016]

Our Sky is £87 a month. You can hardly see the dish. it's on the back of the house. No one can see it.

Nice thing about being single - you decide everything and pay for everything - no discussion, no disagreements. Wonderful. Irecommend it.

[Catsize]

Never had Sky. Don't see the point. Dishes look awful. Can I marry your husband?

[IHaveBrilloHair]

I pay £60 because I have Sport for the F1 channel.
I am going to completely renegotiate my package with them though, that's my net and phone too btw, and only one of two bills I pay, that and, (ha), the TV licence.
Not sure what I can replace it with as I need a box of sorts I think, I don't have a smart TV, or even a flat screen one, just a big old telly.
Oh, and I am not giving up my crap movie channels.

[ForalltheSaints]

I think you should embrace a Sky free life.

[austounding]

HIBU for his comments, but YABU for wanting sky too.

[SaveSomeSpendSome]

Sky can be expensive depending on what package you have.

Dh is very much a gadget person even if he never uses the bloody gadget.

Our sky bill is £115 a month. That includes internet and phone line.

[YakTriangle]

It's not that bad a price if you don't bother with movies or sport. Do the dishes have to go on the front of the houses or can they go on the back? Maybe if it's a bit more subtle he'd have less of an issue with his pointless stubborn snobbery the whole idea.

[SquinkiesRule]

We'll be getting BT when the sky broadband/phone contract comes up next month. It'll be Broadband, phone and TV package. Can't wait. We have two dishes on the house. Neither in use. 90% of the houses in our very middle class village including the little council estate that was all sold off have at least one dish on the house.
What a snob your Dh is. Have a look at the BT packages.

[Longdistance]

I have the full Virgin package XL tv/internet/home phone. I also have a mobile with them, and pay around £100 a month all in.

and I don't have a crappy satellite dish attached to my house

runs

[StitchesInTime]

What a bizarre objection And inaccurate. Satellite dishes are all over the place.

We don't have Sky because we're too tight to pay £££ to watch TV. We have FreeSat. Which we need a satellite dish for.

[Comingfoccacia]

I guess he doesn't believe in better

[Beth2511]

My other half is in charge of our sky stuff, I hide my eyes from the fact its £118 a month! Oh well, he can afford it and its more or less the only luxury spending he does so will let him off. Don't think I ever notice sat dishes either way.

[queenMab99]

Sky TV is expensive crap anyway. I have just cancelled it.

[fakenamefornow]

Maybe he's heard the old joke.

Q. What's that ugly box on the back of a Sky dish?
A. Council house!

[Beahun]

That is a strange thing to say. I never knew that council estate tenants would have sky. Would they have the money for it? We have sky so my Dh can watch cycling. We own our house. So just tell him MN mums sends him a message that he is a big snob!

[LoisWilkersonsLastNerve]

[wasonthelist]

Oh shite - my house has a Sky dish on so I'm being judged by OP's DP.

I have never (and will never) pay for Sky - some friends were raving about it so went round there - it costs an arm and a leg and then the cheeky bastards have adverts on that come on every ten seconds and last for hours - what a rip off!

[ouryve]

What a knobhead.

I'm not keen on Sky, but DH invested in it for a few years when the boys were babies. It did make my marathon nursing sessions and sleepless nights slightly less tedious ad helped to keep DS1 entertained when I was busy with DS2 (though, at 12, DS1 denies ever being taken by Maggie and the Ferocious Beast and Blues Clues!).

We have freesat, now, using the same dish Sky installed, funnily enough. Just had to replace the LNB a few years ago because that got water in it and broke.

[ouryve]

I have virgin for cable tv and Internet and don't need to have a dish.

That'll be on account of the underground cables. Sky is beamed down from a Satellite or three and needs a dish to pick up the signal.

[Bogeyface]

Tosser.

My parents dont have Sky, but they do have a dish because the Freeview signal is shit where they are and they need a dish just to get ordinary TV.

I take issue with "allow". Personally I would just order it and to hell with him, as I did!

[Bogeyface]

I should add that I ordered it despite then H saying that we didnt need it (before the digital switch) and within 2 months he wanted to upgrade for £££££££££££ to get sports and movies. I may have made the most of saying "But you said....." :o

[Griphook]

Would they have the money for it?
Yeah it's all left over many from all the benefits they receive