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Apparently rich people have TVs in their dining room

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Roundtumble · 16/03/2018 15:25

So I'm having a conversation with a family member about renovating the dining room and they have the idea of putting a TV in there. I said No, Tv's aren't meant for the dining room where we are meant to eat & enjoy each others company as a family. They respond with 'we're rich & rich people have Tv's in their dining room'.
(We are rich= in love, family etc etc not so much money..yet Grin)
First of all I don't know where they got that notion from that rich people have Tv's in their dining room and secondly not so much an Aibu because I don't think I am at all but what's your take on it?

It really annoys me that the TV is for the majority of the time the focal point at a lot of family gatherings(usually the men in my experience.) I think it should be off limits during any type of family time except for movie night etc. It totally takes away from really getting to spend time with your loved ones especially when you hardly get to see eachother with different work schedules/life in general.

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hmcAsWas · 17/03/2018 13:42

Some of the posters on here remind of the character Pauline in the TV programme 'Mum' (the one with the Waitrose uniform who simply doesn't work in a supermarket, thinks many things are vulgar and has pretensions to grandeur)

Lweji · 17/03/2018 13:52

I bet Donald Trump has a television in his dining room!

Sort of. He eats dinner in bed watching tv.

PhilODox · 17/03/2018 13:57

Oh, lweji, you're right- l did know that! Blush

TalkinPeace · 17/03/2018 14:57

He eats dinner in bed watching tv.
You missed the plural - he has several TVs tuned to different stations (but mainly Fox)

BuggerOffAndGoodDayToYou · 17/03/2018 15:37

We have a TV in the living room and a screen in the conservatory but that one can only get internet TV.

We don’t have a TV in the kitchen diner or bedrooms but I do sometimes watch something on the iPad while I am cooking.

I know lots of people with dining rooms / kitchen diners but I don’t think any of them have TVs in there.

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