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The Great British Christmas TV Schedule Debate
SlayingDragons · 17/12/2019 08:49
I have a sick child at home and so my mum very kindly picked up a few bits and pieces for me at the shops as I can’t go out. She got everything I needed and more, but realised she’d forgotten to pick up the Christmas TV Times which she thought would keep me distracted when DD isn’t up to much. She sent my dad back out to buy it for me, but he came back with the Radio Times instead.
He is adamant that RT is better and the true Christmas special. Mum is adamant that as no-one actually listens to the radio (and therefore we don’t need the radio listings) that the TV Times is the best.
I couldn’t care less, and am just very thankful for the shopping they brought me, but their bickering about which Christmas TV Schedule is best is now on day 2 and is cracking me up.
*disclaimer - they are also arguing about which one they normally buy with dad swearing blind that they get the RT every year and have done for decades, while mum swears (without actually swearing - she is far too proper for that!) that she hasn’t bought the RT for years! So who knows what the precedent actually is!
So - wise people of MN - which is it? Radio Times Christmas Special OR
TV Times Christmas Special??
Am I being unreasonable?
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SlayingDragons · 17/12/2019 09:40
Well I’ve just been through the TV Times (mum actually stopped at a shop on the way to my house to get “the right one” for me) and highlighted and circled everything I want to watch. I have to say that I think my dad might be right. Like other PPs, we never buy a listings magazine through the year but I do pick one up at Christmas. (As do my parents clearly). I haven’t give it much thought before now, but I think it must be the RT I usually buy because this TV Times seems rather thin - not very substantial shall we say - definitely lacking something.
I might have to sneak out once older DC get home tonight to buy the RT too to properly compare!
SlayingDragons · 17/12/2019 10:00
Oh ha! That’s quite funny actually. My DF was solidly working class growing up, but would now be considered solidly middle class. My DM, on the other hand, has always been very solidly middle class - not just in terms of finances/family professions etc, but in culture. Neither of my parents are snobs, but my mum definitely has her standards!
flouncyfanny · 17/12/2019 16:51
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