Classmate with TV in bathroom

[Gregoriouppy]

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!!! 🤣

Then clearly you’ve won, you are so much better than all the other school mums 🤩

Maybe I am but at least I don’t brag!

"We're" - well you arent going at all are you. Your son is.
Plus I dont get why you mentioned that its a state school - how is that relavant?

But yes I do agree with you - a tv in a bathroom seems ridiculous to me.

I did mean he is and his sibling will hopefully.

But you are not 11 y.o. that’s the main difference.
I wouldn’t put TV in the bathroom but I wouldn’t start a thread on MN slagging 11y.o for talking about it.

He seems spoilt and entitled and it’s not the only thing he’s bragged about! @pizzaHeart

Jesus. You’re actually just slating an 11 year old boy at this point. He’s not hurting anyone, leave him be.

I have a tv above my soaking tub. The soaking tub was ridiculously expensive to install. The tv was a cheap add on. The real luxury is that my child doesn’t use that bathroom.

Kids don’t always do what they’re told, your kid are probably bragging at school. As do most kids, they share things they find cool, or things they did or have that are fun.

Bit bizarre but I find it weird that people have TVs in their kitchens and dining rooms too, I don’t have one in the bedroom either. We also have no working games system as the Wii won’t work on the “new” tv (that’s 5 years old) some people may think we are odd too, we choose to spend our leisure time watching broadcast tv together sat on the sofa at the time it’s broadcast (I know that is weird) or going out

I would love a tv in the bathroom, I might get to watch something for 10 mins that i actually wanted to watch and without someone talking all over it!

Taste is a construct that changes enormously over time and differs enormously across space and culture. It is not an absolute or a virtue. Your taste and mine is not innate.

When pigment and dyes were expensive and sheen and glitter were only derived from precious materials the court and churches and cathedrals were gaudy as fuck. The beautiful mellow antique furniture of great English houses has faded from the riot of brightly coloured marquetry it came out of the workshop with. Good taste tends to be based on what is expensive and/ or hard to achieve. Colour and bling have been mass produced and accessible for a couple of hundred years now and in most of western Europe we have a toned down aesthetic that involves expensive natural materials like oak, stone, cotton and linen.

We are very inventive when it comes to excluding the hoi pillow from our club. Generally as soon as they get their grubby mitts on something we move on.

Money really can buy “good taste” and frequently does, however some people don’t share your taste or that of the English upper classes and spend their money on what they do like, according to their own taste. Are they lesser?

You would find my home very tacky then OP. I also have an echo show in the kitchen, as I like a film on in the background when I cook. Arguably what's more tacky is finding umbridge that an 11yr old child can watch a film whilst he has a soak.

@SharpTiger yes I probably would

And come in no one likes the kid who constantly brags!!! In my sons class everyone has the same gripes about him!

OP you are one of those foul parents that doesn't understand that they are an adult which is different from being a child. This is a CHILD. Stop slating the child and grow up. Who gives a shit what someone has in their house. GET A LIFE.

Doesn’t the steam damage it?

Bit bizarre but I find it weird that people have TVs in their kitchens and dining rooms too,

I also use my iPad in the kitchen, if i'm cooking, cleaning up etc I might watch a film, listen to a podcast, browse recipes.

I had an upgrade like that once too @TheAmusedQuail .. it was brilliant.
Bubble bath , glass of wine and nibbles .
I totally loved it 🥰

Maybe teach your kids not to sneer at other children too? You could set an example by not starting a thread on MN sneering at an 11 year old chid for what you think is so distasteful. Oh wait…

I never understand why people say this. Why would money buy taste. What does that even mean? Who says tvs in bathrooms are bad taste?

I probably wouldn't bother myself but I have stayed in hotels where there is one and I had a lovely bubble bath and a glass of wine while watching TV.
It does seem to bother you unduly OP though that this boy has one at home

I work with someone who has a TV in the bathroom!

Me too

@Gregoriouppy but is it that much of a stretch to take the ipad into the bath or shower? Sometimes I just get engrossed in something & want to finish watching/listening.