AIBU to loathe the huge flatscreen TV now sitting in my living room?

[loupiots]

Our old, small, perfectly adequate TV was broken when the two year old threw his Thomas train at it.

This obviously provided dh with the perfect excuse to go out and buy some stupid, enormous flatscreen monstrosity which is now balefully sitting in the living room and pissing me off.

It just looks, there is no other word for it, common. And I just hate it.

When DH is out, I may load the kid up with the rest of his train collection and let him at it....

If you shop daily your food is fresh and delicious and you can take advantage of special offers/arrivals on fish and fruit and vegetables that need to be eaten ASAP.

I get my wine delivered in crates and it doesn't live in the fridge anyway. I buy four litres of milk per week for DD and that's it. It hardly requires a several hundred litre fridge.

DP is desperate for a new tv as well. The only thing stopping him is that Tom (2.9) loves to randomly throw things about the place and is worried he'll break a new tv.

Special offers that need to to be consumed right away? You mean discounted food? Oh how common!

No I meant the glut catch of Dover sole

LOL
Flatscreens are common?!

I feel good about our big fat CRT now.
Does that make us upper middle class
or sub-Royalty?

We have been most entertained by this thread.

Rollmops' family loves fish, very much so, but one simply could not be bothered waltzing through the shops is vain hope to bag a bargain.
The website below is rather helpful.

www.regalfish.co.uk/page4/

...arrghhh... the twins helped me with typing. Meant ..to waltz through the shops IN vain hope......

I love my 42" plasma flatscreen (DP chose it ). I am sad that you think it is common.
I think it's fab!

It's a Y chromosome thing, that's for sure. Our 15 year old TV broke and DH actually skiived off work to buy a new one. Ours is 37" inch - IMO still too big

My landlord left us a PHAT flatscreen. Oooo, yes. He uses it as a computer and he puts on some awesome PowerPoint photo presentations.

He's so common, he is in Africa training primary school teachers (he was a headmaster himself and taught secondary physics before that) and has made huge contributions to the community getting them computers and teaching them computer skills and bringing the internet to their village. He's common, but brilliant with technology and all things IT and a blast to be around!

This big ass flatscreen TV is the shit! I wish we could take it with us.

And I love big fuck off fridge/freezers, too.

They really have their place in a rural area like here.

But because we don't have one, we just use our fridge/freezer, plus the landlord's fridge/freezer, plus a wee under worktop fridge.

Mr Rollmops is back

Can anyone explain why having a huge solid fuel cooker, a huge woodburner in the drawing room and a huge estate in Wiltshire are the hight of style and sophistication whereas having a huge telly for watching films is "arriviste" ?

I'm having a huge beer at the moment however it's organic imported German beer brewed to their strict purity laws so am I common as muck or quietly sophisticated ?

BonsoirA, those of us with a job, a few children and a social life sadly don't have time to shop daily.

Oh I have all those things too. But I live in the centre of a city and go everywhere on foot and public transport so shopping is integrated into the working day. Everyone does that here, btw - you see people coming into our building straight from work between 7 and 8 pm with their shopping bags for that night's dinner.

Chavvy vulgarity.

Yes, Pan.

Where do I sign up?

are you moving again expat? How are things? Are you getting to watch the new series of ice Road Truckers?

What has the size of your tv got to do with class? It is more important that it suits the room size and is not the room's focus surely

I can see how a big tv can look common but only depending on how big the room it's in is. A giant 45 inch tv is gonna look common in a toy town house with a tiny living room isn't it? The kind of houses that are shooting up everywhere nowadays with no room to swing a cat in. We have a 45 inch tv and we don't live in a mansion but our living room is a good size with a high ceiling so the tv doesn't over power the room or look common.

BA, so I'm guessing nobody has supper with their children if they're getting home with shopping bags between 7 and 8pm, assuming it takes at least 30 - 40mins to get in and cook a decent meal. Personally I'd rather cut the daily shopping and spend more time with my 3 children but each to their own.

chocolatedot has supper instead of tea.

Now THAT's what I call posh.

I think you're right though chocolatedot and others when you say that ultimately the only thing which makes people common is sneering at other people's choices.
What is the point of striving for social mobility in Britain (and elsewhere) if people are going to try to categorise you by the kind of telly you have or the fridge (bizarre) you have chosen.
This thread has made me laugh but is also slightly despairing.

I mean depressing

Lots of families eat together in the evening here - but then, people eat their evening meal much later here than in England (8 pm onwards). Of course, a lot of children also go home for lunch - so many are eating three meals a day at home with one or two parents.

This week I had lunch with DD on Monday and Tuesday (and Wednesday, of course, when there is no school) and lunch with my DP today. There is nothing atypical about that lifestyle here.