Where do old money people watch their TVs? The study?
The den/family room.
Yes. Lucky for you, people may be in danger.
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Natter 59: Dominate Your Face!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 8:10:04 am PDT #9899 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Sue - Jul 28, 2008 8:10:43 am PDT #9900 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Whenever my family comes to visit me in Chicago, I have to remember that and take them to the appropriate restaurants. Places that aren't too fancy or expensive, or have what they would consider "weird food" on the menu, or anyplace where I'd have to translate the menu for them.
This is totally my family too. Which is frustrating sometimes, because a) many of my favourite restaurants have what they would consider weird food and b) many in my family are very passive aggressive when it comes to eating out: "No, no, let's go wherever you like. I'll eat anything." Followed by: "Oh, I don't like curry." "They won't have weird food there will they?" I don't mind chain restaurants and diners, just tell me what you want to eat!
sumi - Jul 28, 2008 8:10:48 am PDT #9901 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Wouldn't Old Money people have more than one room with sofas etc, where a tv would be appropriate?
It probably just isn't the most public space in the house.
tommyrot - Jul 28, 2008 8:11:59 am PDT #9902 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Is TV déclassé? I can see it being so in the '60s and '70s, but....
Gadget_Girl - Jul 28, 2008 8:12:37 am PDT #9903 of 10003
Just call me "Siouxsie Shunshine".
Yikes, my family almost always had a small TV in the kitchen, the family TV in the den and no TV in the living room.
sumi - Jul 28, 2008 8:12:41 am PDT #9904 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Well, in the public living room - you're supposed to be visiting with people.
megan walker - Jul 28, 2008 8:13:39 am PDT #9905 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
eta: I guess it also depends on how high you hang it.
Heh.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 8:14:26 am PDT #9906 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The little b&w in the kitchen.
Heh.
Jesse - Jul 28, 2008 8:15:37 am PDT #9907 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I think anyone with both a living room and a den has the TV in the den -- even my other grandmother who has the plastic on the sofa in the living room.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 28, 2008 8:15:47 am PDT #9908 of 10003
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
We had a tv on a little wheelie cart that we could swing back and forth between the living room and the dining room. We ALWAYS watched the news while we ate dinner. And listened to my grandpa bitch about Jimmy Carter. Or maybe dirty eye-talian food when we were served pasta. Yes. My grandpa was sometimes Archie Bunker. And I am half italian.