Televisions, it's occuring to me, are a bit of strange marker of class in the UK.
Back in the day when they were expensive I'd consider them a marker of middle-class prosperity. Thinking of the stories of people buying them for the coronation or crowding in to someone else's sitting room.
But I think now, *not* having a television I would consider a marker for a particular stripe of middle-class intellectual. Whereas I'd be surprised to find a working class household without one.
What was driving my mum's reluctance to have a television in the house I don't know. Her parents were exactly the sort of properous working class people who would have bought a television before the coronation whilst she herself, back then, took a dim view of the brain addling power of television. It's different now, she loves television now.
As always when my mum acted weirdly back when I was a kid I reckon my step-dad's controlling nature has some part to play in the process.
I didn't have one at uni. My flat mate had one, so we shared that, along with visiting my dad or my mate Marty for the watching of things like the cricket or Friends.
I think the first television I bought was the flat screen television that is currently in my bedroom. Technically a joint household purchase with MLW.
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Date: 2019-02-11 04:26 pm (UTC)Back in the day when they were expensive I'd consider them a marker of middle-class prosperity. Thinking of the stories of people buying them for the coronation or crowding in to someone else's sitting room.
But I think now, *not* having a television I would consider a marker for a particular stripe of middle-class intellectual. Whereas I'd be surprised to find a working class household without one.
What was driving my mum's reluctance to have a television in the house I don't know. Her parents were exactly the sort of properous working class people who would have bought a television before the coronation whilst she herself, back then, took a dim view of the brain addling power of television. It's different now, she loves television now.
As always when my mum acted weirdly back when I was a kid I reckon my step-dad's controlling nature has some part to play in the process.
I didn't have one at uni. My flat mate had one, so we shared that, along with visiting my dad or my mate Marty for the watching of things like the cricket or Friends.
I think the first television I bought was the flat screen television that is currently in my bedroom. Technically a joint household purchase with MLW.