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Every time anyone (inside Norway or outside) discuss our prisons, they feel they have to mention that the cells have flat-screen TVs. Well, duh, of course they
by gnud 12y ago
Every time anyone (inside Norway or outside) discuss our prisons, they feel they have to mention that the cells have flat-screen TVs.
Well, duh, of course they do. A simple flat-screen TV is the easiest and cheapest to order, service and replace.
- qwerta 12y agoAnd it probably reduces overall cost. Inmates are calmer, more entertained and need less guards.
- lazylizard 12y agomaybe less psychiatric help too..
- haakon 12y agoIt's always strange to see "flat-screen TV" talked about as if it were some sort of luxury item and most people can only afford CRT TVs.
- dspillett 12y agoIt is often used (in the UK at least) in reference to people on benefits, by certain publications. The implication being that some of those benefits we've paid our taxes to provide have been wasted as they have a new item instead of making do with a cheap hand-me-down. No reference is made to if the subject being discussed owned the item before they were on unemployment (and related) benefit, and of course these days a hand-me-down is likely to be a flat screen unit anyway.
- vidarh 12y agoConsider that what most people are most surprised about is that they have TV's in the cells at all, which itself is highly uncommon most places. Then "flat-screen" gets tacked on because we still are used to see flat-screen TV's as more of a sign of luxury than CRT's because people remember a few years back.