Holy crap, really?
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johnridleyApparently Americans on average spend FIVE HOURS A DAY watching TV?
Wow. I feel kind of guilty about wasting otherwise productive time when I spend more than an hour, though I do that many nights after getting home from work; to watch a new Mythbusters episode or a NatGeo or History show for instance. I've started to be selective even about what documentaries I watch, since so many of them are repetitive (when I start realizing that almost every bit of footage in a history channel special is stuff I've seen before, and I've heard the text before too, it's time to move on). Having to fill 24 hours a day with history leads to repetition, and competing for ratings leads even the best-intentioned networks like History or Discovery to air garbage a significant portion of the time.
Once in a while I'll do a marathon and watch 3 or 4 hours of Red Dwarf or something on the weekend.
Five hours? I think my brain would turn to jello in just a few days of that.
As a friend has said before, people are amazed that I don't know who (name some TV star here) is, but they also wonder where I find the time to learn what I've learned. Folks, spend 5 hours a day trying to learn something. Hell, spend ONE. You'll be "smart" before you know it.
Wow. I feel kind of guilty about wasting otherwise productive time when I spend more than an hour, though I do that many nights after getting home from work; to watch a new Mythbusters episode or a NatGeo or History show for instance. I've started to be selective even about what documentaries I watch, since so many of them are repetitive (when I start realizing that almost every bit of footage in a history channel special is stuff I've seen before, and I've heard the text before too, it's time to move on). Having to fill 24 hours a day with history leads to repetition, and competing for ratings leads even the best-intentioned networks like History or Discovery to air garbage a significant portion of the time.
Once in a while I'll do a marathon and watch 3 or 4 hours of Red Dwarf or something on the weekend.
Five hours? I think my brain would turn to jello in just a few days of that.
As a friend has said before, people are amazed that I don't know who (name some TV star here) is, but they also wonder where I find the time to learn what I've learned. Folks, spend 5 hours a day trying to learn something. Hell, spend ONE. You'll be "smart" before you know it.
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Date: 2009-11-11 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-11 04:38 pm (UTC)Personally that drives me up the wall. I can't really listen to music while I'm trying to do something either. I do kind of regret that, it really means that I hardly ever listen to music, even though I love to. If I turn music on, within a few minutes I'm just sitting and listening to it. Usually I'm too busy for that.
Also, we don't have televisions anywhere that I'd really be doing anything else, other than maybe reading. The idea of having a TV running while I'm trying to read absolutely boggles my mind.
When I visit my family, they've ALWAYS got a fucking TV running. Honestly, I have to leave the room; they're always watching network TV and it's like having a train wreck going on outside the window; it's horrible but you can't ignore it.
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