Date: 2009-07-07 04:57 Subject: (no subject) Security: Public

Anyone who says "That person has too much time on their hands" should be beaten with a fiberglass rod if they spend more than 2 hours of TV per month.




I'm getting very irritated with people saying this so I looked up the average:

According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day (or 28 hours/week, or 2 months of nonstop TV-watching per year). In a 65-year life, that person will have spent 9 years glued to the tube. Compiled by TV-Free America; 1322 18th Street, NW ; Washington, DC 20036
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Think about that. Most people spend more time in front of tv than I spend on the internet.

SO fuck everyone


Millions of Americans are so hooked on television that they fit the criteria for substance abuse as defined in the official psychiatric manual, according to Rutgers University psychologist and TV-Free America board member Robert Kubey. Heavy TV viewers exhibit five dependency symptoms--two more than necessary to arrive at a clinical diagnosis of substance abuse. These include: 1) using TV as a sedative; 2) indiscriminate viewing; 3) feeling loss of control while viewing; 4) feeling angry with oneself for watching too much; 5) inability to stop watching; and 6) feeling miserable when kept from watching.


So they spend more time than I spend drinking watching TV


8 hours for sleep
8 hours for work
45 minutes for lunch
one hour for dinner
1.5 total commute time
4 hours for TV





TOTAL:1 hour 45 minutes for raising children, being married, grocery shopping, being a human.




I REALLY AND HONESTLY just realized how many hours a day people spend watching tv.



I'm not a kill your tv person, but I really haven't "watched tv" the way normal people do, ever, I guess.


4 hours ... that's fucking amazing