How many hours of entertainment do you watch a week?

[Duderonomy]

I remember in my college marketing class reading the ideal consumer watches 20 hours a week. That's number seemed really high to me. I probably watch 10 hrs of TV and 2 movies a week. The NFL is a killer three 3hr games in one day. :eek: plus Monday.

[nathanjizzle]

basketball alone is about 8 hours a week.

[waseem780]

I don't watch movies,tv show series,documentaries etc. I occasionally watch youtube videos,facebook news feed videos and basketball(when im off work/school)

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Too much

[Dresta]

Too much
This.


I went through a period not that long ago when I pretty much stopped watching tv completely, didn't use the internet, watched like one good film a week, and I just got so many more actually productive and worthwhile things done. I need to work towards getting back to something like that, but it's difficult, because us moderns are conditioned to need constant stimulation.

[Rocketswin2013]

this question makes me wonder what the **** i do outside of work and school.

im not watching the nba for the year because gs has just about ruined that. and not much else either but for the summer of '15 i probably watched around 15hr/week the whole 3 month period.

and i blazed through a few shows in just a week each.

nothing but great, great shows. having the time to just indulge in that stuff is bittersweet. i love it but i also hate the feeling of being unproductive. eh.

[KyrieTheFuture]

10-20, usually go to the movies once a week and watch an hour of TV a day at least. Try to balance it with reading but I'm not doing very well

[embersyc]

A lot less in the months between the end of NBA Finals, start of Football season.

Also whatever non-sports I watch, I watch with my wife, so it doubles as quality time.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

This.


I went through a period not that long ago when I pretty much stopped watching tv completely, didn't use the internet, watched like one good film a week, and I just got so many more actually productive and worthwhile things done. I need to work towards getting back to something like that, but it's difficult, because us moderns are conditioned to need constant stimulation.

On all levels, really. Nutritionally, can our generation even subsist on simple bread/rice, vegetables, and a bit of meat if need be? After Dorito's which stimulate the tongue on all levels? Recall how the Children of Israel grew tired of their manna and quails and wanted their previous slavemaster's culinary variety of garlic, herbs, lentils etc. They'd exchange their freedom and the best sustenance and soon met even more humiliation, despair.


Remember how they used to have one-room schoolhouses and no electricity, not even 300 years ago, where man had to use his active imagination and reason constantly to grasp the concepts; in addition to exerting effort through physical labor? Or how in order to graduate or undergo apprenticeship, one had to practically usurp the master; intellectually wrestle the frame out of someone? Or even 50 years back the requisite of creating an original dissertation to earn a proper degree?


That's all a product of perhaps man's greatest asset; the intelligent application of will/awareness; where we're severely stunted from the get-go.


And what's worse about movies is how much of this stuff bypasses our RAS and enters our subconscious. It's like our minds are little slutty whores for a bunch of pretentious f*cks to deposit their germ sperm on. Wouldn't it be sweet if what entered our minds was the highest, truest things only? Now we're mentally raped at a young age and have these nasty conditionings blockading us that must be cleaned and emptied to reach, so once again chastity can be ours and we can reach the peace of a Virgin Mary.


Now in the education sphere, pre-packaged cutesy graphic videos only need to be retrieved from memory. Concretized facts with flashcards.




What would you, Dresta, given the role of teaching, say the 7th grade, make incumbent on your students in order that they transition into solid students?

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Really depends on the week.

I get home from work around 7-8 and it really depends on what I'm in the mood to do. Depending on my next day, I will go to the gym whenever I can. I will lift whenever but I usually pick certain nights for ball every once in awhile. The courts are always packed and it's not unreasonable to wait 45 mins - 1 hour to get into a game. When the weather gets nice like it did recently, we go to a local park that has a ton of ballers and a ton of courts (don't have to wait more than honestly 10-15 minutes to get into a game, it's awesome). We did this in the past weekend.

Often times, I'm on netflix watching a movie or a TV show for 1-2 hours a day. But I think I might go back to finally finishing up Sopranos and watch The Wire. I have two other shows on my list after probably: House of Cards and Breaking Bad. Almost once every few weeks, my friends and I go to the movies and find the best rated new movie out (even if we aren't a big fan of the genre). Then grab food before or after. This is a little hard to do at times because my commute sometimes postpones our plans.