Time spent watching TV

[Nightjar]

While we are waiting for a bit of cooler weather to hook up the caravan and get away for a swing here's a little survey.
: How many hours a week do you sit/lay in front of a TV?
Let's be honest now.

My average is 10.5 hours/week. (Evenings only, TV never on before 1800hrs)

 

[Mackka]

The tv is on for about 35 hours per week however I would “ watch it” for 14-20 depending on what was on which isn’t much these days.
I use the tv at night as a type of meditation. The stuff on it is so boring it sends me to sleep.

 

[lordo.1]

maybe 10 hrs per week except when test cricket is on and time permits Will watch as much test cricket as possible

 

[nucopia]

My mom is house bound and no longer able to walk with out assistance, so watching tv is all she can do.
During evening meals , i sit with her as she watches her shows, we talk a little and sometimes i search for an old Hollywood movie to watch on youtube together, other than that i never watch tv ..

 

[Moneybox]

I spend very little time on the telly but when Mrs M is home in the evening she has it on and I'm usually sitting at the table on the internet with the TV in the distance. If I see some interesting I might go and sit with her through a program. Perhaps 10 or 12 hours some weeks. For the six weeks or so that she was in Perth I hardly turned it on at all however if I'm prospecting on my own I'm more likely to watch a couple of hours at night.

 

[Flatlander]

watch abc news then missus watch u tubes prospecting shows, caravaning shows for ideas probably 2 hrs a night

 

[sand surfer]

about 1 hour each night while having tea then bed ,a fair bit more when test cricket is on

 

[Nightjar]

I spend very little time on the telly but when Mrs M is home in the evening she has it on and I'm usually sitting at the table on the internet with the TV in the distance. If I see some interesting I might go and sit with her through a program. Perhaps 10 or 12 hours some weeks. For the six weeks or so that she was in Perth I hardly turned it on at all however if I'm prospecting on my own I'm more likely to watch a couple of hours at night.

Hahaaahaa The rare time I'm home alone I don't turn TV on because I don't know how.

 

[OzzieAu]

It’s YouTube channels like this that get me into watching a few hours a week..... if its free to air, then just the ABC news.

 

[Moneybox]

Hahaaahaa The rare time I'm home alone I don't turn TV on because I don't know how.

Yep like me. I collected up the remote controls one day, I'm not sure how many but about six. It's beyond my pay grade to do anything with these things beyond changing the battery on command

 

[OzzieAu]

Haha... you old troglodytes may not be able to work a tv remote, but I bet you can drive a electronic gold sniffing machine, hey

 

[user 12139]

I watch MAFS, I record MAFS.. so couple hundred hours a week
Narh for me, nightly news, Landline then 60 minutes, thats it.. 9 hrs
.. but in reality 6 + 3 hrs, 3 being bloody commercials!

 

[EVIE/BEE]

I watch MAFS, I record MAFS.. so couple hundred hours a week
Narh for me, nightly news, Landline then 60 minutes, thats it.. 9 hrs
.. but in reality 6 + 3 hrs, 3 being bloody commercials!

I skip all the commercials & record the shows i want. It helps with the stress levels.

 

[Hawkear]

I have to show a believable interest in sitting with my wife while she enjoys her shows Eddie Millionaire, English Baking shows etc then over to me for the news, a check of foxtel for some good science and archeology docos, Aussie gold hunters, and of course any games of footy featuring The mighty Hawks, then on to you tube for a bit of music more docos, so not much really.

 

[RM Outback]

I skip all the commercials & record the shows i want. It helps with the stress levels.

We pre record and ff commercials, does my head in watching them. On a regular week I will spend 2 to 6 hours in front of the telly. Couldn't tell you the last time I watched the news, for me it's a waste of time, easily acquired on the net and I get to choose what I read

Spent a few days down at the beach house last week which we only have free to air. Over the 4 days I watched around 4 hours in total at night accross the 3 nights. The longest stint was watching the movie Hunt for the Wilderpeople great flick unfortunately 1 third of that was frigging commercials.

 

[user 12139]

I can't remember the last time I sat down and watched a movie from woh to go. Personally, I think they've lost the knack of how to make a good movie these days. I dunno maybe I'm just getting old but all you ever see is slaying or something to encourage a deprived train of thought. Pretty shallow minds in the industry today if thats what they call entertainment.

Much like the comedy these days. I occasionally switch on the Comedy Channel in hoping to get a good fix of comedy, but the jokes are always absolute rubbish, they're not funny one single bit and I think the audience knows it because the only time they break out in uncontrolled bursts of laughter is when the act drops the F bomb. They think thats funny... I should produce a show of me in my workshop, I'd be a wealthy man!

I enjoy a good laugh, they say its healthy and I'd have to agree. I always feel like I've reset my soul when I've had a real good laugh. The best session of laughter for me in a long time has been reading the Joke thread here on PA, its pretty good! Thankfully us Aussies haven't lost the knack.. yet. If you haven't checked it out, make sure you do, its good for ya

 

[user 12139]

.. oh no, she's back

 

[RM Outback]

.. oh no, she's back

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Who's that

 

[grubstake]

Who's that

Some creature on MAFS, I reckon.

 

[RM Outback]

Some creature on MAFS, I reckon.

Thanks, wouldn't recognise any of them even if I lived next door. Or any other show for that matter.