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I've known people who watch 6 hours of TV a day, except they're not actually watching it, they just want to have it on all the time while they do other things.
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
I've known people who watch 6 hours of TV a day, except they're not actually watching it, they just want to have it on all the time while they do other things. Which is awful and incomprehensible to me personally--it's like having someone yelling in your ear all day "for background noise"--but I guess it's not necessarily mindless vegging out.
- ehnto 8y agoMy father would turn the TV on and walk right out of the room again. Unrelated to that anecdote, I think there is a fear of silence in many people. You can get yourself into a sort of buzzing state, where life is a noisy continuum that is happening to you and you need to keep the buzz going else you notice the stark contrast of silence and nothing, which for many can be really uncomfortable.
- 5555624 8y agoI think "awful and incomprehensible" would depend on what they are "watching." Last year, my job moved a couple of hundred miles. I can no longer listen to the morning radio show I used to listen to; but, they are simulcast on a regional TV station, so I can "watch" them. If I'm working from home, I'll put them on in the background.