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Same.
I play video games or watch streaming stuff on my PC
What do you do on weekends? Not trying to be snarky, just curious
I’m not the person you’re replying to, but I can give some insight. Partially I do watch video content like YouTube or Formula 1, but on my PC instead of on the TV. The rest of my free time is just spent on other hobbies like gaming, programming, running, walking, going to music festivals, music production, etc. I always have so much that I want to do, and the TV just isn’t very enticing to me. I no longer have a cable subscription, and I usually don’t really have the patience to watch a series on Netflix or something, so I’m not subscribed to a streaming service either. I’d rather do something interactive like a game.
I was going to comment pretty much the same. I haven’t watched TV in over a decade and the only times my old TV gets turned on is when I want to play a game on the “big screen” instead of a handheld device. If I do want to just watch something without interacting, I watch a DVD or video on youtube, but on my laptop.
I have some academic work at the moment so it is usually all studying most of the day. But when i am free, i explore whatever topics interest me, online. It usually involves picking one topic, could be anything (Science, Tech, Politics, History, Linguistics, etc.) and then do lots of researching, finding sources, reading through and then making notes and documentation. Otherwise I change things on my linux system, experiment new things, maybe play something. If i find nothing, i just watch some youtubers or twitch streamers that i find entertaining. In the evenings i go for either a walk or bike around. Last year i used to watch some movies and web series as well on my laptop. I used to binge watch a lot so i haven’t watched any in a good while. That’s pretty much it i guess.
What are we counting as “watching TV?”
If we’re talking about traditional broadcast or cable TV, or online services like YouTube TV or Hulu live TV, etc. it’s basically 0 and has been that way for years. Pretty much the only things I watch that way are the Superbowl, random bits of the Olympics, maybe the ball dropping on new years Eve if I’m at a party that I’m not hosting, some of the world series if my local team happens to make it, the very occasional breaking news story, and whatever my parents have on when I visit them.
If we’re talking about sitting in front of the TV streaming something, it’s significantly more.
If we want to split hairs, I work every other weekend, so on those weekends it’s still pretty much 0. On weekends or other days that I’m off (the way my schedule works, my “weekends” might also be a Monday & Tuesday or a Wednesday & Thursday,) it could be a few hours. I work a weird night shift (3pm-3am) and I usually pretty much keep to that same schedule on my days off, while my wife and pretty much everyone else I know works a normal 9-5 kind of job, so it’s usually pretty much just me and the dog left to entertain ourselves between about 10pm to maybe about 4 or 5 AM when I go to bed, and often a good chunk of that time will be spent in front of the TV in some fashion, sometimes actively watching stuff, sometimes just to have background noise while I work on other stuff.
I won’t usually spend much if any time watching TV during the day until about 6PM or so, then my wife and I will usually watch something while we eat dinner.
I haven’t watched broadcast TV in years. I’ll regularly watch the main news show in my country but I’ll watch it on YouTube, just so I can skip forward if some right wing fuckwit spouts their bullshit.
Zero.
I only see one friend who watches television. It’s the only moment I watch it too. Well, grandma too, but I don’t visit them that often.
I stopped watching TV years ago when I felt that there were too many commercials.
Like sit and watch hours, or does emotional support background noise count too?
Ooh I’m pregnant about to burst and pretty uncomfortable, so I am having a lot of screen time while I stay off of my feet and try to stay distracted from the discomfort. I’d say six hours on each day is not uncommon. Two hours at brunch time and four at night. And then I’m not counting the 4 hours possible added in the middle of the night when I can’t sleep from discomfort - I’m not really watching but I have reruns on.
Also, of course all of this is streaming, which imo absolutely is TV
One or two hours at most, sometimes zero. I asked my wife recently as to when did we watch anything on TV that wasn’t recorded or streamed. It’s been months. Most things watched on the TV is streamed via Netflix, BBC iPlayer, ITVx.
We’ve never had satellite, no cable, but just use streaming and digital terrestrial Freeview. The TV is pretty much an extension of our mobile phones.
I don’t even own a television.
So zero TV.
I only watch television nowadays during major televised events, such as the FIFA World Cup, the Olympic Games, and the Eurovision Song Contest, alongside their respective spinoffs too (but I rarely watch those).
Other than that, my telly stays off virtually all the time.
20 min maybe
Sat - we’ll typically watch a movie, which may be at the cinema or, if not, then on a TV via my Plex setup. Sun - we may watch a couple of 50min episodes of something, again on a TV from my Plex collection.
Not sure if you’d count both - or either - of those as watching TV.
Maybe like… 3 or 4 hours.
Is it a motorsport weekend? Might park my arse in front of the TV all day Saturday and Sunday.
If not, just a movie with the kids and that’s likely it.
My mind is blown by the number of people in this thread outright bragging that they watch 0 TV ever, that they only stream Netflix on their computers.
Assuming we are talking about watching shows and movies, in any platform, on any device, I’d say 1- 1.5 in the summer and 3-4 (per day) in the winter. I feel weird watching stuff while the sun is out, it’s like I’m staying home sick from school. Spring/summer I’m usually out gardening until it’s well dark, then a shower, then a show then sleep. In fall and winter it’s nice to be cozy and watch something after dinner until bedtime. I’m usually also doing a puzzle or knitting, or some other small craft that doesn’t take much attention.
I watch 20+ hours on weekend. I think I should take up gardening as a hobby.
It’s an incredibly rewarding hobby. I mainly do ornamental flowers because there are so many critters here that want to eat any veggies I try to grow, but I have plans for a chicken wire hoop house/veggie fortress this spring.
I’ve heard that it’s one of the best hobbies for mental health because it includes exercise and sunshine as well as immediate gratification (the way a bed looks after it’s been weeded, or a plant after it’s been carefully deadheaded or pruned, planting already blooming flowers from the nursery) and long term/delayed gratification (planting a seed that won’t bloom for months or years, encouraging native plants to flourish and crowd out invasive plants and weeds).
One of my favorite things is the volunteers, the flowers that come from the fallen seeds of flowers I planted. You never know what color they are going to be once they bloom, it’s always a fun surprise after waiting for weeks or months after spotting a little volunteer to see what color it will bloom!
I haven’t watched television in years. YouTube is my main source of entertainment, closely followed by pirated TV shows and movies running through Kodi.
