8 Hours A Day?!

Nice.

Americans are fat. That is something we can all agree on. If you disagree with me, you’re probably fat and there’s no way you’re ever going to chase me down, so I don’t care what you think. Now, the arguments as to why we’re fat have been a’plenty. Shitty food, nothing to do, we’d rather shoot guns than go running, etc. But you can add a new roll to the fat.

Despite an increase in entertainment choices, watching television remains as popular as ever, according to data from the OECD’s Communications Outlook report. American households watch the box for over eight hours a day on average, twice as long as anyone else.

Come again? 8 hours? Sleeping: 8 hours, Work/School: 8 hours…ummm that leaves only 8 hours left in the day and we haven’t included commuting, eating, pooping and brickbreaker. And in these 8 hours of TV watching and not taking care of necessary bodily functions, we’re clearly not watching newsworthy programs because we are globally dumb as rocks.

Dear America, get. off. your. fucking. ass.