WoW - My waste of time is more valid than your waste of time..

Well isn't it?

from JoeUser Forums

I walked into the living room and my wife was watching one of those fat people losing weight shows.

I said, "Deb, why are you wasting your life watching this junk?"

To which she responded, "Big talk from the man who just spent his entire day playing World of Warcraft."

A pause.

"Well, I did make it to level 30 today."

At which point my son Alex chimes in, "Yea, now daddy can wear a helmet!"

My wife looks at my son and then looks at me and says,

"Brad, I think you need to wear a helmet."

..

I'm just saying that World of Warcraft is a better waste of time than biggest lower or whatever it's called. Because...Because..well...because!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
By playing WoW, you accomplished something. A virtual something, and more or less completely useless, but something nonetheless. Spend an hour watching television, and you've got nothing to show for it. It's all about actively wasting your time, as opposed to lying there while it trickles away.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I happen to like teleivison... well the West Wing anyways. I think you are refering to the biggest loser however.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
hehe, funny story. Which begs the question, are you wearing your helmet now?
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
You know what is a real waste of time? Being Serbian that's what. I just sit here trying to say "Dime Glava" to women and getting no respect. Stick with your Warcraft. I'd play but I'm too much of a pitchka.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Spend an hour watching television, and you've got nothing to show for it.


TLC, Discover, History. Nuff said.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Just nod and walk away....put down the comeback and walk away.

That was funny.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
TLC, Discover, History. Nuff said.


One could say the same of any television show--but a memory of the time you spent (useful or otherwise) does not a tangible accomplishment make.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
I like cheese.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Herein lies the difference between what women like to do for leisure, sometimes, and what men love to do with their time. We have these kinds of comebacks in my household too. Hence a TV in the bedroom, and one in the Livingroom. You made me laugh!
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
"I like cheese."

Sounds like about the most sensible thing I've seen written here today.....
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
Woohoo! Level 30!

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

I know exactly what you're talking about, though. My computer is in the living room and my wife and I can see exactly how the other is wasting time... We don't agree on who is wasting time more efficiently, either.
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top
The question is how long did she spend watching the show vs how long you spent in the game? I think that was the point she was trying to make to you. She wasted 1 hour and you wasted 10.
Reply #14 from Stardock Forums Top
What does it mean if I play while I watch TV?

And do you need a new helmet yet?
Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
Aye!

Thats how I play all the time. TV, WoW, Beer, and smokes. This is of course when i am not at work or school. And that isnt all that often anymore.
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
You know, although i agree with the original post in the sense that I also think that WoW is a better waste of time then sitting in front of the TV, I would like to make a random point. Although WoW is a better waste of time to both me and Draginol as compared to TV, it is defintely not a better waste of time for his wife. All I am saying that the use of time (especially in the waste of time sense) is a purely subjective activity. So of course to the one wasting the time, that is the best current way to waste time. These wasting time needs change over time, and only on accasion (very rare) do spouses definitions of the best way to waste time overlap.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think it all depends. I actually talked about this to my wife last night - after catching this blog, because this has come up between us before.

My wife explained it pretty well, she said that TV is "Downtime", you sit back, watch the screen, don't think, just recharging your batteries. While the PC is more in line with doing something like knitting a sock, or going through your stamp collection. Its not really downtime in the sense of downtime. Shes a big proponent of people needed a good solid 1-2 hours of downtime per night for their sanity. Given her triple degrees, mostly pertaining to the human body and human mind, I think she might be right.

Someone mentioned above.. As far as time wasting, its pretty easy to blow 5+ hours in a game in a day, while its 100% unlikely my wife would ever blow 5 hours watching TV in a day. So I guess my waste of timers are much more destructive than hers, especially when mine aren't true downtime.
Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top
a pretty selfish argument.
different people enjoy different things.
and especially where it concerns a 'waste of time', validation is unnecessary.