The average person watches four hours and eighteen minutes of telly, per day. That's staggering. So staggering that I opened up a spreadsheet.
Being bit of a spreadsheet nerd (look, I don't go plane or train spotting, I don't know a DC10 from a Dyson, nor a Stevenson's Rocket from a hole in the ground, everyone's got their own anoraks, right? Spreadsheets is one of mine) I added some rows and formulae.
| Hours | Minutes | Minutes | |
| Me / day | 1 | 19 | 79 |
| Me / week | 9 | 10 | 550 |
| Me / month | 40 | 43 | 2383 |
| Me / year | 477 | 40 | 28600 |
Then I looked at my viewing. I assumed that each game is on the telly for two hours, I counted watching person to person internet feeds (for the games where we're not on telly, or on (spits) BT Sports). I assumed we play twice a week and that I watch all the games, which I don't, sometimes being out playing cricket, or working or otherwise engaged. I also assumed that I watch about the same through the summer, unlikely unless it's a World Cup or European Championships year. Then I added in two films a week at an hour fourty-five per film.
Which leaves a shortfall, so to maintain the averages, someone somewhere is having to pick up the slack and do the extra hours. Someone is having to watch seven hours and sixteen minutes a day. According to the European directive, that's just fourteen minutes of a full working day the poor bloke or woman is having to watch to maintain the national average.
Rather him, or her, than me.
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