65% of Americans...
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This is one of those factoids that isn't at all surprising once you think about it. I suspect the only reason the number is 65%, rather than 99%, is that the other 35% don't have spouses and/or computers. The reality is that strictly speaking I spend a lot more time doing many things that with my wife, including commuting, though this entirely hinges on how you define "time with." For example, I have two computers in the common family room/dining area. In the evening, I am usually using one of the computer or watching television or both (and sometimes reading at the same time.) Meanwhile, my wife usually is using the other computer, watching television, doing crafts or working on Girl Scouts (she's a leader.) Since we do all this in eye and ear shot of each other and often exchange comments, how do I count it? Now, maybe when you're young with no kids, spouses can sit around and stare at each other, but the rest of us have lives.
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Well, any IT worker, for a start. I'm not American, but I spend a ton more time with my PC than with my spouse. Even if you cut 40 hours a week off my PC time, this would absolutely be true.
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This is one of those factoids that isn't at all surprising once you think about it. I suspect the only reason the number is 65%, rather than 99%, is that the other 35% don't have spouses and/or computers. The reality is that strictly speaking I spend a lot more time doing many things that with my wife, including commuting, though this entirely hinges on how you define "time with." For example, I have two computers in the common family room/dining area. In the evening, I am usually using one of the computer or watching television or both (and sometimes reading at the same time.) Meanwhile, my wife usually is using the other computer, watching television, doing crafts or working on Girl Scouts (she's a leader.) Since we do all this in eye and ear shot of each other and often exchange comments, how do I count it? Now, maybe when you're young with no kids, spouses can sit around and stare at each other, but the rest of us have lives.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Depends stongly on the spouse.
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My wife and I do both: we play online games together. Spending time with your computer and spouse. :) Good compromise, eh? :)
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That's not surprise!! If you are married First 6 months you go home every time as you can. ;) computer is on the corner and is used to open a family email. Between 6 months and 2 years you go home and you share dinner and a small talk and you sit in the computer. Between 2 years and 4 years plus two kids you go home after work and share dinner or McDonald to go if there was no time to cook, eventually a interesting conversation comes up, and you already are thinking what you will do with the computer after dinner. After 4 years you work late and go home to share dinner and hear the problems of the day, the mood in home is not good to sit many hours with the computer; you just do it 2 or 3 days a week. After 6 years you work late and you "must" go home or else you don't have dinner. If you don’t go for more than 2 day your wife will file a police report. I guess after 10 year if you don't go home for a week your wife will make a party
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Depends stongly on the spouse.
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My wife and I do both: we play online games together. Spending time with your computer and spouse. :) Good compromise, eh? :)
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I used to do that with C&C read alert and StarCraft the first year I was married. Now games are more complicated and requiere a bigger learning curve, also with kids forget about compromise... :)
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My PC is my spouse. I couldn't live without her. :)
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On our wedding night we left the dance about 1am. We went back to our apartment, I sat down in my recliner with my wedding dress still on, and my new husband sat in front of the computer still in his tux. I commented that other than the attire it was the same as any other night.
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My PC is my spouse. I couldn't live without her. :)
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It's all about quality time. Not quantity time. :)
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Does that statistic include time at work to? If it does then DUH! If it is strictly speaking of time when you are at home with your family that's a downer.
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If you saw the sort of spouses available in my area, you'd understand why.
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99.65% of :bob:ians :-D
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I got married *first*...
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote:
...spend more time with their computer than their spouse.
Do they count time you spend sleeping next to each other?
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Yeah, I thought of that. My computer would still win, but I'd imagine that is uncommon.
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Let's see... if you have a full-time job (8 hrs per day) that involves sitting at the computer the whole time, and you sleep 8 hrs (and those 8 hrs don't count as spouse time), then in order to spend the same amount of time with your spouse, you have to not do anything at all the entire rest of the day that's not with your spouse. And that doesn't even count commute time. Makes a case for working from home, eh? ;)
