I must be doing something wrong. Based upon this little chart from the BLS, the average day of an American is glorious. Sleep for 36% of your day, enjoy leisure activities for 22% of your day, work for only 15% of your day, and spend the other 27% eating, drinking and doing other miscellaneous crap. I can’t understand why our empire is in terminal decline. The 28 minutes per day we spend educating ourselves really shows.
The figure that really blows me away is the 8.71 hours per day spent sleeping. I don’t think I’ve had 8.71 hours of sleep since 1993, when my first kid was born. Does anyone out there really sleep 8.71 hours per day? I guess the fine people of West Philly are offsetting my daily 6.5 hours of sleep with their 11 hours of sleep to arrive at that average. But that is OK. My 12 hours of work and work related activities (I assume my 2 hour commute counts) offsets the zero hours of work being done by the upstanding EBT crowd in West Philly to arrive at the 3.57 hours of work per day.
This is a very disturbing chart. We are doomed.
We are averaged with the other 50% that don’t have to work for a living.
Your 6.5 averaged with their 10.1 a day gives us 8.3.
The same for all the other numbers.
Apparently…
I’m doing it wrong.
dave spends too much time working
dave spends too much time on the phone
dave doesn’t get enuf sleep
dave multitasks
dave wonders why there are so many fat people since everyone spends so much time on sports
dave is working so much and sleeping so little that dave has started referring to himself as dave
It could be that this graph reflects the aging of America. We have a lot of people in their 70s, 80s, and even 90s, and they aren’t working, and I’m pretty sure they spend a lot of their time with sleeping and leisure.
I call bullshit on this. I worked a 112 hours the week before Easter. I worked about 95 the week after. I generally work between 60-80. I guess if I never ate, never shit, never showered, never interacted with my wife or two kids, never otherwise functioned I could get 8 hours of sleep. I’m doing well to get 6 consistently and that is a good week. A 26 hr work week? How the hell can our country even function? Oh wait…
@ Dave
sports= ESPN
Flash
dave had not considered the fatties only watched sports
dave does not watch sports
dave does not play sports
dave walks his dog 3-5 miles a day, every day
dave is still fat
dave likes beer
daves favorite beer has 400 calories per 12 ounces
dave can work via smartphone while both walking and drinking beer
dave works 60-80 hours per week, and more if needed
daves wife works even more than that
dave is astounded that someone could consume over 5 hours of sports and leisure per day, every day
dave thinks society is doomed
@ Dave, don’t despair.Being fat might buy you some extra time in the coming calorie collapsed society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donner_Party
Flash and Dave,
Don’t forget the lesson of Zombieland: The fatties went first.
Rule #1 for Zombieland: Cardio.
(Rule #2 is my favorite, though: The double-tap)
It makes me wistful, to know how buff I could be if it wasn’t for booze. The problem is that I started reading TBP, and now I can’t quit drinking.
At 72 years of age, most of my work goes into trying to get it up enough so I don’t piss on my shoes. The rest of the time is spent trying to remember why I need to get it up.
At 94, my dad sleeps a good 12-14 hours a day.
“Dave is an average American”
That category is “sports and leisure”, the two combined. Considering more than 70% of Americans are overweight or obese (mostly obese), the only people that are doing sports are those that are paid to do sports, ie athletes. I see so many grey mullet headed goatee wearing morbidly obese boomers every day, I fear for the solvency of our medical system. Boomers consider it completely normal to weigh 300lbs, as long as it’s them that weighs 300lbs, and not somebody else, although I doubt they really care. They have free healthcare and free medicine to look forward to. When the food and medicine dries up, boomers are going to die by the millions.
Hell I’m retired and I work more than that. Oh but then I’ve never been anything close to normal.
AWD – FYI
On the issue of weight, again I,m not normal. (obese is the new normal) My weight is actually where it should be.
I ride my mountain bike anywhere from 12 to 25 miles at a time. That would be at least one a week.
john a is a worthless, POS boomer
john a is retired and lives well on a fixed income of $887.20 a month
john a spends 100 percent of his day minding his own fucking business
john a watches golf, baseball and international news on standard cable
john a rides his bicycle every day unless he’s sick or it’s raining outside
john a does not like muslim, homosexual presidents that lie
john a thinks that german shepherds are smarter than most people
john a thinks dave is very funny
john a
dave needs to be clear
dave weighs 264 pounds
dave should weigh 220-240
dave does 100 pushups and 200 situps at a time
dave walks 3-5 miles per day up and down hills with his dog daily
dave can no longer bench 410 lbs, but he used to
dave was 276 pounds but is working on it already
dave thinks that if he quit drinking he could lose the rest in two months
dave has decided to do more calisthenics and keep drinking good beer
mrs dave drinks coors lite
dave scoffs at coors lite
dave shares john a’s sense of humor
dave also does not like muslim, homosexual presidents that lie
dave also thinks that german shepherds, Labradors, and dogs in general are smarter than most people
What methodology do you use to get only 4 hours of work? Are they counting out E-loafing, smoke breaks, lunch, etc? Ohhhh, I get it-the Average man or woman is actually a government worker and even 4 hours is fanciful for actual work.
Stucky is starting to get annoyed with Dave referring to Dave.
I have to call bullshit on the pie chart.
ZERO hours for fucking per day? (should be at least 5 minutes)
ZERO hours for choking the chicken per day? (should be at least 2-3 hours)
Anyone else catch this?
Stuck when he’s not posting on TBP
I’m wondering if busting my ass to grow a garden comes under “leisure and sports”?
I think my personal pie chart would ditch the sports & leisure. Last time I played sports was P.E. in high school (back when P.E. actually did things physical and fat kids got picked last, and that’s just the way it was because no one wanted tubby wubby no neck on their pickle ball team)
Leisure, shit….I have not had leisure since I cut my first child’s umbilical cord in 2006….and it was pretty sparse leisure before that.
So I would replace sports & leisure with pissed & annoyed, that easily consumes 5.21 hours/day.
Dave can be a bit redundant at times.
And leave it to Stucky to demand accuracy.
That’s a pretty big chicken!!!
Thank yeeew.
Shit flinging simians on TBP werent included in the BLS data, if they were education and personal care activities would have been 0% daily and other activities would have been around 75% of their day, the rest eating and getting drunk [this includes passing out which is not counted as sleep]
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Dave,
Got a year on you as of today.
To solve wet shoe problem:
Insert your mingus in a toilet paper tube and don’t try to piss upwind.
If problem persists, try a paper towel tube.
Works for me!
Novista things dave should not give up drinking, the outcome may not be an improvement.
No, I decided at the beginning of the year that I could shed some belly fat. So the benchmark, based on a BMI calcuator based on weight, height AND age, with 74kg, 5’10”, and 76, indicated I was at the high end of normal. Eh?
So, having been accustomed to wine with my meals and often, when writing, find I’ve finished the bottle, that’s out. For three months, other than one bottle gifted by a friend, tell me how you like this, and one Pinot noir shared with my son and his lady, it was filtered rainwater from the tank with meals. A target of 2,000 calories a day, a bit more exercise (if you can call the never-ending battle with weeds, palm fronds, and zombie plants like yelolow allamanda, red ivy, Madeira vine, elephant ear vine and more, or is that work?) . Etc.
Steamed fresh vegs, fruit, still some meat, chicken, fish, a variety. And! In three months of good living, I’d read TBP like Howard Beale — and I’d lost 2 kg. Fuckit. Continue food diet, add wine, maybe not as much, weigh, no change. Except I can laugh at all the stupidity of the world, giggle at MSM spin, and not think exercising the 30-30 is a Good Idea.
Salud!