Couch Potatoes

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Couch Potatoes

The television has become one of the most important possessions any American could own. Almost every family household in all of America especially in the United States has at least one television. This means people around the world are spending time being lazy sitting in front of the television doing nothing but watching and eating. Television watchers can be classified in many ways: by the different types of shows they watch or by the amount of time a person watches the television a week, but this seems too general to classify a couch potato. The four major categories of the couch potatoes are ranked on a combination of leisure or free time spent watching, intensity of watching, and the desire to watch verses the desire to engage in other non-watching activities.
First, there is the ever so true couch potato. These people have no life what so ever. They are diehard viewers who, when they go home, sit down right in front of the television for the rest of the evening or day. These people now make their living room also their dining room. They sit in front of the television stuffing their faces the whole night. Upon hearing the word bible the, the true couch potato thinks of the TV guide. Couch potatoes plan all daily activities around the television. Some try to accomplish things while they watch, but many don’t get anything done. If the president was on every channel but one and they disliked Clinton like everyone in America, they would watch

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the one channel no matter what on. While at home these true couch potatoes never dream about turning off the TV.
The second group is the regular couch potato. These are scheduled television watchers. They have interests other than the TV and don’t eat dinner in t...