What’s your second-favorite way to waste time on the internet?

[dixiehack]

Not that I watch that much anyway, but my YouTube TV subscription is on pause til the start of college football season, which somehow means incrementally more time on this little black box with the magic screen.

Obviously SJ.com will always have pride of place in my browser, but I’m prone to get stuck on a loop of the same 10-20 sites I visit over and over. Need some variety in my diet.

A few weeks back I started binging The Number Ones column on Stereogum, which has been excellent. Started with my birth date (Island Girl - meh) and am up to Chariots of Fire in spring of 1982. This is going to do a great job of holding my interest for a while, but much like real-time me I see interest waning as I reach the 90s and then all but disappearing in the new millennium.

What are your second-favorite Internet guilty pleasures (non-porn division)?

 

[TigerVols]

There are millions of hours of tv shows free on youtube, including Emergency. Nuff said.

 

[Slacker]

Zillow porn for me, off and on.
I like to see the interiors of great homes.

 

[Slacker]

Also, Google Earth is always a good draw.
Find your places of interest, then zoom in on 3D.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I can only imagine the first-favorite way to waste time.

 

[Slacker]

I can only imagine the first-favorite way to waste time.

Holy ****, I had no idea YF is Asian.




NTTAWWT!!!

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Holy ****, I had no idea YF is Asian.


NTTAWWT!!!

He has to squint to see it.

 

[BTExpress]

I still get a kick out of the Today's Front Pages site that used to be part of Newseum. I wish there was an archive, though.

 

[TrooperBari]

Sporcle quizzes are a good time sink. I like dipping into the geography section to refresh my knowledge of flags, capitals, etc.
Sporcle - A World of Quizzes

 

[FileNotFound]

Law enforcement bodycam/dashcam videos on YouTube.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

I watch an unreasonable amount of old sports and television shows on YouTube, the more obscure from my youth, the better. Crap you forgot even existed, like the Redd Foxx Show that was on ABC for like eight episodes in 1986, the Byron Allen Show from the early 1990s and a couple of years ago I went down the Johnny Bago rabbit hole. I honestly struggle to remember people's names and birthdays but I remember Johnny effin Bago was part of CBS's ill fated "Crimetime after Primetime" lineup in 1993 and ran after the local news on Saturday nights, which was usually when I was coming through the door after doing something dorky with my friends -- assuming I was out at all because I was 16.

 

[Octave]

I've always got a baseball game on, whether it's an old one or current.

 

[swingline]

There are millions of hours of tv shows free on youtube, including Emergency. Nuff said.

The ‘70s show with station wagon ambulances?

 

[Huggy]

The ‘70s show with station wagon ambulances?

My old man drove one of those for years here in Toronto with a private ambulance service before the city took it over.

 

[Batman]

The ‘70s show with station wagon ambulances?

And firetrucks and paramedics. Its spirit lives on with shows like Chicago Fire and 9-1-1.

 

[WriteThinking]

I've been spending an inordinate amount of time on cruising-related social-media pages and many of the various Star Trek-centric Facebook pages lately, as well as on some for enthusiasts and researchers of marine mammals. I never did that before this year, and I'm not sure what changed. I'm guessing that, like dixiehack, I might've just been looking for some new/added material.

I do know that I've tired of a lot of political stuff, including and especially how our Supreme Court, shockingly, has no ability to do its job like the collection of stand-up judges they're supposed to be. Its members truly, sickeningly, have no ability to use any backbone or any independent and/or bipartisan thought or consideration, and the Court is essentially corrupt because of that, and there's nothing we can do about it. I'm sick of constantly having to be on guard and unable to trust much of TV and even online media news and information that I usually liked to follow previously, so I have been doing less of that lately (outside of keeping up with the Biden/elections thread on here) as a result.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Baseball Reference, Pro Football Reference and the other sports Reference sites are a great way to waste, er, spend time. I like to click on the photos of the random players that they have on their front page, and read their stats.

For Baseball Reference, I also like reading the SABR biographies of various players after clicking on their photos. I especially like to do that while falling asleep during the wintertime. Keeps my mind on baseball during the cold winter months.

 

[jr/shotglass]

YouTube for food reviews or old sports or old sketch comedy.

Facebook Games: 8 Ball Pool, Goods Master 3D Online, Angry Birds.

Candy Crush Saga if I'm on my phone (Level 3,174 ...)

Google Maps.

 

[garrow]

Chess at mathisfun.com
Old episodes of Firing Line and Behind the Music on YouTube

 

[I Should Coco]

And firetrucks and paramedics. Its spirit lives on with shows like Chicago Fire and 9-1-1.

I believe the fire station on Chicago Fire is also "Station 51."