Category | Addictions

According to the video here, the average American watches 26-30 hours of television each week, but what about those people that watch 40 hours of television every week?  Do they have an addiction? Most doctors claim that a person must be either mentally or physically dependent on something for them to be addicted and TV watching does not fit that definition.  However, if you know someone who never seems to step away from the television screen, it probably seems like TV addiction is very real thing. Watching TV for hours on end turns into a mindless activity for some people, causing them to watch...

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There are some silly addictions in this world, and well we know it.  Most of the addictions, obsessions, and idiosyncrasies you're accustomed to reading about here at the Silly Addiction are a little on the bizarre side.  Today's featured addiction, however, is one that is a lot more commonplace in today's connected society.  The reason I want to call attention to it is to demonstrate that just because "everybody" is doing something, that does not make it any less bizarre.  To me, the results of the following infographic prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that a lot of people really need to sort...

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Some people are obsessive compulsive about feeling extremely safe and secure in their homes.  There are people who often lay elaborate and silly traps for any prospective home intruder who might plan to pay that house a visit, like a huge tin coffee can filled with marbles to make the burglar slip and fall, or a false dog barking recording that is played from behind the door of a closed room, and even the sounds of a woman screaming and a gunshot being fired in an unseen room.  This all might sound like something from the movie Home Alone but a person who is that insecure about his house and its safety...

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There sure are a lot of silly addictions in the world.  Some people are addicted to sugar, but others are addicted to drugs or alcohol.  And then you have people who are addicted to prunes and other strange fruits that most of us wouldn't touch with a ten or longer foot pole.  It's true, for nearly everything that exists, there is someone out there who can't get enough of that something.  So never laugh when you are faced with someone who is confessing an addiction to, oh say, cabbage.  Or maybe they are addicted to paperclips or even certain sounds.  You just never really do know when you will...

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