Why is the Internet endlessly fascinating when you have to work and utterly content-free when you want to relax with it after work?
My guess would be a much greater tolerance for pointless crap when one has more unpleasant tasks at hand. It's amazing what one will put up with if the alternative is bad enough. When you want to relax, the alternative is doing nothing, and in many ways that's far better than most of the crap on the internet.
