The Retirement Thread
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12boy
Guru
- Location
- Casper WY USA
It has been 10 years since we have watched regular TV. We get by somehow with Amazon, Acorn, Netflix and Hulu, which when shared between our and our sons' households is pretty cheap. Regular TV shows here are about 40 minutes, the rest being ads. Got 4 large trash cans of gone-to-seed lettuce out of the garden yesterday so all that is left are tomatoes, pole beans, chard, carrots, zucchini and cukes. I think I will only have 1/2 a garden next year and 1/4 the container plants unless Mrs 12's chemo goes really well. It just takes too much time and produces enough for 4 households.
Another ride after the aged pooch gets her walk. I have fiddled around with my Holdworth until it works as well as I can get it and my Brompton is feeling neglected. I will relegate my minivelo and Xootr Swift to the storage sheds for the winter, leaving my Brompton, my 'Dale mtn bike, my Holdsworth and my Surly for the winter. I can pop on studded snows with minimal effort for them all but the Holdsworth won't be ridden in the snow and ice.
Be well and safe.
Another ride after the aged pooch gets her walk. I have fiddled around with my Holdworth until it works as well as I can get it and my Brompton is feeling neglected. I will relegate my minivelo and Xootr Swift to the storage sheds for the winter, leaving my Brompton, my 'Dale mtn bike, my Holdsworth and my Surly for the winter. I can pop on studded snows with minimal effort for them all but the Holdsworth won't be ridden in the snow and ice.
Be well and safe.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
Either have I, look that's were the TV went went now i have to have that bike to fill up the gap
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I had home made chicken and vegetable pie and chocolate cake
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I watch quite a lot on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. I also like watching box sets on All4 (streaming site for our Channel 4). I share Netflix with my sister, All4 with a friend, and subscribe to Prime myself.
We watch most of your top shows here too! We used to have shorter ad breaks, but they have gradually crept up towards US lengths now. The worst TV advertising that I ever saw was when on holiday in Spain. I could not believe that they sometimes had ad breaks of 10+ minutes!
Having posted that I have a big stash of TV recordings, I thought I would just go and remind myself what is there. I won't bother listing everything, but here is a selection:
- 'The Brain' (documentary series in 6 parts)
- 'Electric Dreams' (2 episodes, sci-fi)
- 'Russia' (documentary series in 3 parts)
- 26 assorted movies
- 3 complete TV series ('The Killing' series 2, 'Fargo' series 4, 'Blood: The Revelation')
- 'Tunes for Tyrants' (documentary series in 3 parts)
- Mark Kermode's 'Secrets of Cinema' (documentary series in 5 parts)
- Ray Mears 'How the Wild West Was Won' (documentary series in 3 parts)
- 'Chemistry: A Volatile History' (documentary series in 3 parts)
- 'Click' (22 episodes of the BBC tech programme)
- 10 individual documentaries on science, tech, civil engineering, music, medicine, and history
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Let's say that a TV programme is on from 10:00 until 11:00, and includes 20 minutes of ads...
Option #1: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Sit down and watch the programme, including the ads. Spend 20 minutes hating the ads. Finish at 11:00.
Option #2: Turn equipment on at 10:00. Spend 20 minutes doing the washing up (or something else useful), or (preferably) something which is fun. Go back and sit in front of TV at 10:20. Watch the show, skip the ads. STILL finish at 11:00.
(Mo has posted while I was typing that, so another option needed...)
Option #3: Use 20+ year old technology which can't record TV. Watch 15-20 minutes of crappy ads per hour of commercial TV. ***
*** Oh, and also say that there is nothing good to watch on TV! I have a stash of about 100 hours of interesting stuff to watch so there is never a single moment in my life when I would say "There is nothing worth watching on TV" In reality, I manage to find enough good stuff most days anyway, so some of my stash is 3 or 4 years old. I'll get round to it one day, or if I don't, no problem. I have only used 30% of my PVR's storage. As for the time spent doing this... I spend less time planning my recordings for the week than I would watching the ads in one hour of commercial TV!
Anyway, I suppose that I'll remain baffled, and you will both carry on watching ads that you don't like and NOT watching shows that you WOULD like because you hadn't noticed that they were on, or they were on while you were asleep or doing something else.
All part of life's great, confusing variety...
Our 10 year old TV doesn't give us the option to skip the adds
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Never tempted to buy a Freeview box which does (or buy a newer TV)?
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ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
And hates everything about the Minehead area, except for Butlins!It's true.
Ha also doesn't enjoy pub lunches
But some people enjoy watching ads that they don't enjoyNot being funny here, but I GENUINELY do not get it! You all clearly hate ads as much as me yet you plonk yourselves in front of the TV and watch them... WHY?!!!!!!!!
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Plus, without ads how would Mo know where to donate her hard earned cash eg I just switched on and there was an ad that ONLY wanted a,10 QUID donation
would you rob her of that !!!
AND how would Welshie know about erectile disfunction and how to cure it ????
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Never tempted to buy a Freeview box which does (or buy a newer TV)?
I'm not very interested in TV, it has freeveiw built in but it doesn't have the facility to skip the adds, I'll replace the TV when it breaks unless someone persuades me to change it.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
I don't. I turn the sound off and go on my Chromebook till it finishes.So why do you watch them?
If you have a PVR, timeslip the coverage and skip the ads. If you don't have a PVR, BUY a PVR, then... timeslip the coverage and skip the ads. Start watching at 19:20 and you will finish at the same time as usual with 20 minutes of your life not blighted by being force-fed ads and available for more constructive activities!
classic33
Leg End Member
It's the dry skin round your nails. No amount of manure would do that to your hands.I've been digging manure this morning.
numbnuts
Squire
- Location
- Gone over the hill and far away
I think my last TV had a wireless, I'm all most sure it did...............or was that the record playerNever tempted to buy a Freeview box which does (or buy a newer TV)?
