The Retirement Thread

[Dave7]

Not quite sure if that was a joke or not...?

Anyway - 'ells' not 'ones' - ALL4! It is Ch4's streaming service, a rebranding of its former 4OD service. Actually, there should be a space - 'All 4'. Take a look HERE.

My pal and I share a subscription. You can watch free but then you also have to watch 15-20 minutes of ads per hour. With a subscription some shows are ad-free but even the others only show about 2 minutes an hour, which is perfectly OK. Literally one short ad and back to the show.

Lot of good stuff on All 4!

I really like 48/38. I have those rings on my best bike and spend an awful lot of time on the 38. I also have a 28 on though for some of the horribly hard hills we have up here. Maybe I could get up a long stretch of 20+% in 38/30 but I would not enjoy it! Much more sensible to use my 28/30!

Sorry.....it was serious.
TBH I don't do streaming.
I assume streaming has to be done on a computer ??

 

[ColinJ]

I will make do with a short walk to pick up a Metro and a bottle of milk. Maybe with a turbo trainer chaser, though probably not if the rest of the winter is anything to go by. My turbo mojo seems to have gone on a lockdown-busting winter holiday with my road riding mojo!

 

[ColinJ]

Sorry.....it was serious.
TBH I don't do streaming.
I assume streaming has to be done on a computer ??

If you have a smart TV it will probably have the app on it so you can stream on the TV. Don't you ever use BBC iPlayer?

 

[Dave7]

Not heard that word for a long time. We have so many non Scots here who would not recognise any Scottish words.

We should have a totally separate thread for how many different words there are for the lowly bog.

 

[ColinJ]

By the way - if your TV is 'dumb' but has an HDMI socket on the back (any set under about 10 years old should have) you can get a little dongle device called a 'Chromecast' which plugs in there. You use a computer to start streaming a show but then cast it over to the dongle which continues it on the TV instead.

 

[numbnuts]

Just cleaned the Vax Blade 32v........it doesn't get any more exciting than that for a Friday.
I went for a walk at 04:00 this morning to replace a cache that some lousy B...... decided to pinch it, if it happens again I will delete the cache find as it is costing me £2.00 for each cache that is stolen and at that site I have lost four.

 

[Dave7]

If you have a smart TV it will probably have the app on it so you can stream on the TV. Don't you ever use BBC iPlayer?

I am the original technophobe.
I have what I believe is a smart tv.
Using the virgin control thingy I can do 'play back' by typing in the search box.
My daughter is here right now (doing a foot/leg treatment on her mum).....I will ask her

 

[rustybolts]

I crashed heavily on black ice last winter. What saved me was it happening too fast for me to react so I just bounced and slid! Hardly a mark on me or the bike...

Was it under a tree or in the shade where the sun didn't reach? thats what did for me

 

[oldwheels]

We should have a totally separate thread for how many different words there are for the lowly bog.

Cludgie ?
Now why did I put that? Just in and forgot where we started. Doh!

 

[numbnuts]

I am the original technophobe.
I have what I believe is a smart tv.
Using the virgin control thingy I can do 'play back' by typing in the search box.
My daughter is here right now (doing a foot/leg treatment on her mum).....I will ask her

The smartest thing I did with my TV was to ditch it.......
I think I have told you this before.....I do this as I'm getting older

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Had to go and pick something up from Argos this morning. The Doc has bullied me intoa diabetes prevention course and they are insisting they need to know my weight before each meeting - so I need to scales.
Anyway - don't really want to use my bike as the cold and the wind make it difficult to breath when going into the wind - so I decided to walk - took about an hour there and back
It's bleedi' cold out there!!!!

 

[Paulus]

Harry Thinks he is helping me with my 1000 piece jigsaw. Bless him.

 

[BoldonLad]

Sorry.....it was serious.
TBH I don't do streaming.
I assume streaming has to be done on a computer ??

You can do streaming on a computer, or, laptop. but, you can also do it on a "Smart" TV, or, an ordinary TV, with a Amazon Firestick, or Roku Stick, or Google Chrome, or various other devices. You do of course need an internet connection with reasonable speed.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have returned from shopping. Mr WD has had his jab. I had to wait in the car of course. Took quite a while to get through the whole rigmerole though.

 

[numbnuts]

I'm going for my second walk of the day .....are we allowed to do that