This action occurs while watching the DVR. As onefast-forwards through the commercials of their taped program, they accidently press play too soon--before the program has returned.
Declan fast-forwarded through the commercials of his favorite TV show, Breaking Bad, since he recorded it on his DVR.
While speeding by the ads at an alarming rate, he thought he saw Breaking Bad return and pushed play. Declan was wrong. He proceeded to do this two more times during the same commercial break. Declan needs to pace himself or he'll continue to experience premature remotation.
To relocate to a new country or location to work remotely. The phenomenon of remocating has become increasingly popular since the 2019 Covid-19 outbreak, as large numbers of office workers were given the option of working remotely from home. Many then realized the world has more to offer to their home towns and started remocating to new, more exciting locations.
Has anyone seen John? -Nah, haven't seen him for over a year. Since his employer closed all their physical offices, he remocated to Saigon, Vietnam.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)