Comes with cable or satellite packages. Itâs just kind of there.
Yep, it was always part of various TV packages going back to the early nineties or even eighties. Eurosport has had great free to air coverage of the Tour de France for as long as I can remember. Shame itâs now on a subscription for channel and Iâm sure there wonât be as many people watching it now.
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Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo absolutely detested each other. The two boys couldnât stand the sight of the other after Michelangelo insulted Leonardo in public in Florence in the 1490âs after a perceived slight.
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It was always good to watch something obscure to us. Like Ski jumping.
Ski jumping wasnât so obscure in the 1988-2002 period.
The likes of Jens Weissflog and ehâŚEddie the Eagle were household names among Dublin young fellas who watched Grandstand. The Finns were always the lads to beat though.
David Goldstrom on Eurosport did smashing work in the latter part of this period especially on the Four Hills tournament. Sven Hannawaldâs Grand Slam of the Four Hills in 2002 was smashing viewing.
A friend of mine had a kind of big slopey head and people used to hum this theme tune to him regularly.
I think the intention was for it to be like ESPN. Didnât really work as intended as the European market so fragmented. Plus Sky went off and decided to lean into paid for extra subs for sports.
The Olympics is the only thing at scale they can probably enjoy the benefits of from having the rights all over the continent.
Not in RTE land. I got âthe channelsâ in 92 i think.
There is an alternative to cremation called resomation where the body is dissolved in water.
Water?
Thereâs a hint of Soylent Green about that.
The deceased person is delivered in a reusable wood casket to the Resomator unit where the deceased in the wool enclosure is transferred into the Resomator chamber. The system uses a water and alkali based method at high temperature and pressure to chemically reduce the body to white ash. After drying and processing of the white bones the pure white sterile ash is returned to the relatives just as with flame cremation. The process on average takes 3.5-4 hours.
Like in breaking bad?
From wiki.
The result is a quantity of green-brown tinted liquid containing amino acids, peptides, sugars, salts and soft, porous white bone remains, calcium phosphate, easily crushed in the hand to form a white-colored dust. The âashâ can then be returned to the next of kin of the deceased. The liquid is disposed of either through the sanitary sewer system, or through some other method, including use in a garden or green space or formed into edible green tablets.
Edible for who?
Youâll have to watch the movie linked above.
I donât want to spoil it for you.
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Itâs been on my mind. Soylent Green.
Made in 1973 but set in 2022.
Probably didnât date well but I might as well look for a download.
Remember it well. Charlton Heston. Remember it as a good movie. Wonder how it aged.
Iâll report backâŚ
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Taytos in the North are different to Taytos in the Republic.