Things that make you go .....Hmmm, that's interesting.

[Munchie]

Never heard anyone heading to the hurling pitch.

Have you never been to East Galway or Tipperary?

Been to many a football pitch in both.

[laoislad]

Never heard anyone heading to the hurling pitch.

Have never called it anything else only the hurling pitch.

[seafoid]

Never heard anyone heading to the hurling pitch.

Have you never been to East Galway or Tipperary?

Been to many a football pitch in both.

There aren't many football pitches in East Galway.

[Munchie]

You win I didn't see East, I read Galway- yeah the map is a load of balls, f**king football pitches in Ireland - go to East Galway and cop yourself on, what a horseshit map, the world should revolve around East Galway in my opinion.

[seafoid]

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/athletics/2025/10/21/south-african-sprinter-benji-richardson-to-switch-allegiance-to-ireland/

South African sprinter Benji Richardson to switch allegiance to Ireland
Richardson (21) has a 100 metres best of 9.86 seconds and last represented South Africa at the 2024 Paris Olympics

[DaleCooper]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

It's the most humbling thing I've ever seen," said Ford's chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.
"Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West," Farley warned in July.
"We are in a global competition with China, and it's not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford."
The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company's attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.


I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you'll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts," he says.
"And you're walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic

One of Henry Hazlitts lessons dealt with the fallacy of machinery causing mass joblessness.


With robotics and AI the interesting thing is what new jobs will involve.

The economy is distorted by the incredible number of employed people who have no tangible productive output, so you'd imagine this might accelerate.

China has made extraordinary leaps in specific sectors, I've visited few factories in a sector they couldn't get into for ages. China couldn't vertically manufacture a ballpoint pen until 2017.

[johnnycool]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

It's the most humbling thing I've ever seen," said Ford's chief executive about his recent trip to China.
After visiting a string of factories, Jim Farley was left astonished by the technical innovations being packed into Chinese cars – from self-driving software to facial recognition.
"Their cost and the quality of their vehicles is far superior to what I see in the West," Farley warned in July.
"We are in a global competition with China, and it's not just EVs. And if we lose this, we do not have a future at Ford."
The car industry boss is not the only Western executive to have returned shaken following a visit to the Far East.
Andrew Forrest, the Australian billionaire behind mining giant Fortescue – which is investing massively in green energy – says his trips to China convinced him to abandon his company's attempts to manufacture electric vehicle powertrains in-house.


I can take you to factories [in China] now, where you'll basically be alongside a big conveyor and the machines come out of the floor and begin to assemble parts," he says.
"And you're walking alongside this conveyor, and after about 800, 900 metres, a truck drives out. There are no people – everything is robotic

One of Henry Hazlitts lessons dealt with the fallacy of machinery causing mass joblessness.


With robotics and AI the interesting thing is what new jobs will involve.

The economy is distorted by the incredible number of employed people who have no tangible productive output, so you'd imagine this might accelerate.

China has made extraordinary leaps in specific sectors, I've visited few factories in a sector they couldn't get into for ages. China couldn't vertically manufacture a ballpoint pen until 2017.

I've also visited a few factories in China in the mid 00's and they were manufacturing far more complex products back then than a ball point pen.
They were manufacturing high end PCBA's for Hewlett Packard blade servers including those fitted with BGA's which at that point was considered high spec manufacturing.

Culturally they had a bit of catching up on the quality and process side, but they had all the tools necessary to compete with any Western company and they were certainly light years ahead of India in that regard.

If anything they've outstripped western manufacturing capabilities since hence the jokes about iphones being made in the US..

Biden did attempt to turn around the serious lack of IC chip manufacturing in the US in his term, not sure if the Trumpmeister has kept that federal funding going since though.

Nvidia has manufacturing sites in Phoenix and Texas via a third party called TSMC thanks to Biden.

[Munchie]

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave Strictly

[Windmill abu]

Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman to leave Strictly

Hmmm,that's not interesting.

[Munchie]

Maybe not to yourself, though you did find it interesting enough to quote and comment on.

[Windmill abu]

Maybe not to yourself, though you did find it interesting enough to quote and comment on.

I usually find this thread interesting and sometimes thought provoking. I think a post about 2 reality TV presenters packing in their jobs on a celebrity dance show, does not qualify as interesting.

[Look-Up!]

Maybe there is some, ahem, compromising pictures of the two of them together and that's why they're leaving. Certainly thought provoking.

[Munchie]

Maybe not to yourself, though you did find it interesting enough to quote and comment on.

I usually find this thread interesting and sometimes thought provoking. I think a post about 2 reality TV presenters packing in their jobs on a celebrity dance show, does not qualify as interesting.

First all female presenters on British TV quit in unison, amid show scandles, falling ratings etc. Maybe not as interesting as a man quitting MOTD but it is subjective.

[Munchie]

Maybe there is some, ahem, compromising pictures of the two of them together and that's why they're leaving. Certainly thought provoking.

Asswipe of a statement.

[JoG2]

Maybe there is some, ahem, compromising pictures of the two of them together and that's why they're leaving. Certainly thought provoking.

Asswipe of a statement.

You're thinking along the same lines as Look-Up... A pair of dogs in heat. Life is for living 👌