Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Arts and Entertainment => Topic started by: rogerzilla on 04 April, 2012, 09:51:06 pm
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Ricky Martin (ha!) is the new Baggs The Brand, I think.
There seems to be a higher percentage of no-hopers this year.
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Mebbe but also fewer out and out knobs. A bit toned down, 'apprentice lite' perhaps.
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The market stall guy is like a fish out of water, as is the Scouse girl. Duane, despite his silly name, seems quite good so far.
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Ricky and the blond extremely patronizing guy...hate'm both. It's interesting to see that the cliques are mainly formed in the boys this time around, although I guess that comes from winning. Azir clearly hates half of them after being backstabbed in the last task.
I do think the series is starting to wear out.
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My, it's hard to see which of this bunch of losers is going tonight. One of the girls, I think.
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Ah yes. The most miserable one :thumbsup:
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You don't look a gift horse in the eye - best line yet!
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You don't look a gift horse in the eye - best line yet!
Great line, wasn't it? I thought Tom did a decent job as PM. The blond haired chap on his team will be not long in this process.
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Ricky is the new Nasty Nick, isn't he?.
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Was it just me or did any one else, in watching last night's episode (selling pre-owned items in Brick Lane) constantly get reminded of the Harry Enfield sketch "I saw you coming"? For once the contestants weren't the biggest load of mugs and idiots on the show.
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Was it just me or did any one else, in watching last night's episode (selling pre-owned items in Brick Lane) constantly get reminded of the Harry Enfield sketch "I saw you coming"? For once the contestants weren't the biggest load of mugs and idiots on the show.
Yes, that did spring to mind....though that guy with the second-hand shop who sold one team or other some of their stock certainly saw them coming!!
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You don't look a gift horse in the eye - best line yet!
That was brilliant. It even trumped classic dad-at-the-disco Steve and his line about finding "the best stuff" in the room at the back of that shop.
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Damn! My money's on Nicholas-with-the-silly-hair, then. He looks about 14 but he usually talks sense, and Sugar likes 'em young.
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It's the nasally-woman one that I can't stand.
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Gahh that bloody blond haired chap has escaped, I think Adam is his name. Gahhh.
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He's the least capable, but he is from the east end.
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Lordsugar likes the barrow boys. Adam is well out of his depth, though. The uptight bloke with the tiny mouth needs to go soon - he's too excitable, and not in a good way.
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agreed - is he a 'recruitment consultant'? He looks and sounds just like one. Tosspot.
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Presume you mean Steve. Utter bell-end. The way he blamed everyone but himself when they got in the boardroom suggests a total lack of self-awareness -(it could be a smart dissembling game he's playing but I really don't think he's clever enough for that, so I'm sticking with lack of self-awareness). He's had several opportunities to get himself fired already. God knows how he's still there - his one and only skill seems to be the ability to pull the wool over his team leader's eyes.
Tom is going to win. He's this year's Stella - a calm voice of reason in the sea of madness.
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I would not hire anyone who uses 'myself' instead of 'me' (I hate yuppie speak with a passion). Or who, when on the spot, chooses blame instead of responsibility. And on that basis, they're all fired.
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I didn't watch it last night, because I chose to watch the footie. So don't tell me who got fired as I'll watch it tonight on catchup.
When it comes down to it, who would want to work for old Sid James lookalike anyway.
We need Margaret back with some of her incisive caustic comments on the candidates. (alliteration unintentional)
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I agree about Margaret - Nick doesn't seem to get on with Karen and the old interaction has gone.
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............... suggests a total lack of self-awareness
What?, in an Apprentice candidate? Surely not.
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............... suggests a total lack of self-awareness
What?, in an Apprentice candidate? Surely not.
He is particularly dim even by the standards of Apprentice candidates.
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Watched it on catchup, and have to agree with several others that Adam is swimming out of his depth.
Tom's my man.
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Who here eats sushi? No one eats sushi. Or chicken & cat curry.
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Bah. He got it horribly wrong this time. Azhar may whine a lot, but he whines about the right things. Jade was a mess and would have won if she's bothered listening to him.
I reckon they didn't want to fire any more women at this stage...
Tom (something with the name??) is very good. Clear favourite so far.
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Jade claimed Azhar only whined and didn't come up with solutions, but that was patently wrong, as the producers highlighted by then showing the clip of Azhar suggesting they distribute the stock 70:30.
I liked Azhar in the end. He seemed a bit shy, and clammed up every time the focus was on him - even when the focus was on him for good reasons (cf his reaction when he was PM and his team won convincingly). I suspect that's why Sugar didn't like him in the end.
Also, he couldn't fire yet another woman, could he?
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Just watched the recording. Agree, Jade was awful. Worst PM of the series, by far.
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even when the focus was on him for good reasons (cf his reaction when he was PM and his team won convincingly).
I thought his reaction was spot on, when he won. Adam and Co had just spent 5 minutes backstabbing him and was working against him the entire task and then they turn around and pretend they had anything to do with it.
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I thought his reaction was spot on, when he won. Adam and Co had just spent 5 minutes backstabbing him and was working against him the entire task and then they turn around and pretend they had anything to do with it.
Indeed. Made it a somewhat pyrrhic victory.
Enjoyed last night's instalment. Good to see Tom isn't infallible but he argued his case well in the boardroom - concise and sticking to the facts. Unlike Laura who spoke a lot without saying anything much.
The wrong team won though. Gabrielle and Steve are both rubbish and need to go. Although Steve would make for much amusement in the interview round...
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Presume you mean Steve. Utter bell-end. The way he blamed everyone but himself when they got in the boardroom suggests a total lack of self-awareness -(it could be a smart dissembling game he's playing but I really don't think he's clever enough for that, so I'm sticking with lack of self-awareness). He's had several opportunities to get himself fired already. God knows how he's still there - his one and only skill seems to be the ability to pull the wool over his team leader's eyes.
Tom is going to win. He's this year's Stella - a calm voice of reason in the sea of madness.
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Damn, i was hoping he was going to have the smug grin wiped off his face for not giving the gin people a gin and tonic. ;)
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I thought his reaction was spot on, when he won. Adam and Co had just spent 5 minutes backstabbing him and was working against him the entire task and then they turn around and pretend they had anything to do with it.
Indeed. Made it a somewhat pyrrhic victory.
Enjoyed last night's instalment. Good to see Tom isn't infallible but he argued his case well in the boardroom - concise and sticking to the facts. Unlike Laura who spoke a lot without saying anything much.
The wrong team won though. Gabrielle and Steve are both rubbish and need to go. Although Steve would make for much amusement in the interview round...
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Tom even took responsibility in the cafe, where most of them are busy ignoring each other.
Adam might be a sexist buffoon, but he can sell!.
Steve proved again that he's a tosser of the 3rd kind. ("Why don't we have him paint out the back!").
Gabrielle is nice, hardworking, creative, but doesn't have a single business bone in her body.
The only real unknown is Nick. I don't really think we've seen him under pressure yet.
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Is Steve the one that looks like Beaker? He's on my list.
Adam, as Lord Sugar says, is learning as he goes.
Laura:
'It was the worst moment of my life': The Apprentice's Laura Hogg reveals father of her child was murdered while she was filming the show
Laura Hogg, 28, was filming a task when she was taken aside by programme producers and told Chris Lindsay had been beaten to death
The 34-year-old sales worker was killed in a street attack on the Costa del Sol
Apprentice star kept news secret from fellow contestants
It's a Daily Mail article, so I won't link to it...
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The moment Ricky sent Jenna and Stephen to do the video, I knew they were doomed...although to be honest, I expected Stephen to take over/screw up the process, but he seemingly just let Jenna do that on her own.
At least it looks like he knows what Stephen is all about and unless they win next week, I expect him to be out :D
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Jenna talked herself into getting sacked - things could have been different if she'd let Stephen take his share of the blame... :facepalm:
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It was billed as a good episode but it was a bucket of wank.
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Now *that* would be a hard sell, but I reckon Adam could shift a few pails.
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Stephen is a twat. End of.
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It was billed as a good episode but it was a bucket of wank.
It's got to the point where I only watch the sacking part of the programme on iPlayer.
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This one got a little spoiled by iPlayer already advertising next weeks title as 'The last 5' (or something to that effect), so I knew 2 would be fired.
While I would never want Ricky on my team, he does carry himself well and I think he did awesome with the restaurant deals, even though they tried to blame him for not going that spa/resort...so it could only be Gabriella and Stephen.
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Last nights episode was quite enjoyable. Adam is a good salesman, but his lack of 'general knowledge' finally caught up with him, as he completely fluffed this task. Why Nick was trying to get rid of Jade in the boardroom, I don't understand..
I think Jade and Nick will crumble in the interviews, Tom will mostly ace it, but Ricky could go either way...(He wont be able to blame anyone else in there)
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Why Nick was trying to get rid of Jade in the boardroom, I don't understand..
Rule #1 of The Apprentice: Stab the strong competition in the back.
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I don't think Tom is actually any good, deep down. Nick has a lot of common sense but not much verve. Jade would just drive you up the wall. Ricky looks the strongest of the four, although I personally dislike him - on the other hand, I think he's also the one most likely to have a CV which is BS factor 10.
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The wrong team won though. Gabrielle and Steve are both rubbish and need to go. Although Steve would make for much amusement in the interview round...
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My wife watches, and I see parts. One does wonder how much of this is driven by the entertainment value of the candidates
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Adam was kept in because of his entertainment value. It was clear from very early on that he wouldn't make it.
Tom talks well but doesn't listen. That will be his undoing.
Jade, well, Jade. That is all.
Nick will hide behind his cringe fringe. It's like a safety blanket and as he gets challenged he regresses behind it.
Ricky hasn't got conviction but is smart.
Looking forward to Sunday :)
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Tom talks well but doesn't listen. That will be his undoing.
Yup, I'd go along with this. In the last few weeks he's gone rapidly downhill in my estimation.
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I'm placing my money on Tom and Jade. Ricky is full of bullshit and Nick is a wimp.
I reckon Tom will edge it over Jade.
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I don't think Tom would appeal to Lordsugar. Anyway, he unerringly picks the wrong one in the final, last year being an honourable exception.
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I wonder how big a factor their business plans are?
Toms (from last year) has seemingly done nothing with his chair-thing, but is instead doing more nail-files.
If it's a factor, then Tom & Ricky are the 2 most likely to put together a comprehensive business plan, which is why I'm not discounting Ricky.
On a more personal level, I would happy work with Nick & Tom, but not with Jade and Ricky. Their egos are simply too big.
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Bah!.
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Best of a bad bunch, and at least he can accept criticism and admit when he's wrong.
Jade: nightmare personality, and her business plan was distasteful.
Tom: has apparently only worked for Daddy, and has a face you can't trust.
Nick: intelligent and personable, but that business would never scale to the figures he was predicting, if it made a profit at all
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Nick was the only contestant I liked (a bit) this year. Sugar could have worked with him on different businesses. Last year's winner's business plan was chucked away from the start, as Jakob says. It was the person rather than the plan that won.
It was annoying that the interviewers kept asking why customers would "bother" with the recipe ordering thing when the whole point was to save bother. It's true that it'll never be a huge money spinner, but they didn't even acknowledge that it was basically a good idea. As for the "huge software" task: isn't this sort of thing done relatively cheaply in India these days?
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Dunno. Would anyone here like to work with Ricky?
I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole.
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Generall speaking, recruitment consultants are in the same league of parasitic infestation as accident claims management companies, yes.
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It's back on Tuesday. My, they look like a right bunch of idiots ;D
If you ever read Dominic Connor's unerringly accurate career advice on The Register, he points out that you have to pass "The Pub Test" to be hired by anyone. This lot wouldn't pass The Share A Lift Between Floors With Test.
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Isn't it tomorrow it starts?
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They gave it 110% and obviously that's why it's started early.
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Isn't it tomorrow it starts?
Oh yes. I'm fired.
Love the guy in the trailer saying people will still be talking about his life in 200 years' time.
Probably TV historians compiling a list of people who went out in the first episode.
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There's a young lady called Luisa in this series who's a bit "lively" if her facebook pictures are anything to go by. :o
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Jaz reminds me of Charlotte :D
The Welsh bloke looks as if he uses the same plastic surgeon as Mickey Rourke.
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I like that this year there's the comedy element of including Frank Sidebottom.
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The Welsh bloke is the red Angry Bird.
I did think the same as Roger about Jaz, but I not so stupid as to say so here.
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Really, there couldn't be a worse advertisement for business than this crap.
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The one that sold the hi-vis jackets then appeared to have snorted some coke.
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As usual I have to ask: if you're such an amazing businessman/woman, why are you in a TV competition for a poxy £250,000 investment? You should make that in a week. Particularly the older bloke who lives in Monaco.
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Jaz reminds me of Charlotte :D
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Fired!
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There's just too many to dislike isn't there!!!?
The twit who seems to have a hairy hive of bees under his chin.
Jizz. Thank God she was the first one to go.
The Welsh one with arched eyebrows, who reminds me of Carter Wong from Big Trouble in Little China.
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You know it really doesn't matter what any of them say in the Boardroom does it?
Whatever words of business wisdom they thought they were about to impart to the world usually just blurts out as ..."Lord Alan, I just want to draw your attention to the fact that I'm a Cunt"
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I spend my enslaved life working for or against self opinionated, self important, uncaring, backstabbing, arse licking, utterly contemtible cocks just like the contestants seem to be on this show.
Actually sitting down and watching a series would find me foaming at the mouth with rage, reaching for TEH FRYING PAN OF SPANG, TEH SHUVEL and summoning TEH BEAR for a bit of a softening up process before dusting off and nuking the accomodation from orbit, just to be sure.
I shall therefore, continue to give it a miss.
Lord Alan and Nick Wotsisface however are good blokes.
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Excellent one last night producing a flavoured beer.
3 boys attempting to sell a cask of beer potentially for £90 soon find they have to drop the price, and are beginning to haggle on trying to settle for £80-£85.
Very-well-spoken Jason then pipes up "We can do it for £75."
"Brilliant" smile the buyers.
"Don't listen to him" says Zee, "He's an idiot", in a futile attempt to bring the negotiation back into his court. Too late, the buyers happily settle on £75.
Back in the boardroom, Zee and Carter Wong justifiably turn on Jason for losing them money and unnecessarily dropping the price. He was most upset that they verbally abused him, and thought the other two were liars and gaining money by deception.
Brilliant!
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I knew Tim was up for the bullet the moment Sugar separated him onto the women's team. That's what you get when you try to bullshit AFTER you've won a task. As for poshboy Jason, when his lip trembled and he whined, "They dishonoured you Lord Sugar, they swore at me…" I was begging Sugar to say, "Pull your tongue out of my arsehole you posh cunt".
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… and what's with Carter Wong wearing his cashmere coat over his shoulders!!?
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We were pissing ourselves at that.
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Really, there couldn't be a worse advertisement for business than this crap.
Au contraire, I think it's an excellent advert for business, as it demonstrates it perfectly - that's what business is like! - loads of egotists all trying to claim the one good thing was down to them, and pinning the blame for all the bad on somebody else.
It's like people say Harold Shipman was the worst serial killer ever. Killed 278 people before getting caught? I'd say that makes him the best serial killer ever!
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There's a young lady called Luisa in this series who's a bit "lively" if her facebook pictures are anything to go by. :o
Blimey charlie, that was well worth a google!
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Just watched the most recent episode. It was a poor one.
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The girls, except the amusingly daffy and morally flexible Luisa*, are a right bunch of faceaches this year. Porn Star Ummagumma or whatever her name is needed to go, but the tall one with the black hair is the worst. What a nasty piece of work.
The blokes just seem useless. They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.
* http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/4933336/apprentice-luisa-zissman-orgies.html
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The Dr is the strongest woman, don't think there is a strongest man. It's not the Welsh Angry Bird, but I'd bet that his demise will be fun when it happens.
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The blokes just seem useless. They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.
There's an academic one?
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The blokes just seem useless. They all hate the academic one who can't cope with wiping his own bum.
There's an academic one?
Jason. He makes the Bullington Club look street.
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I still think that there should be a version where they take 8 people at random off a bus and put them as a team on the programme.
Couldn't do any worse and the common sense and experience of reality could be an advantage.
The amusement when the Bus team wins would also be brilliant
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It's funny seeing a posse of the "power dressed" girls trying to walk in very high heels and very tight skirts, slaying passers-by with their perfume. One day the whole lot of them are going to topple over en masse. The blokes, meanwhile, show the piss-up in a brewery that results when everybody wants to be Alpha Male.
When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.
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When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.
As highlighted when a bunch of them tried to sell beer to a wine bar.
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Vintage episode this week. Accusations of misogyny, Spinal Tap-esque unit conversions and some very fluent Welsh ranting :thumbsup:
Sugar: "You say one of your idols is Napoleon...I don't think Napoleon ever got fired from Phones4U, did he?"
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It's funny seeing a posse of the "power dressed" girls trying to walk in very high heels and very tight skirts, slaying passers-by with their perfume. One day the whole lot of them are going to topple over en masse. The blokes, meanwhile, show the piss-up in a brewery that results when everybody wants to be Alpha Male.
When they all have to work in a pie factory or somewhere they look just as if they've been dropped in from Mars, they're so out of place.
I'm sure he set that beer task up deliberately just so he could use the phrase "you've literally failed to organise a piss-up in a brewery." ;D
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We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens. Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain. .
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It's a game-show featuring a bunch of venal buffoons daft enough to think that a job actually exists for them in Sugarcorp.
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It's a game-show featuring a bunch of venal buffoons daft enough to think that a job actually exists for them in Sugarcorp.
Which is absolutely true, and a winning formula :thumbsup:
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I am so glad he went though. He was an annoying twat.
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We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens. Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain. .
I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series. He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory. He was a genuinely decent bloke. Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.
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We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens. Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain. .
I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series. He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory. He was a genuinely decent bloke. Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.
That was indeed the winning strategy in the first few series. Unfortunately Siralan/Lordsugar then decided that anyone trying to keep a low profile should be sacked for apparently not doing anything, so it doesn't work any more. Tuan from our place got to about the final six but was dismissed for being a "planner" and not exciting enough.
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We've learnt a lot since the early series when the proposal was that the contestants were useful citizens. Now it is clear they are no more than amusing caricatures living in the never-never-land that is Thatcher's Britain. .
I used to work with Tim Campbell, the winner of the original series. He seems to have patented the 'hide at the back for as long as possible' strategy for victory. He was a genuinely decent bloke. Almost everyone since would have been liquidated as fertilizer rather than put to the expense of a trip on the B-Ark.
That was indeed the winning strategy in the first few series. Unfortunately Siralan/Lordsugar then decided that anyone trying to keep a low profile should be sacked for apparently not doing anything, so it doesn't work any more. Tuan from our place got to about the final six but was dismissed for being a "planner" and not exciting enough.
Ah yes, Sugar's dislike of planners. Probably why his products were often substandard (speaking as an ex- Amstrad computer owner).
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Myles, while not the worst of the blokes, is going to come unstuck with his Big Idea, which is to focus on luxury brands. I have never heard a worse strategic fit than Amstrad and luxury. Admittedly, Sugar got out of consumer electronics some time ago (except for Viglen, which is inconsequential) but his forte has always been shifting cheap volume products.
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Let's not kid ourselves. It's a similar format to the X-Factor heats, where they trot out a stream of talentless idiots and the hard-of-thinking.
It's about giving the audience people to point and laugh at.
There's always been a market for that and always will be.
I'm not sure that's how they envisaged it when the idea was first conceived but that's the "winning formula" they discovered and have since aimed for (It's clear they now choose the absolute worst candidates for business but the best candidates for ridicule).
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I used to think that they edited it just to make the contestants look much worse than they really are. However, I was briefly at uni with one of this year's crop.....and I'm afraid to say that this person came over on the TV a lot better than in real life!
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Let's not kid ourselves. It's a similar format to the X-Factor heats, where they trot out a stream of talentless idiots and the hard-of-thinking.
Indeed. It's a TV game show. It's not real.
If I had a business idea and needed £250k investment to get it off the ground, applying to be on The Apprentice isn't how I'd go about it. Not even if I'd identified Lord Sugar as my ideal business partner. Which would be highly unlikely anyway.
I probably wouldn't go down the Dragons' Den route either, though it has spawned several genuine business success stories (but that's probably more because they were good business ideas than the fact that they were on Dragons' Den).
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Finally watched this weeks episode and man, what a twat.
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I was very much hoping that Natalie and Leah would tear Zeeshaan apart when he took them back into the boardroom. I was not disappointed!
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He did come across as a grade A nobber.
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Next weeks task is a team building exercise.... perhaps Luisa could be team leader and bring her experiences of organising motivational evenings to the fore.
Could be a little more interesting than this series so far
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Was there really some dork on it who couldn't divide seventeen by two :o
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Was there really some dork on it who couldn't divide seventeen by two :o
I've noticed that a lack of basic maths skills tends to be quite prominent amongst The Apprentice candidates.
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Been away in lovely-and-sunny-Istanbul, so missed the team-building one. Who got axed?
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Been away in lovely-and-sunny-Istanbul, so missed the team-building one. Who got axed?
So it is all your fault then Riggers?
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Ahem. We walked up several of the streets on the second day of the riots, blissfully unaware (initially) that further protesting was in the offing in Taksim Square, where we were headed. People were selling masks, people shouting protest songs, people clapping. It all seemed fairly good natured. Maybe it was because, on this particular occasion, the police were ordered not to interfere, which we didn't know about either at the time. Australians on the first night told us not to go in the area, because of the tear gas wafting around.
I'm with the protesters. The only bit of decent greenery left for this particular area, and people 'in charge' want to build a shopping Mall on it. Just smacks of some people wanting make a fast buck, and I wouldn't put it past one or several million Turkish Lire being handed over in brown envelopes. Cynical? Yep.
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I've only been to Istanbul once, about 12 years ago. As me and a friend turned a corner we saw about 50 Coppers donning riot-gear.
We made a hasty exit and walked straight into a few hundred students protesting about something, heading straight for the Riot Police.
We increased the hastiness of our exit.
TV footage that evening showed many students being "encouraged to change their attitude" by the police.
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Here we go again...I foresee Luisa in a St Trinian's outfit.
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Dracula says it straight. I like him.
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Jordan is really very annoying.
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Yesssss!
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Which one's the Welsh Twat who thinks he's Del Trotter?
And the other knobber who spends all his time rolling his eyes?
I reckon one of the ladies will win this year.
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You're thinking of: Carter Wong from Big Trouble in Little China.
Go on. Look him up. You know you want to. :demon:
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Reg, that's the red Angry Bird.
I can't do an image link on the iPad, but this link (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=red+agnry+bird&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari) should give you the idea.
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Tasks like that are set up for failure. I really can't see how you can, without direct prior experience set up a successful event like that in 2 days.
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Which one's the Welsh Twat who thinks he's Del Trotter?
It's Alex Mills. He seems to model himself on Del Trotter and someone needs to tell him that the overplucked eyebrow look is working...
And the other knobber who spends all his time rolling his eyes?
Kurt Wilson. He's a 'Health & Safety Manager'.... quelle surprise!
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Riggers - you weren't at a wedding last week were you? English groom, Turkish bride?
We missed the alcohol ban by two days :o
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I used to have a work colleague who was exactly like Luisa (minus the Facebook photos).
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This looks like being a good one. Dracula mistakes an electric bike for a mobility scooter. Myles flatters for England. The Irish doctor woman scowls a lot. Jordan looks as if he's escaped from Depeche Mode, and is just as po-faced.
Luisa is "Lu" when she's trying to be your friend, and has out-flattered Myles.
Meanwhile, foppish Jason is trying out comfy chairs and sounding like a Carry On character.
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The old duffers at the NEC love Jason. He's a nice boy.
Ten grand for a trailer tent? :o
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Oh dear...Kurt wants to use the glamour girl approach to make caravans sexy :sick:
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It was Luisa wot won it.
Kurt "depressed cat" is going down, for sure.
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'Sexy eye candy' :facepalm:
I think Kurt is going...
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And the useless woman with the lived-in face. Special commendation for camp Jason!
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Thank God the eye-rolling twat has gone. Next has to be the Welsh wank*r.
I must say that I'm beginning to develop a little thing for Jason...
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It was Luisa wot won it.
Much as it pains me to say it, because he's a nobber, but I think Neil won it thanks to his project management skills. Plus he sold two of those trailer tents to bring in £20k single-handed. He's looking increasingly like the leading candidate.
Luisa will never have difficulty selling any old shit as long as her target market is middle-aged men. (Jordan: "What are you doing that I'm not?" Seriously, dude? You need to ask?)
Leah has to go next, the miserable fuck.
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It was Luisa wot won it.
Much as it pains me to say it, because he's a nobber, but I think Neil won it thanks to his project management skills. Plus he sold two of those trailer tents to bring in £20k single-handed. He's looking increasingly like the leading candidate.
Did he? We can only assume that. How do we know that Jason, with his appeal to the older woman, didn't draw the punters in. It was significant that Sugar took the initiative to specifically raise the part he played.
Neil's cruising by on the skills of others. He's been lucky in having team members who have effectively carried him.
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Did he? We can only assume that. How do we know that Jason, with his appeal to the older woman, didn't draw the punters in. It was significant that Sugar took the initiative to specifically raise the part he played.
We know they sold three, we know Jason sold one, and Sugar only referred to Jason selling one of the three. And even before they got to the boardroom, I thought it looked like we'd seen Neil closing two deals.
The only reason he picked on Jason was to humiliate the other team. "Look, even Jason sold more than you muppets!"
Neil's cruising by on the skills of others. He's been lucky in having team members who have effectively carried him.
Yeah, that's the art of management.
He picked the right big ticket product, against his personal tastes, and he chose well when divvying up the responsibilities among his team. Most importantly, he kept Jordan out of the way, where he could as little harm as possible. The only hint of friction was when Luisa complained about the unreasonably high sales targets they'd been set, but they didn't dwell on it and start a pointless argument like they usually do.
I'm not sure I've ever seen that before on The Apprentice.
I don't like Neil at all as a person, but he's definitely the strongest candidate at the moment.
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I think Myles is pretty good, but he was doomed in the buying stakes against "Lu".
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Like Citoyeners, I too am warming to Neil. Whether it's clever editing that's making him less obnoxious I couldn't say, but he appears to have toned it down considerably.
Jason. Bless him.
I've never been to Birmingham either. Nor Manchester. I could make a long list.
My wife was talking to an Adult in Worthing who hadn't been to Brighton for that mater. And it's only 12 miles!!!!
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I'm really surprised that no one picked up on Kunt having his arms folded when he was trying to sell. You could see interest in the punters eyes until they clocked he was doing that and then they just switched off. In a selling task that was unforgivable.
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While I agree that he failed at the task and as such deserved to be fired, he has been just about the only one who was willing to admit to his mistakes.
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While I agree that he failed at the task and as such deserved to be fired, he has been just about the only one who was willing to admit to his mistakes.
He tried playing the 'honest and open' card and it backfired on him big time.
Plus I think Sugar just got sick of him rolling his eyes every two fecking seconds...
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Nah, he carried it through during the 'You're fired' show too.
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I feel a classic coming on. Online dating websites. Alex is the self-proclaimed "Christian Grey of the valleys". Jason is a team leader. What can possibly go wrong?
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The product names both suck.
Jordan is a Class A prat.
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Oh dear. Luisa and Jason aren't a very good match.com.
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Jason's team have to win or he is soooooo finished.
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Is it just me, or is that Karen really rather foxy when she narrows her eyes when looking at signs of weakness?
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It's just you.
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Fire the lot of them, Lordsugar.
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Predictabubble.
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For once we watched the afters program on BBC2. Jason was a bit of a favourite.
I think the Red Angry Bird is being kept for the Interview round.
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Luisa is a nasty little madam... she's in for a roasting.
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Luisa is a nasty little madam... she's in for a roasting.
I bet she's participated in a few of those already.
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For once we watched the afters program on BBC2. Jason was a bit of a favourite.
I have a bit of a thing for him. :-[ He needs to sort the monobrow though...
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"Make a decision Jason … make a decision. Come on, make a decision, make a decision. We're running out of time. Make a deci …"
<SLAP!>
"Urrrgh, um thow thorry jathon."
High-five between the designer and Jason.
Jason was, as others have said, a decent honourable chap, and his expertise is not for the world of commerce.
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It's just you.
It's not just you, Pancho.
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Jason was, as others have said, a decent honourable chap, and his expertise is not for the world of commerce.
I got the feeling early on in the task that he'd come to a realisation that this "process" wasn't for him. He came across as very bright and sensible in You're Fired, and his analysis of where and how the task went wrong, and how it might have gone better, was spot on.
Basically, he's too good for The Apprentice.
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He's too posh for the Apprentice. Many of the comments made by other contestants weren't about his skills, but his background and education.
Personally, I've always liked a bit of posh totty.... ;D
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He's too posh for the Apprentice.
Oh yes. Remember Raef?
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He's too posh for the Apprentice.
Oh yes. Remember Raef?
But Raef wasn't posh really (nouveau riche)... Jason is.
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I like the way Jason speaks with such precise grammar, including the use of the subjunctive (which is virtually dead in British English, except for stock phrases like "If I were" and "God save the Queen").
The word is that Luisa and the ridiculous "look at my fucking green trousers", Jedward-hairstyled Jordan got it on. :sick:
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It's stabby back time! :thumbsup:
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At least the Welsh tombstone carver, with the over plucked eyebrows, has gone.... Luisa to go next please.
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Nah......they'll be saving her for the interview
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At least the Welsh tombstone carver, with the over plucked eyebrows, has gone.... Luisa to go next please.
As much as I think he's a complete twat, he didn't deserve it for that task. I think they had the right idea and only got the marketing slightly wrong.
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I think Terry Deary would have sued them.
Myles seems remarkably Teflon. I thought Lordsiralansugar would have had a downer on him because he's way too old to be a real apprentice.
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I hope Jordan goes because he's the biggest nobber of the three blokes. And he allegedly got it on with the terrifying Luisa, so he is obviously a man of dubious judgement.
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Jordan snorts as if he's overdone the Colombian marching powder. Frankly, they all sucked.
The interviews next. Oh dear, oh dear. Luisa isn't going to impress Claude.
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Jordan snorts as if he's overdone the Colombian marching powder. Frankly, they all sucked.
The interviews next. Oh dear, oh dear. Luisa isn't going to impress Claude.
On the ad/teaser, Claude calls someone a 'parasite' and says the interview is over.
I do hope he's referring to Luisa...
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Jordan seems the most parasitic of the lot, with his management-speak BS and apparent absence of any talent. Neil does a good sob story, Luisa can sell anything (including herself) to men of a certain age and the two blonde ones with the pencilled-in eyebrows are really ace at scowling.
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Jordan seems the most parasitic of the lot, with his management-speak BS and apparent absence of any talent. Neil does a good sob story, Luisa can sell anything (including herself) to men of a certain age and the two blonde ones with the pencilled-in eyebrows are really ace at scowling.
Not a shock to see Jordan go - the clear signs were on show last week. I actually felt sorry for Neil.
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I actually felt sorry for Neil.
But, if he'd shown the merest hint of flexibility in his business plan, or of taking on board the criticisms being made, he'd still be in the process. It's not as though the hints were subtle.
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I think Luisa should have gone and Francesca stayed.
I reckon that LordSirAlanSugar will go with Leah.
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Leah doesn't have to win - she can only lose it. Luisa will do a better presentation (my cat could do a better presentation than Leah with her horrible accent and monotone lists) but you wouldn't trust her not to piss off the entire workforce.
It's been a terribly poor crop of candidates this year and the final two really are dismal. Neil was the clear favourite but he was a stubborn prat - what a waste.
Good to see the odious Jordan go in such a definite manner; he came across as being a nobber right from the start.
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Siralan picked the best of a very bad bunch indeed.
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Luisa didn't understand her business idea. 'It's business to business, but we're going to appeal to consumers a bit. We think. And it'll be pink.'
No. It's B2C branding, selling through absolutely standard retail distribution channels, ie using wholesalers and distributors. A fucking mars bar is not a B2B product. Nor (to get closer to her idea) is Dr Oetker's baking powder. It's sold into the channel, then retailed to customers.
(It's actually quite a sound idea though. 'Everything you need to bake, except the cake' - I'd go for that, even if it was all in pink. And Baker's Toolkit was a sensible name for it too.)
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"Luisa's Baps" would have been most appropriate.
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I haven't been watching the series, but it has come to my attention via Twitter that it has been won by someone from Northern Iron.
Am I right in saying that all this immense fuss is based on someone who plans to set up some knacker-style walk-in botox franchise? Jesus wept.
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I believe the expression the good Sergeant was searching for is in fact Norn Iron.
Google probably still won't help though.
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We finally caught up with this. Surprised to see Louisa actually have a decent business plan. As unlikable as she's been, she was certainly a valid finalist.
Only real complaint was that Leah is boooooring. Also, she's a terrible advertisement for her 'product'. It wasn't until the interviews, I realized she was only 24. She looks like 30+!.
Seeing Jordan go out that way was fun. I presume that the candidates are contractually obliged to turn up to the various events after they get fired?...I was surprised to see him show his face after the way he got booted out.
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I finally got fed up with the format and gave the last (2013) series a miss. But I'm liking Luisa Zissman in Celebrity Big Brother (which is no less intellectual than The Apprentice!).
Incidentally...
Mrs Frankowitz meets Luisa Zissman (http://youtu.be/R4deGvyIx_I)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4deGvyIx_I
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New series.
The men, that 'sweatshirt' - what were they thinking..? 'not something I'd wear in public'... ;D
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^ That … and also from the previous evening's viewing, with the dreadful blonde-haired blue-suited woman who decided to become the girl's leader. If the girls hadn't have won, she'd have been for the chop!
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Did anyone see the after-hours thing with Dara O'Brien? The dreadful blue-suited woman(or Sarah) was just as hilariously dreadful. I think her entertainment value was at an end as everyone else had her number, but she still had no idea how dreadful she was. The poor panellist they had on was totally ambushed by her.
Such a shame to see Steven go, mind. He was hilarious.
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Most of the time, they come across as normal people on You're Fired, sometimes even likeable, but she appeared to be even worse.
Didn't quite get Steven. He seemed to have some good ideas - his contribution in the brainstorming session was much better than the "fat daddy" nonsense, and he was right about the T-shirts in week 1 - but because of his tendency to have massive hissy fits he was routinely ignored. And his attempt at a sales pitch was excruciating to watch.
James needs a good talking to. With a baseball bat.
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've not really watched You're Fired before, and I assumed the program was edited to make them as vile as possible, so it was a bit of a surprise that she was even worse.
Mind you, the best bit of this week was Sugar's tenuous grasp of the tech when he pulled out his phone: "This is an internet, and you will put a fillum on it" (I paraphrase slightly).
Wotsisface of "there's no I in team, but there are five in individual brilliance" infamy was a lot less annoying this week, though it's a shame he couldn't articulate the many, many flaws with the Fat Daddy idea any better than repeating "it's offensive" until they tuned him out.
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A rocket surgeon.
Brilliant (just caught up with kast weejs episode) looks like there will be another good one tonight.