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New series starts tonight, BBC1 9pm.
Always like watching this as I like to see the over-hyped apprenticeeeez make some really simple and obvious mistakes. Then laugh my head off :D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/
Im hoping this season is a lot better than the last two seasons. The past couple have seen more people going in to play upto the camera and enhance their celebrity than being actually any good at business.
I was going to post about this earlier but was distracted by some thing... probably a shiny object of sorts.
But yes!! WOO HOO! Wednesday night shall be my "Night of Anger Management" :D I LOVE this show and it makes me far too angry but in a way I can vent any weekly stress on it!
Canny wait!!
Slinwagh
25-03-2009, 11:42
Series Link, done!
Some of the contestants have so many letters after their but they are obviously missing one of the most important skills you can posses, common sense.
Series Link, done!
Some of the contestants have so many letters after their but they are obviously missing one of the most important skills you can posses, common sense.
Why do you say that about them not having common sense? Some contestants in the past have been complete ninnies but others have been genuinely level headed, nice, good business headed people!!
Slinwagh
25-03-2009, 12:07
Why do you say that about them not having common sense? Some contestants in the past have been complete ninnies but others have been genuinely level headed, nice, good business headed people!!
Hence I said "some." ;)
:numpty:
So much for speed reading whilst waiting for a file to upload ;D
I was going to post about this earlier but was distracted by some thing... probably a shiny object of sorts.
Weren't you supposed to be on it? ;)
My friend knows Kate Walsh. Will be watching - hurrah! :D
BB x
My friend knows Kate Walsh. Will be watching - hurrah! :D
BB x
My mate had an Amstrad computer. *win*
I've kissed Sir Alan* before now.
* It may well have been a Little Nestle Bueno Hippo thing but to me the two are visually inseperable.
Weren't you supposed to be on it? ;)
Maaaaaaaaaaaybe!
Heheheheee!
I may of applied when I was in a "I'm fed up of seeing planks make stupid decisions" mood ;D They were more interested in having me on some stock and share thingy where they give you loads of wonga to invest and then whatever you make you keep (they train you up and you're head to head with other people investing.. see who can make the most type thing). Buuut I wasn't particularly interested in stocks and shares and then the economy started to crash and I think the investor figured it wasn't financially the right time to do the show! ;D
Buuut I wasn't particularly interested in stocks and shares and then the economy started to crash and I think the investor figured it wasn't financially the right time to do the show! ;D
That show was done and shown recently, it was rubbish!
Looking forward to The Apprentice tonight though.
That show was done and shown recently, it was rubbish!
Looking forward to The Apprentice tonight though.
Really?! How funny! Hahaha! I heard it was going to be pulled! lol! When I went up and spoke to them about it they didn't really sell it to me... it did sound quite pants. Even though you kept the wonga at the end of the day. But then I would say that as I'm asleep in second when it comes to stock gumph!
I am making cookies in preparation for The Apprentice this evening! :D (any excuse ;D)
Slinwagh
25-03-2009, 22:08
You have to love the job titles !!!
The boys are gonna spank this one home :D
Not sure they are after seeing those cars getting inspected. Shoe shines are going well though.
Slinwagh
25-03-2009, 22:32
The girls spent £200 on kit !!!!
leowyatt
25-03-2009, 22:36
Wow, well done the boys
Briggykins
25-03-2009, 22:45
I've never actually watched this before (I promised everyone in work I would this time). My God. It's making me cringe! (In a good way)
That PM has to go, far too trappy for my liking.
I think I agree with you, Desmo.
And she keeps saying "at the end of the day" over and over again, twice in one sentence just then *poke*
Bah, he's making silly decisions these days. I think we have a new evil one with that Debra one, wanted her to go for being evil, and rubbish.
Girls suck.
I was so confused when they all started going to show rooms?! I mean WHY!?! WHy would you do that!? Cleaning show room cars is almost an art... it's not like a quick once over, here's a fiver bish bash bosh. I just really didn't understand why they didn't focus all their energy on a Sainsburys shopping car park or something like that. Even though they went to some... bizarre car park it was empty and well. They were poo.
And then the Hum Veeees!! I mean! The PM was SO rude!! Did they call up before and ask for costings? I dunno but if not then they're silly moobags and if so what were they playing at going in so steep and then *expecting* them to agree to the price! Egits!!
I say this and they've obviously been provided with a list of potential clients and things they can and canny do.
Still. Muppets. (or puppets should I say). Spending £200!! Egits!
I don't know who I would have fired in that situation. The PM was obviously just poop at fighting her corner and only when Sir Alan said about the other group pulling in less wonga than her group did she have something to latch on to. But then the funny faced girly... she just was a bit weak. Reminded me of a limp handed hand shake.
For TV drama llamas, Sir Alan's definitely kept in the right two.
I may be wrong, but didn't they take £60-£70 in an hour shining shoes? £60*8 hours is £480! And that was just half the team.
Spending £200... including money on pressure washers that they never used?
Well that was the best ep so far I reckon. Noorul, bless 'im.
I enjoyed tonight's episode: I do find it hard to believe they genuinely confused the two, dramatically different priced, scents though!
That 'scent-selling-man' (or Pearfoomyair!) had a visually obvious "KA-CHING!!" moment when he realised they'd gone for the £1200/kg smell! :p
My mate had an Amstrad computer. *win*
My GF has an Amstrad Sky+ box. It's Poo.
Great episode last night. The look on their faces was priceless when the cockup was first mentioned ;D
It's a shame they lost though as their product was miles better and sold on it's own merits where the other lot had to go bargain basement just to shift it.
Was a shame that Paula got fired. (nice bit of eye candy :p) Just goes to show that the best product in the world will bomb if the costings are wrong.
Im hoping that Ben or that lad from the North East get the boot soon. Really grinding my gears. Playing upto the camera being angry to make out they know better than their team mates but when you cut through the BS and the saville row shirts they are probably some of the worst performers upto now
They were working in my school friends factory (twas his Brother showing them the scents!) in my home town of Poole! Made me smile!
Gutted for Paula though :( Boo!
She was unfortunate as I believe Muruug or that gobby-aggressor should have gone; simply because, as nice as he is, he seemed a tad overwhelmed by the whole ordeal- here's hoping he'll be much better next time as he seems fairly genuine.
It was embarressing to watch the "3 bottles for a pound", but hey, it sold them and made profit.
Sad she went actually as I found her easy on the eye (just not on the ear!) :p
loved "muruug's" "listen..listen...listen......guys listen.......... okay" when his team were asking if they could sell for "as much as they could get"
What confuses me is who actually pays for the stuff at the time?
Obviously they don't do it themselves else they'd have noticed when the guy said "that'll be £700 please". It can't just be the two cronies because they aren't everywhere all the time when the teams split themselves up, so I can only assume the teams consist of absolute super dumb ****s or there are other people behind the scenes who actually do the nitty gritty of paying people and stuff.
They had the list of pricing in front of them... I should imagine they picked what they wanted, figured out the costing themselves and then put in an order (the people would then invoice them later on). So they wouldn't see the costings til later... or at least you'd hope that's how it works :)
Same thing happens with me and business - I give people quotes and options, they then put in an order, I process it, send the order and then send the invoice :)
Aye, in a business like that they'll be ordering and using the products well before any payment is due so it does simulate a business quite well I guess.
I like this video .... http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/episode-extras/video/item_200075.shtml
James wants a drink at the end but takes a swig out of the wrong bottle ;D
Yeah I suppose that makes sense, clearly it helps if you can understand basic mathematics which clearly those two silly bints couldn't manage.
I'm not convinced they'd have won even if they'd used the cheap stuff, I know Nick said they would have won but if they had used the cheaper stuff (like 4000% less?) would it have been as good a product?
Also they put their prices up high because they'd screwed up, and used the > £1000 a kilo as selling point, or at least Ben did.
Don't get me wrong they definitely should have won... But not sure if it'd have been as clear cut if they hadn't screwed up the costs.
LeperousDust
16-04-2009, 22:02
I think it shows quite clearly how the program is edited for twists and turns. The whole episode although enjoyable made it look like even though they screwed up cost that they'd won. But obviously you get to the board room and the bomb is dropped. Now this used to be entertaining but its a little predictable now, and i wish the editing reflected more closely what actually happened, i guess that wouldn't pull the figures in so much though :confused:
i had a question on a previous episode. The one where they did the catering, they said that because the boys did badly in their roman gear, they lost, and the figures they had seemed just to be from that - it didn't include the absolutely roaring trade we saw them doing in London selling butties to queues of people at lunchtime compared to the girls who sold a few wraps for which they got loads of complaints about. :/
Why wasn't that included in the final calculation?
The guys did a roaring trade selling sandwiches? The only part I recall was the guy in a bathrobe (think it was James) selling nothing! I think as someone said previously they edit it very badly which confuses things too.
Didn't the girls get a few £££ more in the evening event? Food was rubbish but at least they looked reasonable. I might still have it on Freeview+ to check this evening actually.
the girls may have done, but I'm sure that when they read out the figures in the boardroom ONLY the figures were taken into account for the evening for the boys - at least that's how it came across. Yep the boys did fantastically selling their sandwiches (peanut butter and jelly, remember?) - at one point they had queues all down the embankment.
LeperousDust
17-04-2009, 14:02
//Cynical
It's all skewed to make the game closer and more appetising for the people watching it, its a stupid competition which is wholly unrelated to the job they'd be undertaking anyway.
^^ not really bothered tbh, it's obviously skewed, hence why sugar indicates who the project manager should bring in with them in the conversation beforehand - but they can at least make sure the sums add up! I want answers damnit!
LeperousDust
17-04-2009, 14:19
Haha i still watch it every week either way ;D:D
I think that's the first time this series I thought he was going to do another "I'd like to fire the bleedin' three of you". He definitely should have!
Tonights was interesting, first I thought Debrabraa was going then I thought it was going to be Ben, then I though Noorul then I thought Ben again.
The reaction when Ben said James was amazing :D
Piggymon
29-04-2009, 22:13
WHAT !!! .. *oops* ;D
I wish he had fired the three of them! (in reality he would have, but then his series would be two weeks shorter! :p)
Lazy Muruug deserved to go - he basically did booger all and has relied upon louder mouths drawing attention away in the past.
As for The Viper and the Arrogant Gopher Twunt (tm) - I hope old kinder suprise gives them a serious whatfor next week :)
WHAT !!! .. *oops* ;D
I was proper laughing at this - praise Virgin for play back TV! I couldn't resist rewinding it and watching it again!
Sir Alan was just waiting to fire who-do-you-ma-call-it so I wasn't really surprised!
What accent does twit-face-Ben have!? Makes me laugh lots "coo -mplete ann- ooo- yance and ruh -oooooo-de" ;D Hahahaha!
Hard task this one. I don't know how much prep they did in the beginning but surely you would have given items to a split group and made them all phone around and get at least three quotes for each items/arrange valuations on some (eg shoes and rug) and *then* go out and flog them (hell, the people pricing them - I would have asked them where to flog them to and *then* made phonecalls and *then* gone! No blooming point flitting shop to shop trying to flog things you a) don't have a clue how much it is and b) don't know if the people will be remotely interested!)
Made me lol muchly when they took a brand new skeleton into an antics shop ;D
If the other team were up I would have thought Phil would have been booted! I dunno how many times Miss Cassandra pointed out the rug and he even spoke to the cameras aside about it and said she was annoying... and then at the end said she hadn't mentioned it ALL day! Numpty back tracking plank!!
I'd say he's from Northern Ireland but he could just have difficulty forming words from his beaver mouth.
MarcLister
05-05-2009, 02:59
I wish he had fired the three of them! (in reality he would have, but then his series would be two weeks shorter! :p)Its already a week shorter because of the guy who bottled it on the night before the first task?
He usually does a 'surprise' double eviction doesn't he?
Oh and I think Ben is from Belfast!
I think they predict at least one person to leave or for him to fire a few.
There are 12 eps I think - booked in before the guy bottling it(?), and if there are 16 candidates we need more than just the 1 firing in interview week - which is normally only 2/4 ?
Although, didn't the final have 3 people last year or the one before?
MarcLister
05-05-2009, 13:31
Although, didn't the final have 3 people last year or the one before?Last season 4 people made it through to the final task I think. They had to work as two teams. The worst team got fired leaving two people whom he selected his apprentice from.
Streeteh
20-05-2009, 22:02
SANDHURST!
Btw, i saw james at the pub two weeks ago!
Jingo - Picky and me were giggling our faces off at Beaver Mouth last night!!
So glad he's gone!
Streeteh - I hope he was on holiday! He's sooooooooo sweet and lovely and nice and I want him to win!! Well... a couple of others in there aren't so bad. Lets hope Debra goes next (seriously... weird spelling of her name don't you think? De-BRA!) I would hate to work with her. Moody, rude, pushy and nasty. Okay she might be good at pushing for a sale buuut from a person who has dealt with sales before... you don't need to be mean mean. I'm not mean and I get contracts, deals and everything sorted whilst managing to haggle for a darn good price!
*dislikes unnecessary rudeness*
Admiral Huddy
21-05-2009, 08:45
How on earth is Debra still there? 2 weeks running and a catalogue of basic errors including not listening and damn right rudeness. S.AS definitely has in his mind who he wants his final 3. Debra, James and Kate.
He tends to stick with the out spoken and opinionated personalities, Kate being the odd one out. She’s the only one with common sense and has a calming persona about her. She takes a step back to assess the situation rather than jumping in feet first. She should win outright.
It was always going to be down to Debra or Ben on that one. Her enforcement of the rocking horse, and then failing to drop enough to clinch a sale that would have won the team, shows little initiative, and just that she gets an idea in her head and then relentlessly pursues it being so arrogant over it. She's also a complete liar and a manipulative bitch, although James called her on her lies she still has the audacity to try and lie through her teeth in that boardroom instead of just showing the tiniest bit of humility. Not the sort of person I'd want working for me, and I seriously doubt Sir Alan does too.
Ben was a grade A plonker. He could sell on the street, but that was it, the rest was just words. This shown when Sir Alan actually asked for examples, and it took him two attempts to name 2 occasions, both of which Sir Alan wasn't actually convinced they were as good as Ben was banging on about. Plus saying "pound" as "pond" was annoying.
Glad he's gone- a load of hot air in my opinion.
"Pond" Gopherboy: "I'm amazing at doing everything because I am. Sandhurst recognised my talents of being good at everything. That's why I didn't actually go to Sandhurst because I was too busy, getting stuck in there doing what I do best. Which is everything."
I-Robot-LookalikeyStroppyWitchesSouredBreast: "Debra is spelt with a B, not a D. Bebra. I don't care what you think as I already know I'm right. Why bother even discussing something that I know I'm right at, it will just waste your time as I'm right and your not. Bebra."
MrNiceGuyClown: I can't possibly replicate the way he is as he's just a genuine, down to earth, honest plonker type. I like him and find it refreshing to see someone who is not just surviving due to a vindictive boardroom nature. Also full points for...
:shocked:"WHAAAAAAT!!!"
;D The guy who looks like a praying mantis seems alright too but nothing special by any means. I like the look of Kate but that's probably just me being swayed by something pretty amongst the other female troggs.:D
The Sandhurst thing though, whilst he didn't go, he still can go - the offer is open for several years. If he wants to he can just go next year but like he said, it requires dedicating at least 4 years of your life with no turning back, so he didn't want to just jump straight into it without being sure it was what he wanted.
yeah he's got til 2011 to decide and then it's 1 year at S/H and 3 in the army. So it's a fairly big decision I guess.
The other point he made was also very true - he is only 21, his CV isn't exactly bustling with 15 years business experience in all sorts of high flying roles. The Sandhurst thing is his standout achievement. Everyone has a degree, everyone got A-levels etc.
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