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25 Oct 17
20:35
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They've really lost the plot tonight.
Fair play to Gemma Atkinson, though: doing this and Strictly
Fair play to Gemma Atkinson, though: doing this and Strictly
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Slightly behind on iplayer but what happened to planning? They are just plucking numbers out of the air -- on both pricing and food.
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If I was paying £200 a head then I'd want more than some cheesy quavers.
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these clowns have got to pay my pension
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Deal with the public day in day out bigH that has been
my argument for about the last 15 years apart from the odd one or two today's youngsters are thicker than thick no common sense and that's by my only managed two get three o level standards,or maybe that's why i think they are thick They may be super intelligent beings and i just can't see it but i know which one i believe. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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He wants to go to Savile Row for the handkerchief
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The Spurs scarf
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I've written down the nine items but there are only eight on my list -- a cunning plan by the BBC to make me watch again on iplayer.
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Ross digging his own grave with extended boasting about his IQ.
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statistically...............
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Ross's business plan -- basically Fitbits for dogs -- sounded like there could be a lot of money in it. So much so that I'd imagine someone must already be doing it.
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Have you seen the Hello Fresh adverts? I don't know who's behind this organisation but it's the same idea as one of the final five from a few years back.
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FITBITS FOR DOGS.ffs that dozy cooont oncoronation street steve McDonald already sorted that out, he ties his own round leg and sends it running around the park,
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Geography and common sense seem to go out of the window. I know most candidates are not from London but some are, and they all have maps.
Spurs scarf -- at one point they were just down the road in Finsbury Park and it never occurred to them that the area near Tottenham's ground might be a good place to find scarves. Rugelach -- Charles says they can find Jewish bakers in Golders Green but instead they go to Hampstead which is very expensive but also next door to Golders Green. Time of Day -- the deadline was 7pm but the teams forgot that a lot of shops close at 5 -- including builders' merchants, as the boys discovered to their cost. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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seven of the nine items could have been bought in golders green.
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They get thicker every year because the prods deliberately dumb it down to make it appeal to a mainstream audience. If you compare the candidates in series 1 with current series they'd be miles apart.
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Agree ClydeBank92, I'm thinking the BBC now owe the muppet show franchise some royalties as this series has obviously infringed their copyright
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They get thicker every year because the prods deliberately dumb it down to make it appeal to a mainstream audience. If you compare the candidates in series 1 with current series they'd be miles apart.
Yes, there is definitely a touch of Big Brother envy in selecting oddballs but I think there is something more subtle going on -- since the change of prize away from a job into the investment in setting up a company, the people who apply are mainly people running small businesses, often as sole traders. In other words, they are the boss or on their own. They are not used to working in teams. The corporate high-flyers from big companies who used to be in the early series are not there any more. Even worse, some of these people probably do 90 per cent of their business on the internet and never even see a customer or supplier face to face. I've just had a look at the candidates page on the BBC site and 11 of the original 18 candidates are captioned as business owners. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/N8TcrLGxrf6dYzLZP1zhQj/meet-the-candidates Since my horse has just been withdrawn, I have time to make a table from the BBC site:
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Come to thing of it -- looking at that, there do seem to be an awful lot of candidates left so Lord Sugar better get his multiple firing finger out if he wants a winner by Christmas.
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4 clothes sellers ebay market stall
flower seller sweet shop owner, job agency parasite wedding seller event seller couple in sales don't think silicon valley will be hanging on every word,last years cheeky plumber sold everything to buy sugar out | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jade didn't say a word in the boardroom
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I thought Sarah Jayne was a bit unfortunate. Andrew missold the beer and Charles got them lost.
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Yes, I think she was hard done by. It was almost literally a case of not being able to organise a pi$$ up in a brewery.
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They all own businesses?!
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I guess Alan Sugar just didn't think she had the right stuff to be his business partner.
For the past three weeks at least, Lord Sugar has fired people who have been taking a back seat, aiming to cruise through the process without ever doing very much -- Elliot, Ross and now Sarah Jane. Charles and Andrew may have stuffed up but at least they did something. If she'd been in the final three, then Anisa would have been in danger for the same reason. That said, once all the dead wood has been removed, Andrew and Charles will have to pull a lot of rabbits out of the hat in order to win this. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I thought all 3 would get sacked today. Mainly due to the time-frame but I don't see any of those 3 winning on current evidence.
Yes, that is the odd thing, the timeframe. According to the BBC, who ought to know, this is a 14-episode series. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0071b63/episodes/player Let's assume two of those episodes will be "Why I fired them" and a profile of the semi-finalists, as in previous years, so there are 12 tasks, of which the last is the final. Yesterday's Bruges cruise was task 6. There are still 12 candidates left, so unless there are to be eight for the interview round, there need to be some double (at least) firings in the next few weeks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The show is extremely boring. They brought in new people to play his two sidekicks a few years ago and its about time they replace the Lord Sugar character now.
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I only watch it for Anisa
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There are usually only 4 for the interview round aren't there. I got this gut feeling that at one stage all of the three of the losing team in the board room in one episode will be fired!
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pretty sure its five for interview round
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Ok- still means an increase in sackings.
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There has to be two I would have thought, expected it yesterday to be honest.
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Its unpredictable coz they are all a pretty useless bunch.
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The winning team did well to ask for a cut of the chocolate sales but their negotiation was poor.
"We're looking for a five to seven percent cut." "Ok, I can give you five." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The bottom line is that if these candidates are indeed successful, why do they need 250k with Sralan riding them like a jockey.
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Well, if previous series are anything to go by, many of them aren't as successful as they claim to be and some of them aren't even there to win.
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Ffs Plat, she's a hound ... & a slapper!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/4656478/apprentice-anisa-topan-beds-contestant-andrew/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bunch of Rodneys' rather than Dell Boys'
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After all these years its amazing how many people havent realised that the "candidates" are not the tycoons of the future but comedy characters chosen for entertainment value.
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Surely almost everyone watching knows that
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