[Closed] The apprentice.

Must admit I find it absolutely brilliant. I can't believe anyone takes it seriously.

As Suralan said the amount of BS is incredible we have a right good laugh about it

steve bell drew these creatures in the eighties -- they are now living forms spouting the bile...

It's brilliant

It's bullshit bingo and laughing at people with more ego than brainpower arguing with one another.

How much can you really laugh at the same joke over & over & over & over & over & over &... ?

Agreed it's just fun and entertainment, the problem is some people may think that's how you have to be to get on in business (and that includes Lord Sugar). Maybe I've been lucky but I've never worked with or for anyone who is remotely like the idiots on the Apprentice.

its not going to happen, but it would be funny if one of them could be a fifth columnist, get as far as the sacking bit in the boardroom and let rip at Sugar !!

Did everybody miss the High five moment?

flatfish-- that was a classic putdown !!

Have any of the candidates put forward tax management as their chosen start-up?

The Freddie mercury lookalike is brilliant! He has to be a plant.

Twice in 1 week. Get in.

They can't even do basic percentages!

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from The Emperor's New Groove (best Disney film ever).

The wimminz are beyond belief. 😯

Right dogs too. 😉

Yes the wimmin are a scary lookin bunch--very sharp featured, would give madame medusa a run for her money---yoghurt makers....one look at yer milk......

I quite often think some of my colleagues are a-holes, but after watching 2 episodes of this I almost consider myself lucky that I work with 'normal' people.
What a bunch of self serving tossers, wont bother next week as its getting as gringe inducing as watching the office but for different reasons. I'm oot....oh no thats another show 😳

There's not one of them who, in a normal working environment, wouldn't have been beaten to death by mid morning of their first day

People watch this crap? 😯
I had the misfortune to fleetingly appear in it when I helped some of the contestants photograph some dogs for a pet food thing they were doing in the last series (or maybe the one before). The 3 who came to the studio seemed nice enough but the others on the episode I watched were right bellends.
Like most TV program's there is no 'entertainment' if the director/producers don't have contestants with runaway ego's to generate content. It would be more tedious to watch if they diligently went about their tasks in a businesslike manner.

And as for that sugar bloke? He made his fortune in property when the market was rising and cheap computers, everything else was a complete failure, I'm amazed he is fêted by the media as some business guru.

Well, the only semi-decent one was fired last night - madder than a UKIP voter but comparatively decent.

The forthcoming battle between Rebecca & the four horsefaces of the apocalypse has the potential to make the seige of Leningrad look like a game of tiddlywinks.

Bring it on.

Was Alex trying to look like Del Boy in Belgium?

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can you respect anyone who dresses like that.WELL COULD YOU? 😆

and i have horrible dress sense 😳

richmars - Member
Maybe I've been lucky but I've never worked with or for anyone who is remotely like the idiots on the Apprentice.

You sure about that? 😉
I can think of a few names.... 😀

stumpy01,
Well yes, there are a few idiots we know, but none I'd like to cause physical harm to!

Does anyone remember the name of a late 80's puppet or ventriloquist act that had a big round face, eyebrows like the bloke mentioned above and huge green eyes. He would have appeared on stuff like the variety show or sat night tv. Anyone remember this?

Little Frank Sidebottom.

There is a touch of pee wee herman about him as well.

Cheers Kingtut, thats the one!

I don't watch TV regularly but made an exception last night for some reason and ended up sitting through The Apprentice, then switched over and happened upon Made In Chelsea. I've got to say I'm genuinely shocked, is it all like this? It made me hate my fellow man.

Watching Made in Chelsea has been known to send even zen-like Buddhist monks into a psychotic murderous frenzy, swearing to head towards Stamford Bridge with meat cleavers, pliers and a blowtorch.

If everyone in the country were made to watch it at the same time, we'd have a bloody revolution on our hands within seconds!

Actually.... I wonder if I can make this happen

Most 'reality' TV is like this. So long as:

A) You don't take it seriously

and

B) You feel a little bit bad for laughing at other people

Then you can get through it!

BBC4, Dave and Yesterday seem to be the channels most often on in our house (after CBeebies).

At least the savings the beeb make churning out this crap might enable them to make something like 'Planet Earth' again.

separated at birth??

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RM.

time for more bell-endery

Step 1 when designing furniture - do some market research. When it tells you what you don't want to hear, ignore it and go ahead with you plan anyway...

Watching this is a bit like being at work. Every week you think it can't get any worse and every week they prove you wrong!!

I'm amazed that all those trendy design shops in that there london are going mental over a grey box on wheels.

And now the blame passing and bitchiness starts...

I think the term I'm looking for is LOL

The wimmin. 😯

Bit shocked at who was fired but fingers crossed that those gobby ones will soon get what they deserve. Ghastly creatures. 👿

Oh dear God. 😯

The Freddie Mercury lookalike trying to do maths.
"17 won't divide by 2, give me a calculator"

The girl looking at the field of cows.
"oh look at the horses!

/facepalm

Can't take my eyes off the irish girl though!

Amazing - buying stock from Surrey shop at retail prices. I know that exact shop and their prices are far from value. And they need a margin on top.. I struggle to buy from that shop in the first place let alone trying to put a margin on their (inflated?) prices!!

Crazy!!!

Met Adam Corbally from a recent series. Nice chap. But dear me, this lot are fubar.

My girlfriend is watching this crap im listening to music in the same room as the apprentice makes me angry!!

It stresses me out as well, the gf is watching it on tv while I'm on STW on the laptop. It's basically an hour of irritating people arguing loudly.

You mean for her or for you?

And this gig goes on for much longer than an hour......

Are people really like this in real life or is it the introduction of a camera that turns them in to prize plums.?

Prize plums? Should've sold them in the Farm Shop.

I really must make a recommendation for Laverstoke Park Farm who supplied the buffalo. Excellent place and the farm shop has a good selection of meat including rare breeds.

For those we aren't aware, buffalo is low cholestoral. In fact you may see them when you go along the drive. 8) Ice cream made from buffalo milk is out of this world and far better than any others! It really is delicious. Sometimes found in Waitrose.

The Farm is near Overton, Hampshire and owned by Jody Scheckter, formerly a Formula 1 racing driver.

A relative of mine was on the show a couple of years ago. She already had a successful recruitment agency in Yorkshire and would genuinely have benefitted from the opportunity offered by Mr Sugar. She is normal and hardworking.

However because she wasn't a complete shouty know it all retard like the rest of them she was kicked off after a few programmes.

She went back to the recruitment business.

Is it really a genuine job offer at the end? Is it worth it?

It enrages me so much I couldn't even bear to watch most of the ones with my relative in. It's so bad it makes me want to gouge out my eyeballs with a rusty spoon and pour hydroflouric acid into my ears. After I've fed all the contestants into a slow moving meat grinding machine, after peeling their skin off and rolling them in salt.

Just spotted one of the lads using straighteners on his hair. Says it all really.

Are they a particularly thick bunch this year? Cretinous buffoonery.

It's like they're all possessed by Alan Partridge 😯

At first I viewed the Freddie chap as an immensely humorous comedy figure. Laughing at him harmed no-one because he's a joke.

Now I'm afraid I'd happily push him under a bus. He's not comedy, he's tragedy.

Irish girl makes me laugh too as does the one with the nice body and horrible face/brain.

I think the whole show has become a huge mockery of itself with some absolutely genius casting people operating somewhere behind the London 'failed' door of the London school of business.

It's unbelievable! I could quite happily push both Luisa and Leah under a bus. Must confess to hair envy of Rebecca and her up-do. 🙂

The blokes seem less offensive than the wimminz, to be fair.

Oddly compelling car-crash TV....Jezza Kyle in suits!

The women often make me cringe, some of them are such a terrible example of what women are like in the business world. They come across bitchy, nasty and two faced, some of them, and the quieter, less mouthy types who don't want to bash everyone else to get their point across, they get fired. I'm pretty positive Rebecca was fired last night because the animosity between Francesca and Luisa makes better television....

I'm a bit of a Neil Clough fan though....

WTF is the tim-nice-but-dim bloke still doing there 😆

WTF is the tim-nice-but-dim bloke still doing there

He is a bit of a sweetie, if that's what floats your boat!

I'm a bit of a Neil Clough fan though....

He did well last night but I don't have the hots for him, a love of footie is the biggest turn-off going ... maybe. 😉

[i]WTF is the tim-nice-but-dim bloke still doing there[/i]

I wonder if his business plan will lead to Amstrad world domination within 2 years?

It has to be something like that.

WTF is the tim-nice-but-dim bloke still doing there

He's my one to win on the basis that he's either (a) an agent provocateur or (b) startlingly insane.

It's because of one of the earlier episodes where he interrupted the others negotiating down the price of something by just agreeing a much higher price. He justified it in the boardroom by saying the others were 'disgracing' wee Alan by essentially lying about how low they could go on price, i.e. doing what they're expected to do.

It was the use of the word disgracing and his conviction in using it that made me think he's either a plant or 100% bananas. Either's fine with me though.

Cinnamon, my OH is a huge footy fan *eyeroll - [s]I've got used to it[/s] bought him a TV for his birthday so he can watch it upstairs

[i]He is a bit of a sweetie, if that's what floats your boat! [/i]

lol. I've pointed out how thick he is but my wife argues his case. Now I know why. 😉

littlemisspanda - poor you! Well done on banishing him to another part of the house. 😆

lol. I've pointed out how thick he is but my wife argues his case. Now I know why.

Well, I just have this feeling that he knows how to treat a lady. 😉

I quite like it normally but the casting directors did too good a job on the twunt hunt this time - they need to back off a bit...I can barely watch this gang of self obsessed numptys. It's like all the cringe bits from the Office but 10x worse.

Whoever said they are all possessed by the spirit of Alan Partridge is bang on.

[i]like all the cringe bits from the Office but 10x worse[/i]

Quite a lot of those got used up in that Call Centre documentary earlier in the week!

Last night's show was one of the most transparent examples of "keep the nutters in and sack the sensible one" I've ever seen, and I've had to watch it for years.

Cufflinks! Genius! Is it a bondage site for people who like mad eyebrows?

Total cringe.
And listening to her pitch (having insisted on it) is just painful.

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He's a company director you know. Some of his orders are a thousand pounds!!!! Imagine that.

Francesca's a right turn-on when she's mad, though. 😈

I supect he spends most of his Saturdays lumbering round town with that eye make up, a floor length leather coat and boots the size of VW Beetles his feet. It just kind of works with the eyebrows.