Wot? No Apprentice 2013 Thread?

[Spanky Longhorn]

agree except good project management is a skill.

Having said that I think Neil despite being someone I would have punched repeatedly in the face by now is the best all round candidate, he can do selling, pitching, motivating, ideas and management.

Best all rounder without a doubt.

 

[weltweit]

agree except good project management is a skill.

Having said that I think Neil despite being someone I would have punched repeatedly in the face by now is the best all round candidate, he can do selling, pitching, motivating, ideas and management.

Best all rounder without a doubt.

I am not sure and do wonder what his business idea is. I expect he may make it to the interview stage and I would watch that if only to see him taken down a peg or two. Then there is that unshaven look, it isn't a beard, it looks like he is just lazy where it comes to personal hygiene - get a shave you slob!

Is someone, who is so full of himself, able to get on with other people without rubbing them up the wrong way. Neil is Neil's biggest fan and I don't find that an attractive trait at all.

 

[_pH_]

That bloke who got kicked off last night, is he an apprentice Alan Partridge?

 

[weltweit]

I was wondering after seeing the show last night. Usually in live shows they record a lot more material than they actually use and they often shoot the same scene many times from different camera angles.

Yesterday Lea had to speak up about herself and it struck me that she was very well lit at that time, the lights got really into her blue eyes in a way that they would not unless she was specially lit. I wonder how much is real about this program and how much is actually very carefully filmed over an extended shooting period.

Do you know what I mean?

 

[gosub]

think the digs at Alex was for wanting to do his legal thang are wide of the mark, "you've got no legal training" should have fired back -"what like a clerk of chambers".. Firing was ALL about the business plan.

 

[kabbes]

So many of the firings now are obviously about the business plan, not the weekly performances. The programme is so unsatisfying in that regard, I wonder why I still watch it.

Then I see them produce a ready meal in a grey packet with a white skull called "horrible food" and I remember why I watch it.

 

[Santino]

Then I see them produce a ready meal in a grey packet with a white skull called "horrible food" and I remember why I watch it.

It might have worked if they'd stuck with Dracula's Dinners and had a comedy vampire on the label, and not used the world 'horrible'.

 

[kabbes]

It might have worked if they'd stuck with Dracula's Dinners and had a comedy vampire on the label, and not used the world 'horrible'.

Yes, if they had done something completely different it might have not been utterly stupid.

 

[Santino]

Yes, if they had done something completely different it might have not been utterly stupid.

You mean something like a Caribbean-Thai fusion dish?

 

[weltweit]

What I noticed about yesterday was how Luisa really stitched up Francesca by forcing her to go to the kitchen when it was obvious she was totally unsuited for it. Then Luisa phoned through a ridiculous ingredients list on which Francesca had no chance and then towards the end of the task pretty much said it was all Francesca's fault for her cooking, which she could not do. Luisa should have been in the kitchen of that I have absolutely no doubt.

But of course they won the task so there was no post mortem on their performance.
I felt cheated!

 

[kabbes]

You mean something like a Caribbean-Thai fusion dish?

Another reason it was worth watching the programme.

 

[kabbes]

What I noticed about yesterday was how Luisa really stitched up Francesca by forcing her to go to the kitchen when it was obvious she was totally unsuited for it. Then Luisa phoned through a ridiculous ingredients list on which Francesca had no chance and then towards the end of the task pretty much said it was all Francesca's fault for her cooking, which she could not do. Luisa should have been in the kitchen of that I have absolutely no doubt.

But of course they won the task so there was no post mortem on their performance.
I felt cheated!

Clever politicking, I thought!

 

[weltweit]

Clever politicking, I thought!

I just think Luisa is a manipulative so and so.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Neil is still on course to win imo

and nowt wrong with a carribean-Thai fusion ready meal everyone liked the idea they were just put off by the lack of flavour which would have been resolved by that Luisa going in the kitchen.

I think Luisa is brilliant btw - she really stiched up Francesca and I think she took a gamble on that, putting it all on the team winning for her to get away with it.

You couldn't go into business with her though

 

[stavros]

think the digs at Alex was for wanting to do his legal thang are wide of the mark, "you've got no legal training" should have fired back -"what like a clerk of chambers".. Firing was ALL about the business plan.

I'd have just spat back at him, "You've got no electoral remit, yet you sit on the legislature".

 

[Santino]

Great play by Neil there.

 

[DexterTCN]

If the guys win by selling that stupid candle-holder it's a fucking fix.

 

[spanglechick]

Jeeeezus - how did Jordan make it out of that boardroom in one piece??!

I've never seen anyone screw up so badly with surralan!

 

[wiskey]

I quite liked Miles.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

He gagged and nearly hurled

 

[Epico]

He gagged and nearly hurled

He looked like he was trying to do that thing where you pretend you're coughing and mutter 'tosser' under your breath.

 

[weltweit]

Just watched that, a good task, the girls however did well while the boys were well outside their comfort zones I thought.

 

[weltweit]

I love the Dara show afterwards more than the main show. I was crying with laughter a moment ago. Shame Miles had to go he seems a good sport.

 

[Pickman's model]

Shame Miles had to go he seems a good sport.

by 'a good sport' i see you in fact mean 'an up his own arse cunt'

 

[weltweit]

by 'a good sport' i see you in fact mean 'an up his own arse cunt'

Well he took Dara's ribbing in good humour.

 

[Pickman's model]

Well he took Dara's ribbing in good humour.

i wasn't judging him on his performance on the bbc2 show

 

[weltweit]

i wasn't judging him on his performance on the bbc2 show

Oh I don't mind Miles

 

[weltweit]

I must remember to watch the interview episode next week, iirc it is often the most amusing of all of them.

 

[Stigmata]

by 'a good sport' i see you in fact mean 'an up his own arse cunt'

You're just jealous of his impeccable physique and excellent tailoring

 

[belboid]

did he just leave Jordan in to see him ripped apart in the interviews? He was rubbish throughout the programme (four hours buying candles??!!) and then revealed he hadn't understood/completely ignored the basic premise of the show? what an eejit.

that said, miles was also rubbish, and quite nasty again, he doesn't like it under pressure. tough, no loss. (oh, I see he is actually a Myles. I knew a Myles at university, spelled that way because his 'mother felt it would look better if I get a knighthood')

did they say that after the interviews it will be down to two? Makes it even harder to predict who could get through