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to refuse to watch the Apprentice because it is so full of knobs (and be sad about it)

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TheSeventhHorcrux · 25/05/2013 18:15

LOVE the apprentice, but as the years go by it seems that instead of looking for bright entrepreneurs they have sought out the most obnoxious, big headed goits they could find.

Watched the first episode and switched it off after twenty minutes because I could feel the Rage coming on with the bickering and out-shouting and arrogance from the candidates. Made me really uncomfortable.

AIBU to no longer watch it, even though I used to love it and enjoy the concept. Should I give it another chance, do they calm down?

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waikikamookau · 26/05/2013 09:50

the first to go is always the less good looking, mark my words.

GalaxyDefender · 26/05/2013 09:51

It is terrible this year. Normally I find a few candidates I can get behind, but this year there's only Jason. I luuuurve Jason, despite the fact that really, he is categorically rubbish at business Grin He seems so lovely, and articulate, and so beautifully eccentric in the way only posh people can be!

I keep praying Suralan will drop that Luisa girl. Losing her would actually make any team work better together, she antagonises everyone she comes into contact with. I also cannot believe, upon going to the website, that she is the same age as me. No way is that woman 25, I thought she was in her late 30s!

GalaxyDefender · 26/05/2013 09:54

Grin DP commented to me last week that it's always the ethnic minorities that get fired first - so far he's been proved right, apart from dopey Tim boy.

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TheSeventhHorcrux · 26/05/2013 11:08

I know that they are meant to edit the programme to make them look worse but a lady from work used to work with Melody from the last (?) series ("Don't tell me to aim for the stars, when there are footprints on the moon"-woman, remember her?) and apparently that was EXACTLY what she was like in real life.

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FreudiansSlipper · 26/05/2013 11:22

That is a big part of what has always made it so enjoyable

or have I missed something Confused

forehead · 26/05/2013 11:31

Agree about the fact that ethnic minorities seem to get fired first.

pigletmania · 26/05/2013 11:45

Not necessarily forehead, the worse go first

Gingefringe · 26/05/2013 11:48

Are the girls all off TOWIE this year?

Nothing can beat from Series 2. Still laugh out loud when I watch it.

AViewFromTheFridge · 26/05/2013 11:57

It's exactly the same as Big Brother - that had relatively normal people on it for the first couple of years, then became a victim of its own success. Sad really.

Also, now that the prize is a business venture rather than an apprenticeship (oh, the irony), it no longer attracts grad-scheme type candidates - any knob jockey with a "business plan" can apply.

Roary1 · 26/05/2013 12:41

Although I would never go on the show I would love to audition just to say the most ludicrous delusional things possible." I am Midas, even my shits turn to gold (which is why I take Senna)" I bet if I acted the total knob they would probably offer me a place!

munchkinmaster · 26/05/2013 12:42

Exactly it's also a shit deal conpared to the old prize. I'll invest 250k and steal your curved nail file idea

munchkinmaster · 26/05/2013 12:43

Roary go on I dare you.

I keep daring my tone deaf DH for x factor. He could talk all crazy and dress normal for him like a dweeb. He'd be ace.

Tee2072 · 26/05/2013 12:49

They probably would Roary.

Definitely come join our thread, it's hysterical.

I want to know more about Jordan off screen. Sir Alan almost fired him on principle last week, I swear.

Hummuschocolate · 26/05/2013 12:51

The thing with the apprentice though is that knobs never prosper. A decent person always wins,someone whos made mistakes along the way and isn't perfect at everything but not someone whos been dishonest and unkind. Tom the Inventor is the best example of this. He wasn't that great in a lot of the tasks but he was a decent person, had a good idea and was someone that surrallen (can't bring myself to call him Lord!) could work with.

This year I'm routing for Leah, she seems lovely and quite sensible. Jason, I love but mostly for his stripey pjs Smile and Francesca seems more sensible than most of the other girls.

I think once Zee, Neil and Lucia get fired, things was seem a lot better Smile

crazyforbaby · 26/05/2013 12:54

Is The Celebrity Apprentice from New York City not shown in the UK or Ireland? Donald Trump with his flicky hair and so-called 'slebs' (always consist of washed-out, drugged up, has been country singers, models and 'comedians') makes Suralan's show look like Grade A, Emmy award winning entertainment!
We have to wait about 24hrs until some kind soul uploads the show onto YouTube and we love it! For those 24hrs, DH bans me from MN, Daily Fail (sorry) and Yahoo News, so that it doesnt spoil the 'surprise' at finding out who has been fired. Loving this series, although none of them seem to have even basic Maths skills in the challenges and WHY do the contestants have to end each sentence with the words 'Lord Sugar'? He does love his title! That Luisa is a little SHRILL isn't she.

Chivetalking · 26/05/2013 13:15

I love The Apprentice but then again I'm a sucker for shit reality TV. Grin

cherryade8 · 26/05/2013 14:15

Yanbu. It is dire. Used to love it too, but the contestants this year are hideously smug and obnoxious.

Bumpotato · 26/05/2013 14:40

My friend's son was shortlisted for Junior Apprentice. After meeting and talking the to production team he decided he didn't want to do it. I think he felt he was above for want of a better expression doing that type of show. He's a brilliant and astute young bloke and I'm glad he didn't want to do it in the end, though I imagine he would have won at a canter.

freddiefrog · 26/05/2013 14:42

YANBU

I cant watch it. It makes me cringe I'm so embarrassed for them and I refuse to spend an hour with my buttocks tightly clenched

GetOrfMoiLand · 26/05/2013 15:14

Thanks ginge for that wolf fleece link, I love that clip and it makes me laugh out loud as well.

I also really like Jason. He may not be street wise but at least he is nice and acts like a human being. He was horribly ganged up on by that ghastly eyebrow man and the short agressive bloke in the beer task. I hope he fucking well wins.

Hummuschocolate · 26/05/2013 15:39

theres at least one short aggressive bloke in each series. I like to think that the Apprentice is a great example of Short Man Syndrome

GetOrfMoiLand · 26/05/2013 16:00

Starting with Alan Sugar himself.

Hummuschocolate · 26/05/2013 16:09

I was going to add a comment about Surrallen's height but he doesn't annoy me as much as the other aggressive short men on the show. Perhaps he was an annoying aggressive short man in his younger years and as mellowed with age (or the fact that he doesn't have to prove himself/do much for himself these days!)

GetOrfMoiLand · 26/05/2013 16:11

You are right that each series has the perfect example of a hateful aggressive shortarse twat of a man.

Moominsarehippos · 26/05/2013 16:14

I wouldn't put any one of them in charge of a piss up in a brewery to be honest.

What exactly do they need to submit at interview stage of their business plan? There are some there that I can imagine writing 'sell loads of stuff to cuztomerrs and mak loads of munny' in green crayon on a piece of paper torn from a jotter.

I suspect the production team are having a good laugh though.