The Apprentice, thread 5- Townies behave like baffoons in the countryside.

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Random present.

I sure am.

Oh well folks, thanks for another brilliant week :0)

Look forward to your company next week!

I can't believe there were some green cards in the audience.

not rewinding Dara, not at all

Yes, it was fun

Looking forward to next week.

See you all next week!

Fix we get to hear what his business idea was? Have they dropped that section this year?

Roisin seems to come across very well - to me and many of the panel on this and previous week's Dara programme. So I find it odd that LS and Nick seem to think she's been really quiet.
Glad James went - didn't like him at all.

I liked Roisin better before last night's episode. I think she should have stood up to James more during the actual task - she's a bit weak I think.

I watched last night's episode at my parents' house - we were all shouting at James, gobby little turd that he is. I also couldn't understand why Nick was standing up for him.

Chipping Did you hear when Mark said he was single?

And the hot tub demo was just what was needed after seeing so much of that oily little shit James. When he said about doing charity work, I nearly vomited, he can't help himself just saying what he thinks people want to hear.

I nearly did piss myself at Filippe (sp?) and Daniel rowing on the handbag stall - soooooo unprofessional but entertaining!

I think Roisin could go all the way, especially with Karren's backing.

I don't see her as weak at all. I see her as having some dignity and a lot of self control. Arguing with James on the task wouldn't have helped the team and it would have just created a scene. She tried as tactfully as she could to make him see sense and then just got on with the task.b I admire her ability to do that.

She was good in the boardroom too and I think she 'knew her audience'. There's not a lot of point in bringing up his sexist ways when you're speaking to AS is there!!

I would love to work with her and Katie.

so James is going to do charity work ? really?
odd response.

I agree with whoever said he's had media training. He was obviously coached to say 'charideee work' in the hope it would make him seem like less of a wankbadger.

It didn't.

Has Roisin seemed quiet because she's often been on the winning team and therefore not embroiled in boardroom arguments? I felt that she was unfairly picked on last night. I don't think we've seen a lot of Sanjay or Solomon.

I really, really enjoyed that episode.

When James was prattling on about sharing his success with underprivileged kiddiewinks for charity.

What fucking success?

I like Roisin. I think Mark is very effective, but I hate him. He set Felipe up perfectly for a fall in the event of failure and he effortlessly manipulated him into sidelining Daniel. It was the right decision to take Daniel off selling the hot tubs, though. He's crap at selling and Mark is very good.

He keeps making big mistakes but they just get glossed over. With the board game he just let it drop that it was his idea to go for a relationships one and last night he failed to negotiate wriggle-room on the prices. I'm not surprised clueless Felipe didn't do it, but I'm really surprised Mark missed it.

Chipping, she is dignified and self-controlled but also 'weak' :) I don't mean that Roisin should have argued with James but she could have tried to appeal to him, for his own sake; a bit like Katie did with Daniel. She's stronger than Roisin imo. Not as pretty or cultured though .

I just cant imagine how many of this lot have actually worked in business before. I've seen some unprofessional behaviour in my time by last nights battle of the handbags and lawnmower mans behaviour was just jaw dropping.

I bet my DH that Filippe would sack man-who-needs-a-shave (who also looks like a photofit), and Roisin would punch James.

Lets all remember that this program is NOT about finding a 'business partner' for Suralan (I am sure he could manage without the BBC), but about entertaining us lot .

I think Roisin will go far - in the programme and in RL, whatever happens.
I agree though that Katie seems to be made of sterner stuff and comes across as having more grit much as her accent grates with me.

Cannot wait for next week!

I'm a day behind and have just caught up, finally James the eternal twat has gone! YAY!

The arguing on the stall between Felipe and Daniel was just awful, it was embarrassing, people walking past were looking at them with wtf faces and they still carried on. I'd have fired them both, even though they were on the winning team.

Can't get the logic of a Columbian national and an Australian being sent to select products to sell at a British Country Show and some of the comments on the hat bags "Oooh they just what the British buy", no they ain't you knobbers.

The folding wellies - not for proper country wear, ok to sling in the back of the car in case you break down or need to change a tyre and it's raining but not at 45 quid - max price a tenner I'd say!

Nice garden chair but as others have said more city or suburbia than farm/country.

The most obvious one and the one that would have sold, the tracking device on the dog collar vetoed by the insufferable twat.

Thankfully no-one put forward the cat toilet as a possibility, that was so far off the scale of weirdness.

For so called 'great' salesmen neither James nor Daniel can read body language, James missed it at Hever Castle and Daniel missed it at the BBQ stall, eyes glazing over, facial expressions hardening are a real giveaway, and they both bore on regardless.

Next week looks interesting but I think they gave away which team wins at the end of the main episode.

What did happen to last years winner?

What the woman said about the soles of the boots not being thick enough for country wear was definitely right and I hardly ever set foot outside of the city these days. But I used to, a little bit, and would have realised that.

I'm an urbanite but if I lived in the countryside I'd want something that might help me rescue my dog if he got trapped in a rabbit hole or got injured in some other way.

My friend would definitely go for the flushing cat litter tray but she is even more of a mad cat lady than me. She has one of those drinking water fountains for her cat. I can see the point, and I feel a little guilty, but I'm still just going to refresh my cat's water bowl a few times a day.

limited my cats would definitely not go for the flushing cat litter tray. I actually couldn't work out how it worked, I had visions of the cat being flushed.

I don't think my cat would either emotionsecho and he's quite bold about hoovers. He can't cope with the cold weather though.

He's a rescue who was always kept indoors. I have a very secure garden and he loved basking in it in the summer. Now it's turned cold he stands on the doorstep for about a minute and then looks at me like: 'Why is is cold? Make it stop.'