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The Apprentice, thread 6- It's the headless chicken night because they've never heard of ebay.

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dillite · 03/12/2014 18:15

Or google.

I might not watch tonight as I've got to sew some tacky Christmas pyjamas, but here's a thread for you all to enjoy.

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BOFster · 03/12/2014 22:32

Felipe is 33, apparently

PacificDogwood · 03/12/2014 22:32

Wild horses could not get me on The Apprentice and the fact that I don't have an entrepreneurial bone in my body

ChippingInAutumnLover · 03/12/2014 22:33

Well, thanks for a good night everyone. Same time, same place next week :)

Icimoi · 03/12/2014 22:33

Aw, the blurb on his website starts with "Thank you for visiting Felipe's website".

BOFster · 03/12/2014 22:33

Not even a paper bone, PD? Grin

Rivercam · 03/12/2014 22:33

How did Daniel survive? Must have a good business plan. It's a shame Felippe went. I'm surprised that more wasn't said about Mark and Katie supporting the paper skeleton. I feel sorry for Felipe - I thought he was being incentive. Sometimes Sir Alan loves those types of ideas, today he didn't.

PacificDogwood · 03/12/2014 22:34

Yes, see you next week.
I AM going to bed now

CrimboHornedSnowflake · 03/12/2014 22:34

See y'all next week

PacificDogwood · 03/12/2014 22:35

Nope, not even a paper bone - I was self-employed for less than 2 years and hated every second of it Grin

I love that it says that on his website Grin
I really hope that Felipe will go far and will remain true to Felipe.

SwedishEdith · 03/12/2014 22:36

Oh, those LinkedIn profiles are interesting. Do they give a clue about who wins or am I making too big an assumption?

curiousgeorgie · 04/12/2014 00:14

Sorry, i watched this on catch up because my baby was being a complete nightmare but I am Outraged!!

It was a skeleton! Poor Felipe!!

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wideboy26 · 04/12/2014 07:50

Lord Sugar has made it well known in the past that he doesn't like lawyers in particular, professional advisers in general and highly educated people. It's a chip on the shoulder about having started his business empire from the back of a van with no educational qualifications, but a lot of self belief. You could say he is what Delboy might have become if things had worked out for theTrotters.

limitedperiodonly · 04/12/2014 10:57

It was a skellington.

They went down a road about two minutes' walk from me right near the place where the London Meet Up was on Saturday. That I organised. Not because it was two minutes' away. I was late.

I was in the public gallery of the House of Lords and Lord Wideboy of Chigwell walked in. We all gasped and went really loudly: 'Ooh! Look, it's Alan Sugar!' He beamed. I was surprised he didn't give us a twirl. The woman making a scintillating speech on fishing quotas glared at us.

Mike Soutar is hated by legions of people at my old company for changing the annual awards ceremony one year. It used to be a piss-up and rubber food at a Park Lane hotel with an amusing compere - we had Jonathan Ross once - who'd quickly hand out the awards to pissed people to much jeering, followed by more drinks until you fell over.

Soutar's brainchild was to transform it into an Oscar-style ceremony held at a big cinema in Leicester Square. Everyone had to really early and sit in their seats for hours watching arselicking videos about how great the company and all the directors were (directed by M Soutar). This was without so much as a bag of crisps and a tin of Stella. Nobody dared leave for fear a spotlight would have lit their progress and their card would have been marked. There were apparently refreshments afterwards. I don't know for sure because it sounded so fucking awful I didn't go.

There was so much resentment that they went back to the old format.

He has gone on to found a very successful publishing business. People who know him well say he's all right and the Nuremberg Rally was just him getting a bit carried away by being a thrusting young executive of the type that Sugar adores.

squoosh · 04/12/2014 11:52

Felipe was robbed, it WAS a bloody skeleton and it fitted the brief. Being penalised for the overly long piece of rope was stupid too.

Sugar is a twunt.

Glad Daniel is still in it though.

Sanjay is SO irritating, stupid giggly man.

limitedperiodonly · 04/12/2014 12:09

I've watched Dara now. Felipe is so nice.

I'm not surprised at Daniel bitching about him but I'm really surprised at Katie. We all make mistakes - she made one over the piece of rope. The woman actually offered to cut it to the correct length and she declined. Why? I did think when the spec said 1m of rope, they were meant to get 1m of rope exactly.

Obviously Mark wasn't going to bring that up just in case Sugar asked why he didn't intervene. But Nick should have mentioned it.

It wouldn't have hurt anyone to say in the boardroom that they all thought the paper skeleton was a good idea of Felipe's which fitted the specifications. If Sugar shouted them down, well, they'd have tried and would have looked more of a team.

limitedperiodonly · 04/12/2014 12:16

I wouldn't have liked to have seen Felipe destroyed in the CV round and that nasty Claude Littner would have gone for him.

I'd much rather see Daniel and Mark go through that. If only they'd bring James back just for that episode.

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dillite · 04/12/2014 12:58

Just watched Dara. Felipe is so nice! His wife must be very proud to be married to him, I know I would.

Loved the present he was given! They should have added a mini Felipe for Felipe to watch football.

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SkaterGrrrrl · 04/12/2014 13:35

MadHattersWineParty and Redcoats, I will fight you for Mark.

I want his babies.

limitedperiodonly · 04/12/2014 16:28

What? Mark's babies would eat each other in the womb like sharks.

TheSpottedZebra · 04/12/2014 16:44

...Then the remaining baby would be born, blame the other babies for making him eat them, and proceed too patronise the entire hospital staff, the patients etc.

Cannot stand Mark.

TheSpottedZebra · 04/12/2014 16:44

There was only 1 o in too when I posted. It said to. TO!

Moln · 04/12/2014 21:38

Late commenting here.

Not sure how I feel about the skeleton - I mean I do think it did't fill the spec (because it was a flat package, and as has been said it's like asking for a cake and getting the eggs, flour and butter) however I think that SA was totally over the top about it.

Mark needs to go, though now it's been said I do think it'd be BRILLIANT to see him be pulled about during the CV stage.

He's the sort of person that blames another person for something he did wrong and the gets pleasure out of watching that person suffer the consequences whilst he doesn't.

Bleurgh.

PacificDogwood · 04/12/2014 21:52

If only they'd bring James back just for that episode.

Oh yes, I'd pay good money to see James in the interview episode Grin

I think the paper stadium would have been funnier had it been life sized!

Dancergirl · 04/12/2014 23:44

Where did they get the skeleton fine of £300 from?? Did they just magic the figure out of thin air??

Icimoi · 04/12/2014 23:51

£310, wasn't it? And something peculiar like £52 for the rope (who the hell pays £52 for a metre of used rope????) Strangely precise sums that just happened to take their total just above that of the other team.