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Yeah the Apprentice is back tonight!

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ViolentBunny · 26/03/2008 17:32

Let the nutfest begin!

(Yeah I know i'm early but I just couldn't help it)

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Notyummy · 27/03/2008 11:15

Quite liked the fact that it was the male team who were shown wasting their (very short amount of) time bitching, blaming and whining. Usually its the women and I am forced to shout at the screen..

There is plenty of time though...

jumpingbeans · 27/03/2008 11:16

why, cod

FluffyMummy123 · 27/03/2008 11:17

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jumpingbeans · 27/03/2008 11:19

wtf is a scoffing loater?

wannaBe · 27/03/2008 11:28

taken from one of the profile,

"I?m a true example of pure class and elegance. I don?t try to be glamorous ? I'm just naturally like that." and so modest!

VanillaPumpkin · 27/03/2008 11:32

MadameCh0let - I very nearly didn't stand it as I was desperate to leave in my first term, however, actually the majority of people were fairly normal. It was just that the appauling sloaney types were very visual and dominating which was a shame to start with.
Some of them were actually quite funny in their cluelessness and I had a ball for the three years I was there. It is a great part of the world, fab campus and the awful sloanes were quite easy to filter out. They would look right through you and so were easy to ignore . I started off doing Ancient History with some classics so was in the wrong dept to avoid the public school kids. Things got better when I transferred to History.......
What a lot of waffle, sorry .

VanillaPumpkin · 27/03/2008 11:35

Aaargh, I knew that would come out wrong. I don't mean public school kids (half my housemates and most of my friends there were public school. I was jealous of them). I meant the sloaney ones who were invariabley public school too. Inverse snobbery there, not intended.

FluffyMummy123 · 27/03/2008 11:38

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jumpingbeans · 27/03/2008 11:41

Oh right, it's okay if you are thin though?

hattyyellow · 27/03/2008 11:48

DH and I spent the whole programme helpless with laughter whenever the Matt Lucas lookalike came on. Whenever he opened his mouth at the fish stall I kept expecting him to say "want that one" rather than whatever pompous claptrap he spouted.

I think they should have sacked the lot of them and employed the guy in the solicitors office who kept his calm and kept them down to £50 for the whole crate of fish!

They all did have a hell of a lot of make up on. And I'm sure the barrister one had had a manicure and natural nail colour painted on!

They are all awful. But I will still watch it!

No19 · 27/03/2008 11:49

Clearly, if one is overweight one should pretend one never eats. [hmm}

I can't believe the baby barrister chap had the WHOLE NIGHT to think of reasons to be allowed to stay and could only come up with that football eyewash.

idlingabout · 27/03/2008 12:32

Agree with 'Roxynotfoxy'. Whilst I agree that Nicholas had to go as he didn't defend himself well at all, he didn't deserve the bullying treatment meted out to him by Alex. Interestingly, Michael mentioned it but it didn't get picked up on by the panel. I get the impression they rather condone arrogant bullying behaviour with a strong dose of inverted snobbery on the side.

VanillaPumpkin · 27/03/2008 12:49

Goodness, I really don't think Nicholas was bullied . He f*ed up and then tried to deny it was his fault .

FluffyMummy123 · 27/03/2008 12:56

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jumpingbeans · 27/03/2008 12:58

You are not wrong, very easy on the eye

hatwoman · 27/03/2008 13:01

his "excuse" for mispricing the lobster was pathetic. "I heard someone start selling them at £5." he might as well have said "I didn't price them (even though it was my job) I just let the others make the prices up"

more importantly I am deeply disturbed by the idea of fellow mners finding it in them to fancy a man with hair like Alex's. I agree he possibly is good-looking but anyone who does their hair like that screams immature, estate agent knob to me. DH and I were discussing quite how we'd manage to stiffle our laughter if someone came for interview in our respective offices looking like that.

MehgaLegs · 27/03/2008 13:02

Pretty one in bright silky shirt described herself as best saleswoman in europe at the beginning.

WaynettaSlob · 27/03/2008 13:05

The review in the Times this morning was talking about Raef's accent, and described him as making "Noel Coward sound like a chav"

And Cod - agree with you re: the eating in the back of the car - not a good look.

VanillaPumpkin · 27/03/2008 13:05

Hatwoman - I liked him, but I have to say he was a scruff. And why did neither he nor Nicholas bother to shave for the boardroom showdown . Am I old fashioned in thinking that should be the first thing to focus on for an interview. It isn't like they have make up ffs.
Oh and Raef's hair. What is that about????

wannaBe · 27/03/2008 13:08

wish I'd been at that market. "lobsters for a fiver? thank you I'll take them all." .

Am not an expert on fish pricing, but surely any idiot knows that lobsters are a damn sight more expensive than a fiver. I'd be living on them otherwise

FluffyMummy123 · 27/03/2008 13:09

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MehgaLegs · 27/03/2008 13:10

[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/ check out the candidiates video] What a bunch of twunts.

DH and I have devised an Apprentice drinking game where you have to swig everytime someone says that "they can think outside the box" or "they'll step up to the mark"

MehgaLegs · 27/03/2008 13:11

check out the candidiates video

hatwoman · 27/03/2008 13:15

yes the lack of shaving was disgraceful. I revel in my old-fashionedness. I revel in the irony of it all. Young whipper-snappers have, for centuries, being arguing that looks/clothes/hair don't matter but it is only when you reach a certain age (or maturity) you really get the implications of that. they truly don;t matter, so, go with the flow, throw away the hair gel, have a shave. In the real world fashion statements are deeply un-cool, and mark you out as someone who does think looks matter.

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