**APPRENTICE**

[MargaretMountford]

this week - yay !!!!!!

I think you're right Fibonacci. The candidates are a right shower this year!

I'm not sure Fibonacci, I think they might be self-selecting to be idiots who think they are better than they are. Because you'd have to be a bit mad to want to do this stuff on TV.

I think, sadly, that they may indeed be the best business brains of our age...which handily explains why the economy has gone down the toilet

Banks-Smith review

Some very funny bits. I snorted with laughter at her comment about Majid's beard. (So sue me..)

arf !

Did anyone else see SrAlan on the One Show last night? Adrian asked him what he thought of this shower lot and he said something like "I think they're the best lot so far" but he had this cunning little smirk on the corners of his mouth as he said it

If any of you who claim to know previous candidates actually know Helen from last year .. please please can you ask her where her navy blue and white/cream stripey jacket came from ... I have been trying to find one like that for ages!

Why, why , why are the women all dressed so badly in their pseudo man suits and dull dull dull blouses/shirts? No one wears that crap in the city anymore do they.One ofthem was even wearing pin stripes!. even when i left all the women were moving to wrap dresses and COLOUR and femininity. We had all moved on to the realisation that women did not have to be pretend me to be taken seriously. Now we have all these aggressive shouty man apes pretending to represent woman in business.

No of these clowns would get hired in RL. They are like some dreadful parody - and all that terrible lingo. God help us.

Sir Alan is an arrogant bugger though isn't he - i know its all an act on the apprentice but he is so rude and unresponsive on other chat shows. I think he is great!!

Love the way they have picked up on Magib(?)s sexism!! Thats going to be a theme!! I think we will grow to love him!!

I commented to DP last nigth about the women's clothes, it was like they had been handed out a uniform - was PMSL at them tottering round in high heels on day one - i mean, everyone fecking knows that the first task is a hands dirty jobby!

Don't know what his name is but the stock broker guy - the way he runs!!! lmao

Oh i love it - i have reason to live again!!

Think they all come across as a shower of frogs - or whatever useless animal object you would care to replace it.

Had to put up with DP going "do you think i could be the apprentice" AGAIN!!! i just don't even bother to answer him.

Ben the 'broker looks like he's read a manual of what stockbrokers should wear

Stripey shirt with white collar - check
Braces - check

love that run of his!

yes, shame the manual was the beano!!!

Just watched it on catch-up... ACE!!!

Does anyone else really cringe when they introduce each other and describe their jobs?

"Oh, ya-hah, I'm an integral solutions consultant."
"Oh, snort, I'm a strategy motivation operations manager."

I think "teacher" was the only one I understood...

These people would all be on the "B Ark", and no mistake...

ah but UQD not only is he a teacher - he talks posh, and looks posh - bet his students love him!

He doesn't talk very posh. Or look at all posh. Is this a joke I'm not getting?

watched it last night, looks like it's going to a hilarious series again!. this is going to sound so bitchy, but, was really surprised to read that debra is only 24, i thought she looked in her 30's

TrillianAstra - I thought that while he was saying it...

Last night was the first time I have ever watched the Apprentice and I was shocked. How did they get on the show? None of them could clean a car?! Not the brightest bunch.

And I felt embarrassed to be female. They were so bitchy, and it's not helpful. They just ended up fighting and I'm sure good people skills and team work is a pretty basic skill needed for success.

Plus why do business women dress like they're going to a funeral. and have that awful attitude of I'm the bitch and hate men and love power....blah blah. They need to grow up!

yeah but if they all grew up and were actually good at what they do, the program would have no viewers at all!!!!!!

The women on this show always look like they would eat their young.

I thought the one that missed getting the boot last night (not Mona, the other one) was kept in for entertainment value. She looks like a nasty one, and I didn't like the long haired blonde one either. Why do some women think that to be good in business they have to be completely ruthless and bitchy? Assertive it ain't!

Damn... I wish I'd seen this thread yesterday - I feel I missed out on all the fun!

Was I the only one who noticed that glasses/frilly shirt woman seemed all Olive from On The Buses until you got to her feet where she was wearing porn star shoes? Most bizarre... I reckon she's got hidden depths that one . Looking forward to next week for some more bitching informed debate.

I quite like the Geordie guy, he seems like the kind of guy who says a spade's a spade and doesn't seem as far up his own ass as soe of the rest of them. The blonde guy with the blue eyes is quite pretty

The girls are just embarrassing, all the bitchiness and point scoring "I'm the full package" etc etc. Puke.

Oh and agree that the Scottish bloke is FAR too stockbroker-ish looking for his own good.

why are business clothes so awful ?

I HATE debra...what a bitch!

Oh, is Debra-Balloonhead only 24??
Wow. She looks a whole lot older than that. Doesn't act it though.