The Apprentice 15th April

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Looking forward to tonight guys? ThoughtI'd start a new thread...

Ben is lucky to stay - he is so atypical of Edinburgh public school types that hang out in certain bars and are very loud.

Rats - had to miss the second half of the show.
Shame Paula went, especially just given her comment about DebraBalloonHead being like the Ssydney Harbour Bridge - in constant need of touch up.

I think Paula was the wrong choice.

Hf, you mean typical, surely? I've seen a lot of his sort in Edinburgh...

I am being mocked, both for watching that tosh and for saying that I had to because you guys were.

I think he doesn't believe you are real, you know.

BOF - oh yes (so very yes!) typical. I can't stand that sort.

BOF - oh yes (so very yes!) typical. I can't stand that sort.

Course we're real - just like the voices in your head......

wish I'd found this thread when the programmes were still on. Failed at multi-tasking, obv.
am pmsl at some of the posts

I've just watched it on Iplayer - BEN should have gone, he's a slimy bastard, and he didn't even farking TRY to help with the costing like he was told to

HOW many times did he harp on about "well that's girly stuff with smells and shit"????????

To be fair though the sandalwood fuck up happened because they were too caught up in liking the smell to look at the costs properly. It was a smell decision, not a cost decision at that point.

Ben was busy doing something else and the girls thought they were sure of their costing, they never asked him to check it. They made a stupid error and can hardly blame it on nobody else picking up on it.

Yasmina was one of the people who thought they needed 5g or whatever and then a short while later proceeded to pour half a liter of the stuff into a big vat. At that point she should have woken up.

Ben is still a slimy knob though.

I think Alan kept Ben in for the TV factor tbh.

Also when Deborah pointed out to the Paula that sandalwood was really expensive then she, as PM, should have double checked the quantity to make sure (although it was possibly too late by then).

Before they mixed the stuff up they should have added up their costings and then got someone to double check it.

Good lesson all round though; it doesn't matter how good your product is, if it costs too much it's a bad product.

Rarely have I taken a dislike to someone on TV quite as much as I have to Ben. Ugh he makes my skin crawl.

I think his tv demise will be planned and staged to make good TV and satisfy us all!

I think Lorraine is quietly asserting herself week by week - apologising the graphics bloke for being unprofessional. So far I like her. Which means she'll be out in a couple of weeks

And Howard has a v dry wit, though I think he is a bit of a buck passer.

I've always loved The Apprentice but this series isn't really doing it for me so far.

Obviously a lot of reality telly has to be set up and staged but this series is smacking of it far too much. The sandalwood/cedarwood fiasco was clearly planted.

We need more golden moments like Simon selling the trampoline like he's having a wank...

Paula left the boardroom in a black dress and by the time she got in the taxi she was clearly wearing a grey dress under her obligatory winter coat!

The whole prog reminds me of group work we used to do during my first degree in Business Studies at an urban polytechnic. I swear we were tons better than them.

As for Ben jumped up smug twat of the highest order. I hate boys like that.

Like people say how can they be the cream of the crop?

At the time I didn't think it was sandalwood/cedarwood, I though it was that they thought they needed 3 grams of the stuff when in fact they needed it ot be 3% of their formula. Wasn't sure if they were going to end up massively over budget or if they would just get soap that smalled of nothing.

The bloke from the factory would, in real life, surely have asked them to double check re teh sandalwood/cedarwood thing. Yasmina got off very lightly on this one I think

Was she the one who was being all touchy feely with the evil black haired girl (Debra? nasty piece of work.)

Ben needs a slap.

the leaving the building shots are all done at the same time

Everyone line up and look sad while walking into a taxi.

No, it doesn;t matter that the competition hasn't even started yet, just do it!

I am watching now on Iplayer.

I am disgusted and horrified. They are making a mockery of the cosmetics industry. What they are doing takes a company at least two years, including their wealth of experience.

I would even question the legality of what they are doing. There is no way a company would make a product one day and sell it the next. You simply can't develop a product without any consumer testing, and any regular product needs to be held for four days of microbial testing.

Given that they admit to putting in 1000x of a perfume, they are really opening themselves up to major consumer complaints.