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The Apprentice - Series 5 Page 4
The usual bunch of Pantomime villains, egotistical twats and imbeciles, whether low or highbrow it engages me in many ways. I think the vailidity of the actual premise has lessened in terms of the job and the contestants desire to win it but it remains a great piece of entertainemnt for me. I'm mumbling constantly at the telly about what I would have done differently and love booing, hissing and (very rarely) cheering the slack jawed cretins as they posture, joslte and try to outdo each other. The early weeks are always a little nondescript but 4 or 5 in I find my prejudices have grown and only then do we really know who the true phalluses are. My only real observations from last night were that the Geordie bloke is a solid gold cock who looks a little like an anorexic John Terry and the girl who got the boot had one of those Dwarves faces on a normal person's body. Such sparkling insight I know....
Quote: ducky @ March 26 2009, 11:14 AM GMTLoving the Popeye-mouthed blonde. I wanna see her get riled and say "I've had all I can stand, I can't stands no more!" and then pour a can of spinach in her lop-sided gob and and open a can of whoop ass on the lot of them.
It's basically the Weakest Link for twats.
Well then, what on earth is The Weakest Link?
Quote: zooo @ March 26 2009, 11:45 PM GMTWell then, what on earth is The Weakest Link?
It's a quiz. 
Anyone watch it tonight?
I didn't think he deserved to go really... I thought the other guy was really annoying and rude. Why did he think it was okay to sit like a slob in a business meeting?
He did deserve to go as his business was sandwiches however I still wish the big mouthed twat had been fired!
He was young with promise.
But yes, failed miserably.
There would be no way I'd eat ANY of the food made there. Yukky!
Well as usual both were shit but one just spent less money and had more easy going clients.
They didn't have a clue!
Also didn't take to the other lass who was full of it.
Right guy got fired. He should of fired all three 'Mouth' was just a complainer, the other guy who looked like Mer-Man and Steve Busemi's love child was a whingy little shite. But Sandwich boy was right to get the chop.
I do not believe anyone genuinely would have paid for food that shite.
It was all a wonderful illusion.
I mean did Alan Sugar have the usual sandwich delivery guy crippled or something?
Quote: EllieJP @ April 1 2009, 10:43 PM BSTI thought the other guy was really annoying and rude. Why did he think it was okay to sit like a slob in a business meeting?
That's why he makes such great telly. He takes being gormless to whole new heights. I'm also starting to like the relentlessly negative geordie, who can't open his mouth without whining.
As for the girls, nobody leaps out at me, although the two-legged Heather Mills grew on me after making such a lousy pitch.
The decisions made every week just seem to be unbelievably crass and stupid. It's all about putting the candidates under pressure and seeing how they react. I do wonder how I'd do but it's quite disturbing to think these were the best 15 out of 10,000 applicants.
A very good point was made though that the girls' team knew that this was a one off and so focussed on profit so while the bought the cheapest food they knew they didn't have to worry about repeat business. It was a task to win and you'd have a better chance of doing that by keeping costs down and not having gimmicks like spotty backed blokes in togas.