The Apprentice 2014.......................

[Mojooo]

Jayyylo said:

Aren't the fines meant to be the full cost price of each item but they got fined about £50 for a piece of old rope. What a farce. Alan has always been a tit.

wouldnt have thought so - as thenthere would be no incentive to pick up the goods

clearly they coudl have made up all the fines yesterday to engineer the result - for exmaple the fine for being late could be watever they wanted it to be

[JagLover]

FourWheelDrift said:

ezi said:

There's all this outrage over the skeleton but the real farce of this show was the rope which was too long.

and mentioned earlier the broken Belfast sink that wasn't penalised as it wasn't in usable condition. With a penalty for that, Dim Dan's team would have won.

I can understand the skeleton, but the rest felt like a bit of a fix.

But more importantly every episode should start with Roison in her night clothes

[Oakey]

FourWheelDrift said:

It was the Oud instrument in Dubai (asked specifically for Mahogany) the one this week asked for Oud Oil.

I always wondered what they were drinking

It just said 'Oud' didn't it?

Also, yeah, the fines were the cost of the item, Sugar said when applying the cost of the skeleton so where he got £50 for a bit of old rope from I don't know.

[iva cosworth]

This has appeared on Gogglebox and they also agree that the Lord made a booboo.

[stuartmmcfc]

iva cosworth said:

This has appeared on Gogglebox and they also agree that the Lord made a booboo.

Case closed then

[Langweilig]

Wrong candidate was fired. His Lordship didn't specify cost, material and quantity of skeletons required. So, initiative was used. This was not to His Lordship's liking.

I hate shouty bosses who don't like me using initiative.

[carreauchompeur]

Just watched this. Absolute farce.

They complied with the specifications. '£50 fine for the rope too? Stupid.

Sralan's hate of lawyers was more than a little apparent in the boardroom, just came across as a little bully with a chip on his shoulder. No way Felipe should have been fired when the other team made so many cockups.

[Langweilig]

carreauchompeur said:

Just watched this. Absolute farce.

They complied with the specifications. '£50 fine for the rope too? Stupid.

Sralan's hate of lawyers was more than a little apparent in the boardroom, just came across as a little bully with a chip on his shoulder. No way Felipe should have been fired when the other team made so many cockups.

Yes. If I had been Felipe, I wouldn't have went quietly. Regardless of His Lordship's status, I would've had something to say about my unfair dismissal.

[Countdown]

Langweilig said:

I would've had something to say about my unfair dismissal.

It's sad that ALL the candidates sit there and accept his bull5h1t know-it-all business cod-ology. In every single episode of every single series he gives it the big "I AM" and yet nobody has been brave or foolhardy enough to say "hang on a minute - how are things with Amstrad? Tell us more about the emailer?"

Admittedly he's been very succesful but he should have accepted that he had been outsmarted by Felipe, rather than twisting the rules so he could fire him.

[North West Tom]

I'd assume that if someone did go off on one, it would be edited out.

[GetCarter]

North West Tom said:

I'd assume that if someone did go off on one, it would be edited out.

Without a doubt. In the T&Cs.

[Langweilig]

GetCarter said:

North West Tom said:

I'd assume that if someone did go off on one, it would be edited out.

Without a doubt. In the T&Cs.

And there's this from the Daily Wail.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2437105/Fi...

[fatboy69]

Just watched the episode.

What a joke.

Whilst Felipe & Dan were clearly taking the piss they did actually do what it said on the tin. They got a skeleton. I wonder what is Lordship would have said had they had the time to build it!

His Lordship should have said 'well done, you are taking the piss however you didn't do what I wanted you to do so, Daniel, you are fired'.

Clearly Sugs fked up although he doesn't have the balls to admit it.

However. On the plus side.....

Roisin.

[Mastodon2]

I'm not sure why anyone would want to go into business with sralan if their idea is any good anyway, they could go on Dragon's Den and get a better deal. If they think sralan will be the guiding hand that helps their idea to success then they're dead wrong.

I always laugh when they do a branding task and sralan lectures them on branding. Amstrad isn't a particuarly strong brand. In fact, I think if you asked the majority of people under 30 they wouldn't have even heard of it. Not good for a technology company.

[Jonsnow606]

Did anyone else hear Felipe say (in his Colombian accent...)
'I'd have cut the rope with my teeth", when his lordship was speaking of the rope not cut to size !?...

Had me and the Mrs rolling around on the floor

[RichB]

Mastodon2 said:

Amstrad isn't a particuarly strong brand. In fact, I think if you asked the majority of people under 30 they wouldn't have even heard of it. Not good for a technology company.

And anyone old enough to remember it knows it as cheap bottom end of the market stuff.

[djdestiny]

It might of been cheap, that that was what made it so successful!
He undercut the price of an IBM/compatible by a huge amount, pretty much brought CB to the Uk, the Midi system, tape to tape copying and many other things

[RichB]

djdestiny said:

It might of been cheap, that that was what made it so successful!
He undercut the price of an IBM/compatible by a huge amount, pretty much brought CB to the Uk, the Midi system, tape to tape copying and many other things

Not denying any of that, just saying it was cheap tat.

[Evangelion]

When I worked I hi-fi shops in the 70's, it was always known as 'Crapstrad.'

[Dapster]

Skeletongate is all well and good and sure, he could have ticked off Felipe for missing the spirit of the task, but the task was about negotiating deals and there were other criminal failures - buying the Oud oil from a ritzy retail store, paying more than a £100 more than the other team for the diamond etc.

What I don't understand is how they could possibly negotiate anything without knowing how much anything costs? At least call up 2 places and work out a market price and establish a bit of leverage.

I'm assuming Soloman's business idea is to manufacture the cure for cancer out of his own spunk as I can not see anything of value that he had done in 9 weeks of the show!!