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

[CMYKguru]

FredClogs said:

RosscoPCole said:

I think Lord Sugar has already decided who will win. In my opinion I think Roisin is the chosen one.

A blue eyed, blonde Irish women won it last year, you think he's starting a collection?

Although Roisin looks like she's resisted the urge of Polyfilla and Botox.

[Evangelion]

Marty Funkhouser said:

There was a bit where Roisin broke into a slight trot as she crossed a road - I'd dearly love to see that as a repeating gif.....

Hear hear.

[Mojooo]

I understood the skeleton to be one that you spend hours building up rather than a paper cut out.

So it woudl eventually be simialr to some extent like a plastic one but not as rigid.

Pass if they had made it - fail as presented.

Quite fnacy buying one of those paperones now mind.

[Vocal Minority]

Yeah I think my issue is (sorry to go on about it) but you can tell by this extended conversation in the car to justify it, they knew it wasnt what was intended - they had a clear idea of that, but they tried to short cut it.

Ok so you turn up to the client (having previously 'known' what they wanted, but decided this other thing fitted the WORDING of the spec) and tried to justify it, they would call you an arse and refuse to pay.

Whilst a judge MAY eventually agree with you - the client won't be back and they will tell everyone who listens not to do business with such a tool.


I'm betting if James had done it, it would be decried on here as the tttiest action in history

Edited by Vocal Minority on Thursday 4th December 13:05

[Frio3535]

Evangelion said:

Marty Funkhouser said:

There was a bit where Roisin broke into a slight trot as she crossed a road - I'd dearly love to see that as a repeating gif.....

Hear hear.

From 25:00 minutes on the iplayer if anyone is interested

[Jasandjules]

The written information was a skeleton, anatomically correct and 1.8m in height. That is what was provided. Utterly outrageous IMHO and just an excuse to fire the lawyer.

I would find it quite funny if companies decided it was difficult to do business with Mr Sugar. If he says he wants X or Y and that is written down, you then go into a meeting and get "No, what I mean is P or Q"..

I also noted that Nick didn't impose a fine for it so thought it was ok..

And what a wonderful person Felipe seems, along with a lovely business plan.

But my goodness what did Roisin (sp?) do to that poor diamond dealer, whom I assume last night got a bit of an earful from his wife!

[KTF]

What was his plan? I didn't watch the aftershow?

[Sarkmeister]

Mojooo said:

I understood the skeleton to be one that you spend hours building up rather than a paper cut out.

So it woudl eventually be simialr to some extent like a plastic one but not as rigid.

Pass if they had made it - fail as presented.

Quite fnacy buying one of those paperones now mind.

How would that fit in the very flat packaging?

[WCZ]

they were clearly taking the piss with the skeleton, if they had assembled it then then it might have been eligible IMO
Mark/Katy were aware imo

[ezi]

KTF said:

What was his plan? I didn't watch the aftershow?

Something for disabled children to make their lives easier/more enjoyable at nurseries if I remember correctly.

[FredClogs]

ezi said:

KTF said:

What was his plan? I didn't watch the aftershow?

Something for disabled children to make their lives easier/more enjoyable at nurseries if I remember correctly.

No wonder he's fired, Lord Sugar can't go making a profit out of the disabled, it's an ethical minefield...

[p1doc]

Tony2or4 said:

2000th posting on its way, Martin!

ooooooo!
could not believe daniel and filipe crossing the road holding hands-diamonds are forever anyone
£50 for a diamond-eh!!!
i thinkk felipe was robbed his product matched description,sugs being an a*se
martin

[Mastodon2]

Marty Funkhouser said:

There was a bit where Roisin broke into a slight trot as she crossed a road - I'd dearly love to see that as a repeating gif.....

Bounce bounce.

Lord Sugar coming across as a pompous, arrogant bellend last night. Felipe made a mug out of him and he didn't have the humility to admit it and give him credit. What a knob.

[p1doc]

FredClogs said:

A blue eyed, blonde Irish women won it last year, you think he's starting a collection?

jeepers creepers anyone lol
martin

[Oakey]

Here's the same skeleton

Description said:

Detailed 3D cardboard skeleton with joints that bend and straighten

Dimensions: •Life-size skeleton, based upon an exemplary human with a height of 1.8m

[The Don of Croy]

Well as an entertainment it has worked fairly well this week.

Sugar came over as an arsse - should have laughed it off with an appropriate fine. The other skeleton is not a 'bone' skeleton either, so arguing over which one is 'real' seems odd. IMHO.

Roisin, well, it's all been said and she is very easy on the eye. Particularly in that dress. Where was I?

As for the length of rope - just how hard is it to re-engineer a random piece into the 1m spec?

[Oakey]

All they had to do was line it up end to end to find the middle and then work out 15cm!

[Le Pop]

Well I'm bloody annoyed about the skeleton (Sugar's being an absolute knob) but how he can penalise them for the rope is farcical. If he ordered 50000 transistors and they had sent him 60000 would he have cancelled the contract? 4rse.

[Blaster72]

Le Pop said:

Well I'm bloody annoyed about the skeleton (Sugar's being an absolute knob) but how he can penalise them for the rope is farcical. If he ordered 50000 transistors and they had sent him 60000 would he have cancelled the contract? 4rse.

He's getting a pasting over on Twitter

https://twitter.com/hashtag/skeletongate?src=hash

The rope thing I think was correct - the exact length required was specified and they knew it, the dopey whiny one (Katie) decided to tie a fking knot in the end to try and disguise the length rather than taking up the offer of scissors that was given right there in the garden centre, She's really annoying me this week - too smug and quick to turn when they lost.

Edited by Blaster72 on Thursday 4th December 13:48

[Nick Grant]

Sugar's reasoning was paper thin.