The Apprentice 2022

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av185

18,718 posts

129 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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Doofus said:
Pitre said:
Why on earth do they get woken up at 4am? WTF? It was clearly mid-morning when they were driven to the office. Bullsh!t.
If they were so bloody clever, one of them would take the fking telephone upstairs when they went to bed.
If they were cleverer still one of them could always leave their mobile number with SAS and take the call in bed. I nominate Cathryn btw to see what she looks like without slap on. biggrin:

LeadFarmer

7,411 posts

133 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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Pitre said:
I missed an interesting programme on Hubble .
Good name for an electric pod biggrin

Akeem - I'm going to go with light tinted windows
Harpreet - I think we should go dark tint
Akeem - I'm going to go with dark tint
Harpreet - I don't want it to be too dark inside
Akeem - I'm going to go with light tint.

LeadFarmer

7,411 posts

133 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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And is the boardroom sponsored by Akshay, as he seems to always be in there?

thegreenhell

15,934 posts

221 months

Thursday 17th February 2022
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Akeem is so easily suggestible they should make him the new F1 race director to replace Michael Masi.

Langweilig

4,356 posts

213 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Correct selection for a firing. But I thought that it would be a double-firing with Nick going.

Tyre Smoke

23,018 posts

263 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Langweilig said:
Correct selection for a firing. But I thought that it would be a double-firing with Nick going.
As did I. But, I suspect SAS didn't think those two boys should have been brought back. Or at least not Akshay. He told him quite early on, that he was safe and that he at least did try and sell the unsaleable. SAS also queried who she brought those two, asking if it was political or not.

JimmyConwayNW

3,091 posts

127 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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LeadFarmer said:
And is the boardroom sponsored by Akshay, as he seems to always be in there?
Haha very good.

How hard would it have been to just make the pod fairly neutral like any meeting room in any office space to appeal to corporate clients and not add weird floral graphics to the outside.

Ice_blue_tvr

3,145 posts

166 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Both designs were so far beyond incompetence it just feels like it was a setup. Perhaps the BBC crew have a lot of influence off camera to make things more interesting?


Nurburgsingh

5,162 posts

240 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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av185 said:
Doofus said:
Pitre said:
Why on earth do they get woken up at 4am? WTF? It was clearly mid-morning when they were driven to the office. Bullsh!t.
If they were so bloody clever, one of them would take the fking telephone upstairs when they went to bed.
If they were cleverer still one of them could always leave their mobile number with SAS and take the call in bed. I nominate Cathryn btw to see what she looks like without slap on. biggrin:
And why when they're in a bloody massive house are they all sleeping in 2 bedrooms??

Toyoda

1,557 posts

102 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Pitre said:
This series is becoming pure dogsh!t.

Hopeless candidates, tasks that are bound to fail, it's become a joke.
Thought the same myself but at least it's not gone all ITV. The format hasn't really changed, just with every series the candidates get less entrepreneurial and more reality tv types.

Last night's was a shambles mind you and Akim's BeepUre got lucky. It was no better than the horrific party bus and he spend his presentation with his back to the audience. All quite laughable. Shame Sophie's gone, her mean and moody persona was intriguing!

RicksAlfas

13,463 posts

246 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Toyoda said:
Shame Sophie's gone, her mean and moody persona was intriguing!
She always looked on the verge of a breakdown, but I wasn't sure whether she was going to burst into tears or go completely psycho!

Toyoda

1,557 posts

102 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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RicksAlfas said:
She always looked on the verge of a breakdown, but I wasn't sure whether she was going to burst into tears or go completely psycho!
She has "Witch school" qualifications so I'm hoping it's the latter! She was certainly a contrast to the usual happy, smiley, look-at-me clad in a tonne of make-up girls on the show. And that made her decision to go with the tacky interior of her Pod even harder to fathom!

Zetec-S

6,015 posts

95 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Toyoda said:
RicksAlfas said:
She always looked on the verge of a breakdown, but I wasn't sure whether she was going to burst into tears or go completely psycho!
She has "Witch school" qualifications so I'm hoping it's the latter! She was certainly a contrast to the usual happy, smiley, look-at-me clad in a tonne of make-up girls on the show. And that made her decision to go with the tacky interior of her Pod even harder to fathom!
Yeah, I couldn't work out what she was up to this week. Up until now I thought she seemed like one of the better ones, but this week she completely lost the plot. She knew it was a disaster, her whole body language throughout the sales part of the task suggested she knew it wasn't going well. Then in the boardroom as soon as she found out they lost she knew she'd be going, it felt like she gave up. Yet she refused to acknowledge any mistakes - I think if she'd held her hands up and admitted it she might have stood a chance, rather than a lame argument about the name the sub-team chose.


JimmyConwayNW said:
How hard would it have been to just make the pod fairly neutral like any meeting room in any office space to appeal to corporate clients and not add weird floral graphics to the outside.
That's what I thought. They should have just looked at the one Lord Sugar rocked up in at the start and said "yeah, job done, we'll do one like that" hehe

FunkyNige

8,941 posts

277 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Ice_blue_tvr said:
Both designs were so far beyond incompetence it just feels like it was a setup. Perhaps the BBC crew have a lot of influence off camera to make things more interesting?
There must've been a lot we weren't shown last night, even more than usual. They had to come up with the theme, then talk to the client to see what they wanted but couldn't change the theme after talking to the client? I'm sure even the worst candidate would just phone the design team and say "the client is the NEC and wants some transport that caters for people going to all kinds of shows, just make it look like the taxis we are driven around in".

Ivo Shandor

53,012 posts

185 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Awful people.
At least the one who got fired had more balls than the blokes.

GloverMart

11,965 posts

217 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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LeadFarmer said:
Pitre said:
I missed an interesting programme on Hubble .
Good name for an electric pod biggrin

Akeem - I'm going to go with light tinted windows
Harpreet - I think we should go dark tint
Akeem - I'm going to go with dark tint
Harpreet - I don't want it to be too dark inside
Akeem - I'm going to go with light tint.
He reminds me of that bloke on the Fast Show that always used to change his arguments to agree with whoever was talking to him.

Brummiebeau

1,149 posts

94 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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I think Kathryn and Stephanie and the only ones showing any proof of having any business skills at the minute. Or at least have more common sense than the others.
I don't know how Akeem has won 2 tasks now

Nick should of gone too, he's desperately useless.


GloverMart

11,965 posts

217 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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I find Sophie very attractive.

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FourWheelDrift

88,844 posts

286 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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Ice_blue_tvr said:
Both designs were so far beyond incompetence it just feels like it was a setup. Perhaps the BBC crew have a lot of influence off camera to make things more interesting?
Team A gets a pod and bee stickers and told to make something of it and Team B gets a pod and the letters T R S A O D P and nothing else?

TopTrump

3,247 posts

176 months

Friday 18th February 2022
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GloverMart said:
I find Sophie very attractive.

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She is 100% fatal attraction material. Absolute loon. What that says about you? You decide biggrin