The Apprentice 2025

[Simpo Two]

Adam. said:

Judging on company net assets is as daft as the series, the most successful person may have taken £20m profits out and not left assets in the company

And what did a QR Code Generator contribute?

'The research was conducted by QR Code Generator, and used Endole’s latest financial reports of net assets in each of The Apprentice winners’ businesses to determine which of them are the most successful.'

[LARK F1 GTR]

I''m glad they both went. I never liked Frederick, he was a motivational speaker who was crap at actually speaking. The other fired candidate was hopeless too.

FourWheelDrift said:

LARK F1 GTR said:

People in the UK had it as Turkey, but even now we're suddenly pronouncing it how they do locally, maybe we didn't know? it sounds daft now though.

It's Turkey, why should we use their version when they call us Birle?ik Krall?k.

It baffled me when they pronounced it Turkeyia, and everyone just went along with it.

[Countdown]

LARK F1 GTR said:

FourWheelDrift said:

LARK F1 GTR said:

People in the UK had it as Turkey, but even now we're suddenly pronouncing it how they do locally, maybe we didn't know? it sounds daft now though.

It's Turkey, why should we use their version when they call us Birle?ik Krall?k.

It baffled me when they pronounced it Turkeyia, and everyone just went along with it.

Lots of countries don't call themselves what we call them. For example

Germans call Germany Deutschland
Indians call india Bharat
Egyptians call Egypt Misr
Those perfidious Frenchies call us L'Angleterre

Personally I think it's courtesy to call a nation by its preferred name but noboy forces anybody to.

[Pitre]

Countdown said:

...
Those perfidious Frenchies call us L'Angleterre

Personally I think it's courtesy to call a nation by its preferred name but noboy forces anybody to.

In fairness, the French revel in renaming other countries and their things, particularly ours!
Scotland = Ecosse
Wales = Pays de Galles
Netherlands = Pays Basse
United Kingdom = Royaume-Uni
United States = les États-Unis

But ironically, they call France la France.

[Simpo Two]

Countdown said:

Lots of countries don't call themselves what we call them. For example

Germans call Germany Deutschland
Indians call india Bharat
Egyptians call Egypt Misr
Those perfidious Frenchies call us L'Angleterre

Personally I think it's courtesy to call a nation by its preferred name but noboy forces anybody to.

But in the Turkiye example it would be like French calling us England instead of Angleterre.
Different countries use different names for each other, just as they use different words for house, apple, boat etc.

To say 'I'm going on holiday to Deutschland' instead of 'I'm going on holiday to Germany' is just pretentious.

[MesoForm]

Simpo Two said:

Countdown said:

Lots of countries don't call themselves what we call them. For example

Germans call Germany Deutschland
Indians call india Bharat
Egyptians call Egypt Misr
Those perfidious Frenchies call us L'Angleterre

Personally I think it's courtesy to call a nation by its preferred name but noboy forces anybody to.

But in the Turkiye example it would be like French calling us England instead of Angleterre.
Different countries use different names for each other, just as they use different words for house, apple, boat etc.

To say 'I'm going on holiday to Deutschland' instead of 'I'm going on holiday to Germany' is just pretentious.

It must be incredibly rare that two countries who speak a different language each call the other by their name in the other's language, especially if the country is over 100 years old.

[FourWheelDrift]

These are really bad.

[mgtony]

GCSE drama.

[Pitre]

Oh dear.

[FourWheelDrift]

Levi Roots chugging the hot sauce out of the bottle.

[soad]

FourWheelDrift said:

Levi Roots chugging the hot sauce out of the bottle.

Clearly not hot enough!

[Cabbage Patch]

I’ve just had it on in the background for the last few weeks, not really paying any attention. Tonight I’ve switched it off. The format is so tired.

[rscott]

How many can he fire in one week? I think at least 3 should go.

[FourWheelDrift]

Final next week will be Karen vs Tim

[Checkmate]

"If I choose one of these teams as a winner there'll be people looking in on this process thinking I've gone nuts, I mean, such rubbish they've come up with."
I'm rather surprised he hadn't had that thought a long time ago, actually!

[Pitre]

No surprises who got the bullet.

[200Plus Club]

FourWheelDrift said:

Final next week will be Karen vs Tim

Karen's facial expressions were a mixture of "have I stood in some dog st" to "I'm dying from hot sauce poisoning"
She's a proper old sour face at the best of times.
Shocking efforts on both teams tonight.

[redstar1]

Cabbage Patch said:

I’ve just had it on in the background for the last few weeks, not really paying any attention. Tonight I’ve switched it off. The format is so tired.

I don't know how much of Sugar's reactions are 'part of the show' but he just looks fed up and irritated with it all now.

[generationx]

redstar1 said:

Cabbage Patch said:

I’ve just had it on in the background for the last few weeks, not really paying any attention. Tonight I’ve switched it off. The format is so tired.

I don't know how much of Sugar's reactions are 'part of the show' but he just looks fed up and irritated with it all now.

Yes this really came across this week.

[untakenname]

Thought this may be the last series but he's just signed a 3 year extension taking him into his 80's.