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Yes, sometimes comedy is not stranger than real-life...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd have said Miriam, but her website suggests not... so Tim, then. I could see him as an Amstrad man. But I can certainly see Saira making the final two, on sheer dogged persistence alone.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh Tim! Every time I see him on that prog, I go "WHO'S HE?"

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Saira would have to be the winner as X weeks of her antics on air have made her unemployable by absolutely anyone else ever (popbitch says she's a former poster there). However, I like the other remaining girl as the boys don't see that she is competing with them and don't notice that she's ticking all the boxes.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I can see a future for Saira compering the main stage at Birmingham Pride at around 4 in the afternoon. "Let me see those HANDS in the AIR", etc etc.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:15 (twenty-one years ago)

.. with a clipboard and a clicky counter..

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

and a mind-map!

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm sticking to this thread like SHIT TO A BLANKET

― mrteasyweasy, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

So who got canned last night?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The one I keep forgetting his name. Short fella. Not Paul.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

brian?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that's a guess though i did watch it: thery are all a bit blurry

i like to imagine that a.sugar got where he is today by gathering wild elderberries from the roadside on nights before [important sales pitch/business deal]

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Ben, apparently.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

He was the one I thought was called Tim, above.

Can you imagine how I'd be if I hadn't actually watched this?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:53 (twenty-one years ago)

they should all wear chunky jumpers w.a number on

he was particularly recessive though

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I still cannot take this programme seriously due to being unable to stop thinking "the Americans had Donald Trump, we have Alan Sugar". I think I only watch it because it's on before Desperate Housewives.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

SUGAR TRUMPS TRUMP

lex they are identically ridiculous surely? or do you take trump (haha "the donald", where is ivana now?) seriously?

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

You mentalists!!!

You were watching this instead of GRAND DESIGNS SCOTLAND?!?!?

With the rock-climbing outdoorsy hippie mentalists turning a burned-out shell of a cottage into the most PRIVACY-FREE HOUSE EVER?

(Seriously. No walls - anywhere. Balconies and loft living and no sonic privacy - that place will echo like a airplane hangar. Not to mention BATHTUB IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BEDROOM! What are they thinking)

(The only episode of the Apprentice was the one with the yBa's because I liked the artists, but they were all repulsive in it.)

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

well Trump is ridiculous but also a Proper Famous Person. Sugar is ridiculous but I'm like "who actually ARE you? and why are you being so ridiculous when no one has heard of you"

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I mean, if Trump is the Britney Spears of business then Sugar is... the Lisa Scott-Lee, or something.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

d00d!

http://www.phenixinformatique.com/fichier/pub_cpc/AMSTRAD/PCW8256/Pcw8256_001.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

kate i just heard my mag is likely to be closed down so i wz full of spite and wanted to watch ppl bein fired = the kinds of ppl who decided to close down my mag >:(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:07 (twenty-one years ago)

By your mag I presume you mean Crafts, as I can't imagine Sight & Sound ever being shut down. Pretty bad news, though, whichever mag it is.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh no I'm sorry about your mag. :-(

Is that the appeal of the show? Watching people get fired? Because I couldn't understand the appeal. (Then again, I never "got" BB either.)

Wouldn't you rather watch the kind of stuff your magazine is about (beautifully hand wrought ironwork) being used by Smart! Young! Urbanites! to reassure you that there really is still a market for said magazine?

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Smart! Young! Urbanites! are the cause of said magazine being closed down.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

haha kate do you mean flog it?

yeah it suXoRz: i hate when magazines get killed (though there are some dead-still-livin which ought to be put out of misery i spose)

(on a sugar-ish note, it is possibly time i stopped devoted 8/9ths of my life to correctin the spellin of the writin of others, and concentrated fully on my own possibly)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it is being closed down by insecure amnd confused small-pond funded-arts bureaucrats (though they probably are urbanites)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

A shame because the folks on this ep of Grand Designs (refurbishing the outside of their cottage with traditional craft and the inside with edgy contemporary craft) seemed to show that there is a market for this sort of thing - but it's technohippies rather than the sort of middle aged ladies that arts council types usually attract.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:17 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a nutty decision mostly related to internal politics - of course the mag being autonomous has more internal foes than friends

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

So, there's Saira just about to get hers, then Raj virtually falls on his sword...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Saira finally getting fired will be such a great TV moment. If Raj actually did anything ever he'd still be on.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:43 (twenty-one years ago)

surely the grebtest TV moment =

i. saira gets the job
ii. we get to imagine a.sugar's rage and crestfallen dismay five mins into the working relationship!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

sugar certainly has his favourites (or learnt the BB lesson about voting out the noise = less viewers).

she did have a point with the 'cheerio' comment though.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about the cheerio comment. Anyone can see when someone is or isn't behaving naturally. I don't really like it when people take on the class accent of the person they're talking to.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

he probably wouldn't get away with 'me old china', you're right, but 'bye', for instance, is neutral and natural.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wotcher guv!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

From the comments in James's blog:

Comment from: Tony Linden
Francis the receptionist in the boardroom, looks bored and sounds miserable and shows she has a low opinion of the apprentices.

Comment from: James Max
On Francis - she is actually a production manager from Talkback and is called Sonya... That probably answers that one! She is known as Francis because Sir Alan's real PA is called by that name!

I am deeply shocked.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

you mean... it's all artifice?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what was the "cheerio" thing?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:55 (twenty-one years ago)

It was about:

Taking sides : Saying "Cheerio" to the proletariat vs "Wotcher"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

a contestant wz canned for having multi-coloured cereal stuck to their face

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (twenty-one years ago)

James Max? is that like Pepsi Max?

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably short for McGillicuddy.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:21 (twenty-one years ago)

McGriffin de la soul la Gillicuddy

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, it's probably changed from "Maxwell" ye knaa

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"Shopping Channel" tonight!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Paul is just the fountain of all comedy, no?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

So, did Alan Sugar make a mistake?

(or is Miriam now ready and due for a successful presenting career?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, falling about laughing at a really terrible jacket = comedy gold for some strange reason...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I read somewhere this week that the last four candidates are all working for him now anyway, in different parts of the Amstrad "empire."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 80 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

week 1: shahin
week 2: kenna
week 3: souleyman
week 4: lubna

it's almost as if he's getting rid of the least english sounding names first...

― koogs, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:03 (six years ago)

Tommy is Sugar catnip, though

― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:37 (six years ago)

Did the tiny plate have all the crests on it?

Tory boy must go.

― koogs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:55 (six years ago)

If he stood as an mp, they'd have to cancel this series

― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:27 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

And now I'm all alone
In bedsit land
My only home

― koogs, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:34 (six years ago)

"indie band"

― koogs, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:37 (six years ago)

Well, that was... Yeah.

― Mark G, Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:24 (six years ago)

"breaking outside the mould"

― koogs, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:48 (six years ago)

two years pass...

Absolute classic episode tonight. Fish: literally caught from the sea.

― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 27 January 2022 22:31 (four years ago)

They were definitely all at sea. You could say they were FLOUNDERing ahahahaha

― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:24 (four years ago)

two years pass...

Let's get Scotland wrong! A lot! Shower of bellends as always.

― ailsa, Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:25 (two years ago)

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