one of the things i liked in DD wz the sheer range of hopeless projects they were faced with (or, more upsettingly, not-bad projects proposed by impossible people)
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:17 (nineteen years ago) link
dragon 1: alan, this idea — AS: SIR alan! d1: what? AS: call me SIR alan please! d1: excuse me, aren't you here to ask for something from US? AS: excuse me SIR ALAN
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
My team hate it.
The kids hate it.
That's the one to go for then!
― Davel (Davel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
but still "everyone hates it = GO TEAM GO!" wz pretty much my unspoken secret motto at wire
― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Davel (Davel), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 2 March 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 31 March 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― i do speak FACTS, Thursday, 31 March 2005 15:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 April 2005 07:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps they'll draft in Paul Anka next week to do his "I don't care if it's Pope John Paul II. I'm the only important one on that stage" routine.
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Monday, 4 April 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
MiriamRajJames (includes a blogLindsaySebastianRachel...and, er, Paul
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Monday, 4 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lucretia My Reflection (Lucretia My Reflection), Monday, 4 April 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link
Oh, and from Raj's ...PS Please try to ignore the photo's - no I'm not after a modelling contract - the website needed some colour and that was the only quick solution!
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:48 (nineteen years ago) link
(arggh!)
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 08:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
She's utterly vile though, and it's hard to see what talents she has. Were it not for Rachel's mind-map she surely couldn't have survived the Jukebox week, and almost every other time in the bottom three it really should be her.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― mrteasyweasy, Tuesday, 5 April 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Can you imagine how I'd be if I hadn't actually watched this?
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:53 (nineteen years ago) link
he was particularly recessive though
― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyone watching the BBC4 version of the Apprentice called "Design for Life" with Philippe Starck as the Sir Alan? It's pretty good, despite 50% of it being shots of people walking in and out of train stations, talking about how much they want this opportunity etc etboringc.
Contrary to Apprentice form, though, the most irritating little shit got booted off in the first week. There are plenty left, mind..Philippe Starck is pleasingly French & crazy.
― Not the real Village People, Friday, 18 September 2009 16:57 (fourteen years ago) link
2018 starts tonight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4w43glycX72SptdYMZdkwBC/camilla-ainsworth
Age 22Occupation Owner, Nut Milk Brand...
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
They bought a fucking octopus and *still* didn't lose. I hate all of them.
― ailsa, Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:01 (five years ago) link
"All I know is, I'm not going home."
The moment it came out of her mouth I predicted that would be on tonight's Your Fired.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Wednesday, 3 October 2018 21:05 (five years ago) link
so much stubble...
― koogs, Saturday, 13 October 2018 17:40 (five years ago) link
Easiest pick this time..
― Mark G, Sunday, 14 October 2018 09:48 (five years ago) link
The clean shaven one?
― koogs, Sunday, 14 October 2018 10:36 (five years ago) link
Fire in the Hole was, at least, a good name.
― koogs, Saturday, 20 October 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
"These aren't very good, we should make them better""Shut up and get on with it"
"These aren't very good, we aren't paying for them""..."
also if you're in shepherd's bush, the majority of the footfall is on the bit between the central line station and westfield, not the green (site of 1908 world cup football, alleged plague pit)
(although the bit by westfield might be private land, so you'd need permission)
as for the Bs, when have you ever seen a straight donut?
― koogs, Saturday, 20 October 2018 15:25 (five years ago) link
Whichever team seems to be doing really well on the show, that's the losing team.
Anyway, for all that the losing team captain was all "I'm clearly safe, I made the majority of the sales and got "well done" " smugness, I don't recall ever having a situation where she clearly brought in candidates that she'd quite like to get rid of, as opposed to 'least contributors' etc, to the extreme where AlSug refuses and brings everyone back in...
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2018 10:47 (five years ago) link
Everyone this year is useless. Most baffled by any love for Jackie, who is a cartoon version of a 'strong businesswoman' she read about once in Closer.
Most illuminating was just how selectively edited they were last night to make them look good. The sing-along to Summer Nights that was shown on You're Fired was absolutely horrible.
― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo), Thursday, 1 November 2018 11:12 (five years ago) link
i could see the colourful art setting off the black boxes of the hi-fi stuff, i don't think that was a bad decision, other than they couldn't read the bloke's mind.
and there's nowt wrong with selling the gummy bears to the person who saw it first.
― koogs, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 21:47 (five years ago) link
Yes.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 21 November 2018 23:11 (five years ago) link
― Bloody Snail, Thursday, 22 November 2018 00:11 (five years ago) link
"Does anyone have any direct experience of Glaswegians?", oh do fuck off.
― ailsa, Thursday, 22 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
This weeks' prize (OK last week now) was a "private cinema viewing"
Basically, a tent fastened onto a bandstand in a random park someplace, and the movie was Roger Corman's "Little Shop of Horrors" from 1961.
Basically, this movie was made as a bet, to film and produce a movie in one day. Jack Nicholson is in it. The budget is low, even by Corman standards (and he was notorious for low budget movies).
I wonder if the winning team got the message?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:37 (five years ago) link
Basically....
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:38 (five years ago) link
It's also one of those films that have fallen into the public domain, so anyone can screen it without paying a penny for it.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 12:42 (five years ago) link
Yup, got it from Poundland myself.
Mind you, twas a long time ago, a pound was a pound then..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 13:55 (five years ago) link
Sabrina should win this if there's any justice in the world. My fear is she will crumble in the interviews next week in the presence of an angry Claude.
― Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
They're all unremittingly useless and awful this year (yeah, OK, every year). Still convinced Kayoade would have walked the old format.
― ailsa, Thursday, 6 December 2018 13:30 (five years ago) link
i am convinced none of them have watched previous series - the Sex Sells thing has always been frowned upon by sugar / brady
― koogs, Thursday, 6 December 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
Remember the guy who couldn't stop mentioning that he'd been to Sandhurst? Or at least had been accepted to Sandhurst. Practically every idea he had was 'sex sells'. Even when he was on one of the two finalist's teams he said something like "let's go down a sexual route" regarding - coincidentally - a box of luxury chocolates.
― Chequers Plays Pop (snoball), Thursday, 6 December 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
Poor Sabrina, picked after kurran
― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
Also, these people are selfie-obsessed
― koogs, Monday, 17 December 2018 19:28 (five years ago) link
Another year, another bunch of alpha dicks...
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
Finding it hard to even care. They've jumped straight to a mid-series task with this South African safari/wine tasting thing.
― just another country (snoball), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:45 (four years ago) link
Rob Beckett's dad.
I think the foreign visit was first last year as well.
― koogs, Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Karen sabotaging the PM's business plan for the finale in the opening episode was a bold step.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 20:59 (four years ago) link
He lost it a bit there.
― So, your CV says you're a (checks notes) DJ and stand-up comedian (aldo), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 21:00 (four years ago) link
week 1: shahinweek 2: kennaweek 3: souleymanweek 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 (four years ago) link
Tommy is Sugar catnip, though
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 October 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
Did the tiny plate have all the crests on it?
Tory boy must go.
― koogs, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:55 (four years ago) link
If he stood as an mp, they'd have to cancel this series
― Mark G, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:27 (four years ago) link
And now I'm all aloneIn bedsit landMy only home
― koogs, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 22:34 (four years ago) link
"indie band"
― koogs, Wednesday, 27 November 2019 21:37 (four years ago) link
Well, that was... Yeah.
― Mark G, Thursday, 28 November 2019 08:24 (four years ago) link
"breaking outside the mould"
― koogs, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
Absolute classic episode tonight. Fish: literally caught from the sea.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 27 January 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link
They were definitely all at sea. You could say they were FLOUNDERing ahahahaha
― ailsa, Friday, 28 January 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
Let's get Scotland wrong! A lot! Shower of bellends as always.
― ailsa, Thursday, 1 February 2024 23:25 (two months ago) link