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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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

wotcher guv!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

you mean... it's all artifice?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

what was the "cheerio" thing?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

It was about:

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

James Max? is that like Pepsi Max?

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

It's probably short for McGillicuddy.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

McGriffin de la soul la Gillicuddy

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Shopping Channel" tonight!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul is just the fountain of all comedy, no?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

So, what you make of the live "final"?

It was fairly obvious from reading Miriam's site that she was out of the running.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really surprised Miriam went. I thought the last 2 would be her and James.

Are you going to reserve yourself a ticket for the final? Will it be at White Hart Lane dyou think?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have to hunt down that phoneline. See what the deal is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Well the final will take place after the election, so Sugar'll probably be pissed off about Howard not winning and take it all out on the hapless remaining duo Hell's Kitchen-style. Paul and Saira I'm automatically assuming they will be.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Then he'll pick Paul just to piss me off.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Nope, can't find anything on'tint. Shall have to tape the repeat.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well the final will take place after the election, so Sugar'll probably be pissed off about Howard not winning and take it all out on the hapless remaining duo Hell's Kitchen-style

Did you not read Alan Sugar's EXCLUSIVE political column in the Mirror: "MICHAEL HOWARD: YOU'RE FIRED". He was getting his Third Way on something rotten there.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"Before I came here I never knew anyone who had a single negative word to say about me"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"Think about why that's a good question."

"I've got nothing else to do now, have I?"

Interesting, that last comment, coming from an alleged property developer who supposedly owns three-and-a-half million quid's worth of property.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

...one who was very cagey about the mortgages of said property...

so long James Nice-But-Dim. Can't remember much of Tim's contribution to anything either. i guess that's better than being memorable for being loud like the other two.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

So, Saira to win then as she will probably fuck up the final test grotesquely but Tim will somehow manage to fuck up even more.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul: "I found it a bit boring, actually"

(hint: If you can keep your head whle all around you are losing theirs, chances are you've misunderstood the situation)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"You're gonna be a troubleshooter and fix my problems. Well let me tell you something. I've got no problems. And if I did, I certainly wouldn't ask a 34-year-old like you to sort them out."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I missed the second half of the show as I had to pick someone up from the station.

Presumably that was Paul?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

That was Sir Alan's response to Paul trying it. Seemed to me as though Tim was his favourite - he smiled avuncularly upon him ("You're an East End boy. Just like me. Your mum must be proud of you"). To Saira he quipped: "Are you gonna piss off everyone in my office then?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

What of that rumour that Sug's given the four of them jobs?

That was one hell of a 'sod off' to Paul there...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's the link to the story about that rumour.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe Alan was so belligerent to Paul cos he changed his mind about Miriam.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps it's the cumulative frustration of still being lumbered with Saira.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmm, I see he has 'five' according to that link.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh something Dawn noticed the other week...

When Raj got the bullet, he walked out of the boardroom wearing a blue suit and tie. Amongst other things, obv.

Downstairs, he gets into the cab wearing a white shirt and different tie.

Then the 'last word' is filmed, and he's back in the blue shirt ensemble again.

Rumour: They filmed everybody on the same day getting into the loser's cab.

CONTINUITY!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

It would have been more fun if they'd filmed everybody on the same day getting into the loser's cab AT THE SAME TIME!

Unfortunately I now have a new problem with Saira.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Heh. Like, the cab turned up with the previous losers still inside for each new one.

What's the new? Has she stated her voting intention or something?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:15 (nineteen years ago) link

No, this is purely personal. Crush of shame (Extreme Noise Terror remix).

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link

OMG!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/images/450x187/saira.jpg

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Not based on that picture. It's the Amanda Platell factor again.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:27 (nineteen years ago) link

What, buck teeth?

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

James is going to be back live on the Ideal World shopping channel tonight at 10pm, for an hour of "Fabulous Fleeces" - flogging no less than 15 different varieties of wolf jacket. Sky channel 634, NTL 855 and Freeview Channel 22.

On his blog, he also dismisses the "final four" theory as "urban myth".

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Miriam's site has gone 'oversubscribed'...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Rumour: They filmed everybody on the same day getting into the loser's cab.

CONTINUITY!!!

And when Sebastian (I think) left, they gave the impression that he - as with everyone - got straight in the cab and went home, but the following morning there was a goodbye not from him written in lipstick on a mirror in the house.

Ergo, they get to go home and change or pack or whatever after being fired, but that looks like shit telly so they pretend it doesn't happen.

I missed last night due to forgetting to watch it. So, it's Saira and Tim then? I thought it'd be James and Miriam, but my g/f told me I'd just "picked the posh boy and the pretty girl" subconsciously...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Thank fuck for that, says the entire right-thinking community of the UK. Christ, she was vile.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul Torrisi is this year's Victor Ebuwa!

But yeah, Tim deserved to win that.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

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