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Old 29 April 2009, 10:58 PM
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Default Ben off the apprentice.

Never, ever has anyone made me want to slap them as much as him.

Discuss,
Old 29 April 2009, 11:20 PM
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Yes I agree, but I thought he was not such a **** this week as he has been.

For a 22 year old he's certainly a sharp young bloke.

Laughed when he picked James to come back in and then realised his mistake straight away. The decision of whom to bring back should have been made prior to the boadroom. I think he struggled and perhaps showed his young age at that point..

Edited to say I think he looks like a young Dustin Hoffman!

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Old 29 April 2009, 11:26 PM
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I really want to kick him in the pods. Arrogant *****.
Old 29 April 2009, 11:30 PM
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Can't stand the way he keeps banging on about winning his scholarship for Sandhurst.

I never realised until tonight that he never actually went!

He's a total cockend.
That Deborah needs a slap, too.
Old 29 April 2009, 11:31 PM
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I think he's a ****. So far.

disclaimer, this is the view of me, not sn
Old 29 April 2009, 11:57 PM
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he's a **** and he's fat
Old 30 April 2009, 08:00 AM
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a fat **** indeed
Old 30 April 2009, 08:49 AM
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They are all idiots. If these 12 are the best of 12000 applicants, god knows what the worst ones were like !!!!

The only positive thing I can say, is that I would do the blonde and the mouthly dark haired girl !

Best person on that show, is Nick ! :-)

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Old 30 April 2009, 08:57 AM
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how nural or however you say his name, managed this far, god knows.

that deborah is very disagreeable.

liked sir alan referring to James and saying is there a village missing an idiot.
Old 30 April 2009, 09:05 AM
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Originally Posted by austinwrx
how nural or however you say his name, managed this far, god knows.

that deborah is very disagreeable.

liked sir alan referring to James and saying is there a village missing an idiot.
Agreed on all points.

Yasmina is very nice IMO
Old 30 April 2009, 09:15 AM
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listenen to any NI person makes me cringe , but his voice bugs me more than normal, i think he gets on Sir Alans nerves big time, and it wont be long till he gets "fingered" PMSL
Old 30 April 2009, 09:28 AM
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Id slap anyone 'contestant' after having seen the programme once , perhaps in different places......

To think that 'Duncan' off of 'The speaker' could turn into one of these monsters ..!

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Old 30 April 2009, 10:21 AM
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These are the people that will be running the future business concerns of our country..... what a thought.
Old 30 April 2009, 10:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Timwinner
These are the people that will be running the future business concerns of our country..... what a thought.
No they won't. The producers might want us to think that but even the winners will sink without a trace.

Future business leaders won't enter The Apprentice. They'll be working hard at being successful without shouting about it.
Old 30 April 2009, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Matteeboy
No they won't. The producers might want us to think that but even the winners will sink without a trace.

Future business leaders won't enter The Apprentice. They'll be working hard at being successful without shouting about it.
Your right, Maybe one or two will slip through the net though.
Last year when they did the greeting card thing, My niece (4 at the time) came up with something better, we watched it on play again I didnt let her stay up that late
It does worry me that people like this are allowed to do things like, drive, go out on there own, by matches etc etc
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Worrying thing is, they will probably do ok but I think that will be depriving call centres of some operators and the Carphone Warehouse of some top qualtity management material.

I cant stand how he (Ben) comes out with these diatribes of how great he is, with no actual content to back it up.
Old 30 April 2009, 01:23 PM
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Look at the record of the ones that got "famous" or won - hardly glittering careers. If appearing on a few TV shows is someone's idea of success then so be it - but it's not mine and neither is being a gimp based in some hideous office in London, working 100 hours weeks for a self centred barrow boy that makes sh1te plastic and electronic tat.
Old 30 April 2009, 01:35 PM
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Originally Posted by EddScott

Yasmina is very nice IMO
Which one's she? The one with the Pizza Hut complexion?
Old 30 April 2009, 01:55 PM
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Nural went because he opened his gob when Sir Alan gave Ben 30 seconds to justify his not being fired. Not a clever move.

Ben should have gone because he was like a tit in a trance and completely mis-managed the exercise.

Dark haired tall bint will go soon if she doesn't stop being an agressive little motormouth.
Old 30 April 2009, 02:13 PM
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Arguing with nick wasn't the best idea, she'll be next.

The blonde who chris moyles calls "3mouths" watch when she's on the phone she moves her mouth to which side the phone is.I think she's got a good chance she's been consistent
Old 30 April 2009, 02:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Matteeboy
Look at the record of the ones that got "famous" or won - hardly glittering careers. If appearing on a few TV shows is someone's idea of success then so be it - but it's not mine and neither is being a gimp based in some hideous office in London, working 100 hours weeks for a self centred barrow boy that makes sh1te plastic and electronic tat.
Well said!

Although he sold Amstrad and think his other interests are mostly property. And if you see the building he actually operates from, its not in the centre of London and certainly not in "The Geurkin"
Old 30 April 2009, 02:24 PM
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Mamoon - I lived in Canary Wharf for a year so cringe every time they show constant shots of it. Meanwhile they are holed up in some crappy office in Barking or somewhere similar.
Old 30 April 2009, 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Matteeboy
Mamoon - I lived in Canary Wharf for a year so cringe every time they show constant shots of it. Meanwhile they are holed up in some crappy office in Barking or somewhere similar.
Yeah! Brentwood I think it is
Old 30 April 2009, 03:29 PM
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Since it's moved to BBC1, it's done the thing that it took the public a few series to figure out on other reality shows -they've figured the longer they leave in the antagonistic mouthy knobbers, the more us knobbers watch and talk about it. They're weeding out the planks and are saving the ones that make the best TV, not the best business leaders. Really easy for them as there's no public vote.
Old 30 April 2009, 04:16 PM
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Originally Posted by fatherpierre
Which one's she? The one with the Pizza Hut complexion?
BBC - The Apprentice - Candidates - Candidate Expansion - Yasmina Siadatan

This one. She has some fine assets.
Old 30 April 2009, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by bigsigh
listenen to any NI person makes me cringe , but his voice bugs me more than normal, i think he gets on Sir Alans nerves big time, and it wont be long till he gets "fingered" PMSL
He been more than fingered in the past, I did post on another apprentice thread that he was probably buggered stupid in the greenhouse at sandhurst.

Annoying ***** that he is.
When I saw he was PM I thought for sure Sir Alan would have sacked him.

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Old 30 April 2009, 04:54 PM
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Originally Posted by EddScott
But a face like a narked prison officer.
Old 30 April 2009, 05:20 PM
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Had to laugh at the end when James righly called Ben "a big ****ebag"

Ben had no answer...

All gob and no substance.
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Whilst I agree most of the contestants don't appear very bright, the programme makers know what they are doing when they edit the show.

If they showed them as super efficient business people (might be difficult) where would the fun for us be. The fact loads of us watch and then discuss it shows IMO they get it right.

Its like the firing part, Ben and Debra make far better TV than Nooral (sp) even if its only because we detest them - I would bet that Alan Sugar is given a gentle reminder on who makes the best tv - at least in the earlier weeks.
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Originally Posted by urban
He been more than fingered in the past, I did post on another apprentice thread that he was probably buggered stupid in the greenhouse at sandhurst.

Annoying ***** that he is.
When I saw he was PM I thought for sure Sir Alan would have sacked him.
He never went to Sandhurst! But drops it in lots.

So what, anyway. A very annoying man!


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