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The Apprentice 2009

I think I am going to give this year's apprentice a miss.

I know I would be irritated the heck by the brash baseless overconfidence of the wannabies as they brag and swagger their way though the weekly trials.

But I fear the irritation would be too much so I will give it a miss.
 
I find them too smug to tolerate ..

Anyone would have thought that they were already self made multimillionaires rather than Alan Sugar apprentice wannabies.
 
Are you sure you are Jewish or do you need to drop your trousers and check?

I'm worried that they won't be able to top last years group for fuckwittedness. It was a gloriously bad bunch.
 
It has always been great telly, because of the fact that all of them -- including surallen -- are completely talentless idiots convinced that they are actually masters of the universe. You are irritated by their uselessness but also amused by it.

My concern is that the forumula was starting to go a little flat last time round. I've just seen the same thing too many times now. It's too predictable each show how the story is going to pan out. And it's the same arguments about the same tasks with the same reasons for the same failures.

I'll probably watch it this time too, but it's on a bit of a final warning for me.
 
Vintage Paw said:
Let's face it, it's all about Margaret and Nick.
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Another problem, though, I think. When it wasn't about Margaret and Nick, they were endearing side-characters who you could empathise with and laugh along with. Then in the last series they became ubercritics and stars of the show and suddenly their endearing habits became annoying.
 
Some details of this year's contestants are surfacing:

This year's remaining hopefuls include a city stockbroker, an award-winning restaurant owner, a qualified lawyer, an aristocrat, an ex-professional footballer and a chess champion.

There are also two international candidates - a New Yorker who has performed at Carnegie Hall and a Tanzanian beauty queen.
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And one of them quit the day before the first task started apparently...

http://uk.tv.yahoo.com/blog/article/136073/
 
kabbes said:
Another problem, though, I think. When it wasn't about Margaret and Nick, they were endearing side-characters who you could empathise with and laugh along with. Then in the last series they became ubercritics and stars of the show and suddenly their endearing habits became annoying.
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Pah, there is never enough Margaret and Nick. I could watch an entire show devoted to Nick looking archly quizzical and Mags pulling her 'sucking a lemon' face.
 
I love this show. It must take real talent to get so many obnoxious, right-up themselves people in one place with the biggest joke being that Sugar is now just a commerical landlord, hardly running a conventional business empire anymore.

What he wants is more a uber-caretaker.
 
Belfast born and bred Ben is the rebellious stockbroker who considers himself to be ruthless and money-obsessed.

He is a young professional with what he describes as a raw hunger to make as much money as possible.
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Great. I've got a hate figure already :D

They do out of the way to pick the biggest wankers possible don't they... :)
 
The risk is that suralan will keep the really twattish ones in for as long as possible- like Syed Ahmed and Michael Sophocles of previous years.

That Majid guy sounds far too nice to last very long.
 
I often see that Somerset-Matt-Lucas-alike wandering around Woking. I've never seen someone look so unduly pleased with themselves.

I love the Apprentice! :cool:
 
Epico said:
I often see that Somerset-Matt-Lucas-alike wandering around Woking. I've never seen someone look so unduly pleased with themselves.

I love the Apprentice! :cool:
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Where in Woking are you seeing him? :hmm: Clearly your hang outs are classier than mine...
 
Science teacher Noorul hopes to eventually become a property development millionaire. Fashion-obsessed, he believes that Argos should be banned from selling jewellery
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:D
 
Ah, so, Mr Paw knows Paula. Hehe. Well, sort of. She did Industrial Relations at Keele. My mate knew her better though. Was in class with her apparently. Very interesting. Very interesting indeed.

Will try to get gossip.
 
Dont waste dirt on us VP. Beat the credit crunch and sell it to The Sun.

Drip feed it and you might be able to get a spring/ summer wardrobe/ new kitchen out of it.
 
this should be funny, because loads of it will just not make any sense at all, because of the economy, it's going to be like watching eighties movies like Wall Street again. They are all going to look like supertwats this time instead of just... twats.
 
Annoyingly I already know who the final two are which kind of ruins the series for me, dammit.

Could put a bet each way on them though, eh? ;)

Makes you wonder though - these two have already been working for Alan Sugar for months. There must be loads of people who know who they are for one reason or another, and this must be the case every series (friends, family etc) - and yet bookies still take bets. Hmm.

And NO - I will NOT be letting on here!
 
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