Topic: The Apprentice 2019

[UntouchableLuis]

What was all that about with Sugar coming to the house at the end just to tell them there's another task? Is he becoming demented in his old age and forgetting the format?

[CraigDS]

The bit that annoyed me was when Lottie got the deal for 20 bikes for 24k, and the guy said he would have bought 25 @ 1k each.
In reality, it would have been effectively 5 extra bikes at 200 each, which would surely have been a massive loss.
But on the show, the extra 1k of sales is all that would have mattered.

Yeah I was going mental at that saying that would have been a shite deal.

They should have just sold a million bikes to them for £3 each.

[Red Viper]

Yeah this weeks task made no sense. If they could just sell the bikes for any amount then why not just use Craig's approach, as ludicrous as it would be

[tubby]

That task was really dumb, as everyone has said.  Why didn't they just offer to sell them a million bikes at £2 each.

[Crosby Nick]

In those tasks the secondary part is completely irrelevant. They could sell all the accessories in the world, it was always going to be one or lost on how many bikes they sold. For that reason I think the fackin’ market twader should have gone as that was a pretty big error of judgement.

Not sure the women on his team enjoyed being told they had to work their nuts off either.

[CraigDS]

In those tasks the secondary part is completely irrelevant. They could sell all the accessories in the world, it was always going to be one or lost on how many bikes they sold. For that reason I think the fackin’ market twader should have gone as that was a pretty big error of judgement.

Yup, it's like they've never watched the show before... or are just fucking idiots.

They did it on the ice cream task too. The money is always made on the commercial deal and getting them to take the entire order, yet the team leader concentrated on the single sales to the public. Every fucking time.

[GinKop]

Philomena Cunk appears to be voicing Aisha.

Knew I'd heard that voice somewhere.

[Crosby Nick]

Knew I'd heard that voice somewhere.

I was thinking Dev’s wife from Corrie but I’m considerably less sophisticated than the rest of you.

[LallanaInPyjamas]

Not sure the women on his team enjoyed being told they had to work their nuts off either.

I'm sure they'll get over it given the relentless sexism against men on this show. Yet more this week as they perved over the guy in the Lycra. 

[GinKop]

I was thinking Dev’s wife from Corrie but I’m considerably less sophisticated than the rest of you.

She has a bit of that too.

So far I think I want Jemelin to win, she just seems switched on, supportive of her team mates and gets involved. Have to see her leading a task of course.

[Ziltoid]

I'm sure they'll get over it given the relentless sexism against men on this show. Yet more this week as they perved over the guy in the Lycra. 

Was he like me with a tiny dick and balls?

[sinnermichael]

Imagine not knowing when the Second World War started.

[LallanaInPyjamas]

She has a bit of that too.

So far I think I want Jemelin to win, she just seems switched on, supportive of her team mates and gets involved. Have to see her leading a task of course.

That went well.

Think the right person got fired though.

[Red Viper]

Loved her excuse this week "we didn't know what most of the items were"

Yes that's kind of the idea dumbass

[Graeme]

Both of the lads in the boardroom are shite so was happy whichever one went

[RedSince86]

I was glad to see Tory Boy fired.

He's been useless every week.

[GinKop]

That went well.

Think the right person got fired though.

Ha, didn't cover herself in glory did she. Nobody at all is standing out, maybe the lady who is owner of the recruitment firm, can't remember her name. Kept trying to get her PM to see sense with the book, although in quite a soft way.

[Graeme]

I was glad to see Tory Boy fired.

He's been useless every week.

Tory Boy refers to the one who stayed surely?

[RedSince86]

Missed the word Not.

[CraigDS]

They’re all fucking idiots. This series is reminding me why I stopped watching it a while ago and probably shouldn’t have started again.

[tubby]

Lottie fuming at Thomas after he'd already got a great deal and was doing the coin toss was amazing.  She's a nightmare.

[Agent99]

Lottie fuming at Thomas after he'd already got a great deal and was doing the coin toss was amazing.  She's a nightmare.

Her rule was so stupid. So when he gets the guy to £50 should he have turned to her and said "Is that price ok Lottie?". If it wasn't what would she have done? Taken over the negotiation or told him to get a lower price with the fella right there? She is a complete twat.

[jillcwhomever]

Tory Boy refers to the one who stayed surely?

The sooner he goes the better he has done absolutely nothing, yet they will continue to keep him in just because he does precisely that. At the very least he should be made a team leader so that he is seen to actually do something other than look stupid.

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Lottie fuming at Thomas after he'd already got a great deal and was doing the coin toss was amazing.  She's a nightmare.

Special shout out for her own negotiating skills when the guy said it will cost him £10 to buy a new one i.e. I'm gonna want something close to £10. She then proceeded to buy it for £12 so very openly paid £12 for a second hand item that she had just been told would cost £10 from new.

It would be a much better show if there were just on the spot firings for when a candidate does something ultra stupid.

[Graeme]

It would be a much better show if there were just on the spot firings for when a candidate does something ultra stupid.

You’d be able to condense the entire series into a single 1 hour episode

[CraigDS]

You’d be able to condense the entire series into a single 1 hour 5 minute episode

Corrected.

[iamnant]

Special shout out for her own negotiating skills when the guy said it will cost him £10 to buy a new one i.e. I'm gonna want something close to £10. She then proceeded to buy it for £12 so very openly paid £12 for a second hand item that she had just been told would cost £10 from new.

It would be a much better show if there were just on the spot firings for when a candidate does something ultra stupid.

She's a special kind of bellend. They tend to grow out of it with age slightly, or get worse. We all know the type (or I do, living in Abersoch with the Cheshire mob coming down every summer) and to be fair to the producers, it is making great - if excruciating - TV.

[JerseyKloppite]

I'm always surprised how crap they are at strategising when the tasks take the same basic format every year and they must have watched the program before.

I know it's edited to make it entertaining, and they do tend to come off much better in "you're fired" etc., but some of the decisions they make beggar belief.

They fall into the same trap of trying to save themselves rather than trying to win the task.

Dean, Scarlett and Carina have all been fairly steady.

Don't remember Jemelin, Lewis or Pamela doing a lot wrong.

Lottie is a bellend, she won't win but she'll be kept in because she creates conflict and drama.

Thomas is the guy they have every series who is naturally very good at sales but not particularly good at business. If I could pick anyone on the show to flog stuff to the general public it'd be him. Could probably flog to the big companies too if he developed a rapport. Alan Sugar always likes these types, but he won't win.

Marianne is irritating, I can never take Iasha seriously with her voice, and Ryan-Mark is completely useless. I can't remember a positive input he's had on any task.

[Crosby Nick]

I hadn’t seen this before until I saw it on Twitter last night but absolutely spot on!

https://youtu.be/3ss-59fi4nM

[killer-heels]

What a shit task.

The fat child screaming on the roller coaster was hilarious.

[Agent99]

Lottie is such an arsehole.

[Gerry Attrick]

Lottie is insufferable.

[CraigDS]

For some reason I actually quite like Lottie 

Also preferred the rollercoaster concept that lost. The entire branding around the other was just a shit show and their concept really wasn’t that clear in the coaster design either.

[Casta]

Should of played Rollercoaster tycoon to sort it out

Also, why did cockney wannnnnker take his shoes off for the rollercoaster ride? Bet Lottie was a bully in school, awful people eh?

[jillcwhomever]

What a shit task.

The fat child screaming on the roller coaster was hilarious.

I thought he was crying at one stage! 

[redgriffin73]

Also preferred the rollercoaster concept that lost. The entire branding around the other was just a shit show and their concept really wasn’t that clear in the coaster design either.

Me too, the poster didn't have anything to do with what it was about, and the video was a bit vague too. Thought the poster for the space themed one was pretty good except for not mentioning the world records.

I honestly would last about 5 minutes max in a room with Lottie without trying to kill her.

[sinnermichael]

I think I despise Lottie more than any Apprentice candidate in history. Part of me wants her to get binned off but the other part wants her to get to the interviews where she'll get absolutely ripped to shreds and leave in tears.

[tubby]

Lottie is amazing telly, horrible, horrible person but her face when Sugar pulled out the coin was a picture.

[Red Viper]

Lottie is amazing telly, horrible, horrible person but her face when Sugar pulled out the coin was a picture.

Only thing that would have made that better was if he'd fired whoever lost the coin toss. That was what I thought he was going for when he brought it out.

[RedSince86]

Ray Winstone Jr will it.

I think Sugar likes him the same way he liked that Plumber who won a couple of years ago.