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The Apprentice 2017

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  • Bushra of course, and yes she maybe could have made more of an issue about the crusader name but, whilst I picked up on he possible negative connotations about the word crusade and a practising Muslim, it's a bit tenuous and I thought using that as an excuse of not liking the name has made me pretty keen to look very carefully at everything in Sainsbury and how it is branded to see if I can find a way to be offended.

    I'm still yet to see what Jade or Joanna bring to the party. Joanna looks like she sees the world as a series of colours, noises and the occasional resentment fuelled fumble with a perma tanned six packed vapid gym rat and a trip to the chemists for the morning after pill. Joanna however is a piece of work, she is a miserable, devisive sod who by default blames everyone but herself and the concept of responsibility and accountability is an alien one.

    Sarah is solid and has behaved with dignity throughout, Harrison seems like a decent bloke and have been told as much however he has visible cloth hanging out of his ears.

    Elizabeth is properly mental but genuinely clever and whilst annoying she isn't afraid to make a decision or take charge which will make her an attractive business partner as she will probably work 23 hour days making the silent partner very happy.
  • Carter said:

    Bushra of course, and yes she maybe could have made more of an issue about the crusader name but, whilst I picked up on he possible negative connotations about the word crusade and a practising Muslim, it's a bit tenuous and I thought using that as an excuse of not liking the name has made me pretty keen to look very carefully at everything in Sainsbury and how it is branded to see if I can find a way to be offended.

    I'm still yet to see what Jade or Joanna bring to the party. Joanna looks like she sees the world as a series of colours, noises and the occasional resentment fuelled fumble with a perma tanned six packed vapid gym rat and a trip to the chemists for the morning after pill. Joanna however is a piece of work, she is a miserable, devisive sod who by default blames everyone but herself and the concept of responsibility and accountability is an alien one.

    Sarah is solid and has behaved with dignity throughout, Harrison seems like a decent bloke and have been told as much however he has visible cloth hanging out of his ears.

    Elizabeth is properly mental but genuinely clever and whilst annoying she isn't afraid to make a decision or take charge which will make her an attractive business partner as she will probably work 23 hour days making the silent partner very happy.

    and its that last point about Elizabeth which makes me think she’ll win.
  • Carter said:

    Bushra of course, and yes she maybe could have made more of an issue about the crusader name but, whilst I picked up on he possible negative connotations about the word crusade and a practising Muslim, it's a bit tenuous and I thought using that as an excuse of not liking the name has made me pretty keen to look very carefully at everything in Sainsbury and how it is branded to see if I can find a way to be offended.

    I'm still yet to see what Jade or Joanna bring to the party. Joanna looks like she sees the world as a series of colours, noises and the occasional resentment fuelled fumble with a perma tanned six packed vapid gym rat and a trip to the chemists for the morning after pill. Joanna however is a piece of work, she is a miserable, devisive sod who by default blames everyone but herself and the concept of responsibility and accountability is an alien one.

    Sarah is solid and has behaved with dignity throughout, Harrison seems like a decent bloke and have been told as much however he has visible cloth hanging out of his ears.

    Elizabeth is properly mental but genuinely clever and whilst annoying she isn't afraid to make a decision or take charge which will make her an attractive business partner as she will probably work 23 hour days making the silent partner very happy.

    You'll have to go a long way, down a lot of Sainsbury's aisles to find a product name that has worse connotations than a word coined to describe mass murder in the name of religion.

    "I'm popping down the shops to get a couple of Crusades, a bag of Intafadas, some cans of Jihad and a four-pack of Fatwas".
  • edited November 2017
    I've seen more talent in Turkey n tinsel old girls Beano than I have with this bunch of one cells.

    What gets me is the amount of non - stick they get during each task.
    The industry pro's should have given them a full on roasting after those two presentations last night. But it's all softly softly.
    "Give them a break" ","They're new to this" appears to to be the attitude. Any criticism is less mild than impotent chicken korma! Why? They give it all the Bertie big bollox before it starts.

    That was piss poor last night. Basically cooking a plate of stodgy shyte straight out of literally a cardboard box. Less than a millionth of the world's population could have done worse.
    Think I'm out after this series.
  • "I know what will impress those supermarket executives in this important sales pitch... crap fancy dress salt and pepper outfits"
  • last nights v strange task, don't think it was fair in 1 of the sackings.
  • Joanna must have a mind blowing business plan. For all the clever editing in the world some people are always going to come across as being spiteful and obnoxious
  • He needed to sack 2 people to reduce it to 5 for the interviews, so it wasn't a good week to lose...
    Harrison didn't help himself by rather giving up, even if the dresses were ridiculous!
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  • Jade was proper stitched up by Harrison and Sarah last night. Both of them literally washed their hands of the task by backing away from being PM.
    Its all a load of sh*t and you know full well that its purely down to their business plans rather than their abilities in the tasks.
  • Interviews tonight
  • Love the interviews. Surprised by the final two
  • Interviewer in blue shoes was brutal, I thought Micheala would have made the final
  • Michaela would of done alright had it not been for the Liam Gallagher impression of Making ouf like she was shovelling coal last week.

    From business plans James is quite clearly the better one, sweets is such a saturated market, and now you have vegan,halal commercial markets to cater for
  • Recruitment consultants eh... Actually, in my experience the individual consultant is more important than the name behind it. It's very niche in my area of law though, and there are only a handful of specialists. The sweets could work if done properly with a decent website and marketing push
  • Sugar is in sweets

    I think James is there as eye candy for the no tails, nothing more. I'm gutted Elizabeth isn't in the final
  • edited December 2017
    Sugar was banging on about a business plan with potentially big numbers. And then he fires Michaela

    Surprised and disappointed as also wanted to see further up her skirt.
  • Don't understand why they let such flawed business plans go through the 12 week humiliating process....they would be better off saving the grief and going on Dragon's Den or to a private equity firm and being told their ideas are inoperable in 45 minutes rather than over 3 months.

    Will be surprised in today's health conscious world if the Beeb will be seen as promoting a business purely focusing on punting sugar (no pun intended) in Sarah's sweets business ....lump on James as he'll win it.

    Cannot believe Mickaela went as she was by far the stand out candidate and her plan the most creditable with the most potential. Something iffy about the fact Sarah after 7 years of trading hasn't got a functioning website in 2017.
  • I really thought that Michaela would win it. The only thing that did occur to me is that Sugar needs his partner to need him and not use him. Michaela was looking for big input from Sugar to scale the business and if she wasn't going to get that then she would probably end up binning Sugar in favour of one or more of her existing ventures.
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  • Sugar already has a recruitment company run by previous winner Ricky Martin (not the singer !)
  • 5 lousy business propositions, you could have fired all five of them tonight!
  • Can't believe there is another recruitment consultant in the final.

    Along with estate agents they are the worst people to deal with. Arseholes the lot of them.
  • edited December 2017

    Can't believe there is another recruitment consultant in the final.

    Along with estate agents they are the worst people to deal with. Arseholes the lot of them.

    What even PL54? :open_mouth:
  • Interestingly, if you read James' linkedin profile, it says from Oct17 to date he has been Director of HW Medical Recruitment, a Medical Recruitment agency supplying Doctors and Nurses to the NHS and Private Healthcare organisations.

    Read into that what you will.

    And Sarah's dreadful website... https://www.sweetsinthecity.co.uk/
  • JohnBoyUK said:

    Interestingly, if you read James' linkedin profile, it says from Oct17 to date he has been Director of HW Medical Recruitment, a Medical Recruitment agency supplying Doctors and Nurses to the NHS and Private Healthcare organisations.

    Read into that what you will.

    And Sarah's dreadful website... https://www.sweetsinthecity.co.uk/

    Jeez, a jar of sweets for 18 quid!
    Who the hell spends that kind of money on crap?
  • £18 for some cheapo sweets in an old silver skin pickled onion jar.

    Yeah, good choice Al.
  • Funnily, I've never seen a shit load of sweets in a big plastic cup.
    Walked into Tesco this morning...lo and behold, a whole shelf of the bloody things right in front of me.
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