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alan came out with some strange phrases!!! bongo drums?? ;)

i'm sure there was a clip with 7 guys on the 1 car!! seriously.. watch it again :)[/QUOTE]

That whole intro was grindingly poor I thought. Yes Alan, we know how good you are, we knew that 5 years ago. Please don't go over his "business empire" during the start of every episode.
 
And the women seemed especially catty to one another.
I've noticed this always seems to happen in the early phase of the show when it's split 50/50 male and female. Basically (and this is a complete generalisation, sorry) a bunch of headstrong women bent on world domination simply cannot work together without fighting, whereas the team instinct of the blokes seem to initially override their individual need to succeed - they'll focus on the task whilst inwardly earmarking people for death later on.
It all seems to even out later on when the teams are mixed, then the women often seem to pull themselves together and the blokes start to knife each other in the back whenever possible.
This was especially evident in the last series during the laundry task.
 
I've just finished watching it on the iPlayer - I didn't know that a new series had started, for shame! - and they all seem like a bunch of suitably vain and incompetent nincompoops to ensure Margaret and Nick's eyebrows will get another severe workout!

Please, please, please, please, please let us have another 'Kosher Chicken' moment this year!

"I'm a rough tough cream puff!"
 
Argh! The infuriation and cringing continues! At least some of the characters are starting to come to the fore now.

I was born in Middlesbrough and lived there 18 years, so I am intrigued as to which sandwich shop Rocky owns! Anyone know? :D
 
I rather like James now, I hope he doesn't win but is kept in. Reminds me of Paul Torrisi. And who was that quieter Asian bloke? There are still some that haven't really done anything and are remaining quite low.
 
Rocky seemed like a nice enough chap but methinks Suralan fired the right one tonight.

(By the way, how do you fire someone from an interview?)
 
SPOILERS, stop reading if you haven't seen it...



I can't believe he kept that mouthy prick, I wanted to shove a fist in his mouth. He would be impossible to work with.
Can you imagine him drunk? He'd definitely be that guy who was SUPER loud and belligerent and ALL up in your personal space. Do. Not. Like.

How unfortunate for the guy who had that big pimple immortalized on TV as he got the sack. :p
 
Both teams were lucky to get anything at all for their evening events. The food from the girls looked simply horrible and the boys "theme" was tacky...
 
Both teams were lucky to get anything at all for their evening events. The food from the girls looked simply horrible and the boys "theme" was tacky...

The theme was pointless and surely was just an added expense. For a one off event I can't really see the need for such a theme. Sure if they were building up a business for long term then there is some justification but for a one off no point.

And I noticed the spot thing too. They could've tried to hide it a little rather than picking the one angle that makes it centre screen.

James was an absolute prick in the board room. I would've fired him for that.

He actually pissed himself in the boardroom :eek:

I taste success in my spit.
 
The theme was pointless and surely was just an added expense. For a one off event I can't really see the need for such a theme. Sure if they were building up a business for long term then there is some justification but for a one off no point.

And I noticed the spot thing too. They could've tried to hide it a little rather than picking the one angle that makes it centre screen.

James was an absolute prick in the board room. I would've fired him for that.

He actually pissed himself in the boardroom :eek:

I taste success in my spit.
Ewww. Just, ewww.

Glad to see good old stereotypes still working though, boys are icky and girls are bitchy.
 
In the second episode of this current series the boys lost for the exact same reason the girls lost in episode one: They went over budget, they let their costs get carried away et voila, disaster.
If they had spent the same amount as the girls, they would actually have made about the same amount of profit. Some people simply dont learn their lessons.

The guy who says he wakes up and tastest success in his spit made me laugh, what an arrogant fool, Sir Alan doesnt like arrogant fools as can be seen from previous series, and i wouldnt be suprised if he sacks him in a future episode just for that.

Despite their loss however, i still feel the boys currently have a far stronger team, theres some serious fractures in the girls team, especially between Debra Barr and Kate Walsh. Infact im not sure who saw Kate's sales pitch when selling the Italian food, but she didnt even know what a canape was and she was laughing at her own teams ideas, which is not what you do when your presenting a product to a client, she should have been sacked as well, shame she was on the winning team.
 
Gutted that Noorul won. He was/is such a useless muppet it's quite unbelievable.

I much preferred Paula, her products were much much better and they seemed to do a better job over all. Such a shame there was that *slight* miscalculation.

oh, and Ben needs a good boot out the door too. What. A. Cock.
 
Noorul's card is marked. I've never seen Sir Alan be so nasty to a winning PM or look so visibly upset with the result. He won't last.

Paula was not all that great. Yes their product was good, but she did not manage well, rather tried to do everything herself. Neither team approached the task sensibly. They should have set target sales price and then target raw ingredient prices to make the profit they wanted and worked back from there.

Paula's biggest mistake was trying to blame Ben when she and Yasmina made a huge, fundamental mistake. Yasmina was supposed to be one of the two looking at costings and she uttered the fateful words "it's 3g of that" when it was 3% or 450g. She basically lost that task for them and was never under threat in the boardroom...
 
Ben was SUCH a cock. Yasmina was SUCH an idiot to make such a colossal mistake. Noorul was/is SUCH a useless drip. They are all SUCH buttheads... it's brilliant! :D


As a lover of Lush stuff myself this episode got me all excited. :eek: Knowing a bit about the costs of sandalwood oil I was crapping myself watching them pour that in knowing it would probably lose them the task. What a stupid mistake to make. I wish I could have tried their product though. :p (but not the honey one, that looked so wrong.)

How on earth did they not add up their costs and decide properly what to charge so as not to make a loss? THESE are the bright business minds of britain? Please.
 
As a lover of Lush stuff myself this episode got me all excited.

As soon as I saw the logo on the outside of the factory I knew you'd be so excited :) I thought Paula's team produced a product that actually looked like a Lush one. I'm not sure what I'd say the other one looked like :p
 
Gutted that Noorul won. He was/is such a useless muppet it's quite unbelievable.
Thing is though, we need the clueless idiots to stay in as long as possible. They make good telly. To be honest, I couldn't give two hoots about who the best candidates for 'Sir Alan's vast business empire' are – I just want to laugh at foolish buffoons and their antics.

THESE are the bright business minds of britain?
No, they're not. They're really not.
 
As soon as I saw the logo on the outside of the factory I knew you'd be so excited :) I thought Paula's team produced a product that actually looked like a Lush one. I'm not sure what I'd say the other one looked like :p
I was! :eek: I was sort of jealous too, I want to make my own product, it would RULE! :D
Paula's team did do one that seemed half decent. Hell, it was probably really decadent with all that excess sandalwood. Too bad they would have needed to sell it at like ~£8 per bar to actually make enough profit to win. Seriously, can't believe they made such a huge mistake - cedarwood-sandalwood. tsk tsk.

Thing is though, we need the clueless idiots to stay in as long as possible. They make good telly. To be honest, I couldn't give two hoots about who the best candidates for 'Sir Alan's vast business empire' are – I just want to laugh at foolish buffoons and their antics.

No, they're not. They're really not.

Definitely!
 
Four weeks in and still they haven't grasped the concept of keeping your costs as low as possible. Psh!

I thought that the odious mouthy one had talked himself into being "Fired" by Sralan and Noorul was definitely a lucky chap.

Anyways, the little snippet on 'You're Fired' with Ben talking about his Sandhurst - or was it Cedarhurst! - scholarship with Phil was comedy gold! :D
 
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