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long time no see
Earthsea


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Posted - 25/03/2008 :  15:05:42  Show Profile  Reply with Quote


Sugar
net worth of 800milllion.

16 people aged from 22 to 36.


1. Raef Bjayou 27, BA (Hons) , London.


2. Jenny Celerier 36, BA (Hons) , Leicester


3. Nicholas Brown 23, Barrister LLB , Shoreham


4. Sara Dhada 25, BA (Hons) , Leicester


5. Lucinda Ledgerwood 31, BSc (Hons) , Edinburgh


6. Jennifer Maguire 27, Manager , Bristol


7. Lee McQueen 30, 8 GCSE's , Middx.


8. Lindi Mngaza 22, 9 GCSE's , Birm.


9. kevin Shaw 24, 11 GCSE's , Woking


10. Simon Smith 35 , 8 GCSE's , Essex


11. Michael Sophocles 25, MA (Hons) , London


12. Helene Speight 32, 9 GCSE's , Wakefield


13. Ian Stringer 26, 8 GCSE's, Beds.



14. Shazia Wahab 35, 9 GSCE's, BA (Hons), London


15. Alex Wotherspoon 24, BA (Hons) , Bolton


16. Claire Young 28, BSc , London


http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/
Click Videos to get edit Preview of them all.




Life In The City.







Edited by - long time no see on 27/03/2008 21:54:12

Pelagia
Barsoom



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Posted - 25/03/2008 :  19:35:11  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
OK, I've watched the video and think they are a bunch of egocentric overblown up-their-arses harpies. That's just the women. The men are even worse!
When (if) the baby barrister has concluded his stint as a pupil, I must find out which set of chambers he imposes himself on, and then avoid it like the plague!!

And for sitting through that LT, I want a Greggs pasty!!!!!!!!!!
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6771 Posts

Posted - 25/03/2008 :  19:45:59  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Yes some of them will sell their own Mother to get on that show.
It is all filmed now, in the can.
So it is not really like a Reality show
just one hour each Weds night with a thousand re-edits.
Last year the winner was leaked on the Internet because she was spotted
at a big Party a month before the end.

The good thing about Alan Sugar
is he has seen hundreds like them before
only one will be picked for his company.
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Pelagia
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Posted - 25/03/2008 :  19:52:02  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Well LT, you have drawn theshort straw - watch it tomorrow and give us full reportage of all the gory details!!!!
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Borninhove
Discworld



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Posted - 26/03/2008 :  11:31:45  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Look into their eyes ... they are dead.

Where is the empathy, compassion or humanity?

They are a very scary bunch of people.

I wouldn't let them into a classroom, that's for sure.

Valhalla, I am coming!
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Pelagia
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479 Posts

Posted - 26/03/2008 :  12:48:27  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
They all look like left-overs from Thatcher's 80s.
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No Expert
Barsoom



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Posted - 26/03/2008 :  13:32:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I like how that due to a missing apostrophe, this thread is about someone called Alan pouring sugar all over an apprentice.
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Pelagia
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Posted - 26/03/2008 :  20:53:55  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
I suspect that Nicholas "de Lacy" Brown, is really NE. He shows some of the symptoms.

Edited by - Pelagia on 26/03/2008 20:54:35
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/03/2008 :  21:18:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The First Task is Selling many types of Sea Food on stalls
2 teams Girls Vs Boys.
The Girls picked 28 year old Claire Young - Team Leader.
The Boys picked 24 year old Alex Wotherspoon - the Team leader.



The Boys Team selling Lobster for a Fiver
was a wrong move.

The Girls team won.


Results
Boys Team: made £632.69 profit £32.69
Girls team made £753.98 profit £103.00

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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
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Posted - 26/03/2008 :  21:52:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Nicholas Brown from Shoreham was FIRED





Edited by - long time no see on 27/03/2008 08:08:15
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Borninhove
Discworld



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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  07:11:37  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see

Nicholas Brown from Shoreham was FIRED






Well, at least now he can get back to his acting career.


"I'm glad THAT'S over!"

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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld



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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  07:32:26  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Half of them look as if they don`t own a comb!

Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski!
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Pelagia
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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  09:44:15  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by long time no see

Nicholas Brown from Shoreham was FIRED










"Fired" isn't good enough LT. I want to know why. Come on dish the dirt!
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea



United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  09:49:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
He couldn't cut the mustard!

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6771 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  10:02:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote


http://www.bbc.co.uk/apprentice/candidate/id/3/type/contestant.html
click on the right for the Boardroom Split


He did the Prices
got many of them wrong, even though they had guides.
Team leader Alex picked him and Raef to go in front of Alan
and Alan Sugar could not stand the crap
Nicholas was going on about.
Alan Sugar can not stand false people and his middle name was false.

The BBC site for this has been Hacked, and is down at this time.

The Mail newspaper has another viewpoint
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=546800&in_page_id=1773


This is from the Telegraph:
____________________________
The losing boys, meanwhile, provided much more grist to the producers' mill. Alex Wotherspoon, who led them so surely to their defeat, at least had the telegenic advantage of being breathtakingly handsome. Not so Nicholas de Lacy-Brown, the chinless barrister who ended up first to be fired for not knowing the price of fish. For comic relief, equally posh Raef Bjayou kept popping up like Mr Punch and squawking at Alex that that wasn't the way to do it.


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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  10:36:22  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Well, it gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling that dear old Sussex can produce the least successful rapacious, capitalist lackey. I'm sure Moonie would agree. People are too nice (or maybe too wasted) down on the South Coast for all that northern (and that includes London) nastiness.

Have a stick of rock.

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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld



1186 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  20:28:54  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Why DO we say `CUT the mustard`? NOBODY cuts mustard.You spoon it or use a knife to spread it, you can mix it, grind it,but no, not cut it....

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Pelagia
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479 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  20:37:35  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
This expression meaning "to achieve the required standard" is
first recorded in an O. Henry story of 1902: "So I looked around
and found a proposition [a woman] that exactly cut the mustard."

It may come from a cowboy expression, "the proper mustard",
meaning "the genuine thing", and a resulting use of "mustard" to
denote the best of anything. O. Henry in Cabbages and Kings
(1894) called mustard "the main attraction": "I'm not headlined
in the bills, but I'm the mustard in the salad dressing, just the
same." Figurative use of "mustard" as a positive superlative dates
from 1659 in the phrase "keen as mustard", and use of "cut" to
denote rank (as in "a cut above") dates from the 18th century.

Other theories are that it is a corruption of the military phrase
"to pass muster" ("muster", from Latin monstrare="to show", means
"to assemble (troops), as for inspection"); that it refers to the
practice of adding vinegar to ground-up mustard seed to "cut" the
bitter taste; that it literally means "cut mustard" as an example of
a difficult task, mustard being a relatively tough crop that grows
close to the ground; and that it literally means "cut mustard" as
an example of an easy task (via the negative expression "can't
even cut the mustard"), mustard being easier to cut at the table
than butter.

The more-or-less synonymous expression "cut it" (as in "'Sorry'
doesn't cut it") seems to be more recent and may derive from
"cut the mustard".

The above is cut and paste, obviously, but I thought it might be interesting



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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
6771 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  20:44:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Fluffy it is a Good Old Business term
goes back to the pre-victorian era etc.
that Miriam has used.

As you know it means he is Not Good Enough for the work.
It is a perfect word for the Inverted Snob N.Brown
who is from our area.

Edited by - long time no see on 27/03/2008 20:54:37
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Pelagia
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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  21:00:56  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Im sure he's the spawn of Hoogstraaten LT!
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long time no see
Earthsea



United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/03/2008 :  22:18:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://www.theargus.co.uk/mostpopular.var.2148771.mostviewed.barrister_kicked_off_the_apprentice.php

His interview with the local argus paper.
And comments from the public below it.
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld



1186 Posts

Posted - 27/03/2008 :  23:26:32  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks, Pel. I knew what it MEANS, just not where it originated, how it came about.

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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 28/03/2008 :  07:09:15  Show Profile  Reply with Quote


You can cut the mustard!

(Just being pedantic)

Valhalla, I am coming!

Edited by - Borninhove on 28/03/2008 07:10:21
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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:26:24  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Something's missing from the Forum:



Has he been banned again?

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Pelagia
Barsoom



479 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:28:56  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
No

Edited to add that the current spat on the bus forum might throw some light on the subject.

Edited by - Pelagia on 03/04/2008 12:31:18
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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:31:11  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Don't tell me he finally got a life!!!

I'm sooooo jealous!!!

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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:35:44  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Pelagia

No

Edited to add that the current spat on the bus forum might throw some light on the subject.

Oh come on, LTNS and NE have got into some huge (and very amusing) fights before, but that's never stopped LT from posting.

I think it's something more serious.

He's got the sniffles.
FACT

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Pelagia
Barsoom



479 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:37:48  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
More a point of getting fed up with the kicking and name calling by a certain bully-boy member of the forum.

It's the straw that broke the camels back I fear.

Edited by - Pelagia on 03/04/2008 12:38:32
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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:46:08  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/expert.jpg

Amazing what you can find on Google Images ...

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Pelagia
Barsoom



479 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:48:19  Show Profile  Visit Pelagia's Homepage  Reply with Quote
BIH, you are too kind!!

Can't you find one that says No Expert is a shithead?

Edited by - Pelagia on 03/04/2008 12:49:05
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Borninhove
Discworld



1028 Posts

Posted - 03/04/2008 :  12:50:05  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Mind you, this is what I got for 'Pelagia'

http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Pelagia-noctiluca-Ca2.jpg

Also known as 'The Mauve Stinger'

Ouch!

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