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Old 11-05-2011, 22:35
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This is the best reality TV ever for me.
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:36
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This series is shaping up nicely and one of my favourite tasks next week.

Will LordS put Edna and Melonie on the same team or split them because they have both won as team leaders??
Melody.
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:39
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You humm it, I'll play it
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:40
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Is it me, or does watching Edna, and thinking that somewhere someone actually pays her to do something, induce a feeling that the country is truly doomed?
it would if she did every presentation same way. or maybe she wants to be in the films, and acting her part on the show. She isn't coming over as natural, as that teeth episode was very unnatural. Spookie lady!
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:41
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Ah is that her name?
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:42
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Excellent, best laugh I had tonight so far.
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:44
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They sure were gross, neither should have won. LS should have made them do it again, and if they couldn't manage it, then he should have fired all of them, then gave us some new faces.
There was an occasion on the US Apprentice, when both teams failed so abysmally at an advertising task, that the task was declaired a draw & anyone could have been fired & there were no treats.
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:48
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There was an occasion on the US Apprentice, when both teams failed so abysmally at an advertising task, that the task was declaired a draw & anyone could have been fired & there were no treats.
I like it.
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Old 11-05-2011, 22:55
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I remember some of the episode now, it was an advert for a Body Wash, which one team made an add that made the product look like it was a Face Wash, whilst the other team made an add so hilariously bad it was like an add for Gay Porn. & both adds were unairable, so no team won or lost.
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Old 11-05-2011, 23:05
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There was an occasion on the US Apprentice, when both teams failed so abysmally at an advertising task, that the task was declaired a draw & anyone could have been fired & there were no treats.
That's the way it should be on UK Apprentice, as the way the girls woop when LS tells them they won, only gives them a false impression. Maybe they like being crap winners. I wouldn't have given them any treats at all. In fact treats should be banned.
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Old 11-05-2011, 23:11
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That's the way it should be on UK Apprentice, as the way the girls woop when LS tells them they won, only gives them a false impression. Maybe they like being crap winners. I wouldn't have given them any treats at all. In fact treats should be banned.
They should have been sent outside and been whipped by the project manager wearing black gloves ........she would have loved that
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Old 11-05-2011, 23:16
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They should have been sent outside and been whipped by the project manager wearing black gloves ........she would have loved that
The boys on her team are in for a surprise!
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Old 11-05-2011, 23:18
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They should have been sent outside and been whipped by the project manager wearing black gloves ........she would have loved that
Thinking about it, she is very promising dominatrix material.
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Old 11-05-2011, 23:20
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They should have been sent outside and been whipped by the project manager wearing black gloves ........she would have loved that
It could have happened but they couldn't show us. She certainly looked very weird...
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Old 12-05-2011, 00:35
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I remember some of the episode now, it was an advert for a Body Wash, which one team made an add that made the product look like it was a Face Wash, whilst the other team made an add so hilariously bad it was like an add for Gay Porn. & both adds were unairable, so no team won or lost.
Ah yes, the infamous cucumber ad
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Old 12-05-2011, 02:42
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what tech show was that
Eurogamer Expo 2010, held at the beginning of last October.
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Old 12-05-2011, 07:00
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Heron Tower looking good in the opening titles!
worked there in its previous life!!
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Old 12-05-2011, 08:26
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Was that the one where she said "It's my birthday" and LS said "You're fired" ?
Who was that?
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Old 12-05-2011, 08:48
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It's got absolutely nothing to do with the BBC or political correctness.

Let's try and work our way through this one more time.

The app was supposed to appeal to the global market. An app featuring British regional accents (plus Aussie) simply didn't appeal because people downloading apps in Kentucky, Texas, Karachi ect are not familiar with and really don't care about those accents.
Not only that, but they were so poorly done. I've got no problem with funny accents, but let's have something witty and original rather than the lazy stereotypes they churned out. The idiot who tried to do a Welsh accent did not have a clue.
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Old 12-05-2011, 10:19
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One of the most surprising things to me about this task was that they appeared to ignore the most relevant fact i.e the target market, which is presumably teenagers...........and they are all supposed to be business minded.
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Old 12-05-2011, 10:23
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Jenny with the red hair. She cheated basically in a task to stop the other team from getting something done.
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Old 12-05-2011, 10:35
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Jenny with the red hair. She cheated basically in a task to stop the other team from getting something done.
Ah the cheater from the infamous Morocco task. Thanks.
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Old 12-05-2011, 12:20
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How did the girls win with that awful app is beyond me.

10,000 people must have been duped by that wired magazine promo.
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Old 12-05-2011, 12:39
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Jenny with the red hair. She cheated basically in a task to stop the other team from getting something done.
Ah the cheater from the infamous Morocco task. Thanks.
She was the bully from series 4, LS found her out in that task, after she lied over an incident in the task & brutally fired her in front of her whole team[whish there was an applause smiley], & then fired the other Jenny.
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Old 12-05-2011, 12:50
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It looks like the editor of Wired is suffering a bit of a backclash over his overtly-PC decision to snub the boys and go for the girls.... He took to his twitter page to say the following about it

@suziperry ... I've not enjoyed the fallout afterwards on this one!

http://twitter.com/#!/NateLanxon


Most of the comments on the wired page about this seems to confirm that a lot of people disagreed with their decision to feature the girls app. In fact, quite a lot of them are saying they shouldn't have featured either of those since they were both sub-par.

Oh dear lol.
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