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Old 12-05-2011, 16:55
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She's always got a smug look on her face and there isn't anything she hasn't done or put her hand to. However, fair play to her for not getting involved in gossiping with Sara about Edna.
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Old 12-05-2011, 16:59
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I can't think of a single Apprentice candidate that hasn't had a high opinion of themselves. It's a pre-requisite for getting onto the show. The question is whether they live up to their own hype.

I thought Melody did a reasonable enough job leading the first task. It can't be easy easy managing a large number of women who you don't know.

She's quite sparky. I don't mind her.

The voice is still taking some getting used to though.
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:09
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Spot on about her voice Sid. I've said elsewhere my ears need a rest from her already. I am however in awe of her education. Not many have been trained by Al Gore, the Dalai Lama and (can't remember the third notable figure )
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:10
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Just been handed a note by three non-Forum members. It reads

Go Go Melody, we're right behind you.

Luv

Al, Des and Dalai.
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:12
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Ah yes. Desmond Tutu.
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:22
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I think she's an arse-coverer. In the first task when Susan said that they needed to buy more ingredients (rightly, they made almost all of their money on the fruit salads and had run out of them by mid-afternoon) and Edna said no, she said "I put Edna in charge of the money and she says no, so no". That, to me, seemed like nothing so much as wanting to have someone she could blame for the failure of the task if they did, indeed, fail.

I saw the not wanting to get involved in bitching in pretty much the same light, to be honest.

Hardly conclusive evidence, but I suspect that we'll see more of this kind of thing as the series progresses.
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:35
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I like her, when Susan was bitching/complianing about Edna last night in the car she was hoping that Melody and the other girl? would join in, but Melody was like "No I dont care, lets jsut get on with it".
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Old 12-05-2011, 17:46
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I can't think of a single Apprentice candidate that hasn't had a high opinion of themselves. It's a pre-requisite for getting onto the show. The question is whether they live up to their own hype.

I thought Melody did a reasonable enough job leading the first task. It can't be easy easy managing a large number of women who you don't know.

She's quite sparky. I don't mind her.

The voice is still taking some getting used to though.
I agree and I thought she handled her clash with Edna very maturely when she was told she couldn't do the presentation.
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Old 12-05-2011, 23:08
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I don't like her - she is so self-satisfied. The only reason Mel didn't join in with Susan's moan about Edna is because she seemed to agree with Edna's conclusion earlier. As for being trained by Al Gore, she probably attended an event where he happened to be speaking!
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Old 13-05-2011, 09:16
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Deserving of a slap, by one of the girls, hope that Susie is the one who does it.
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Old 13-05-2011, 09:46
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Think the term you are grasping for is "No sh*t Sherlock" to quote the Dali Lama or was that Desmond TuTu?
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Old 13-05-2011, 09:49
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Deserving of a slap, by one of the girls, hope that Susie is the one who does it.
"Feisty one me thinks" well heres hoping. Anyone got a kjiddy pool and a shed load o' jam?
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Old 13-05-2011, 10:37
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Think the term you are grasping for is "No sh*t Sherlock" to quote the Dali Lama or was that Desmond TuTu?
Neither. It was Dr Watson, in "The Case of the Dog that Didn't Crap."
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Old 13-05-2011, 14:28
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Spot on about her voice Sid. I've said elsewhere my ears need a rest from her already. I am however in awe of her education. Not many have been trained by Al Gore, the Dalai Lama and (can't remember the third notable figure )
Desmond Tutu or Nelson Mandela. I bow at her feet.
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Old 13-05-2011, 14:29
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Neither. It was Dr Watson, in "The Case of the Dog that Didn't Crap."
ROFLMAO - thank you
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Old 13-05-2011, 22:41
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I think she's an arse-coverer. In the first task when Susan said that they needed to buy more ingredients (rightly, they made almost all of their money on the fruit salads and had run out of them by mid-afternoon) and Edna said no, she said "I put Edna in charge of the money and she says no, so no". That, to me, seemed like nothing so much as wanting to have someone she could blame for the failure of the task if they did, indeed, fail.
Or it could mean that having delegated a responsibility to Edna, she didn't want to undermine her by taking it back. She couldn't win.

I saw the not wanting to get involved in bitching in pretty much the same light, to be honest.
Although if she had bitched, I daresay you'd have criticised her for that, too.
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Old 13-05-2011, 23:16
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Cant stand her. As some others have said on here her 'working' with people such as the Dalai Lama and Al Gore were probably just a half hour lecture at uni.
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Old 14-05-2011, 08:25
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Or it could mean that having delegated a responsibility to Edna, she didn't want to undermine her by taking it back. She couldn't win.
Yeah she could. She was PM. It's ultimately her responsibility.

Although if she had bitched, I daresay you'd have criticised her for that, too.
What makes you say that?
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Old 15-05-2011, 12:01
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If she had delegated a job to someone and then overridden them and done the job herself, she'd have been criticised for that.

Similarly if she'd joined in with the bitching session, she'd have have been criticised for that, too. What ever she did she'd have been criticised for it.

In the second example I think she clearly took the better path. In the first example, it's more debatable, but we need to be careful that we aren't putting a negative interpretation on it because of a prior dislike.
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Old 15-05-2011, 15:27
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If she had delegated a job to someone and then overridden them and done the job herself, she'd have been criticised for that.
You seem to be speaking in generalities, whereas I'm speaking about the specific decision not to buy more stock on Edna's say so. Melody knew they had £90 left. The job she gave Edna was to keep track of the budget, not to set a limit on how much of the £250 investment they could spend.

It seemed like a really stupid thing to do to me at the time, not to buy more stock when you're running out and have the money just sitting there doing nothing. And that was borne out in several ways as the episode progressed - firstly, they ran out of product before they ran out of customers to sell them to. Secondly, they made the vast majority of their profit on the fruit salads. These two points combined mean that investing more money in the fruit salads at the beginning, like Susan wanted to, would have shown them generating more profit. And, thirdly, they then got a dressing-down by Lord Surallen for not utilising all of their start-up money.

Whatever way you slice it, not investing money in stock in favour of just letting it sit there doing nothing was a poor decision. It was not Edna's decision to make, it was Melody's, and I think that Melody deferred to Edna there in order to create a scape-goat should the venture fail. Either that or she's frighteningly weak-willed. Either way, it paints Melody in a bad light. Had she, as project manager, said "yes, go buy more stock", then I'd have been saying that she absolutely made the right decision.

As for Edna, nothing anybody else could do would change my opinion of her, only how she herself acts. So far I think she's shown herself to be an idiot with a bizarrely inflated opinion of herself.

Similarly if she'd joined in with the bitching session, she'd have have been criticised for that, too. What ever she did she'd have been criticised for it.
Not by me. What I'm criticising her for there is that I don't think she's being honest. Had she bitched, I'd not have had a problem with it. Have you seen me criticising Susan for doing the bitching in the first place?

In the first example, it's more debatable, but we need to be careful that we aren't putting a negative interpretation on it because of a prior dislike.
I don't dislike Melody at all. I quite like her, actually. That doesn't mean to say that I don't think she's an arse-coverer.

Besides, if you recall, I very purposely ended my first post on this subject thusly:

Hardly conclusive evidence, but I suspect that we'll see more of this kind of thing as the series progresses.
That's conceding that I'm going off limited information and could well be proven wrong. My opinion at the moment, though, is that we will see more of this kind of behaviour. I'll be happy to change that opinion in light of new evidence, but at the moment I stand by it.
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Old 15-05-2011, 16:41
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Melody's voice is exactly the "posh social worker" voice used by Sally Phillips in the Radio 4 sitcom Calre in the Community.

I cannot listen to her speak without cracking up !!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qprs
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