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Old 19-05-2011, 15:14
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What made me laugh is when Melody corrected the pronunciation of the word Cloche by the other candidates when she didnt have a clue to how it is pronounced or what it was.

Closhey!!!!!

Stupid woman.
From Melody's own website ....
"Languages: Farsi, Swedish, English, German and French" - which beggars the question ... how did she not know how to pronounce cloche properly and how did she not know what it was???????
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Old 19-05-2011, 15:28
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First attempt - "clock-he"..what language did they think it was , dutch, swahili?
I don't get your point - are you trying to say it is obvious it's a french word?
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Old 19-05-2011, 23:12
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of course they werent allowed to use the internet or they wouldve known what a cloche was and what physalis is


Is a dictionary also out of bounds?
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Old 19-05-2011, 23:16
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I'm amazed you haven't figured out the fact that they weren't allowed internet access!


Well I'm amazed that they're not if this is the case?

What on earth is the point in having people floundering around wondering what things are, and wasting god knows how much time, when they could simply Google?

It's not Medieval Apprentice!
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Old 19-05-2011, 23:20
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I'm still somewhat gobsmacked that there are still people here who have not yet noticed that in not one single episode of one single series has anyone, ever, used google to find out anything.

I think it's perfectly clear that they are not allowed to.


If you were a contestant on the show that positively encourages an 'anything to win' mentality, would you not disappear off to the toilet with your iphone, and Google 'cloche?'

I know I would with £250,000 up for grabs. After all, who would know?
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Old 19-05-2011, 23:23
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Quite.

The candidates have never been allowed internet access in the buying tasks, but for some reason this year FMs seem to have forgotten that - or do we have a lot of first time viewers this year?

I know some of the candidates are pretty stupid, but to think that 14 people of the internet generation didn't think "Google", the week after an internet based task, is pretty daft in itself.



May I refer you to Post 30.
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Old 20-05-2011, 01:35
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the Bloke that lost owns 2 opticians, yet wears NHS glasses?(well they look like them- are they back in fashion?)
Another point---dont all smartphones have web access?)
He was wearing Ray Bans.
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Old 20-05-2011, 02:28
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If you were a contestant on the show that positively encourages an 'anything to win' mentality, would you not disappear off to the toilet with your iphone, and Google 'cloche?'

I know I would with £250,000 up for grabs. After all, who would know?
As I understood it, they arent allowed their own phones when on a task, and LS wouldnt be stupid enough to give them phones that had internet access would he?...
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Old 20-05-2011, 04:13
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I posted my astonishment elsewhere that not one of them knew what it was

I admit I wasn't 100% sure I call it a serving platter!

But when Natasha was on the phone to the hotel all she had to ask was what a cloche is and they would have known sraight away.

I mean surely even the thickest candidate would think its got something to do with what is seen in a hotel?!
The cloche covers the food on the platter/tray

If they watched Big Brother they would know what a cloche is.

Many a nasty was hidden under a cloche in the diary room!
There was Emma and Michelle returning under the cloches in BB5. Also in the diary room in tasks the food is usually covered with a cloche

BB. remove the cloche
HM eh what
BB; The metal lid

I don't get your point - are you trying to say it is obvious it's a french word?
I'd say it was fairly obvious myself that it was french
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Old 20-05-2011, 06:39
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Is a dictionary also out of bounds?
yes they arent allowed anything except the maps and yellow pages
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Old 20-05-2011, 07:41
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A cloche covers the food on a plate or a tray. It has two functions, one to keep the food warm and the other as a 'reveal' to the customer or guest. Usually in high class restaurants a number of waiters lift the cloches at the same time to reveal the food to everyone at the table.

I hope that helps some of you.
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Old 20-05-2011, 07:41
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Well I'm amazed that they're not if this is the case?

What on earth is the point in having people floundering around wondering what things are, and wasting god knows how much time, when they could simply Google?

It's not Medieval Apprentice!
Agree, why not allow IA and make the tasks harder to compensate. even the local newsagent has IE.
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Old 20-05-2011, 07:53
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It had me in stitches. How could they not know?
Why on earth didn't they just use a dictionary or google it to find out?
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Old 20-05-2011, 08:19
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?Ray Bans that look like the old NHS specs...........perhaps no one of the younger generation are old enough to remember...........funny how fashion "Comes around"!
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Old 20-05-2011, 09:26
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they just shuld off used googel the stupid ideots.
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Old 20-05-2011, 09:28
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?Ray Bans that look like the old NHS specs...........perhaps no one of the younger generation are old enough to remember...........funny how fashion "Comes around"!
Very trendy at the 'mo - I've seen pix of Myleene Klass & Pixie Lott in them.
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Old 20-05-2011, 14:35
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As I understood it, they arent allowed their own phones when on a task, and LS wouldnt be stupid enough to give them phones that had internet access would he?...


But phones are tiny and easy to conceal. Having read Lord S's autobiography I'm pretty sure he would have taken advantage of this fact.
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Old 20-05-2011, 15:07
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But phones are tiny and easy to conceal. Having read Lord S's autobiography I'm pretty sure he would have taken advantage of this fact.
Lord S would have been on the streets: "Hey mate, what's a ****ing cloche?"

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Old 20-05-2011, 15:31
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But phones are tiny and easy to conceal. Having read Lord S's autobiography I'm pretty sure he would have taken advantage of this fact.
Its a high risk strategy though - even if they could have smuggled one on there will be loads of production staff floating about. If caught they will be off the show and maybe sued too.
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Old 20-05-2011, 20:42
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they just shuld off used googel the stupid ideots.
But I suspect they can spell "should" "Google" and "idiots", and probably know the difference between "off" and "have", so may not be such idiots after all.
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Old 20-05-2011, 22:56
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I'm still somewhat gobsmacked that there are still people here who have not yet noticed that in not one single episode of one single series has anyone, ever, used google to find out anything.

I think it's perfectly clear that they are not allowed to.
It is pretty stupid that they aren't allowed to though. Sugar keeps telling us that these tasks demonstrate how easy it is to set up a business blah blah blah. In a real life business situation, the buyers would have access to the internet. Noone in a real life business situation would start out trying to buy ten items off a shopping list armed with nothing more than a copy of the yellow pages. Sugar obviously thinks it is still 1967.
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Old 20-05-2011, 23:06
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It is pretty stupid that they aren't allowed to though. Sugar keeps telling us that these tasks demonstrate how easy it is to set up a business blah blah blah. In a real life business situation, the buyers would have access to the internet. Noone in a real life business situation would start out trying to buy ten items off a shopping list armed with nothing more than a copy of the yellow pages. Sugar obviously thinks it is still 1967.
Yes, I actually think that knowing your way around google is actually a pretty useful skill so it seems strange that they're not allowed to demonstrate it.
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Old 21-05-2011, 00:06
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Yes, I actually think that knowing your way around google is actually a pretty useful skill so it seems strange that they're not allowed to demonstrate it.
Have you actually googled cloche?

If you do, it comes up as being a bell.

It takes common sense to work it out.
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Old 21-05-2011, 00:59
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But phones are tiny and easy to conceal. Having read Lord S's autobiography I'm pretty sure he would have taken advantage of this fact.
Another poster has posted that in the Irish version, the contestants are searched proir to their taking part, and I doubt that the UK version would be any different.
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Old 21-05-2011, 01:16
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I was surprised it was so cheap less then a tenner, whatever it was made of. Surely the Savoy would have silver cloches

I thought it was cringemaking of Glenn to try and beat the shopkeeper down with the price. Their can't be much profit on that and they have to make a living.
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