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#477 |
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Have they ever backed one of these performing arts businesses?, as there seems to be a lot of them on the show.
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"Partial to a bit of sausage, Peter Jones looks intrigued."
That was no accident, I'm sure
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#479 |
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Why the hell isn't Dragons Den on tonight?
I'm really not happy that it isn't being shown this week I wonder if there is any logical reason why it isn't being shown or is it just a random break when the show is over half way through the series? Strange and ridiculous. We had to wait long enough for this series and will probably have to wait even longer for the next. |
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No episode tonight?
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Calm down big burger, it's on again next Sun. For some reason the Felix the Spacejumper thing was on instead.
In the meantime there is a mixture of Irish / Australian / old UK editions of the programme on Dave every day
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No comments on tonight's episode? Was everyone doing the same as me and watching IAC?
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#483 |
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I'm watching my recording and just saw the nurse with her toilet raising block thing. Think she had totally missed the point. I've fitted those seat add-on things for the elderly before (the first one she showed, before her own one) and the point is that they fit in a couple of minutes. And you can take them off again in seconds. This is really important when many old people don't own the houses they want these tall toilets in. Not only will hers be a right faff to fit (it's not just the flexible waste connector - what she didn't mention was that on most toilets you will need to raise the cistern too and that means messing about with the water supply pipe and the overflow too!). At the end of the day if you did want to raise a toilet like she is suggesting you could simply build it up on a small plinth made from a few quid of wood anyway!
How the hell has she managed to spend £94,000 on it? W.T.F. |
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#484 |
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£94k on something that sits on top of your bog? Seriously? Bizarre pitch.
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I'm watching my recording and just saw the nurse with her toilet raising block thing. Think she had totally missed the point. I've fitted those seat add-on things for the elderly before (the first one she showed, before her own one) and the point is that they fit in a couple of minutes. And you can take them off again in seconds. This is really important when many old people don't own the houses they want these tall toilets in. Not only will hers be a right faff to fit (it's not just the flexible waste connector - what she didn't mention was that on most toilets you will need to raise the cistern too and that means messing about with the water supply pipe and the overflow too!). At the end of the day if you did want to raise a toilet like she is suggesting you could simply build it up on a small plinth made from a few quid of wood anyway!
How the hell has she managed to spend £94,000 on it? W.T.F. A simple plastic booster seat that can be added and removed in seconds or something that would be a plumbing nightmare. A lot of toilets are either bolted or sometimes cemented to the floor. (If not the floor covering has been tailor fitted around the base) and that's before having move the cistern which again may be attached to the wall as well. Then the cold water pipe would have to be redone to the new hight and finally the waste connected using the flexible pipe. And many people who rent won't be allowed to do any of that. Plus she was saying that other people in the house didn't like the plastic attachment; how are they going to feel about a toilet that is halfway up the wall? No! Just NO! |
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I'm watching my recording and just saw the nurse with her toilet raising block thing.
... How the hell has she managed to spend £94,000 on it? W.T.F. Was it just a plinth that fits under any toilet (and that needs at least £100 of replumbing work, retiling, etc)? No figures were mentioned as to the actual cost to the customer. If it was just a plastic spacer, I can't see where the money went either. |
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"And Peter Jones looks to have made his mind up too!"
Evan Davies is really getting on my nerves this series, moreso than in previous ones! |
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How the hell has she managed to spend £94,000 on it? W.T.F.
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I can't see where the money went either.
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well googling her name turns up her actual patent
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-find-publica...nalNumber=6292 still cannot believe that she has spent £94k of her life savings on patenting what is effectively a toughened plastic drum, that anybody that wanted to raise a standard toilet like that could just build out of wood. Baffling. edit: found her website too http://www.hwo-uk.co.uk/ Bet a pretty pile of her £94,000 went on that as well as the patent lawyers
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er that website looks as if it cost about 2p to set up...
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Agree, bet that's not what someone charged her though
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No comments on tonight's episode? Was everyone doing the same as me and watching IAC?
![]() Watching now. The Dragons were very Gentle with the Nurse who spent all her life savings on a 'bog booster'... ![]() Not sure about the Oven door Cover.....but the Caravan Cover; People love, it seems, their Caravans.
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I agree about the bog seat - if you're going to that effort to life the pan up and stick it under, you might as well do a proper solution.
The oven door thing...hmm.... Also the tablet - very surprising offer there from Peter Jones, but from what I saw, all he had done was add a plastic cover to a bog standard android tablet. And the cover things looked good, I like the pole idea, but fail to see the point of demonstrating how air can pass through from one side. |
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"Will Theo Paphitis give the budding entrepreneur the financial lifeline they so badly need?"
"Leisure Industry expert, Duncan Bannatyne, wants to drill down in to the financials." "Deborah Meadon, looks intrigued." "A surprising offer from Peter Jones, but strict den rules say that he must receive of all the requested amount, or he leaves with nothing." "Will Hilary Devey wade in to negotiations?" "A rare moment of laughter in the den..... so rare, it happens every other episode." |
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You forgot this one CD93
"But Deborah has been unusually quiet" |
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And the cover things looked good, I like the pole idea, but fail to see the point of demonstrating how air can pass through from one side.
It's the same as Gortex (Trade name over breathable fabrics are available) jackets. - Rain can't get in and so you are dry, but sweat (water vapour) can escape and air can circulate and so keep you more pleasant. |
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"Will Theo Paphitis give the budding entrepreneur the financial lifeline they so badly need?"
"Leisure Industry expert, Duncan Bannatyne, wants to drill down in to the financials." "Deborah Meadon, looks intrigued." "A surprising offer from Peter Jones, but strict den rules say that he must receive of all the requested amount, or he leaves with nothing." "Will Hilary Devey wade in to negotiations?" "A rare moment of laughter in the den..... so rare, it happens every other episode."
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You forgot this one CD93
"But Deborah has been unusually quiet" |
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#499 |
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'An investment, and a case of the numbers being crucial..'
As if plenty of other investments are based on the Dragon's going 'Sounds like a terrible product, your projections are mental, I will clearly lose money... but I'm pissed and you look like my uncle, so here's a hundred K, woooo!!' |
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"Deborah Meaden looks impressed with the product, but wants to know more about the man behind the invention."
"A subtle but factual pitch, by husband and wife duo, Jack and Jill." "Bob Bobness from Surrey, has come up with an ingenious solution to the age-old problem of socks getting stuck to your slightly wet feet as you try to pull them on. Duncan Bannatyne, is an expert in this area." "Partial to a bit of sausage, technology expert Peter Jones looks intrigued." "Chaos erupts in the den... as the budding entrepreneur actually considers taking up the solo offer from Hilary Devey. But retail giant, Theo Paphitis, has been usually quiet." |
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