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Young Apprentice...Week 4 Tea Party Task, BBC 1...Discussion, 8pm |
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David wasn't as bad as made out. The mad hatter's tea party idea was his. Also, the idea to put blankets on the ground so they could serve more customers at a time was a bit of genius. Even the bowls as teacups came from him and he did ask and charm the customers into seeing at as a bit of fun. Organisationally he's rubbish and will go as soon as he loses again, but he's had some good ideas this week and his camp awkwardness is endearing.
Maria is also probably much nicer than she is being portayed as they all wanted her to return and stampeded through Navdeep to hug her when she came in. Ashleigh seems the most sensible and business minded, but the pre-emptive strike on the project manager in the boardroom today has put me off her. Quote:
I have to disagree. The Mad Hatter idea was pretty unoriginal, and as Sugar said this task was really a test of organisational skill (not creativity). David had no structure, no process and at a time when the team was struggling to serve the customers they had he then sprung an idea which exceeded their capacity. The team won in spite of him. Not everything he did was awful, but equally he was a far worse PM than Alice was.
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She's the PM - can't the sub-team come up with any ideas? 'Traditional with a twist', fair enough, now go with it and report back with some ideas. What else are they doing?
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PLEASE fire Maria!!!!!!!!
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Pardon me if this has been mentioned before as I've only just started reading this thread but would you use David as a tutor? He does not sound very intelligent to me because he speaks so slowly.
And would you use a 17 (??) year old to give your son/daughter tuition? Personally I hope that David makes it to the interview stage so we can find out what his 'business' is all about. It would not surprise me if it is something like tutoring a few relatives' or friends' kids. But maybe I am wrong. |
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Mad Hatter's Tea Party -you sit a party of 3 at a table set for 24!
I don't know why people are getting so upset about the lack of authenticity - a bit of an artistic licence is fine as far as I am concerned. I would rather have gone to the 1940s one than the Mad Hatter's one simply because the former looked so much better - but I wouldn't have due to the price. The only reason for the queue was that people were desperate to be on TV. Imagine all the people who paid through the nose to be on TV only to be edited out. |
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...I felt sorry for the losing team, as I think they'd all done well. Admittedly they overpriced it, but their market research did seem to lead in that direction...
And a sample size of a dozen isn't accurate (OK, we don't know how many people they asked but we do know that not everyone was saying they'd be prepared to pay £16+). |
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Pardon me if this has been mentioned before as I've only just started reading this thread but would you use David as a tutor? He does not sound very intelligent to me because he speaks so slowly....
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Personally I hope that David makes it to the interview stage so we can find out what his 'business' is all about. It would not surprise me if it is something like tutoring a few relatives' or friends' kids. But maybe I am wrong.
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There is a massive difference between how much you would be prepared to pay for afternoon tea in Central London (especially somewhere like the Langham), where the 'market research' seemed to be conducted, and afternoon tea in a Country House. No one in the team seemed to account for that. Or for the massive price differential that people said they were prepared to pay, which needed analysing.
And a sample size of a dozen isn't accurate (OK, we don't know how many people they asked but we do know that not everyone was saying they'd be prepared to pay £16+). |
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In the street, anywhere, people might say they'd pay all sorts of prices for tea and cakes. As for what somewhere like Posh Country House Tourist Spot Blenhem Palace can get away with charging - did anyone really know for sure? I wouldn't know if £10 was too cheap or £20 was just right.
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I phrased that poorly. I can't place my finger on why he does not sound intelligent but the speed of his speech is one of the reasons.
I have wondered if English is his first language or the main language spoken in his home when he was pre-school. He speaks fluently but with poor vocabulary, not that the others are much better, except for Lucy who is half French. I suspect the real reason for his comms problem is living in Luton. (I lived there from age 5 - 16)
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David is just not blessed with a motormouth like some others. Admittedly he doesn't say much of great intelligence when he speaks but he can be steam-rollered easily by someone who can talk a mile a minute, even if what they are saying is basically a stream of bollox.
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David is just not blessed with a motormouth like some others. Admittedly he doesn't say much of great intelligence when he speaks but he can be steam-rollered easily by someone who can talk a mile a minute, even if what they are saying is basically a stream of bollox.
PS A lot of people seem impressed by Lucy but I haven't forgotten her breakdown as PM. She was as lucky to get away with her sub-team shambles as David was last week. Steven's creativity won that task. |
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Young Apprentice doesn't have an interview stage. I'm not sure if they'll go into what the winners will put the money into. In Series 1 they didn't mention that on the show, but in Series 2 they did, though they didn't go into as much detail as on the adult version.
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I've actually accepted that my comment you quoted was wrong. The market research did show a few people willing to pay higher prices, but most went for between £5 and £10. Maria misinterpreted this and so did I.
When they said they would charge £16, I thought that was ridiculously high. I then concluded I must be wrong when the programme showed plenty of people willing to pay (at first). I have to admit that it's a lot easier to criticise decisions from your armchair than actually being a contestant. It'd be easy to find out that you had forgotten something, or had massively over/underordered etc. We all make mistakes when we start something new and on The Apprentice, pretty well every task is new to the contestants. |
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Putting aside the silver underpants for a second, possibly the greatest ever character created by Stan & Jack?
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I have wondered if English is his first language or the main language spoken in his home when he was pre-school. He speaks fluently but with poor vocabulary, not that the others are much better, except for Lucy who is half French.
I'm from a trilingual home and believe me, knowing languages has nothing to do with IQ. My aunt knows 5 languages (English, Japanese, Mandarin, Cantonese and Vietnamese French) and she's not exactly the brightest bulb in our box. She could acquire all these languages because her memory is near photographic. Nothing to do with her IQ. My granddad's IQ was 143 and he had a foot-long list of academic and business achievements, but he could never speak English fluently. When he spoke English, it was slow and stiff (or as my friend put it, 'abnormally measured'). Because of that, English speakers treated him like a moron, but he was anything but that. David can still be a thicko if he were totally fluent in all possible languages. If he's a thicko, then he's a thicko, regardless of the way he speaks, whether his home is bilingual and blah blah. I said it before and I will say it again: how you speak does not measure your IQ. Just as there are slow readers, normal speed readers and fast readers, there are slow speakers, normal speed speakers and fast speakers. Ditto with how well or poorly you articulate your points. |
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PS A lot of people seem impressed by Lucy but I haven't forgotten her breakdown as PM. She was as lucky to get away with her sub-team shambles as David was last week. Steven's creativity won that task.
Which task? Oh, the cookery book task! I can't believe I completely forgot all that. Yes, she had fights with Amy, Alice and Ashleigh, didn't she? And there were many spelling errors in the book.
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Lucy was the PM?
Which task? Oh, the cookery book task! I can't believe I completely forgot all that. Yes, she had fights with Amy, Alice and Ashleigh, didn't she? And there were many spelling errors in the book. ![]() |
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(I lived there from age 5 - 16)
Which task? Oh, the cookery book task! I can't believe I completely forgot all that. Yes, she had fights with Amy, Alice and Ashleigh, didn't she? And there were many spelling errors in the book.