Product design should be a shambles too, complete with Alice In Wonderland small door. lol

Last night was a funnier show, but we can't have everything can we.


see you all next time. xxx

See you next week. Looks like another good episode.

Tim can't stay, though. Francesca didn't get anything wrong that all the people at the brewery didn't also get wrong, and Tim didn't get it right himself. Tim didn't send the obvious person to get it right there, to do it, either. He might have survived if he had brought someone who would argue with Rebecca back with her - they might have annoyed Lord sugar enough - but Lord Sugar wouldn't fire her when she had sold most. He's doomed.

Most of the population don't claim to be business entrepreneurs!

It's a simple case of multiplication.

x ml in the sample bottle they prepared
y bottles in a cask.
Amount to add to a cask = xy ml

Well I wish they'd notice that we need names on screen. , but as you've been noticed, then maybe you can ask for names on screen for us, please and thanks

But I don't think it matters that much, as Tim won in his own way, through getting noticed on telly, so his brewery business should do well, given enough time, and being a nice person goes a long way, but I don't reckon Tim will be a push-over either, as the show helped him to grow.

The girls are a whole new ball game, and don't rate their chances that much, and showing the viewing public their nasty side isn't doing them any favours in the long term. It doesn't matter to us here, but in the real world it matters a lot.

cheers, have a glass of good quality wine instead.

..Question so far, does anybody care or even bother talking about the Asian guy?

Wished LS hadn't fired Tim, if he only he hadn't let them walk all over him. He so sweet and cute.

So far he seems good.

Wow...this years crop are the WORST yet by far! If they had a brain-cell between them they'd be dangerous...albeit it would consider itself the best brain-cell in the world; a couragous leader of brain-cells; master negotiator, cunning strategist and amazing sales-cell...and what would it die of...?

Ego-overload!

I take it you mean Zee, who is seen and heard quite a lot on screen, and who won't take no for an answer, which could be to his credit, but it seems many prefer the awful girls who should be booted asap.

Maybe we'll get to know Zee a lot more as the weeks go by.

Bit of a shame that one of the only likeable candidates this year was fired in Week 2. Poor Tim. Farewell, we hardly knew ye!

Tim was nice but utterly ineffectual. I'd still fire Luisa in a heartbeat 100 times before I fired him, though.

In a rare moment of seriousness in my episode review (link below), I've tried to explain why this type of dual selling to trade & public task is inherently unbalanced. The maths is pretty simple - and we get enough numbers in this episode to prove it - as to why teams should basically ignore trade sales altogether and focus as much as they can on selling to the public. It's all about profit margins ...

The other 90% of my recap is as sarcastic and banging-my-head-in-disbelief as usual, though. Normal service will be resumed next week!

http://slouchingtowardstv.com/2013/0...he-bitter-end/

I think Roman Abramovich(Tim) had to go,,, I even forgot he was on the girls team. Plus he couldn't stop twitching. Some of the girls seem to be ganging up on Chas Dingle(Rebecca).

Other lookie likies that are amongst them are

Jocelyn Wildenstein(Uzma)
Simon Pegg (Neil)
Alicia Douvall (Leah)
Gok Wan (Jordan)
Brian Paddick(Myles)
Stella English(Francesca)

When the location was blamed, she did speak up to ask who had suggested it.

I thought Tim was the right one to go. He was a really nice guy, but he was responsible for all the problems - he chose the locations and he was no more capable with the numbers than Francesca.

I'm stunned that so many of you seem to be on Jason's side against Zee and Alex. They were certainly unprofessional to argue with him in front of customers, but what were they supposed to do when he was so useless that he was not only not helping, but was actively sabotaging them?

Francessca looks like Frankie (Towie) and Stella English.

Haven't read the rest of the thread yet, but it also used to be a branch of the Bristol & West Building Society, (now there's a name from the past) and I was at the opening party

Why use the cars to get there? It's a 5 minute walk from the house which, I am totally convinced, is in Lincoln's Inn Fields

Sainsbury's had a chocolate wine the other Christmas - very drinkable, we thought, so got some more. ("News at !0; in the gutter")

Of the Belgian fruit beers, I'd go for blackcurrant (a sort of alcoholic Ribena.....) or peach

As is often/regularly the case, there are some "invisible" rules in the tasks that we're not made aware of, generic ones like not using the internet, and in this case, something like "you must make a minimum of 4 casks for trade sale and 100 bottles for public sale, and you must sell at a minimum of 2 locations in each case." The producers have 60 minutes to fill up, and if (for instance) one team just produced 10 casks and sold them to one outlet, that would be a huge gap in the programme...

I watched both Tuesday's and Wednesday's episode yesterday, and I HATE Zee. He is so arrogant and over the top alpha male thingy, I can't stand him. Horrible guy. Ugh.

I quite liked Tim though, found he handled the beer project good, I wanted him to stay to be honest.

I reckon he'd be right pissed off to be described as "Asian".

Haha, brilliant nicknames, rhumble, especially Jocelyn Wildebeest (as I prefer to call her).

But for me, Myles is the living spit of Oscar Pistorius.

That is absolutely true - and what you say was undoubtedly the case on this task.

What I mean is that teams should push the rules as far as possible in terms of slanting their effort towards retail sales. We kind of saw this in last year's condiments task, where (if I recall correctly) one team offloaded their trade stock relatively quickly and then joined their colleagues to add extra hands to their retail efforts.

Fundamentally, while it's important for the trade team to sell all their stock at a reasonable price, they seem to spend a lot of time fretting about it when in reality it's all about the retail sales. I rather suspect that Kurt's team, who were on top of their numbers, knew that. Tim's team, who couldn't do basic calculations, didn't.

It's also an illustration of why Endeavour won by so much despite their trade sales being so poor - the bit where they did well (selling to the public) is where the biggest profits are made anyway. Even when they were 'dumping' at £1 per pint at the end, they were still making similar profit margins to trade sales.

You could have forgiven them for making mistakes in the first few series but, you would think that by now they would have clued in to some of the obvious mistakes and avoid them. And you would think that they would all so some basic simple arithmetic practice before they enter. The dopey female who said she didn't know about kilograms or millimetres yet was put in charge of measurements just about summed up the level of stupidity of her and the twerp who put her in charge.

I thought Francesca would be the one to go - sad to see cute Tim get the marching orders instead

Finally figured out who Tim reminded me of.......


Constable Goody from The Thin Blue Line.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=0lqc7AOxd8k