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Should you trust someone that insists on being addressed as "SIR"?????? |
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You know when they chorus "good morning Sir Alan!" Does that take anyone else right back to morning assembly at primary school?
"Good morning, Miss Whatsyername, good morning everyone". So true! |
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Sir Alan Sugar just has a classic case of SHORT MAN SYNDROME.
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Sir Alan Sugar just has a classic case of SHORT MAN SYNDROME.
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I know he seems like a sweetie when he appears in interviews with Jonathan Ross, but I've heard he's quite the bastard when the camera's off and he's outside the television environment...
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Is it only royalists who have to call him Sir Alan,or do us republicans have to bow and scrape also?
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I know he seems like a sweetie when he appears in interviews with Jonathan Ross, but I've heard he's quite the bastard when the camera's off and he's outside the television environment...
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Is it only royalists who have to call him Sir Alan,or do us republicans have to bow and scrape also?
Citing republicanism as a reason for taking offence at this would make about as much sense as somebody on a calorie-controlled diet asking "Can I call him Sir Alan Aspartame instead?"... |
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Sir Alan is a man of many contradictions - his inverted snobbery yet insistence of being called 'sir', being one.
After watching this series, I think he's a bit of a pillock. In fact, isn't he more of a failed businessman, rather than a success? (relatively speaking that is)...wasn't his Amstrad business worth over a billion in 80s, but he ended up flogging it for millions? Knighted in 2000, donated money to Labour in 2001 (hmmm). |
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I think its the BBC who makes the "sir" so important!!
![]() Yes I believe you're right - they make they apprentice wannabes call him 'Sir Alan' but that doesn't happen in real life. The interviewers from this week didn't use the 'Sir'. |
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I can't remember ever hearing him saying you must called me Sir Alan?
I think the programme makers just tell the candidates to do so for added prominense. |
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Is it really true that he insists on being called 'Sir' Alan???
I wouldn't instantly distrust someone just because they make this stipulation - however, I do find it rather odd. It's surely a sign of arrogance or conceit of some kind, and I say this not as a dig at Sir Alan, but simply because were I to be knighted I would be too embarrased to insist on people using the 'Sir' (although to be honest, it isn't something that would even cross my mind in the first place!). I suspect Sir Alan does have a touch of arrogance about him - I recall in an earlier episode, when the candidates were having some kind of do in a department store, SA arrived and was milling around, and someone had the effrontery to walk up to him and say Hello - SA looked at him like he had just farted very loudly, and turned away from the peasant in question very slowly, with squinted eyes! I found this episode rather amusing, and obviously quite strange. However I suppose he has every right to have a bit of arrogance and conceit about him, considering where he started in life and what he has done since then - building successful companies and earning hundreds of millions of pounds etc. Maybe if I had done what he has done I would feel I had earned the right to be addressed as Sir; until then you can all keep calling me 'your greatness', as usual ![]() Yes he is successful, however I know several very rich and successful people that are very down to earth, kind and not at all arrogant. I think if you get that successful in life but can still treat people from cleaners, waiters or anyone else with politeness then you really are a gem. |
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Yes, it's Sir Nevada if you will.
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i remember when i think simon(?) forgot the sir when addressing him and you could hear a pin drop and the poor lad gulped,i think he thought he was gonna be fired on the spot,
alan did give him a dirty look but nodded as if to carry on
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In a formal situation, the correct way to address a knight is as "Sir [whatever his first name is]", as it has been for hundreds of years before Siralan was born. It's hardly like he invented the idea.
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Yes he is successful, however I know several very rich and successful people that are very down to earth, kind and not at all arrogant.
I think if you get that successful in life but can still treat people from cleaners, waiters or anyone else with politeness then you really are a gem. |
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This is a silly thread if you don't mind my being so familiar!
1. I think it is probably the programme makers (or do you think he meets them all before hand and instructs them all how to address him?) 2. Do you go into hospital and call your doctor/consultant by their first names? 3. Would you go into court and call the judge by his first name? If someone is a doctor, you call them doctor etc, if someone is married, you call them Mrs. whatever and if someone is a knight of the realm, you make snide comments about how they are not actually that great after all
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