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I mean, if Trump is the Britney Spears of business then Sugar is... the Lisa Scott-Lee, or something.

― The Lex (The Lex), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

d00d!

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― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link

kate i just heard my mag is likely to be closed down so i wz full of spite and wanted to watch ppl bein fired = the kinds of ppl who decided to close down my mag >:(

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

By your mag I presume you mean Crafts, as I can't imagine Sight & Sound ever being shut down. Pretty bad news, though, whichever mag it is.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh no I'm sorry about your mag. :-(

Is that the appeal of the show? Watching people get fired? Because I couldn't understand the appeal. (Then again, I never "got" BB either.)

Wouldn't you rather watch the kind of stuff your magazine is about (beautifully hand wrought ironwork) being used by Smart! Young! Urbanites! to reassure you that there really is still a market for said magazine?

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Smart! Young! Urbanites! are the cause of said magazine being closed down.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link

haha kate do you mean flog it?

yeah it suXoRz: i hate when magazines get killed (though there are some dead-still-livin which ought to be put out of misery i spose)

(on a sugar-ish note, it is possibly time i stopped devoted 8/9ths of my life to correctin the spellin of the writin of others, and concentrated fully on my own possibly)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:12 (nineteen years ago) link

it is being closed down by insecure amnd confused small-pond funded-arts bureaucrats (though they probably are urbanites)

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

A shame because the folks on this ep of Grand Designs (refurbishing the outside of their cottage with traditional craft and the inside with edgy contemporary craft) seemed to show that there is a market for this sort of thing - but it's technohippies rather than the sort of middle aged ladies that arts council types usually attract.

― We Are All Full Of Kate (kate), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:17 (nineteen years ago) link

it's a nutty decision mostly related to internal politics - of course the mag being autonomous has more internal foes than friends

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 7 April 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link

So, there's Saira just about to get hers, then Raj virtually falls on his sword...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Saira finally getting fired will be such a great TV moment. If Raj actually did anything ever he'd still be on.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

surely the grebtest TV moment =

i. saira gets the job
ii. we get to imagine a.sugar's rage and crestfallen dismay five mins into the working relationship!

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link

sugar certainly has his favourites (or learnt the BB lesson about voting out the noise = less viewers).

she did have a point with the 'cheerio' comment though.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know about the cheerio comment. Anyone can see when someone is or isn't behaving naturally. I don't really like it when people take on the class accent of the person they're talking to.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

he probably wouldn't get away with 'me old china', you're right, but 'bye', for instance, is neutral and natural.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

wotcher guv!

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link

From the comments in James's blog:

Comment from: Tony Linden
Francis the receptionist in the boardroom, looks bored and sounds miserable and shows she has a low opinion of the apprentices.

Comment from: James Max
On Francis - she is actually a production manager from Talkback and is called Sonya... That probably answers that one! She is known as Francis because Sir Alan's real PA is called by that name!

I am deeply shocked.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:50 (nineteen years ago) link

you mean... it's all artifice?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link

what was the "cheerio" thing?

― RJG (RJG), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link

It was about:

Taking sides : Saying "Cheerio" to the proletariat vs "Wotcher"

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

a contestant wz canned for having multi-coloured cereal stuck to their face

― mark s (mark s), Thursday, 14 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link

James Max? is that like Pepsi Max?

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:18 (nineteen years ago) link

It's probably short for McGillicuddy.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:21 (nineteen years ago) link

McGriffin de la soul la Gillicuddy

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Actually, it's probably changed from "Maxwell" ye knaa

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 14 April 2005 12:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Shopping Channel" tonight!

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul is just the fountain of all comedy, no?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:06 (nineteen years ago) link

So, did Alan Sugar make a mistake?

(or is Miriam now ready and due for a successful presenting career?)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, falling about laughing at a really terrible jacket = comedy gold for some strange reason...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I read somewhere this week that the last four candidates are all working for him now anyway, in different parts of the Amstrad "empire."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:42 (nineteen years ago) link

So, what you make of the live "final"?

It was fairly obvious from reading Miriam's site that she was out of the running.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm really surprised Miriam went. I thought the last 2 would be her and James.

Are you going to reserve yourself a ticket for the final? Will it be at White Hart Lane dyou think?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

I'll have to hunt down that phoneline. See what the deal is.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Well the final will take place after the election, so Sugar'll probably be pissed off about Howard not winning and take it all out on the hapless remaining duo Hell's Kitchen-style. Paul and Saira I'm automatically assuming they will be.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Then he'll pick Paul just to piss me off.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Nope, can't find anything on'tint. Shall have to tape the repeat.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Well the final will take place after the election, so Sugar'll probably be pissed off about Howard not winning and take it all out on the hapless remaining duo Hell's Kitchen-style

Did you not read Alan Sugar's EXCLUSIVE political column in the Mirror: "MICHAEL HOWARD: YOU'RE FIRED". He was getting his Third Way on something rotten there.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 21 April 2005 08:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"Before I came here I never knew anyone who had a single negative word to say about me"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"Think about why that's a good question."

"I've got nothing else to do now, have I?"

Interesting, that last comment, coming from an alleged property developer who supposedly owns three-and-a-half million quid's worth of property.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

...one who was very cagey about the mortgages of said property...

so long James Nice-But-Dim. Can't remember much of Tim's contribution to anything either. i guess that's better than being memorable for being loud like the other two.

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

So, Saira to win then as she will probably fuck up the final test grotesquely but Tim will somehow manage to fuck up even more.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 07:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Paul: "I found it a bit boring, actually"

(hint: If you can keep your head whle all around you are losing theirs, chances are you've misunderstood the situation)

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:45 (nineteen years ago) link

"You're gonna be a troubleshooter and fix my problems. Well let me tell you something. I've got no problems. And if I did, I certainly wouldn't ask a 34-year-old like you to sort them out."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 08:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I missed the second half of the show as I had to pick someone up from the station.

Presumably that was Paul?

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link

That was Sir Alan's response to Paul trying it. Seemed to me as though Tim was his favourite - he smiled avuncularly upon him ("You're an East End boy. Just like me. Your mum must be proud of you"). To Saira he quipped: "Are you gonna piss off everyone in my office then?"

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link

What of that rumour that Sug's given the four of them jobs?

That was one hell of a 'sod off' to Paul there...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:14 (nineteen years ago) link

Here's the link to the story about that rumour.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe Alan was so belligerent to Paul cos he changed his mind about Miriam.

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:34 (nineteen years ago) link

Perhaps it's the cumulative frustration of still being lumbered with Saira.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 28 April 2005 09:44 (nineteen years ago) link

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