I've never seen this programme before and only saw the last half hour.

Even after only seeing a small amount I would have sacked Nargis. She was rude, unprofessional and generally terrible !

She was awful!

Narga: "Feel free to ask me any questions"
Buyer: "How much are you selling them for?"
Narga: "HANG ON I HAVEN'T FINISHED! Feel free to ask questions after I have finished"

Hmmm...Great Ormond St Children's Hospital - obviously very dear to Sir Alan's heart - he loves children - so let's take lots of piccies of cute widdle...cats!

And yes NugNug! - Narga was terrible - and if she hadn't been so all round awful, then crazy, blubbing Jo would have gone bye-byes

Hi Twiddle!! Cute liddle Twiddle

Glad to hear from you, hope you're well and keeping warm (vodka helps to keep the spirits up)

This was the problem last year - they pick the boldest and the best - and they just can't handle a creative brief. But Lordy - that Narga was like a robot 'I've Not Finished!' - scary

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Originally posted by P Diddy Top Dog:
Bloomin'eck, this old thing still works!
My favourite part was when the unaesthetic, frumpy, "some kind of nutter", cry-baby woman was the only one against using sex to sell.
Plus I'd like to see who would buy a shoddy apple for £2.50 without a camera crew present.
And I also liked how SAS wealth has increased to £800m in the last year - thanks to the last series no doubt!
Love
D to the T
ps bring back last year's theme music!

Yo, PDTD!!!

And also bring back the Jaws music when the SAS Mobile weaves its way through the city streets. Scary

Hi coolana Do hope your lurgi has cleared up
If the stats are correct and kitty calendars sell way, way above all other calendars and the object of the girls' task was to sell the most calendars, what was wrong with that? As it turned out, the calendar buyers thought otherwise, so, presumably the stats were incorrect. So, the girls' research was flawed and perhaps that is where the criticism should lay and not at Kitty calendars per se.
But, and this gets quite philosophical, I contend that a Great Ormond Street Calendar is a Charity calendar, not a commercial, non-charity calendar, and therefore a DIFFERENT product, Therfore, Kitty calendar sales statistics are irrelevant.
I don't think much of Sir Alan's bluster, why is he always bad-tempered?

..and of course, the girls were silly in not having Great Ormond Str prominently displayed on their Kitty calendar and in not having the calendar part eg month day etc. very obvious.
Nothing more annoying than a calendar which pretends not to be a calendar!!

Hi Rothgar

Still a bit waek/pathetic - but getting there, thank you for asking

The cat thing - absolutely, it was not a commercial calendar, and this is their main problem (Apprentice contestants) they approach everything in a busines framework, ie commercial objectives. If you want to appeal to people who choose to put charity money into a hospital for sick children - then give them the kids? The doctors, the nurses - chooe actors from popular hospital dramas - I dunno - something relevent? ie a double whammy - kids and the charity element.

Funny though - if there was actually a calendar on the calendar - would the girls have won anyway?

Also - the Virgin guys. They go for cutting edge, purely commercial considerations - they hated the 'desk top publishing' element of the boys attemptrs, so commercially, maybe they made a better stab at it.

But - is Sir Alan a cat lover? Apparently not, but any fool could have guessed he loves kids.

So - all for our entertainment

Bad tempered old Alan. 'I can't put up with that' he said, about emotional Jo. And she's promised to calm down - let's hope not

OK - couldn't edit that on time Please ignore the typos - but would like to point out, when I said 'maybe they made a better stab at it' I meant the girls, in commercial terms, with Virgin - if you see what I mean

I thought Narj was unfairly slammed by Sir Alan.
If the task had been sell as many Sausages/Pots of Marmalade/Shirts/Chairs (and all proceeds to Great Ormond Street) she would have been right in finding out the best selling type and flogging just that.
So, the same with calenders, just another product.
There was no requirement that they should be theme-linked. Proceeds were the priority.
So Jo IMHO is seriously barking and not amenable to reason.

Bring back Nargis!!
"Nargis, you're NOT fired"
Beautiful girl, beautifully spoken, supremely intelligent, - what a travesty of justice!!

I'll only talk when I'm asked. She scares me!

No way! Nargis was terrible at that task!

Bad calender, bad sales pitch I HAVEN'T FINISHED YET! ...bad sales pitch, scarey. Any questions?

...and beautifully tailored.
I think that is the inherent problem with "The Apprentice" that is, real brains and talent go unrecognised by Sid James, and the so, so inferior team members were unable to deliver.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and six million of them own cats, half of them in London alone, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Calenders.

That chick was terrible. I was embarrassed for her. Could she not hear herself?

I could have done a better job with no preparation.

Also cannot stand Sayed. He got better yesterday when he was disputing the price of the calender though.

Can't stand the guy who made the pitch now. what an arrogant so and so.

i was on jo's side yesterday but she is a fruit loop. i hope she can calm it down

I think that is what most of these people's problem is.

Great viewing though.

has anyone been watching that show on channel 5, where these people are interviewed by a panel for the same job. can't remember what it is called but it's also very good

"Chick"?

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Originally posted by NugNug!:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, and six million of them own cats, half of them in London alone, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Calenders.

And in calendar terms, cats and dogs are 'always in the top ten' said the girls - which frankly, ain't that impressive - especially not when you want to flog calendars to raise money for a kid's hospital.

But then - I'm a dog lover myself.

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six million of them own cats, half of them in London alone

And that bit may have swayed Mr Buyer from Harrods - but as the outcome showed, the geyser who spends his days buying nowt but calenders -for the whole of Britain - was perhaps less concerned with how many kitties there are in Kensington.

Give me a Manc lurcher any day of the week. And a full set of days and dates on it an all, proper like

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Originally posted by diggettydawg:
"Chick"?

I think he meant the beautifully tailored, beautifully spoken, beautiful girl also known as Nargis - eh Rothgar

Nargis was on the BBC3 follow-up - beautifully manicured, beautifully poised, - with that Brum bloke with the squashed-up face, an industrial psychologist and a Sid James sidekick.
The general consensus was because she was so incredibly and beautifully brainy, perhaps, she, unwittingly, lacked the common touch.
She readily and graciously accepted this criticism.
Beautiful.

I thought she was a bit of a think posho, but then I eat Pot Noodles so I am probably not the best person to judge.

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Originally posted by coolana:

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Originally posted by diggettydawg:
"Chick"?

I think he meant the beautifully tailored, beautifully spoken, beautiful girl also known as Nargis - eh Rothgar

SHE

whoops! Sorry voice-iferous - thought you were a fella!! Someone who calls women 'chicks' - didn't think you were a chick, like