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rgraves

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Yeah posh Harry was actually OK this week. I thought it was extremely cheeky of that other girl to take any credit whatsoever for selling that dead looking plant to the restaurant when it was obvious who made the sale. Being within 50 metres of a transaction and lugging the stock about doesn't mean you had any real input.

It wasn't so cut and dried though. The guy had said no to the triffids once, and it was only because Gbemi then started selling some bouquets for the bar that Harry even got a second chance to work on him. Without Gbemi there, he'd have been out the door without that sale.

I also thought the pricing thing which Sugar seemed so at pains to point out was a total red herring - if they'd gone with Harry and charged higher prices, they wouldn't have won the theatre order or (possibly) the hairdresser. As much as they hated the idea of 'rainforest chic' I'm not certain the hairdressers would have said yes to that team if they'd quoted them considerably more than the others. So it was never as simple as just charging more to get that extra £12 at all.

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CurryKitten

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Lewis's inability to speak, or make any sense at all was great.

"is it very breaky, er does it stay working" - meaning "Is it resiliant"

"how does it cope in er weather, like wind" - meaning "Is this ok in the rain"

Intersting (and bonkers) tactic of trying to sell things well above their RRP

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Art Vandelay

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Selling things over the RRP would've be a great tactic at an exhibition like that. All they had to do when quoting the price to a potential buyer is just add a few quid to it and instantly 'discount' it. "It's £24.99, but I'll knock it down to £19.99 as you've got a lovely set of false teeth/you smell like talcum powder/your baggy old tights are amazing". People go mad for a bargain. I'd go so far as to say that it's probably standard practice as these types of affair.

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Yobo Ahoy

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Lewis's inability to speak, or make any sense at all was great.

"is it very breaky, er does it stay working" - meaning "Is it resiliant"

"how does it cope in er weather, like wind" - meaning "Is this ok in the rain"

I love the way he wrote down and repeated out loud when they corrected him. 'so it's resilient' ... 'so it's waterproof'.

Classic.

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superquake

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I'm giving up on the Young Apprentice this year. Not found it at all interesting and the kids are beyond annoying with no redeemable qualities.

I'm feeling the same. At the moment I've reached the stage of having it on in the background whilst doing something else, and looking up if it sounds like something's kicking off, but there's really not much happening this series :(

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Azrael

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The predictability of it is really starting to grate. It's always the same:

Team A doing really well.

Team B doing really bad.

"Shock" announcement that Team B win the task.

Near enough every week.

I'm annoyed Lewis has gone. Sure he was pretty useless but he was funny and likeable. Unlike that posho Harry or the Irish guy. Can't stand those two.

Couple of the girls are quite... sorry, how old? Oh ok.. :ph34r:

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Art Vandelay

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The result today was a travesty. How a terrible looking brand coupled with a product that by all accounts tasted like bell end beat quite a well thought out idea is anyone's guess. This format of eliminations is really unfair and robbed us of the Harry vs. Harry grudge match that we were waiting for. The fact that we won't see posh Harry being body slammed through a table and the other one hovering over his twitching corpse is an injustice I won't soon forget.

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The format of the episode is bizarre, it's like they thought the series was longer and then realised there was one episode to go and four people still to boot out, particularly unfair when one of those is on the winning team. Not that I care too much because it has been a pretty dull show all round.

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Wickedkitten

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The result today was a travesty. How a terrible looking brand coupled with a product that by all accounts tasted like bell end beat quite a well thought out idea is anyone's guess. This format of eliminations is really unfair and robbed us of the Harry vs. Harry grudge match that we were waiting for. The fact that we won't see posh Harry being body slammed through a table and the other one hovering over his twitching corpse is an injustice I won't soon forget.

Posh Harry was robbed

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Art Vandelay

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Posh Harry was robbed

There's obviously no way of knowing, but it's my belief that they would have been brutalised in the sales figures if they'd have gone for Smoochies. It's like that horrible sharing biscuit concept from the last series only even more cringe inducing. Could you imagine asking for a box of them?

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Wickedkitten

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There's obviously no way of knowing, but it's my belief that they would have been brutalised in the sales figures if they'd have gone for Smoochies. It's like that horrible sharing biscuit concept from the last series only even more cringe inducing. Could you imagine asking for a box of them?

Smoochies was bad, but not nearly as bad as the other teams name. Hell even empire state wasn't great considering they had a route 66 sign ont he back and nothing referencing new york

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Art Vandelay

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I always think these branding projects are a bit flawed. The concepts only exist within the confines of the show so it makes most of it fairly meaningless. Especially when the buyers criticise an element of the product and the contestants seem able to promise the earth in response. Sure we'll change the flavour! We'll change anything about it if you'll buy some! Like last year when Jim vowed to spend about £40m of an advertising campaign for some start-up company's new biscuits. Seems totally unfair to me.

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zxcvbnm

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Lard Sugar knew exactly who he wanted in the final and put people in the teams he chose to reflect that. Once the middle aged looking teenager and the slob alcoholic dad Irish kid were put together you knew straight away that the the girl on that team was for the boot.

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CurryKitten

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It did seem like decided to rip an episode out and just kick out 4 people last week - I guess the interview phase is a bit unfair on 16-18 year olds.

The Irish kid had it in the bag until he said he's spend the money studying economics, and then he'd like to make, market and sell "something".

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Art Vandelay

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He had it in the bag until he made it clear he'd spend the money on education rather than buying a big camera and making money out of it. Sugar hates that. Also he only likes adverts that show an image of the product with the message of 'buy this product', so the more implicit ad was always likely to win.

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I thought the Irish lad's idea was terrible in terms of future prospects - there's no merchandising possibilities of a game based on running the country compared to a game about a cute pig. Also, the cute pig thing meant it was more likely to appeal to and spread between a massive market of kids. But I was surprised at how well he did in the end. However his plans for the money basically just screamed 'I will spend the money on education, but I would have got an education anyway' which basically meant the 25 grand prize was going to do nothing, but Zara had a clear idea of what she could do with the money, hence in Sugar's eyes the prize wouldn't go to waste. Actually thinking about it now, I'm surprised that James got this far to begin with. He completely lacked any kind charisma and drive compared to many of the others, I think he just got lucky with the teams he was on in a lot of ways.

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