Pointless vanity business wins The Apprentice.

[Globalti]

I don't watch the programme but am depressed to see that somebody won it with yet another beauty salon idea. The high streets are already full of tanning salons, nail bars, hairdressers and various places offering dubious holistic treatments so why do we need more of them?

When will Sir Alan promote ideas that involve manufacturing goods, exporting them and earning revenue for the UK?

 

[Peter Armstrong]

He didn’t get to invent the businesses, just pick one idea out of a crap few.

 

[Markymark]

Supply & demand. You say there's no money in it yet it is supproting a massive industry as is evident by the amount of places you say you see in the high street.

 

[EltonFrog]

I can't understand why people watch these inane vacuous dope hounds on television. I know I'm in the minority, these programmes are enormously popular and are watched by millions, me, I just don't get it.

I saw a little bit of last nights programme, just after watching a recording of TDF highlights, and for the life of me I would not give a single one of those dopes the time of day.

Lord Sugar must be laughing all the way to the bank, as must be the producers.

 

[Markymark]

Lord Sugar must be laughing all the way to the bank, as must be the producers.

Its entertainment, nothing more, nothing less. As for Lord Sugar, he donates his earnings from this to Great Ormond Street Hospital, an act of generosity rarely seen in other TV celebs.

http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/how-alan-sugar-made-his-money.html

 

[Maz]

Do you think Leah dyes her hair? I mean, she's got dark eyebrows but she's blonde.

 

[Markymark]

Do you think Leah dyes her hair? I mean, she's got dark eyebrows but she's blonde.

Are you suggesting the cuffs and collars don't match??

 

[Maz]

[QUOTE 2553852, member: 259"]Yes, I suspect so. This is what she looked like in her teens.

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Yep, definitely a brunette...

 

[DougieAB]

Never watched it. A bunch of to$$ers fighting to get employed by a complete ar$ehole, no thanks!

 

[ianrauk]

Never watched it. A bunch of to$$ers fighting to get employed by a complete ar$ehole, no thanks!

Which is why it's so watchable.

 

[Fnaar]

I watch it primarily because I'm amazed by how long the female candidates' legs always are. is this evolution in progress? Will women be 7ft tall in the future?

 

[andylaw79]

I watch it primarily because I'm amazed by how long the female candidates' legs always are. is this evolution in progress? Will women be 7ft tall in the future?

It's forced perspective, they use cameras strapped to the backs of cat and dogs for arty low-down shots.

 

[Over The Hill]

When will Sir Alan promote ideas that involve manufacturing goods, exporting them and earning revenue for the UK?

He will not because it is 2013 not 1953.
Transit factory has just shut down and gone to Turkey, Dyson moved production abroad. We do not have the ability to make stuff and export it. Amstrad just shipped in cheap imports 30 years ago.
If we do make anything we first have to import the raw materials anyway.
Really what are we going to make and sell abroad? Warm Beer? Rover Cars?
And who wants to grow up and work in a factory? We do not have the skills or the want to work on a production line now. Generally we have to import workers to work in low paid jobs.

About 90% of the high street is pointless vanity. But there is lots of money in that!

 

[hopless500]

I can't understand why people watch these inane vacuous dope hounds on television. I know I'm in the minority, these programmes are enormously popular and are watched by millions, me, I just don't get it.

I saw a little bit of last nights programme, just after watching a recording of TDF highlights, and for the life of me I would not give a single one of those dopes the time of day.

Lord Sugar must be laughing all the way to the bank, as must be the producers.

I'm in the minority with you. Can't stand this, nor all the rest of the reality tv shite and talent(less) shows that we have. And most of the half decent stuff that is left has been so dumbed down my poor braincell can't cope

 

[Globalti]

OTH, you're nearly right but Britain still manufactures a few specialist goods like, er, weapons systems and chemicals, special papers and textiles, we're just not in the mass-market areas any more. My own employer is breaking records almost every month making industrial perfumes, we are now 80% export (was 30% export when I joined in 1988) and selling in 95 different countries and we are building a new £9m robotic compounding factory. Why can't Sr'Alan use his financial muscle to promote more small specialist manufacturing?