Re: The Apprentice - Katie - Unbelievable!!


"Alan Hope" <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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michael adams goes:

"Alan Hope" <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Alan Hope" <not.alan.hope@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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michael adams goes:

Based on what you've seen on the programme - which isn't supposed
to
be
much less than Sugar sees, can you produce one single piece of
evidence
why
Sugar should have chosen Simon as one of the final two ? Especially
now
that
it transpires that he's a busted flush from the City, who's still
licking
his wounds ? IOW a nut job with a high IQ.

Sure. He's got the makings of something if he can be moulded into
shape. He's the perfect Apprentice for a large corporation that
doesn't need innovators.

How's that any different from saying "potentially anyone has the
makings
of someone if they can be moulded into shape" ?

I don't know. It's not my view. I think he's a wanker. I'm trying to
see it from Sugar's POV.

However Simon isn't just someone. He's already tainted by failure.
For all his genius level IQ, 6 languages, and break dancing skills.

He took a wrong turning at an early age. He's young enough to come
around, with a firm hand on the tiller, aaaarr.

Given the choice, Sugar would do better off plucking somebody off the
street with the equivalent ability who was looking for a chance IMO -
someone ambitious but without Simon's psychological baggage.

To be fair, we have no idea what his psychological baggage might be.
You're in danger of straying into the armchair therapy territory of
that tosser John Smith.

I said the night he escaped the boot when he was PM, that he was
marked for victory. I was certain then that he was headed for the
final.

Those are two entirely different things. Like you I suspect he's
been "saved up" for the final. But not so as to win. The exact
opposite
in fact. He's been chosen to be the patsy, the stooge, the fall guy
who no matter how hard he tries, can be almost guarenteed to give
Sugar's actual selection a guarenteed win in the final round.
A shoe in.

Sugar's no mug. He knows who he wants to win. And probably has done
from early on. And the one thing he has least control over is who wins
that last round.

You've said that more than once. I don't get it. Why has he no
control?

Up until the very last round because he can fire whoever he likes -
providing they're in the losing team - that also means he can
keep in whoever he likes. Basically if he takes a shine to someone
they can perform terribly but he can still keep them in. He's in
total control. Even this last interview round was a total con
and he had even more control. Because whatever his mates said he
was free to fire whoever he liked.

However in the last round he has no such control. He has to abide by
the result of the task. If the "wrong" person wins, then he's
stuck with them. Geddit ?

Do we know how the task is to be judged? I seem to remember there was
plenty of wiggle-room for Sugar to do what he likes. It's one on one,
remember. It can't be a who-makes-most result, or there's no input
from Sugar at all. I suggest he has ultimate decision-making power in
the last stage, and he could easily opt for whomever he pleases.

I think you're wrong on this.

Which could be fatal, as if his chosen canditate loses
then he's stuffed. So he'll load the dice as much as he can, short of
getting Nick and Margaret to fiddle the figures, so as to make sure
they definitely won't lose.

So he does have control.

He certainly can't ask Nick or Margaret to fiddle the figures.
The consequences of his being found out as compared with any
benefits are totally out of proportion.
And even if he puts a muppett in charge of the opposing team and
fills it with total incompetents there's still a very small
chance of their winning. Very small however.

I don't think there's any winning and losing as such. He names an
Apprentice, and that's it. That's how it happened last time, isn't it?

Pre-ordained. Nothing else explains why Naomi was fired and not
him.

Yes, but not for the reasons you think.

You're getting a bit too cloak and dagger for my liking.

The beauty is that it's all in Sugar's head. No need for plants, or
anything written on paper. Maybe a bit of consulation with the
production team off the record but that's about it.
That's the only way to explain how Katie was allowed to get away with so
much, without her being in on it. They're not mugs and so sussed she was
a publicity junkie all along, and so they gave her the rope she
craved.

Of course if Simon wins, then I'll never hear the end of it.

If Simon wins I'll throw myself under a train because it would be too
painful to live in a world of such stupidity. Even though I predicted
it. Can't say fairer than that, what do you reckon?

See my other post. I was forgetting that according to Sarah Khan
at least, Sugar employs both finalists for the six months between
the end of filming and the final task. So maybe that will give
Simon the chance to get his head together and show this potential
- which they will have checked up on no doubt insofar as actual
paper qualifications are concerned - and ability which they keep
banging on about. It may be a completely differnt, confident
winning Simon who emerges next week. Dunno.
Dope that I am, I checked out the Paddy Power site early on thinking
to have a bet on it as well.

michael adams

....






Hope springs eternal, as they say. Or at least until next Wednesday
around 9.45 p.m.

10.45 where I am.


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AH
http://grapes2dot0.blogspot.com





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