The Apprentice UK #2

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Probablylurking66 said:
If she is then it'll just be for the final, they always change it from the final to the actual thing, I guess so we don't know who won. It's actually called My Everyday Pyjamas and it looks like Mike Souter was true to his word and gave her the domain name šŸ˜‚ https://www.myeverydaypyjamas.co.uk/
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Her tagline is ā€œBecause nothing says love, like matching pyjamas.ā€ šŸ¤”
(Sheā€™s put a comma after ā€œloveā€. Does it need it? I donā€™t think it does but Iā€™m not great when it comes to punctuation.)

Jeez Iā€™m surprised my kids havenā€™t reported me to social services because weā€™ve never had matching PJs. šŸ˜±
Perhaps the fact they both had the same design Buzz Lightyear ones when they were little may have saved me.

Tbh Iā€™d not pay Ā£25 for boys pyjamas. Surely thatā€™s not the price for pyjamas these days?
 
Claude to Brittany, ā€˜this interview is terminatedā€™ šŸ˜­

Tbf though, I do feel Brittany would have gone further if her business plan had been based around hotels.

Overall I found the interview episodes to be very lacklustre and just a bit dull, usually theyā€™re something to look forward to but it was just a bit rushed this year- with the majority of the focus on the girls all supporting each other with the same lines before and after every person went in. Usually we rarely see the candidates between interviews and the focus would always be on the interviews. As well, the filming style this series has been awful tooā€¦ with Harpreet and Kathryn in the car, camera zooming in just made me feel a bit motion sick. I do think Harpreet should have been disqualified for only owning 50% of the business, or not let on the series at all. If she wins it just shows that anyone with a food/catering business will get the investment
 
hol20x said:
As long as her sister is prepared to take a trip to the job centre. :ROFLMAO:
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I'm sure they spoke it through before she went on the show. I'm also sure Lord Sugar and the rest of the show staff were aware of it before inviting her on the show. Last night was just for TV purposes as they couldn't find a thing wrong with her business plan. I could because her beautiful dessert parlour on Hillhouse Lane about a ten minute walk from the town centre is a known prostitute street. This is a old article but it still happens now.....

www.mirror.co.uk

Prostitute scrawled lipstick message on mirror before stealing client's car

Sharon Wells took the man's vehicle to collect her next drugs fix after spending the night with the punter at a Travelodge in Huddersfield, a court heard
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Hopefully she wins the show and can switch premises to the centre of town.
 
ElectricDreams said:
I don't really understand the matching pyjamas thing, and I can't see how anyone would pay that much, especially when kids grow as fast as they do. Once the kids outgrow them, do mum and dad still carry on wearing matching pj's? Or do they have to buy another set of expensive matching pyjamas?
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I buy my family matching PJs. My kids get a size big so I get two years out if it.
 
Not caught up with the latest ep yet but just watching the special final four programme and it makes me feel really tit about myself that Iā€™m no good at managing people, negotiating, and have no ambition šŸ˜­ā˜¹ļø Iā€™m happy to just have a 9-5 job and thatā€™s it but watching this I feel like I should be a go getter šŸ˜…
 
I don't know how it would work with Harpreet's sister? Is she just going to give up the business and let Harpreet and Sugar crack on? I doubt he would be ok with just her verbal reassurance. I think this would influence his final decision, although Kathryn's pyjamas are tit and I can't see him going for her either.
 
Kathyn: I find it a bit silly that the judges are against production in China just because of the time frame. Most clothing is sewn in Asia.
I don't like though that Kathryn is saying her pyjamas are 'ethical'. She doesn't know the factory she uses, she hasn't mentioned anything like GOTS or Fair Trade seals at all, or audits or anything. She doesn't know when clothing is ethical. Consumers who buy fair fashion tend to do their research, if she wants to be taken seriously, she should know what it entails.
Moreover, there are ethical companies that DO produce in China, like Langerchen (coats) and Klean Kanteen (bottles). And there is unethical fashion made in the UK by unregistered migrants who work for less than minimum wage. A country alone doesn't define whether something is ethical.
If she wants something closer to home, she should look in Portugal. It has a long tradition of ethical clothing manufacturing (but she will have to choose a manufacturing site that IS ethical, most European sewing factories are not automatically ethical - look up scandals in Serbia). Lots of ethical brands produce in Portugal. Even Croatia and Turkey are options, which have similar facilities, albeit on a smaller scale.

coriander said:
I don't know how it would work with Harpreet's sister? Is she just going to give up the business and let Harpreet and Sugar crack on? I doubt he would be ok with just her verbal reassurance. I think this would influence his final decision, although Kathryn's pyjamas are tit and I can't see him going for her either.
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A few years ago Sian Gabbidon with the swimwear company won... her business was still in its infancy, she sewed everything herself. Almost her whole investment was going to be blown on marketing with influencers.
I often feel that Lord Sugar is left with a bunch of bad business plans and just has to pick one reluctantly, because he agreed to do it. But then he's been doing this for years so it's probably not that bad in the end...
 
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IndominusRex said:
They could handover the current business to her sister and jointly set up a new one with a different brand maybe.
Also remember with inventor Tom he pitched one idea and got the investment for something else entirely. Surprised that wasnā€™t suggested to this lot.
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He's of course he's very canny & will probably have some watertight contract drawn up for the sister to relinquish all responsibility & input into the business.
 
bananapeel said:
I often feel that Lord Sugar is left with a bunch of bad business plans and just has to pick one reluctantly, because he agreed to do it. But then he's been doing this for years so it's probably not that bad in the end...
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It also wouldn't surprise me if they're made to look more incompetent for the production value of the show. Lord Sugar and his advisors are smart people - I really can't see them forking out their own money to invest in something so risky or just plain sh*t. I'd love to know what the audition process is. Hard to believe this year's crop are the best.
 
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