The Apprentice...

[Bingy man]

Walked out or was thrown out, or did someone call them coloured? context need explanation please.

Only gave the paper a quick glance as I was getting my moms papers , walked out as far as I read , a quick google search confirms the Sri Lankan candidate used the word coloured to describe black people . The bbc are saying he received diversity training and that he quit for another reason , another report says he left before he was fired . Either way a little over the top , and as I said I’m not turning this thread into racial awareness post I just find it strange that because the episode has not yet aired so it could of been edited out without any fuss or bother ..jmho

 

[Eshmiel]

They don't pick contestants for their business acumen, they are making an entertainment show whose main purpose is to get views/comments/media attention.... same as any other 'reality' or 'talent' show. There are dozens of people on this forum that produce work far superior to that shown on 'Britain's Best Woodworker' for example, and that is before you get to professional or trade cabinet makers and the like. Don't watch The Apprentice as 'the future brains of business Britain', watch it as entertainment (if you must watch it at all!) - after all, how many people really want to watch a well run board room meeting or product design launch?!

Don't watch it, or about 99.9% of other mass media output, at all. Many is the brain that's been infested and rotted by such stuff. We like to think we're immune because we can say, "Isn't that awful". But the "awful" is now in the brainbox and doing what it does best - displacing or corrupting stuff that really matters.

 

[artie]

Dipping my toe so softly into a minefield...

What is the proper way to refer to black, coloured, people in this strange world we live in.?

It doesn't come up often, but I try to say the guy in the hat, or grey jacket if possible

 

[Eshmiel]

Dipping my toe so softly into a minefield...

What is the proper way to refer to black, coloured, people in this strange world we live in.?

It doesn't come up often, but I try to say the guy in the hat, or grey jacket if possible

It's a valid question 'cos of the culture we live in, with its many rather stupid taxonomies, divisions, classifications and schemas. But .....

In one sense it's the wrong question. If the notion of race, as often found in out culture, is invalid (and personally I think it is) then we can refer to other people in all sorts of ways that are meaningful without considering the colour of their skin. For example, if the skin colour is a sort of pinkish-white, do we ever find ourselves referring to, "That pinkish-white person"?

Sometimes a skin colour (or nose-shape or hair colour or number of working eyes) is relevant - in, for example, a description issued to those searching for an individual who may be lost, injured or the burglar one saw climbing out the shed window with one's only Festool. But generally, its irrelevant.

Well, sort of. Because our society and culture in general has become obsessed with skin colour, with various prejudices and disadvantages applied to those who are, say, purple, we end up talking about it. I blame that Julian Huxley and his forebears.

 

[Cabinetman]

Dipping my toe so softly into a minefield...

What is the proper way to refer to black, coloured, people in this strange world we live in.?

It doesn't come up often, but I try to say the guy in the hat, or grey jacket if possible

Thanks for asking, I don’t know tbh, it used to be rude to refer to someone as being black, and coloured was the term used but that’s all reversed now?
I think we are all more than a little afraid of getting this sort of thing wrong and already I’m beginning to think I should have kept quiet.

 

[mwinfrance]

one's only Festool

that is like saying one only ate one crisp.

I thought acquiring Festool gear was addictive..almost up there with fentanyl, or Colombian marching powder.

I've always managed to avoid buying a festool..now if they made gouges, that might not be the case.

 

[Eshmiel]

that is like saying one only ate one crisp.

I thought acquiring Festool gear was addictive..almost up there with fentanyl, or Colombian marching powder.

I've always managed to avoid buying a festool..now if they made gouges, that might not be the case.

'Twas but a hypothetical burglary of the Festool. In fact I do have five: 2 now ancient sanders (they were sold when called "Festo") and an equally ancient dust sucker bought at the same time. Only one has needed a fix by the Festool fixers. The big Domino and the smaller Domino, I have. No more, though, but! I nearly bought their jigsaw but got a Mafell instead.

 

[misterfish]

I always think of the Michell and Webb sketch = Mitchell and Webb - Apprentice - It describes it succinctly

 

[Fergie 307]

I watch it just to be appalled. I worked in Corporate sales and sales mgt for 25 years, carrying sales quota of over 600 m ukp in that time. There are very few of those candidates I would consider for a job.
The best bit of the series is the prog where they look at business cases, some of them are utterly appalling.

I have up watching the whole thing a long time ago. Used to still watch the last episode when they got picked apart, Claude Littner certainly didn't take prisoners. More entertaining than the rest of the series put together.

 

[Eshmiel]

I have up watching the whole thing a long time ago. Used to still watch the last episode when they got picked apart, Claude Littner certainly didn't take prisoners. More entertaining than the rest of the series put together.

Dafty mocking and humiliation as entertainment? Hmmmmm.