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Thoughts On The Apprentice

There's been a lot written and spoken about the current series of The Apprentice.

It does indeed make for marvellous tv and I've been dipping into it when the footie permits. I don't have Sky+ and feel very little the worse for the lack of it. Watching tv 'live' is much more fun.

The latest crop of would-be apprentices are providing much humour. Perhaps they're no worse than their predecessors but, at this remove, it certainly seems so. 

Phillip, the professional Geordie contestant, particularly, seems bent on taking stupidity and crassness into uncharted territories. And that's certainly saying something given how much of the stupidity and crassness map has already been covered.  When his team won last week and he was given the opportunity to eat food and drink wine the occasion appeared too much for the lad.  He could barely control his excitement and gave a very good impersonation of that fabled beast : the dog with two cocks.

But despite this and everything else that goes on: the endless gabbling, the pathetic fawning, the embarrassing self-aggrandisment and, worst of all perhaps, the enormous deceit, here's what really seals the deal for these bunch of hopeless losers:

Anyone who addresses a "Knight" as "Sir" should be shot at birth.

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