And the winner is?

[Teamedup]

I have instinctively stayed away from news, both french and english since yesterday morning. And  I don't know the result.

I am going to watch this lunch time, just hopefully the headlines. I will try and avoid the constant blabbering of overpaid journalists, who I'm sure will be going on about it all for quite some time to come.

 

And now I have to go out, and will know the result before I get back on here.

[Chauffour]

winner of what?

are you talking about Hell kitchen or American idol ?

[Iceni]

Come on, it must be the apprentice which I found rivetting. Alan Sugar gave him a job and his first comment was that he was going to see his mother 'all right'. A well deserved win.

[Teamedup]

I've seen the news now. Just saw the result and that is all I'm prepared to watch for the next few days.

 

Interesting Hell's Kitchen being mentioned. As it nicely brings up north eastern accents....... well some of them at least. Bearing in mind where TB was brought up,  he should sound rather like Terry the winner of Hell's Kitchen than that strange SE accent that he seems to have, such is the nature of a public school education.

 

And I was hooked on The Apprentice too and was pleased with the winner. American Idol, sorry, no speak.

[JohnM]

Re overpaid Journo's. It isn't what they are paid that annoys me (even though they do get more than me) but it's the air they give off that what they are saying is actually important, that get's my goat. The same thing applies to Pundits. (I suppose I can understand that after an election it is handy to have the implications of the result aired, but I can never understand why the same thing happens after football matches. Who really gives a ******** if "A Retired Footballer" thinks that the goal in the 17th minute was fantastic).

 

[Russethouse]

Loved 'The Apprentice' but although I liked the winner (really nice guy, all credit to him) I just felt that Saira ( sp ?) had the gut instinct that the winner lacked, and I don't think you can teach it.

My two happeth is that the Labour party completely underestimated the strength of feeling about the war, both at the time and now.

And could the Journalist please stop aping TBs style of speech, you know, hands together (often just fingertips)speak 3 words, stop pause for breath, hands out to side, start again, hands together another three words........ he rarely seems to put more than a sentence together.

BTW Labour lost our local seat

[Tourangelle]

Ah the problems of having heart and mind in two countries, I feel like we finish one election and straight into the referendum and then what? Lots in the news about whether Raffarin will still be PM after the 29th, seems like Chirac is not to keen to have the guignol on side for the presidential in 2007, so who will it be next? Super Sarko I would have said a year or two ago, but now I don't think he'd want it, so perhaps de Villepin or maybe Michele Alliot-Marie?

[JohnM]

[quote]Loved 'The Apprentice' but although I liked the winner (really nice guy, all credit to him) I just felt that Saira ( sp ?) had the gut instinct that the winner lacked, and I don't think you can teach ...[/quote]

Oh yes that's, what I hate, as well. Journo's that can, not string a, phrase to, gether. Then the voice, goes up when, they say, "Reporters Name", and down for, "reports"

I think the hand positioning is a "device" to stop them from twitching or being waved round like a windmill. I'll forgive that. (I hate watching singers who think they are being expressive by doing tiny hand/arm movements at the end of each line).

 

[Coco]

Cor blimey, glad I didn't read this thread til this morning.  We had to record The Apprentice on Wednesday because we had guests for dinner.  However, we coc ked up and recorded BBC1 by mistake, so had to try again last night.  We managed to avoid all news coverage and I only watched it two hours ago.  Thank god I didn't look at this thread earlier - and thank god it was Tim!  I couldn't stand that AWFUL woman!!!

Our old constituency went back to Conservative too Gay, after two terms with a totally ineffectual labour MP.