Apprentice appreciation- we love you LORD SUGAR

I don't know about you but I LOVE The apprentice.

Its back for another twelve weeks with the same mixture of crazy and ultimately pointless tasks where candidates battle it out to prove that they are the ultimate candidate and be hired for the £100,000 salary.

Sir Alan has been promoted he is now a Lord. Lord sugar doesn't that sound grand! “Lord Flav"....nah my last name doesn't have the same ring to it, except funnily enough in my own head lol!

But I love Lord Sugar, with his mixture of cockney accent (He is a fellow hackney-ite like me) and business acumen. His classic one-liners. He made a funny quip about being offered money from someone in nigeria once! In the first episode! He had all the blackberry messenger updates going after that! The man is a man of the world, he is global!

But I also love watching the candidates, a classic cringe-induding line from one of them, in one of the very first sequences of the program was "everything I touch turns to sold" wow blown away I was not but I can see what he was trying to do!...

You've got to love the candidates with all their "I'm the best" rhetoric

I may have been made redundant but "I'm the best blah blah blah"

I may be an unemployed graduate but "I'm the best blah blah blah"

With such a heady mix of ego's competitiveness, LORD SUGAR and tasks that make you think sausages....hmm!!! Apprentice is my idea of a hilarious tv viewing.

If you haven't seen the first episode bbc iplayer it.

All I will say is DAN ragging bull, way too much testosterone!

Between, watching The Apprentice, X-factor and Trueblood how will I ever prise myself away from my TV? *Sigh*

Do you fellow bdss'ers enjoy the apprentice as much as I do? Its far better than strictly come dancing!

I Am A Women - Address Me As Such!

Why do some men insist on addressing you as if you're one of their boys.

Its one of my real bugbears (a long with being called princess).

I'm serious I hate this, I'm not your bredrin, your b, your bruv, your homie, your dog.

Whatever happened to addressing your female friend like your female friend and not your boy.

I understand we are close, but as much as I will sit down with you and watch a football game and become interested, or listen to you go on about the challenges of your day at work, I might listen to some hip-hop or whatever music you like (I've only now deleted the drake from my phone- my point is I'm not a huge hip-hop fan but you make concessions for each other!), or watch a film you like (I found inception tiring! Although you loved it).

We can sit down and talk about anything, politics, religion (although this discussion gets heated), music, x factor etc.

We are friends I know (and I guess all those words are said in an affectionate sounding way- well as much as is possible), they are terms used to greet someone nicely within our community.

But I don't have a penis or beard, or a baritone voice, I never grew up with you, so we never chatted up girls together, or had our first spliff together, or sat around in the barbers with you on a saturday getting your hair cut planning some "moves" together. I'm just not that bredrin you like to holla at me as! You've still got your boys!

My tomboy days have long since gone, in those days it would have been great to be thought of as one of the boys as it meant you were cool with the boys you used to fancy.

Also gone is my love for lyrics such as "your like my homie" butta love next! Or "me and my bitch". Me and my bitch Jaheem!

Maybe I'm alone on this one, maybe I'm being uptight, highly strung whatever...you can think that!

Just don't call me bredrin, bruv or b!

Address women as women!

Over to you bdss'ers!!

What's your bugbear? Get it off your chest!

X Factor Shambles... (I Know I´m Late With This One!)

Now whilst I don´t think Cheryl is a racist, I do think that possibly the malaria has made her loss her right mind! (along with her self respect, her dignity, some loyal fans and I might be inclined to add her frigging soul)!

I mean between Gamu and that Katie there was clearly no competition and that´s why every fiber of my being told me and everyone else (except Cheryl) that Gamu was going through to the live shows... I would go as far as saying it was a collective being, a national being (which obviously excluded Cheryl!).

How else could you explain the hardcore focus on Gamu  from the first show?  I mean as well as the great singing we also got the whole back story: ¨I came from Zimbabwe, I´m a student and my mum worked so hard I want to give back¨, along with all the tears,  and the insistent soppy background music (every one knows by now that when Westlife plays the contestant has got through to the next round, fact! lol) to the point were anyone who has ever watched the show over the past how many years KNEW that Gamu was going through;

Gamu was a dead cert, an audience favorite and tipped to win it according to ALL sources! :-D

So a long with the collective being I was definitely bewildered, shocked, horrified, disgusted, disappointed & confused.com upon learning that Gamu was not going through to the live shows;  and even more shocked that Katie was chosen instead?!

Its was such an unexpected decision that I would even compare the shock to when I found out Princess Diana died or when I was up late one night and found out that Michael Jackson  died!… you know one of them real bewildering huh? moments! ... like you remember exactly what you were doing the day Gamu got booted off the X Factor... ´I was swimming with dolphins in the Indian Ocean when I heard the news about Gamu!´ :-(

But I guess that´s show business for you... nothing makes sense when ratings & revenue are involved! and although we have always suspected the show is somehow fixed (I mean its the show that brought us Jedward after all),  I really like X Factor and I really liked Cheryl up until Saturday,  but now I´m questioning her capacity to sit in the judging seat... I mean she choose a Madonna wannabe over real singing talent and she has got a big thumbs down for her trouble (talking about Í´m back to health´ she should have just stayed at home in bed if you ask me! kmt)

I mean I can understand why she put Cher through; she said she was right up her 'Street' which is fair enough; and the other lady can definitely sing! But Katie? that question mark will loom over the next few weeks... that is unless she preforms miracles on the show (I would suggest farting gold dust or singing a song through without forgetting the words as a start!). I think the only thing Cheryl got right is that Katie is like marmite, you either love her or hate her!

My personal theory is not that Cheryl is a racist or that she is paying Africa back for the Malaria! (the people that come up with these conspiracy theories are obviously on some other level! lol) but that this year she has obviously succumbed to the powers that be and someone has made the decision for her, in order to garner as much hype, publicity, controversy, anger, hate etc that can be stimulated from a show that has a formula which is running out of steam!

Either that or the malaria has had some surprising lasting effects...

So anyways my BDSS´ers where were you when you heard the Gamu news? and what are your thoughts on Cheryl and her choice of Katie?