I like this
However, I would contend that The Apprentice is excellent television, as long as you work on the premise that Sugar and his aides are taking the piss and laughing behind their hands at every single one of the self-important twats who believe they're The Future Of British Business (TM)
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:19, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It's all symptomatic of a catastrophic decline in human society
In that the vast majority are only entertained by either cringeworthy suffering or by clinging onto the idea that lack of talent or any inclination to do hard work isn't actually a barrier to success as long as you have THE TELLY. I genuinely, honestly, hate it. It's sickening. (not specifically the apprentice, I mean the whole area)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:22, Reply)

I've tried to think of either a comforting or witty retort to this
and cannot. I must therefore resort to the ostrich approach, and pretend you're not painfully correct.

*switches on TV*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:30, Reply)

Meh
I watch a shitload of CSI. I have no room at all to comment.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:47, Reply)

Hardly the same sort of car crash TV though
It's OK to indulge in the idiot box as long as it's intelligent programming like BSG.

*TV snob fist-bumps*
(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:51, Reply)

nah, but my labs have half the things that are in their labs
either TV is inaccurate or I want ALL their staff as my postdocs.

LOL science program lying about science SHOCKER.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 11 May 2011, 9:54, Reply)

You'll be telling me a parsec is a unit of distance rather than time next

(Darth Foxtrot A one-man army dedicated to making fetch happen, Wed 11 May 2011, 10:02, Reply)