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Alex bids to be top Apprentice
11:25am Wednesday 19th March 2008
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A SALES manager from Bolton is bidding to prove where there's muck there's brass - by winning the next series of The Apprentice.
Alex Wotherspoon, aged 24, cut his entrepreneurial teeth selling horse manure for fertiliser.
And he will be among 16 aspiring tycoons to face a grilling from Sir Alan Sugar in the next series of the hit BBC1 show.
"I give 100 per cent all the way. I always speak my mind," said Mr Wotherspoon who lives in Rosewood, Westhoughton.
And he will need to be determined as he faces stiff competition for the chance to earn a six-figure salary working for Sir Alan, when the series starts on March 26.
Among his rivals trying to avoid Sir Alan's dreaded phrase "you're fired" are an ex-Army engineer, a former champion showjumper, a bank manager, a barrister and a woman whose biggest regret was turning down a role as a Bond girl body double.
Funding a month-long trip to the Greek islands was Mr Wotherspoon's motivation for selling manure but the business rapidly expanded.
Together with his brother, he began supplying garden centres and their topsoil became known as Wotherspoon's Black Gold.
In his current job, he looks after a team of 30 sales agents across northern Britain. A record 20,000 CVs were received from applicants around the UK before being whittled down to the final eight men and eight women.
The weekly challenges will see teams sweat it out to run rival laundrettes and pubs.
They will create a new perfume, design a new greeting card, invent a new ice cream flavour and sell wedding dresses.
There is also a tough international buying task which sees the candidates fly to Morocco, in an attempt to barter with the canniest salesmen in the world.
Mr Wotherspoon, who gained a BA in managerial administrative studies from Aston Business School, lists his hobbies as boxing and ballroom dancing.
Described as "charming and tenacious", he says he gets annoyed by freeloaders and social loafers. He admits he is incredibly accident prone, having punctured a lung, broken ribs, shattered his knuckles, severed his voice box, fractured fingers and dislocated his jaw.
From the off, Sir Alan delivers a tough talk to the new recruits.
"The money doesn't mean anything. Your prize is working with me," he says.
"This is a business boot camp. Mary Poppins I am not. I'm not going to hold your hand, I'm not going to tell you what to do.
" You're on your own two feet. Business starts now."
Among the other contestants is business liaison manager Lindi Mngaza, aged 22, who is originally from Manchester.
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Le Roi, says...
11:42am Wed 19 Mar 08
I also know he lasts at least a few weeks on the prog...
amosc99, Bolton but will be at Old Trafford tonight says...
11:45am Wed 19 Mar 08
Talk about giving the game away!!!
amosc99, Hoofdorp says...
11:49am Wed 19 Mar 08
amosc99 wrote:where has my typing skills gone to, today???
Considering the series was filmed in October last year and that he has only recentky been interviewed fro the series - isn't it safe to safe that he did not succeeed in becoming Alan Sugar's latest apprentice!!! Talk about giving the game away!!!
a translation is here...
Considering the series was filmed in October last year and that he has only recently been interviewed about the series, isn't it safe to say that he did not succeed in becoming Alan Sugar's latest apprentice!!!
Talk about giving the game away!!!
Montys mum, says...
11:56am Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi wrote:But the BN is a daily paper. It is in todays paper so is now on todays website. They can't print a paper every hour just in case someone like you gets some info from somewhere.
Well I had the information yesterday afternoon. I also know he lasts at least a few weeks on the prog...
Le Roi, says...
11:58am Wed 19 Mar 08
Montys mum, says...
12:16pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi, says...
12:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I won't be King Eric for ever.
One day I will be Saint Eric.
amosc99, Bolton (...see previous posts) says...
12:40pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi wrote:cough, cough, cough, cough, cough
Think of me as a missionary who's here to educate the masses, to show the people of Bolton there's more to life than the Pound Shop, a Carr's Pasty and Stu Francis. I won't be King Eric for ever. One day I will be Saint Eric.
someone slap me on my back - i'm choking after that comment!!!!
Bolton full of thicko's eh....
One of the Directors of Westminster College - comes from Bolton!
Bolton School one of the best independent schools in the country
Bolton is the home of TWO Premiership referees - Halsey and Mason (ok forget that point!!!! - ha! ha!)
Bolton has more DJ's on national radio than any other city or town
Bolton has produced and still produces some of the finst actors in the country
and you claim to be on here educating Bolton!!!!!
Get back to the theatre of cheats!!!
That last comment, of yours, is not one of of best - EVER!
Sun Tzu, says...
12:56pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi wrote:We'll always remember you as King Pric.
Think of me as a missionary who's here to educate the masses, to show the people of Bolton there's more to life than the Pound Shop, a Carr's Pasty and Stu Francis.
I won't be King Eric for ever.
One day I will be Saint Eric.
Le Roi, says...
12:59pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
1:01pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
1:05pm Wed 19 Mar 08
We'll always remember you as King Pric.
What has this to do with the story?
Sun Tzu, says...
1:07pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:What has this to do with the story?
We'll always remember you as King Pric.
What has this to do with the story?
Sun Tzu, says...
1:07pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Zimmy, Manc Bastardo says...
1:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Juan, Bolton says...
1:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:It may surprise you, Sun, but I wholeheartedly agree with you. It would be far more encouraging to see something about ethical business and real leadership, investing in community, rather than this tosh. But, then again, that's probably not what people want to see on the box - it seems they prefer the fantasy of stripy shirts, braces and mindless "management talk".
The Apprentice is an appalling show. It promotes greed and screwing people over. We already have far too many of these so-called entrepreners in this country without giving more encouragement to people with little talent and even less morals.
Sun Tzu, says...
1:22pm Wed 19 Mar 08
In engineering it involved greese, grit and red lead.
Sun Tzu, says...
1:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
1:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
1:30pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:As usual, Chas makes no comment.
Does he own a chain of pubs? They sell muck, or is that wetherspoons?
OldBoltonian, says...
1:32pm Wed 19 Mar 08
We'll always remember you as King Pric.
What has this to do with the story?
The school playground nark / self-appointed thread monitor has had yet another tantrum. What a twerp. In case you hadn't noticed the thread was hijacked by the Chorlton egotist first. Moron.
chas, suffolk says...
1:37pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:As usual rugrat makes no comment on the story.
chas wrote: Does he own a chain of pubs? They sell muck, or is that wetherspoons?As usual, Chas makes no comment.
RagReader, Horwich says...
1:38pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:not to use the Site in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company
We'll always remember you as King Pric. What has this to do with the story?The school playground nark / self-appointed thread monitor has had yet another tantrum. What a twerp. In case you hadn't noticed the thread was hijacked by the Chorlton egotist first. Moron.
OldBoltonian, says...
1:44pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
1:44pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
1:47pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I like the program but agree, I don't think it promotes a healthy working lifestyle, it promotes bullying for my liking. nice car though.
OldBoltonian, says...
1:47pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
1:51pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi, says...
1:53pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi, says...
1:56pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
1:57pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi wrote:I know, maybe I should start calling myself the Sun King.
I se what you did there Sun, very clever.
On second thoughts no, it's too pretentious.
OldBoltonian, says...
1:59pm Wed 19 Mar 08
One day I will be Saint Eric.
mmm one BIG advantage, as far as I can see, to beatification for the Chorlton Special One....
...he'd have to be deceased first,n'est-ce pas?
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
1:59pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:01pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:Hehe.
with jokes like that you're certainly `sin king` ;)
Yeah, I'm not really on the ball, unlike you eh?
OldBoltonian, says...
2:03pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:04pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:04pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Alex Wotherspoon, aged 24, cut his entrepreneurial teeth selling horse manure for fertiliser.
And he will be among 16 aspiring tycoons to face a grilling from Sir Alan Sugar in the next series of the hit BBC1 show.
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"I give 100 per cent all the way. I always speak my mind," said Mr Wotherspoon who lives in Rosewood, Westhoughton.
And he will need to be determined as he faces stiff competition for the chance to earn a six-figure salary working for Sir Alan, when the series starts on March 26.
Among his rivals trying to avoid Sir Alan's dreaded phrase "you're fired" are an ex-Army engineer, a former champion showjumper, a bank manager, a barrister and a woman whose biggest regret was turning down a role as a Bond girl body double.
Funding a month-long trip to the Greek islands was Mr Wotherspoon's motivation for selling manure but the business rapidly expanded.
Together with his brother, he began supplying garden centres and their topsoil became known as Wotherspoon's Black Gold.
In his current job, he looks after a team of 30 sales agents across northern Britain. A record 20,000 CVs were received from applicants around the UK before being whittled down to the final eight men and eight women.
The weekly challenges will see teams sweat it out to run rival laundrettes and pubs.
They will create a new perfume, design a new greeting card, invent a new ice cream flavour and sell wedding dresses.
There is also a tough international buying task which sees the candidates fly to Morocco, in an attempt to barter with the canniest salesmen in the world.
Mr Wotherspoon, who gained a BA in managerial administrative studies from Aston Business School, lists his hobbies as boxing and ballroom dancing.
Described as "charming and tenacious", he says he gets annoyed by freeloaders and social loafers. He admits he is incredibly accident prone, having punctured a lung, broken ribs, shattered his knuckles, severed his voice box, fractured fingers and dislocated his jaw.
From the off, Sir Alan delivers a tough talk to the new recruits.
"The money doesn't mean anything. Your prize is working with me," he says.
"This is a business boot camp. Mary Poppins I am not. I'm not going to hold your hand, I'm not going to tell you what to do.
" You're on your own two feet. Business starts now."
Among the other contestants is business liaison manager Lindi Mngaza, aged 22, who is originally from Manchester.
OldBoltonian, says...
2:05pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:06pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:Being an old geezer who remembers the music hall. I would have thought you would have suggested, I be on the stage, the first one out of town.
You should be on TV Sun. Preferably BBC1 of course. Then you'd be the One King.....
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:07pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I would like to call you worse but I shall refrain, as I suppose your actions show you up more than I could ever try to.
Hope you have a nice day. :)
OldBoltonian, says...
2:07pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:07pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:08pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Can we not have a bit of harmless banter?
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:10pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:There are sensible people who wish to comment.
Whats the problem with Ragreader? Can we not have a bit of harmless banter?
OldBoltonian, says...
2:10pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Aye well I am old enouh to remember the fun and games over the Amstrad tape to tape machine and the music industry's desperate attempts to get it declared illegal. A kind of 1970s dry run of Napster. Hilarious.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:10pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:Think his medication has run out.
Whats the problem with Ragreader? Can we not have a bit of harmless banter?
OldBoltonian, says...
2:11pm Wed 19 Mar 08
There are sensible people who wish to comment.
Yes we do. Now put up or shut up.
Sun Tzu, says...
2:12pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Well make a comment on the story then. Who knows you might get the thread back on track if you try.
Sun Tzu wrote:There are sensible people who wish to comment.
Whats the problem with Ragreader? Can we not have a bit of harmless banter?
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:12pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:In that case stop flooding the screen with your posting of the whole story.
Sun Tzu wrote: Whats the problem with Ragreader? Can we not have a bit of harmless banter?There are sensible people who wish to comment.
Do you think what you do is sensible.
Have you something you would like to say regarding the story, I will happily discuss this with you if you wish.
After you good sir, as I have already made my little comment.
OldBoltonian, says...
2:18pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Tubby Scruff, Back on Land says...
2:18pm Wed 19 Mar 08
investing in community
Juan, the secret millionaire covers just that. Many of those programs have been quiet touching, though I'd love to see a follow up.
This lad Wotherpoon, comes from a long line of Bolton Business people.
There are sensible people who wish to comment.
Ragamuffin , whats stopping you from doing so?
From what I can see, its a few owd uns having a giggle? Since they're discriminated against in the pubs now, wheres the harm?
Brak, Bolton says...
2:19pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Boom boom! (oops forgot, we can't quote Basil Brush any more either, the rascist old fox).
LOL.
I actually got through to the final stages to be on the first Apprentice but turned it down at the last minute. Just something about it I wasn't happy about....
OldBoltonian, says...
2:20pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:21pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Ragamuffin , whats stopping you from doing so?
From what I can see, its a few owd uns having a giggle? Since they're discriminated against in the pubs now, wheres the harm?
And get into childish name calling like Boris and others.
Le Roi, says...
2:23pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:24pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Not happy about the old bit, carry on with that and i think a good reporting will be in order. haha.
Ragreader, seeing as though this is about apprentice's, why don't you go get me a long stand, hehe.
Sun Tzu, says...
2:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:Yeah you leave OB alone. We tried him in the coffin last week but he managed to escape before we could get him into overdale.
Eh, Tubby. less of the "owd" thank you!
chas, suffolk says...
2:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Boom boom! (oops forgot, we can't quote Basil Brush any more either, the rascist old fox).I think fox hunting is about to start up again.
Brak, Bolton says...
2:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:Gazz tell him to get some tartan paint in will ya!!
took the words out of my fingers oldboltonian. Not happy about the old bit, carry on with that and i think a good reporting will be in order. haha. Ragreader, seeing as though this is about apprentice's, why don't you go get me a long stand, hehe.
And 4 candles....
OldBoltonian, says...
2:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:27pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:Yeah, and I'll have a buttered minge from 't' cake shop.
took the words out of my fingers oldboltonian.
Not happy about the old bit, carry on with that and i think a good reporting will be in order. haha.
Ragreader, seeing as though this is about apprentice's, why don't you go get me a long stand, hehe.
chas, suffolk says...
2:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
You have still not made a single comment about this story.
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:29pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Alex Wotherspoon, aged 24, cut his entrepreneurial teeth selling horse manure for fertiliser.
And he will be among 16 aspiring tycoons to face a grilling from Sir Alan Sugar in the next series of the hit BBC1 show.
advertisement
"I give 100 per cent all the way. I always speak my mind," said Mr Wotherspoon who lives in Rosewood, Westhoughton.
And he will need to be determined as he faces stiff competition for the chance to earn a six-figure salary working for Sir Alan, when the series starts on March 26.
Among his rivals trying to avoid Sir Alan's dreaded phrase "you're fired" are an ex-Army engineer, a former champion showjumper, a bank manager, a barrister and a woman whose biggest regret was turning down a role as a Bond girl body double.
Funding a month-long trip to the Greek islands was Mr Wotherspoon's motivation for selling manure but the business rapidly expanded.
Together with his brother, he began supplying garden centres and their topsoil became known as Wotherspoon's Black Gold.
In his current job, he looks after a team of 30 sales agents across northern Britain. A record 20,000 CVs were received from applicants around the UK before being whittled down to the final eight men and eight women.
The weekly challenges will see teams sweat it out to run rival laundrettes and pubs.
They will create a new perfume, design a new greeting card, invent a new ice cream flavour and sell wedding dresses.
There is also a tough international buying task which sees the candidates fly to Morocco, in an attempt to barter with the canniest salesmen in the world.
Mr Wotherspoon, who gained a BA in managerial administrative studies from Aston Business School, lists his hobbies as boxing and ballroom dancing.
Described as "charming and tenacious", he says he gets annoyed by freeloaders and social loafers. He admits he is incredibly accident prone, having punctured a lung, broken ribs, shattered his knuckles, severed his voice box, fractured fingers and dislocated his jaw.
From the off, Sir Alan delivers a tough talk to the new recruits.
"The money doesn't mean anything. Your prize is working with me," he says.
"This is a business boot camp. Mary Poppins I am not. I'm not going to hold your hand, I'm not going to tell you what to do.
" You're on your own two feet. Business starts now."
Among the other contestants is business liaison manager Lindi Mngaza, aged 22, who is originally from Manchester.
Tubby Scruff, Back on Land says...
2:29pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Tubby Scruff wrote:How silly.
No Ragamuffin, having a childish name to begin with starts it. Where you christened Ragreader ?
Sun Tzu, says...
2:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
2:32pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:You can be sensible, you can also act like a child.
I sent Ragreader for a bucket of compression but he was hurt lifting it.
OldBoltonian, says...
2:34pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
2:34pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
2:35pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:The devil is in the detail.
Sun Tzu wrote:You can be sensible, you can also act like a child.
I sent Ragreader for a bucket of compression but he was hurt lifting it.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:35pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:36pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:not to use the Site in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company
Tell me, Raggy, when your parents told you off as a child, was yoru usual reaction to stick your fingers in your ears and pretend you couldn't hear? A bit like repeatedly re-posting the entire story to make a puerile point perhaps? Mmm? SO much easier than trying to engage in banter, isn't it?
Tubby Scruff, Back on Land says...
2:39pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
2:39pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
2:41pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
2:41pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:42pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Do you need a hug?
Sun Tzu, says...
2:43pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Bye
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
OldBoltonian, says...
2:43pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Actually, what else is there to say about this lad Wotherspoon. Good luck to him although it's all a fix anyway.
chas, suffolk says...
2:44pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Like Andrew (sorry for that word) just to cause trouble.
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
Sun Tzu, says...
2:44pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:So OB, we have a padlock this week.
OldBoltonian wrote:Yeah you leave OB alone. We tried him in the coffin last week but he managed to escape before we could get him into overdale.
Eh, Tubby. less of the "owd" thank you!
Sun Tzu, says...
2:46pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:He also was hurt lifting.
RagReader wrote:Like Andrew (sorry for that word) just to cause trouble.
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:48pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:neither do we
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
2:50pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
2:56pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Andrew, Bury says...
3:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:Like many others the general idiocy and infantile behaviour put me off. There's only half a dozen numbnuts swapping crass posts here these days.
RagReader wrote: I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.Like Andrew (sorry for that word) just to cause trouble.
Apprentice is entertainment, nothing more nothing less. Anyone looking for anthing deeper is mistaken. Pitched as the hardest intereview - when I go for an interview I like to know what the job is. No sense of reality therec at all given candidates expected to be masters of everything which no entrepreneur at that level is.
OldBoltonian, says...
3:15pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
3:16pm Wed 19 Mar 08
So OB, we have a padlock this week.
Oops. Thought you said "paddock".
For the horse manure?
Anyway I am going to be skyburied on Rivington Pike, I've decided.
Juan, Bolton says...
3:16pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:Ahh... then you go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid like... Just a bit less patronising, Sun, and we might even have a basis for debate in future :-)
Juan - No it doesn't surprise me. I think we would probably agree on many things. You just need time to develop a healthy cynicism.
Believe me, I'm as cynical as anyone here - but most of all with the worn out politics of the 1930s.
Juan, the secret millionaire covers just that. Many of those programs have been quiet touching, though I'd love to see a follow up.
Agreed, Tubby. Heart warming stuff... but sustainable business is for me about being present in communities ALL the time, investing locally in those who actually create the wealth. Charles Handy has written at length about it. The Germans managed it for years after the war, before they too fell into the arms of the City and investors who don't give a flying fig about what businesses actually do.
OldBoltonian, says...
3:19pm Wed 19 Mar 08
expected to be masters of everything which no entrepreneur at that level is.
No entrepreneur at ANY level is. Although a few of them think they are.
OldBoltonian, says...
3:21pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Ahh... then you go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid like...
Nancy.
I liked These Boots... best.
OldBoltonian, says...
3:23pm Wed 19 Mar 08
There's only half a dozen numbnuts swapping crass posts here these days
Plus you, Rag and Eric. That makes 7 by my count.
Horwich Allstars, Horwich says...
3:25pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I don't think I am on either "side" in the long running banter..
If the BN sorted out the Forum, and stop it being populated by adverts for ****, assorted websites et etc, it might be useable.
I quite like the apprentice - a load of ego's being brought down to size. I have worked with so many of that type over the years, it's nice to see them being shown up a little...
RagReader, Horwich says...
3:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:Rag
There's only half a dozen numbnuts swapping crass posts here these daysPlus you, Rag and Eric. That makes 7 by my count.
I find your remarks distasteful, and have reported this post.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
3:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
a load of ego's being brought down to size
Should get andrew on there ;)
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
3:38pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I use on to clean my kitchen.
Plus it's the 1st part of your name and seeing as you use a new capital R at the beginning of Reader, this would then suggest that you handle is made up of 2 names
Rag Reader.
Man, get a grip.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
3:41pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I take offence to that and find that distasteul.
I guess now you have reported this post we need no longer be careful what we say about you. Although I will refrain myself.
RagReader, Horwich says...
3:43pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:I contribute sensible comments, unlike the majority on here.
You have not contributed one significant post to this story except to try and cause disruption. I take offence to that and find that distasteul. I guess now you have reported this post we need no longer be careful what we say about you. Although I will refrain myself.
Sun Tzu, says...
3:47pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Juan wrote
Ahh... then you go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid like... Just a bit less patronising, Sun, and we might even have a basis for debate in future :-)
Sorry Juan, I don't bend for anyone. Although others here might accomodate you.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
3:48pm Wed 19 Mar 08
where have you made a comment relating to this story on here?
I offered to debate with you but got ignored.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
3:49pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
3:51pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
3:53pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:I agree and so is ragreader.
Rag is distasteful.
Juan, Bolton says...
3:54pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu wrote:Ahh... then you go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid like... Just a bit less patronising, Sun, and we might even have a basis for debate in future :-)
Juan - No it doesn't surprise me. I think we would probably agree on many things. You just need time to develop a healthy cynicism.
Believe me, I'm as cynical as anyone here - but most of all with the worn out politics of the 1930s.
Juan, the secret millionaire covers just that. Many of those programs have been quiet touching, though I'd love to see a follow up.
Agreed, Tubby. Heart warming stuff... but sustainable business is for me about being present in communities ALL the time, investing locally in those who actually create the wealth. Charles Handy has written at length about it. The Germans managed it for years after the war, before they too fell into the arms of the City and investors who don't give a flying fig about what businesses actually do.
Juan, Bolton says...
3:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sorry - that really wasn't intended.
Fair enough, Sun. I guess your ego will always get in the way. Your choice. Pity though.
Sun Tzu, says...
3:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
What has this to do with the story?
As usual, Chas makes no comment.
There are sensible people who wish to comment.
And get into childish name calling like Boris and others.
How silly.
You can be sensible, you can also act like a child.
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
I find your remarks distasteful, and have reported this post.
I contribute sensible comments, unlike the majority on here.
Rag is distasteful.
Need I say more?
RickJ, Manchester says...
4:01pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Cerberus, Bolton says...
4:02pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:I really have heard everything now!
Rag is distasteful.
Unbelievable.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:03pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:So why have it as the 1st part of your name.
Rag is distasteful.
I use rags to clean my kitchen, my dad has a rag in his shed for his lathe, probably an oily rag actually, how is it distasteful???
If you don't like it change your name Rag.
RickJ, Manchester says...
4:05pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Im going to cancel my account i think.
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:06pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:08pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Cerberus wrote:I find the word
RagReader wrote: Rag is distasteful.I really have heard everything now! Unbelievable.
Unbelievable
Distasteful
Andrew, Bury says...
4:08pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RickJ wrote:Welcome to the poorly moderated mayhem that is the BN comments section.
Im confused, i thought this was a blog to comment on the article, though it looks like a MSN convo about anything but?
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:09pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:he was using it as an abbreviation.
I think everyone knows what meaning was meant by Rag .
Oh my God.
OldBoltonian, says...
4:10pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Rag Week.
Rag Head.
Rag Bone (how many remember that eh?)
The only thing distasteful on here is your supercilious holier-that-thou up-your-own backside huffy snivelling whining posting.
Anyway, what happened to "I'm going"?
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:11pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:12pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:12pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Rag top
Rag doll
Cerberus, Bolton says...
4:13pm Wed 19 Mar 08
It's quite disgusting.
Sun Tzu, says...
4:13pm Wed 19 Mar 08
My mother used to work in the rag trade and my father used to lift the shirts she made onto his truck for delivery.
It was a very respectable trade.
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:15pm Wed 19 Mar 08
lift the shirts she made
Not very clever.
OldBoltonian, says...
4:15pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I think everyone knows what meaning was meant by Rag .
Looks like only you can see this alleged mysterious hidden meaning. Would you care to elucidate? Or was it just gibberish?
Sun Tzu, says...
4:17pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:My father might not have been a genius but he worked very hard and lifted many shirts onto his truck.
lift the shirts she made
Not very clever.
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:19pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
4:19pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Do you not comment on any articles then.
Im going to cancel my account i think.
Hmmm. Wonder how many otehr artciels "RickJ" of manchester (aka Eric/Rag etc) has ever commented on? Spot the obvious attempted provocation/attempt to suggest genuine posters are being put off. Transparent to the last.
chas, suffolk says...
4:19pm Wed 19 Mar 08
They will create a new perfume, design a new greeting card, invent a new ice cream flavourWhat from horse manure?
Sun Tzu, says...
4:22pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:I bet he's a big hit with the ladies on valentines day.
They will create a new perfume, design a new greeting card, invent a new ice cream flavourWhat from horse manure?
OldBoltonian, says...
4:23pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:24pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian wrote:not to use the Site in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company
Derogatory? I've Googled it and Mr GOogle and I are in the same boat of blissful ignorance on this one. What planet are you on? So you call yourself RagReader then whinge when you get called Rag??? Hope your real name's not Richard or you're in for a very frustrating lifetime.
chas, suffolk says...
4:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Cerberus, Bolton says...
4:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:RagReader.
OldBoltonian wrote: Derogatory? I've Googled it and Mr GOogle and I are in the same boat of blissful ignorance on this one. What planet are you on? So you call yourself RagReader then whinge when you get called Rag??? Hope your real name's not Richard or you're in for a very frustrating lifetime.not to use the Site in a manner which constitutes a violation or infringement of any person, firm or company
Are you a robot?
OldBoltonian, says...
4:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:
I'm going, I don't know why I post on this site.
Not too good at keeping promises either.
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:Please use my screen name.
I bet rugrats favorite rag is the Daily Express.
OldBoltonian, says...
4:30pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RickJ, Manchester says...
4:32pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:32pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:This site is for SENSIBLE commenting, it's not a playground.
Rag, isn't it about time you commented on the headline rather than stirring up a hate campaign against yourself?
chas, suffolk says...
4:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
4:33pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:34pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Offy47, Bolton says...
4:36pm Wed 19 Mar 08
If the above posts are actually yours you are being extremely silly and pouring scorn on yourself.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:38pm Wed 19 Mar 08
You my good dishcloth, have been found wanting.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:40pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RickJ wrote:I see you haven't
Isnt it about time everyone did!
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:41pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:I haven't had an apology yet.
make your mind up rag, its either for senisble comments or comments on the story which you have failed to make all day. You my good dishcloth, have been found wanting.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
4:42pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:42pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Cerberus, Bolton says...
4:42pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:I'm truly sorry!
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote: make your mind up rag, its either for senisble comments or comments on the story which you have failed to make all day. You my good dishcloth, have been found wanting.I haven't had an apology yet.
SgtSaRaHxXx, never never land, Bolton says...
4:44pm Wed 19 Mar 08
thanks again xXx
chas, suffolk says...
4:45pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I'm sorry too. That he ever came on here.
spice, bolton says...
4:46pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
4:47pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
4:47pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:48pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Please don't say rag.
RagReader, Horwich says...
4:50pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas wrote:How old are you?
spice Please don't say rag.
SgtSaRaHxXx, never never land, Bolton says...
4:53pm Wed 19 Mar 08
thanks again xXx
Cerberus, Bolton says...
4:54pm Wed 19 Mar 08
SgtSaRaHxXx wrote:You got a stutter?
from time to time whilst at work, I check these articles to see whats happening in Bolton, can I just say thank you to you all for brightening up an otherwise boring day at work. Your arguements and squabbles are just as fun to encounter as a bunch of pi55ed up chavs beating each other up on a saturday night in town over some tart they both fancy a bit of. lol. thanks again xXx
SgtSaRaHxXx, never never land, Bolton says...
4:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
chas, suffolk says...
4:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:I hope that you are not ragging me?
chas wrote: spice Please don't say rag.How old are you?
spice, bolton says...
4:57pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
5:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
spice, bolton says...
5:46pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
5:53pm Wed 19 Mar 08
spice wrote:I have done,I have my suspicions about who it is.
RagReader,are you saying someone has cloned you,if so this needs stopping right away,someone did that to me and I hated it,its not nice when people are posting things supposedly said by you ,you must report it right away,
The BN say they are going to put a stop to name cloning soon.
Andrew, Bury says...
6:22pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:I think ragreader shares my aim - to get some sane kind of comment section that actually allows sensible discussion, free from the brain dead numpties who ruin it day in day out. As far as I can see very few have commented on this story with most just throwing insults and regressing to childhood. Looks like it's turned into the usual bun fest then. Thing is if BN sells ad space on impressions as most sites do, then they're laughing. Well until advertisers catch on to thge cr*p being posted. Utter cr*p. 100% drivel from dribbling fools hiding behind their PCs and forgetting they are allegedly, mature and responsible adults.
Andrew, why do not have a read back through the comments and see if you can see any contribution on the article from ragreader. You are normally the 1st to point your finger at us lot but will you be so quick to criticise one of your own. By that I mean someone who always sides with you and has start to mimic your full story posts.
Might make you happy but to anyone with half a brain it's frustrating, repetitive, tedious bilge. Such bilge will continue to put off those who want to make a real contribution to the site which, in the long term, will hurt BN. Their plans for stronger moderation are doomed as they don't understand the nature of the beast. Time to invest in some experience and expertise.
Meanwhile why don't the tiresome bunch club together, set up a forum using Vbulletin and then see how popular you really aren't - after all you're just ppiggybacking off BN at the mo and claiming, quite falsely, that you represent the views and wishes of BN readers. You don't. You just anmuse your own little clique and hack everyone else off.
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
6:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Nice contribution by the way hypocrite.
that has been my word of the day actually, hypocrite
Andrew, Bury says...
6:28pm Wed 19 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:Yeah right Gazz. Just look at the cr*p above. Call me what you want, I know what's going on here and so does BN - they just don't know how to stop it.
Exactly the same could be said for you Andrew. Nice contribution by the way hypocrite. that has been my word of the day actually, hypocrite
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
6:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head, westhoughton says...
6:37pm Wed 19 Mar 08
I bet you go to the pub and make half a shandy and a packet of Pork Scratchings last all night.
Would I like to party with you (I think not)
chas, suffolk says...
6:37pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Might make you happy but to anyone with half a brain it's frustrating, repetitive, tedious bilgeAs you only have half a brain, why do you come on here?
RagReader, Horwich says...
6:49pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head wrote:REPORTED!
Toe Rag, If being boring was an Olympic sport you could bore for Great Britain. I bet you go to the pub and make half a shandy and a packet of Pork Scratchings last all night. Would I like to party with you (I think not)
OldBoltonian, says...
6:51pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Easter eggs all round for you Spicy or not? Mmm - all that choc!
gazz_ball - Supera Moras!, bolton says...
6:52pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Get ouver yourself
cow-head, westhoughton says...
7:02pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:20pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head wrote:Reported, and not funny.
Well Toe Rag I really am quaking in my boots you shirt front.
cow-head, westhoughton says...
7:26pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:29pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Cloned again.
cow-head wrote: Toe Rag, If being boring was an Olympic sport you could bore for Great Britain. I bet you go to the pub and make half a shandy and a packet of Pork Scratchings last all night. Would I like to party with you (I think not)REPORTED!
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head, westhoughton says...
7:31pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Lollipop, Muddy Duct says...
7:32pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Their plans for stronger moderation are doomed as they don't understand the nature of the beast. Time to invest in some experience and expertise.
Andrew, sounds like you're touting for business.
Lollipop, Muddy Duct says...
7:37pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Why is it only you thats being cloned today?
RagReader wrote:Cloned again.cow-head wrote: Toe Rag, If being boring was an Olympic sport you could bore for Great Britain. I bet you go to the pub and make half a shandy and a packet of Pork Scratchings last all night. Would I like to party with you (I think not)REPORTED!
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:38pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head wrote:Perhaps it's because I am interesting, otherwise why bother?
Toe rag , perhaps if you were a little more interesting people would not clone you
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:41pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader, Horwich says...
7:50pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Pathetic.
I suppose being a shirtlifter helps.
Lollipop, Muddy Duct says...
7:56pm Wed 19 Mar 08
RagReader wrote:Don't respond and they'll get bored.
RagReader wrote: I suppose being a shirtlifter helps.Pathetic.
spice, bolton says...
8:43pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Sun Tzu, says...
8:51pm Wed 19 Mar 08
spice, bolton says...
9:17pm Wed 19 Mar 08
OldBoltonian, says...
10:55pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Le Roi, says...
11:01pm Wed 19 Mar 08
cow-head, westhoughton says...
7:45am Thu 20 Mar 08
Andrew, Bury says...
9:10am Thu 20 Mar 08
gazz_ball - Supera Moras! wrote:I prefer the idea of maturity and intelligence winning out over childishness and offensiveness. They should go.
Andrew get over it. If you are so unhappy with the majority of posters and the way the site is run why do you not just move on?
chas, suffolk says...
10:03am Thu 20 Mar 08
So now you want to ban all those youngsters that you are always supporting.
dcc9000, Wimbledon says...
11:39am Tue 29 Apr 08
I'm a reporter for the People newspaper looking for anyone who used to know or still knows Alex Wotherspoon.
Trying to drum up a bit of support for him so any funny pics/stories would be great.
If you're interested email dcc9000@yahoo.co.uk with the story and your contact phone number.
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