- Jul 7, 2003
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I suspect you wont be disappointed ...
I think that every week and every week he weasels out of it.
"Oh! Das is wunderbar!"
I suspect you wont be disappointed ...
Anyone else hate Laura's constant moaning? I hope she does lose so she can bloody go home
I think Chris :/
Agreed. He'll split up Stuart and Laura next week and fire the loser. Well that's what I'd do.Anyone else hate Laura's constant moaning? I hope she does lose so she can bloody go home
Our lack of foreign languages is hardly the fault of the contestants though.
You can't criticise them for not speaking German, it's not fair. In Germany, alot of the posters/signs/newspapers are printed in both German, and English. It's a big advantage, and the fact that English is a very well spoken language (is it still second behind French?) and German isn't... what do you expect. Maybe if they'd gone to France and none of them spoke French, it's more of a valid criticism.
Sorry, this is bollocks. I'd agree that it wouldn't be fair if we were talking about the average person in the street but we're not talking about average members of the public here, we're talking about a group of bods who claim to be dynamic and bright business people and they haven't been arsed to learn the language of the UK's biggest trading partner.
There's nothing special about Germans - they're not brought up speaking English (and it's total nonsense BTW that posters, signs and newspapers in German are in English. You won't see that apart from airports and major stations) but they realised that their big firms would struggle if they were limited solely to German-speaking markets and so every serious business person is required to know English. It's one of the reasons that the Germans have a car and electronics industry and we haven't.
If they'd sent the contestants to Slovenia or Denmark, fair enough but we're talking about the biggest economy in Europe here and it was a pathetic effort.
To be fair to Simster and NE, this attitude is widely held in the UK but it doesn't really reflect well on us.