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1. Deborah's always got a "I'm-a-sensible-businesswoman" excuse for opting out (which she seems to do every time). Half the time the others don't give any reason or an "I just don't like it, or you, I'm out." I think the lady doth protest to much, and it's a case of needing a good reason to avoid investing money she doesn't have. Silly Debbie.

   Posted by RacheyPachey on 15/08/2009 17:39:56

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2. I love dragons den. Just watching the dragons demolish someone who has spent their lives working on something no needs and wants makes it more than worthwhile. its funny to watch those and making you think "why didn't I come come up with that" when a invention does secede with an invention

   Posted by shadowbladeprime on 10/08/2009 00:09:31

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3. Does Deborah Meadon actually invest in anything? This is less a comment, more a serious question. If she's invested in less than 5 people, my housemate has to buy me a pint.

   Posted by Bozza on 09/08/2009 19:12:12

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4. That circus ringmaster of an entrepreneur would've made a more convincing pitch for creating Britain out of Tetris blocks... he made Wales look like a shaver plug socket.

   Posted by the Haynes manual on 09/08/2009 18:58:52

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5. Wonder if it's real money they have on the tables beside them. I'd be worried about some thieving tea-leaf cameraman pocketing a handful when my back was turned.

   Posted by Don on 08/08/2009 18:50:40

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6. I get the whole weird heat wave thing at the beginning as some kind of Dragon analogy; however I feel the producers have not consistently and accessibly branded their Dragons to make this idea a successful one. I would only invest my time (15% or so) if they sorted out this glitch by forcing the 'experts' into convincing dragon costumes that rendered them unable to speak. Or setting the building on fire.

   Posted by Kate on 08/08/2009 11:14:45

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7. Thatcher's favourite programme...probably. Currently on the same time as 'Who Do You Think You Are?'...which would be a good response from the contestants as they get ripped to shreds by 5 obscenely rich know-it-alls who in the absence of fox-hunting have seemingly had to resort to televised pauper-baiting. Delights in a completely nonsensical rule of the pitchees not being allowed to take any paper into the room with them...(which I'm sure is the way the Dragons go into their business meetings). Worth watching purely for 'Uber-Scot' Duncan who is getting grumpier and grumpier as the series progesses...if he slouches any further in his chair only his eyebrows will be in camera shot. My hatred of this programme has nothing at to do with my idea of a 'Poo-rinal' not getting a response when I submitted it either...

   Posted by flaminglippy on 08/08/2009 10:55:10

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8. If they can all supposedly buy God and his entire business empire, why are they always hanging around in brownfield sites?

   Posted by Owain Anderson on 08/08/2009 03:38:36

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9. Go easy on Evan Davis. He got typecast after appearing as Timon the Meerkat in Disney's The Lionking and has done well to find himself something fresh.

   Posted by Ned Roberts on 07/08/2009 16:47:37

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10. The true genius of Dragons Den comes from the winch inducing bad puns the Dragons make when declaring themselves out of the more moronic ideas presented. When watching the Dragons puns die in a cold embarrassing silence my soul fills with joy but not quite enough to quell the urge to rip out my own throat and throw it at their smug little faces.

    Posted by Tim on 07/08/2009 15:40:08

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11. I propose a change to Dragon's Den, whereby the dragons pitch THEIR business ideas to a lair of actual Dragons and Evan Davis stands next to some stairs weeping about how he loves his family and can't escape certain death from the now truly feared fire-breathing Dragons.

    Posted by Robbo on 07/08/2009 11:44:30

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12. It's funny watching four people and a grumpy old woman just picking people apart and telling them that they have just waste their life

    Posted by Innes on 07/08/2009 00:28:41

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13. All I ever do when watching dragons den is wait for Bannatyne to pull out one of has super scottish catchphrases; "diabolical; ludicrous; total nonsense; this isn't a business, i'm out". Which one will he say next? Your guess is as good as mine.

    Posted by Mike Hunt on 07/08/2009 00:08:28

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14. I once thought I was enjoying an episode of Dragon's Den, but then I realised I was watching paint dry.

    Posted by mathu on 06/08/2009 23:29:47

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15. God they need to cut down on the intro, we get it, you can stand still and look serious for a long time. Yet Peter Jones still does that crappy moneysupermarket advert looking like a tool. Does anyone else play the game "identify the nutters" before they reach the top of the stairs? Plus I lost count of the number of strained puns the dragons made throughout the show and the guy who lurks downstairs creeps me out a little.

    Posted by Simon AKA Gizmo Jones on 06/08/2009 20:43:10

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16. I'll tell where I'm at. I'm at a mental and physical trough. This show has exhausted and sapped every single fibre in my body due to it's tedious mundanity. I would rather eat my own day-old cold sick off a frosty winter pavement than watch another smug git from Cheshire drone on about how he's invented something that's about as useful as a wicker kettle and then valueing it at 2.5 million pounds. It is despicable, abhorrent and quite frankly vile. It's programmes like this which caused the recssion and, for that reason, I'm out.

    Posted by CharlieBrookersArsewipe on 06/08/2009 19:02:22

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17. Thank goodness Duncan Bannatyne has stopped 'phoning in his puns! Now he has a frightening robot caricature of himself intone them like a scottish member of Kraftwerk.

    Posted by gmh on 06/08/2009 18:35:04

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18. Although their is some entertainment when someone is sucessful within the den. However it is much more entertaining when budding entrepreneurs arrive with the most ridiculous idea and grossly over estimate the value of their business. And the dragons complete destroy their idea without any sensitivity or tact. As you watch the enterpeneurs dreams and hopes drain from their faces as they realise their remortgaged their house for a complete waste of time.

    Posted by David on 06/08/2009 15:05:33

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19. It's been Seven Series of Dragon's den and they still having changed that song you keep hearing in the background. The song sound like something of a German porn film

    Posted by Simon Thomsen on 05/08/2009 23:05:18

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20. If I saw that 'Clever Bin' anywhere, my instinct would be to kick it repeatedly. The 'Dragons' (and they are actually Dragons; after each show they go back to their caves and sleep on piles of treasure and use their hot fiery breath to help them incubate their eggs), were wise not to invest in it. What I like most is when Theo tries to break the inventions; 'You say this is safe, do you? Well watch this...' and then he tugs and he pulls and jumps up and down on it and then he gets a chainsaw and a hammer and sticks of dynamyte and when he finally succeeds in breaking it; 'See, thats not safe at all. Some one might choke on one of those pieces.'

    Posted by Coutelier on 05/08/2009 22:36:34

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21. Dragons Den is the single most eloquent argument against capitalism that I have ever seen. The way to deal with the dragons would be to send in some sort of heroic mythical dragon-killing knight, though he would need a giant magical sword that was impervious to sneering.

    Posted by Cathy Bryant on 05/08/2009 22:01:28

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22. Worst Theme Tune Ever. & Why are they all sat in an attic?

    Posted by CraigyBoyBradford on 05/08/2009 13:22:27

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23. What gets me is Evan Davis's constant summarising of exactly what we have just seen. Typical quote: Peter Jones: I'm going to be the first to declare myself out on this one" Evan Davis [moody music]: Peter Jones has become the first Dragon to declare himself out, but with four Dragons still in, can Judith secure the investment she is seeking? [Cut back to the action]

    Posted by Andy Barnes on 05/08/2009 12:47:21

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24. The show isn't bad, good, interesting, dull, entertaining, boring or... anything, really. I won't turn it off, I won't tune in to watch it. I think if you worked out what was exactly the average TV show, it would be Dragon's Den. I personally use it as a touchstone for rubbish TV- if it isn't as good as Dragon's Den, stop watching.

    Posted by Kanped on 05/08/2009 03:22:42

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25. The Dragons worry me somewhat. I can't help going to sleep wondering if they will pop out from nowhere and heartlessly crush my dreams too.

    Posted by Xander on 05/08/2009 02:13:10

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26. I just wonder why no one has had the imagination to either 1. Say I have been selling crack cocaine in my local town and am looking for an investment of 75k to hire some hitmen and expand my empire for a 10% stake, 2. Just simply take an AK47 out of a brief case and say hand over the dosh. To be honest though watching some of the delusional folks business plans that are worse than chocolate t-pots it starts to become a business version of x factor where you actually feel sorry for these millionares having to sit and listen to their sales pitch.

    Posted by Paul Coyle on 05/08/2009 00:22:44

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27. If they wont give me one ten thousand pounds, I'm not bothered.

    Posted by notbothered on 04/08/2009 23:43:39

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28. we should stick all the dragons in a house and see who pays the most to get out.

    Posted by alex p on 04/08/2009 22:22:17

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29. I often have dreams of going on this show, sweating intensly , forgetting my pitch and then realising im naked as the dragons begin to laugh and question me. It only becomes a nightmare when Duncan makes me a 3 figure offer for 10% of my body.

    Posted by Darren Vincent on 04/08/2009 22:21:55

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30. Dragons den excites me more than any other show. Evan davis, the bald monkey, makes the show better than any other.

    Posted by alextheledge on 04/08/2009 22:20:14

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31. Dragon's Den is dispicably addictive. People come on with their moronic ideas, and I just love watching them crash and burn in front of the dragons. Although they aren't much better. Debra constantly looks like she is trying to pass a pineapple, and Peter Jones is like an all-year-round grinch. Together, they make the most ego-inflated, irritating people ever, and thats what draws me to the series; annoying, self-centered idiots telling fools with rubbish ideas that they are crap all the time.

    Posted by SeanMB on 04/08/2009 17:09:05

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