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It's The Boat Race today.

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  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,156
    Nicely summed up Stig. Perhaps that is why I have little interest in the nags or the F1? I had never really thought about it from that point of view, not that I am much of a one for participating in sport, but perhaps the subconscious thought that I couldn't do it even if I wanted to is part of what turns me off about those activities?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Ha ha! Somebody, just swam across!
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    "he could've had his head cut off" Banter
  • ISawLeaburnScore
    ISawLeaburnScore Posts: 9,779
    Bet he didn't get through the interviews!
  • Bournemouth Addick
    Bournemouth Addick Posts: 16,283
    edited April 2012
    Well didn't see that coming. Lucky that they didn't row right over him.
  • charlton_hero
    charlton_hero Posts: 4,667
    The swimmer made it vaguely entertaining... For about 10 seconds anyway.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    I see the BBC can drag the coverage out for a whole 2 hours!
    Looks like the bloody swimmer will double it to around 4 hours.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    So who won then?

    And who came second?
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Broken oar now. What a farce.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Oxford down to 7 whores ... sooo sad
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  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    Oh dear, oh dear! One of the few sporting events the BBC still have and it falls apart.
  • shine166
    shine166 Posts: 13,920
    to his oars, to his oars, he was saying goodbye to his oars, and as he was saying goodbye to his oars, he was saying good bye to his oars
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    Poor sod being carted off to hospital now.
  • Atletico Addick
    Atletico Addick Posts: 5,843
    He's toast, 4 or 5 minutes before anyone noticed :-(
  • harveys_gardener
    harveys_gardener Posts: 7,038
    Contraversial, the umpire kept warning Oxford on both inside and outside of bends,they were moving away and had no interest in a clash yet umpire was flagging them. Idea of class is nonsense, you just need to be bright enough to get to Oxbridge.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,355
    Contraversial, the umpire kept warning Oxford on both inside and outside of bends,they were moving away and had no interest in a clash yet umpire was flagging them. Idea of class is nonsense, you just need to be bright enough to get to Oxbridge.
    not so .. like US colleges, talented oarsmen from around the world are given a subsidised or free education in return for rowing for the university. I suspect that over 1/2 of the participants are from abroad.
  • vff
    vff Posts: 6,881
    Bit of an anticlimax after the oar broke.

    I wonder what the bloke in the water was doing ? Makes it a bit of an organisation problem for coming boat races. They can't police 10 miles of the Thames bank.

    Now no presentation as one of the Oxford crew collapsed at the end.

    A bit of a farce this year.
  • BlackForestReds
    BlackForestReds Posts: 17,952
    Bit of an anticlimax after the oar broke.

    I wonder what the bloke in the water was doing ? Makes it a bit of an organisation problem for coming boat races. They can't police 10 miles of the Thames bank.

    Now no presentation as one of the Oxford crew collapsed at the end.

    A bit of a farce this year.
    The swimmer was apparently making a protest against elitism.
  • Airman Brown
    Airman Brown Posts: 15,734


    A bit of a farce this year.
    Whereas usually . . .
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481


    A bit of a farce this year.
    Whereas usually . . .
    So tell me more?

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  • Jensenwasclass
    Jensenwasclass Posts: 835
    Years and years ago, Princess Margaret always used to kiss the cox of the winning crew.
  • SoundAsa£
    SoundAsa£ Posts: 22,481
    Years and years ago, Princess Margaret always used to kiss the cox of the winning crew.
    That's the third Cox joke in this thread....so far that is....any more folks?

  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,026
    I hear that the Orient winger is signing up for the boat race next year because tiny cox are an advantage.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    it is no good to have big cox in the boat race
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,070
    Years and years ago, Princess Margaret always used to kiss the cox of the winning crew.
    That's the third Cox joke in this thread....so far that is....any more folks?

    Plenty of cox watching on the river front. No doubt a Gant jumper thrown over the shoulders of a Ralph Lauren pastel coloured shirt.

  • sralan
    sralan Posts: 2,031
    it is no good to have big cox in the boat race
    Why not? You can use it if your oar breaks :-)))
  • Chirpy Red
    Chirpy Red Posts: 7,587
    Made my weekend the cocking up of this farce.

    Yes it did used to be a big thing but now it is totally outdated and the majority of people quite rightly don't give a hoot.
  • March51
    March51 Posts: 3,256
    edited April 2012
    Years ago Cambridge would have acted like gentlemen and jolly good sports and declined the win, asking for the race to be declared void.
  • Stu_of_Kunming
    Stu_of_Kunming Posts: 17,118
    @Lincsaddick "not so .. like US colleges, talented oarsmen from around the world are given a subsidised or free education in return for rowing for the university. I suspect that over 1/2 of the participants are from abroad."

    He wasnt talking about participating in the race, all he said was that you have to be bright enough to attend Oxbridge, as in to study.
  • nth_london_addick
    nth_london_addick Posts: 35,919
    If people don't give a hoot why did it make your weekend

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