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The Boat Race had to be Stopped due to a Swimmer in the water and had to be restarted.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17644260
Afet the Restart Cambridge won the 158th Boat Race.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rowing/17645929#TWEET122872
~~~Tides~~~
07-Apr-12, 23:43
Thought this was going to be really dull. Only tuned in for some dissertation-distraction. Race gets underway and the underdog is holding their own, no idea who is going to win with one big corner left, exciting race! THEN some nutter in the water nearly gets his head chopped off. THEN the boats crash into each other and one of them breaks a little bit. THEN the cox has a big argument with the umpire. THEN!! Someone colapses in a boat and has to be rescued.
Hell's teeth, who know rowing could be so exciting? Bet I'll be disappointed when I watch it next year and expect the same.
annemarie482
07-Apr-12, 23:50
me personally, i'd have just rowed through the !
a few twats in the face with those paddles and he'd have shifted or sunk.......lol
Why the interest in a bunch of yahoo's in a rowing boat? I don't understand.
Why the interest in a bunch of yahoo's in a rowing boat? I don't understand.
There's a second boat and they race.
Do you understand better now?
Yahoo's what?
Why the interest in a bunch of yahoo's in a rowing boat? I don't understand.
A particularly physically challenging team sport in which many people across the country take part, not just in Oxford and Cambridge universities. If you've never taken part in any form of hard physical sport, or worked as part of a close knit team you wouldn't be expected to understand. Having said that, I refuse to believe you're an idle couch potato living in isolation; so take whatever exercise you do with the group of people you live/socialise/spend time with and try doing something physically demanding together and you might just catch a flavour of what rowing is about.:);)
Well done chaps! The usual outpourings of inadequates with an advanced dose of class-envy and the desire to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator. I note that many of the "Hooray Henrys" out on the river included advanced scientists, linguists, humanitarians, and at least one medical doctor whom I hope the accuser will never have to go to for treatment.
Let's save our contempt for the prat in the water - no elitist he, then? A man who studied "urban" issues at the London School of Economics - hotbed of champagne socialism and Marxist-chic. A wretched little one-issue one man army publicity seeker who might very well suffer from a bit of public disapproval once the police have read him his human rights and the courts have given him the usual deferred £100 fine and 10 minutes community service.
Did you guys not see the banks of the Thames lined with hundreds of thousands of the young and old, blazers and hoodies, male and female, lawyers and dustmen, grannies and grandees - the same mob who turn out for ALL great occasions? They're called the British people, and they are what puts the Great in Great Britain - not that pumped up insignificant Antipodean scrofulate with whom some of you would like to be identified.
Incidentally, the Boat Race - premiered as a sporting event on our major terrestrial channel, is watched not only by millions in this country, but in many diverse countries throughout the world, whose inhabitants don't appear to carry a ginormous chip on their shoulders......
So well done the Blues - Dark and Light - who give us a thrill each year: here's to their hard training, their ambition, their desire to be the best, their driving force which inspires so many others to aim for distant goals, and the pleasure they bring to millions.
Apart from those whose eternal mantra is the politics of envy. Your lot is to carry your own prison of wretchedness around with you.
Apart from those whose eternal mantra is the politics of envy. Your lot is to carry your own prison of wretchedness around with you.
Oooh, I like that one, can I pinch it?
I wouldn't worry about the prison of wretchedness it's overcrowded with working class oiks. You'll probably only need to carry a small fine or a community service order around with you.
On a more serious note the boat race is totally boring! Very nice for everyone involved I'm sure, and admirable training, team spirit etc but pretty dull.
Well done chaps! The usual outpourings of inadequates with an advanced dose of class-envy and the desire to drag everything down to the lowest common denominator. I note that many of the "Hooray Henrys" out on the river included advanced scientists, linguists, humanitarians, and at least one medical doctor whom I hope the accuser will never have to go to for treatment.
Let's save our contempt for the prat in the water - no elitist he, then? A man who studied "urban" issues at the London School of Economics - hotbed of champagne socialism and Marxist-chic. A wretched little one-issue one man army publicity seeker who might very well suffer from a bit of public disapproval once the police have read him his human rights and the courts have given him the usual deferred £100 fine and 10 minutes community service.
Did you guys not see the banks of the Thames lined with hundreds of thousands of the young and old, blazers and hoodies, male and female, lawyers and dustmen, grannies and grandees - the same mob who turn out for ALL great occasions? They're called the British people, and they are what puts the Great in Great Britain - not that pumped up insignificant Antipodean scrofulate with whom some of you would like to identify with.
Incidentally, the Boat Race - premiered as a sporting event on our major terrestrial channel, is watched not only by millions in this country, but in many diverse countries throughout the world, whose inhabitants don't appear to carry a ginormous chip on their shoulders......
So well done the Blues - Dark and Light - who give us a thrill each year: here's to their hard training, their ambition, their desire to be the best, their driving force which inspires so many others to aim for distant goals, and the pleasure they bring to millions.
Apart from those whose eternal mantra is the politics of envy. Your lot is to carry your own prison of wretchedness around with you.
I just one several games of buzzword bingo, thanks. Strange how it's only class warfare and the politics of envy when people criticise and protest the rich and over privileged. Those terms never seem to be invoked the other way around.
There's more than one British people, odd how everyone who agrees with your position is deified and others vilified. Rather coincidental wouldn't you say that you happen to hold the 'right' position.
Yeah, dude, me and the rest! Actually, I just invoked "the other way around". I have no silver spoon, rarely snatch crusts from wheelchair users, never sold my granny into slavery, or had parents any richer than a civil service messenger and a part time shop girl. However, I still shudder when I spot pointless envy at work: it is a crippling disease which embitters further the more it is embraced. It makes stunted people who aren't much fun to be around. I am happy to see other people enjoying success, good fortune, even luck which stems from accident of birth. There will always be people with a lot more money and a bigger house than me - and, you know - somehow that doesn't make me angry.
When I see 200,000 people leap into the Thames on Boat Race Day I will know I was wrong.
pig whisperer
08-Apr-12, 23:17
the pratt in the water is an australian who was privatly educated if he finds living in a country which does have a class system [ like it or not ] which isnt to his liking, maybe he should return to australia where, Im sure all people are equal [ unless you are an aboriginal ] .
More to do with Fosters then?
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